Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-10
EDITORIAL NOTE 8.

THE value of cotton lost this year fo
want of picking is estimated to be ovel
s5, 100000
GEN. SIcKE1's eldest daughter il
said to be about to marry Spanish
nobfeman.
In 1866 there were only 25, 600 OF
1000 Baptist communicates. They
are now said to number about 2, 600, O00
VIM. @ BRYANT, Whiteiaw Red and
George W. Curtis will be the judges at
the intercollegiate oratorical contest
in New York January Sd.
CORRESPONDENT of the New York
HerdId suggests as popular Centen-
nlai ticket Gen. Sherman for President.
and Gen, Joseph E. Johnston for Vice.
| President.
! HE Black Hills have been evacua-
ted by the military, and miners are
said to be going in by the hundr DIS.
The length of deep sea cable laid in
the world is &c, 600 miles Tue world
telegraphic lines ex end over 400, GOO
miles, and there ara 10000 miles of
railroad.
HE skeleton of the horse that car
rled General Sheridan on his historic
twentymile ride to Winchester, Va,
during the war. is owned by a Roches-
ter, n. Y, man, and is t. be exhibi-
ted at the Centen nnial.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany are about to lay pneumatic tubes,
two and quarter inches in diameter.
between some of their Offices in New
York, and are also preparing TO pu
some of their wires underground.
TAKING photographs at night; who
ever heard of such thing 1t is
done, nevertheless, and by burning BIZ
su! !phate of carbon with peroxide of
nitrogen, light is produced which has
the same artistic effect as sunlight.
The anonymous old gentleman who
has been announced for me time as
intending to establish college Of mu-
sic in Central Park, with an eudow-
ment of $5,0O0,0 900, is now said to be
Mr.. Samuel Wood, of New York City
A LARGE number of gentlemen, re-
presenting large iron works in the
Ohio valley, are now in the vicinity of
I.ynchburg, Va, the object of their
trip being to obtain definite informa-
ZION in regard to the iron deposits of
he ames river valley.
JOHN SURRATT married 8 Virgins
lady last year, and is now teaching
school at village in Maryland, about
twenty miles thence. Miss Surratt
married Treasury clerk, but imme-
diately after the nuptiaIs he was dis
missed from the department.
THE experiments recently made by
the Worcester, Mass. Railroad officials
with petroleum as fuel for locomo-
tives, have resulted successfully. An
engine has been run from Providence
to Woonsockett, petroleum being the
only fuel used. Other tests and ex-
periments will be made in few days.
THE Philadelphia Sunday Press
says in the Hon. Sam Randalls district
a scheme j on foot to defeat him in
the next Congressional Convention,
State Senator Nagle. it is said, hav-
ing lately come out as the candidate.
It is rumored that he will be backed
by Tom Scott and the Texas Pacific
Railroad Interest, and that Scott s
hostility 70 Randall arises from the
latter's opposition to the Pacific sub
sidy business last season.
THE Jackson (Miss.) Clarion, the
| aiding DemOcl attic paper of the State,
draws up bill of Indictment against
| Governor Ames, upon it asks his i'm
peachment. 1t charges that he has
corrupted the Judiciary and ignored
the law in his appointment of Judges;
that in defiance of Law h ha7 dlsE1 $50;
Judges who would not be his s"rviie
tools; that he has sought to control
the decision of Judges of his 1wn ap-
p0intneut; that he has plac9d thr
civil in suboidination TO the military
power; that he has melted riot and
murder for partisan ends; that in ap-
pointing certain revenue agents he vi
O ated the Constitution art 4, section
3S.
The most notable indication If tb,
keen interest felt in the political strug
gle of the next year is tie call at this
early date for the Republican Stats
Convention of Idana. The next cleo
ton there does not occur until Octotel
ID, 1876, but the Convention is te
nominate State ticket, and select del
egates to the National Convention ant
Presidential Electors is called TO
February 22d, over seven months il
pivance of the election. The lncreas
ing talk If Senator Morton as Pcesi
dental candidate may have some con
nection with this early movement o
the party in bis State, especially as tn
October elections in Indiana, Ohio ant
Illinois are reliable Indications of hoy
the country will go in the Presidential
election a month afterwards.
Jr is said that California comes near
, est the mark of any commonwealth i
the world as a State virtually withou
debt. A rec Mt writer hows tha
nominalIy the State debt is nearly fou
millions, but of this sum she owe
, three millions or SO to herself. Sh
, bought up her bonds and keeps thel
in trust for her schools, the univers
= ty ard other bjects. The actual del
h is only about 500, 600, and for tn
a she has the State Capitol, very e:
pensive building, paid for; the orig
> nal Insane Asylum, Normal Schoo
e State Armory, and State Prison, ct
In the same connection, it is state
- that the county of San Francisco do
), not owe one cent. The city of Ss
:, Francisco owes 100000, while Ne