The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-11
BRIEFS.

ing preached in a Presbyterian pulpit
while on visit to California.
The publication of Mr.. Greeley's agri-
cultural writings in book form is thought
by practical farmers to have deprived them
of their only applicability to cereals.
Washington, Indiana, has passed an
ordinance prohibiting persons who have
not attained years of discretion from con-
congregating about the railway ststion.
Cincinnati has been depopulated of cats
by commercial traveller, who advertised
in the name of Kentucky firm, offering
$18 dozen for them.
A North Carolina paper chronicles the
residence in that State of man aged 143
years, who, having worn widower's weeds
for something like century, is thinking
of marrying.
One thousand five hundred and seventy
five divorces have been granted in Eng
land in the last twelve years, whereof
Chicago is very much ashamed.
A female suffrage act has been lost in
the Dakota legislature by vote of to 2
which is 4-2-itous calamity quite unex-
pected by the ladies of that territory.
Oregon invites proposals of means of ele-
waiting the Indians, and Indian agents of
experience are divided in opinion between
fire-water and stout rope for the purpose.
The Haymarket, We read, is doing ex-
cellent business, the new fairy, "The Pal
ace Of TRUTH" with the smart comedietta
of "Uncle WILL proving highly attrac-
tive.
DR.. Davis, who recently died at Pont
NANCY, victim to his exertions in behalf
Of the sufferers by the war, was of
sician in st. Bartholomew hospital, Lon
don.
English papers deny that the govern
ment has ordered sixty batteries of Gating |
guns to be made for the United States. |
Twelve guns only have been ordered, and |
they will be constructed in England.
A South Carolina mother, when she
found too late that her daughter had |
eloped with member of the legislature,
seized her trunk at the depot, and as
serted her vanishing authority by burning
its contents.
The mass of French prisoners in Ger
many is so great that the government
hardly knows where to put them. In
the fortress of Stettin nearly twenty-eight
thousand prisoners have been quartered
Chicago woven are such inveterate
spruce gum chewers, that in church, on
communion Sundays, they have been OBJ
served to slip sticky quid out of their
mouths TO make room for the consecrated |
elements passed to them.
The receipts of the West Boston savings
bank during the five business days of last
week were upwards of fifty-sx thousand
Enthusiastically thousand of which were
deposited on Saturday, the last day of the
year.
A watcher of very sick friend in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, left him the other
night to hunt up coppers to close the eyes
of the contemplated deceased. The man
got well, however, and the anxious friend
carried back the pennies.
At the annual congregational meeting of
the Market Square Presby yterian church,
Harrisburg, the other evening, the salary
of the pastor, Rev. Thomas H. Robinson,
d. d., was increased from $4,000 to
Sz,oOV per duDuM.
A lady of Lenox, of high pretensions
but scanty realizations, on visiting the
house OF friend who possessed piana,
naively inquired, "Has your piano an
octave? My daughters has one."
Peanut oil, used in the South during the
coming into use in view of the high price
of the latter.
The convicts of the Charlestown, Mass,
state prison were treated to fine dinner
on Christmas, and each of them was pre-
sented with bouquet, which the war
den requested them to preserve in their
bibles, probably as an inducement to look
into the good book now and then.
Gov. Chamberlain and State Treasurer
Caldwell burned up $265,O00 worth of
Maine bonds of municipal war loan issue
in the treasurer's Office at Augusta on
Wednesday, and so hot fire did it make
that the chimney took fire, but the flames
were quickly extinguished.
A stranger was riding about town the
other day, taking view of Hartford
Passing over College Hill, on the West
side of the park, he noticed the bronze
statue of the late Bishop Brownell, and
inquired of the driver, "Who is that 2" al
dunno" was the reply, cone O. them brass
insurance men, s'pose."
Two ingenious artisans of Troy have de-
voted their winter evenings to building a
fishing smack in the cellar of
their abode but the result of their labor is
1 more perplexing puzzle than the conven-
ional reel in the bottle, for whilst they
could very easily get reel apiece out of an
average bottle, they can't possibly get their
BOAT out of the cellar door.
The Cooperstown New York; Journal
publishes list of the deaths in that town
turing year, which is a somewhat re-
record. 1t shows that of the
wenty persons who have died, two being
young children, only seven were under (
ixty-two years of age, ten were seventy
'r upward, four were over eighty, and one
vas over ninety. The average age of the {
wenty was fifty-live years and one month |
be average age of the eighteen adult per-
ons was sixtysix years and five months. |
The population of the place is two thou t
and.
Nor long since an Irish employee at the
Walker House, Portland, adopted the fol-
owing ingenious method to atone for a :