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Fruits Of all Kinds.

Raisins, Currants, Figs, Dates, Oranges,
Pruncs, etc. Cakes and CONNECTIONS of
every description,
FhESH OYSTERS always on hand,
and served up at short notice,
CT" Call in my trcnds--l will try and
please You all,
J. S. MARTIN,
dec li-3W& Water street.
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CHRISTMAS WILL SOON BE
HERE.
HER E..

TNlIE subscriber has just returned from
Baltimore with a full assortment of
French and Common CANDIES, Toys,
Christmas Gifts and New Years presents,
Eancv RnNrs Nov Books for clilrcu
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EDWIN FORREST, the great Amerl-
can tragedian, died suddenly at phla-
delphia on Thursday of last week.
He was found in his room, in the
morning, partially dressed, ina dying
condition. and never revived sniilcl-
emily to speak. Death is attributed
to disease of the heart.
Mr.. Forrest made his debut as "Nor-
val.' at the Walnut Theatre, in 1870.
A few years after he appeared IN
"Othe]lo, and then rose rapidly, gam,
ing distinction by his presentations OF
"llamlet," "Richard III, " Macbeth,
and other Shakspearean characters,
the finest of all being his King Lcer.
! His visit to England and unfortunate
marriage with Miss Sinclair, litigation
| in regard to which is still pending in
the courts, are generally remembered,
as well as the riots in New York be
tween his friends and those Of Mr. Me-
Cready in May, 1919. Mr.. Forrest
remains were inferred at Ihil2del-
phia.
Boston has reelected Mayor Gas
ton, Democrat, the third time.
Caleb Cushing owns a Virginia farm
and resides upon it.
General Hancock will nN tie head
quarters Of the Military Division O
the Atlantic in New lork-by orde'
of the President.
]chabol Corwin Gesler Lincoln ha
been born in Illinois. His parent
are poor but honest
1t is proposed to raise $4,000 fo
monument to Horace Greeley.
The daughters Of Mr. Greeley de
cline the fund proposed by the Pres
of the country
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RI dob HliWJJ aea''y clcc"ted,
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Ne&ar J Hamilton Shue has been &C
quilted Of all participation in Tie
murder Of Abraham +. Lynn.
Miss Alexander, a California actress,
who was for ten years a member OF
Brigham Nonng's family, will be the
next to tell on the lecture platform
what She knows about Mormonism,
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FARMERS. SAVE YOUR FEED :!

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dec 81
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-08

AN ingenious Frenchman has invented
a species of artificial fins, by the aid Of
which the swimmer can walk in the water
with comparative ease. 1t is rather strange
that Of late years inventors DESTROYS of en-
larging the sphere of mans locomotien
have confined their attention almost exclu-
sively to the air. They have seemed bent
on making man a poor sort of a bird, when
it would have been much easier to make
him a successful fish. Water being a much
denser element than air, it follows that
it presents fewer difficulties to the man
who desires to become %amphibious than
are presented by the thin air to him who
desires to fly. Why should not man be
enabled to walk or run on the water as
easily as he does on land? How to make
this possible is a problem which inventors
might profitably undertake to solve, and it
would seem as though they would be far
more likely to succeed in such an effort
than in the often-tried attempt to make
balloons or artificial wings of any practical
value.
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c

Washington, Oct. 8.-Advices from Con.
necticut indicate Liberal gains in the town
elections yesterday. The Liberal candidate
for Mayor in Hartford was elected by los
plurality over the regular Republican and
the Independent Democratic candidates.
Hartford, Conn.,, October I'm the
towns heard fromthe majorities are giver
in the following only:
Republican-Meriden 212, East Haddam
l24, Killingly 265, Windham 100. Norfolk
1875, Torrington 100, New Britain 500
Plainville 40, Simsbury 80, West Hartford
so, Scotland %, Griswold 80, New London
20, Waterford II, Putnam l66, Montvillt
los, Norwich $50.
Observation-Disclosures 235, Haddam
10, Warbury $50, Tolland IL, Canaan 40
New Milford So, Sufield 70, Preston IS
Brooklyn IA, Andover Is.
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GEORGIA.

