Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-02-07
WILMINGTON. y. G. :
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 1878.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Thomas Clay, grandson OF Henry
Clav. was recently married to Miss
Gratz of Kentucky.
A woman's lodge of Mason's. called
the Eastern Star, has been instituted
in Jacksonville. Florida.
The Springfield Rrpnblicaa gives a
list of 20 towns III Massachusetts in
which the smallpox prevails.
Bass. the beer brewer man, is to be
draught for some of the peers.
Mr.. Gideon Welles is much talked of
among the Connecticut Democrats as
their candidate for Governor.
The mysterious name of the . mon
kew wrench " was taken from its in
ventor, Mr.. Monkey, who still lives in
New jersey.
The House of Representatives of
Congress has before it bill for in
creasing the currency by an extra issue
of S25, 900, 900 to the West and South
The New York Hcralds cold facts
are falling with terrible force on
Schuyler Colfax. He viii die, politi-
cally, next month, and the Urtuid
will bury him.
1t is believed THAI when full reports
can be obtained. it viii be found that
nearly five thousand persons lost their
lives III Minnesota during the recent
snow storm.
Colfax, Garfield, and Kelly are en-
gagged in collecting evidence to convict
Oakes Ames of something probably
OF having violated his word when he
told the truth.
General Hawley's Hartford Couru,t
is evidently getting disgusted with
Radical "'honesty" OF the Credit Mo-
bilier sort, and is becoming more and
more Democratic every day.
A London letter says that the
chase the Portuguese settlement in
Delargo Bay, in Southern Africa, with
a view to colonizing emigrants there.
A Georgia negro was overpaid one
hundred dollars on check by bank,
and he has returned the money. The
local paper SAYS this is another eyi-
dence that the race can never be civil
lied.
Various rumblings in the bowels of
the earth having led the inhabitants of
Grant county, Minnesota, to investi
gate the causes thereof, they have
found an immense deposit of EPSON
salts.
The Mrs. Fitzhugh, of Virginia, who
claims from Congress $3.50, 900 for
wood cut off her land by the Union
army during the war, is one of the
Dent family, and a cousin of Mrs.
Grant.
VIII none of the Congressional
stockholders of Credit Mobilier sue
Oakes Ames for damages ? Or will
they content themselves by stopping
short on few introspective and silent
damns
The skeleton OF thai Captain Hall
some time since dug up, IN the Arctic
regions. has been sent to England. 1t
is that of q man about five feet eight
inches tall. One If the teeth is filled
Will. gold.
The Governor of Arkansas has issued
d proclamation ordering an election
for March Sd. at which, the pending
amendment doing away with the dis
franchising clause OF the Constitution
will be submitted to thc people for
ratification.
The movement for the abolition of
the franking privilege, the for which
has Just passed, was begun twenty-five
years ago in Congress by Horace
Greeley In 1S4S he was a member of
the House from New York, and he III
troduced Il bill for the purpose
Senator Summer is still quite feeble.
1t is doubtful if he will appear in his
seat in the Senate again this session.
The attending physician still visits him
twice a day, the last call being at 10
p m, when he iniects morphine in the
Senator's arm to enable him TO sleep.
A bill has been introduced in the In
diana Legislature TO light all railroad
cars in that State with candles instead
of oil, the reason being that railroad
accidents frequently become more fatal
by the setting on fire of the cars by
the highly inhammahle oil now used in
the lamps.
Rev. O. B. rockingham is opposed
to the gallows, and believes that
poisons are the better way OF taking
the lives of criminal convicts convicted
of capital offences. Connecticut might
furnish a first-class executioner i'll this
line III the person OF Mrs. LucreZia
Borgia Sherman.
Colonel Rawls. the Congressman
elect from the first Georgia district, re-
ceived a majority OF 40 votes over his
Radical competitor, Mr.. Sloan. Sloan
is contesting the election. Being Il
Grant man, he hopes that the Radical
party Will unseat Rawls and seat him
on any partizan showing.
The Pennsylvania constitutional
Convention, in committee OF the whole
on Tuesday adopted an amendment tc
the constitution authorizing the cleo
ton of members of the Legislature
every two years, instead of every year
and the holding Of regular sessions
every two years, instead of annually
AS proof that our country is no
behind the rest of the world III produc
tion-vegetable, animal and mineral
the Agricultural Bureau received,