The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-12-01
LOCAL NOTES.
Yesterday was St. Andrews day.

Yesterday was st. Andrews day.
bishop Mcfiill, of the Catholic Church
Is slowly recovering from a recent protract.
ed and very severe illness.
There were nine fire alarms turned in
at different ''fire-boxes" in the city during
the month ending November 80.
The scheme OF annexing Manchester
to the city of Richmond still elicits much
discussion on both sides of the river.
Charles A, SchaiIter, ESQ.,, Superin-
tendent of Public Printing, is at present
confined to his bed by an attack OF pueu-
monia. sI1
Henry Cousins, of Lynchburg, was
yesterday landed in the penitentiary for
eight years for burglary perpetrated in
that city.
The clerk of Chesterfield county issued
eighteen marriage licenses during the month
OF November, five of which were to colored
parties.
Daniel Hopkins alias Casin, alias Carr,
of Norfolk, was landed in the pcnitentiary
yesterday for one year for petty larceny |;
a second offence.
The county Jail at present contains ten
prisoners, all colored, charged with various
offences, who are awaiting trial at the next
TERM OF the court.
Harry Watkins, lately thcatrically en-
gagged at Virginia Hall, in this city, has
just drawn a prize valued at $1,000 in the
Aiken Premium Land Sale. i.
Tho American bark I'D. Chaplin e.
n. Bunker, master, $40 tons burden, clear
ed to-day for Trieste, Austria, with leaf to-
bacco, shipped by Messrs. +. w. Hanne-
winckel & Co.
Mr.. John n. King, the master car
builder of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
has just completed two new and handsome
mailing express cars, which will be ilAme-
diately put on the road.
Cornelius Cross and George Randolph,
alias George Southall, were committed to
the county jail yesterday by Justice j.
w. Lewellep, to answer for robbing Silas
Mayo of $40 on the 9th inst. A7A
During the month Of November the
County Court of Henrico issued nine mar
riage licenses, and admitted to record
thirty-eight deeds. During the same peri
cd, l5l deeds were admitted to record in
the Chancery Court of Richmond.
In compliance with an order issued by
the Commissioner Of internal Revenue, q. .
list has been prepared III the Office Of the
assessor Of the third internal revenue dis
trct of Virginia, cf all the tobacco and
cigar manufacturers doing business therein,
and has been forwarded to the Department.
Mayor Kelley desires all who have
collected and forwarded from this city con-
trbutions to the Chicago sufferers to report
the amounts in each case to him, to be en-
tered in a statement to be published show
ing the aggregate sum contributed in this
city.
The repairs which have been Tor some
two months going on at the Old market
house are nearly completed. With little
fixing up and painting, not only the prison.
ers, but the police, will have comfortable
quarters. The fire-alarn telegraph, for
merly on the same floor with the police
station, has been removed to the story
above, next to the bell. The cells for the
prisoners and the office for the policemen
are both improvements on those formerly
existing. e
Yesterday Police Justice White fined
VIM. L. James 90 for assaulting Joe
Brown. James Cooling, white, and Bill
Washington, colored, were charged with
being the parties who broke into Shanks &
Barrett's plumbing shop, on Governor
street, Saturday night. A tape line, known
to be the property of the firm, was traced
to their possession. They were arrested
by Detective Wren, and said they came
from Petersburg. The parties were sent to
jail, and the case continued till the 1st of
December.