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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25
NOTICES.

THE SERVANT GIRL OF THE PERIOD. The Great
est Plague of Life. What Mr.. and Mrs.
Honeydew learned of Housekeeping. BY
Charles chamberlain, jr. New York: J S.
Redheld, publisher, lao Fulton street. 1873.
This will be found a most readable VOL
ume. The writer does not pretend but
that he has drawn upon his imagination for
some of his facts, but that Mr.. and Mrs.
Honeydew are real characters, and the
''ladies of the employment bureau equal
ly real, no one will doubt who reads this
very sketchy book, especially if he has had
any such experience land who has not p
as that of the Honeydews. The volume
comes to us through j. I. ELLYsoN, 1112
Main street, who has all tho new litera-
ture of the day.
LIPPINCoTT's MAGAzINEf for February
is received, and presents a most interesting
and valuable table of contents. This pop
ular magazine is unsurpassed in the beauty
of its illustrations, and in the neatness and
perfection of its Typography, by any of the
many able monthlies laid on our table.
Its contributions are of a high order, and
cover as wide q range of topics as can be
well reached by the first.class periodicals
of the country. We can commend it to
our readers as a magazine especially de-
serving the extensive patronage 1t receives.
Published by j. B. Lippincott & Co., Phil
adelphia.
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devised for insurance purposes. In the
case of tobacco, the State has been the in
surer for over two hundred and fifty years,
meeting with less than seventy-{ive thou
sand dollars in losses, and realizing mil
lions in premiums, or Their equivalent
in warehouse charges; and we have
nothing more combustible than this
staple when cured, or more likely to
be attended with heavy loss to the State.
Switzerland derives her entire revenues
from such a system of insurance, and there
is no reason why Virginia should not do
the same. She could afford to insure at
Jess rates, as the expenses attending the
proposed system would not be the tenth
part of what it now is under the MANAGE
ment of the several domestic and foreign
companies doing business here /; so that all
this excess Of expenditure might be saved
to the people of the State by the bureau in
question.
If our State debt is to be paid, or rather
if the debt of old Virginia is to be assumed
and paid by the new Virginia, we see no
other way of getting out of the woods"
financially, than By adopting the plan pro-
posed. We believe that within five years
from its adoption by the State. the assess
ment and collection oftaxes in Virginia will
be a thing of the past. and that no class Of
securities in the country will stand better
than those outstanding against US. Let us
try it, anyhow. ga
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PROSPECTUS.
Il H E
STATE JOURNAL FOR 1878

We call the attention Of our friends
throughout the State to the very liberal
terms upon which the STATE JOUR-
NAL is offered for 1873, and the extraor-
binary inducements to form clubs, espe-
cially for our w and Week
ly editions.
Clubs can be made up from as many
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which can be sent in, with the cash, as
fast as obtained, and when completed the
extra copy will be forwarded to any ad-
dress named.
Make up q Club at once, or send in your
lame. Remember that SIS will pay for
six copies Of the Weekly for one year,
and $40 will pay for ten copies of the
Weekly and n copy Of the Semi
Weekly for one year, and for every ten
subscribers for one year to SEMI-WEEK-
LY or twenty subscribers for one year to
WEEKLY, we will give a copy of the
"Great Industries Of the United
States worth $3.50.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25

THE PRINCESS OF ERIE is the name
given Helen Josephine Mansfield in Paris,
and the amount of talk about her is said to
be immense. One report says that she
has succeeded in bringing about a duel be-
tween two silly men, and another that she
has taken a pew in an American Episcopal
church. True, she engaged it under an
others name, but she goes there Sunday
after Sunday, and buries her head in her
prayer-book with the devotion Of a saint.
The other attendants of the church are said
to be shocked, accordingly but it is be-
lieved that Miss Mansfield holds that
churches are for the benefit of sinners, and
if she isn't a sinner she would no doubt
like to have some one show her one.
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I ,REsApEAkE AND ONO RAILROAD

