Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-29
ERITG RIAL NOTES.

Mrs. Sadie E. Martin, candidate for
Superint audent Of Schools in Bremen
county, Iowa, has taken the stump.
and is making regular convass of the
county. They say she makes an et-
fective speech.
In view OF Ames' agreement, the
Chicago s"rimes" thinks the outrage
market is for the present without quo
tation; but chat a day or two before
the New York and Pennsylvania cleo
tons som thing may be doDe in, Texas
or Alabama to ''irc TIE Northern
heart"
A GENTLEMAN on familiar terms with
the President, in the course of con
versation a few days ago, said {:
MARK my words. General Grant vii
some means or other, before the end
of next spring, be before tie country
as Presidential candidate on bard
money and non-sectarian school plat
form, and the Republican Convention
will be compelled to take him up.
THE New Orleans Times says !;
t'From a private dispatch, which is be
lieved to be reliable. we learn that the
President will Immediately notify the
Spanish Government that, in case the
war in Cuba is not brought to a ter
mination by the first of January, 1876,
The belligerency of the Cuban repub
lie will be formerly recognized"
Gov. ALLEN, OF Ohio, has been
found by a reporter quite cheerful
after his defeat. He thinks the hc-
publican party will be responsible for
the financial situation dnring the next
two years, and says: II the Repub
hcans can accomplish a restoration e
prosperity they are benefactore, and
every statesman il the ~ ntry, OF
whatever party, will give them credit
for it. If they fail to curry out their
contract the poop! may be depended
on to find them out, and IT, settle with
them according to their deserts.
MIR. ScHRoEDER's air ship, almost
ready at Baltimore for its trial trip.
has arranged time table thns:--to
Washington, thirty-five miles, in eigh-
teen minutes; to New York, two hun
dred miles, in one hour and forty min
utes, to Liverpool, thirty~thrce hum
dred miles, in forty hours Let u hope
the telegrapLic addendum may not be;
"To 'tarnal smash in five seconds
THE Supreme Court of the United
States, on the next decision day, will
probably render it's opinion on the con-
stitutiouaiity of the enforcement act OF
1870, which Congress passed to protect
the colored voters in the South, and
under the 9th section of which numer-
Gus arrests and imprisouments have
been made. The case before the court
is known as the Grant Gouisiana) par
ish cases, where some eighty persons
were arrested for ''conspiring, com
bining and confederating" to deprive
certain citizens of the United States
OF the exercise of the elective fran
chises. Some of the defendants were
dictment, but on motion for
arrest of Judgment and on
an appeal to the United States
Circuit Court. Associate Justice Brad
ley and Circuit Judge Wood were di-
vided in opinion, and on this division
the case comes up to the Supreme
Court on the constitutionality of the
act of Congress-. The case was elab-
orately argued at the last term, and
the decision is awaited with much in
terest. The counsel for the defendants
rely mainly upon the opinion of the
Supreme Court liz " hat is known as the
Siaughter-houss case, for a ia, oralle
one on this.
A WASHINGTON special gives the
following account of how TACK Chan
dler came it over the President for
thasSecretaryshio of the Inferior.
>Iack says that on the journey from
rttsburgh to Washington the princl-
Pai '>oic Of conversation between the
tresloe.t and himself was horses.
when he eot the note from Gen. Bah
COCK requesting him to call at the
"hlte House, Aa supposed the Presi-
dent wanted little more "horse
talk. " as they had bSen interro,t.a
III very interesting par> Of tn, mo
ylous conversation.