Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-04
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

| brigham Young has son at West Point.
1t is stated positively that the Vienna Expo
/ stion is a financial failure.
| "A Methodist church in Iowa has the stars
and stripes painted on its steeple.
While Russia owns eighteen millions Of
| horses she can easily ride over Asia.
| "A paper at Bedford, Indiana, wants school
| teaching let out to the lowest bidder.
| A Fort Wayne Gnd) woman shoots little
boys who peIt her back yard fence with stones.
The Long Branchers don't like the miscel-
| laneous crowd brought down by Sunday trains
Floating docks for timid bathers are being
introduced for the coming season at Cape May.
A medical student in st. Louis died while
under the influence of chloroform, at a lecture,
recently.
The owners of the Mammoth Cave talk Of
advancing the prices charged for going through
that wonder.
The expenses of the eight railroads center
ing at Boston last year were 72I per cent. of
their receipts,
1t has been ascertained that three out of
every five matches made at Saratoga go to the
courts for divorce.
"A New Jersey man who recovered $5 900
for having his ear pnched, is looking for some
one to pinch the other.
kentucky wants one more portrait of Daniel
Boone. The last artist put a paper collar on
Daniel which wasn't right,
If you have bright thonght, express it in
the simplest language passible. diamond
should have plain setting.
Tho Chicago Times calls the church from
which its reporter was recently elected, ''the
church Of the Holy Shialeh."
Carpenters are fearfuly careless about put
ting up clothes-hooks. A Detroit woman broke
four in trying to hang herself.
Salt Lake City talks of building GENTLE
tn eatre, to run in opposition to the establish
ment managed by Brigham Young.
"A Western paper speaks of a new paper
mill which Twill be made OF brick 175 feet long"
They row immense bricks out there.
The wild man in the woods is in Georgia
now He has got to be eight feet high, and he
tore off the tail Of torse the other day.
"A Davenport editor, wpo went out for a
days sport with the gun and rod. shot a forty
i've dollar COW and caught an old hat with a
stone in it.
AT recent "Uld folks" dance at Morrisville,
VT, the Dest player Of the orchestra was Dwight
Marsh, 80 years old, and he played upon fiddle
250 years old.
"A sensitive youth in Pennsylvania lately
killed himself because his friends laughed at
him. II he had lived in Arkansas he would pro-
badly have killed the friends
-Sandusky people go up to Toledo to catch
frogs, and Toledo people 90 down to Sandusky
to catch clams and thus the tie Of rotherly
love is strengthened day by day.
|
Three burglars and highwayman were cap
tured yesterday morning in Sixth avenue, New
York.
The Bostons defeated the Mutuals at New
York yesterday, by score OF 6 to 5. Twelve in
nings were played
An extensive woollen MILL owned by Charles
Whipple, and operated by F. s. Farewell, in
Johnston, r. l. was burned early yesterday
morning. The loss is nearly 100000.
Large fires have been raging in the woods of
Annapolis county, MS, for several days. Two
SAW mills and number of other buildings have
been consumed.
News has been received at Halifax of the total
loss of the missing ship Day Spring in the New
Hebrides. The ship was built in New Glasgow,
by the Presbyterians, ten years ago, for mis-
sionaly service in the South Seas.
The Grand Lodge Of Freemasons of New York
State met in New York city yesterday Seven
teen new lodges were organized in the State |
during the past year, The total number of
lodges in the State is 665, total membership, 49,
079.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors have |
passed order providing that Chinese PRISON. |
i'll the county Ill shall have their heads shaw
ed Several of the San Francisco papers de- |
nounce this measure as inhuman and indecent, |
and its approval by the Mayor is doubtful