Savannah, October s.-The morning
News has received official returns from 100
counties giving Smith (Dem.) a majority
of 50,67l. There are 80 counties to hear
from, which will doubtless swell these
figures to 10000.
atlanta, October 7.-Before the Com
missioners' court to-day the Democratic
managers of the election testified to the
stufiing of ballot-boxes in open daylight
while the election was progressing. Sew
eral colored witnesses, who were testifying
to violations Of the enforcement laws, were
inundated in the presence of the court by
arrests without warrants or cause. Resist
ance and bloodshed was threatened in open
court, causing an adjournment. Amid much
confusion the marshal called upon the mill
itary to protect the court. The freedmen
dare not testify of wrongs perpetrated.
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evening State gonrnaI.
I'd. Edition
How n sleepy Teuton went for a Heather
Artist.

[From the San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 81
Thomas Koppa was arrested a few days
ago, charged with having assaulted and
battered Sling Gum. Koppa is a fair-haired,
blue-eyed and rotund Amsterdamer. Sling
is a lank and tawny Tartar--a Chinaman-
/" wrinkled and brown as a bag Of Heather"
lie is also the heavy tragedian of the Chi
nese theatre, on jackson street, and it was
his devotion to his sublime profession that
brought down upon him the vengeance Of
Koppa. 1t appears that the unlettered
Dutchman and the cultured Tartar occupy
adjacent houses, on jackson street, near
Dupont, and at the close of each nights
performance, it is the custom of Sling to
rehearse at his lodgings the part he is to
play on the following night, while the menu
bers of his family discourse appropriate
music by means of certain gongs, cymbals,
toot-horns, &C., the combined effect Of
which is quite inspiring.
Last Friday night Sling came home with
an immensely important assignment for the
following days performance. After par
taking Of q light collation. of vanished
pork and rat pie, he called his family circle
around him to open the rehearsal. I'm
pressed with the Importance of the occa-
sion the musicians let themselves out with
uncommon animation, and the tragedian be-
gan his recitation in a more energetic and inn
passloned style than usual. Koppa had
erewhile retired, and was peacefully
snoring in his little bed, dreaming of broad
forests and ripping streams. The trunks
of the trees were just changing into Bo-
logna sausages, and the waters of the
brooks into generous beer, when 10 the
first whang of the celestial gong dispelled
the enchanting delusion, and Koppa opened
his eyes and said scott in himmel !
Dose dam Shineyman vos got blay his dra-
gedy und moosic again." and then rolled
over and tried to &c to sleep again.
1t was all in vain. Sling Gum had by
this time become thoroughly imbued with
the spirit o fthe character he was to assume,
and he was 4 chawing soap" and tlinging
his ponderous boots about in a most
astounding manner, while the orchestra
fairly howled. 1t was too much for human
endurance, and the enraged Dutchman
sprang out of bed, donned his boots and
trousers, and clustering in upon the domes-
tic circle Of the Gums, be began to lay
about him like Friar Tuck with his quarter
staff. The appalled, tragedian roared in
lusty tones for the police, and soon a rep
re~sentativc of the force appeared and put a
stop to tho havoc that was being wrought
by the Infatuated Koppa. He was
arraigned before Judge Louderback or Sat-
urday. His only excuse was: 81 bledge
you my vurd, Shudge, / don't got any
shleep for more as a week mid dis tam fool
ishness, und | dink it vas about played
owet." He was ordered to appear for
sentence to-day.
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GENERAL ITEMS.

-Ex-Emperor Napoleon does not intend
visiting Ireland.
They are having husking bees in Min
nesota, and pine for New England pump
kin pies and sweet cider to enliven them.
The population of Paris has, it is report
cd, decreased 100000 in six years, and
property has deprecated twenty per cent.
The Bank of England has raised the
salaries of all its employees five per cent.
on account of the increased cost of proyi-
sions.
The fashionable man of the st. Joe
Gazette has the knees of his pants lined
with sheet iron to prevent unsightly bag
ging.-&. Louis Globe.
Owing to the scarcity of vegetables and
the plenty of diamonds in Arizona the
miners are now swapping with the farmers
even, karat for carrot.
England has forty-four iron. clads,
Russia twenty-five vessels-of.war of all
kinds, and Holland seventeen monitors.
France has fifty iron-clads and a fleet of
three hundred and thirty-two vessels
besides.
There is said to be an aged couple in
Indiana who had a quarrel about twenty
years ago, and have lived together ever
since without speaking a word to each
other.
There has been a greater falling off in
the apple crop this season than before for
many years. 1t is accounted for by the
fact that there are so many more apples to
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-08

