Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Mrs. Carl Schurz and her son are in
Jacksonville, Florida.
Large numbers of Cinnamon are
working on railways in Texas.
There are nearly one hundred fe-
male physicians in New York.
Two of the chairs of '76 have found
their way to Independence Hall,
Philadelphia.
The Hawaiian Gazette favOrs popu-
lar movement for the purpose of secu-
ring free constitution, and a revolu-
ton is expected At the latest dates
all was quiet.
Everything now is sacrificed to
politics." m1rmured wretched young
Brooklyn wife whose husband had
pawned her back hair for money to use
at late primary election.
Princess Beatrice, of England, is
reported to have told the Earl of Alb
erdeen to ''Ask mamma
The table on which the Declaration
of Independence was signed is now
in possession of the Laurens family
in South Carolina, one of their an
cestors having been a signer.
The pious people of Boston have
counted out the Democratic Mayor,
Mr.. CASTOR, and counted in Pearce.-
TT1,o IS
been lost on that generation of vipers
The Fairbanks scale makers were
once so scaly that they borrowed five
dollars to build their first scale. They
have now scaled the dizzy heights OF
fortune and boast fair bank account
Of three million Of dollars
It is rumored that the noted Cora
Pearl, who has been cxiled from
France for merely provoking one of
her adorers to make an Intellectual at
tempt to blow his own brains out, is
coming to America, where she can
shoot her lovers herself, if she wants to-.
Eight members have been elected by
the Forty-third Congress who will
have served at the end of that term
ten consecutive years, namely: Blaine,
Of Maine Dawes and Hooper, of
Massachusetts, Kelly, Randall and
Scofield, Of Pennsylvania Garfield,
OF Ohio, and Eldridge, of Wisconsin.
Thirty lives are now said to have
been lost by the awful accident, the
day before Christmas, on the Buffalo &
Cory Road. Nineteen bodies have
been recovered, of which only nine are
recognizable. OF the others, and those
still under the wreck, LITTLE. is left but
but charred bones.
Advice5 from Honolulu state that
King Kamehameha Y. died in that city
on the 18th. He was the last of the
royal line, and named his successor,
which will leave an interregnum, du-
ring which the people are sovereign
The Legislative Assembly meets on
January sth, when it is expected that
body will nominate n successor.
Very few people know that the chief
OF the Cherokees ia a graduate Of
Princeton College and man of cul-
ture that the Cherokee nation has a
society organized on the model of
modern civilization, with newspapers,
schools, courthouses and the like, or
that the highest prizes for cotton
We're won at the ST. Louis Fair by
the Chickasaws.
The Illinois Washburn is en- route
Tor France, having found his Senatorial
chances rather thin the Wisconsin
Washburne is preparing his annual
message the Minnesota Washburne is
visiting in New York, and the Massa-
chusetts Washburne is wrestling with
Legislature which is "all tore up -
over the Boston fire. Nothing has
TRANSFERRED lately with the remainder of
the Washburne family.
Miss Lille Devereux Blake. who
has been engaged in writing to and inter-
viewing the New York members of the
present lower house of Congress about
woman suffrage, reports that OF the
fifteen Republicans three are unuuali-
tiedly in its favor, six willing to give
women the ballot when the majority of
them shall ask for it, and six non-com-
initial. Of the sixteen Democrats only
two are friendly to the measure.
DIR. Talmage's Tabernacle Church.
IN Brooklyn, which was burned few
days ago, was built of corrugated
iron, that Is to the shell, which. be-
coming red-hot, ignited the wooden
interior with great rapidity Among
ITS contents was the largest organ on
the continent, built originally for the
Boston Coliseum, and valued at $40 600.
The losses on the building and furni-
ture foot up $95, 1000, and the insu-
rance was $4,000
Ierley, writing from Washington to
the Boston JOuri10}, says: The high
church ladies of this diocese ar, -,
]olclng over the arrival at Baltimore OF
three Protestant Episcopal Sisters of
All SAINTS. A house is being fitted ND
Tor their residence, and it is expected
that several ladies of MARYLAND and
thus district will soon join the sister
hood. They devote their TINA r.
prayer and good works, especially to
administering unto the sick and IN
structing poor children
Inc game of billiards has long been
described rs one of the arts. and its
sk11led practitioners are termed pro-
lessons. A novel professor has turned
up IN Chicago, whose method of play
ing Is somewhat curious one. First
chalklng the end of Iis ,a,,, ~