The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-07
GENERAL ITEMS.

-Gambetta's illness is very were and
the result Of oyerwork.
Marshal Bazaine has TO be watched to
prevent suicide.
Enlargement Bracelets are now the
proper things for fettered hearts.
A congregation knows when a minis
ter is afraid OF them, just a horse does.
Florence Horton, aged five, astounds
st. Joseph county, Ind, with her piano
playing.
AT Mt. Pleasant, ILL.,, girl was so ag-
gravated by warts as to seek q watery
grave.
The Spanish government has deter
mined to send $4,000 men to reinforce the
army in Cuba.
Some twenty colored men have been
elected as supervisors Of election in New
York city.
The Central Church of Chelsea, Mass,
has at last permitted woman to vote at its
church meetings.
Sir Charles Dixie says that half a
million dollars is spent annually in keeping
up the royal yachts, and in fancy yachting.
Large punches Of a single variety of
flowers-rose-buds, lilies of the valley,
fuchsias, or what not-will be the fashiona-
BILE party bouquet this winter.
Colonel Wilson Patten, a very popu-
lar English member of Parliament, has
inst given SIS 900 toward a public park
for Warrington, Lancashire.
Professor Thrasher teaches a school
in Kansas, and the boys think there is
something in a name, after all.
The S~traightout convention of New
York on Thursday placed a full electoral
ticket in the field, but declined to nominate
a State ticket.
John E. Owens is probably the wealth.
est %actorTnow upon the American stage.
His figure is somewhere between s 1,000,-
600 and 2 1000 900.
Elizabeth Anderson, of Bath county,
Kentucky, has recovered 81 1000 from her
brother.in-law, VIM. Woodward, on a
charge of seduction.
John Barclay was hung at Columbus,
Ohio, at noon Friday, for the murder of
| Charles Garner, in October last. He made
a confession, charging his crime to the use
of intoxicating drinks.
The progress of luxury is strikingly
llaotlitSu III q toSu IVY uSSs - v
ter written from on board an Atlantic
steamship, says: :" hear the notes Of the
piano, the lowing of a COW, the cackle OF
hens, indeed, all the noises of the barn.
yard, here in mid-ocean."
I'm Arkansas a mar was sentenced to
be hanged, but all the carpenters in the
neighborhood refused to build the scaffcld.
As the condemned man was himself a car
penter by trade, the sheriff tried to induce
him to put up a gallows, but he steadfastly
declared he'd be hanged if he did.
The latest judicial decision of special
interest to passengers on railroad cars has
lust been rendered at Norwich, Conn. A
Mr.. Coggswell and his wife were injured
10 getting off a train at that place because
it did not stop long enough to allow the
passengers to alight in safety, and they
have obtained a verdict for 81 800.
"A policeman in Halifax, Mo-, saw a
man lying in the streets a few nights ago,
and on going up to him found a cat lying
on his breast, with its teeth fixed in his
throat. The man was too drunk to defend
himself from this singular attack, and the
policeman was obliged to strike the cat
several blows before it would let go its
hold.
The result of the election in West
Virginia, in August last, SO far as relates to
the new constitution and the legislature, is
at last announced. The total vote in favor
of the ratification of the constitution is
AZ, 154; against it, 81, 75S; majority in its
favor, 4,406. The new legislature is politi.
cally divided as follows: Democrats 63,
Independent Democrats 5, Republicans 20.