Wilmington journal., 1875-10-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

THEY say that while the Food was at
its height in G weston, Texas. the fare
for tr aero the sire NJ II mans
shoulders was two dollars. Cab fare
for a four q lare ride ten dollars.
The or at water wheel at Saxey,
Isle of Man, said TO be the largest in
the world, is seventy-two feet six
inches in diameter, six feet in breadth
and weighs ten tons.
A LETTER from Paris says: The
ex-Empress bad just left Ragatz bs fore
our arrival, but I was told that she
was lame with rheumatism and used
crutcbes.'' Too bad-an Empress on /
crutches
Miss KATY WOLFE is said TO ie |
the richest woman In America. Her A.
nual income is 81, 900 030. That s |
enough to keep the wof from her
door.
Not the Wolves in sleeps clothing.
They viii Erger sbout Ii ti.r' sboid
Ind feed upon hope.
GEorG d. PRENTIcc's poems. cot1-
piled and dit"d hy Nj. johu }. Piatr,
are soon to be published. "hr volume
will copta a sketcb of PreDtice's lite,
4 CoRREsPoNDENr writing 70 the
| Norfolk LaaGnaork SAYS Vat.ce and
Cox for Governor and Lie ut na't
! Governor are the c. 0 ce Of thc Eas-
tern NORTH Carolini~iI5.
4 MILWAUKEE 1dstor mas had return
eu to bin = book ho1roWt i twcDty
seven years ago, aud begi s to taVs
hope Of humanity alter all.
LONDON FUN: 0 party (who stam
mers, comes III for some iptcacu4nha)
"Oh, ii you please. young N man. l
want some ip ip-ip ip- Festive
assistant (6red by recent reminiF cenc.)
"Hurrah!"
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE did not
raise any oranges to sell this year
The Florida boys raised them IA week
in advance CT her.
THREE children at Cd City kndlf d
fire with kerosene yesterday, and
two of them fitted through the valley
of the shadow.
TIrIENs has been indisposed only
once in New York thus far. Pretty
good for an accomLIishe d prlma don
na.-Exchange.
AUGUSTA, Georgia, claims the largest
cotton factory in the South. Forty
buildings are i'll process OF erection
aud houses to the value of $3.50, 900
have been completed this year.
TwENrY-s1x ont Of ninety nine fuan-
cial county officials in the model Re
, IF defauiters; yet there were Demo
Gratis ur there so simple and unsophis-
j. ticated that they thought an honest
, party had some show of success in the
3 late election. AS long as there's any
, thing left to steal, however, they might
2 as well make np their minds to stay
: out in the cold.
: THE President has perpetrated q
= huge joke. He says that If abuses ex.
1 st in the Interior Department "they y
l should be reformed or corrected rri
e vately ard Without SO much puhiici
/ ty." We think like the Tribune that
!, 1.-The spectacle o. L1chariah ChaGdl.
= Juggling the Interior Depar, mint of
iuto a corner where nobody cab see
!, him, ard reforming it without toe
q much publicity will be an inspiring
one
"How doyou get up pyour serno',s?'
s asked some one of MIR, Moody. Hi:
Y reply was: For number of years J
: have kept large envelopes marked, say
b Blood Heaven, FAITH &c, aud
f everything hear or meet with on any
f OF these subjects I make note of j
q and keep it i'll these envelopes. AftI1
q some time I have material enough Il
# one Of these envelopes for three o1
e four ormons. Peo1i= Sometimes speal
E; of rne taking four or five months e
n prepare sermon; it TAKE ne four o.
s five years
: \ REMARKABLE suicide occurred il
Baltimore tie other day. the victim
5 being a young man named Arthu
u JohDson. who is said to have beel
driven to the act by disappointment il
: love. He .e:t his home in the morn
a ing, aud shortly afterward the CIT,
. was startled by the announcement tha
a man had been dashed from the para
y pet of the Washington monument t,
{ the ground below, distance of nearl,
L one hundred and fifty feet. a NOR
desperate deed could hardly b
l imagined. A heavy thud as of some
: thing falling over his head was hear,
by the young man who had charge O
the door of the monument, and, goin,
> out to ascertain the cause, be dis
: covered on the top of the marble bas
shapeless mass of human flesh ant
L bones The front of the base of tn
- monument and the pavement were be
: spattered with human flesh and brains
A crowd soon gathered, but SO shock
o ing was the spectacle that it wa
: some considerable time before an,
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