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

| LoR1DA Is Salu 10 nave ElsoA oiSn'-
cen inches in fifteen years.
LAST seasons peanut crop reached
| 2. 900, 900 bushels, valued at s., DOC, COO.
ABOUT six hundred thousand stand
of arms are exported from the United
States annually.
PAUL MoRPHY, the once famous
chess-player, has become a hopeless
maniac in New Orleans.
SEVERAL cases of poisoning from the
use of the fashionable striped stock
ings have occurred in Chicago.
PALACE CAR Pullman sails for Italy
on the Z4th, to superintend the placing
of his cars on italian railways.
GEN. RoDGER A. PRYOR will deliver
the annual address before the Wash
ington Lee University Societies of Vir-
ginia, on the 28th of June, 1876.
THE Greeley statue has come to grief.
money enough could not be collected,
and the subscriptions made have been
returned to the subscribers.
The State of Louisiana will save
millions of dollars this year in having
raised nearly all the corn needed for
home consumption.
THE counties heard f, ON in MISSISSIPPI
ri give the Conservatives majc rity of
20, 575. The seventeen yet to hear
from will swell this majority to 40, 600.
The revolutionists who spent
| five dollars and lost one man in
overturuipg the State government of
| Panama last month we're Disguised to
find only So IL in the treasury.
The only living descendant of George
D. Prentice is a grandson, fourteen
years of age, who bears the same
name. Heis now canvassing the South
for his grandfather's forthcoming book
of poems.
GEN. MEREDITH, who died lately in
Indiana, was six feet seven inches high,
and President Lincoln used to say that
the General was one of the few men
he looked up to.
NJ THEIRS is said to fairly begrudge
the time he beStows upon sleep, and
as soon as the first hint of Daylight is
in the sky he is at his desk. His pow
ers of concentration are said never to
| have been greater than now.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON recently forward
Ell from London $500 to aid in the
erection of the Washington Irving
monument in New York
A LONDON correspondent says that
the Prluce of Wales left England in
very low spirits, and impressed With
the idea that he should never return
| a i've
WORK has been begun on the track
which is to connect the Savannah ami
| Charleston road with the Atlantic and
Gulf outside Savannah. It is being
! built by the Atlantic and Gulf Com
pany, and is known as the junction
Branch.
SAM BARD's paper in Montgomery,
Alabama, said that nothing but the
Omnipitent hand of God can prevent
the election of President Grant third
| time" The last number of his paper
had eight columns of Government
| lads Thrift seems to follow fawn.
ing. -NeeO Orleans Times.
JENNIE JUNE in the Graphic, Laura
Holl1way in the Eagle, Nellie Hutch
ms N in the Tribune, Hannah Shep-
hard in the Mail and Star, Mrs Battey
and Miss Ballard i'll the Sun, MILDLY
Morgan in the Times, and lucille
Hollis in the Telegram, are some of the
prominent lady writer's of New York.
PROPOSED amendments to the penal
o"do of Germany, Submitted to the
federal council by Chanc ,llor BIS
n,arck are very severe against the
press, the liberty of which would be
quite at the mercy of the Judges T.
l. believed. however, that the scheme
will not go through Parliament with
"'It important amelioration.
THE official maj critics in Wisconsin
re awfully strip ped ano streaked. They
are as follows Governor-Luding-
ton, Republican. 84l; Lieutenant Gov
Parker, Democrat, ,4OI Sec
rotary of State Doyle, Democrat,
!, Cpl: Traasurer-knehn, Democrat,
,. SU4; Attorney General-Sloan, Dem
! "crat, 1871; Superintendent of Public
Misunderstanding. Democrat, 1,175.
! Mr.. DIsRAELIs study at his country
seat is in the attic. and very plainly fur
| nished. worn carpet barely covers
the floor, and his books are placed mis-
cel'aneously upon plain shelves around
| the sides Of the room. A large part of
his literary work has been done there.
| They are trying to find an appro
pirate inscription for Poe's monument.
The Philadelphia Times well suggest
an adaptation Of the epitaph written
for the author of "Hudibras."
Vile Butler. needy wretch was vet al We
- generous p%tton would \ dinner give;
Hehuld him Low, wine I AID turned to au t
RS nted with a mOnrme entail bus
he POETS fate ie here in emblem shown;
lie ask ed for bre al and he received a stone
MINISTER WAsHBURNE is looked upon
III Paris as the successor of GRAFT. 1t
may be just possible that the Presi-
dent will pack the conve ntion SO as to
be able to use it for his own advance
ment, sell it out to the highest bidder.
Or make the nomination present to
Washburne, Boss Shepherd, OF any
other man.
IHF Royal family of England is said
% be little mixed in its religion,
Queen Victoria dislikes the RituaIists.
all. delights in simple form of wor-
chip. The Prince of Wales, on the
contrary, eLjoys the forms of the
church whenever he attends, which is
seldom. His eldest sister is Luth-
eran. Lord Lorne is a Pres by trrian.
The Duchess of Edinburgh is a mem
Der of the Greek Church, and her hus-
band is Low Church Episcopalian.
The Government Of Parn hos nro