Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-04-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

G wheat, 45, 600, 900 bushels.
An East Tennessee contemporar
u estimates that 100000 dogs viii b
killed III the State, their owners de
clinlrg to pay the tax under the he
law. Yet there are people who persis
t IN declaring that it wasn't righteon
s enactment.
Bishop Cummins formally orgeuiz
ed Reformed Episccp Church i
ltimore, last week, TO be called tn
"Church OF the Redeemer," Dele
gate were elected to the general couu
cl of the new church, which meets il
Chicago next mouth.
There is a m3il route iu Mou ana
over which the sum total of seventeen
letters pa,se.s last year. The route
G 'stS the government 500, 900 per au-
ium, or neary So. 900 per letter il
Jewell is i'll earnest about postal re-
form, says the Nashville Lsiru, he
has begun at the little end
The name OF the Emperor of Braz
Will be damaging to tue page tf any
hotel register on which it may be i'll
scrbed. 1t Is Pedro Giovanni CariG
Leopoido Salvador B,dlano Francois
Navler de Paul Leocardio Michel
Gabriel Raphael Gouzagne
Mrs. J. j. Astor, Of New York, has
recently sent seven hundred aid tif!y
dollars to the Children's AID Society TO
pay the fares of fifty homeless boys to
the West. The little fellows stalted
on Tuesday last, after being comfor a.
| bly, clothed and well fed. under tie
/ charge OF one OF the agents of the Sc
ciety.
| The property of BOSS Tweed,
lately attached IN New York, includes
| tn" magnificent stables OF the great
ring master, fitted up with walnut
trimmll IS and elegantly furnished. -
Tweed had private rooms above his
horses, where he met his friends to
concort plans for plundering the city,
ard drink deiciously favored punch
from a huge silver BOWL.
Greene, the defeated Republican
candidate for Governor III Connecticut,
not long ago fred ole buudred guns
in honor OF Grants Louisiana poIicy.
1t was a fatal waste Of powder to him,
and he never thinks of it now Wi; hout
regre ting that he didn't touch it all
off III n single pile, with Grant and MS
Louisiana policy on top Of it,
Harry Hazen, the collector of cue-
toms at FernaEdina, abscouded fer
parts unknown last week. Defalc;.-
ton suppose d 10 be about eight thous-
and dollars. He vrotc a pathetic let
ter to his wife from Savannah, bid
ding her good bye, and telling her not
to gricve about him, as it was better
for him to leave than to be in the pen
ltentiary.
Postmaster general Jewell Dis has
covered that the $10O. eco spent aunu-
siy for "repairs Of mail bags is very
y
will hereafter have The repairing done
at special depots, designated by and
under the supervision of tue depart
m"nt. The repair Gepots will he l.
Gated ut Washington, New York and
indianapolis.
The Springfield Eep"Liican, a pa
per not exactly orthodox to its party
uamp, having received the mail rout,
"ad." for western Massachusetts.
scratches its head dnbiously and asks:
Can it be that tie postmaster gen
eral is really going to advertise III the
papers of tn largest circulation, like
merchants, NAL ufacturers aud servant
girls p
Amongst the latest developments of
ras cality in the guise of Commercial
enterprise is the fabrication of sham
4uinine. TIL North China Her0id
says that several captures of this pre-
cions commodity, which is ostensibiy
of Paris manufacture. have been lately
suggests, ia the interest of humanity
as well as of legitimate trading, that !
the fact should be made known as !
widely as possible.
Ifu17,e,.' HcckIy candidly coufesses !
that mot hing III the political future Is
clearer than that if the R'pubEcans
cannot shake off the incubus OF a third |
term. or establish that they do not |
seek their purposes by questionable !
constituted means, the result In Con
necticut fol oleshadows that IL the country |
While. on the other nand, general |
conviction, as in New Hampshire, that !
the best traditions of the Government |
aud the approved principles OF the |
party are to be honestly maintained as |
the party policy would est tiblish Re |
publican ascendency as firmly as ever.
The battle must first be won in the |
party, and the victory in the country /
will be easy"
A cannon ball is preserved in the |
Treasury Department, IN Washington,
which deserves to become histOrIc-If !
Geld iron can be said to dCscrre any
thing. Ii Weighs twenty pounds, II /
our recollection is correct, aud is !
plain, rough shot, with an iron ring
attache i to it. In storm which o. ,
cured Oh the coast of New Jersey. |
many years ago, it was thrown from a
mortar. with a line fastened to the
ring. and, passing over, fell beyond
ship which was stranded and in dan
ger of going to pieces. The line was
tied to a cable on the shore, and the
shipwrecked people drew this in, and
ia ,tened it to the vessel. On this Ca
Bile a life-c4r was passed back ward and