Wilmington journal., 1875-09-24
EDITORIAL No s'GS

|
e gle tree, to the Centennial.
VICrois HUGO is said to have nette
! 100000 by the partnership betwee
5 his pen and his brains.
= Ex-Gov. LETCHER has been nomiu
ated by the Democrats for the Vii
ginia House of Delegates.
t IT is said that A L. Stewart intend
t to build grand hotel in Washington
d. G.
Gov. TILDkN may probably take par
in the dedicatory exercises of the Van
derbilt University at Nashville mex
month.
A New YORK firm has just received
contract from the Austrian Govern
ment for the Improvement Of th
Danube river, amounting to s., O00 600
FROM the French budget for 1917
we See that President lcIAhor
draws a salary of Sl19, 00) anI is al
lowed $4,000 for his hou59hod ant
apartments.
THE Grand Duke Alexis f R1 ssia
who incurred his fathers displeasure re
by secret marr tge. ms ban di-
vorced from his wife, and is now hap
py in the imperial forgiveness.
THE Detroit Free Press says, whe,
An old veteran in Cairo was 5ked "a
split his vote, he replied: H Nv could
I face the Judgment Day with them
angels, KNOWN that. I'll gone back on
the Democratic party? ?"
IT I supposed that Grant is nnxiou.
for a NJ xicau war, in order t. create
the emergency which he requires. As
to whether a Democratic House oi
Representatives vii! furnish the sinews
for such a war-that is quite another
question.
HANNIBAL HAMLIN cannot get much
newspaper sympathy by complaining
that lie has known bitter poverty.
'Why, then" cry the journalists, edo
You wish to reduce us to the same con-
dition with your double newspaper
postage" ?"
JUDGE PIERRRPONT has been sore
disappointment to the oOdv-shirt
shakers. They feel like exclaimine
with the Philadelphia Times "Pierre-
pont may be a better lawyer than VII
liams, but he can't run an outrage
mill And here are elections coming
off, and no troops. 1t is too bad.
TIE Japanese have a new branch oi
commerce. They are shipping bricks
to California and selling them cheaper
than those made in that State not
withstarding there is an al tuIOl,cn1
uuty of twenty per cent. on them.
The japanese brick is s! inches long,
4 inches wide, and q inches hick.
THE residents of G.orgetown, ID. G.
will petition Congress that their an
cient town he retroc"ded to IT.. mother
State, Maryland. on the ground thn:
now they are oppressed and burdencd
without corresponding benefits, and
care only ,ccOgniz q ag helonGIng tC
the seat of government by its tnX-
gathercr."
THE Southern Pacific Railway ie
rapidly prngras ing. rhcy htv.s 3l0
hands Mt work, g I'm ,'"timg thrr,. quar-
ters Nf It mil" of grading d ". rhey
began four mi cs thovA Alexpndria
and are working each way. The pee
pie have give the ComDuuy the right
of way through their lands in every
| instance.
THE Russian JTOrhi announces the
formation in 81. Petersburg of socic-
| ty of ladies' who have renounced the
use of silk dresses and every othcr
kind of expensive attire, in order to
employ the money SO saved in the edu-
cation of poor orphans. The society,
which consists of sixteen ladie S. already
supports twelve girls and seven boys
i'll the It. Petersburg School.
DR. LOUIS A. BOSWELL, of Alabama,
claims to have invented / practi
cable flying machine, which he des-
cribes as fish hat SWIM, i'll the air,
yquiped with the power to drive and
guide itself through the medium III
which he fl oats, jnst as the natural
fish, by the use of his fins and tail
and the gyrations OF its body, drives
and guide himself through the medium
in which it floats.
IF the D, mocruts carry Ohio and
PennsYlvar.la-;tIdi j! IL evident tnat
these two S.4tes are mutually heipiHs
each ot1er-two t!-;ngs MA. be acc pl-
ed as settled : FIRST, that the West
Will control the Presidential election
and, second, that anti resumption
and the abolition of the NaIioual
Bank system viii be the leading p,ank
III the National Democrutlc platform.
st Louis RepmbIic0It.
The Long Branch gossips are ali III
a tiutter, aud busy as bees in clover
field, over a reported manifestation OF
true inwardness'' between James
Gordon Bennett, of the JierulI, and
Mrs. DR.. Helmbold. Now, if old Bu-
chu is half as crazy as he is reported
to be, Jim Bennett will soon have G..
Washington Childs, A. NJ, writing his
obituary, and remarking that he has
Gone to meet H. W. B.
A FRENCH officec, who fought i'll the
Crimes, related how al English battal-
ion of infantry destroyed two Russian
regiments the Russians fired inces-
sanity, and did not lose foot OF
GROUND but they were excited and
aimed badly. On the contrary, the
English infantry avoided undue haste,
took steady aim, aud missed scarcely
sinnla shot The human being is