The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

There are 229, 161 names in the new
directory of New York city-17,0O0 more
than last year. .
The total taxable wealth of Missouri
is s5G7, AGO. 1876. Nearly one.half belongs
to st. Louis county.
The Pope has sent brief to Switzer-
land, authorizing the Roman priests to say
mass in private houses, as in times OF per-
secution.
Connecticut journals number 90, clas-
sified as follows: weekly, go; daily, Is (;
monthly 50; semi-weekly, bi-weekly, semi
monthly and quarterly, l each.
Over 700 business firms in Boston
have signed petition for the appointment
of fire commission and other changes in
the fire department. ...
The Elizabethtown QKy.) News says:
''We saw countryman the other day
gravely stop and set his watch by Mr..
McLure's painted sign, and walk off per-
lectly contented.'
--Girard, Erie county, Penn, claims to
have child which weighed but three
ounces at its birth, and seven ounces when
to be perfect. ..a.a.
Some Athens (Ga.) girls have been
swallowing hearts-ease flowers as super
stitious love charm. The charm of it is
that the piussic acid in the flowers came
near making silly angels of them.
The late Samuel Barrett, of Concord,
left bequest of $500 to Mr.. William
Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Lucy Stone and Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, in trust for the Massa-
chusetts woman-suffrage association.
The indianapolis Journal says that
when Congress adjourned, Senator Nor
ton notified the disbursing officer of the SEN
ate that he would not accept the back
pay. and directed his salary account to be
made up without it. ,.+
DIR. Stephen Smith says that New
York can never be healthy city until it
dsperses its poor population over larger
area, removes the rear tenement houses,
and prevents more than given population
to lot 20Xl00 feet.
Twenty million dollars have
been expended in deepening and otherwise
improving the river Clyde, Glasgow, by
the trustees of the River Clyde navigation
company. The work is still vigorously
continued with six powerful machines,
dredging over l 100000 tons every year.
Lord Gordon is still alive. He lately
had some SAC, 900 stolen from him at Fort
Garry, Manitoba. The noble Lord does
not mind such a trihing loss. Like the
Count of Monte Cristo he is in the habit of
carrying about some millions in his pocket
every day.
Until recently it was supposed that
water had but little motion below fifty
fathoms. 1t is now known, however, that
in certain localities there is motion in the
water at depth of five hundred fathoms,
and this motion has proved serious source
of injury to submarine cables.
Senator Matt. Carpenter was facetious
over the salary grab in speech he made
before the Wisconsin Editorial Association
at La Crosse few days since. He said,
"If the money belonged to the people,
what more direct way of getting it circula-
ted than to give it such fellows as me to
SPEND" .s .
There were 1920 births registered in
Boston in 1872, an increase of 7l5 over
1871. The number of marriages was
1892, only As more than in 1871, or one
in every 1922 of the population. The
deaths numbered 5000, 2 1902 more than in
1871, making a death rate of 30.53 to the
thousand.
Texas is large and sparsely populated
state, but the people appear to be doing
their best to fill it up. There is a man in
Waco who is the father of fifty children,
thirteen by his first wife, eighteen by his
second, ten by his third, six by his fourth,
and three by his fifth wife, who at last ac-
counts was still living.
The President on the recommendation
of Governor Dix and others, has pardoned
Colonel Robert B. Clarke who about two
years ago was tried in the United States
Circuit court of New York, and sentenced
to five years. imprisonment, for having in
his possession counterfeit plates for making
fifty cents stamps. e
M-Harvard college, on the authority of
The Nation, has received more than four
hundred applications for admission to its
next Freshman class, which is a fact
entirely without precedent in the educa-
tional history of the country. A dozen
years ago all the undergraduates in the
Tour classes at Harvard hardly exceeded
the number mentioned.
The quiet opposition made by the
Catholic clergy to secret societies is now
supplemented by a very vigorous denuncla-
ZION ny u pUItlOu Vi tiO Sdtiioiic pICSoS
and especially by the Boston Pilot, of all
attempts to gather Irishmen into secret
political societies. 1t remarks that an
irishman who joins such society, thereby
binding himself to support Irish-born candl-
dates for office in preference to native-born,
is worse than Know Nothing, since he is
not only bad citizen but bad Catholic.
"A Boston letter-carrier, who has ac-
CURED much skill in sskimming" letters
into business offices by twist of the
wrist, thus saving himself some steps, re-
Gently sent one on flight which ended in
depositing it behind the table. "Neyer
mind he called to an office boy who at
tempted to move the table to get it, sits
only a CIRCULAR Three weeks later,
when the curiosity of one of the boys
prompted him to see what was in that cir
cuar, he found in it a letter enclosing a
check for $500.