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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08


THE RAILROAD QUESTION Entltusi-
dstic Meeting at Houck's Groce.-Pursu-
ant to call large number of citizens resi-
ding on the upper end of Broad street and
vicinity, met last night at Houck's Hall, but
owing to the size Of the crowd, adjourned
to the grove near by.
The meeting was called to order by Mr..
d. B. Jones, upon whose motion ex-Coun-
Gilman Laube was elected chairman. Ill.
II. Stohn was selected as secretary. The
president explained the object of the meet
ing-to lay before the Council the feelings
and views of the citizens of the "west end''
in regard to the longer continuance of the
Richmond and Fredericksburg railroad on
Broad street.
The following resolutions, offered by MIR.
ID. b. Jones, were adopted:
WHEREAs the running of the trains of the
Richmond. fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
road company on Broad street, one of the princi-
pal thoroughfares of our city, is public ntli-
sance which ought to be abolished: and whereas,
the running of said trains upon street where
the large portion of the retail business of the
city is transacted, is most serious Inconvenience
to buyers and sellers, and 10 all persons passing
and repassing on said street and whereas, it
operates to depreciate the value of the property
of real estate owners upon said thoroughfare /;
ResoIued That the members of the Council
from Clay and Monroe wards are hereby in
structed to use all their endeavors TO have the
track of said road removed from said street. " h
! Resolped further, That they are requested to
use their influence to have water and gas ex-
tended upon broad street to the limits of-the cor
| poration..
| The following committee was appointed
| to present the resolutions to the Council :
Messrs. v. Bargamin, f. P. Turner, An
drew Jinlkins, j. ID. Houck, D. Witte, f.
| Laube and FL. III. Strother.
| Mr.. Laube offered series of resolutions
Of similar character, which were adopted
Telling speeches were made by Maj. i. p
Turner and others.
The committee will meet this afternoon
at five o'clock, at Major Turner's office.
The meeting was very enthusiastic, and
the he'utmost harmony prevailed.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

Rgr Jouyen's lnodorous Md Glove Cleaner
BY its aid gloves can be quickly and repeatedly
cleaned and made equal to new; even when bad :
y soiled they can be readily restored. 1t is easy
of application and Is perferfectly free nom any
dor For sale by druggists and fancy goods
dealers. Price, 25 cents a bottle. S.F
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08
The American Pathological Society.
Election Of Oaisers for the Ensuing Year

INTERESTING DISCUSSION ON FRUIT.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08
SPECIAL PREMIUMS.

The Committee on Special Premiums for
the best collection of apples, peaches, pears,
and grapes, reported that the only entry
meeting the requirements of this premium
is that from Nebraska, and respectfully re-
commend that the premium of 800 offered
by the Virginia Pathological Society be
awarded accordingly.
Signed: w. Saunders, w. B. Smith, /.
Berksman, committee.
On the reading of the report, Col. Fur
mas, of Nebraska, stated that the Nebraska
Society donated the American Pathological
Society the premium which had been
awarded them.
The donation was accepted, and three
cheers proposed and given for Nebraska.
PRUNING, AND WHEN SHOULD 1T BIZ
DONE?
The following resolution, in the shape Of
an inquiry, was presented by d. B. Weir
of Illinois a af
Does an apple, pear, plum, peach, or olhel
fruit tree, ever require any pruning whateyei
one or two years from bud or graft, With M
head started, at point indicated by nature or, II
other words, that has never been trimmed o
pruned up any when planted in orchard, ever re
| quire any pruning whatever Ito give the best re
sults); and II so, ut what time of its lifes
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

Ha Thompsons Pomade Optinie, as a dress
Ing for the Hair, is all that is required; purely
vegetable and highly perfumed, it scftens, i'm
proves and beautifies the Hair, strengthens the
roots, and gives it a rich glossy appearance
For sale by all druggists. Price, 50 and 70 cents
rer bottle t
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

10 billiard Temple.-Redford and Ives, eor-
ner of Main and Eleventh streets, keep the most
fashionable Billiard Saloon in Richmond. Their
tables are all new, and everything connected
with the establishment is first-class Players
are informed that whistling is positively prohib-
tied.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

