The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-07
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GENERAL ITEMS.

The Louisiana State fair will open on
the 18th.
The Home Journal says Whitelaw Reid
is worth $4,000 or $4,000.
President Grant on Saturday appointed
Mr.. George III. Boxer, of Philadelphia,
Minister to Constantinople.
Louisiana planters estimate that less
than half a crop Of sugar, or about 1870 900
hogsheads, will be raised this year.
Stephen Waterman of Providence, a
cotton dealer, and member of the City
Council and State Legislature, committed
suicide by shooting.
"A German paper states ex-Emperor
Napoleon's income to be $4,000 year,
which will be increased to $4,000 by the
proceeds of property recently sold in Spain
by the Empress.
a--Seventeen Democratic papers in Mis-
souri, have already concurred in the St.
Louis Republicans advice, that the true
policy for the Democracy is to make no
nomination for the Presidency in 1872.
Gov. Cooke, of the District of Column
bia, has called an extraordinary session of
the Legislature, to convene on the ninth day
of November, to receive the report of the
commission appointed to audit the claims
against Georgetown, Washington, &c.
In his forthcoming annual report the
Postmaster-General will strongly recon-
mend the adoption of q postal telegraph
system. He has received petitions from
leading merchants in the large cities favor
ing the system, and several senators and
representatives have also urged him to re-
commend it, promising their support of the
measure.
"A suit between two rival gas compan-
! les Of Memphs--the Gayoso Gas Company
and the Memphis Gaslight Company
which has been pending in the first circuit
court of that city for more than four years,
was decided on Friday last, the jury find
ing for the plaintiffs, and awarding $780,
600 damages to the Gayoso company. The
case will probably be carried to the Su-
preme Court.
The thoroughbred horses r. w. Cam
eron, forty-two in number, were sold at
auction on Thursday at Clifton Stud Farm,
Staten Island. The animals bringing the
highest prices were Hampton Court, which
sold for $4,000; Warminster, ST, $50 !;
Botheration, 81 ,260; Glen Athol, 81 400
I Invercauld, 81 800; Stolen Kisses, 81 300;
and Inverary, 81, 400. The total amount
OF the sale was about 100000.
The Muncie (lnd.) Times says that
gentleman ofLafayette recently received a
check of $3.50 from an unknown man in
Boston, who said, in explanation, that he
had found and kept pocket-book lost by
the gentleman when they were schoolmas-
ters many years ago. The sum was origi-
nally only about SO, the additional amount
being compounded interest. The sender
preserved his 'sincog" throughout.
Public affairs in Chicago are at present
in an excited condition. It is alleged that
Holden, President of the City Council and
candidate for Mayor in opposition to Mr..
Medill, has stolen $4,000 of the money
which was so generously sent to Chicago
for the relief of the sufferers. Holden was
treasurer Of the first relief society which
was formed, and in that capacity obtained
possession of the money which ne now re-
fuses to give up. The accusation is that
he is using the amount to aid in his election
as Mayor. If he is guilty the deserved
punishment is promised.