Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-04-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

viii pay Vls16 I'D In0 court Oh COpSh
hagen. He will afterward spend
week in Berlin, and Ill the beginnin!
of June viii, go to ST. Petersburg t.
see the Emperor Alexander.
Some of the ocean steamship line
are about to materially advance th'
rates of passage. Cabin passage b,
the Anchor Line, after May 1st, viii
be advanced to 800. Heretofore it ha
been $40. On the Inman steamers th'
rate will be $50 to $1OO. according te
accommodation; round trip tickets
good for the whole year. S145 to S175
gold.
! A large, heavy-set M an, who resiled
GEAR Indianapolis, died recently from
disorder which no Indiana docto,
! could make out. At the time of his
death he was little more than a skele'
ton, his flesh having nearly all waste d
away. A post mortem examination
showed that his liver was full OF alb
scesses, SO that his food had not bee,'
| properly absorbed, and that he had
actually starved to death.
Sir Charles Lyell has left a fortune
of about $I50,000 10 the London
| Geological Society he willed SIC, 900
the annual interest of this sum to b,.
applied to the encouragement of geol-
ogy or allied sciences. The mouey, it
Is provided, is to be appropriated
partly for travelling expenses or for
memoirs of papers, and without refer
euce TO the sex or nationality of tie
authors.
a new American prima donna, the
daughter of E. l.. Davenport and sis
ter 'f Fanny and May Davenport, h;.~
made decided hit in opera in Italy.
A Turin paper thus speaks of her de-
but in ''Traviata:" "Her seductive
feature, her elegant bearing, the mus
cal perfectness and freshness of her
voice, and her intensely dramatic exc
cution"; and in conclusion the critic
writes LA Blanche has conquered
the loftiest difficulties, and We predict
for her a splendid future"
The Baltimore Gazette says: "Bv
the adoption of new style of burner
for the city lamps. under the superin
tendence of Comptroller MacCubben.
the bill of the company for gas con-
sumed during the month of January
was between seven and eight thousand
dollars less than for the month of De
oember, and it is estimated that the
average saving to the city over the Old
charges will be five thousand dollars a
month, or sixty thousand dollars
year. This saving has been effected
by simply regulating the pressure put
upon the mains by the company, and
does not in any way decrease the guam
tity of light.
Robert Gordon is probably the
wealthiest black man in Cincinnati
His skin is quite black. He is worth
$50, 600, and is sixty years Of age. He
was born in Richmond, Va, and was It
slave till he was thirty years old, and
bought himself, and it is since then
that he has amassed his snug compe-
tanCy. He earned his money in trad
ing in coal. His master was q coal
dealer, and from him the slave &C
quired knowledge of the business,
Robert was his masters yardman, and
was SD faithful that his master cDtrust-
ed him with much of the business
managemt Mt. He learned to read and
write while O slave, and also mad.
his fsrt ventures in the coal trade
during his slavery. With his m .ster's
permission he began to speculate in a
His first money was earned by specula-
ton in sunken coal-barges.
An effort was made in the Methodist
Conference III Pennsylvania last week
to effect a change i'll the system OF
itInerancy. several large and influeu-
tlai congre cations protecting that they
would not be compelled to part with
paSGIAo VIM AoS S1o"d hCdk uuO tACdI
to them in years of faithful service
They referred to instances within the
limits of the conference where clergy
men in other Christian sects had re-
manned in charge of the same congre-
cation for thirty, forty, and even fifty
years, and urged that no charm OF
novelty, no advantages of learning or
eloquence could equal in weight of in
fueuce the trust reposed by the flock
in a man who had held them in his
arms as children, had married them,
vice, aud buried their dead. The
question was simply debated, but tie
old fashioned Methodist predictions
for the itinerant system were too
strong for any innovation, and SO the
conference decided to make no utter
ance that could be construed in favor
of a change.
a German paper gives the following
statistics Plus *, during his TWEEN
~ -AihC yOhiS AOiSu, has CIcdtSa hIue-
ty-nine cardiuals-December 26, 1916,
two; June IL, 1917, four, of whom An
tonel!i is the oldest cardinal created
by the present Pope I; January II,
184S, one September 80, 1910, four
teen; March 10, 1852. four March 7,
1858. eight December 10, 1858, one
December II, 1866, four; June Is,
1857, six; March Is: 1868, seven; June
25. 1858, one September 27, 1861.
seven; March 16, 1868, seven; Decem-
Der 81, 1868, one; June %, 1866, five !;
March l3, 1868, line December %,
1873, twelve; March Is, 1875, six. OF
these ninety-nine cardinals created by
Plus TX. ffty-seven are Italians, thir-
teen French, three English, nine Span
ish. three Portuguese, seven German