Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-11-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

THACKERAY once said, very finely:
Next to excellence is the appreciation
of it.
IT is estimated from such census re-
turns as have been published this year
that the population of the Union is
about 46. $50, 900.
THE leading issues in the senatorial
election by tue Kentucky Legislature.
at its approaching session, are said to
be the Southern Pacific Railroad snb-
A COMMITTEE has been formed in
New York to enable the people OF Por-
to Rico to free themselves from the
iron rule of the Spanish Government.
GmDERs1EEvE, captain of the Amer
lean rifle team, made centre at long
range, at the election of the I'd inst.
He got a New York Judgeship at
$4,000 per annum for fourteen years.
BESSIE TURNER, the piquant witness
IN the Beecher trial, has written book
entitled "A Woman in the Cave" 1t
IS to be published by Carleton & Co.
With portrait of fair Bessie.
THE Baltimore Gazette thinks the
Democratic party will do well to Sc
cot candidates for the Vice Presidency
and Speakership of the House from
Northern asplrants.
IT is said that the next Mississippi
Legislature will be about as follows
In the House. 80 Democrats, and D
Republicans; in the Senate, there will
probably be a two-thirds vote, and
two over, Democratic.
subsidy and currency questions.
IT costs the City Of New York only
Is, 900 to collect sos 0OO,O of taxes,
while it costs Nv Orleans 800. 900 TO
collect $4,000. 900, which we were
about to rem1ik, and the reason is
quite plain, is another argum ent IN IA
vnr of Democratic Government
The eplerd0rs of the trOusseau of the
vonrg daughter of the Duke of Alba,
brother-in-law to the Empress Euge',ie,
who has Just married the Duke de Me
.1ina-Coeli, the wealti1iest man 10 Spain
NAV be inferred from the outlay in
ocket,bandkerchiefs There are sixty
Of these chiects, ore dozen of which
cost g, 400, the rest being somewh at
less cnptlv, blt still enormously expen
siye. The mere enhrniderinq of the
iucal arms on the d, zen handker chefs
cost 81. 400. The arms of Berwick are
Joined to those of Medina-C0eli in these
wonderful "wipes;" the double es-
cutcheon being embroidered in gold,
~ toll {hrac 4
perfectly flexible, of pure gold, and
| that does not charge in washing.
SMALLPOX has for til e past few week.
been spreading in BROOKLYN 70 an
glarmirg extent. aud the Board ot
Health has found it Lecessary at lest
TO take strenuous measures to check rs
prevalence.
THE production of di~tilled spirits
from grain in the United States, Ocfo
Der LIST. was 1S3. 1884 gallons day, IT.
and on October 1. 1874. 192.O1O gal,
Ions. slight decrease this year.
THE Hon. Roht. n. rr1yp. of Al.
hsny, owns copy of the Book OF
Psalms, printed at Mayence, in Ger.
many, in i47S, by Petrus Schaeffer
the son-in-law and apprentice of Faust
| Rnu duOtuSI FOluuuS printed at venice
il 1476.
THE laying of new cable and re-
pairing of the old one between Key
West and Punta Rasa, opens tele,
graphic communication via Havana
Demerara. Para, Pernambuco. RIO d.
Jaueiro. Montevidao and Valparaiso
The Governor of Florida is charged
with having released au indicte c
ecoundrel named Leo Cain, who haG
been arrested for forgery. embpzz'e
ment aud other crimes, in order til a
he might organize the Republica,
party in Marion county.
THE New York tStn publishes The
text of two mOrtga GEES executed los
year by Ulysses Grant and Julia D
Grant, ell of his Long Branch arc
Deal prope, ty to Mr. ". B Dinsmore
of Adams Express Company, to secure
the payment Of $4,000 borrowed
/ money.
ALTHoURH The best sugar cultivation
has been actively prosecuted in Cali
fornia For severn! wears past. it doe,
not prnmisn "a good returns as were
expected. The climate is too dry:
bcets require moisture and ther is
not sufficient r in on the Pacific "oae
to give them size enough to make tber
profitable.
PLUCKY woman il Mrs IcKeen
Of Belfast. Me Her husband. wfC
CO mmarded . PIiladelphia vessel. DIV
| ing on the voyage to Genoa. she as
sumed command. put in AZ Fayal arc
procured a metallic coffin, in which
she rl' ced the remains. continued u
command to Genoa. and attended tc
| diaposire Of the cargo,
SILE cnitnrt- is increasing so rapid;
IN Sonth America that the Cover men,
of Brazil contemp'at"s Offering sub
! sides f. r the scientific cultivation OF
the worm The climate is we II adapted
| to the indnatry, and the country pos.
sesses an abundance of the Palma
| Christi, plant npon which the worm
feeds with avIdity.
Ex PRESIDENT DAVIS has been ten
dered, and has accepted the Presidency
OF the American department Of the
Mississippi Valley Society of London.
| The object of this nov ment is to de-
veiope the com 1,~rcisl and a9ricn'tn
raj r. urcee % i.a Valley of the Mis-
siss'N:'. Mr. Invis will make biz
heasi sInartn'e i. Nv Orleans, aud
wi! .evota Iii IDLE time to thu vort,
| = ~. vi 'EiA C'y'iit' y ana tT1r0pP.
TIE Springfield Republican puts
! THE case no 1ese strong Y than truthful
! II y Len II sava: Tile aai,inst feature
of 'ha weeks voting l. in New York,
whore tie anii-Tamm:nv ring of the
city lead by Holm Morrisey, o ,te7 Hall
and James ORcien-neople kicked oui
Of Tammany FIR their political crinlet
aud c0rrnpt,nna--"nd the canal riDc
of rt,- country. driven eeay from Gov.
Tilsien and lis reform associates.
by his exposure Of their rohberiea,
have been sought anG accepted "a ri
lies Of the Republican parfv. and given
that party partial local victory, to its
great dishonor and d. grace
- tie official r-:rrns of Pen syl
wanna are received, he maj of
Hsrtyapft dwjnd!es down, until the
fact IS clearly established that in the
Stat. outside of Philadelphia, tn, re is
d clear Dfmoc~Rtic majority If fully
six t;,"nsard. Those who are familiar