Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-11-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

is announced as having cited the men
who ''cHgincered" it $4,000.
The Alabama papers insist that the
new House OF Representative shall
begin It's Investigations with the over
t flowed bacon business. Il is rich to
/ ripenesa.
SIMS Reeves, tie J2ns'!sh tenor who
has just signed contracts to como to
America next season fer series of
concerts, is to receive $115, 900 for one
hundred nights, or 81, ,150 per night.
Maynard, who was waterlooed to
the tune OF about $4,000 for Governor
of Tennessee, did not carry county
in the middle or western sections of
that State. He was beat il his own
county. and it is believed that he will
not have majority i'll more than ten
counties all tod.
DIR. Aver, the Massachusetts medi-
cine man might have been elected to
Congress if all the men in the district
who have swallowed his cherry pecto-
raj, had voted for him. It was the
fellows who didn't take it, who were
alive and kicking Oh election day.
They voted for Tarbox.
It has Just come out that Gen. Sher-
man presented his daughter, Mrs.
Fitch, with sic, 600 in the way of a
substantial wedding gift. The house
Of the youthful pair in st. Louis is the
gift of Mrs Sherman, and, although
quite nnrreteuding Il size and ex-
ternaI appearance, is handsomely fur
nished with articles from the Wash
inSton house, lie. furniture being a SO
Mrs. Sherman's gift to her daughter.
There is a prospect OF tribulation,
of weeping aud wailing among tie
saints out in Utah. Nineteen Nor
mons have been indicted for polygamy
l,y the Grand Jury of Judge Mckean's
Court, and the Job is only fairly COM
menced The Salt Lake Nctc8 is
alarmed at this sudden coming down
Of the law upon the peculiar institu
tons" and rushes in to figures to fig
ures tc show what tremendously ex-
pensive md grievous piece of business
it IS liable to prove.
State Geologist Buckley, of Texas,
will report the next legislature his OBJ
servations in ffty-four counties, from
which it is settled beyond any ques-
tion that the sections visited principally
in the central, eastern, northern and
western parts OF the state, abound IN
vast ttep0si OF iron aud coal. The
copper rcg;on has also eensfound to
have wider and larger range than
generally supposed, aud there san
abundance OF salt, gypsum and good
roofing slate. Silver has not been
found in paving quantities, although
It's existence in the counties west Of
Liano has been satisfactorily demon
stratel.
The Fiji Islands, which the British
Government have just annexed, are q
group Of one hundred and ffty-four
islands, sixfy-fvo Of them being in
habited. They are situated in the
South Pacific ocean, between the
| fftieth and twentieth degrees of south
latitude. Only two Of these islands
are OF considerable SIZE, Anna Levu
and Vita Levu, which have surface
respectivelyof about five thousand and
ttree thousand six hundred square
miles. The Fiji Islands are fertile and
very productive CT tropical fruits, but
heretofore have lad very little atten-
ton given them by this country. Now
that hey Majesty, Queen Victoria, has
taken the place of the latest successor
OF "Hoky-poky-winkyw wanll, the King
Of the Cannibal islands, who has ac-
quired much celerity in song and
story, it is quite probable that it will
have 4 beneficial effect Ilnna tlso f"tore
ofhis carniverous majesty's realm.