The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-08
Personal Prattle.

Brigham Young was once Stewards gar
dener at Auburn.
Ex-Congressman Sweat, OF Maine, will
perspire in California this summer.
Two men shot each other to death at
Dallas, Oregon, on Wednesday.
A hundred New Jersey families are 60
ing to found colony in Tennessee.
Mr.. f. Mccarthy, of indianapolis,
makes his nose worth $3.50 to him every
time he falls into an open cellar.
General Phil. Sheridan's card reads this
way now: "P. H. Sheridan, Lieutenant
General del Armee DIES Etats-Unis d.
Amerique.
An Arkansas preacher interfered with
dog fight which young member had in
augurated in church, and now the flock is
without shepherd.
A cheerful mortuary personal in West
ern paper says that DR.. Lands, of Neva-
da, after trying for years to kill himself
with whiskey, finally changed his tactics
aud murdered himself with morphine.
An Indiana boy prepared his brother
for the tomb by hitting him with a GRO
quet mallet, and then fled. And yet cro-
quet is called moral amusement.
For fifteen years daily, almost without
exception, Stamford, Connecticut, man
sat on fence near the depot and watched
every railroad train as it passed.
Senator Morrill,, of Maine, is now in
Washington, where be will probably remain
for month yet. He is still somewhat
feeble and is obliged to exercise considera-
BILE care in regard to his health.
The teacher of an infant class In Port
land Sunday school is ninety years old.
His son is superintendent of the school, and
his grandson secretary, making the school
considerably sin the family"
Reverdy johnson and John W. Garrett
are among the signers of the call for a
meeting in Baltimore to raise funds to-
wards the monument to Prof. Morse,
which 1t is intended to erect in Washing
ton.
An Austrian gentleman, examining a
mining claim, was seized, stripped and
covered with tar and WOOL He went and
got himself photographed in this gnise, and
sued his assailauts for $4,000 damages,
putting in the picture as evidence.
To the memory of Gluck a monument
will be unveiled at his birthplace, Weiden-
wang, Bavaria, July 4 next. 1t will con-
sist of a colossal bronze bust of the re-
nowned German composer, resting on a
pedestal Of red marble, seven feet high.
George R. Campbell, a Scotch youth
who was at work In the Philadelphia aims
house for his board and clothes, has re-
signed his position, and has gone to accept
a place in Scotland as the inheritor of |
dead uncle's estate, worth $1,000 year,
with $4,000 cash in the bank of Edin-
burgh.
Mr.. VIM. M: Mcpherson, a citizen of |
St. Louis, on Monday celebrated the thir-
tieth anniversary of his arrival In that |
city by grand excursion to st. Charles
and reunion of old citizens at his resi-
dence. When be went to st. Louis he was
q stranger, and his worldly wealth con-
sisted Of dollar and fifty cents in cash.
Now he is one of the wealthiest men 10
the city, and the architect of his own for
tune.
Rev. Mr.. TYING REBUKED. Bishop
Potter, of New York, 1t is understood, has
addressed communication to Rev. Mr..
Tying, giving him to understand that his
preaching in Rev. Mr.. Cheney's church, in
Chicago, after Mr.. Cheney had been de-
posed from the ministry, was not emily un-
but an act of dscourtesy also
to Bishop Whitehouse, which cannot be
overlooked. Mr.. Tying is still absent from
the city, but the Bishops letter awaits his
return in the postoffice.