The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-06

away" OF the seven others SIX were stone
dead The Mount Valerien shell had done
its work.
"Mud-tirkle soup" is the attraction at
Hartford restaurant.
1t is thought that Congress will not sit
longer than three or four days.
Five members of the new House of Re-
representatives. are colored men.
When you want fish chowder at res
taurant now, it is the proper thing to ask |
for "boiled aquarium"
Denver, Colorado, has music teacher
who advertises to give elocution lessons on
the guitar. Next we shall have music
lessons on one-horse wagon.
Generals John A. Logan, Stewart L.
Woodford, Walter Hartman, E. w. Kinks
and Aaron F. Stevens are to take the
stump for the Republicans in New Hamp-
| shire.
The Missouri Republicans have taken
the first steps towards healing the breach
| in the party The Liberal and Radical
committee Of st. Louis united on Thurs
day and formed joint organization.
A Pittsburg woman went to putting on
"poisoned" airs, and doctor went to
| pumping her for the poison. What was
his surprise, not to say indignation, to find
nothing but lot of brandy coming up in
the pump. He said she was fraud.
A Milwaukee local editor received his
dismissal because citizen there traded
horses, and got seven dollars and half to
boot, and he had no report about it. Local
editors have to be up with the times there,
or they are of no use at all.
A citizen OF Williamsport, Pa, is the pos
SCISSOR of powder horn one hundred and
seventy years old, which was used in In
dian fighting, and carried by one of the
patriots through the revolutionary war. 1t
is covered with quaint Inscriptions.
The New Bedford Mercury gives re-
markable instance of the loyalty of SER
want. Mrs Lucy Almy, aged eighty-forr
years, entered the service of Mrs. Abigail
Russell in 1910, and at the time of Mrs.
RusseH's death, had lived with her sixty
one years and half.
jackson Freese, who has run stage be~
tween Pitts6eld and Dover, Me-, for nine
teen years is about to retire from the road.
In the course of his career as knight of
the whip, Mr. Freese has driven about one
hundred and sixty-six thousand miles, or
more than six times around the world.
Another faithful wife has been discov-
cred in Indiana. Her husband, John T.
Bridges, was several years ago sent to
prison oa life sentence for murder Late
" be received a pardon, and, although his
crime divorced his wife, she met him at
, the prison door, and REMARKED him that
, same day.
A Portland gentleman claims to have
picked up little vagrant in Boston and
'stried to tame him." The experiment,
however, has proved unsuccessful, for on
Sunday week the urchin upon being sent
to Sabbath school in his new clothes,
cheerfully left the house, but so far has
failed to return.
A person who has seen it, thus describes
: the Tennessee panther: When it switches
its tail from side to side, and flashes fire
0 out of its big yaller eyes, it 'peared to seem
as if it was streekedly spotted like by
: turns; but when it got sorter more gen.
tier, then it 'peared to seem of a dove-co,-
f ored brown.
Somebody having suggested the name o.
Gen. M. D. Legget for the next Republi'
:. can candidate for Governor of Ohio, his en-.
: emies, with a view of running his politica
d prospects, have started the report that he
''is strictly moral, and never drinks intox.
!. icating liquors, smokes, chews, uses pro.
fame language, nor plays cards"
:, The unusual excitement incident to get.
: ting married threw an Indiana woman into
o commissions, from the effects Of which sh'
5, died. One would think those Indiana
IS people would get used to it after awhile
q Several years experience has convinced III
q it is the best way to take it perfectly cool
y as though it did not amount to anything
Q anyway, and thus avoid commissions and
o all those things.
. DIR. Jos. w. Palmer, whose connection
:, with the Boston press extends further bach
!, than that of any person now living, dice
: Friday. He. had been attached to tn,
! Dahl A3Uertiser for over forty years
y chiefly as commercial editor, and wai
well-known as the compiler tof the NEGRO
lie ogy of graduates of Harvard college. DIR
7. Palmer was born in 1896, and graduated
d at Harvard college in 1920
1t A startling and sudden death hap
Z pened at Venango, Pa; on Monday after
, noon, the Dist ultimo.- Miss Eva Clark
L daughter of Jas. Clark, Esq, of Venangc
% City, was having some teeth extracted, anC
10 the last one had been taken out, when she
was taken with fit lsyncope, medically
At speakiug) and never breathed again. They
q, kept up artificial breathing some forty