On Concussion.- Messrs, Bragden, New
York Thurber, New York Quinn, New
Jersey; Hentine, Philadelphia (; w. Schley,
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

On Pearbhght.-T'he following commit
tee was appointed to report at next meet
ing: p. j. Berkmans, Georgia; Thomas
Meehan, Philadelphia; Robert Manning,
VIM. Saunders, District Of
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

The chair appointed the following COM
mittee to report mildew at the next bien-
NAL meeting: Thos. Mechan, Philadelphia; I;
w. Saunders, District of Columbia W. c.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

upper OeOrgla, DeSt early Kansas, SOOu,
but rots South Carolina, very fine, but
must be thinned
Mr.. Langdon, of Alabama, says it fails
with him, rots just beforeripening-a total
failure.
Mr.. Quinn says all the growers of Della
ware have given it up.
Mr.. Berkmans says in northern Georgia
and the mountain region Of North Carolina,
it has done finely.
Mr.. Wier, Of illinois, says sulphur is
good for rot.
DR.. Howsley, of Kansas, says "Hale's
Earlyo is the most valuable peach.
Mr.. Flagg, of Illinois. Vigorous tree
hardy buds, but very liable to rot.
Nj. Lemora, of Norfolk, thinks it gooc
peach, but not well understood. Has sue
ceeded, by grassing his orchard, in arrest
ing flow Of sap, and made a good crop.
Mr.. Meehan, Of Pennsylvania, says h'
knew of good crop obtained from ne
elected orchard.
Parker Earle.-Thinks that the curculi,
is the cause of rot. In Southern Illinois
more money has been thrown away upol
Hale's Early than all other varieties.
Colonel Chamberlayne, of Loudoun coun
ty, Va, says it is the only peach that rot
ted with him.
Mr.. Shye, of Georgia-Thrives on South
ern seacoast is the largest early peac
with him. Ripe with him Goth of May.
[The truth seems to be that "Hale'
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-08

q Referred to committee composed of the
following: VIM. Saunders, of District of
Columbia DR.. Slayman, Kansas ID. B.
Weir and w. G.. Flagg, Illinois Thomas
Meehan. Pennsylvania.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
a Whaler,s Courtship.

He had been a whaler for twenty
years, and when he gave up the sea
and settled upon his earnings, all his
friends said they hoped Jonathan
Weeks would marry some nice woman
and enjoy the comforts of a happy
home. He himself seemed to think it
would he nice thing to do and he
made an effort in that direction. But
they all said that the reason why he
did not win the heart and hand of
Widow Burritt: 1t seems that Mr..
Weeks used TO go round there court
ing and so on, in the evenings, and
while the widow sat patching the
trousers of her son, and waiting for
manifestations of Weeks love, old
Weeks would sit over on the settee,
getting sleepier, and sleepier, and
quietier every minute. And every now
and then would nod in the land of
dreams, and get to wandering off and
imagining himself away on a whaling
voyage, wake up suddenly all bewilder-
ed, and would seize his cane and iab it
| into the window before he could col
lect his senses sufficiently to realize
that it was not q harpoon and she a
whale. They do say that Mrs. Bur.
ritt indulged these eccentricities for a
time with the firm conviction that she
would reconstruct that whaler when
she married him. But this was never
to be; for one evening Mr.. Weeks sat
doing on that settee with a kind of
dim dreary consciousness of things, in
which the room and settce were con
fused and mixed with the raging main
and the whaling boat. The widow had
cold in her head, and she was just in
the act of making vigorous use OF
her handkerchief, when the dream
of Weeks reached q crisis, and he
yelled out, "Ther-r she blows y
and he heaved his harpoon at her with
such force that he broke her back comb
into vulgar fractions, and Knocked hel
off of the chair Loves young dream
was entirely dissipated, and Mr.. Weeks
went home with two haudfuls of hail
missing. He is single yet, because he
psays woman have no sympathy and
foUbearance.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
Gypsies.

