The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-01-23
GENERAL ITEMS.

Miss Alice P1lie, an American girl,
has married s6,000,000 and the Marquis de
Chasseloup-Laubat.
We should judge, from our exchanges,
that one of our best and worst men is
dead, which his name is Fisk. E.-
The Wilmington, (Del.) Commercial
nominates Senator Wilson, of Massachu-
sets, for the vice-presidency.
The doctors in Salem have cot up a
corner on smallpox, and vaccination has
advanced to 81 an arm. February options
are unchanged.
Nilsson has made a princely fortune
with her voice. She will go back to Eu-
rope worth 100000 half of which she
has made in this country.
"A case will probably not be made out
against Mrs. Wharton, charged with mur-
dering Gen. ketchem, and verdict of ac-
quittal may be looked for.
The New Orleans Times has it that
Horace Greeley is said to be in retirement
at present, pondering the great question,
Twill cundurango explodeY'
Perry H. Oliver, at one time the own
er and exhibitor of the musical prodigy,
Blind Tom, died the other day at Ameri-
Gus, Ga, where he had resided for eighteen
years.
On being asked by an antediluvan
whether Mr.. Fernando Wood was still in
the House, Mr.. Dawes is reported to have
replied, lately, "Wood is in the House, but
not STILL" "a
Marshall Hose company, of Savannah,
Ca, has presented the Photographic pic
lures of its members, handsomely framed,
to the Red Jacket Hose company, of
Charlestown, Mass.
The following notice is prominently
posted in the Astor House restaurant,
New York "Oysters chloroformed and
opened d la Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals"
The Indianapolis Journal announces
that Miss Nilsson, young woman who
sings almost as well as Kellogg, and kicks
a piano stool clear across the stage appa-
rently with little effort, is coming.n
Noble county, Ohio, with population
of 10000 people, is well worthy of the
name it bears. There is not case on the
criminal docket, and not a person has been
arrested for whole year on criminal
charge. There were only five lawsuits last
year, and if it hadn't been for medding
lawyer three of these would not have been
recorded. m
The New York Eueaao Post, which
no one will charge with especial zeal in its
defense of the President, and by no means
ambitious of being classed as an ''adminis-
tration organ," says of the custom-house
investigation, after the prosecuting wit
nesses, Greeley included, swore: 'The
friends of the President are not the only
persons who will be heartily glad to learn
that there is not word of evidence which
tends to implicate Mr.. Grant in any of the
scandalous transactions with which he has
been charged by partisan opponents in con-
nection with..the custom house.
The evidence affords no excuse for assail-
ing his personal integrity, and journals
which have INDUCED their temper in asper-
sions of this kind would act wisely to re-
tract them at once"
DIR. Z. G. Wines, commissioner of the
United States to the International Congress
to be held in London, July 2, 1872, on the
prevention and repression of crime, is ma
king arrangements to hold meeting in
New York at an early day, to awaken in.
| terest in the subject of improved methods
of penal and reformatory treatment, and tc
| give some response in behalf of this country
to the action of European and South
| American governments indorsing the plar
for the London Congress. DR.. Wines has
been promised the attendance at the New
York meeting, among other public men, o
Speaker Blaine, Senator Wilson, Represen
tatives Banks, Garfield and Wilson, ant
Blacque Bey, the Turkish minister, whc
deliver addresses.