Wilmington journal., 1875-08-13

an attempt by several of the olde
| cadets to "deviP' Cadet Irwin, OF ia,
fourth class, who reported III June
did not result SO favorably 10 .h'
hazipg patty as they might have wish
ed AS Irwin was walking his post OF
guard at about midnight they attacked
him with the design, it is stated, O
| rolling him down the side bank O
Fort Clinton. The assaulted cade
stabbed one of them in the thigh will
his bayonet and dubbed two of then
over the head with his musket. The,
were carried on itters to the hospital
and will probably let that 1et alone
in future.
8Col. J. ". Forney believes the
damage by storms in Europe will be
tn sort of Ill wind which is to blow d
great deal. He writes IN one of his
London letters concerning tn, injury
to the European wheat crop, and then
adds this highly co!ored bit OF
prophecy : The effect upon ali our
own interests must te lasting if not In
staneous. Gold will now be shipped
from England instead of to England.
Railroads will be in demand to move
the crops, whether OF cotton or OF
corn. Iron works and manufactures
of all kinds will be pat in operation
and our steam marine will of necessity
be largely augmented. Such, indeed,
seems to be the outlook as l write, and
with this prospect we may begin to
discuss, with some show of reason, the
vexed question of the resumption of
specie payment.
ANOTHER railway engineer has shown
himself hero. A train few days
ago, was entering Cincinnati and was
rnnniig with considerable spe ed, when
on rounding curve, a child appar-
emily two and half or three years old,
was discovered on the track at the dis
tance of four or five hundred feet
ahead. Tue engineer took in the sit
uation at a glance and reversed his
engine, ordering the fireman at the mo-
ment to take charge of it. He climbed
to the pilot, and by the time the
child was reached, the speed was
so reduced that at the proper moment
he sprang off, grasped the child and
swung himself and it safely outside
the rali, while the engine passed on.
WHY THE MILLS ARE SHUTTING Down.
-Concerning the question in dispute
between manufacturers and operatives
at the Fall River Nils, the NeaOs OF
that place reasons as follows: '"That
the margin On print cloths, at the mar
ket rates, is too small to admit of run
ming the Mills at present wages, Is GER
tainly as we'll understood by work-peo-
pie as anybody. 1t costs about 27-l,
900 cents per yard to manufacture cloth
while the highest price 1t can be sold
for is 1851, 900, leaving onl y 9S-l,
900, or less than one-tenth of d cent
per yard for profit. AS this would
give but one and half per cent on $40
coo, 900 it is plain that the mill cannot,
run.
The prompt conviction and punish
ment saws the New York World, OF
Col. Valentine Baker for his assault
upon a young lady in d railroad Car is
one of those things which, despite its
NpChO4iA'S AAN'S oDA PSA
our admiration of the English admin
istration of law. All the more must
it, because there, when judgment is
once given. it is almost impossible
that it should be reversed or stayed,
and most improbable that 1t uiil be
mitigat"d. Though Colonel Baker
was the brother of the eminent explo
rer, Sir Samuel; the intimate friend o.
the heir to the throne, the Colonel o.
a crack cavalry regimes one of the
administrative staff of the camp a
Aldershutt, admittedly one of the ii
nest cavalry officers IN tue British ser
vice and a soldier who had covered
himself rith glory in the recent Afri-
can campaign, within a month afte,
the commission of his otfense he Il
fined 81, 500 aud condemned to year
imprisonment This. it need hardly b.
said, closes forever his professional
career Severe as the sentence may
seem, the prisoner being guilty, 1t wa
not moro than he merlted. Its mora
effect rIpon the masses, who are to-
prone to believe that there is one law
for the rich and one for the poor, /
| hard to ovcrestimate