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

liberal member OF that body. Care
full of the peoples money, but not
penurious, he is always ready to vote
good pay for valuable services. He
makes capable chairman of the COM
mittee on Finance.
That pretty object Of martial devo-
ton, 'the daughter of the regiment, "
is now in its fairest form adored by the
officers of the One Hundred and Fifty
ninth Regiment of Russian Infantry.
She is the daughter of M. Maicini,
the former Chaplain of the regiment,
who died in 1867, when she was but
ten years old She was adopted by the
officers of the regiment, who annually
subscribe handsome sum for her,
Whenever regimental entertainment
is given the officers invite their
"daughter" to do the honors.
Could the entire crop of cotton be
converted into yarns at the South, and
shipped abroad in that form, it would
add one hundred and fifty million of
dollars annually to the wealth of this
portion of the United States. Foreign
mills would adapt their machinery to
working up the yarns instead of the
raw cotton. If but one-quarter of the
crop could be thus converted it would
be great blessing to this country, and
enable numbers Of women and children
who are now dependent on others to
! support themselves.
The Austrian, French and Prussian
newspapers are engaged in a lively
controversy over the disclosure made
by the Duke de Grammont in regard
to the origin of the late war. The
Duke brings documentary evidence to
support the truth of his assertion that
| Austria promised to assist France in
, case of war with Prussia. He pub
fishes an Austrian dispatch to the
! French government in which the
! pledge is given in the following words:
! L" Your cause is ours. We will con-
| tribute to the success of the French
arms" It is reported that the Austrian
| government has determined to dispense
altogether with the services of Count
! Won Beust
The Bulletin is showing that all, or
nearly all, of the leading Governments
Of the world at this moment are in a
state of bankruptcy. A hopeful view,
however, is taken Of the conditions of
the Governments of the United States,
England and Holland. France and
Italy are in bad way; SO are Austria,
Turkey, Mexico and all the South and
Central American States. Modern
Government, the editor concludes, is
| getting to be n very ,.;stly machine;
! but one Of these days must come
! grand collapse of fictitious credit and
paper money, and with the substitu-
ton of real values in their place a
better state Of things will succeed.
The Cotton Manufactures Of Column
bus, Georgia, are building up that city,
and the example should be initiated by
| other Southern places. In speaking of
the money paid for wages the Column
bus SEN says that every six days the
wages of the operatives and other en-
ployes foot up about s., 225-$21, 900
per month. This is all spent in Co.
! lumbus. This is from the factories
alone. Including our large iron foun-
dries, and other manufacturing estab-
lishments, the weekly payroll of the
! Columbus Industries must be some
$4,000 to $4,000 per week, or $32, 900
to S36, 900 per month. Every interest
/ IS prospecting. Columbus shows a
steady progress. In point of cotton
manufacturing she is the. first city in
! the South.
The New York Tribune thinks there
! is likely soon to be crisis in Arkansas
matters. The declaration of the State
vote is expected to create disturbance,
| as the impression has already gone out
that the Canvassing Board have re-
solved to count in the Clayton candi-
| date. Senator Rice tried to get some
attention directed to his resolution of
inquiry in the. Senate, but only
succeeds in making a few state
ments which throw light on the subject.
The most fragrant outrages were per-
petrated upon the voters of Arkansas,
Ill the expectation that the exclusion of
thirty thousand of them from the polls
would elect the Clayton candidates;
and when that was not sufficient for
the end desired, precincts were thrown
out until enough of the Liberal vote
is cancelled to ensure the triumph of
the Clayton Ring.
By one of those strange popular
beliefs, which are occasionally engen-
dered, no one knows how a conviction
prevails in Washington; it is said that
the house fronting on Lafayette Square
IN that city, famous in other days as q
clubhouse and afterwards as one of
the central points in the tragedy of the
murder of Philip Barton Key, is a
place of evil omen, and that it is
destined some day to tumble into ruins
as suddenly and completely as did the
old house in Dickens novel of Little
Dorrit,' which fell and crushed NJ.
Blandois, the foreigner. The late
Secretary Seward occupied it as resi-
dence, and it was there that Payne
made the attack on his life. Within
the tour years past Mr.. Belknap, Sec
rotary of War, lived in it, and during
that time his wife died, and his eldest
son is attacked with a lung disease,
which endangers his existence. Is it
! possible that sometimes the popular
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