The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-23
GENERAL ITEMS.


Savage saloon-keeper-" Let's lick
herr
Macon, Ga, has started ladies' cal
leo church club.
only Philadelphia has temperance
doughnut parties. -
The California senate passed COM
pulsory education bill recently.
There are one hundred and fifty
oranges IN the state of New York.
Next to finances the back-hair ques-
ton most occupies the public mind.
TO enter Quaker City society you
have to subscribe to the Centennial fund.
The Beverly Visitor says judges should
not mix theology with the liquor question.
A church in Haysville, Mass, gives
chromos to enquirers at the mourners'
bench.
Hon. O. B. Hart, governor of Florida,
died Yesterday at his residence in Jack
sonville. Florida, after lingering illness.
--Tilman B. Farrow, while returning
from circus performance at Batesville, s.
O., last Saturday night, was waylaid and
robbed by two negroes, who made their
escape.
"A Georgia paper says that it won't be
more than three months before the sad and
lonely young men of the state can 60 out
and hook melons and feel anew the good
ness of nature.
The young bloods at Keokuk have in
augurated temperance crusade. They are
drinking up all the benzine in town, in or
der to get it out of the reach Of men who
have families to support.
1t seems odd to find in journal of
Springfield, Mass, where the prohibitory
law is enforced, the names of seven liquor
dealers who are quietly discussing how to
meet the woman's crusade.
Matt. Lynch, veteran California
editor, having gone to his rest, Mrs. Lynch
announces herself as responsible for all
editorials, savage and otherwise, that may
appear in the paper hereafter.
That was practical woman who wrote
to Evangelist Hammond, at st. Louis, as
king prayers to lift the mortgage on her
farm. that she and her little ones might
not be thrown out of home.
1.-THE report ofColonel Tudor's speech,
on Monday, is crowded OUT" says the
Murfreesboro News. "The colonel stands
on the popular platform of More whisky,
better whisky, cheaper whisky"
Dorothy Williams, of Wyoming
started to walk three miles to church, the
other Sunday, and they found her torn into
about fifty pieces, the result of meeting :
grizzly bear of low moral character.
I'm Oshkosh the usual marriage fee il
four bars of soap; and it is melancholy
proof of the bad state of society in tina
section that the Oshkosh minister puts OF
clean shirt only once in three months.
A Ripley (Ohio) reporter says: With
out exaggeration, it is almost impossible t,
get glass of liquor in this place. And al
exchange propounds the conundrum
"Well. what is little exaggeration to {
man who is dry ?'
John Spinks, Council Bluffs barber
mysteriously disappeared about thre
weeks ago, and agarment saturated witt
blood was found in shed near where h
resided 1t has been discovered that h
went quietly to Nevada.
The Iowa House has passed law pro
hblting the sale of wine, beer, or cider
Whskey, brandy, and other strong drink
are already forbidden. The brewers, an
many land owners who have vineyards, ar
very indignant at the proposed law.
A bill has been introduced in the Cal
ifornia legislature to prevent the wantol
destructian Of game and fish. Fish ladder
are to be constructed in the rivers owe
every dam more than two feet in height
and the shooting Of game out of season
prohibited.
Experiments made upon health
soldier in London 20 to show that alcohC
is useless in state OF health, and absolute
ly injurious in larger quantities than tw'
ounces daily. The same experiment
however, Indicated an advantage in its us
il employed in rousing feeble appetite o
exciting feeble circulation O: blood.