The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

Gen. Ames is made the lawful Cover
nor of Mississippi by decision of the
Supreme Court of the state, declaring con-
stitutional the act under which his election
was held.
The Wilmington (Del) Commercial,
too courteous to say that Judge Salisbury
was tipsy on his first appearance on the
bench, says with circulating politeness
that he was Embarrassed by a difficulty
in walking"
. Ga.-An enterprising colored Virginia youth
named James johnson, of Lynchburg, is
circulating petition TO be presented to the
proper authorities at Washington, asking
for his appointment as letter-carrier for the
third ward of Lynchburg.
Max Maretzek having brought suit
against Pauline Lucca, in London, for
breech of contract, the banker Selgman,
on the part of the defendant, paid into the
court $4,000, whereupon q stay of pro-
ceedings was agreed to.
San Francisco thinks it gained twenty
thousand in population in 1878, making
the total two hundred thousand. To ac-
commodate the demands Of this increase
fifteen hundred new buildings were erected
at cost of about S.. 100000.
The suspension of IL Univers, the
celebrated Ultramontane journal of France,
is decidedly significant, as showing some
what unexpectedly the utter weakness of
the Ultramontane party. L. Univers. with
M. Veuillot as its editor, was the organ Of
conservatism, legitimacy and the extreme
claims of the Papal power.
"A Society for the Suppression Of Vice
- Vor1-
This would be good kind of society to
have in every community and everybody
ought to belong to it. Then let us have
another society for the Cultivation ofVrtue,
with the same number of members. and
everything would be inexpressbly lovely.
BY the advice of DR.. J. Hollings-
worth, family physician to the Siamese
twins, these latter, on their death. were
not buried. The bodies were placed in a
strong wooden box encased in tin and sur
rounded with charcoal, and deposited the
whole in the cellar of the Westinghouse,
where the cold weather will preserve the
bodies at least two weeks.
Under the head Of "The Week of
United Prayer" The Record, London
paper, contains the following advertise
ment, signed "Angicanus": "Would it
| not be advisable also in this to plead for
the downfall of Rome and Mohammed,
| the lifting up of Jerusalem and Judah,
and the removal of the veil that hides the
Ten Tribes? These events in concurrence
will be like life from the dead to the
| world"
George II. Wballey, member of Par.
lament, has written to the papers, persist
| ing that the statements made by Jean Lule
dnring his examination as witness fol
the defendant in the Tichborne case were
true, and expressing his belief that the
confession made by Lule at his subsequent
trial, on a charge of perjury, was obtained
by bribery. For this Whaley has beer
summoned to appear and answer the charge
of contempt of court.
| Chicago is nice, pleasant place t.
die in. The following appears in lat
issue Of The Times "Stolen-Wil thu
parties that took the cross of flowers from
off my husbands casket yesterday, durins
the funeral services, at lao Seventeenth
street, please return the,u at once, as
know who took them? No questions asked
if returned at once. Please return with
out further trouble. MRS. BENNETT
PETERS.