Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-03
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The wine making season III Los An
2eles, Cal, is about enied. The vim
age will much exceed 500, 900 gallons.
LAST year it cost La 49,, 900, 900 to
repair and keep afio..t the Old iron
pots and wooden tubs digu.iei as
"our navy"
MARIAN SINGER, daughter Of the sew
ing machine inventor, has appered up
on the stage in San Francisco in bur
leeqne.
A MEMORIAL to Congress is being nu-
msrou,iy signed IN U5.h, praying Tor
she admission Of that Territory as a
State this winter.
THADDEUs SURvENs's colored 'bouse-
keeper" Lydia Smith, to whom he de-
vised s.. 900, has sued the estate for
six years pay at 5000 per annum.
HERE is bull frog farm i'll South
eastern Wisconsin. thirty acres of
swamp fenced in, and the proprietor
aends thousands of these featherless
birds 10 New York
given to the country several days ago,
showed the regular military force of
the army to consist of "a, OBJ men and
1,540 officers.
THE pool sellers on the great four
uile race i'll California, hold more than
5000, 600 to await the result AS there
is no Immediate prospect of the race
| taking place, and money is worth four
| per cent, month in San Fransisco,
the pool sellers are Ill the enjoyment
Of a very respectable temporary L.
pa"za.
THE hou- OF Joe Jefferson's great
| trinmph in England is clouded with
erent grit. HIS youngest child, a
boy. just four years cid, die1 in Lon
| don, two weeks ago. after an illness of
four days. This child Harry, the pet
| of the household-was born in Chica-
! go on the night OF the great fire, ard
| his death brings sorrow to one Of the
hoppiaet homes on earth. By pcremp-
tory command Of physicians. Mr.. JEFF
| ferson continued to act.
A WASHINGTON dispatch gives thu
rather apOcrypbal report that Vice
President Wilson wa engaged to be
married, Oh the recovery of his health,
t. Mrs. Iohn A. Jackson, Of William
son county, Tennessee, and that It was
mainly to see her that be visited Nash
vile last spring. The story further
goes, that they first met at Washing
ton, had corresponded regularly since,
and that Mrs. Jackson is one of the
most disting Iished and highly cultur, d
won en- in the South.
The purchase of . large interest IL
the Suez Canal by ENGLAND has given
rise to a good degl of comm Mt ard
speculation in Europe, and in reply to
this the Times says that the Great
Powers were not Motif d because there
was not time, and that. moreover, 20
body had a right to prot st. This is
II strong Contrast with British noiicv
Of late years, and We take it is explain
ed by the crippled condition of France.
Before Sedan IN purchase would have
been followed by the burning of much
villainous saltpetre, but now, we take
it, England will be left 10 the COM
n1anding position she occupies without
molestation.
The Presbyterian SrnoAs of Ala
bama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas,
Nashville, and Memphis have unit d
in obtaining a quarter for
the Southwestern Presbyterian Uni
versity. The board of commissioners
selected ClarksvilIe, Tenn, As the To-
cation, and Stewart College, with its
funds and appurtenances, a the nucleus
Of future operations. There is now
On hand $50, 600 Of endo ~ment fund
safely invested, which is one-fifth of
the amount proposed to be raised. In
addition TO the grounds and buildings,
worth $50, there are cabinets CT |
minerals, fossils. and scientific books |
RI presenting $50. 600. The formar fac
ulty of Stewart College will be con
tinued professionally