The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-01-06

IA Detroit wedding was postponed
by an affidavit handed in by discarded
lover. 70
WHAT'S in name? There's a Nor
wegian in Chicago named Ole Nilsson who
neither iiddles nor sings.
james Russell Lowell will be panied
to learn that Hosea Bigelow is dead. He
was a railroad conductor at Peoria, ILL.,,
with a weakness for liquor.
The Chicago Post says The New
York Times has wheeled steadily and
surely into the ranks of the woman suf-
fragists. So, probably, will the world in
its own good time.
"A deed was recently prepared by a law
firm in Illinois, which was thirty feet long.
1t transferred two thousand pieces of land
in Northwestern iowa, all owned by one
man..
"A South Norwalk Conn man stole a
handsome bible to gladden. the heart of his
aged mother on Chistmas, but becoming
impressed with the enormity of the offence,
stole another to replace it.
"A startled fawn fed for protection
from the hounds into the door-yard of a
Virginia mansion, where a beautiful girl of
sixteen summers was sitting. The deer
approached her with intuitive trust, and
looked pitiorsly into her mild blue eyes.
The maiden, however, contrary to all ira
ditons, slaughtered the animal with car
wing knife.
M. Labiaux advocates the project of an
extensive immigration of French people to
North Carolina and Southern Virginia, in a
letter to the Messdqer FrdpcO-Anaeric01s.
The enterprise itself is seminently judicious.
The climate, soil, and other characters OF
that region are eminently suited to the
habits and ideas of the French people, who
will doubtless find it a genial home. Self
expatriated Alsatians and Lorraines will be
especially attracted in this direction. A
strong effort like that now in progress can
not fail to direct large immigration to our
Southern Atlantic States. The infusion OF
new element. not imbued with the horri-
BILE Ku-Klux fanaticism of the present popu-
lation, can not be other than blessing.
We welcome the French immigration as a
genial element of reconstruction.
The House Of Delegates of the Dis
trict of Columbia got itself into fearful
quandary on Thursday evening. AT
o'clock resolution was before the House,
and the previous question having been or
dered, and motion to adjourn made and
voted down, second motion to adjourn
could not be entertained under the rules
prior to the final vote on the previous ques-
tion, viz: the passage of the resolution
When the latter vote was about to be taken
several members slipped out of the hall
leaving the House without quorum, and
| therefore powerless to vote upon the reso-
luton, or to effect an adjournment. The
sergeant-at-arms was dispatched to hunt
up reeusant members to relieve their
brethren from the dilemma, but it was not
till eleven O'Clock that quorum was thus
obtained, when the members were free tc
go home to their little beds.
Miss Lydia s. Hall, who is acting
| United States Treasurer in the absence o.
| the main chief, was once q Lowell factory
| girl, and was contributor to the famous
| Lowell Offering, over the nom de plume o
+" Adelaide The Lowell Courier says
MISS Hall has been missionary to The
Choctaws, and in border ruiiian days livet
in Kansas, where she was a considerable
owner of real estate. Meeting with somt
misfortune in regard to titles of property
she went to Washington, and has held 8
clerkship in the Treasury Department since
being also engaged in studying law in ordel
to enable her to secure her right to her pro
perty in Kansas, which she will no doubt
do, and return to that State, nnless sh,
gets into the Cabinet.0
Father Meeker has introduced woman
suffrage into his little colony of Greeley
much to the distress, no doubt, of the il
lustrious gentleman after whom the town il
named. The occasion was a canvass fo
postmaster. Ninety-eight ladies voted, ant
what is more, they voted in their best ap
parel. We have not learned that there ha
been any great upheavalof society in Gree
ley from this exercise of suffrage, nor tina
its male residents have been heard to com
plain of buttonless shirts, or badly cooked
dinners, or neglected children, nor that tn
matrons and wives have been seized with al
irresistible desire to so upon the stump
and hold forth upon the iniamies of mel
and the wrongs of their own sex. Tn
women Of Greeley did the proper thing
and the town goes ON the same old way, as
in fact, the country would go, too, if tn
women everywhere were permitted to d.
the same as their sisters in Colorado.