The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-16
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The Morning Post. daily, of Philadel-
phia, collapsed yesterday. The assigned
cause is failure to receive the Associated
Press n ews.
Miss Laura Hancock, a niece of Gen
eral w. S. Hancock, was married at St.
Paul, Mimi, last Wednesday evening, to
VIM. R. Merriam. The st. Paul Ponce,
says the presents to the bride exceeded any,
thing of the kind ever seen in the North
west.
Take courage! There is hope for all.
On Thursday a K~entuckian, at Liberty,
No., but seventy-three years of age, led to
the altar of Hymen Miss Elize Routt, sis
ter Of Col. Ii. L. Routt. Seventy-one
summers had passed over the head Of the
bride ere she became a wife.
Two great steamships are running a
most extraordinary race. The Pacific mail
company's steamer Tacoma left Liverpool
on the 4th instant for Callao, and the Re-
public, of the White Star line, left for the
same port on the following day. The dis
lance to be gone over is 1000 miles, or
nearly half round the world.
Major @. d. Downey, of Piedmont,
has instituted suit against the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad company for damages on
account of injuries sustained by him bv
falling through an opening in the platform
at Piedmont. The damages are laid at
5000.
There ought to be very few of the un.
washed left in Boston, for LAP GIL baths
were taken at the establishments provided
therefor by the public during the summer
months. No wonder they begin to talk
about the necessity of dredging out the
channel. of Charles river.
Those r~esolute women who 20 away
cut on the frontiers to live are not to be
trifled with when they get there. A mar
ried man in Idaho tried the little expert.
ment of clipping with a fascinating young
girl, and his indignant wife pursued and
overlook him, and having administered @
severe ~castigation, bore him home in tri
umph.
We are advancing. Two free schools
for colored children have been recently es-
tablished in Savannah, Ga. Of these the
Adverttser of that city says: We are
gratified to know that through the efforts
Of our Board of Education facilities will be
given to the children of the colored mar as
well as to the white man for the qualities
Of a good citizen, white or colored, are i'm.
proved by education"
"A Boston physician lately called at q
house for the purpose Of y~accinating q
young lady. After waiting until his pa
tience was almost exhausted for his patient
to appear, she presented her right arm
when the following conversation ensued
81 must have your other arm, Miss W.
don't inoculate the right arm" "Oh
dear!" was the reply. Couldn't you do
it on this arm? 1t has taken me twenty
minutes to wash it, and Pm afraid it vii
take an hour to wash the other!"
The banana is an article of primary i'm
portance for the subsistence of man wherev
er the temperature passes a ce%rtainpoint. 0
its nutritive power, it is enough to say
that an acre Sown with it will support NOR,
than fifty persons, whereas the sam'
amount of land sown with wheat in Eu
rope will only support two persons. Al
to the exuberance of its growth, it is calcu
lated that, other circumstances remaining
the same, its produce is forty-four time
greater than that Of the potato and on
hundred and t~hirty-three times create
than that of wheat. Unfortunately, bana
mas prefer hot climates to cold ones.