Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

WASHING IONS family carriage, near
II century old, is now in possession
of Henry Dnu-ap. os Phita 1elphia.
and will be It saa C,,uteanial Exhibi-
| ton.
IHE Nav York Ueratds Washington
! correspondents leans to the opinion
| that the Democratic members from
the cotton Stetes ara she most couser-
vative men in the House.
THE Republican representation in
the Alabama Legislature. which is
small anyhow, grows weaker and weak
er. One of the two representatives
| from Mac1n county h been sentenced
! to the chain gang and the other has
| fled to avoid arrest.
The Cincinnati Enquirer s4ys there
! is a ruJuor abroad that the Supreme
! Con. of thu United States, just before
| The announcement of the decision To
| the effect III it the government cou!dn't
! collect anything from the Union Pa
uftc Railroad. dined in body with
the principal counsel of the railroad
| and that afterward, and before the de-
cision Of III, court was g." several
mem bers OF the Iurt partc"k of the
b0untiful hoapita tiles Of sam Ward.
Il IT. y he all right, but how it looks!
TIE remarkable stat. meut is made
by the Washington cores spnrsient of
the ST. L,uis Republican,, that Presi-
dent Grant Informed we'll known
priest on the Paciti2 coast, two years
ago, thar he intended 80 Join the 10
man C4tholic Church las soon "a bis
Presi1,-nti,l term expired. The
courier .E0urnaI says Gen. Gcaat in
tended that AS Il joke, for he does not
intend that his Presidential term shsll
expire, if he eau help it, uatil his
death.
AN .dd ional evidence Of the prog
ress OF the nineteenth century aud the
necessity for proper observance OF
orr Ceutannlai is seen, sayS'the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, in the unheralded
prosperity Of some of our cnterpris
ing Americ n citizeas. Here is COM
pauy OF gentlemsn out IL Missouri who
III the last ak or eight years have
forged titles to twelve million acres of
land and have realized twenty-five or
t.,irty million doilors from the sales,
ma yet they made ne more stir over
their business than . corner grocery
wouln oTer tue arriva; of Il wagon load
of p ,ti1toes. Vino VIII dare say shat
American enterprise has lost its grip
or It's mudesty?
The report of the appearance of the
Cuban insurgents since last January,
recently received by the Cuban a2enr
ia New York, Is OF special interest
when considered in connection with
the sitess laid on Cuban affairs IN the
Presidents message. The Patfn
have ben most succe p -ful in The E;tS-
tern Department., and all the enemy
has baen abe to do has beo2 to protect
r0e plantations of Guantanamo aud
Santiago de- Cuna. Thirty-uine plan
tdrsOaS NeIS Otlt itV-Sl GkOtt tbsf1C AliAOE Sd
and fttE Spanish vo!unteers deserted
to the rank OF thu Patriots Many en-
counters have taken piec4 between the
Spauiards ao,i toe CHbans in the large
terri o7y be: gee8 L, rrocila del Picano
and tne district II CDjoa. Since the
hitter psrt Of judy tnesa i,svs been
taught eighty van BATTLES. 50 called,
y ,iich resulted in tie burning of niue
sugar plantations anu thirty-one settle
meDts Dy tHe Insurgents, ard the cap
ture of y large nnnb4r Of riffs aid
horses Their losses tnouut-d ~ thir-
- one killed and tnirsy five wouud9d,
which certainly shows gratifying alb
seucc CT the biooished in the warfare
conducted. Il Is charged against the
Sl,nniarl Is toat they have organised
bands of guerilias to attack small Cu-
ban villages and Kill all ih- men and
b ,ys above the aga of ten; but this
Ehurid probably be taken with Gu III
ticatiOn=.