On and after September 30th PASSENGER
TRAINS will leave Richmond Except Sunday
as follows:
$50 A. M.-MAIL TRAIN for White Sulphur
Springs connecting at Gordonsville with Orange,
Alexandria and Manassas train for Washington
and North, and Lynchburg and South.
4;35 p. INSTRUMENTATION TRAIN lex
cept Sunday for Gordonsville, arriving at SIS
r. MI. This train connects AT Gordonsvills with
the night ira ms on the Orange, Alexandria and
Manassas railroad for LYNCHBURG and
WASHINGTON.
THROUGH TICKETS, at low rates, sold to
all points Northwest and Southwest.
Storage tickets from Liverpool, Queenstown,
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Havre, Rotter-
dam, Bergen, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg, to
all points on this road can be bought of the Ge-
neral Ticket Agent at Richmond, or can be Or
dered through any station agent on the road.
Further information may be obtained at the
company's offices. A. H. PERRY, A
General Superintendent.
JAMES F. METH BRLAgD,
General Ticket Agent. ie1
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THE Soldiers Bounty bill, which is
lodged with the Senate Committee on Pub
lie Lands, will, in all probability, get no
further on its passage this winter. At a
meeting of that committee, held day before
yesterday, an informal discussion of the
subject developed the fact that almost, if
not quite every, member is opposed to the
measure ; and if a report is made at all to
the Senate, it will be as positively adverse
as strong language can make it. This
should be the case with every other land
grabbing measure before Congress.
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SHIPPING.
EOR NEW YORK.-OLD Do
II MINION STEAMSHIP COM

EOR NEW YORK.--OLD DC. dEeAk
PANY.
The s~ide-wheel steamships OLDDOMINION,
WYANOKE, ISAAC BELL, SARATOGA, M.
AGARA, ALBEMARLE, and HATTERAS,
Richmond, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and
SATURDAY, at 2 o'clock p. M. Leave Rich
mond every TUESDAY, FRIDAY, and SUN
DAY, at high tide,
These ships are entirely new. They have
elegant saloons, state-rooms, and bathrooms.
The fare, accommodations, and attention are
unsurpassed.
Close connections made with steam rs for all
Southern, Eastern Western and European
ports.
"a For further information apply to
JOHN w. WYATT, Agent,
ia 1-tf No. 8 Governor street.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25

THE United States Senate has just ap.
propriated $4,000 to pay the expenses Of
the committee on privilege and elections for
their investigations into the elections in Lou
%isiana, Kansas and Arkansas. This is
more than all the senatorial services of
these states are likely to be worth in the
next twenty years, unless they can turn
over a new leaf in their manner Of conduct
ing elections.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25

LAGER BEER has found an accomplished
advocate before the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture in Hon. George s. Hillard. lie argued
before a committee the other day in favor
of the sale of malt liquors as a promotive of
practical temperance.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25

THE President states that his recent pro-
clamation prohibiting the joint and cotem-
poraneous occupancy Of federal and state,
county or municipal positions, does not
apply to federal officers who are members
of school boards.
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RAILROADS.,


@EH
DICHMOND AND DANvILLE RAILROAD.
LII On and after Sunday, December ~, 1872
GOING wESTJ
Train No. 2 Through Passenger) leaves Rich
mond daily Except Sunday at 5:1eA M; leaves
Danyille at 1906 p. M; arrives at Greensboro
az T s;Sg No % 6 n.vncbnurr Passenger, ,o,v..
Richmond daily at S:25 A. M; arrives at Lynch
Train No. 10 Through Mail and Expressly
leaves Richmond daily at 2;30 +. M; leaves
Danville daily at 1864 p. M; arrives at Green's
boro' daily at 1:30 A. M.
GOING EAST:
Train No. 1 Through Mail and Expressly
leaves Greensboro daily at lao A. NJ; leaves
Danyille daily at 4:32A. NJ; arrives at Richmond
daily at 12.46 p. M.
Train No. g Through Passenger) leave
Greensboro daily Except Sundays) at lilo A
M; leaves Danville at 1:52 T. M; arrives at
Richmond at $3.50 p. M.
Tram No. Q Nychburg Passenger) leaves
Lynchburg daily ate A. Nj; leaves Burkeville
p 2: NJ d.'' Z MI arrives al H0hm0nd at $40
Trains Nos. 9 and 10 connect at Greensboro
with trains on North Carolina railroad for all
points South.
Train No. 10 connects at Greensboro with
train for Raleigh arriving there at 1905 A. NJ.
Passengers leaving Raleigh at 7:16 p. M, con.
meet at Greensboro with train No. l for Rich
mond.
Train No. connects at Burkeville with train
on Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad for
all points Southwest and South.
Lynchburg Accommodation leaves Richmond
400 p. M, daily, except Sunday, arriving at
Lynchburg in time to connect with morning
Passenger Train on A. M. & o.. r. r. for the
Southwest. Passengers coming East leave
Lynchburg after arrival of A.. M. & o. Passen-
ger Train from Bristol, and arrive at Richmond
at 9:48 Am.
THRoUGHTICKETs to all points South and
Southwest can be procm ed at the ticket office in
Richmond, and of r. F. WALKER, Agent of At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad, Nc. 1926
Main street, Richmond. s.
Papers that have arrangements to advertise
the schedule of this company will please print
as above. JOHN r. MACMURDO,
General Ticket and Freight Agent.
T M. r. TALooTT, Eng'r and Sup't. auA
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RICHMOND AND YORK RIVER RAILROAD CoM'Y, I
RICHMOND, VA, December 2, 1872. )

