The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-16
Ghe Uir9inia State c5ournal
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1873
GENERAL ITEMS.

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The ladies at the fashionable watering
places have discarded chignons.
LAT Bangor, Maine, gun was used 10
celebrate the Fourth which was cast in
1873.
= Calilornians tie pumpkins upon cher
~ trees for the purpose of fooling Chica
go capitalists.
"A Danbury saw-filer always wears
wadding in his ears when at work, SO as
not to disturb his neighbors.
The Cincinnati Newsboys' Union have
a public discussion of the question,
" which is the most useful, editors or news
boys? ?"
The valuation of taxable property in
Roston in 1872 amounted to $6S2, 724 300,
of which $443 1888 ,450 were charged 10
real estate, and S239, 446,S50 to personal
estate.
"A colored planter in Georgia first soak
ed his cotton seed in water in which guano
bags had been STEPPED, and now has raised
the best crop in his'vicnity.
A Vermont school.teacher has struck
the thing at last. He makes unruly boys
turn grindstone one thousand times,
while another boy bears on with stick of
wood.
One of the famous divorce lawyers Of
New York, in his advertisement in the city
papers, says "Hymeneal incompatibilities
as speciality delicately adjusted. IT'S
slavery to detain the hand after the heart
hath fed"
During the storm Monday night at st.
Louis a. seven-pound turtle was seen to
fall from the clouds. The present own
er vouches for the size Of the story and
the animal.
Ten thousand tons Of wheat and barley
will be harvested this year in Paradise
Valley, in the eastern part of Siskiyou
county, California. The market value of
the grain on the ground is 100000.
The Vienna papers contain a list Of
over eight hundred hack and carriage dri-
vers, who were arrested and fined during
the past month, charged with imposing
upon and taking advantage of strangers.
-Conundrum from the Chicago Tribune:
''Wby is it that lightning never strikes an
organ grinder, that they never fall into
the river and get drowned. that never starve
to death, and are never bitten by mad
dogs"
In the court of general sessions in New
York city for the past six months eight
hundred and thirty three cases were dis
posed OF, only one hundred and forty-seven
of which were acquitted.
The contributions of the Boston
churches to the American board for the
cOrrent year amount to more than $36 800,
including the funds which reach the treasu-
ry through the medium of the Woman's
board.
The asylum for the insane at Brat
tleboro has been the subject of an investi-
CATION by special committe of the
Vermont legislature, and the report now
made public shows that there has been
laxity of discipline and ill-treatment of
inmates most discreditable to the state.
AN electrical apparatus, to be placed
in the holds of ships, for the purpose of
giving warning in case of leakage, has been
devised by M. Sortais. On the entrance
of water current is established, and
communication is thus set in operation,
which gives notice to the officer on deck.
Boston is the Hub in more ways than
one. 1t costs $l7 100000 to run the city
yearly, and the debt record is: Funded,
$50, 553, ll6 unfunded. loans, 81 ,2SS ,039
gross April 30, 1873, $37, gu ,612 less
means for paying, $13, 926,777 net debt
April 30, 1873, So, 1914.
"A raft containing 100000 feet of
logs has been made up at Tawas, Iosco
county, Michigan, the dimensions being
al feet in width and 1925 feet in length,
waking a surface of about eleven and a
half acres in extent. The raft is the lar
gest which has ever been constructed on
the lakes, and is destined FOL Tonawanda.
"A French newspaper has discovered
that the United States government has
granted to the Nebraska Indians" the
right to travel gratuitously in every rail-
way train on which they Y, are able to Jump
while it is moving at full speed. 1.-THE
United States government is sure the whole
tribe will be extinct in six months.o
Last winter, just previously to the ex-
tremelY cold weather, Mrs. Jennings, liv-
ing near Litchfeld. ILL.,, bought large
quantity of heavy bed-ticking and made 1T
into huge envelopes. with which she entire
ly covered her peach trees. Then her
neighbors laughed; but now, while their
trees are either dead or barren, she laughs
to see her own heavily laden with the
choicest of peaches, for which she can OBJ
tain the most fabulous prices.
--Telegraphc crop reports from numer-
Gus points in Illinois and Iowa, covering
the greater part of those states, show that
while the recent severe rain storms have
considerably damaged the wheat crop, par
ticuarly in localities where it was Just
ready to harvest, there will be fully an
average crop. Oats have suffered more,
being badly lodged. and in many places
will have to be removed. Corn looks well,
and with favorable weather will make