Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1873-06-06
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

If it wasn't for the law, man could make a
| fortune in half the time.
"A class in journalism has been established
in the Wesleyan University of Iowa
Over five million acres of land are open for
| homesteads and presumption in Dakota.
The colored people Of St Louis are to have
| grand musical jubilee on the lst OF August
Gen. Mackenzie, the Mexican raider, is to
| be the recipient Of $1,000 testimonial from
| grateful Texans.
Senator Charles summer will spend a por-
| tion of the summer with the poet Longfellow at
| his summer villa at Nahant.
Mrs Edwin Forrest has made application
| through her attorney for her share of the es-
| tate of her deceased husband.
Vienna is the only large city in Europe that
| has thoroughly adopted the American street-car
system. Indeed, in many respects the system
| has been improved
"A horse which died in Plymouth, Mass, one
| day last week was found to have in his stomach
some four or FIVE quarts of wooden splinters
| which he had been vainly endeavoring to digest.
"A chap given to statistics estimated that
| over two thousand toes were frozen during the
past winter by young ladies' keeping their beaux
lingering at the gate instead of asking them into
| the parlor.
Gen. Jackson's Bible, which was given to
| him during his Presidency by Washington lady
and after his death was presented to the Her
mitage Church in Tennessee, was stolen from
| that place recently.
The bent Of the infant American 8 mind was
well illustrated in Troy, the other day. Two
| boys each aged about 10, stole six dollars, and
mads all possible haste to buy two large dirk
| knives, two pistols and one bullet.
In the late editorial convention in North
| Carolina Captain VIM. Biggs gave in his exper-
| ience as follows He had been several years
| conducting newspaper, most Of which had been
| spent in raising the means of doing it.
Miss Lizzie Marchant, OF San Fran cisco. car
| ries a small whalebone cane concealed about her
dress, which she vigorously applies to the heads
| and faces of insolent young men. She caned
| three of them in one evening" not long since.
| Tho Shah of Persia, will visit England with
| his three wives Queen Victoria will eceive him
| with the usual royal hOnors, but there is some
| difficulty as to the reception of his wives, to
| receive all three would seem like countenancing
| polygamy.
Herman Groundhultz was arrested in Brook
| lyn, yesterday, for fatally beating and cutting
! his wife.
The steamer Frolic with the survivors of the
Polaris, arrived at the Washington Navy Yard
| yesterday
Part of new frame house at Keyport, N. J..
fell on Wednesday, killing two colored men and
injuring five others.
Thomas Burk, convict, escaped from Auburn
| Penient was captured in New York yester.
| day by detective. On the way to the station
house he drew pistol and again escaped
The State Department has received informa-
| ton that Mr. Santa Rosa, an American citizen
/ imprisoned in Cuba, has been released and sail
ed from Havana yesterday for New York.
John Oliver and VIM. Gully we're killed yester
day at Chicago by the fall of scafold in the
| Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Depot, which
is now being used for the Jubilee Concert.
Indian Agent Gossman telegraphs from the
| YanRton Agency, in Dakota. that none of the
Yankton Indians have left their reservation tt
join the hostile Indians on the Upper Missouri
as reported, but that they "are all at home, at
| tending to their business"