The state journal., 1884-02-16
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
Items Gathered from all Parts of
the Country.


policemen.
Savannah has the oldest opera house
in the United States.
The medical student is always
ready to cut an acquaintance
The Miss that Fred Douglass fell
in love with-Misgeneration.
The Cincinnati coffin makers as.
ISOLATION embraces thirty.three firms,
representing $4,000, 900 capital.
A citizen of Gainesville, Ga, now
worth $4,000, never wore a pair of
shoes until after he was twenty one
years of age.
Senator Edmunds, as president of
the senate, has ordered a bouquet of
flowers to be placed On his desk
every morning.
Atlanta, Ga has ten colored letter
carriers, four post Office clerks, a col,
lector OF customs, besides six other
F. deral offices.
The Zulu bible recently printed in
New York, and just received in South
Africa, cost missionaries thirty.three
years of labor in its translation.
The Active Club Of Reading have
contracted with fifteen players, five
of whom come from the Pacific coast.
They will have three batteries.
Massachusetts women are mad at
Mgr. Capel because be said that every
woman who arrived at the age of 30
and is still unmarried, ought TO be a
nun.
Fred Douglass says that in time
all the races will be blended into one,
aud cllls attention to the whitening
that has been going on among the
blacks for many years.
Fred Douglass wife is growing
old very fast. An early settler IN
Washington says she was woman's
rights shrieker thirty year s ago.
and that she is fifty FIVE if she is a
day.
The late Wendell Phillips was not
a rich man, though he was in indie
pendent circumstances. During the
past year or so Mr.. Phillips kept his
his pen busy, and it is believed that
he hes left some manuscript Of great
interest.
One of the most successful farmers
of Walton county, Ca, is Arasmus
c. Wright, SO years Of age, who has
been blind from infancy. He can it
is said, make as good a wagon or
buggy or IS neat coffin, or do as
good work in the cooperage line as
sny other man in that neigbborhoOd.
There is a report that General
James Longstreet, formerly of the
Confederate army and of late years a
Republican, is in his dotsge. The
General is only sixty,three years old.
Those of his irfirmities which were
not caused by Northern bullets were
fred into him by the Mexicans in
1847.
I'VE have had great funeral process
sions here in Boston," says letter in
the Springfield Republican "but none
more affecting and solemnizing than
that of Wendell Phillips. One cpl
sode, however, Jared on the sense OF
those who would have had the whole
affair perfect in its simplicity and de
corousness and this was what the
newspapers would call an ovation 10
Frederick Douglass and his new
white wife, but this, happily, was but
a momentary affair"
Frederick Douglass has written to
Helen Louisa Spragues attorney thai
he never hired her to work for him,
and never contracted to pay her any
thing, and that she lived in his house
not as a hireling, but as an equal and
honored member of it, but he is now
willing to pay her fair remuneration
The bill rendered was Tor $1,000
Concerning this he says: 81 pro
nounce the sum charged as exorbl
tant, and l defy you to find SINGLE
instance of any house servant who
in the space of IL years, has laid III
above her clothing and other expen
ses 81, 965 in fairly earned wages.