The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-29
GENERAL ITEMS.

Herald prayer to the President
Please come out and Julius Caesar long
enough to whip Spain and take Cuba.
MIR. Sumner, it is said, is more popular
in Boston than ever before, notwitbstand-
ing his slight mistake as to CERTAIN funeral
some time since. .srI
Henry Young will be hung Friday
next, in Washington, d. c., for the MUIR
der of Frank Hahn. He is in very
weakening" condition.
-"0ur fellow-towusman, John Knox,
went galloping out of Centreville on pale
horse last night" is the gist of feeling
obituary notice in Louisiana paper.
Jeremiah Mason once told Charles
Sumner he would as soon think of joining
society for the suppression of thunder
and lightning as one for the suppression of
war.
During the season of Congress, Wash.
ington uses about one million feet of gas
per day. During the summer about four
hundred thousand feet. No sarcasm is
intended. eaalg
r The Boston Transcript says: "It is
quite mistake to suppose that slave labor
is so worthless in Cuba that the Spanish
families hang little negroes on the door
knob in token of bereavement" excess
An ungallant Missouri paper thinks
"what the women of this country most
need is not suffrage, but symmetry; not
rights, but nationality; not place in our
legislative halls, but place to fasten their
stockings" t7s
Sergeant Bates has Joined in the
shrek for war. We wish, by the way, that
the sergeant would carry the flag through
Cuba, just now, to see whether it would
be respected by everybody in that dis
tracted island
The Church Union styles shot and
hotter" the fact that the First Unitarian
church of Baltimore has had for its pas
tors, in the order named, the Revs. Messrs.
Furniss, Bellows, Sparks, Blazup and
Burnop.
"A company of warlike spirits has been
recruited at Bridgefield, Connecticut,
known as ''Cuban Avengers. We hardly
know which to admire most, the modesty
of the title, the romance of it, or the
streams of gore which it foretells in briei
but pointed language.
a--ondihcys tue coCapcu iHuiueicif 10 ny
no means stony-hearted man. He left q
note for the warden of the Tombs, couched
as follows: "My dear Johnson-Send
those old prison clothes Of mine to the
commissioners of charities. hear this
will be hard winter for the poor.'
Mr.. Sullivan, of Wappella, ILL.,, would
have no schoolmaster like Mr.. Jeffreys
whipping his boys, and so he concluded tc
call on Mr.. J. and persuade him. The re
suit of the caucus was that Sullivan bit of
several of Jeffreys' fingers during thu
spirited interview, and in consequence wa'
placed under arrest.
We know of no method o! amusemen
so original as to fill a little boys moutl
with snow and tie handkerchief aroun'
his jaws to keep the mouth shut. Thi
was actually done at st. Cloud, Minnesota
but the fact that the boy died and som
parties are in fair way to be punishe
has put stop to the amusement for tn
present.
Julius Fudner, of Chicago, called hi
father 70 pork-eating Jew," and the oil
gentleman had him arrested. But he re
Tented and told Judge BanYon that
would like to withdraw the complaint, fo
Julius was pretty good boy after al
The judge was indignant that justic
should be made sport Of in this manner
and SO he fined the old man and dismisse
Julius. -