Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1874-02-13

! The .E1uaI-R Rights Union Is tn,
name Of q black secret society in Mont
gomery, Ala. which admits none bu
negroes. aad pledges It's members
. never t. vote for Democrat for office
under pain OF expulsion
Judge Grier once set aside the uu
, just verdict of jury against ali I'M
popular man with this remark: EN-
ter the verdict, Mr.. Clerk. Enter also.
Set aside by the Court | want it tC
be understood that it takes thirteen
men to steal mans farm III thi,
Court"
A little boy living near Kankaker,
ILL.,. was amusing his brothers and sis
tiers by twisting a towel around his
turning around his feet slipped. He
fell the length of the towel, which was
firml y attached to a roller. HIS neck
was instantly broken.
The San Fran cisco Bulletin says
there are two or three thousand out
laws III the mountains OF California,
who live by robbery and violence
They occasionally make raid on some
village aud strip it of its valuables.
They are quite secure from arrest in
GliSli ldStueSSeS.
The fatality which has attended the
English war against the Ashantees
may be judged of by the fact that after
service of five months bat four ma
rines and none Of the blue-jackets
originally engaged remain, the rest
having either died or been SO incapaci-
tated from performing their duty by
the insidious effects OF the climate as
to necessitate their being sent home.
It is an old saying that can honest
confession is good for the soul" Such
being the case, how happy the New
York Times must have felt when it
got off the following: "Look at it in
what way you please. no one can deny
that, under such a government as
ours, it is terrible scandal to have a
great State kel t in the condition in
which we see Louisiana at this
moment.
A crew from a Portuguese man-ofwar
were rowing off Macao when their boat
was run into and SINK by Chinese
boat. The Portuguese were saved and
taken on board the Chinese boat, when
their officer demanded to be rowed to
the man-of-war The Chinese declined
to go to SO much trouble, and the Por-
tugesa tried to take forcible possession
of the boat. There was bloody fight,
ending in several On each side being
killed and all the Portuguese being
thrown overheard.
The West Brookfield Mass tax
collector, last week, put a man in Jail
for not promptly paying his poll-t
(S1.) When the man was released he
hungered and thirsted for revenge,
and he got it. He discovered that
this extremely summary collector of
taxes had a dog upon which he had
not paid the license fee. A complaint
was made, a warrant obtained, con-
stable took the collector before
just &c, and the justice made him dis
burse $50, to the great comfort OF the
poll-taxed.
There is story told of one gentle
man who protects himself against the
pique and sense of injury which
thieves experience when they can find
nothing to carry away by leaving il
his country house, when he goes to
old brandy. A note by the side of it
house, that all the drawers and doors
III oISI. 1ci1cS Cii..o ~ 'tiIiiS SS'N'''iJ
damage be done, and that his guests
shall help themselves to the brandy.
The Bonapartists have given a pres
ent to the French people, especially to
the peasantry, in the shape Of from
three to four millions of well execut-
{ d portrait of the PRINCE Imperial on
small square of paper not much bigger
than postage stamp and bearing the
inscription, Appeal to the People,
and 'sEve ything for and by the PEG
pie" These little bits of paper are
gummed at the back and may be stuck
upon walls, windows, door posts, &c,
with little risk on the part CT the per-
sons who circulate them.
1t is now hoped that the famine III
India will Lot be SO severe as antlcl-
pated. One rice harvest has certainly
failed beyond redemption, but there
is hope for March crop. A writer
who passed over fifteen hundred miles
at Bengal, and through the most des-
titute districts, says the fields are COW
cred with fair promise for the coming
year. in the meantime large supplies
are being gathered, and the price at
which it will be sold shows how SIM
ply and at what very small expense
these people live. \ mixture of bar
lev and peas will cost but little over
a penny pound, and there is Il gov
ernment guarantee that rice per pound
shall not rise above five farthings.
CHArPED HANDS, face, rough skin.