The ladies' who have taken charge of
Mount Vernon, the home of Washington,
deserve great credit for their successful
labors. They have been instrumental in
preserving it from decay and keeping it
in a presentable condition for visitors.
They have shown in their task a common
dable zeal, but possibly too much enter
prise. In their report, recently publish
ed, We find accounts Of new roads being
laid out here and there, fine evergreens plant
ed, a furnace being placed in the build
ing, preparations for rebuilding the tomb,
re.nrnishing the room occupied by Lafay-
cite, &c. Some of the improvements are
doubtless necessary to arrest the pro-
gress of decay, but it is certainly the
general wish of the American people that
Mount Vernon shall be preserved as an
historical memento, and that everything
pertaining to it shall remain as it was when
occupied by 1" The Father of his Coun-
try" Melrose Abbey might be remod-
eled as we'll as Mount Vernon, but the mo-
ment that 1t is done the romance of his
torical remembrance attached to it disap-
pears, in o measure, and half its charm is
lost. We want no new roads laid put in
the Mount Vernon estate in fact, no mod
ern Improvements, except such as are abb
solutely necessary. What we want is
preservation. We have few enough his
torical monuments in this country, and
what few we have should be zealously
guarded and kept unchanged.
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LOCAL MATTERS.

OUTRAGE ON THE WORKING MEN.
We would like TO make an inquiry or two
in reference to the management of another
branch of the city government than that
of the gas inspectors office. For while
our higher city officials have their hands
in one reform, it is well to have an eye on
several if they really exist. Complaints
have come to us from a class of men in
this city for whom we have the warmest
sympathy, and who should be shielded
from outrage Of every sort. since they are
doing the grandest work for the advance
ment of Richmond to a first-class manu-
featuring city of the Union. We re-
fer to the working men in our
foundries and maehine-shops, who are ex-
Iosed to many casualties, and who not UNI
frequently receive personal injuries requir-
ing the best as well as the pron.ptest hos
pital treatment. They are generally poor
men, whose daily wages unavoidably 60 to
the support of large families, and when
they meet with any injury their pay stops,
and they have no means to cover hospital
expenses, while their families in many cases
are temporarily brought to suffering. Here
tofore this class of patients has been sent
to the City Infirmary, under the manage
ment of DR.. Taliaferro, where they have
had the best of medical and surgical treat
ment, at an expense to the city of only
seventy-fve cents a day for each patient--an
exceedingly low charge.
We understand that this arrangement
with DR.. Taliaferro has been broken up, and
that this class of working men are now
forced to 60 to the Alms-house as public
paapers, for the medical and surgical
treatment they require. If this is SO, we
can only say that it is an outrage Of such a
character as would not be tolerated in any
other city of the size of Richmond in the
United States. The class of men who are
thus afflicted ought not to be openly degra-
ded, in their own estimation, by being
forced, by no fault of theirs, into a Poor
house. There are three or four members
of the City Council on the Committee for
the Relief of the Poor, who, from the fact
that they furnish whisky, shoes, medicines,
etc., to the Alms-house, will be suspected
of having a greater interest in sending this
class of patients to the Poor-house than
most other men have, if this d~iscreditable
change shall be continued.
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Pc PENNSYLVANIA.

Philadelphia, October S.-A full vote is
being polled, and the election is progressing
quietly here. Under the new law all tav.
ems are closed. The United States mar
shall has 500 special officers on duty, dis
tributed among the wards where trouble is
likely to ccur. Up to moor no serious
disturbances are reported.
Reddy, the blacksmith from New
York, was arrested after voting three
times, and locked up for a further hearing.
Fifteen tax receipts were found on his per-
son.
In the Fourth ward, the strongest Dem
cratic ward in the city, the hourly an
nouncement of the votes cast shows that
more Republican votes have been cast than
are usually polled during the whole day.
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HUsTINas CoURT.-The Cosby-Lewis
trial was concluded last evening. Cosby
was found guilty of the assault, as charged,
and sentenced to one days confinement in
the city Jail and to pay a fine of n dollar.
When the bastardy case of James Clark
and Cordelia Scott was called this morning,
these parties came into court and signiii-
ed their willingness and readiness to aban'
don the suit at law and enter into the bonds
of matrimony. The services Of the Rev.
William w. Williamson Were procured,
licenses issued, and the two made one on
the spot and thus the demands of justice
were met. The parties are colored. An.
other case of bastardy pending in this
court will probably find a peaceable and
satisfactory solution, as the parties were
in earnest conference when we left the
court.
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r

Hon. Gustavus A. F~inkelnburg, one
of the original Liberal congressman Of
Missouri, has declared in favor of the re-
election of President Grant.
There are only about two hundred
men DISTINGUISHED in the United States,
and there are thirteen ex-rebel generals in
Congress, and yet the Venerable Humbug
bellows for amnesty!
Brick Pomeroy was offered $4,000 to
support Greeley. Brick is a mighty mean
man, but he isn't mean enough to support
Greeley. He declined.--Toledo Blade.
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Postal Appointments.

