The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-27
GENERAL ITEMS

lHele are KS, lOl UullleS Ill tne new
directory of New York city-l7 900 more
than last year.
The total taxable wealth of Missouri
Is SdG7 ,4GO, 1886. Nearly onc-half belongs
to St. Louis county.
The Pope has sent brief to Switzer-
land, authorizing the Roman priests to say
mass in private houses, as in times of per-
arcution.
Connecticut journals number 90, clas-
slIjed as follows: weekly, 60; daily, IS;
monthly -; semi-weekly, b-weekly, semi
monthly and quarterly, each.
Over 600 business firms in Boston
have signed petition for the appointment
of fire commission and other changes in
the fire department.
The EIizabethtown (kyD News says
1--WE saw a countryman the other day
gravely stop and set his watch by Mr..
McLure's painted sign, and walk off per-
iectly contented."
--Girard, Erie county, Penn. claims to
have a child which weighed but three
ounces at its birth, and seven ounces when
three weeks old. All its organs are said
to be perfect.
Some Athens (Ga.) girls have been
@wallowing hearts-ease flowers as a super
&titious love charm. The charm of it is
that the prussic acid in the flowers came
near making silly angels of them.
The late Samuel Barrett, of Concord,
left bequest of $400 to Mr.. William
Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Lucy Stone and Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, in trust for the Massa-
chusetts woman-suftrage association.
The indianapolis Journal says that
when Congress adjourned, Senator Nor
ton notified the disbursing officer Of the sem
ate that he would not accept the back
pay. and directed his salary account to be
made up without it.
DR.. Stephen Smith says that New
York can never be a healthy city until it
dlsperSes its poor population over a larger
area, removes the rear tenement houses,
and prevents more than given population
to n lot 2OXl0O feet.
--Twenty-eight million dollars have
been expended in deepening and otherwise
improving the river Clyde, Glasgow, by
the trustees Of the River Clyde navigation
company. The work is still vigorously
continued with six powerful machines,
dredging over l,OO0,O0O tons every year.
Lord Gordon is still alive. He lately
Garry. Manitoba. The noble Lord does
not mind such a tritiing loss. Like the
Count of Monte Cristo he is in the habit of
carrying about some millions in his pocket
every day.
Until recently it was supposed that
water had but little motion below fifty
iathomS. 1t is now known, however, that
in certain localities there is motion in the
ca
and this motion has proved serious source
Of injury to submarine cables.
Senator Matt. Carpenter was facetious
over the salary grab in a speech he made
before the Wisconsin Editorial Association
at La Crosse a few days since. lie said,
"lf the money belonged to the people,
what more direct way of getting ii circula-
ted than to give it such fellows as ME to
spend"
There were 9,27O births registered in
Boston in 1872, an increase of us over
1871. The number of marriages was
1872, only As more than in 1871, or one
in every 1922 Of the population. The
deaths numbered 5 $50, 2,2O2 more than in
1871, making death rate Of 1888 to the
thousand.
Texas is large and sparsely populated
state, but the people appear to be doing
their best to fill it up. There is a man in
Waco who is the father of fifty children,
thirteen by his first wife, eighteen by his
second, ten by his third, six by bis fourth,
and three by his fifth wife, who at last ac-
counts was still living.
The President on the recommendation
Of Governor Dix and others, has pardoned
Colonel Robert B. Clarke who about two
years ago was tried in the United States
Circuit court of New York, and sentenced
to five years Imprisonment, for having in
his possession counterfeit plates for making
fifty cents stamps.
A-Haryard college, Oh the authority of |
The Nation, has received more than four
hundred applications for admission to its |
next Freshman class, which is a fact
entirely without precedent in the educa-
ti0nal history Of the country. A dozen
years ago all the undergraduates in the |
'uur classes at Harvard hardly exceeded |
the number mentioned.
The quiet opposition made by the
Catholic clergy to secret societies is now
supplemented by very vigorous denuncia- |
ton by portion Of the Catholic press, |
and especially by the Boston Pilot, of ali |
attempts to gather Irishmen into secret |
political societies. 1t remarks that an
lrishman who joins such society, thereby
binding himself to support Irish.born candi-
dates for office in preference to native born,
Is worse than Know Nothing, since he is
not only bad citizen but bad Catholic.
"A Boston letter-carrier, who has ac-
CURED much skill in "skimming" letters
into business offices by a twist of the
wrist, thus saving himself some steps, re-
Gently sent one on a flight which ended in
depositing it behind the table. "Never
mind" he called to an office boy who at
tempted to move the table to get it, "it's
only a circular.u Three weeks later,
when the curiosity Of one of the boys
prompted him to see what was in that cir
cular, he found in it letter enclosing