Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

California is producing 400 pounds
Of castor oil to the acre.
Key West, Fla, sends its mail mat
ter to Tampa, in the same State, by
way of New York.
Luther's translation of the Bible is
said to have had q circulation thus far
of 361 600, 900 copies.
In Wisconsin, where the gallows has
been abolished some years, there were
only two sentences for murder in 1872.
The present has been the worst hunt
ing season known in England for years,
on account of the incessant rain that
has prevailed.
1t is stated that numbers Of the old
Gnribaldian volunteers are leaving
Italy for Spain to join the Republicans
in that country.
Great Britain has 112 daily newspa-
pers, IA published in London, GA in
the provinces, II in Scotland, 90 in
Ireland, 9 in Wales, and in the Chan
mel Islands.
The number of emigrants who left
Bremen for the United States last year
was eighty thousand. Emigration
from Hamburg during the same time
reached fifty-nine thousand.
By a recent cable dispatch, received
from Milan, Italy, we learn that Father
Ryan is dangerously i'll in that city.
He is stated to be so low that three
doctors are in constant attendance and
no visitors are permitted to see him.
The Southern Claims Commission is
abolished on March 3, 1873, by the
law creating it. The proposition will
go before Congress soon to extend its
power for four years longer. The
Commission has passed upon three
hundred claims, and has one Thousand
five hundred claims still on file.
What becomes of the honest men
has long been a puzzle in Massachu-
sets, but it now seems probable that,
when one is detected, they send him to
Norwich. A great many curious sto-
ries are told of the honesty of the peo-
pie of Norwich. One of them found a
horse shoe the other day and adver-
tised it.
Recently an individual was arrested
in Philadelphia as the proprietor of a
''panel house." at ten o'clock at night,
was examined the next morning at
seven, indicted the same day by the
grand jury at noon, tried at haf-past
one, found guilty at five, and was i'm
mediately sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment.
The opium eaters have at last a
quarterly magazine. Its title is ''The-
riaka: A Magazine devoted to the
Interest of Opium Eaters, - and is
issued at Laporte, Indiana. The last
number has alarming articles on
Opium Eating in Schools" and on
"Opium-the Sheet Anchor of the
Medical Profession" Out of the
$1,000 pounds of opium exported
from Smyrna in one year the United
States took 29O,OOO
There are deficiencies in what is
called at Washington the "Departm ent
Of Justice" and Attorney General
Williams asks for an appropriation of
$500, 900 to cover them. Year before
last the expenses of this department
were 1888, 567.35; last year the appro-
priation was $4,000, 900, and even this
fell short. But year before last Grant
did not have to be reelected. ode
partment of Justice" indeed Money
can't cover its deficiencies.
Too much wheat, it seems, was
raised in California last summer.
There are not enough storehouses
there to hold the crop or ships enough
coming to San Francisco to carry away
the surplus. Many thousands of bush
els remain unthrashed in the fields,
and although freights are double the
rates OF the previous year, hundred
ships at least could be filed up with
the wheat now storedin San Francisco.
Truly the Golden Horn is horn of
plenty.
Crime appears still to move in a mys-
ferrous way in New York. One day
last week an unknown man suddenly
made his appearance in a concert sa-
loon, shot the proprietor, Charles
Christy, and then quietly made his,es-
cape from the premises. 1t is clear
that the roughs have not yet made up
their minds that Stokes or anybody
else is to be hung, and therefore they
continue to ''ply their VOCATION" in
view of the gross and culpable laxity
which has heretofore marked the exc
cution Of the laws in the great me-
tropolis.
On Ohio editor speaks of one who