Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Centennial exhibition.
THE new English admiration ACT
went into operation on the LIST. II
protects retailers who sell adulterated
articles without guilty knowledge.
IT is stated that pigeon-shooting
match for 50, 600 has been arranged
between Jas. Gordon Bennett and
Travis Van Buren, to take place at
New York in November.
The mammoth hotel to be built at
st. Louis by Boston capitalists will be
II stories, 800 feet square, 10 feet
high; and will contain 1000 rooms &C
commodating 3, 500 dodgers.
A PREMIUM of ZOO has been Of
fered by the Memphis Cotton Elk
change for the best bale of cotton, of
the present crop, raised IN the country
about Memphis, for exhibition at the
Centennial.
IT has been proposed to establish a
pigeon post between Europe and the
United States, and an ocean homing
bird of great docility has been dis
covered in Iceland which is said to be
admirably calculated for the purpose,
icing able to fly at the marvellous rate
# 80 II les per hour.
The Nav 10 K Tribune discusses
hs qut> ton. Why has the business Of
i. s.IriLg lives fallen off? The main
rea -on is believed TO be the ge -: al
depression of neatly all mercantile and
professional enterprises. Among the
minor csases it IS alleged that there is
disappo:, tmeut among people who
have beeI. d. ceived by the false prom
Uses ard prospects held out by the can
vassipg agents. The disgust of men
who lave suffered their policies to
lapse Is said 10 have been communicat-
to the general public. It is sag
gested that if people could Withdraw
from their agreementa and close their
policies as tiey DO bank accounts, by
checking out the balance due, they
SOl}d he better satisfied.
In Rounebeck, Bremen. an engine
hiss been nearly completed by Herr
TrOssin which resolves the problem,
which for nearly Thirty years has en-
gagged the attention of inventors, Of thu
uti.iz< tiou of sHperheate1 steam in
comu On regimes. The answer to the
probi-n1 has been found in the new
appl; of a physical law, and tue
use of p" peculiar lubricant. An engine
with superheated steam needs
only half the ordinary amount of coal,
he boiler and CRATE can be smaller by
the supply of water by one
5Iird, and The air pump aud condenser
are equally reduced 10 half their usual
space. The improvement has been
patented in England, Belgium, and
other countries, and can easily be APP
Piled to engines Of the existing type.
A MOVEMENT has finally been made
% abate the peddling nuisance in rail
way cars, the Superintendent Of the n.
I. G. & H. r. Railroad having issued
an order to conductors instructing
hem to subject news agents and the
Boys who are employed by them to
oeddle candy, books and newspapers
through the cars, to such discipline as
shall prevent the offering of the COM
nodities by throwing them into the
apps of passengers, or with such fire.
luencv as may be deemed offensive or
annoying. Tho order is said to be
strictly enforced, to the great relief of
Now let other companies
ollow suit.
A New York letter says Very as
consisting exposures are being made
relative to the heavy expenditures of
he Public Dock Department and the
litter worthlessness of the mass of
work done under their auspices.
Nearly five million dollars have been
wasted. 1t is complained that Phila-
lelphia ard Boston, with their water
ronts and harbor Improvements and
constantly increasing terminal f4c;li.:-(
,. -Ofetde from New York,
mich only great effort can regain. |
he new line from Baltimore to Chicago |
5 doing much also for that city, which |
) now fast monopolizing the coffee |
rade. When the Welland canal IT,
argement becomes completed, to-
e' her with the harbor improvements |
t Montreal, vessels of 200 tons will
I'm from Chicago to that city"
The present war in Liberia seems to
ave broken out during the absence Of
resident Roberts, who, with bis wife.
cent to England in July last for his
ea'th, expecting 10 return during the
resent mo: tn or November. Tie
uties OF the presidential Office mean
me devo;ved upon Vice President
ardner. Should the war prove
rotracted p1a new administration
III have a STARE in the glory. At the
5ufral election IN HAY last Rev. JAS.
Payne was chosen Pee side1t of the
epubIic. AID S. J. Craytor, Vice
resident, for the term of two ' ears
ON the 1st Of January next. Mr..
aEne was bora iii K edmond, Va,
1t when mere child, III 1929, ar
we'd with his parents III Monrovia
here be was edrcated and entered
e ministry of the NJ E. Church. He
Is devoted much attention 30 the
1dy of political economy, ard several
ars since wrote d treatise on the I
bject, which received favorable
antiOn from leading economists in
e U"itod Sfai"" and Europe. He !
s already strveH one term, 1860, s
President Of Liberia. He bids fair f
become as use ful in his field of |
DOR as President Roberts, whose .
ate papers 30 less diplomat:st than !
I'd PaImerston said compared favor +
y with those he received from other t
lntrles.