Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-03-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.


ieved to be the greatest herdsman il
the world. His rancho is eighty miles
long, and he owns 225, 600 head of cat
tie.
The sum promised us by Spain OIL
the Virginius score is $4,000, while
the amount squandered by the Secre-
tary of the Navy on the same score
was about 81, 100000.
The Washington Star says: sit is
the general impression that if Mr..
Morton persists in pressing the Kel-
logg and Pichback's resolutions, the
Senate may be in session for the next
six weeks
France is the greatest wheat pro-
ducing country in the world. She
produced in 1873 the enormous quan-
tity of 332, ,2O9, 900 bushels. The
United States ranks second i'll this re-
sp p"ct, and Russia third.
The New York Tribune does lot
seem to attach much importance to the
fact that the authorities at Washing
ton are opposed to the call of Coz
vention in this State for the purpose
of am nding the Candy Constitution.
It says:
Strange as it may seem England has
managed to jog along to the present
day without ally such officials as our
prosecuting or district attorneys. In
scme instances prosecutions are con
Quoted by the government depart
ments, the postoffice, for instano,
suing employees who steal letters, but,
Us a rule, the prosecution of criminals
is left to the parties injured CT their
families and friends.
A Washington special to the Cinc:n-
natl Commercial says the iuvestiga-
tion into the condition Of Agricultural
Colleges leaves the inference very
pl that the entire fluid granted
to Florida has been stolen. The State
author ties. after repeated applica.-
tions, refused to give Congress the IL
formation desired. It is learned from
private sonrces that the fund had been
corruptly appropriated.
How long will locomotive last aud
be serviceabie? An engine Oh the
Reading road has been on duty since
1847, and has run in that time AIS, 1888
miles, on an average of nearly II, 600
miles per year for twenty eight yeurr.
Probably there is yery little OF the
original engine remaining except the
frame and miner parts. Another eH-
CINE, made in London, England in
1888, is sill doing duty.
The San Francisco Academy Of
Sciences have been looking at some
curious fish of the trout species, some
of which, says the Alta, are joined
about the umbilical region, and while
having but one tail, have two distinct
bodies and heads, and seem to navi
gate with entire ease. Others have
two bodies and tails parallel, united
by a ligature as in the case of the
Siamese Twins.
Civil Rights took effect in closing
some of the Northern hotels, but IL
Evansville, Ind, the colored servants
at one of the hostelries, upon hearing
of the passage of the civil rights bill,
refused to take their hats off in the
house, and were accordingly dis
charged. They fell glorious martyrs
to the dignity of the African race.
which consisted in being rude and i'm
polite.
SOMEBODY has examined the record
and finds out that only two Speakers
have been longer in the chair than
Mr.. Blaine, Henry Clay served in
the 18th, 18th, 14th, 18th, 18th and
18th Congresses. Andrew Stephen
son, of Virginia, was Speaker of tie
Goth, 21st, 22d and 23d Congresses.
Two Speakers have served equal terms
with Mr.. Baine-Nathaniel Macon, of
North Caroline, who served in the 7th,
9Th and 9th Congresses and ex-Vice-
President, Schuyler Colfax, who served
in the 3Sth, AMI 39th and 10th Con
gressesses.
The people of North Carolina are
urging their Legislature to provide for
O Constitutional Convention without
delay. Ex-Gov. Vance is prominent
in favoring the step. The kitchen
organ at Washington is sure such
action means rebellion, and attributes
1t all to the failure of Congress to de-
velop sufficient stiffness of knee to pass
the Force bill. 1t doesn't seem 20
occur to the organ that it is none of
the business of Congress to tell the
people of State what they shall do
with thier Constitution.
1t seems that the United States pur-
chased Alaska to hand it over to pri-
vate company in San Fransisco. A
pamphlet of the Anti Monopoly Asso-
citation of the Pacific Coast charges
that by collusion between san
Francisco house and the Russian agent,
before the transfer of Alaska, the
rights of the Russian Fur Company
were bought; that by bribery in Con-
gress the exclusive privilege of killing
seals on the islands of st. Paul and
St. George were granted to the same
firm, and that by the connivanoe of
the United States revenue officers
both at San Francisco aud at Sitks,
the same firm has driven off by vexa-
tions delays all competitors, AID thsir
agents are virtually masters Of Alaska.
While the German army is being
rapidly equipped with the Mauser
rifle, new breech-loading musket,
devised by son of Herr Won Dreyse,
inventor of the needle-gun, is being
tried in the government grounds a.
Spandau. The new Dreyse rife is
stated to be superior in some respects