The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-05
GENERAL NEW 8.

gate all the surrenderS oil the late cobnice
The Philadelphia regiment of colored
troops are to visit Boston in October.
A man who has no bills against him
belongs to the highest order OF no-b'U-ity.
Nine hundred unlicensed dogs have been
slaughtered in Baltimore during the present
season.
Prince Edwards Island has popula-
ton of 93,500, an increase 10 ten years OF
twenty-five per cent.
They captured at Charleston last week,
from the wharves a shark eleven feet two |
inches long.
A well laid plan for swindling Uncle |
Sam out of the Marine Hospital property |
in San Francisco has been unearthed.
Boston has frequent fires, caused by the
spontaneous combustion of old oiled rags,
and the papers are full of warnings on the
subject.
Weed, Parsons & Co., of Albany, will
erect on the site of their burnt buildings
fre-proof edifce, four stories high, costing
$4,000.
An Italian medical journal states that
delirium tremens has been cured by the
administration of solution of ammonia
10 heroic doses.
The Episcopal Methodsts hold their
national camp-meeting at Round Lake,
N. Y, again this year, the exercises lasting
from July to the 14th.
Fifty-eight millions Of sheets of paper,
especially manufactured for the govern
ment currency purposes, have been counted
and given into the possession OF the trea-
sury department
The Omaha Republican has been in
formed that 1000 families, now residents
of nearly 200 localities in Michigan and
other adjacent States, are concerned in a
movement to settle in Lincoln county, Ne
braska.
An Upper Des Moines Vowa) paper
saws: 1.-THE train of covered wagons
pouring in from the East and drifting
westward is 100 per cent. greater this year
than in any previous year since we have
been in Iowa.
The new City Hall of Detroit will be
opened on the Fourth of July, and it is
proposed to have a banquet on the occa-
sion, but the committee having charge oil
the matter give notice that no wines or
liquors will be furnished.
Ku-Klux organization having been
established in Kansas City against prize
candy swndling the able bodied individ.
uals who had heretofore devoted their at.
tention to that peculiar occupation are now
engaged at the street corners selling toy
balloons to little children.
When diamonds are polished, and ye
unset, the genuine gem is easily detected
from the imitation by laying the stones OF
printed paper. Diamonds, although
brilliant, are not transparent so, If tn
letters shine through and are visible, tn
stone is of rock crystal, paste or othe
limitations.
The ties on the South American rail
ways have been transported almost entirel.
from California, as the hard wood ties Gu
on the Andes cannot be used without DO
ring the spike hole with augers. The tie
cost one dollar each landed in Callao.
GEN. 0. G. BABcocK entered yesterda
on the discharge of his duties as Commits
sioner of Public Buildings and Grounds
We predict for Gen. Babcock live an
vigorous administration of affairs, an
comprehensive plans for the improvement
ington Republican, I'd.
An English chemist has been exper
menting for the purpose of ascertainin
how much of various kinds of food mu
be eaten In order to make one pound I
flesh. He comes to the conclusion that
REQUIRES twenty-five pounds of milk, or
hundred of turnips, fifty of potatoes, gift
of carrots, nine of oat meal, seven and
half of barley meal and three and half
beans.
The bar.iron manufacturers of the A
lantic States have acted judiciously
forming a permanent association. III
iron and steel and wooden trade organic
tons already existing have, in vario
WAYS. conferred benefits on their respec
i've industries. These associations are al
calculated to promote harmony OF actlt
on the tariff, and thus disappoint the hop
of free traders, who seek to profit by di
sensions or supposed rivalry.
Mr.. Thompson, who lives near the TOW
of Wells, in Minnesota has 400 acres
wheat, 1850 of fax, 800 of oats and Al
of corn. About a, 400 acres altogether a
under cultivation. He has set out 500
cuttings, cottonwood and white willo
and eighteen miles of fence, consumi
10000 pounds of wire and 10000 pos
He owns twenty brick farm houses, wi
barns and other Improvements, and e
poets to open twenty new farms this SUI
mer, putting up the necessary buildin
for each.
Previous to the settlement of Californ
singing birds, fragrant flowers and hon
bees were not to be found in the ent
country. Now, however, in all parts
the State may be found many varieties
singing birds, like the mocking bird, boil
link, larks, linnets, thrushes, Baltimt
Orole, and the common robin, viii
always follow civilization. The forests
all parts of the State are filled with
honey bee, and the honey from |
Angeles county is az important article
commerce. And as for fragrant fowe
California can now beat the world.