RIoHMoND AND YoRK RIVER RAILROAD CoM'Y,
RICHMOND, VA, December 2, 1872.
NOTICE--On and after this date (Decem-
IN Der p the PASSENGER and FREIGHT
TRAINS ever this route will be run as follows /:
PASSENGER TRAIN daily Except Sundays)
between Richmond and West Point, leaving the
depot at 2;30 p. M, and on WEDNESDAYS and
SATURDAYS connecting with the fine steamer
STATE OF VIRGINIA. for river landings on
the York River, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York, and all points North and West.
FREIGHT TRAIN for through freight leaves
Richmond on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Satur-
days at 4 o'clock A. M. tsrJs.44sI 100
LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN, between Rich
mond and West Point, carrying local freight
both ways, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, leav
ing Richmond at 4 O'Clock A. M.
WILLIAM N. BRAGG,
IL. TAYLOR, Superintendent.
Gen'l Ticket and Freight Agent, Richmond.
de 21-tf fm ~
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

NOTICE.
The firm of Watt & Knight having been dis
solved on the LIST October, 1879, MANFRED CALL,
(my son-in-law) is now an equal partner with
me under the style of WATT 4 CALL, In the
manufacture of the CELEBRATED WATT
WATTS OWN INVENTION, and agricultural
implements generally.
1 have, within the past eighteen months,
made great Improvements in the WATT Pillow,
and can, with greater confidence than ever,
recommend it to the farming community every.
where. GEORGE WATT.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25

1T will be seen that the House Commit
tee of Ways and Means is fully impressed
with the insuperable difficulties which lie
in the way of refunding the cotton tax,
We should hope SO. Better lift a twenty
cent tax on tobacco-the great Virginia
s~!aple-than talk about refunding a three
cent tax on cotton.
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RICHMOND, FRED'Ba & Potomac RoUrE, Z
RICHMOND, December 16, 1872.
Up DAY MAIL via rail and steamer leaves

RICHMOND, December 16, 1872.
TIP DAY MAIL via rail and steamer leaves
Byrd street Station, 1 p. M.
UP NIGHT MAIL Via rail alone, leaves Byrd
street Station $40 p. M. Except on Sundays.J
UP ACCOMMODATION leaves Broad street
Station, at $3.50 p. M. Except on Sundays)
DOWN DAY MAIL, via rail and steamer,
arrives at Byrd street Station, at 2 p. M.
DOWN NIGHT MAIL, via rail alone, arrives
at Byrd street station, at 4:40 A. M. Except on
Mondays)
DOWN ACCoMMoDA ALTON TRAIN arrives
at Broad street Station, at s:37 A. M. Except on
Sundays) HHSI4
TO THE PUBLIC.
Freights for Alexandria, Washington, Ball.
more and intermediate points will be received by
this company at their Broad street Depot on
MONDAYS and THURSDAYS
FREIGHT TRAINS leave Richmond or
TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS A. NJ, connecting
at Quantico with the Alexandria and Frederioks-
burg railway, and on Tuesday only with the
Lower Potomac steamers, thence to Baltimore.
By order of the General Superintendent.
Joint tariff sheets may be had on application
to J. b. GENTRY,
Sc % Gen1 Ticket and Freight Agent.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25

