Wilmington journal., 1875-08-13
EDITORIAL. NOTES.


u Lailstone striking him on the temple
aad another had his wrist broken.
An extraordinary number of small
bis<se we're killed by the hail; one per
sou is said to have picked up 500
TIE n. Z Herald says of the ex-
presidhnt: ''People looked at his re-
turn 20 the senate very much as the
expeotant thousands at a Seville bull
hsht look for the coming into the
arena Of the mighty and farless beast
who is 10 die for their sport, but who,
before dying, may gore one or two OF !
his antagonists"
TaRHE congressional nominations |
have been made in Mississippi: Col.
Ches E. Hooker in the fifth district;
Hon. O. r. Singleton IN the fourth |
district, end Hon. L. q. G Lamar in |
the fisss district. The latter was re-
nominated by acclsmation at Corinth,
i'll the precenoe of five thousand white
men.
TH1S is the situation: Seven hundred
millions IF currency to float debt
capital OF twenty-five hundred millions
II dollars in bonds and pay taxes,
Federal, State and local, of at least
efshs hundred millions of dollars
year Is there any reason why money
should not be scarce and interest high?
A MASS of wood and oily dark mud
has been found ON high, graveily
rdgo in Reynolds, Ga. at depth of
torfy-two feet The well-diggers had
1 lot.
! accounts. The Macon Telegraph t.d-
. y.sae the owner of the woll to send
: speci1nens of the wood and earth to
! Professor Little for d scientific expla-
natlon Of the mystery.
f., THE Leesburg (Ea.) mirror state,
} that oa Saturday last the Ii.y. f. NJ
Manry resigned his charge at Middle
! burg. Loudcun county, aud declined
even TO ofticla5e on Sunday. HIS res
axnation ts not merely severance of
his pastoral relations with the Middle
burg parish, but IS d complete and
fit.al E!thdrswal from the Episcopal
Church His reasons for this action
it IL learned, will he shortly set forth
10 letter to the Bishop.
II aealns 70 be settled that DeianO
nust 60. His retention endangers
The RepubticaD vote OF Oniu, which is
DoIa1lo's State. They know the old
resscsI there. 1t Is an open secre. IN
Washington that Graut Is casting
around for g more acceptable man. lie
,dare not appoint General Cowan, fo1
ne IS mixed up with the Indian frauds
IL common with Delano. THE new
Secretary will probably be either ex-
Congressman Armstrong. of Ponns, !
= vanis, or Judge Taft, of Ohio.
1HE rain belt covered the northern
half Of Missouri. the southern half oi
= Iowa, and nearly the whole O
tho States oi Illinois, Indi
, ana and Ohio TN area Of 190,0Ot
, square miles, and the garden oouutry
of the vest This rain area embrac
! ting ebout 6T5 per cent of the whea
? crop OF the country. Cne-third o
, yts crop has, therefore, been exposed
to the effects of the extraordinary rain
. tall. Twenty-Five per cent. of it wal
I probably cover the loss ii the wcrth
a er "a hereafter favorable. In many
, acotione the loss Is almost tota
40 far as the wheat, hay and oat crop
"a axe aoncerned, but tue average loss III
q the entire rain belt will not excee.
twenty five per cent.
q JCDeR MYnICK. OF the San Francisco
Probate Court, has decided. in the
case Of Mrs. krg, that New York Ia,
; = gtt-d in California, and that the
i p.aiiGf Is made widow by her hus
2 b,.Ad 3 hte imprisonment, and is con
s 60. neDtfy entitled to inherit under he
z fakhars Will It il a rather Quee
q sx,so,!arv Of the decision that Mrs
h ding PROPOSES to use the $40, ,0C0 sh
Il sill get III procuring new trial TO
her J. husband, in the hope to rcSurrec
e hl,1. and this too, when she wa
iaborlng for divorce when he mur
dere2 O'Neli. As the old LondoI
porter said: Rum creeters Is vim
men"
THE New York Tribune is evidentl
g alarmed. 1t says: "No careful OF
SERVER OF pubic sentiment in TIL
'N est aud South can escape the con
=, "vlcsion that II the Democrats carr
: Ohio this fall, both of tn -se section
, will enter the next National Demo
:, cratic Convention SO furious for intla
6 'siOn that the Eastern section o: IN
+ 'a,sms " ''S'S
Is EoN. T. L. CLINGMAN delivered al
address 20 the graduating class of til,
a University Of the South, at Sewanee
? Tennessee. on the 4th. His subjec
l. Vas, Defects Of Public Speakers, nn,
!, the Character Of Popular Orators.
= IN the course of his effort Mr.. Clin
It gnsn alluded 60 Webster, CLAY, Cal
o honn, Choate, Benton, Silas Wright
James buchanan, George McDutfie
:, Coiouel Preston, s. S. Prentiss an
q others distinguished for their talent
1 AID powers Of debate. The Who'll,
' spee>>h WA intensely interesting.
q THAf able Texas paper, the Galveston
l NetrS, takes the Vorld Gn6 Times o
;, New York, and the Gazette Of Balti
= noEe So task for their rag money de
nnnciatons against Governor Allen, q
: Ohio. The Neaus asks What q.
Z .h@s mean by rag-money? Do the,
: Iaean tie original Initiation of lega
> hender paper which gave Eastern spec
& uIat'on wings to soar to heights neve
T reaahed before? Do they mean the
8 oheap n!oney which Eastern manufac
:. suTefs, Eastern dealers, Eastern capi
. ttalisra got. Wholesale, for a mere song
D when gold WAS 260, ard when Jn,
Cook and others of his pursuasiol
> we're rsoepdlug in mammoth balloons
8 Inflated with patriotic gush aud gut
g ehout the nat:oual blessing of grea
national debt? Or do they mean tn,
rag money, which a vulpine polio,
+; under tue cloak of specie resumption
I. has souah: to convert into a terribl.
astrinsens fos values and expander fol
: debss-vhioh would reduce cotton tt
: bsn cents pound and wheat to tift,
= cepsaa bushel, while compelling The
. payment 70 gold or it's equivalent o
!, debts contracted in paper at eighty
seventy. sixty or fifty per cent. depre-
, cintion bs.o~ the gold standard" II
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