The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-13
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million letters.
There are "a, ,4s5 New Englanders in the
State Of Minnesota.
County jails in Delaware furnish the
prisoners with cigars free.
A Louisville man has left England with
$500 sparrows for that city.
Grant should see that the Ku.Klux law
is enforced in behalf of the Indians 10
Arizona.
Louisiana capitalists have organized an
immigration company, with a fund Of
| $250,O0O.
British railways paid last year ST.
668,575 in damages TO persons injured on
their lines.
A Milwaukeean has just won forty
cents in long law suit. His costs were
$124 O5.
Union postage stamps and currency is
one effect of the formation of the German
Empire.
There are thirty oilcloth factories in the
United States, manufacturing nearly 25,-
900 yards of oilcloth per day.
Cornell University has recently sold
100000 acres of land which came to it un-
der the Agricultural College land grant, for
four dollars per acre.
Two negroes, Harris and Rosenbor ough,
convicted of murDer by the Crit ttenden
county court, Arkansas, some time since,
were hanged at Marion the 9th of June.
There are 100000 cotton spindles now
iy1 in, Lo VT.,st tnI -
which 100000 are running on cloths for
printing, and produce 450, 900 900 yards
per annum.
When man and Christian brudder
runs away with the church plate at Mem
phis, one deacon catches him and holds him
while another fixes him for tho coroner.
Twenty-six thousand children are now
learning musici the Boston public schools.
Fifteen Thousand of them are SO far ad-
Vanced as to be competent to take part in
musical festival.
A Michigan storekeeper offered his ap-
prentice fifty cents If he would drive away
the bootblacks from the front of the estab.
lishment. The youth succeeded by pour
ing kerosene on the head of one of them
and setting FIRE to it; but be now finds that
the fifty cents is hardly enough to bail him
out of Jail.
Efforts are being made by the British
and Foreign Anti.Slavery Society to in
duce the King Of Spain and the Emperor
of Brazil to abolish slavery in their coun-
tries. This society asks the moral intiu-
ence of the United States 10 the same di-
rection.
The use of nitrous oxide for laughing
gas, says DR.. McLauren, in the Edinbwg
Medical Journal, should be avoided in all
cases of diseases of the lungs in which
the breathing is much embarrassed, and
when there is evidence of either serious
brain or heart disease. Ooe of its great
est advantages as an anasthetic is its safety,
only two fatal cases having been reported;
but there is disadvantage in the rapidity |
OF the patients recovery from its effects.
The sheriff OF Charleston, South Caro-
lima, advertses that he will receive no |
more prisoners at the Charleston Jail, be- |
cause the county is eight months in arrears |
for feeding the prisoners, and he is unable
longer to obtain the necessary subsistence |
for them.
The Wythevlle Enterprise would rather
be dog than join the Republican party.
This reminds us of the coon story, said to
have originated in Allegheny. 1t de.
pends on how a man has been raised |
whether he likes coon meat. Any Ale
ghany man can tell you the whole thing.
The Lynchburg (Va.,) woman have pie-
sented Gen. Early with cane, in token of
their appreciation of his services in behalf
of the .'Confederacy." We don't know the
exact tenor of his speech on the OCCASION
but he might have said, 81 tried all could
during the Rebellion to raise Cain, but |
found l was not Abel - Boston Daily
News.
Stephen Pearl Andrews explains his
universal language "Alwato" as follows
This new stage of science is technically the
descending wing of the duismal stage of the
scientific mental evolution lapping over
the trinsmal or integral method, and gov
erning it, as induction arose, at the other
extreme, out of the unismal stage.
It's proposed, now that San Francisco
is connected with Australia by steamer
line, to open offices in London, where
traveller may purchase through tickets
across the Atlantic, the continent of North
America and to Australia, with sleeping
Car accommodations from New York to
San Francisco; and thus to draw in this
direction the immense amount of travel
between England and Australia. !