Wilmington journal., 1875-12-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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has not walked the earth in vain.
! Now thy say that the Presiden
has lot so much in stocks that he il
poor. Was it not Wendell Phillip.
who said that the President had made
81 .0O0 600, and would not be satisfied
until he hnd made 81, 900, 600 more?
Mr.. HENRY ". ELLIOTT, of the
Smithsonian Institute, will appear be.
fore the Senate Committee on Terri
tories in Jal uary with an argument in
favor of withdrawing the troops from
Alaska, and substituting civil fo1
military law.
GEN. HANCOCK is nominated for
President by the Erie Observer as one
of the few army Cfficers who seem to
comprehend that under our system,
except in time Of actua' var, the mil
itary should always be Subordinate to
the civil power.
SENATOR FENroN writes from Flori-
da to his Albany physician that he has
already been much relieved from his
throat trouale.
IHE Crown Princess of Prussia will
be the recipient of wreath of finely
tinted autumn leaves, prepared and
framed by til students of the Act Col
lege at Syracuse, New York.
FRANK LESLEY has bought the late
Fifth Avenue residence of Boss Tweed
The salt prsduct of Michigan for the
season iust closed is offic ally reported
to be 1, 1,09l .S65 barrels, being greatly
in excess of former years.
IT is stated that ff;y-seven Conven-
tions will meet in Philadelphia next
year. and that nearly every variety of
men and associations will he represen-
ted at tn. Sc gatherings.
The newsboys of Galveston bought
a bouquet and presented it publicly
through one of their number to the
piquant little Miss Lolita, who played
an engagement in that city last week.
A NEGRO boy III Fairfield county,
South Carolina, vas packed up in a
bale of cotton two weeks ago. 1t was
supposed that he had entered the pr ess
box and gone to sleep. and suffocated
before his preseuce was discovered.
BISHOP McNierny (Roman Catholic),
Of Albany, has ordered all the priests
of his diocese to refuse absolution to
any members of ther congregation who
participate in round" dances.
WILLIAM Alston Hayne, Webs ster's
antagonist. sits in the California Leg
isIsture for Santa Barbara Ventura.
He is fifty four years old and des-
cribes himself as "a Democrat of tho
old school," Mr.. Hayne sat in the
Legislature Ur oouru Oaro1ina just De-
fore the passage of the act of secession
ard went to California in 1867.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to induce
Governor Garland, of Arkansas, to in
vite the Governor of Alabama, Louis
lana, Texas, Mississippi and Tennes-
see to unite with him in a call for a
convention of the Southern States this
winter at New Orleans for the purpose
of determining upon mutual plan for
the encouragement of immigration to
the South from Europe.
Ex-Governor Henry S. Foote, DR..
Sam Bard and Colonel Mosby are all
out in favor of Grant for a third term,
with Sergeant Bates yet to hear f: :om.
With the gigantic influence of all four
of these great President makers weild-
ed in his behalf, the election of Grant
for third term may be nsidered as
inevitable as if it bore The stamp of
fame-tue sanctiou of god. ."--Louis-
uiLte Courier Journul.
How is this /? A London dispatch
states that the Times Berlin special
says IAN agent of President Grant has
arrived at Cettigne, Offering to sell the
Herzegovinians cannon on credit" Is
thete an ordinance rlDg as we'll as
whiskey RIG in the country !? Can it, be
that the Radicals are actually stealing
ou, old cannon and peddling them
off to Eu opean governments
The Louisville Ledger says that
Bristcw, Blaine and Washburr are
the only men who stand any chance of
obtaining the Republican nomination
for the Presidency next year, with the
former far in advance If the other
competitors. The whiskey exposure
has killed Grant and Morton, people
distrust Logan. and Conkllng is for
gotten. The fact that Bristow cannot
carry his own State will be used against
Lin in the convention.
MR.. SUSAN PET:GRU Bowen. wife
of G. B. Bowen, a former Radical
member of Congress. and at present
sheriff of Charleston, s. c., died in
that city on Saturday of pneumonia.
She was the dsughter of the Hou.
James L. Petigru, one of the most
dlstingu shed jurists of his day, and
was first married to Mr.. King. well
known South Carolinian. Mis-. Bow
en-, when Mrs. King. and in the pal
mie.t days of the prosperity OF the
State and city, stood in Charleston
and in South Carolina the acknowi-
edged and undisputed leader of fash
ion, refinement and culture. She was
a clever writer, and was known as the
author of "Busy Moments of an Idle
Woman" and other novels and sketches,
the last Of which was written pd
published a Year ago, entitled Yes
terday and To-day"
The Washington correspondent OF
that bitter Radical sheet, the Baltimore
american writes There is great
diversity of sentiment among Repubh-
cans in both branches of Congress as
to the good policy of Senator Nor
toms agitation of the Southern ques-
ton at this time. Some of the most
clear headed Republicans deprecate
it. and say that, no matter what may
be the state of affairs in Mississippi,