Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-08
EIll,EsaiilAI. MOTIFS.

! OVER twelve million dollars are es-
timated rs lost by strikes in England
this season.
MARSHAL BAzAINEis stated to be dan
gerousIy Ill at La Granza, near Mad
rid. in consa ,uencc of the opening OF
an old wound.
ENGLAND maintains an army of 900,
coo men III India, Of whom 12S, AT are
natives, and GO,Gl British, exclusive
! Of officers.
AIRs. e. BAHRETT, of Elizabeth, n.
], widow of the late Lieutenant Bar
rett, United States navy, committed
suicide on Tuesday by taking morphine.
A SHOCKING account Of the maltreat-
ment Of Jews comes from Baglad.
| One Jew WAS burned alive by the pop
Mace The excusc Of these barbarities
was that the Jews had been guilty of
hIa.} henry.
The Empress Josephine's residence
near Paris. known rs Ma!maison, is
| about to be Sold under the hammer
Napoleon RI! was said ~ have purchas-
ed the estate during his reign and re-
stored it to tho condition it was in
when occupied by Josephine.
PAhsoN DEowNLow says Gov. Ames,
of Mississippi, "knows about rs little
OF the temper aud wants Of lis constit-
ucnts as mule does of mathematics. :"
4 Mississippi,n who il is to be feared
is not entirely friendly to Governor
Ames says that the only possible, in
accuracy III that comment is that it
may be unjust to the mule.
TILE New York C111nlcrciaI 1drlr-
fisc5 says al the ocean steamship com
panios have sunk money on nearly
every passage for two or three years
past. The Bremen line has lost 81
ll5, 600 in two years, the Hamburg
$4,000 during the past year, and the
White Star, Innan, National aud Gun
ard lines not less then 81, 0OO,0O
The New York Mercury shows how
rapidly preparations arc being made
to change rags for coin, thus: con
the 10th of January, 1S75-two DAYS
before Congress passed the so-called
Specie Resumption Aot-the banks
of New York held in their vaults S33.-
222, 100 III specie. Within a month
thereafter this supply of metallic mon
ely IA the banks decreased to $l5, 1922
400. On the 18Th of last month it was
hnt S1,3S6, 200, and yesterday ONLY
-, 2G9. 300. That is the way we are
coming nearer to specie payments
through contraction even of specie it.
self"
TIE Philadelphia Times says, edit
orally: eve have information from
sources that we cannot question, that
the ballot-stuffers of New York, Phila-
delphla and Baltimore have Leen called
upon to try their hand on Ohio to save
the administration by the election of
Hayes. Of this number Philadelphia
is to furnish some two thousand. and
they arr shipped by differcnt trains
and by different roads to be landed at
Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Day
ton and other points. New York is to
furnish a like number and Baltimore
about one thousand"
HE Memphis appeal says: "Hon.
Jefferson Davis and party, consisting
of Jefferson Davis, Jr., and MIR. J. M.
Heating, of the Appeal, returned to
the city Thursday evening. MIR. Davis.
we are glad to say, is in excellent
health. His visit to the Northwest
was one continued ovation of fraternal
greeting, which we feel assured will
unite the two sections as one in the
grand effort to open up the great val
Iey and its boundless resources to the
markets of the world. From the re-
ports of his travels we are assured that
'he expression of friendship toward
;he Southern people through Mr.. Da-
7is vas no milk-and water demonstra-
ion, but a spontaneous expression
rom all, without regard to party or
,reed, and to which we know the
Southern people respond with the
leartiness characteristic of their ma
ure."