Children of the summer in a more
persistent sense than any of these are
the gypsies, who early in the spring
take themselves to their wagons and
move slowly from camp to camp along
the road sides all the summer long,
asking nothing of the season but its
pleasant weather, we'll knowing that
their lazy shrewdness can provide the
rest. Their condition has wonderfully
improved in these latter years. Wheth-
er as people we have become suff1
ciently wealthy and succulent for the
better encouragement of this parasitic
life, can only guess; but certainly the
circumstances of those who stand ear
lest in my memory were scant and
shabby to a degree even beyond the
picturesque. The wretched and i'll
covered bone work they drove for
Forses sorted well with their ~ickety
and over burdened vehicles and one
was moved to associate the creaking
that attended their painful progress as
! much with the motion Of the one as
the other.
It was a question, also, whether to
consider at least unhappy those whose
fortune it was to ride ceuched upon
their piled-up trumpery beneath the
low rounded covers of the wagons, or
they who, from infant to patriarch.
muddy with sweat and dust, trudged
alongside or struggled with choking
desperation in the smother behind
Fearful of openly trespassing else
where, they made their evening tea by
the uncleanly road side and slept
within or beneath their wagons, their
gaunt dogs keeping needless guard and
their tethered horses gnawing the turf
within their reach down to the very
quick long before the morning came.
/ think that their horse trading at this
time must have been of very humble
and farcical kind and that the easy art
of basket-making and fortune -tellin g
did not flourish in the main.
Certainly they seldom tarried in oul
neighborhoodl longer than night; and
the evident uncertainty of their income
lent enough of color to the suspicious
that had attached themselves to tbs
gypsy character to serve to put all the
neighborhood in a forbidding attitude
toward them. But sustained by some
t inscrutable economy of their own anC
secure in the inviolable hospitality oil
the season, they ask no faYors but of
: fered their slender baskets from doc
to door, silently parading their prolific
squalor through all the dusty land.
r The sleek and abundant horses o
those who for the past few years hav,
l passed the whole summer in this anC
few neighboring towns and their neV
and commodious wagons (arranget
e with hunks and neatly upholstered ant
t decorated with wrought fringes ant
e tassels, the interior half hidden b
/ moderately white curtains of lace
/ evince a material if not social pro
e gress beyond what the appearance Q
, the people themselves would lea
one to expect. Their better footin
in the world has lent braver and Ia
zier swagger to their gait and they al
+. now bold enough to look the horses {
the very dignitaries in the mouth wit
shrewd and speculative Rarper
a Magazine for august.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
A Center Shot at Pendleton.

Mr.. Penddleton has described his
emotions while reading a file of Amer
ican journals on the steamer coming
from Europe; how he read one set of
Republican speeches, and thought it
miserable; how he then re-read the
first set of speeches. and found that
both sels corresponded; all of which
seems to show that Mr. Pendleton's
head was topsyturvy with his stomach.
But there was one sensation he eXpe-
rienced as he came in sight of his ma
tive land, and sailed up New York
Harbor, which must have made him
grateful that Republican counsels pre-
vailed in the nation, instead of his =
and that was the feeling that his coun-
try is one independent republic, in
stead of a discovered Union and two
unfriendly sections, as would have
been the situation if his advice, when
he was in Congress, had been acted
upon. 1t has cost heavy taxes, an
enormous debt, a deranged currency
and great destruction of lives and OF
national wealth. But we believe that
still Mr.. Pendleton thinks the preserv-
ed National Union worth all the cost
and blesses the Republican party thai
: he can return from Europe to such {
great nation C4n. Gazette.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
ssDO Dogs ReasOn?"

On Perry street, in this city, there
lives a gentleman who is the owner of
a valuable dog, of the breed Known as
''coach species This dog has been
in the habit, during the past tive years,
ofmaking daily visits in the morning.
at noon and in the evening-to a
neighbours yard, for the purpose of
assisting the well-fed cat, belonging to
said neighbor, to take care of her beef
steak. His visits during this time
have been made with great punctuali-
tv About ten days since. tsNed, for
such is the dogs name. was left by his
master to guard the place-tbe master
and his family leaving the city for
visit East. From the day of his mas
ter's departure, Ned's visits to his fe-
line friend ceased, and he has not been
seen out of his masters inclOsure, but
remains there in faithful watch over
the property left TO his care. Once, at
kitty's usual meal time he was seen to
mount the fence, which is the dividing
line between his masters property and
that of kitty's owner, and there, for a
few moments, he looked wisttully
down upon the inviting beefsteak
spread before Mrs. Tabby, but not long
did he lock upon the tempting scene.
Something akin, at least, to reason,
seemed to tell him that to leave the
property in his care, even for a short
time, would be violation of the faith
his master had I; posed in him; and
back he jumped to his own side of the
fence Is not this dog actuated by
something higher than reason p
Whether he is or not, there is a faith
fulness to the trust imposed in him.
and his dut es are performed with q
conscientiousness that is a grand les
son to many who are credited with rea-
soning powers Davenport lows }
! Gazette.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
A New Collection of Epitaphs.

