The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-05
GENERAL ITEMS.


Victoria Woodruff is victorious. Now
look out for Blood.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is at st. Cath
crimes, Canada, where she will pass the
summer.
"A Chicago couple got married after
three hours acquaintance. Served them
right. rses
A woman at Sterling, Illinois, has just
been relieved Of a tumor weighing sixty
pounds.
Notwithstanding all the gloomy prog
nostications, cotton plants in Georgia are
over four feet high.
The announcement Of betrothals forms
an engagement department in one Of the
New York papers.
Springfield, H., had sand-spout last
Thursday. Those in the vicinity immedi-
ately" dusted."
A Creston, Iowa, cow caught base
ball on the first bound and swallowed it,
delaying the game half an hour.
A minister walked six miles to marry
couple lately. He said he felt sort Of
fee-bill like. The groom saw it.
The San Francisco Odd Fellows have
named new lodge Ophir, from ''Ophir a
lodge in some vast wilderness"
1t is a Louisville woman this time who
bought feather bed and found shot-ba
inside of it with $40 in bank notes.
"A young lady in Parkersburg. West
Va, has silk and satin quilt, which is to
contain 6,946 pieces. It is composed Of
pieces from Greece, Japan, China, Wheel
ing, Parkersburg, Winchester, Mt. jackson,
Woodstock, Harrisonburg, &c.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott and lady will
take passagefor Europe on the 10th Of July,
and will remain abroad for three or four
months. sf.5 .sr.
Jealous wives in Peoria have an i'm
provement on the plan of heaping Goals of
fire on the head. They saturate the cloth
ing of their erring husbands with kerosene
and set them on fire.
"A Catholic father of st. Louis has
warned his congregation that he will read
from the altar each Sunday the names of
all persons belonging to the parish who
have been found drunk during the week.
The only safeguard against cholera is
announced by an Atlanta Georgia. doctor.
1t is to stand on your head for minute
three times day. He says it arrests abdo-
minal depression.
The ladies' Of the harem of the King
of Siam have put off the Samese harem
costume and donned the European harem-
scarem costume, consisting of chignons,
high-heeled CATERS and back files of news.
papers.
Now that ladies' fans have attained a
useful size, it is suggested that fan parties
for the purpose of winnowing wheat would
be a seasonable and sensible pastime for
the ladies who are summering in the rural
districts,
The bank of England covers five acres
of ground and employees 900 clerks. 1t
was Incorporated in 1884, and has capital
of s90,000,000. Ell
Here is a st. Louis advertisement that
beats the lawyers: Judgment for Sale
A Judgment for s54.s5 against Thomas
B. .Childress, attorney-at-law, for boys
Clothing. Apply to Henry Myers" &c.
On Saturday, june z, Eugene laid the
ioundation-stone Of new chapel to be
erected adjoining the present Roman Catho-
lie chapel at Chiselhurst. in which the
mortal remains of Napoleon III are now
deposited. =
"A Washington special says that the
Mexican border commission have lodged a
final report with the state department.
-Four hundred cases have been examined.
aggregating in amount only $l1 900, 900.
and not $50, 900, 900, as represented. '
The Chancellor Of the Exchequer has
notified Parliament that he will introduce
a bill providing for special issues Of notes
by the bank of England in times Of finan-
cial pressure--a provision which past ex-
periencee shows to be eminently necessary.
One of the suggestive features Of the
recent Republican convention in Maine was
the presence of several delegates who last
year were known as Liberals" Their