The Local news. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-22

better work could be done to-day than the
publication of small pamphlet which
,hould show what articles of food are cheap
ast and most wholesome; what modes OF
cooking are most economical; and wherein
savings can be made in clothing, warming
lighting and house rents.
Senator Robertson, Of the N. Y. Leg'sia-
.ure, introduced bill to dispense with the
"pretty waiter girls" at the free concert sa-
looms in that State.
Sixty.four thousand four hundred OF the
present population Of Canada are natives OF
the United States.
A correspondent Of the New York Journal
Of Commerce says that the reported fall OF
rain in the course Of year, in other parts
Of tho world, is, a. compared with the an
nual quantity of about SO inches in our At
lantic cities almost incredible. = 81
Avrit of hsbeas corpus has been issued
against the convent known as the House OF
tho Good Shepherd, in Chicago, to release a
Young girl named Mary Kelly. and her
child, who, it il alleged are now held there
without authority Of law.
On Friday the propeller E. Chamberlain,
Of Philadelphia. loaded with hay, ran the
batteries of the Potomac. Fire was opened
upon her without damage.
Since Senator Wilson first agitated the
suffer question the profits Of that fraternity
have, it is said, fallen of ut least one-half.
Their latest device is embodied in circular.
which they have printed and distributed
through the camps, and which denounces
tho proposed law. and seeks to make the
soldiers dissatisfied with any alteration OF
the present system.
There 10 a farmer ir Putnam county
New York, who has mile of children. h''
name 10 Furlong, and he has eight boys and
girls Eight furlvngs one mile!
The U. s. War Department is to tho
roughly reorganized under the new Score
tary-no further appointments to be mad
! To anv rank in the army until the lat
March: all the nominations now pending 0
army officers to be suspended until the Is
of March; officers to be prevented from IeaV
ing their camps and stopped from coming
into the cities unless under orders; particu
lar DAYS to be set apart at the department
for particular kinds of business, &C., &c.
The presents received by the U. S. g'verr
ment, mentioned in paragraph 10 >yeste'
davis Local News, were from the King
Siam, not the Emperor Of japan. -
Small pox continues to prevail IN Wasl
:, ington city. N a'll
= The Washington correspondent of the
Y. Herald afirms that an attempt wac mat
q few days ago, by high officials to ORA
: something from President Lincoln in OPP
!. sition to his own line Of policy ON the eo
= traband question, and failing in the efful
- thew "csused u statement Of the convers
:, ton to be written out, rs they wished
= have it appear, and caused it to b., offered
:. the press for publication. The correspo
= = dent of the Herald was urged to, forward
. for publication. but doubling the truth
" certain declarations it put into the mouth
Mr.. Lincoln, he took the manuscript,
o. declined to forward it. Next day he ~
." mitted it to the President, who at or
= branded the portion purportins to repres'
~ what he said as untrue, and also assert
~. that the whole thing was q total mlsrep
w sentation of the conversation had bet"'
ny him and the party in question: "sii.i1
e. e It is stated that Ex. President John Tyl
" died in Richmond, On Friday last. 81 q
. Felix X. Zollicoffer was born in MOI
:" =, county, Tennessee, May 1882. lie q
~. eli in q printing Office, and in 1879 took
on himself the management of newsps
az PARIS. Tennessee. 10 1894 he was ed
egi- and publisher Of the Columbian Obser
ESQ in the same State; in 1885 he was ele
most State Prioter, and re-elected in 1887
l842 be removed to Nashville, and Cd
!. s. the Banner; in l843 he was elected "
sons troller Of the State Treasury, aud wal
Pc. elected in lS45 and l847; in lS49 be
es of elected to the State Senate; in 1867 ne
the a contractor for building the suspe'
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