The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-10
GENERAL ITEMS.

Miss Vienna Demorest is singing with
great success in Western New York.
Chicago received $50 in Confederate
money from a Richmond philanthropist.
1t is estimated that one burning gas jet
will consume as much air as five persons.
Governor Brown, of Missouri, has APP
pointed the Both of November as Thanks
giving Day.
Jim Fisk thinks that the Devil is in all
women. "For instance,u says James,
''there is Helen Josephine Mansfield"
Several people have been recently
drowned in the strets of Pekin, so deep
are the sloughs of mud and water in them.
Russell, of the London Times, has be-
gun the publication of his personal diary Of
the late war between France and Prussia.
Blanchard Jerrold's "Thc Cochaynes
in Paris or, an English Family Abroad"
is to be illustrated with thumb-nail sketches
by Dore.
"A Yankee peddler had no difficulty in
getting rid of large quantity of shoe
bronze in Nubia, the natives buying it eager
ly and using it as cosmetic.
Some one says that if Horace Greeley
had written that inscription on the wall in
Babylon, Belshazzar would have been
good deal more frightened than he was.
AT Sunday school meeting in Angus
ia, Me-, the other day, Rev. E. W. jack
son, of South Carolina, said that in one
county in that State sixty-nine negroes
have been slain by the ghostly Ku-Klux
since last December.
Some one thinks that young man
must have very fancy opinion of himself
when he proposes to young lady to marry
him and then cody informs her that it will
be at least two or three years before he is
able to marry.
Rev. Robert Collyer has an invitation
from the faculty and students of Cornell
University to make first-class horse shoe
for them with his own hands, and in consid-
Grafton of the work of art they will give
So 900 to the city.
The Ecening Mail says: Zone of our
bellies is confined to her residence just at
present seriously indisposed' She has
been trying to bleach her hair, and we are
grieved to say the experiment has not been
quite so successful as might be desired"
"A newly married couple having occa-
sion to economize by moving to poor
house in Kentucky, are deeply indignant
because the keeper thereof assigned them
to different wards of the establishment, and
have broght suit against him for violating the
marriage ceremony by putting asunder those
whom God had joined.
An Englishinan writes home from Yir-
ginia that the planters all bear witness to
the admirable way in which the negroes
conduct themselves as freedmen. They do
not give themselves up to drink, as was ex-
pected, but are sober and industrious. "La-
zy niggers" are not very common, and al
together Sambo seems to be very prosperous
and happy.
The Milan ,(Texas) Telegram says !:
"We have been asked why we stopped
publishing the list of marriage licenses
issued by the clerk. Because a great big
stand-up-in-the-mud, out there in the sand
hills, said we published his daughter as
married when she wern't, and that he
would hit us on the head hard enough to
knock our ankles out of joint for it. Is the
explanation satisfactory"
David Baker, of Maine, popularly
known as the 'Bard of Exeter has written
poetical address to President Grant,
apropos of the latter's recent visit to that
State, entitled ''Let us have Peace" one
verse of which is as follows:
''One kind of peace will never do
Peace triclSed out for day,
| With outside dress of Union blue
| And underclothes Of gray