The following epitaphs were pre-
pared expressly for the Boston Com
mercial Bulletin, that journal cautions
all persons against using them without
obtaining consent
Epitaph for liar
In life he lied, while he had breath:
And strange to say. lies still IN death
For an angler-W aiting for a rise.
For a baker-He kneads no more
on earth.
For betting man-"Better off. +"
For a brewer
A we'll known brewer lieth here.
Bis Gits are over-he's con his bisr.''
For waiter-"Only waiting"
For doctor--W aiting with patients.
For a beggar-I asked for bread
and they gave me stone.
For bootblack-With the shining
ones.
For potter
On earth he oft turned clay to delf,
And now he's turned to clay himself.
For a razor grinder-Under ground.
For dressmaker-" the fash
ion of this world passeth away
For musical director
In beating time his life was passed,
Bnt time has beaten him at last.
For sailor-Anchorod.
For an AUTHORIZATIONS!
For a watchmaker-Stopped.
For barber-Sent a head.
For a wheelwrigt-Tlred of life.
For Observation-Disclosures.
For a scale maker
His a0eighs we're ways of pIeasantness,
In all lfe's ftful dream;
He struck a BE- lance with the world
And then-he kicked the beam.
I For printer-"Dead matter"
+ For an undertaker-Ta under.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28

4 : Some years ago, five-old boy,
after saying his evening prayers, in
quired:
s'Mother, will father go to heaven
when he dies ?'' (His father was a
large man with great huge frame
t'Yes, hope he will 1 do not doubt
he will. Why do you ask ?'
''Oh, 1 only wanted know
For time the subject seemed to
have dropped from the child's memo
ry. But it soon returned again.
fare you sure, mother, that father
willgo to Heaven when he dies p
"Yes, my child, do not doubt it
why do you ask ?''
The little fellow was silent for mo
ment, and then burst out with:
"Golly! what whopping angel h'
will make!''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28

A party Of men engaged in dig
ging ditch in jefferson townships, on
last Friday, came upon the remains of
an animal that must have been-when
living-ahout the size of common
frame barn. They came upon the
horns or tusks about eighteen inches
below the surface. The tusks were
nine feet in length, and measured two
feet in circumference where they
Joined the head. Teeth weighing seven
pounds apiece and were in good state
of preservation. Unfortunately, the
tusks commenced crumbling when ex-
posed to the air, and it is feared they
hardly can be preserved. The affair
has created considerable excitement
and the party are prosecuting the
search with vigor. From the position
the head occupied. the overgro wn gent
must have mired. and the greater part
of the animal is perhaps embedded In
the quicksand below Columbia Cttg,
Post.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
RED-HOT SHOT.
Brick POmerOy Hurls BrOadside
at the TamInany Democrats.

