The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

IA w ISCOHSll JuSllCt VI tIlc peace
granted himself a divorce.
Mineral paint has been discovered in
Appanoosc county, Iowa.
The President has appointed John Hart
Haws Consul at Hakodadi.
Fair Haven, Conn.,, exports five thou
sand gallons of oysters daily.
Berlin had 2,2OO marriages, $4,000
births and ~ divorces in 1870.
The reconstruction of the Vendome
column commenced last week.
A lady of seventy years is the chap
lain Of the Kansas State prison.
The working parties of the Northern
Pacific road have entered Dakota.
Columbia, Tenn, boasts corn-cob
exactly in the shape of human hand.
1t is proposed to build the great South
ern Pacific road on the three-foot gauge.
An onion bed of ten acres in Iowa
yielded its owner the sum of $2,726 this
year.
Miss Lizzie Anderson voted in Taylor
county, Iowa, her vote being accepted and
counted.
Brig. Gen. Wellington II. Ent, of the
Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves, died Sunday
in Bloomsburg.
in Wisconsin there is a ten-acre lot of
potatoes, which are roasted as nicely as if
done in an oven.
There was heavy snow storm at
Salt Lake on Saturday night, and severe
winter is anticipated.
The receipts from internal revenue
on fro,t I.rlx 1rI - y.
sive, were s4S, ,900,73l.
The Waterbury, Conn.,, Button factory
was partially destroyed by fire on Saturday.
Loss about SOC, 900, mostly insured.
John Schmidt, a German butcher, was
murdered in Cleveland, Ohio, last Sunday,
by VIM. Jones, a colored bartender.
The mills Of the Stewart Paper Com
pany, III Brookyille, Ind, were burned on
Sunday. Loss, 1000; insurance, $685.
600.
"A Michigan farmer didn't know any,
thing about the fires at Chicago and in the
Western forests until he drove down to De-
troit, last Thursday.
-Maxwell's Northern Pacific railroad
surveying party have discovered a rich
gold and silver ledge near Roqualwire
river, in Washington Territory.
The latest real estate valuation of Ver-
mont is given at SS1 ,554, ,925, and the per-
sonal, $40, ,46S, ,l39; total, s102, ,O23, ,064 !;
decrease from last year, $685., 1852.
Henry Wolfe, Kentuckian, recently
completed his one hundred and eighth year
without having known sick day and then,
not to mar so clean bill of health, cut his
throat.
"A man in New Hampshire declined to
subscribe to country paper because it
helped to build up the place, and the
wealthier the town was the higher his taxes
would be.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the
most gratifying circumstance in his life was
being kissed by Kossuth. A contemporary
asks: "Isn'tthis little hard on poor Mrs.
Beecher ?'
1t is said that there are confined in the
lnnatic asylums of France upwards of one
thousand persons who are entirely sane,
and who are kept there only by unscrupu-
lous and ayaricious relatives.
The sales of tobacco at seven ware
houses in Louisville during the year which
has Just closed foot up 4S,006 hogsheads,
at cash value of s4,6ol ,o4e last year.
40,047 hogsheads cash value, "a, ,s23 $3.50.
"A correspondent of the Green Bay Id
rocate writes from Edgerton, Rock county,
that tobacco in that region is clearing, for
those who raise it, from $75 to $3.50 per
acre. Growers get from 13 to 10 cents per
pound for the leaf.
"A mule team was run over by
South Carolina locomotive. The train was
wrecked, the cart destroyed, and the driver
pitched headlong to the ground, while the
mule calmly stood still and watched the
proceedings with pleasant smile.
An enterprising citizen has an mex
haustible mine of asphalt near Havana, in
the Island of Cuba. He recently shipped
forty-fiye tons to Washington city, to be
used in laying the patent concrete pave
ment. 1t is furnished at the same price as
coal-tar pitch.
The great success of the cotton manu-
factory at Augusta, Ca, is stimulating en-
terprise in that region. A movement has
been set on foot at Anderson, s. c., to es-
tablish similar factory at that place witha
capital of $3.50, 900, to be called the {" Peo-
pies Manufacturing Company"
During the late war there were for
warded between France and Germany and
and exchanged between the different corps
of troops the enormous number of 80, ,659.-
600 letters and postal cards, and 2 1854, $40
newspapers that Germany has not
neglected the education Of her people.
In Greene county, ILL.,, where extern
siye drought prevailed, some singular phe-
nomena are reported. A farmer found
moist place in a ravine, and, after digging
about two feet, stream burst out sufficient
to supply water for his own stock and that
of several of his neghbors. On another
farm, near Jacksonville, a stream of water
recently broke from the ground and con-
tinues to run.