The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-04
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS
Carl Formes is residing temporarily in
Toledo.
The Governor of New York has signed |
the civil damage liquor. selling bill.
The Minnesota Republican state con-
ventien has been appointed for July l6.
"A liquor dealer in Parkersburg, w.
Va, has been fined 500 for selling liquor
to minor.
Professor Kerr, state geologist of
North Carolina, is to represent that state
at Vienna.
The Prince of Wales has offended
some of his countrymen by holding levee
on Sunday in Vienna.
Prince Iturbide, who died in Paris re-
Gently, left his entire fortune 100000
francs) to his housekeeper.
South Bend, Ind, has one of the eight
croquet factories in the United States.
Lowell, Mass, has another.
An Indian court has decided that a
man may kiss his own wife, notwithstand-
ing the objection of her father.
--Chicopee. Mass, has a fountain extin-
HulSHeT COulpaIlys why tuCy
extinguish fountains it is hard to say.
"A ghost in Springfield, ILL.,, has a
propensity for continually ringing bells for
servants, but never gives any orders.
Rev. j. e. Rutledge, of Chebanse, ILL.,.
has been suspended from the ministry for
betting his watch on three-card monte.
There were one hundred and thirty
four marriages and four hundred and nine
ty-sixty deaths in the New York city last
week.
Buckley I. Benton, owner of the
Park theatre in Brooklyn, New York,
committed suicide yesterday evening by
shooting himself through his heart.
--Jennies Dennis, a young married
woman, committed suicide Tuesday night
at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, by drowning
herself in the canal. Domestic troubles.
DIR. Brown, who was sentenced to ten
years in Sing Sing for assaulting Murray.
the New York gas bill collector, died in
prison Friday night.
Over 100000 feet of lumber were
bought in Key West for building purposes
between the list and 10th of April. The
place seems resolved on being large
city.
Forty thousand Sumday-school children
paraded in Brooklyn, New York, Wednes.
day, and celebrated May-day by holiday
in the different parks Of the city.
. Two hundred and sixty-one lew Sun
day-schools have. been organized during
the past year in Kentucky. Tennessee
Virginia, North and South Carolina, ant
Georgia.
When wife in Turkey forgets to KEEP
the suspendcr buttons sewed on her hus
bands trowscrs, she is patted on the bach
for half an hour with pine board an incl
thick.
The st. Louis Democrat publishes let
ters from all parts of Missouri, southern
Illinois, Kansas, and Iowa, which predic
large and excellent wheat crop, but shor
crops of oats and corn.
A Boston paper asserts that this yea
avaluation of the land alone in the burn
district is actually greater than that of tn
land and all the buildings upon it befor
the fire.
The women's universal peace commits
sion met in Philadelphia on the End in
slant. Caroline III. Speer, presiding. 1
series of resolutions in favor OF peace weI
adopted and a number of addresses made
.-LRubinstein has closed his career
This country. He has figured in fit
concerts. which yielded total return (
$3.50. 600. In the country he took part
les concerts. the full number, 2l5, pre-
ducing s350,00o. :,
Mime. Parepa-Rosa, Carl Rosa and
G. Campbell are in London, and they, a
aeree that Cairo is about the dirtiest plat
i Tns y ssraql Campbell it j. IS sa able NJ
sing again in great while.
-of the 766 registered women Of Il
town in st. Louis 400 entered on a life
shame from choice, 13S from poverty,
from family trouble, 50 were seduced.
abandoned by their husbands, and II trace
their downfall to bad company.
The liquor dealers in Chicago hay
by persistent agitation, defeated Il
Ii O'Clock closing ordinance, their hou
being extended to midnight, and the SUI
day law, permission being granted them
sell on Sunday after p. M.
AN Irishman named John Hackett.
Minersyille, Pennsylvania, is accused !
his two children, boy and a girl, of ha
ing put them on a hot CRATE, the latter b
ing shockingly burned. His flight corrob
rates their story.
There was great trades union demol
stration in Hyde park, London, on Sunda,
10 protest against the law, which harsh
and unjustly affects the interests and RICH
of labor. Thirty thousand people wei
present, and the meeting was most success
full.
Cincinnati, Ark, has been enjoying
four days theological debate on the som
what inconsistent propositions: FRS
that the Scriptures teach the final holine
and happiness of all mankind second, tn
the Scriptures teach that portion
mankind will suffer endless punishment.
BiIiiDGsgYauils.