The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-20

Tho Connecticut State election takes
place on the Sd of April.
There is a merchant in Chicago who has
his life insured for $250,o00.
AT Peterborough, N. H., at q recent
birth the great-grandmother Of the child
acted as head nurse. The grandmother
was also present.
ai4 An old peddler, who has travelled over
New Hampshire for thirty years past, this
winter, for the first time kept his cart upon
wheels, never putting it on runners for a
single day.
An economical fellow says when his
stockings wear out he sews up the tops
straight across, and puts them on his feet
the other way, thus making a good fit for
square-toed boots.
A dutiful son of Detroit has killed sixty
seven of his neighbors' cats to get money to
buy his mother set of false teeth. lie has
made quiet neighborhood where once was
a bowling Wilderness.
The New Orleans Times is responsible
for the statement that bar-room in that
city has peripatetic oyster OF the Barata-
ria breed, which is thoroughly dom estica-
ted, and wanders all over the lower part OF
the house, but, however, never attemps to
mount the stairs.
Judge Barnard, of New York, has deci-
ded that if man and woman publicly
live together as husband and wife, and ac-
knowledge the marital relations, it is not
necessary that formal marriage ceremo-
nv should have been performed to eEtitle
the reputed wife to all her legal rights.
Two painters, Jefferson Sherman and
Joseph Martin, were at work upon house
in Birmingham, Conn.,, standing upon a
ladder suspended at both ends by ropes,
when their temporary scaffold suddenly
parted in the middle, and Sherman fell a
distance of thirty feet, sustaining serious
injury. The other saved himself by grasp
ing rope.
While carpenter named Graoy, resi-
dent of Longview, Texas, was quietly
seated in store, a stranger stepped be-
hind him, placed Derringer to his head
and Instantly blew his brains out. The
murderer was arrested and placed under
strong guard. The only cause assigned
for the crime is that the murdered man re-
fused to take drink with his assassin.
a wild beast is rampaging about Chari-
ton county, Missouri, and the people are
at loss to determine whether it is lion
ess, iauger, a link or wolf, but its raw
ages are distressing. Already it has killed
twenty-five hogs, disembowelled several
dogs, and done other damage. A grand
hunt has been proclaimed for its extermi-
nation.
1t is said that "Mary had little lamb
that occasionally accompanied her to
school, and thereby occasioned the assem-
bled urchins much amusement" The Joe
Bunce Hook aud Ladder Company, of
Louisville, KY, are following Mary's ex-
ample. They own pet sheep which ac-
companies the boys to the fires, and re-
mains until the excitement is over, when 1t
returns.
SAD INSTANCE OF DEATH by GRIEF
A few days ago the death of Mr.. William
Mccain, of Prince George county, was
announced. On Saturday last we learned
that shortly afterwards Mrs. Mccain was
taken suddenly i'll and expired within one
week after the death of her husband. Her
physicians declare that her death was
caused by excess of grief for her husband.
Petersburg Courier.
A writer in an English sporting paper,
who has thoroughly explored and hunted
through all the accessible regions of the
Rocky Mountains, says that the wild goat
found on the highest peaks there is fur
nished with hair Of quality admirably
adapted for weaving into textile fabrics.
Japanese art, he says, is to be detected in
the articles made from it by the Indians,
in whose language traces of Japanese words
are to be found.
A man named Lewis Glover loved and
won young lady of Edwardsburg, Michi-
gan, and took her to Elkhart. While there
the young bride learned that her husband
was in possession of an older wife. She
at once started for her parents home, and
Glover wrote to the squire who had united
them to learn if he could not cut asunder
the tie. His justioeship agreed to wipe it
all out for 81 so. The money was sent
and the affair is arranged"
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