The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-02-10
GENERAL ITEMS.

james Henry Hogg was married to
Miss Elinor Beane, in New York, last Sun
day. Pork and beans are in order OF
course.
The late Mr.. Cranston, Of Newport,
has lett s75, 900 for the benefit of persons
Of indigentility who arc ''too proud to beg
and too honest to steal.'
Caroline Richings is going to produce
the cantata of ''Daniel" with a company of
amateurs, at Reading, Pa. She wants a
good reliable man for a Daniel also two
or three lions.
President Asa Smith, of Dartmouth,
college, has been elected President of the
New Hampshire State Temperance
Union.
"A negro named Henry Bow, and who
pretends to be from Virginia, has been
arrested in Paris for garroting in Quarter
Wagram during the last two months. SHE
long exercised in the far west the profession
of b~uccaneer."
Walt Whitman still remains at his
lodgings in Washington quite low with
paralysis, from the seeds of an old and
severe case of malarial poison contracted
by him in the army hospitals during the
war, but his physicians think his strong
physique will bring him through.
The daughters of the late Chief JUS
tice fancy are in straitened circumstances .
being compelled to earn their subsistence
by working as copylsts for lawyers in Bal
timore. Members Of the legal profession
throughout the country are about starting
q fund to relieve the necessities of these
ladies-the children of a man who for thirty
years held the highest judicial position in
the country, and died poor.
Out of the proceeds of his lecture
course in this country, Professor Tyndall
has placed S15 900 in the hands of a COM
mlttee for the support of one or two young
men desiring to follow the pursuit of
science as a profession. To the Yale
scientific club he gives $500 to found a
prize, a sort of reward of merit institution,
to be called the Tyndall prize. To the
Young Mems Christian association OF
Washington, he gives 81 1900.
An exchange says Mr.. Jones, OF
Oshkosh, heard it intimated on the street
the other day that he was henpecked. He
went home and thrashed his W ife, tore ur
two or three of her best dresses, opened ali
the doors and, windows in the house, and
sat down in the parlor with his feet on the
centre-table, among a collection Of choice
books, and smoked his pipe. He thinks the
world is convinced now that he is boss OF
that rancho.
Old Pliny was something Of a fashion
reporter in his day. He says 81 have
seen Lola Paulina, once tho wife of the
Emperor Caligula, though it was on no
great occasion, nor she in her full dress
ceremony, but at an ordinary wedding din
fer, and have seen her entirely covered
with emeralds and pearls, strung alternate
ly, glittering all over her head, hair, BAN
deau, ears, neck and fingers, the value of all
which put together amounted to the sum
Of 10000, 900 sesterces,7 ($2 900, 900.
in his recent message, Governor Par
ham, Of Maine, says: 81 am here re-
minded Of what appears to me to be an
injustice to female teachers. The wages
of male teachers in this State average
$33.17 per month, exclusive of board. The
average wages of female teachers exclu-
sive Of board is sl4.40 per month. This
is wrong. A given amount of labor, equal
ly well performed, is worth the same,
whether done by male or female"