Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-11-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.


r IT is estimated that the sugar cro]
of Louisiana this year will be 45, ,00
hogsheads greater than for any cthe
season since the war.
DURING the winter there are at Rom
not less than 80, 600 strangers. LItnli,
estimates the total annual number O
visitors to Italy at 300, 900.
FIVE young American ladies nav.
lately received honor certificates from
the examiners of the University of Ok
ford, England.
EMILY Faithful. in speaking of poi~
OnOus calicoeE, says W. lad better
give wide birth to violet ground aDd
white figures, or q brownish yellow
pattern.
1T is reported from Paris that acrk
on the projected tunnel between F ng.
land aud France will shortly begin
Experiment al borings will be made
ard if these result satisfact1 rily the
main work will be at once proceedcl
with on the French side.
Memphis and New Orleans are delib
Grating { n the advisability of an ex-
hibition of this peculiar Southern Gus
tom at the Centennial Exposition.
WHILE three emperors are striving,
according to the Official Gazette of
Russia, to settle the troubles of Her
'govinia, the insurgents are effectu-
ally shaping the basis of a settlement
by their victories. It is as true no
as when the Greek rebellion was the
prominent feature of the Easter Ques-
| ton, that In native swords and ma
| tive ranks the only hope of courage
dwels.''
The Jackson Times, the leading
r. publican organ in Mississippi, says:
From the character of those who have
controlled the prim .ry cancuses Of The
party. and thence the leadership and
policy and destiny of tn Republican
rganization, defeat was only ques
ton of time 1t has come at last, and
though by means We do not approve
yet it has overtaken us, and tie party
is at the bottom of the HILL
ACCORDING to a statement in the New
New York very seriously, In thefash-
ionable part of the city where houses
were held two years since at 800. 900
and $4,000, they would not now bring
- L.
value of real estate had not been so
marked in the business part of the city;
but the decline even there was about
twenty-five per cent under the most
favorable circumstances.
The New York Herald says that if
the President, by forcing the Cuban
question upon Congress, can divide the
Democrats aud throw them off the
trail, he may either win third term
Or excite a feeling that will enable him
to name his successor. A var would
fall upon the country like blight, and
the President is exhorted to give his
higher duties of the administration,
and to the pacifcation of the country.
But the Herald is not in favor at the
White House.
1t never rains but it pours. On top
of the indictne mis- of the Presidents
friends at st. Louis, and the possible
impeachment of himself as q party to
the whiskey frauds, here we have Mr..
Lane, the newly elected Congressman
from Oregon, collecting materials for
what is C aimed will be startling e1-
pose to be made at the approaching
session of the cond ton of affairs in
Alaska Commercial Company and the
military authorities which there take
the place of a Territorial government.
the ball i rolling.
THERE is no gentler organ in the
country than the Boston Journal. It
does not like the idea of third
term, yet see how tenderly 1t says SO
Speaking of the Presidents recent
speech, it remarks: The battle between
the two currencies may indeed be yet
more severe and prolonged than Gen
eral Grant supposes. but it is me-
terial TACT to find him, with his pro-
verbal tenacity, still on the right side.
His concluding expression Of belief
that the Republicans will control this
government for at least four years
longer, is essentially uuobjectionable,
while the modest of the expression is
wholly at variance with any indul-
gence in the third term mania.
The Atlanta Herald of Sunday pub
fishes letter to Senator Gordon, pur-
porting to be from Government en-
9loyee in Washington, to the eff ct
that certain fanatical secret societie.
at he North have determined to send
emissaries to Washington on the 1st of
December, ostenslbly for the purpose
of celebrating the death Of "old John
Brown" but really for the purpose of
massacreing the Southern Democratic
members of Congress. The author of
this precious effusion is supposed to
be Rollin FL. Kirk. Kirk is a South
Carolina scalawag. who has berth in
a government Office in Washington.
The money strlngeucy in Germany
xtends, also, into the government
treasury. The difcit in 1876 will be
about 5000, 900 tha!ers (about $780,,
600 in gold, and in addition to thi-,
an Increase ID the army appropriation
i. agreed upon. To make up this de-
ict tax on. Change operations and
nm Increase of the excise duty on beer
are determined upon. Both are risky
operations first offends the money
circle and the second may renew the
beer riots of 1773. And all this des-
pite the ST., 200, 900, 900 of gold Gnclu-
ding city ransoms) so lately received