The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-31
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-DfaIlllanS rue III lWO'SlOry morse
cars.
The ST. Louis police have dress-pa-
rades.
-Florida's State debt amounted to s14,-
100000.
The Columbus (Ga.) Fair is to have a
goat race.
"A Boston lawyer is compiling the
Mosaic law.
An immense pottery is to be establish
ed in Indiana.
Senator Morton left San Francisco SUM-
day for home.
Whaling off the British Columbia coast
is good this year.
"A pamphlet history Of the Chicago
fire has appeared.
Alameda county, CAL, raised 5000
pounds of figs this year.
"A grave near Gravelotte contains two
thousand five hundred corpses.
Observation-Disclosures is Ger
man, for Short" for horse-car.
Buffalo hams are five cents pound on
the southern border of Kansas.
"A Texas paper publishes marriage no.
tees under the heading of Lost"
1t is said that 1900, 900 of the nhabi-
tants of Germany can read English.
Hickman county, Tennessee yields
$50, 900 bushels of peanuts this year.
-Governor Jewell has appointed No
vember 30th as day of thanksgiving.
Contributions in France for the relief
OF Chicago now amount to l77 ,430 francs.
Forty rural editors of Tennessee are in
the hands of their friends for public printer.
OF all the State debts, that of Virginia
is the largest, and that of Oregon the least.
Senator Wilson is canvassing in New
Jersey in favor Of the election Of Mr..
| Walsh.
! AT Lexington, No., on Monday, Hem
ry Il. Moore, an old and worthy citizen,
shot himself.
VIM. E. Barrow, one of the claimants
of the Almaden quicksilver mines in Cali
fornia, is dead.
The convicts of the Indiana northern
/ State prison turn out 100000 barrels and
5000 chairs annually.
Heavy frosts in many counties of
North Carolina have played havoc with
the tobacco crop in that State.
An Oregon youth killed two deer and
then popped over pair OF panthers which
undertook to take possession Of the meat.
The Buffalo Commercial AdraIiser calls
the editor Of the Democratic Courier of that
city "the best impromtu liar i'll America"
"A Philadelphia paper asserts "regret-
fully but unhesitatingly," that at least one
half the servant girls of that city are drunk
ards.
"A correspondent of the Raleigh Stan
dnM earnestly urges the election of Mr..
Clinton l.. Cobb for Governor of North
Carolina.
"A Texas editor complains that at
tcmpts TO shoot him have become SO
numerous lately that the thing is getting
monotonous.
Among the furniture in the church at
Baltimore where the Episcopal Convention
is in session, are two hundred and ninetv-
six spittoons.
"A Georgia man, who was bitten by a
rattlesnake last week, took three drinks Of
turpentine and two and half bottles OF
whiskey, and is rapidly recovering.
The new fremont House, at Chippewa
Falls, which is to be the finest hotel
between Milwaukee and St. Paul, will
soon be completed at a cost of 100000.
"A train on the Central Pacific road in
California ran off the track; one passenger
was killed and several wounded. Senator
Morton and party, in the rear car, escaped
uninjured.
1t is now believed that large number
of the persons burned by the Chicago fire
were thieves, who in their anxiety for plum
der, remained in the buildings until escape
G was cut oil.
, Geo. Gould, Son & Co., one of Tho
Oldest shoe manufacturing companies 0
Rochester. have suspended. Their liabili
ties are $4,000; assets 100000. The,
: lose heavily by the Chicago fire.
An Arkansas man estimated that
/. Little Rock paper had inflicted thirty thou
sand dollars damage to his character, ant
commenced q libel suit to recover that sum
: The jury cut the amount down to one dol
{ lar.
0 The Hague, the political capital of Hol
f. land, is reported to be the wealthiest tow
, for its population in the world. At leas
one-third of its citizens are said to be rcl
enough to live entirely on their incomes.
: Miss Mary Strain, who has been res
ident of Dayton since 1903. died 1hursda,
e night, aged about l04 years. The de
ceased was daughter of Robert Strain
/, who was among the first tavern-kcepers il
Dayton, and well known among the oil,
D settlers.
+ The last unrccognized victim of th
. Revere railroad disaster has been identife,
: as Mrs. Locke, aged 80, of Lowell, Mass
She left Lowell to visit relatives in Lynn
and while her friends in Lowell suppose,
she was in Lynn, her relatives in Lynn
+, were not aware she had left home.
George w. Childs, Esq, proprietor Q
: the Philadelphia Ledger, arrived home iron
8 Europe last week. His first act after land
ing from the steamer and learning the new
y was to ratify the action of some of hi
: friends, who had taken the liberty to sub
scribe So 900 in his name as contribution
to the sufferers by the Chicago fire. Nh
!, Childs is one of the few men whose gene
: rosity is so well known that his friends fee
|. justified in committing him to such dona
: tons in his absence. Chicago Tribune.