The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-07
GENERAL ITEMS.
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Admiral GoldsboTough has beel
placed on the retired list. 7y .sstf
The recent election in Charleston
South Carolina, for municipal officers ha
been declared null and void. u
The Graphic translaDtic balloon, will
Donaldson ss engineer, started off yes
terday from Brooklyn, New York.
With the display now required for
first-class funeral, people are beginning tt
understand what are the terrors of death
The total amount of money received
at the treasury for the last fiscal year fol
deposit to the Conscience FUND.- wal
$26, ,551.21. 8N89 @
P. D. Barker succeeds Widner, ths
collector Of the Second Alabama district
who is under arrest on the charge oi
delalcaton. Eat.i F,slss sl.F 5,f 80
The war department has issued an
order to the effect that hereafter every de.
serter shall forfeit all pay and allowances
due at the time Of desertion. -
When you feel depressed and dissat-
isfied, and wherever you look naught but
trowning skies meet your view, wash
yourself. ag hsort gEF
The commissioner of internal revenue
has decided that sellers of brandy peaches
and other fruits preserved in brandy must
pay special tax for selling brandy.
"A thorough investigation is to be
made by the navy department INTO the Cir
cumstances concerning the death of Cap
tain Hall, Of the Polaris expedition. -
The. Duchess of Leeds, formerly one
of the bellies of Baltimore, is Immensely
rich and is a widow We are obliged to
add, however. that she is ninety years old.
AN eastern paper wants to know why
the Tichborne claimant is like mermaid,
and replies that it is because he has
nothing. to stand upon, and has very
fshy tail.o
Anna Dickinson, according to the Col
den Age, @is q robust, blooming, well-de.
veloped Christian" We thought the best
Christians were usually consumptive, but
this lady is an exception to all the rules.
1t is singular fact, that the ravages
of the yellow fever this season have been
mainly confined to two localities, Shreve-
port and Memphis, where itstill RACES with
unabated violence. agla W.
Sioux, the noble Modoc, who was to
have suspended" Friday, was pardoned
by the President the day before the execu-
ton. Which was good luck, even if it
was slow luck.S 8rsaE2@ -
The solicitor of the treasury having
decided tina; pilots and engineers on steam
vessels are, within the meaning Of law.
Officers United States, unnaturalized
foreigners can not be licensed to perform
the duties of the same. taa .M#
The treasury department is paying
persons who were employed in taking the
United States census in the southern states
in 1860. but were deprived of their money
by the breaking out of the war. zs .aoi
Mrs. Sumner yields to the advice of his
friends, and will not lecture this season.
He will have to buy fewer rare books and
Did pictures, for to get the means for the
indulgence Of his taste in this respect was
one of the leading motives Of his lecturing
purposes nQ,feld Republican. ~
"A, Paris correspondent of the Pail
Mall Gazette, under date Of September q,
writes: .sThe large American colony here
IS in an intense state ofexcitement, owing
TO the failure of the house Of Cooke, Of
New York. II appears that most of
he Americans on the continent are
neavy losers, and find themselves without
'unds."s aRs sy-ge ~ ,gEgwtssssa
III the Tennessee politicians really de-
sire to have Andrew johnson out of the |
way next year, they will do we'll to make
up that $50, 900, and have JAY Cooke res
fund it. Popular sympathy for the lold
gentleman in the loss ofIa ''moderate
accumulated by years of, toll
md economy, will afford him all the as
,istance necessary to secure him the Office
If governor Or a seat in the senate.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has lately
delivered anaddress before an agricultural
air in New Hampshire, in which, according
o correspondent, he told what he didn't
lnow about farming. He knew enough,
however, about other things to receive 5000
or his address, and the farmers, who
we're the principal persons concerned,
appear to have been satisfied that they had
he worth of their money.
-Eighty-eight ladies' have entered the
Michigan university and we learn from
hat reliable paper, the Boston Post, that
hey have system of ehazng peculiarly
heir own. In point of fact, they blindfold
he young men of the institution, and kiss
hem nearly to death !, and the other night
. young man named Gates was nearly
Imothered to death in that way. We have
10 pity for Gates, however. He probably
preferred the punishment to an escape for
low easily might he have opened himself
md gone away.iSh sslqifsf Is,4Ts al
WITHOUT THE Coop NIGHT KISS.
This is not Danbury News story, butlit is
nevertheless, true. The not too happily
married. Jones lives with his wife and the
little Joneses at the. South End. Last
Thursday night q misunderstanding had
occurred, and the two took to their couch
IN the pouts, and went to sleep without the
goodnight kiss. It was a muggy night,
md the mosquitoes were both active and
While Mrs. J. slept soundly,
lndisturbed by the pests, Jones was, kept
wake, and passed his time id conversing in
,hoice phrases at his tofmentors in
vain efforts to knock d few Of them atwice
.heir length. y His violent movements
inally aroused Mrs. Jones'. and, half awalS-
sned. she arose on her elbow, Just in time to-
receve,a singing blow between the nose
and eyes, which (Jones had intended for a
mosquito. Remembering the sttiltv Of the
evening, and bsing awOnan of spirit she
was not the one to tamely submit to such
lndignity, and instantly her claws were in
Jones, hair, and doing vigorous. duty on
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