Wilmington journal., 1874-01-09

The Common Council OF Brooklyn
pays the reporters fifty dollars q piece
per annnm for reporting proceedings
and for the loss oil caste in mixing UP
with aldermen,
A poor Cuban editor, WHO stated III
his paper ti,at Ryan aud others mel
their death bravely, has been fined
five hundred dollars and sentenced to
the chain gang for eighteen months
4 Missouri paper thinks ''what tho
women OF this country most need Is
not suffrage, but symmetry; not
rights, but nationality; not place in
our Legislative halls. but a place to
hang Their stockings >
That peatiIent old blathcrsk.'e, Wen
dell Phillips, iectureI in New York
Saturday night on Chances Abroad.
He first denounced the home delusiOD
Of specie payments. and advocated
third term for Grant. lie then pro-
ceeded to vcntiiate his usual chaotic
Ideas on foreign matters.
Tie owners Of ihe Christian 81
Work. Of which DR.. Ialmage IS editor,
want 10 hay out the Independent, anI
the prospect Of a trade may be infcr-
red from the circumstances that there
is only the difference of $500 900 be
tween them, $500, 900 being the asked
price and $500, 900 the price offered.
The baldacchino controversy, the
latest encounter in the war between
the Ritualists and The Protestants III
the Church Of England, has been de-
cidel in the Court of first instance
against the Ritualists and the ba'dac-
chino. The baldacciiino is canopy
to be placed over the communion ta-
BILE.
A young man Who had come into
possession of q large property by the
death of his brother, was asked how
he was getting along. ooh" said le,
"I'm having a dreadful time what
with getting out letters OF adminiatra-
ton, attending Probate Court, col
lecting insurance and settling claims,
[ sometimes wish he hadn't died"
Rev. Charles Kingsley, author Of
''Hypatia," ''Alton Locke" and other
widely known works, and Canon OF
Westminster. will visit this country in
January or February, i'll response to
invitations scattered from Boston to
San Francisco. Kingsley is consid-
cred on Of -hc best pulpit orators of
England Whenever hc breaches
Westminster Abbey is tllronGed, and
the London papers rep )rt his sermons,
which is quite an unusual thing i'll
English journalism.
The Massachusetts; Proi.ibitory Ii
quor law is not so laxly administered
as many suppose. During the last
three months one hundred and thirty
thousand gallons of liquor have been
seized About five hundred dealers
have been tried and convicted during
the past year; and some two hundred
have been sent to prison. While
there are acknowledged to be three
thousand placasin Boston alone, where
liquor is illegally sold, the number oI
| convictions does notappear large, how
| ever.
Tie latest magnificent scheme fol
| government subsidy is a proposed
! daily line of transatlantic steamers
The sc3leme it is understood, wa.
originated in New York, and copies O
the prospectus which is to be lti,
| before Congress are already floating
| around in Washington. 1t is pIopuscl
to make three hundred and sixty-iiyt
round trips between the United State:
and Liverpool. 1t is pr, posed tina
every week two ships SHAH leave IT,,
rOrts of Boston. New York and i'hiia
The parties propose to h7l;ld forty.ivc
ships and to issue bonds 10 pay t
them. iuioraCl by the gCycrumeut
Tho :,..icutli" American pub!ishcs
lu.i description of the proposed GrrH