Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-17
EorTORalL NOTES,

Centennial appropriations. OH
Concealed 10 the skirts of woman
arrested at st. Alhaus last week were
found 400 yards of black silk.
PRINCE BIsMARcK / as been called
upon by Parliament to use his best en-
deavor to reopen the London markets
to German cattle.
HERE are about IS, $50 professional
beggars in Paris, of whom 25.480 are
woman, IA sou men. IS, 900 girls aid
1870 boys.
WORTH, the man milliper. has failed,
and the grief-stricken fashionable wo-
man of Paris are killing themselves off
with absintle straight.
TIE Canadian G, vernment is taking
steps to prevent the spread OF the foot
and mouth disease which has broken
out among the cattle of Middlesex
county Ontario.
p ST. PAUL, MINI, has p population o
80, 237, and Minneapolis. 81, 729. The
two C ties being only four miles apart,
there Is paroject .on foot looking to
| their consolidation.
| The Hon. Miceal c.. Kerr, Speaker
| of the House, was serenaded, and ac-
! knowiedged the c'mpliment IN brief
speech Among others serenaded was
MIR. Randall. Of Pennsylvnis who res
pond. d in speech of some length.
ALEXANDER STEPHENS, of Georgia
in le ter to Senator, Gordon, states
that Ill health will probably detain
him This w'uter at his home. He
thinks, it would be extremely unwise
| for tie Democrats to take any steps to
upset any of the Reconstruction acts
! passed by the Republicans -- -
! ONE Of the fish a. 10 issioners of
Virginia will Wet Raleigh very soon
to encourage North Caroiiua III stock
ing their streams with fish. To that
end the appointment of a State COM
mission will be asked so that the two
COMMISSIONS may operate together in
gard to the waters c 'ntignous to the
boundary line. -Peters6nrg Ldee and
! 4DDeak rs" st
+ aSAMts1 BowLEs. Ct the Spring tieId
/ ReDub{icuR; u.le Of the .shrewdest po-
iAc4l ob4ei yefs in the country, say,
at preeen Tllden al ii Lamar is the
s,rohae7t Presidential ticket on the
| Democratic side, and Bristow and
3 allie 'hc strongest Republican.
1IBroS'a ,-c5.re snccess IN toe West
Is asfont-.'.5,.g sll suspasses his own
great g. IS ..}a'lons. AT keokuk,
~blc.. .,.a, ai,y.s.-7naaN hall, the aod.,
ct CT ~ gan 5it,,sz IT i'll the street e
- = .'oc'-. sc . sure not beginnin s
III .. He 5. Ia, to De figuring il 1
veGitable = GoIaun Legend, > while hi:
| dis ihguished rival is still acting IN the
',Schooi for Scandal"
THE Boston Congregationalist. also
has been shocked by the long-drawn
out obsequies of Henry Wilson
when" it asks, '.shall We have sucl
a reform of our present barbarou
funeral customs as will protect thu
bodies of the dead from the indigni
ties of public honors and grant then
a speedy, quiet and reposefal passag
froln the chamber of death to tn
+ grave?"
, ACCORDING to London Times cor
, respondent an American circus pro
i. prietor, with great d fficulty, obtained
from the German authorities leave t.
! take some German horses with hin
:, into France, aud then only on givini
i bond to return them in three years
:, and not to permit their use in Franc
g meanwhile for breeding purposes.
q CarRcH property is taxed in Califol
n MIA, and this was brought about by tn
;, hes4theD. the Chinese awaited them
selves of the exemption of rhurc
= property TO evadc taxation on thei
= JOS -houses, which are very numerou
y snd mainly merely npium-smokers re
sorts; and to prev ut this ii WAS nee
81. essary tn make general the tax alton {
ali real estate used for religious PM
:. poses.
:. The aunual demand Of the newsps
pars for reform in the system {
giving the Presidents message to tn
country Ia renewed witt more tina
usual unanimity and esrnestness, thi
~ year, the telegraph having made III
. commonly bad work of it, It real
> does seem as if printed copies migt
be sent to government officials ia IL
, leading cities, under restrictions whic
40 you'd p event the documents gettin
- INTO print prematurely, aud so allo
F.; the newspapers to print it the way if
: written
s. A GERMAN cooperative colony
1t Aurora, Oregon, manufacture hou
,e lumber, leather, cloth, wagons, plowl
IS harness, ar6 saddles, boots aud shoes
n clothes, furniture, SPLIT and raw hide
Re chairs, tinware. wooden ware, barrel
IRON work, make cider, sour krou
apple butter-pear butter, butte
* lsllies, &c, run the railroad dinin
d room aud hotel, drug store, store
n general merchandise, postotfice, tel
d graph office, rice, immense quantitis
nj Of chickens. and keep a common stoc
1T OF h. e., cattle, sheep and horses.
u tn RE ~ a great pressure upc
q Speak T, Kerr to appoint a Pacf
~ i'ailrohd Committee that will he favo
4 I ole to thu Texas Pacific bill. end the
y ffS good .roEnd for believing that OF
. vii he Gu" ia favor of reporting tn
- Dill to1th' R3dse without any recon
IA N A'4dation This would b. "con
81 promise" committee, ard satisfacto1
- 10 both cpl ouents AID the friends
= the meaeare. The entire commit,
10 has not Yet been made up, out it
c known mat the following membe
y