The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-16
GENERAL ITEMS.

The President has proclaimed the 9th
of November for Thanksgiving Day.
The Augusta county fair opened yes
terday. Ex-senator Hunter will speak
to-day.
Lafayette J. Wolfe, who killed Perrin
in Charleston, s. G., some time ago, has
escaped from the penitentiary.
President Grant yesterday received
the Evangelical Alliance at the White
House, and Immediately thereafter left
for Toledo, Ohio.
--Itis suggestive fact, presented by the
Church Union, that though A. T. Stewart
is worth Sl00, 900, 900, his shroud will not
have pocket in it. T. ~ ! 1
Bishop Tozer, of England, in his letter
to Bishop Potter, of New York, addresses
the latter as MY Lord Bishop" and
speaks of him as ''your lordship.s
Portland, Oregon, is q bad place for
thieves. A police justice recently SEN
fenced fellow to thirty days imprison-
ment in the county Jail for stealing an egg
from a grocery.
Miss Catharine Oates, of Colnwell, Eng
land, was married in Toulumne county,
Oalss Ou TIC 1Oti ult., W HeT IONcI, Wuoh
she had not seen in eight years, and whom
she travelled seven thousand miles to meet.
. ---Keivero Machida, young Japanese,
has been admitted to the naval academy
under the provision of joint resolution Of
congress of July 9th, 1868. He has
entered the school as member of the
fourth class. e.,54. 81. ash
| 1t has been discovered out west,
according to paper in that section, that
"New-mown hay IS the perfume which the
Democratic dead-beats use to deodorize
their garments, which smell Of the tobacco
| and whiskey of the causcus rooms"
The Laramie Sentinel sends up this
Macedonian cry: There is fearful and
terrible scarcity of girls in this country,
| not only for cooking purposes but we
even be willing to take them raw, 'and for
| life at that.o
| M. Rochefort, on leaving France for
New Caledonia in company with a batch of
fellow Communists, of very unclean and
unattractive appearance, is said to have
murmured: Alas! always advocated
equality, and now I have got it," aas
A monument to the memory of Philip
Embury, the founder of American Method
ism, will be unveiled, in the presence Of
the National Local Preachers Association,
at Cambridge, Washington county. New
York, on the 21st inst, Bishop Simpson
making the address. esa
Donaldson remarked to Lunt, during the
recent aerial voyage, "Oh, Won't Wise
burst with envy when he hears of this9''
Lunt replied, Yves, indeed; and it's
much worse to burst with envy than with
gas, you know" And then the balloon came
down to earth, and the yoyagers hastily
descended. % a.sast sa.t
The Chicago Times says: General
A. L. Burnside, of Rhode Island, late 6
maior-general in the United States army
and General Buckner, Of Kentucky, late Q
major-gencral in the Confederate army
dined together at the Sherman House
Chicago, on Sunday last, and in glass o.
champagne drowned all memories of the
past" nrss - 10 i9f,i
-On Wednesday next an election will be
held in Baltimore for mayor, chief Judge o
the supreme bench, and members of both
branches of the city council. The Demo
Gratis have renominated Mayor Vansant
and on Friday meet to nominate candi
date for the Office of chief judge of the su
preme court, made vacant by the death 0
Judge Scott. 4a ah H'2i ~