Wilmington journal., 1875-08-20

sixteen inch collar in his bed room tin
OTHER day, and a divorce is imminon
The papers are discussing the ques
ton, Can Grants grandson btcom
President?" Well. lie can't next yeal
says the La Crosse San, though Ia
might be Consul to Brest.
1HE platform of the Greenback par
ty, which is forming in New York City
is concisely declared to be "the use .
"the credit of the United States in tn,
form of greenbacks, thus saving
twenty million dollars annually tha
"are now paid the National Banks or
their bonds deposited at Washing
ton"
A New ORLEANS boy very recently
took the advice of the great and good
| Greeley and "went West" Prior to
starting he robbed his benefactor and
emg loyer of 81, 300 We would inform
ambitious youths who contemplate
going West" that MIR. Greeley did
not insist upon preliminary effort at
''going to the d. vll."
A GREAT deal of financial stringen-
cy ~ felt at present among business
men i'll Montreal, no less than twelve
firms who are perfectly sound as to Ii
abilities and assets, having been COM
PEELED, within the past week, to make
special arrangements with their credi-
tors for an extension of time to enable
them to meet their engagements.
The Vlcksburg Herald says : "It
won't be long before ..Mississippi
Judges will change the form of SEN
fencing prisoner, and will say ''Sam
Jones, stand up. You have been tried
and convicted, and are sentenced to
the State prison for an indefinite peri
Cd, as it is quite likely you will be par
doned out "a soon as the Governor
finds out what rascal you nle"
TIE COtt'ie1 Journal, on the au-
thorlty of Mr.. Nordhoff. prognosti-
Gates better things in Mississippi
growing ont of the alleged abolition
Of the "color line" The Mississippi
whites may talk of breaking down that
line as much as they please, but the
only way to break it down there or i'll
other States is for the whites to stand
shoulder to shoulder in a solid phal-
anx. They will find coaxing negroes
into a political copartnership q slow
and fruitl.ss business.
THERE are two churches in this
country which are arranged with tubes
for the convenience of deaf people,
namely: The First Church of Nashns,
New Hampshire, and the Presbyterian
Church at Freehold, New Jersey. In
the latter, a number of pews are con-
nected first by flexible tubes, then by
tin pipes about al inch i'll diameter
running down through the floor,
and connecting with a kind of funnel
Terminating just in front of the DIble.
The plan works we'll. Any tinsmith
can put in the arrangement.
Returns from the Cherokee election
Indicate that COlouel Ross, now hold
log the office Of pr ncipal Chief of the
nation, has been defeated by Rev.
Charles Thompson. The Chieftaincy
has been held by some member of the
Ross family for many years, in fact,
during most of the time since the tribe
abandoned their nomadic habits and
adopted civilized fo1m of govern
ment. Ross successful competitor has
long been very popular with the Cher
okee Nation.
TdE losses sustained by the South
in the civil war are estimated by ii cor
responent of the New York Evening
Past to have been 81 ,284. 600, 900 indt-
pendent of the slave property, which
amounted to s.. 400, 600, 900, making
total of So, 6S4, COO, 600. But this is be
low the mark, for the correspondent
estimates that had not the war occur
red the wealth of the South, taking the
ratio of the decade ending 1860 as d
test. would in 1870 bnve reached $15,-
:}S1 600, 600 instead of which it fell to
only s., ,462, 600, ,00O-n difference of
nearly so, 600, UUU, 900.
APKoPos of the Kelley Motor, we
shall now have season and series Of
astounding Inventions. There is a
man in Rome, N. Y, who has ma
chine ncnrly perfected winch will
pump its own water and run itself
without fire or steam. The inventor
calculates that when the thing is fully
developed" the patent will be worth
81 900, 900. All he wants now is a lit
tie money and n balance wheel weigh
ing about Is pounds. We confess
that in the light of all these Develop
ments we do not despair of perpetual
motion. Perpetual notion we are
sure of.
Only once before in the history of the
country was there no living eS-Presia
dent. That was in 1T9G, when WASH
INaToN died. No one who had held
the Presidential Office died from 1949
to 1862, and five living ex-Presidents-
VAN BUREN, TYLER, FILLMORE, PIERCE,
and BUCHANAN-miRht have graced
the inaugura of ARRAHAa LINCOLN.
This was the greatest number of ex-
/ Presidents living at any time. The
proportion has been often l,roached
in the newspapers to make ex-Presi-
dents ex-officio members of the Senate,
in order that the national councils
might have the benefit of their expert
erce in public affairs; and the history
of the nation shows that the number
of these gentlemen surviving at any
one time can never be go great as to
give them undue influence. 1t seems
that Fate has creed tie second Cen
tennial to begin as the first one began.
WILLIAM WRIT HENRY, of Rich
mond, Va, explodes a curious story
about his great ancestor, Patrick
Henry, which finds place in the recent
ly published "Memoirs of John Quin-
cy Adams. The story is that in 1924.
John Taylor, of Caroline, Va, told