The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-06

About 30 colored persons were baptized
near Charlottesville on Sunday last.
The use Of wine at the communion table
has been discarded by the Congregational
church in Akron, Ohio.
Mr.. Thomas McCarter, died suddenly at
his home, near Hllsboro, Loudoun county,
on Saturday night last, of heart disease
The Post office Department has appoint
ed James D. King postmaster of Green
wood depot, Albemarle county, Va, vice
Wathall Dinwiddie, declined.
Mr.. Jas. B. Sencr, editor of the Frede-
ricksburg Ledger, will shortly advertise
the Ledger for sale, and resume the prac-
tce of law.
q The New Haven woman who recently
got married, and took her wedding tour in
horse-car, wrote to friend the next
morning, saying she was just as well salts
fed as though she had Travelled around the
world.
A charge has been made against John
Thompson, a prominent banker, in the
United States Circuit Court, at New York,
Of concealing over 100000 worth Of
assets to prevent them falling into the
hands of an assignee in bankruptcy.
William Foster, of White Water, Wis
cousin, shot himself at his wife's death bed
on Saturday night. There is but little
hope of his recovery. Depression from
the loss of his wife was the cause of the
act. sd % -
Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, tele-
graphs to Washington that the number of
DO, In, hat L..
months, under military rule, was 40; un-
der civil government, 10. He reafirms
his previous opinion that the civil author
tiles are ample for the execution OF the
laws.
George Schneider, pastry cook, and
Matthew Hentz, butcher, both Germans,
had difficulty ina Cincinnati beer saloon,
Tuesday, when Schneider stabbed Hentz
in the breast, turning the knife around
thrice before drawing it out, causing al
most immediate death. The trouble orig
mated in game of cards.
The summer resorts in New Jersey are
rapidly filling up with mosquitoes, old
residents asserting that they never knew
case when at this season OF the year so
many of these useful creatures had pre-
pared for action. They will kill the Jersey
people unless they are soon relieved by
city visitors.
An editor at Grand junction, Iowa, last
week in moment of temporary insanity,
advertised to take dog on subscription,
and up to this time be has had 284 dogs
left at his Office, and his temporary insan-
ity has assumed chronic form. Any |
proprietor of an improved sausage ma
chine may get a job by addressing the edi-
tor of the Headlight, at that place.
A preacher in Illinois has got new way
Of bringing people who have been convert
ed, but who are afraid to be baptized, to
The water. He administers chloroform to
hem and before they come out of the fit
hey are wet enough. A dentist there
wants to go in partnership with the min
ster and pull the victims teeth out while
bev are under the inhuence OF the chloro-
orm, aud economic that drug little.
The Davenport Brothers are performing
n South Carolina, and they report that the
tories about Ku-Klux outrages there are
lot exaggerated 10 the least and they recon-
aend that troops be sent there right away.
Is an instance of the bood-thirsty out
ages that are being perpetrated they are
to show that during one OF their
in the dark, when the guitar
yas swinging over the heads of the people,
nd the brothers were tied securely, Ku-
lux fellow opened a dark lantern and
bowed that confederate Of the brothers
,as swinging the. guitar instead Of the
pirits. IL