THE dispatch from Berlin announcing
that the Emperor had ordered the German
court to 10 into mourning for the ex-Empe-
ror Napoleon, exhibits a just and generous
ecognition of the merits of the deceased
ex-Emperor, which does greater credit to
the heart and head of Kaiser William than
the success of forty campaigns would do.
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rIlnIs Isl TO GIVE NOTICE :-That on one

rFNHIs is TO GIVE NOTICE THAT on the
Il 9Th day of January, 1872, a warrant in bank
ruptcy was issued out of the District Court of the
United States for the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia, against the estate of Abraham Refs,
of Norfolk county and State of Virginia,
who has been adjudged q bankrupt on his
own petition that the payment OF any debts,
and the delivery of any property belonging to
said bankrupt to him or for his use, and the trans
fer of any property by him, are forbidden by
bankrupt, to prove their debts and choose one
or more a~ssignees of his estate, will be held at a
court of bankruptcy, to be held at No. 26 Bank
street, Norfolk, Virginia, before b b. Foster,
Esq, Register, on the seth day of January,
A. d. 1878, at u O'Clock M.
JOHN W. FARRELL,
Deputy Marshal as Messenger.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25

THE Columbia Union tells a funny story
Of the pardon by Governor Moses, of South
Carolina, of a convict named Ransom Sim
mons, on condition that he would leave the
State. Simmons wrote to the Governor
thereon respectfully declining to accept re-
lease on those terms, as he preferred to
live in South Carolina under the admins
tration of so enlightened a magistrate as
Governor Moses, even if he had to pass two
years in the ~penitentiary, rather than live
in freedom anywhere else. Simmons mani
testify was not born yesterday. His eye
teeth were cut. And there is no doubt
that he had the intellectual gauge Of Moses.
So when within a day or two thereafter
Mr.. and Mrs. Governor Moses visited the
prison and saw Simmons, the latter had no
difficulty in getting in unconditional par
don from the flattered official. South Car
DINA can never be sufficiently thankful for
such a Moses.
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EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA,

The undersigned, Wilbur ]. Kilby, of Suf-
folk, Va, hereby gives notice of his appoint
ment as assignee of the estate ofCharles Holland,
of Isle of Wight county, in said district, who has
been a~djndged bankrupt upon his own petition
by the District Court of said district.
Given under my hand this 18th day of Janu-
airy, A.. ID. 1878.
WILBUR J. KILBY,
ia 16-W3w* Assignee.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-25
ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING BY CON-
CEALED WEAPONS.

Captain J. G. Wall, of Washington, late
superintendent of public property, carries
a Smith & Wesson revolver in his overcoat
pocket about the streets of the Capitol,
being in dreadful fear of his life, in that
barbarous city. He goes into that danger
GUS place known as Wizards Hotel, and
in the crowded bar-room, shakes his pistol
out upon the marble floor. It is dis
charged and its contents enter the abdo-
men of DIR. Tilden, late chemist Of the
Agricultural Department, who is passing
by. Captain Wall says it was accidental
and regrets it. This is very creditable and
shows the brave captain who makes an
arsenal of his pockets, to be a man of sem
sibility. But what adequate remedy does it
give to the bereaved family Of the man
whose life has been thus sacrificed to the
diabolical practice Of carrying firearms
concealed into peaceful circles? No man
who has true courage and just ideas of his
duty to others will carry concealed wea-
pons into places Of public resort. There
is, on an average case OF this kind re-
ported every week in some part Of the
country. Let the Legislature amend the
law against carrying concealed weapons by
making accidental shooting in such cases a
grave offence. The public is crying out to
have the engineers and conductors
on our railroads made criminally
responsible for carelessness. Shall the
man who is 50 reckless and silly as to
carry a loose revolver in his pocket be held
g~uiltless for the consequences of its acci-
dental discharge? Every one Of us, and
even our wives and children, are in danger
in every public place /; at the hotel, in the
streets, the cars, and even at church, from
the discharge Of concealed firearms.
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-20
M,,. E1,zApxrH Brcr.-Tbis good