Washington, October S.-Yesterday the
Postmaster General made the following APP
p%ointments: At Edna Mills, Charles City
county, Va, office re-established and BEN
jamin w. Nance appointed postmaster ;
Messy Creek, Augusta county, Va, John
Swecker appointed postmaster, vice Walter
Oder, resigned ; at Long Glade, Augusta
county, Va, James r.. Frost appointed
postmaster, vice James M. Yates, resigned;
at Ca Ira, Cumberland county, Va, John
IIulligan appointed postmaster, vice E. Ha.
montre, who failed to qualify. The Con-
nor's Mills Floyd county, Va.p Office was
ordered discontinued.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-08

HENRICo COUNTY CoURT.-A jury
having been impanelled yesterday TO try
the case of John w. Talley. the examina.
ton Of witnesses was begun to-day.
1t is stated that it has been discovered
that the name of the township Tuckahoe)
of which Mr.. Ia ley was collector, was
omitted from the official bond of that gen.
tleman. What effect this discovery will
have upon the proceedings in the case is
vet to be seen.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-08

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT
Judges Bond n Underwood have both
arrived and opened the Circuit court this
morning. The following is the petit Jury
summoned for this term VIM. A. Ketch.
am, A. j. Pine, Rufus Herrick, Thomas
Chamberlain, John Ii. Dane, j. w. Booth,
w. w. Parsons, p. B. Sledge, W. I'll.
Wood, p. Charity, Andrew jackson, L. +.
Brooke, John Harlow, E. s. Atwell, Henry
Cook, d. Mclean, III. b. Clagett, j. +.
Henderson, Isaac 3. Bass, W. F. G.. Gar
nett, II. Campbell, George Pearce, John
Tony, Il. Lawson. W
A noue pros. was entered in the cases of
James McClernan, j. r. Davis and John
Denzler.
Judgments were rendered for the United
States against the following parties: Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail-
road, first case, So, 1000; second case, $l6,-
4s9.12; Seaboard and Roanoke railroad
company, first case, $40, 1875; second
case, $4,000. d. ii. Howard, postmaster
at Eastville, first case, $93.40; second
case, $650.59.
The appeal in regard to the homestead
exemption, which was set for hearing here
ON Tuesday last, and which was not heard
on account of the absence of counsel, was
being argued to-day, by consent, before
Judge Bond, as Judge of the Circuit court
of the United States, for the Western dis
trict Of Virginia. Quite a number of emf
nent lawyers of the State are engaged in
the case. N-
Judge Bond notified the Bar that he
would take up the docket tomorrow.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
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THE ELECTIONS TO-DAY
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REPORTED REPUBLICAN GAINS


Especial to the State Journal
Washington. October S.-Col. Jeffreys,
Secretary Of the Democratic Committee,
has a dispatch dated ! P. NJ, from Phila-
phia, saying a heavy vote has been cast,
and that good order is prevailing.
In the Democratic wards there are great
Republican gains, especially in the Fourth,
where the Republicans had already cast
more votes than the Democrats ever had
up to that hour.
From Cincinnati, a dispatch received,
says the vote is full and about equally d.
vided. This shows Republican strength
beyond calculation.
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Riot In Cincinnati

