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

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Whalebone bonnets are fashionable at
Honolulu.
A self-acting brake, worked by steam,
has been applied to all the Bavaran rail-
roads.
The people down East are now hoping
for a hot summer, they have so much ice
to sell.
Charles G. Garrett, son of Esley GAR
rett, of St. Louis, died on Monday night
through the unskillful use of remedies for
toothache.
Governor Holden has arrived in Wash
ington, and will appear before the COM
mittee to examine into the reported out
RACES in that State next week.
Mr.. Charles Frodsham, the world-re-
nowned chronometer maker, died lately in
London. His will disposed of property to
the amount of $3.50, 1000.
The cigar manufacturers of Havana have
adopted petition for the repeal of the
tobacco monopoly law for Spain. passed
last January. The law effects tobacco in
terests unfavorably in Cuba.
The suit of the United States against the
Huston distillery, at Dayton, Ohio, for
revenue frauds, has resulted in the forfeit
ture of the property, by which the govern
ment will realize about $4,000.
Frank Medina has been convicted at San
Francisco of an assault with intent to kill
Jno. r. Allen, leader of the Metropolitan
theatre orchestra, whom he shot after re-
ceiving severe beating from him.
Capt. Arthur, of the British ship Mary
Bangs, has been convicted in the Circuit
Court at San Francisco Of resisting Gus
toms officers and landing cargo in def
ance of the orders of the inspector.
A man died in England the other day
in possession of so large an estate that the
stamp duty on his will amounted to
$240,000. The poor heirs How they
must have groaned to see such a fortune
go into the hands of the tax-gatherer.
1t is rumored that handsome young
mau, who holds clerkship in one Of the
bureaux of the War Department, has, by
the death of a rich English relative in
England, fallen heir to two hundred thou
sand dollars. Two hundred thousand dol
lars, girls 'Scatch him
1t turns out that the Hamilton (Ohio)
opera house, in the recent lottery there,
was drawn by an "unsold ticket" and that
the $40, 900 prize went the same way. A
German in Hamilton drew SIS 5000, and
several smaller prizes were scattered
around.
Mr.. George Ii. Renton, who recently
married the widow of Charles Elliott, the
portrait painter, has offered to loan that
artists fine collection of pictures to the
Newark Library Association for term of
years, provided tho association shall pro-
vide suitable room for its exhibition.
Mrs. Lydia Studley who, at the age of
70 years, was convicted of the murder by
poison of her husband, has been pardoned
out of the Rhode Island State prison, of
which she has been an inmate for about
twelve years. One Jones, who married her
years ago, also died from the effects Of
arsenic.
The Germans of Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania, have had grand celebration in
honor of the conclusion OF peace and the
victories Of the Germans ia the late war;
Thousands of torches were in the process
sion, and during the day the coors of Ger
many and the United States hoated in
every part of the city.
A fire in Springfield, Ill.,, on Thursday
morning last was very destructive. A large
amount of printed matter, belonging to the
State, and in the hands of the binders, was
burned, and as the rooms of the four Ma
sonic Lodges, as well as those of the Grand
Secretary of the Grand Lodge, was in one
of the buildings destroyed, all their records
aud reports, and their library were lost.
The library was very rich in reports of the
proceedings of Grand Lodges from all
parts of the world, and it contained great
many handsome works, some of them being
unique, and all very rare and valuable.
There was no insurance on the library, or
other valuables in the office.
They use guano down in Alabama to
coax the crops along, and man who sells
the best guano gets the most trade. There
is one kind that is awful soon. A farmer
put sample of it in his pocket and started
for home. There was carpet-tack in his
pocket when be put the guano in there,
and when he got home there was bar of
railroad iron sticking out of his pocket,
which almost weighed his horse down. He
said he thought be felt something heavy in
his pocket the last half Of his journey. If
some papers told this story no one would
believe it.