MRs. ELIZABETH BEoK.-Tbls good
woman started for Europe more than
nine months since. She promised to
call on her return-but. We have seen
nothing Of her. Mrs. Booking and her
lovely daughter write that they saw
nothing OF her in Germany. What
could have become of herr The vessel .
could it have gone DOWN. She bad
lived for many years in Wheeling, w.
", and was the motber-in law Of that
worthy gentleman, Mr.. Anthony Ray
mann, who loved her dearly, very dear
", indeed, considering that she was bis
mother.in-law. We wish we could
hear from the dear woman.-Phitddet-
phia City Item.
Our Philadelphia friend may have
rest from his anxiety. Mrs. Beck is at
her home in this city, as happy and
welLbeloved as ever. Who cares
whether the vessel went down" or not,
MIRA Beck would have gone sup" But
like sensible lady she did neither. She
returned home to her friends, and il
sorry that she was prevented from full
filling her promises in Philadelphia
Long may she enjoy health and happl-
uees
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-20

RIVER NEws.-The river is very high
the marks last evening showing nearly
thirty feet in the channel and about
stationary.
The ice is running very heavy. 1t
looks as if the head waters must have
been frozen to the bottom to produce
ice of such thickness and in such quan.
titles.
The high waters have brought down
a good deal Of timber logs and other
property. On Saturday we saw barge
loaded with coal floating down and an
empty fiat We hear that ferryboat
drifted past Capitina, on Saturday. Our
informant could no. make out her
name. She will probably be captured
before she reaches Parkers burg.
The heavy ice has prevented navigs.
ton for the present. The Hudson could
not get to the city because of it and has
laid up for the time being.
The Express is laid up at Marietta,
the ice preventing her coming up.
The Courier is at Capitiua waiting
for the river to get cleared.
Dewey, Vance & Co. had barge
loaded with iron ore sunk near Parkers-
burge, on Friday.
As soon as the floating ice is cleare d
out the boats will all be running again.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-20

The BAvAR1AN BAND The concert
given by the band of the Fifth Bavarian
Regiment at Turner Hall on Saturday
night was a grand success, when the
quality Of the music given is considered
Nothing approaching it, even in the
slightest degree, has ever been heard in
Wheeling. The concert will be re-
peated tonight, and we advise all who
are fond of really excellent music to
be present and enjoy the treat this band
provides for them. Unfortunately
Washington Hall is occupied, so that
the ladies, who are our best musical
con noisieurs, and who do not like to 60
so far up as Turner Hall, cannot hear
this truly excellent performance, but il
the band could protract their stay so
as to get our only central place OF
amusement for q concert, we are salts
fed that the hall would be crowded.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-20

PROBABLY SroLEN.-Yes terdsy morn.
ing, on going out, Mrs. Frank Stanley
found lying on the porch of her house
a great amount of wearing apparel,
consisting of lady's and children's
dresses, ladies' berthas, msntillas and
other articles, which had been placed
there during the night by some I'M
known party. Mr.. Stanley thinks the
property is worth 800. Frank holds
the property for the owner, to whom he
will deliver it if they prove ownership.
If any of our readers have lost articles
of the kind above described, they can
get them by calling on Frank Stanley
on Main street, opposite the Riverside
mill, and he is very DESTROYS of finding
the owner
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-20

THEsurprising demand for the famous
Eureka Organs attests the fact that they
are the best, sweetest toned, most SYM
pathetic, handsomest and cheapest
Organs in the market. New styles
have recently been added to the list,
and now over fifty styles are to be found
at Sheib's Music Store, the wholesale
and retail depot in this city. The Rent
ing Plan, so liberal, enables everyone
to procure an Organ as their own, for
who cannot save two or three dollars a
week for one year for that purpose
Try it and we know you will not regret
~
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-20

COLD The weather has turned quite
cold again. Last night was a singer
So was Saturday night. We trust Old
Probabilities will put stop to this
nonsense. We don't banker after cold
weather. No one does. We have had
enough Of it. 1t was bad enough last
November, and the longer it continues
the worse it is liked. Let up, old tel
low. Dish US up little more of the
perennial summer" sort of thing, il
you please.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-20

RAILWAY INVENTION. "A new rail-
way contrivance is announced in the
shape OF q switch tenders box 80
placed that If that offica al goes to sleep
inside, leaving his switch Enclosed. the
coming train will be sure to run into
his temporary domitory and kill him.
As the successful application Of this in
geuious device would be jeopsrd'zed il
the proposed victim were to take his
maps anywhere else, the inventor is at
work upon an elaborate piece of ma
chinery to turn the switch tender into
his box as soon as he goes fast asleep.