The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-14
GENERAL ITEMS.

AT Turner's Falls, Massachusetts, is a
mill used exclusively for the manufacture
of paper pulp from the wood of the poplar
tree. The wood is delivered at the mill in
sled-lengths, or somewhat longer, after
which it is sawed into sticks thirteen inches
long, stripped of its bark, split to about Or
binary stove-wood size, or little less, and
cleared of all knots and imperlections. 1t
is then subjected to pressure sufficient to
grind it to the requisite fineness, coming out
white and clean, but in thick, brittle
state, which renders it unfit for paper
making except when combined with other
stock. This pulp is sold to makers of new
paper, who mix it in the proportion Of %
or 30 per cent. with other material. This
mill turns out from five to seven tons Of
pulp daily. In Europe, handsome writing
paper containing 90 per cent. of wood has
been made, but this pulp has not yet been
used with success for fine paper in the Uni
ted States.
Boston furnishes the latest remarkable
dog story, the truth of which is vouched
for by truthful men. A well-lnown citi-
zen while paying a bill to store-keeper
dropped twenty dollar note, of which fact
he became aware some two hours after
upon his arrival home. He then took one
of his dogs, an English bull-terrier, and
started back, calling at the places he visited
on his way home. On reaching certain
locality, he called his dog, "Jess," and
showed him a twenty dollar bill who looked
on the ground as if hunting for it, and told
the dog to ''smell it OUT The dog then
started off with his nose to the ground in
front Of his master, and pushing round into
another street, where they had been before
and where the bill was paid, he stopped,
poked about the dirt, and in few minutes
ran up to his master with the lost twenty
dollar bill in his mouth.
In South Carolina, where Ku-Kluxism
prevails, there is cry because President
Grant has suspended the writ of hrdeos COR
pus, in order to hold in prison, until prop
crly tried, such persons as are indicted by
the United States Grand Jury and arrested
by the Marshal Baltimore makes this
outcry, and she, of all cities in the Union,
ought to be the last to do it, since it is so
short time ago that she complained that
the Ku-Klux depredations were seriously
injuring her trade. No sane person can
doubt the wisdom of the Presidents course,
when he knows that were this writ not sus-
pended, these indicted persons would be
brought before some Confederate Judge and
discharged from arrest, producing at once a
conflict between Federal and State author
ity.-Mil,caukee Sentinel.
A gentleman of Bethel, Vermont, has
made discovery in tanning leather which,
he claims, will reyolutioniZe the business.
The material he uses is dry forest leaves,
and his experiments are said to- have been
entirely satisfactory. One ton of leaves
will tan as much leather as five cords of
hemlock bark, and will do the work in one
half the time. By mixing the leaves and
bark in equal proportions, one-fourth of the
time is saved. The leather tanned by this
process is smoother, more flexible, and yet
retains the strength of the raw hide in a
greater degree than that tanned by bark
Specimens exhibited at the Vermont State
Fair were awarded the first premium, after
being subjected to the severest tests.
In Chicago now it is fashionable to be
poor, and for while little money will be
spent for articles of luxury or superfuitY.
Members of great firms are dispensing with
some of their employees and taking their
places behind the counter. Splendid man
sions all along the avenues are being rented
for business purposes, and goods are piled
high in frescoed parlors, and the office boys
stretch their legs on the marble mantels of
guest chambers ; carriages and coachmen
are being dispensed with denizens of high
priced hotels have sought low-priced board
ing-houses; few amusements or fashionable
gatherings will call for expenditures the
sails are set close for the storm, and thus
Drepared Chicago will weather thp Gale