The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-21
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WHY is TIME TIE BEST PICKLE ?
Because "Time cures everything.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS TO.
day amounted to sl3,G4S. AZ.
Hon. JAMES FooTE JOHNSON left the
city for his home in Bedford this morning.
FIvE-sIXTHs of the $500, 900 necessary
to endow Richmond college has been raised.
JAMES T.. WOOD, ESQ, of the Eureka
Quartette club. returned to this city this
morning.
THERE ARE AT PRESENT 199 persons,
white and colored, in the Alms-house of
this city.
A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
says "ihe rain came down )" rs if it could
do anything else.
TIE ATTUCEs GUARD last night, in full
uniform and ranks, had fine parade at
Old Market Hall.
ANOTHER WHOPPINd BIG RAIN this
morning. The streets, alleys, sewers and
cutters are as clean as new penny.
ALL PEOPLE should be careful of diet,
temperature and hygiene generally, when
the weather clears off, as otherwise the
clearing up may be attended with sickness.
X. X. X. USED TO BE the diabolical
sign of kukluxism, 1t is now the mono
gram Of the Kemper Kampaign Klub of
this city.
RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER ut
G. +. Johnston's news and music store,
9lS Main street, to-day: At 6 a. m. u
8 a. IN. 50; II IN. S6 3p. m. So.
THE WEATHER HAS BEEN so COOL
at the Yellow Sulphur Springs, Virginia,
this season, that scarcely morning has
passed that fires have not been kindled.
WE FIND THIS in the Chicago Inter-
Ocean of August 19th General McMa-
hon, aspires TO the Craftsmanship of the
Virginia State Central Conservative COM
mittee.
CURIoUSLY ENOUGH, the ladies' of this
city who make their own marketing object
to the multiplicity of baby-carriages which
are always to be found bumming around
the market-houses.
GOVERNOR WALKER will preside at
the Conservative rally at the Theatre to-
morrow night. A number of prominent
men are expected TO grace the occasion
with their presence.
THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSION
ERs yesterday dismissed Tmberlake, as
sistant engineer of the chain-gang, and put
O'Dwyer in his place, and made Tenson
policeman, vice Brooks, deceased.
THE CoLoRED WOMAN who was
thought to have thrown dead child in the
river yesterday was only getting "spelf'
taken off her sick daughter by an act of
conjuration prescribed by an Obi man.
SIMPSON PEITUs, operative at the
Tredegar works, was rescued from
watery grave off Browns island Yesterday
by the heroism of resident of the island.
who plunged into the briny deep" after
him. t-
TIE CALEDONIA ATHLETIC CLUB had
picnic at West Point yesterday, and in
spite OF the disagreeabe weather, seem to
have had fine time indulging in the va
rious athletic sports, the practice of which
is one of the main articles of their creed.
The wooD-sAwYERs OF RICHMOND
having formed a society for mutual protec-
ton, the members of the boot-black and
shOe-shine profession are about doing the
same thing. Man has the initiative faculty
strongly developed.
THE RICHMOND CORRESPONDENT of
the Norfolk Virginian says that Mr.. G. p.
| huntington, of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, was very gIum when last here, and
did not have much TO say concerning the
propeets of the road or anything else.
A LETTER OF JAMES P. CowARDIN,
ESQ.,, of this city, ON the Zanzibar slave
trade appears in yesterdays Philadelphia
Press. After brief visit to Washington,
Mr.. Cowardin will return to his home in
Richmond, where he will be welcomed by
troops Of friends,
| p. S.-Mr. Cowardin arrived in the city
this evening.