The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-20
GENERAL ITEMS.

New Hampshire has made clear
profit Of $4,000 from its state prison.
The Goth instant is the thirty-eighth
anniversary Of the coronation of Queen
Victoria.
The Peters pence" collections in the
New York churches Sunday amounted to
$4,000.
The Careca paper-mill at South Ifadley
Falls, Mass. has been damaged by fire.
Loss $50, 900.
The Patrons of Husbandry have, it is
said, in the United States, 1877 oranges,
and over 2 900, 900 membership.
The latest rumor about the chief.
justiceship mentions the Hon. Morrison r.
Waite, president of the Ohio constitutional
convention.
A western editor insists that he wrote
the word "trousseau" plain as a pikestaff
in connection with certain bridal presents.
The printer, however, vulgarly put it
trousers"
An old sermon, preached at Hanover,
Va, in May, 1853, by Rev. Samuel Davies,
was found among the rubbish offered for
sale at an auction in Stafford. Conn, re-
Gently.
Half pound of shot judiciously adj
ministered to sympathetic cats, at this sea-
son of the year, will bear fruit in increased
hours of slumber throughout the summer,
and have tendency to prevent corner in
the chicken market.
The first result of new Sunday law
in Lafayette, Indiana, was the arrest of the
city editor and five compositors of a morn
mo, nonor n ynitIfmau opd rail
way hands and the sections were notified
not to ring the bells.
The latest reform in the school discip.
line of Boston is that sin no case shall cor
poreal punishment be inflicted on any
scholar for any offense until at least TWEEN
ty-four hours after the offense Is commit
ted for which such punishment is inflicted"
An auctioneer, at the late sale of an
Equities, put up helmet, with the follow
ing candid observation: "This, ladies
and gentlemen, is helmet of Romulus.
the Roman founder; but whether he was
brass, iron or type founder | cannot
tell"
An illustration of observation-disclosures is
told of an excitable young drug clerk who
filled his customers bottle with the lima
ment desired, and receiving therefor nice
new twenty-five cent shinplaster, pasted it
on the bottle and put the label in the cash
drawer.
A shrewd cat, in Yicksburg, has been
occupied in setting upoII nest of hens
eggs. At last accounts she had succeeded
IN getting three chickens safely from the
shell and has hopes of large brood.
Cats are not fond of eggs. but chickens at
tender age are 10 them an especial deli.
cacy.
The Raleigh IN. CO. News mentions
the rumor that District Attorney Badger,
III investigating the frauds in the collection
of United States taxes in that district, has
developed stupendous frauds of long stand
ing, by which the government has been
detrauded of large sums.
That Danbury dyspepsia curer says
III his last bunch Of items: Another
match broken up. This between a clerk
in well known dry goods store and a
lady on Essex street. 1t was so warm on
Friday evening that she had the parlor
window up, and he stood on the lawn, and
they were cooling to each other, and he
was Just reaching up for another kiss when
the sash came down like flash, and
knocked off the peak of his nose and
scalped his chin, and he hoped around so
madly, and howled SO dreadfully, that the
old gentleman thought he was drunk, and
had him kicked out Of the yard with a
great deal Of ostentation. Monday morn
/; ny he went west.