The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-22
cial, is here taking notes, about the
pending political campaign.

pending political campaign.
RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER at @
L. Johnston's news and music store, 81
Main street to-day At 6 a. M, 48 4
a. IN. 81; IL m. 60; 3p. m. &C.. '
THE CORONER IN A NEW ATTITUDE
DR.. VIM. Fl. Taylor is now delivering
lectures on natural philosophy and chemis
try before the Richmond high school.
THE PLASTER MOULD, by. Valentine
of the figure of tGrief,n intended to cover
grave in private section of Hollywood
has just been cut in marble in this city.
JAMES w. KATEs, Of the Western
Union telegraph Office of this city, has
lately laid cable under the Elizabeth river,
between Portsmouth and Fortress Monroe.
THE CONSERVATIVES of this city have
constituted Colonel M. Won May Judge,
and he will issue naturalization papers to
such Germans as desire to be naturalized.
We WANT an inspector of buildings for
the city. Will not the council, at its meet
ing next Monday, take some steps towards
the appointment Of this much-needed of
fetal? si 1
NEARLY EVERY rural Virginia paper
is the organ and special champion Of some
local, cross-road politician. Cannot the
press be elevated above this "slough Of
despond ?" ~
MONDAY NIGHT the western bound
express train on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad ran over and killed mare and colt
few hundred yards east of Fort Spring
station, near Union, Monroe county. ra
MRS. STORY, of New Orleans, who has
been leader in society at several of the
Virginia springs for several years, has been
in Richmond for week past and is receiv-
ing, with her husband, great deal of at
tention from fashionable people. aiE
THE ELEMENT OF TIME is necessary to
the public confidence in any institution, A
his sincerity, not by grand spectacular dis
play, but by endurance in long, inglori-I
GUS course of commonplace well-doing.
The HURDLE RACES at the next Fair
by the Virginia Riding club, are expected
to be unusually brilliant, and the members
think that if only one of their number
gets his neck broken they will have cause
to felictate themselves at their compare
tive exemption from danger. H.,
W. H. BATON, who was shot by DR..
James E. Bell, sheriff of Princess Anne
county. while making an attempt to
escape just after his conviction and SEN
tence for the murder of his uncle, Mr..
Maxwell Baton, was received at the
penitentiary to-day for IL years. ,f..
/ IT rs AN AXIOM OF AMERICAN LAW
that one man is as good as another. We
find in practice however that one man is
often darned sight better than another.
We speak of . our leading ctizens' doing
this or that, expecting the lowly to be gov
erned thereby. We look to see what
recommendable quality distinguishes the
leading citizen" above his fellows, and
find it only money and stinginess COM
bined. .,.f,,
The ARMY OF cheraliers de indust1ie,
who every winter are thrown on their own
resources and out in the cold, both by the
vicissitudes of fortune and the changing
seasons, have already begun their work in
this city, and those who desire to preserve
their goods and chattels from the spoilers
had better begin to practice the precepi
conveyed in the old motto of "saie bind,
safe fnd.'' E1aQ 58I sGsg 51ol5sfi
In THE CASE of the United States VS..
Bowie, pending before Judge Bond yester-
day, the jury returned o verdct.of guilty Of
unlawful detention Of letters, and recon-
mended him to the clemency Of the court
A motion was made by his counsel for ar
rest of judgment, which was argued to-day
and refused. Sentence will be pronounced
tomorrow. s