The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-14
Boston has city debt of $26, ,629, Oil,
Of which $2,721, $50 is unfunded.


Of which $2,721, $50 is unfunded.
Mark Twain receives $2,400 year for
being periodically funny in The GALAXY.
The proprietors of the New Orleans
Republican are reported to have made
$4,000 last year.
| Gen. Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame,
is 10 such delicate health that bis friends
feel alarmed about it.
A rumor is in circulation in Berlin to
the effect that the Hon. George Bancroft
is to resign his ministry and return home.
Swinburne is engaged upon new poem
clarifying France, and censuring England
for her lack of sympathy with her old
ally.
Bret Harte, according to San Francisco
letter, is to take up his residence in Boston,
and write exclusively for the atlantic.
The Independence Beige has constantly
numerous advertisements from French
prisoners of war asking for information
about their friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been engaged
upon his nagnum opus, "The Natural
History of the Intellect" for fifteen years,
and has no idea when he will give it the
finishing touches.
SUICIDE man named John Ryan,
living in Culpeper county, committed
suicide few days ago, by taking lauda-
mum and arsenic mixed together. He was
G5 years of age.
General Sheridan is expected home in
February to begin his usual round of news
paper (matrimonial) engagements. Strange
to say, be has been absent four or five
months, and in all that time has never
been married once.
Before the war the gossips insisted that
perance, that he had the delirium hemens
every week or two. The French counsel
ors and leaders should send for some of
Bismarck's liquor.
A Michigan court has decided in the case
of man robbed and murdered while
walking home, that travelling on foot is not
"by private or public conveyance" and
sustained an accident insurance company
in refusing to pay its policy upon him.
Baron Evain, an intimate friend Of Gen.
Changarnier, affirms that Prince Napoleon
called on the General at Brussels, and
endeavored to induce him to follow
course which would complete the shame
and humiliation of France. The General
Indignantly declined to follow his counsel
The clever poem of ''Antony and Cleo
patra," by Gen. William Fl. Lytle, of Gin
cinnati, who fell at Chickamauga, is going
the rounds of the press as the production
of ,rI I,
lished in Blackscood poem he called
cleopatra )" but it was entirely different
in spirit, rythm, and character from Lytle's
The report that the French intended to
introduce George Francis Train to Bis
marck, with the deliberate purpose of
having the Chancellor talked to death, is
now declared to have no foundation. The
French may have had some such design
but they knew, if they carried it out, that
they could never afterward lay any claim
to civilized warfare.
The details of the death of Mr.. John
Walter, son of the proprietor of the Lon
don Times, show that it occurred on the
oath ult., while trying to save his brother
and cousin, who had fallen through the
ice when skating, on lake in front of his
fathers residence, st Bearwood, Berk-
SHIRE He had only returned forty-eight
hours before from tour round the world
General "Fighting Joe' Hooker and
Chief Justice Chase have both taken apart
ments in the same house on Fifth avenue,
New York, few doors from the Breevort
Hotel. Both of these distinguished gen.
tlemen are patients of DR.. Hammond,
formerly Surgeon General of the United
States. who has fo- some years given his
attention exclusively to affections or dis
eases of the brain. Mr.. Chases friends
will be glad to learn that he has lately en-
joyed slight improvement in his condi-
tion. General Hooker, though still a suf-
ferer from the effects of the paralytic
stroke .which.he had four or five years ago,
is in fair general health, but it is consider
ed necessary that he should be kept free
from mental excitement of any kind
| His frame is bowed and his step uncertain,
but his fine features and striking face are
| still as noticeable as ever.