Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-09-24
EDITORIAL. NOTES.

the OUTSIDE WIFI d trumpet, WulCA llO
occasionally sounds This is an Eng
fish idea.
COMMODORE PERRY's flagship, the
Lawrence, sunk i'll Erie harbor sixty
two years ago, was raised last Monday,
and the bottom found to be In a good
state Of preservation. She is to be
exhibited at the Centennial.
HERE is how fiery Sam Bowles. of
the Springfield RepH6ticafa, puts it:
IF the people go on voting Democratic
State and Congressional tickets in this
careless way, what is to become of the
great Republican party? They should
think Of this"
DIR. b. CHU HELMBoLD has Jumped
out Of the frying pan into the fire.
4 dispatch from Providence says he
has been locked up for the non pay
ment of a hotel bill From the insane
asylum 70 the Jail can scarcely be
called a progressive improvement.
NJ. DAVIS was taken quite sick after
he arrived at Kansas City on Monday,
on account of his unus lal oratoricaI
efforts while in delicate health. He
received fifteen invitations TO speak 1T
different PLACES shortly after he got to
Kansas City, but was Obliged to de-
! cine them all.
The Cincinnati district is now re-
| ported 10 be producing 600 barrels
high wines per day, Chicago $50 to
GOO, and Peoria 500 barrels per day, or
rather per twenty-four hours, for not
a few Of the distiIIers are running by
nights as well as during daylight.
| THIRTY-NINE las hes on the bare back,
is prop osed i'll New Jersey for a',y man
who accepts an office, the duties of
which he knows himself Incapable to
perform. Go up head. Jersey. How
would that law work in Mississippi,
Louisiana and South Carolina?
BEAST BUTLER has been giving re-
newed expression to his views an poll
tics. He says he Will take no part in
the Massachusetts campaign, and does
not care who is nominated for Cover
nor. He is dead set against hard
money, and predicts the triumph of
the irfationists in Congress.
The New York Heldid, in publish
ing another communication from its
correspondent, Mr.. Nordhotf, calls at
tention to the fact that Georgia has
I T6anonoro+io
economical and excellent administra-
ton, showing that the State debt is
trifiIng. the State crGd dit high, the
taxes low, and the counties almost ex-
empt from debt.
At recent serenade at Pittsville,
Pa, to JuG. Pershing, the Hon. f.
W. Hughes, made a speech, in which
he defended the Erie platform as en-
kcdying principals demanded by the
almost unanimous voice of the West,
and declared that he had the assurance
that it would be sustainel by the solid
support of an association numbering
| 100, 900 voters, understood to be the
Labor Union.
Further elections occur this year
i'll the following order: Iowa aud Ohio,
October II; Virginia, Kansas, Mary
land. Massachusetts, Mississippi, Min
nesota, Missouri, New York, New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania, November 2;
Texas, December 2. Some of these
States elect Governors and other State
officers, and all of them elect members
of the Legislature. Mississippi also
elects Congressman.
As in Maryland and Ohio, 50 in New
York the Nothing spirit is crop
ping out in the Republican ranks. IT
Is evidently part Of the programme
to divert attention from reform move
mant in that State, forcing sectarian
issue on the school question. The
! Utica Db~crrcr, in con menting on the
situation, says: This scctarian agita-
ton on the part of the Republican party
is, i'll the beautiful langu. ge of Roscoe
Conking, the last hair in tie tail of
jadrd ingenuity. "
1t is understood that Tilton has in
| formed the lecture committees, with
whom he has made engagements
for the coming season, that they must
not endcavor to excite popular inter est
! by advertising HIM as the scandal he
TO. He is to deliver his new lecture
IN Hudson this month, and the co
/ ,I,II
around the forbidden fruit AS close as
| they dare. They say: "Theodore Til
! ton, after three years absence from
| the lecture field, for reasons now well
understood by the public, has again
| consented TO lee IRE, and has beel en-
gagged to deliver his new lecture THE
Problem of Life at City Hall, Friday,
| September IT."
CHICAGO, conceded to be the largest
grain mart i'll the world, handeiea
| about 10000, 90 bushels annually.
and has now III Operatio eighty steam
elevators, with a combined capacity of
! Is, so 900 bushels, or more than the
average produce of 1000, 900 acres of
the fertile wheat producing lands OF
the Continent. Their capacity varies
all the way from 100000 to 1000, 600
| The entire cost Of the eighteen elevA-
| tors now IN operation was abOnt So
| 900, GOO exc luslve of the ground on
which they stand. Add for this 81
900, GOO, and the result shows sc, OOO,-
600 invested in the industry,
A PARIS correspondent writes: "All
the ladies wear Il medal or cross, at
tachcd to a ribbon, rouud their necks.
On close inspection | saw that the
medals and crosses We're the same as
given to distinguished men for servi-
ces rendered to their country on the
battlefield. On inquiry, also, | ascer-
tanned that they We're in reality the