Brick Pomeroy has many friends in
the Democratic party who believe in
his sincerity and honesty, and for this
reason also, and because he fears none,
he has enemies, chief among whom are
the Tammany leaders. Poneroy has
this advantage over them, however,
that he is in no way connected with
their robberies, and is too outspoken
to withhold his conviction of their ras-
cality Here IS what he says of the
Tammany thefts:
''If the head sachems of Tammany
can manage to secure the nomination
of stheir man for the Presidency, and
then see him elected, there will be in,
augurated the grandest administration
of theft, corruption, profiigacy, extrav
agance and crime that this country
lFls ever witnessed.
The ring of sWindlers now holding
treacherous power in New York city,
under the name of Democracy, are do
ing more 10 weaken the cause of De
mocracy in the country at large, than
the entire vote of the city can atone
for.
This is Tammany!
This is the so-called Democratic au-
thority governing New York!
This is the DEVILS combination of
thieves now ruling New York city, not
for the good of the many, but for the
enrichment of the few.
This is the monopoly of the corrup-
tionists now proposing to buy the
nomination of the next Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, that
Washington may be included, that a
portion of the leading thieves of oul
New York officials may be transplant
ed to newer fields, but under the same
management.
1t is for the Democracy of the coun-
try to look to this-to send to the ma
| tional convention of 1872 man who
dare to be honest to tax payers and to
principles, or there will be such de-
feat and such disruption and scatter.
ing Of the Democracy as no power
will ever rally.
Honest men will not always indorse
corruption. @-s
New York, the pig pen of Tammany
may submit to what its people have
not pluck enough to help, but the De
mocracy of the country will not sub
NIT to such dictation.
Look at New York!
One hundred and one millions ot
dollars in debt!
And what have the people to show
for it?
A steam yacht!
An American club house!
A race track
A Supreme Court owned by the Erit
railway, with Hon Geo. Barnard fol
toll keeper!
A palace for lying, slippery Dicl
Connolly, the Comptroller, who wen
into office so poor that he could no
quality in 81, ,000-who is now a mil
lionaire!
A fortune of $4,000, 900 for Pete
Bismarck Sweeney, who was poo
man when first appointed City Cham
berlain.
A palace for Hon. VIM. Tweed, tn
likeliest man in the lot, who has OnI'
made S25 100000 out of the city, b.
honesty and economy in ten years
A fortune of S7,O0O,000 for A.
Hall, the popinjay mayor, who squawk
T when his masters pull the wires an
}, pockets the percentage of plundel
while angling for the nomination G
Governor.
5000 harlots and 1000 dens of il
] fanny supported directly from the cit
( steaIings
These are few of the exhibits c
5 this enormous debt, which must /
: paid or repudiated.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28

= The negroes of Danville, Ken
lucky, have found the solution of the
Ku KluX problem. 1t is very simple :;
Whenever you see a Ku-Klux head, hit
it. 1t appears that the virtuous Ku-
Klux of that neighborhood, impatient
of the laws delay, entered Danville
with the purpose of taking from the
Jail and hanging two negroes confined
in it on charge of arson. A parcel
of the colored men of the town got
wind of the affair, and, taking their
guns, went out to meet the disguised
scoundrels. Thereupun fight ensued
which lasted some minutes, and ended
in the precipitate flight of the midnight
hangnen. 1t will not be regretted if
the shots of the negroes took fatal
effect on some of the rascals.
A few lessons of this sort wTll re-
strain the impetuous desire to antiei.
pate the processes of the law, which
work hardships enough to the black
man in Kentucky, since he must rest
his case on the testimony of white men
exclusively. Deprived of equality be
fore the law, the negroes are justified
in protecting themselves from the vto-
lence of organized assassination by
arms. Deprived of fair legal protect
ion, they are forced, in self defense, tc
protect themselves, and the way to dc
it has been opened by the Danvill'
blacks. If this precedent is generally
followed, we shall soon have no occa
sion for Force or Ku Klux bills or the
interposition of Federal troops to sc
cure the lives and property of tn
colored people Gin. Comm, erciat.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28
: A writer in the Boston Transcript

= A writer in the Boston Transcripts
tells how one morning she remonstra-
ted with her colored servant for abu
sing his wife, upbraiding him after this
manner: Jack. what pretty little
smart wife you have. If were you
would try to make myself more agreea-
bic to her. | would ill tho coal
shuttle, feed the pig, gather the veg
etables for her and-and--I wouldn, t
strike her" The only answer from
Jack was; "Why, Pse done married
Lou; isn't counting herr
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28

= North Carolina papers report
that the father of the first rebel soldier
in the war is an inmate of an aims
house in that State but, "although he
had lost his health, property and
friends, his spirit is unbroken and on
election day he went to the polls and
voted for the convention"
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-28

- John Weiss says that he "never
saw a newspaper that did not contain
something worth cutting out and pre-.
serving. He has been reading only
first class papers had he been com
PEELED to look over several score Of
exchanges every day, his experience
might have been different.