The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-13
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Senator Ramsey, Of Minnesota, is to
be credited with having returned his back
pay.
The bottom Of a well must be shock
ing bad place, for even Truth is said to lie
there.
The Graphic balloon finally busted at
Brooklyn, N. Y, yesterday, and all idea
of going to Europe by that means has been
abandoned.
President Orion, Of the Western
Union telegraph company, has been nOti-
fed that the office at Shreveport. Louisiana,
has been closed, all the operators being
sick with yellow fever.
Now that the desired witness, Mrs.
Benton, has been secured, the third trial Of
Edward S. Stokes for the murder Of James
Fisk, jr., has been set for the first Monday
in October.
The mill owners Of Charleston, S. g.,
held meeting yesterday, and determined to
keep their mills closed until all the colored
laborers, now on general strike, returned
to work at the usual wages.
In New York city the grand jury have
brought in an indictment for burglary in
the third degree against John j. Irving,
whose name has been SO much before
the public in connection with the Nathan
murder.
I'm New York city the coroners jury in
the inquest over the body Of Margaret
Hamill, found in room occupied by
James Merrigan and wife after fire there,
returned a verdict that Miss Hamill was
strangled by Mrs. Merrigan.
The jury Of inquest in the Kelsey case,
at Huntington, Long Island, has failed to
obtain the names of the parties engaged in
the tarring and feathering. 1t would APP
pear that either the jury have not done
their duty, or there has been some terrible
perjury on the part Of the witnesses.
1T is probable that there will be great
rise in real estate in the vicinity of Tacoma,
on Puget's Sound. Yesterday the directors
ofthe Northern Pacific railroad, ct their
meeting in New York, named that city as
the western terminus of their road. The
owners Of corner lots will become the
millionaries OF the Pacific coast.
Some Of the crew Of the whaler Ansel
Gibbs, Of New Bedford, before reported as
wrecked last year in the Artic ocean, and
who were brought to New Bedford in the
whaling schooner Abbie Bradford, have
reached Boston, and tell horrible story
Of their snfferings and their torture at the
hands OF the officers Of the Ansel Gibbs.
"A Boston dispatch tells Of another
Fight Of a man with Railroad.p An
unfortunate engineer, who had been
injured while on duty, sued the company
for damages. For three years and in three
courts he obtained a verdict, and each
time the judge set aside the verdict, until
at last the persistence Of the plaintiff and
the pluck of the jurors has triumphed,
and the company will be compelled to pay
over handsomely.
The first instance Of failure Of q
divorce suit ever chronicled in Indiana
occurred the other day in the case Of lady
whose husband died Just before the
Judges decision could be rendered. and
there is strong feeling in favor Of commit
ting the attending physician for contempt
Of court in not keeping the defendant alive
long enough for his matrimonial career to
be terminated in the regular way.
"A gallant son Of the Emerald Isle
recently married the beautiful daughter of
White Cloud on the Nilsson shore. The
trousseau of the bride was very simple
consisting Of faded calico gown which
hung loosely over her graceful form. The
gallant Pat was robed in the same gar
ments he had been accustomed to wear on
duty on the gravel train.
"A San Francisco man was given to
the filthy habit Of tobacco-chewing, and
with the usual recklessness Of persons SO
deprayed, he permitted the vile juice to
soil his shirt bosom. He had been
adorned with clean linen that very morn
ing, and duly warned against such care
lessness. In five minutes afterwards his
wife observed the filthy decoction staining
the immaculate shirt-front. This was too
much: She seized the rolling-pin, and Wig
orously reminded him Of the duty he owed
to society and public decency. The court
infilcted small line, considering the ag-
grayation an unbearable one.