The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-25
GENERAL NEWS.


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They have white blueberries in New
Hampshire.
There was a heavy frost on Mount Wash
ington yesterday morning.
White Mountain tourists complain that
the prices are higher than the mountains.
Negotiations for postal convention be-
tween this country and Denmark are in
progress.
The pension business is lively. Nine
hundred and eighty-one certificates were
issued last week..
A sugar whistle has been invented by an
ingenious Yankee, which is warranted to
give sweet music.
Minnesota has a bricklayer named Louis
Napoleon. His business is a good deal
safer and more profitable than that of
throne-building.
Get your smoked glass ready for the next
eclipse, which is to be total shrouding of
the sun and visible in the United States.
It will come off in June, 1854.
There are only three hundred candidates
for the situation of Congressman at large in
Illinois. Two hundred more are expected
to take the field before the convention
meets.
The coin balance in the Treasury at the
close of business on Saturday amounted to
ninety millions of dollars. 1t is difficult to
see what good end is served by the hoard
ing policy.
The bricl<layers, work being plenty, de-
mand an advance of wages to four dollars
and half per day. Employers with large
contracts will no doubt be very generally
compelled to comply with the demand.
The total coal tonnage for the week end
ing ON Saturday last amounted to $516, ,644
tons, an increase of 1889 tons over the
same week last year. The total tonnage
for the year, so far, is S,553, ,434 tons.
1t is said that reckless potato bug, hav-
ing gone through the State of Rhode Is
land, was last seen mounted on windmill
by the seaside, wiping his eyes on the sails
and weeping because there were no fresh
worlds to conquer. Has he tried the City
Hall.
The vote in North Carolina on the con-
vention question was unusually heavy.
Last year the total vote for attorney-Sene-
raj was 173,063. The vote on convention
will not fall short of 1S0, ,64S, and will pro-
badly be still greater. The total, with
twenty-three counties to her from, is 1885,
$50. e.jf.. ...la
M. Felix Aucaigne, a journalist long and
favorable known in connection with the
Paris press, but more especially with the
Pdt,fe, proposes to pass year in this coun-
try. M. Aucaigne has devoted great deal
of attention to American politics, and has
distinguished himself by his admiration for
and advocacy of our Institutions.
Massachusetts, politics become more com
plicated every day. 1t is now reported that
a call has been issued, or. is about to be
promulgated, for delegate convention Of
liberal men of all parties in the Common.
wealth, with the purpose of coalesing in
the nomination and election of State of
ficers. 4t rs
The Boston Times ''rises to explain y
The other day it stated that Gen. Butler, i
nominated for Governor, would call out
more votes than any candidate whose name
has been mentioned; we inquired "whicf
way for or against his party ?" Now thu
Times explains: Why, both ways to bt
sure the thing is as plain as pike-staif.' >
We see it. a
The Staten Island Ferry Company is t.
be held to strict accountability by thost
who have suffered from its carelessness
Already some forty actions for damages
have been commenced against it by th'
Brooklyn victims of the late disaster
There can hardly be a doubt as to the yer
dict which any fair and impartial jury vii
render upon the evidence which the prose
cution in every case will be able to pro
duce.
Some of the members of the Britisl
Science Association appear to be anxious t.
make a name for themselves as tirst-clas
ninnies. According to one of these phi
losophers, we are but improved monkeys
according to another, we trace our pedigre
back to the spawn Of fish; and, accord
ing to third, our ancestors were elected il
some most incomprehensible manner, iron
awandcring erolite. Good Heavens! Onl
to think that modern English scholars an
men of science have reached such a dept
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