The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-24
GENERAL ITEMS.

/ = pTOpdDly DeCduSe tiit IOIS WHiteI ls,'
killed the vines,," suggests MIR. Greeley.
/ q Ole Bull thinks that, by proper cul
ture, Leavenworth will produce violins'
second to none in the land, in the person o
Miss Ella Few.
An interesting political wager has just
been concluded between j. G. Bennett
Jr., and Mr.. Belmont. Bennett bets ter
thousand dollars to four that General
Grant will be the next President. oE
Thirteen police captains have been or
trial in New York for using too much gas
If the police captains can hardly escape,
where shall the wicked and ungodly George
| Francis Train appear?
Luther Sardan, of Salisbury, Conn.,,
was arrested the other day for assaulting
his brothers wife, and this prosecuted sis
ter.in-law and wife frankly testified that
:" she sometimes wished that Jim (her hus-
band) had killed Lutte and then the lawyers
hung him.
MIR. Cyrus w. Field is said to have as
serted that in his recent travels in Ger
many, France and Italy he did not hear of
a single statesman, jurist, or authority
upon international law, who does not speak
of the claim of the United States for indi-
rect damages as preposterous.
"A wave of music is passing over Bos-
ton. In the cars even one sees young la
dies copying musical scores, who used to
be reading between yellow covers or pouring
over dry school books, and even the little
folks are beginning to open their throats
and sing in these bright spring mornings.
The Maharajah of Bullorampore has
more sense than most savages get credit for.
He has ordered that all paupers who apply
for charity shall be taught to read and
write, and that needy parents shall be
compensated by the State for the loss of
the labor of their children while they are
attending school.
Henry Ward Beccher says !: ~ con-
slider myself Calvinistic you know, and in
this way. | believe what John Calvin
would have believed if he had lived in my
time and seen things as see them. My
first desire is to know what is true and
then am glad if John Calvin agrees with
me but if he don't, SO much the worse
for him."
Thomas Pagan, a trim young house
painter, was sent to do some painting at
the residence of Mrs. Joseph Read, the
widow of successful butcher, in Harlem,
| N. T., not long ago, and he found such fa-
vor in the eyes of the lonesome widow that
| she and Thomas were united in marriage
on Tuesday evening. The lady is said to
be not only handsome, but worth half a
million dollars.
| German newspapers are discussing va
rious cases of poisoning by vanilla ice
| cream which have occurred of late in diff
! ferent European cities. There are many
| opinions as to the source of the poison, but
all agree to the unpleasant fact that the
cool delicacy is sometimes poisonous. This
/ gratifying assurance is quite dp1opos, as
the heated season and the reign of ice
cream comes on apace.
--As the California earthquake ap-
| preached, a young lady improved the op-
portunity to faint away in her lovers arms,
| it being the first time either had dared to
establish such an appropinquity. She did
not recover for twenty minutes or more,
and the gentleman took vast oath on the
morrow that he would "give twenty dol
lars shock for earthquakes"
An editor in Victoria, Australia, says
"The people in this region have become so
virtuous and well-behaved that it is inn
possible for US to make an interesting daily
paper. We hear that ship load Of con-
4 yicts is on the way to our virtuous port.
and we look for greater activity in our
local news department as soon as its pas
sengers shall get fairly ashore.n
y;cto ITngo ;s not opIy a, o,tl,nr h,,s
., ,rt;St soyS a par;e ItI IetfIay He Jr.w0
;nas narfol,e Of tho cbaractar Of HE wit. !.
10 no, pa,,d ora st.rtlnr in tho;r corna,,t;o,'
Among n.y. the subjects are strange weird
/ n,oonl;oht scaneS with MANY towerad
] Gothic castles. such as NAV be seen only in
/ dreams. and of style of architecture Pc
/ culiar and original, A collection of ftty
Of his best works is shortly to be given to
the world in the form of an album.
Holm Quinn The lata Fe,,,an nr;sopsr
c.nt,,red 81 Rideeway in IsfG has retnrned 1
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in the E;ngsto IN nsn;tentiarv. II was made
! rather her vain for Mr. Quinn in the nrison
and he renorts that for The mere matter oi
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ca;yed fSnr hundred and th;r93vstv1o e laSbas
no;d in ;ndic;ors ;nstallmentS He navs,.
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