Cincinnati, October s.-A riot occurred
last night in the vicinity Of a negro meeting
and a Liberal torch-light procession, the
cause of which is obscure. Several white
men were shot and several negroes knocked
down. The negroes took possession of the
armory and guarded all approaches. At
midnight the police closed in on the armory.
At half past one this A. Nj. all was quiet.
The whites retired and the negroes evacu-
ated the armory.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
i UNITEDSTATES for the Eastern District Of
Virginia.
Inthe matter of Thaddeus c. Brown. bankrupt
in bankruptcy.
To Whom it May Concern The undersigned,
S. T. Oady, of Richmond city, Virginia,
hereby gives notice Of his appointment as
assignee of the estate of Thad3eus @. Brown, OF
Hanover county, in said district. who was.
on the slst day of Aug, A. ID. 1872. adjudged
Court of said district.
Dated Ric hmond, Sept. q, ls72.
s. 7. CADY,
se 2s-M3w Assignee.
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4573
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
i TED STATES for the Eastern District Of
Virginia.
In the matter of Albert Quesenberry, bank
rupt-in bankruptcy.
TO Whom 1t May Concern-The undersigned,
Jacob Cohn, of Richmond city, Virginia,
hereby gives notice Of his appointment as as-
county of Spotsyivania in said district, and who
was to wit, on the 4th day of Sept'r, A ID.
1879, adjudged a bankrupt upon the petition Of
himself, by the District Court of the United
States for said district.
Dated at Richmond, the sOth day of Sept'r.
A. ID. 1872.
JACOB COIN,
0c H-S3w ..".. ASaipnpa
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LOCAL PoLITICS.-The campaign seems
to be carried on in the Fourth district with
unflaging interest. The camp-fires are
burning on every hill. AT Nottoway
Courthouse on the Sd inst, (court-day)
both the Republicans and Greeleyites, or
ganized meetings, after the latter had posi-
lively refused to go into joint meeting and
divide time with the Republican speakers.
Much the larger crowd rallied around the
Republican stand, and Hon. w. III. H.
Stowell, Hon r. G.. Greene, Hon. p. G..
Morgan, and Vim. l.. Fernald, ESQ.,,
made speeches. The Greeleyites were ad-
dressed by Col. Withers and Mr.. McKin-
ney. but they found it such dull work, they
soon dried up. As between Stowell and
Porter, the Republican crowd were very
decidedly in favor of the former, as shown
by a vote taken by Col. Greene at the close
of his speech.
AT a meeting held in Farmvillc on the
evening before, the president of a Porter
club gave in his adhesion to Mr.. Stowell,
and was followed by his whole club. The
meeting was nearly unanimous for the reg
ular nominee.
Hon. R. A. Claybrook, in a letter
published in the fredericksburg Ledger,
declares unequivocally for Grant and Will
son. Mr.. Claybrook is one of the most
promising lawyers in the Northern Neck, if
not in the State, and his avowed purpose
of supporting the Republican nominee will
bring to the ticket considerable numbers of
those who have heretofore been politically
affiliated with him. In 1860 Mr.. Claybrook
was a Breckenridge and Lane Elector for his
district, and his eloquent appeals brought
to that ticket a support that probably no
other man in the district could have rallied.
The Ledger also publishes a letter from W.
G.. Balch, an Old-Line Democrat, and a
prominent lawyer of Prince William coun-
ty, giving his reasons for supporting Gen.
Grant rather than Horace Greeley.
Judge Shumaker, Of Danville, made a
cheering speech to a meeting of Re-
publicans at Eaton CROSSROADS, ten
miles from Louisa Courthouse, on Sat-
urday afternoon. His speech was
short, but had a most happy effect,
and the Republicans of that vicinity express
a great desire to hear the Judge again at no
distant day. Is. +. Chisholm and Stephen
Huntington afterwards addressed the au.
dience. Greeley speakers were invited to
take part in the meeting, but thought il
prudent to decline to do 30. The audience
adjourned with three rousing cheers foI
Grant and Wilson and j. Amber Smith.
At the Republican meeting, in front Of
the City Hall, on Saturday night last, Hon,
j. Amber Smith expressed his willingness
and desire to meet his competitor, Mr.,
Wise, in joint discussion, as we are relia-
bly, informed he has frequently done. Mr.
Wise was present, but made TO reply.
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1902 - a-sss
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
i UNITED STATES for the Eastern District
of Virginia.
In the matter of John II. Eggborn, bankrupt
in bankruptcy.
To Whom it May Concern-The undersigned
l.. Z. Williams, of Culpeper county, Virginia,
hereby gives notice of his appointment as as
signee of the estate of John H Eggborn, of
was to-wit, on the 4th day of Sept'r, A. u
1872, adjudged a bankrupt upon the petition Of
himself, by the District Court of the United
States for said district.
Dated Richmond, the 30th day of Sept, 1872.
l.. E. WILLIAMS,
oc 4-SSw Assignee.