Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-10
dailmil|gton yournal
WILMINGTON, \. C..
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1873.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

appears as the hero.
newspaper is published i'll the dia-
rnond district of South Africa at the
low price of $50 year.
General Mcclellan is being talked of
a. the successor of Joel Parker in the
"uhernatOriatl chair of New Jersey.
II. X. Revel, tcolored.. has been
appointed Secretary of State of Mis-
sissippi in the place of James Lynch.
deceased.
Mrs. Fair claims that she il net vet
understood. If there are tn he any
more developments. it isn't safe to live
in California.
Miss Sophia Barney took "A premium
al a Montgomery Ala fair as I" the
young woman who would make thu.
best wife for n poor man"
4 Reform State Convention met at
little Rock, Arkansas, last Saturday,
for the purpose of deriving means to
secure the State from It's, present con-
ition.
The New York Tribune Joins the
Times Of that city i'll urging metropol-
itan consolidation. that is union of
Brooklyn and New York rs one n,lni-
cpality,
L"ngfell"w owned lars. qua ntities
of stock ill Ii Boston insurance com
pany, which before the fire was worth
one hundred and Twenty-Five dollars a
share. ani is now worthless.
A wife i'll New Albany, Ind. made
her husband Christmas present of his
store bills all receipted That seems
tn have been fsvnrite gift with wives
over the country-all b',t the receipt
1t may astonish the public to learn
that Pennsylvania now produces ann,l-
ally twenty million tons of coal. This
trade, though rapidly growing, is grad
ually concentrating in the hands of
few
Columbus, Ga, is TO have All ice
company. Some *16, 900 is required
iOr the erection of the machine.
houses, &c, necessary to carry on
operations, and of this amount 80, 300
have been subscribed
1t is thought in Salt Lake City that
Brigham Young will never pass another
summer above ground When he dies
thirty-seven widows will mourn his
loss, and one hundred and seventeen
children will be fatherless
The Georgia Legislature meets on
the second Wednesday in January
The first proposition that will come up
will be the question Of increasing the
salary of the Governor from four thou
sand dollars to six or eight
A rumOr comes from Washington
that on the reassembiing OF Congress
there will be some queer developments
made concerning the management of
the Free,lman's Bureau under the inn
nacIilate Gen. O. O. Howard
O the signers of jefferson Davis
ball-bond there are now dead, q. A.
Myers, John NJ. B"tte, Thomas X.
William H. Lyons. of Richmond. nrd
Horace Greeley, Of New York. who
were the first signers.
Under the college commons system,
the authorities of Williams College
have introduced Il new plan of furnish
ing board, whereby seventy students
are sitting down at IA better table for
81 10 per week than can he obtained
elsewhere in the village.
Martha Rattle, of Jacksonville, Fla.
has fourteen children by her third
taneO,lsly and the rest arrived 10y twOs.
As Florida has no law against this sort
of Railing there is no telling where the
lndefatigabe Martha will stop.
Th. .>ftfurdty Htsi." thinks thai
Alexander H. Stephens is very great
man-fOr al American. 1t is further
of the opinion that there are not hal
dozen men III the whole North who
have the learning and ability neceSsar,
TO give them fair chance against sucl
An adversary.
Christmas was signalized III Bosto,
by q simultaneous police raid on tn
gambling establishments The cit.
WAS swept with a dragnet, and capture
were large and various. Merchants
clerks, manufacturers, bank officers
and even one clergyman. were take
ont of the net
The Great Eastern Circus was latel
.oid at Selma, Ala. The elephant Wa
bought for $4,000. Six bay horse
brought $3, 400. The den containin
the GOness and cubs, so, OS5. The Bel
gal tiger and leopards. $1,000. I'll
buffaloes, S4OO each. The ring horse
sold at from 300 to 81 $40 eacl.
General Won Ro, II has been mac
Minister President of Prussia to #
the place of Prince Bismarck The
two cOlnsellOrs of the Emperor ha'
always been opposed to each other {
the local policy of the Empire, and
is fair to suppose that the star of Il
former is in the ascendent at the pr
sent time.
Hon. John J. Patterson, formerly
Pennsylvania, but now of South Can
Lima, tells the Harrisburg Telegral
that he was fairly elected to the Sena
OF the United States on account of