The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-12-29
GENERAL ElTEMs.

-buIlaio Will Duild $200,000 hote
next season.
The bankers of Kansas CITY. Mo.
are to be taxed 800 each for license.
"A California coroner was interruptet
in his inquest by the corpse waking up.
The State of Texas could support
the present population of the entire Union
The st. Louis Democrat calls General
Mcclellan the 'great sub-soier of Vir-
ginia. ~.
More boys run away to sea from Yer.
mont than from any other New England
State. atA ~ eif
"A Russian ukase has been published
ordering six men in each thousand to be
drawn tor military service.
"A New Hampshire man refused to nav
six cents for an almanac of 1872, because 4
last years one had been offered him for a
cent.
"A young Indianian ''proposed'' to six
young ladies just for fun, and was consider
ably annoyed by being accepted by all of
them. sQ
Miss Charlotte Cushinan is building n
cottage at Newport, Rhode Island. which is
to cost $40, 900. 1t is SO planned that all
the rooms are octagonal.
"A Michigan woman, the wife of an in
valid, and mother of twcnty-six children,
picked cranberries enough last fall to nav
off a mortgage ON her farm.
Two despcradoes were lynched near
Seneca, Neosho county, NO., last week.
One of them confessed to the murder of
eleven men during the last year. s4.,.
Hon. John Stevenson, one of the Uni
ted States Senators from Kentucky. is
native Of Richmond. He was born in
1872, and went to Kentucky in 1871.
Cyrus Wetzel, the first white settler
OF indianapolis, died at his residence on
Saturday last. He built his cabin on the
banks of White river fifty-three years
ago.
-Rumor-that is, correspondent
says that "A. Il. Stewart has made will
leaving his entire fortune of from fifty to
seventy millions of dollars to public and
private charities. -as,.-s fa
Horace Greeley, wrote: "Women now
manage most Of The public libraries in Mas
sachusetts," and the compositor read it:
Women now worry most of their public
babies by mastication."
James Barry, Esq.,, one of the wealth.
lest citizens of Norfolk, died Wednesday.
aged 9s. He was owner Of the famous ]
"Barry's Row." in which the yellow fever
first made its appearance there in 1866.
Mr.. Porter, of Missouri, having COM
pleted century without any prospect of
dissolution, has concluded to rub out and
begin over again. Accordingly his gray
hair is turning black, and he is cutting a
third set of teeth at the carly age of l0l.
"A woman who was travelling on the
Grand Trunk railroad, with ticket marked
"Good only tor this train and the day re-
celved; not good to stop over,", and who |
dld stop over, and was then put off the |
train, has received 5000 and costs as dam
ages.
The people of the Upper Peninsula are |
again beginning to discuss the question of !
their separation from the State of Michigan.
and their organization under a territorial
government, with view to their ultimate /
admission into the Union as the State of |
Superior. Nssss
j. w. Kennedy, well known stock |
and bond dealer of Pittsbrg, Pa, commit
ted suicide in his office III that city, in the
afternoon Of Christmas day. Before be
expired he declared that financial troubles
into which he fallen impelled him to the
rash act. aa.ntf M at.
of Mrs. Smythe, of Indianapolis. the
remarkable, statement is made that she now
has her NTH husband, and yet she has
never changed her name. She was born
Smith, her first husband was named Smith.
ner second Schmidt, her third Smyth. her
fourth Smithe, and her present, Smythe.
Rev. w. @. Wallace, of Atlanta, was
shot and killed at Atlanta, Columbia coun-
", December 20, by a man named Shil-
nan. The latter was drunk and used some
insulting language to Mr.. Walace's family,
when the latter reprovcd him, whereupon
'hllman shot and killed him and then made |
lis escape. 80 4:
Captain L. b. Durham, master of the
tcaIner "Mary Houston, died in Louisville
asst Thursday. Captain Durham was a
iatlye OF Hardcastle, Jefferson county,
virginia; went to Louisville poor boy,
md died in the sixty-first year of his r
ge, and was one of the oldest and most
experienced boatmcn on the Western
waters.
"A doubtful story, to the effect that Sc
ret negotiations are going on for the sale
+ Cuba, by the King Of Spain, to a private
itizcn of the United States-Col. i. B.
tockton-for $l00. 100000 in gold, is told
y Havana correspondent of the Boston
'osf, and that over two hundred persons. ,
lany of them Americans, have been ar
ested IN Cuba and sent to prison for life
n the bare suspicion of fayorng such y
cheme. - ltA =