The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-26
STATE NEWS.

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In West Virginia the board Of public
works Appoints the superintendent of the
penitentiary. aIN8
A convention of ex-Confederates will
be held at the Montgomery White Sui
phur Springs, August 14th.
The Wytheville Dispatch has an article
on I" the morals of journalism" followed
by dissertation on ''pickled onions."
Bishop Whittle will visit Orange
Courthouse, and administer the rite OF con-
firmation, on Monday, the 4th OF August.
On Thursday nemuel Williamson. "a
polite and well-behaved' colored man, was
crushed to death in Danville by q hogshead
of tobacco. is 81
The Bristol News says that there are
seven candidates for the legislature in Lee
county, Six of them, of course, will
stay at home.
-Lynn-stre Methodist church was re-
Gently dedicated in Danville, Rev. j. @.
Cranberry, of Richmond, preaching the
opening sermon. a,e .Ist
John HI. Overstreet, very respecta-
Bile citizen of Bedford county, was struck
by lightning during storm on last Friday,
ana instantly Killed.
THE fact that mule tainted from heat
in Norfolk, has excited the comnisseration
Of the people of that humane city, for the
unfortunate animal.
The people of Fincastle are singing
the song II knew bank, = but it is not
there and they want it moved where they
can see as well as know.
Madame Rumor says that there are to
be some very important changes made in
the management Of General Mahone's
railroad on the first of next month.
Edward G. Marshall, only surviving
son of Chief Justice Marshall, has been
appointed to clerkship in the postoffice
department. He lives in Fauquier.
The Jefferson Literary society of Man.
chester has decided the goose question in
the affirmative; that is, an ordinance pro-
hibiting the running of geese at large is ex-
pedient. EM {
The colored people of Danville. Vir-
ginia, excurted to Greensboro, N. O., re-
Gently for the benefit of the Baptist church
of the former place, and made 5000 by the
operation.
/ The stable of George Eutzler, near
| Port Republic, in Rockingham county.
was struck by lightning on Tuesday week,
and an Engineer" STALLION, valued at 81 900
was killed.
The following delegates were elected
at Cumberland Courthouse, July 81, to
attend the Lynchburg Republican guberna-
torial convention, viz: @. S. Robinson,
James Lipscomb. ..
Miss Lydia Mages, maiden lady, re-
siding near Cedar Creek, whilst in her gar
| den several days since, fell over some
| crooks, breaking her leg above the ankle.
Winchester Ne,os.
VIM. Miller, Pennsylvania colored
man, detected a few days since in trying to
kill himself at Liberty, Bedford county, has
been examined and ordered to the Rich
mond lunatic asylum.
The Spirit of Jefferson says that the
new Jail in Charlestown has been compile
ted, that it is the finest structure of the
kind in the two Virginias, and is now open
for the reception of the public.
The Harrisonburg Old Commonwealth,
a Conservative paper, says: "The Radi-
calls seem determined to carry Virginia at
the November election, and. will strain
every point to do So" Just so.
The piers of the Valley railroad bridge
| at Cline's mill have been completed.
They are two in number, fifty-five feet
| high, with an entire span from abutment to
abutment of eight hundred feet. @
The Norfolk water works have been
tested and found to be all right. We are
glad to hear it: When we were there there
! was none of that fluid to be obtained in the
city.-Ball, m-Ae Aler. Sentinel.
Rev. M. D. Conway, who preached
the funeral of John Mill, i'll London, is {
native of Spottsylvania county, and a
nephew of Raleigh Z. Daniel, Of Richmond
He is Stree thinker" as was Mill.
The cholera was very fatal in towr
called Louisiana, in Missouri, last week
| twenty-eight persons dying in three days
Among the victims, was John Davis, s
clerk from Danville, who had only beer
there three weeks.
/ The jewelry store Of Captain j. W
Lipop, of Charlottesville, was struck b,
lightning few days since. 1t had jus
been fitted up fact that so astonished th
Storm King that he was forced to Civ,
it a distinguished pop"
Alfred r. Bolen has discovered Oh
his land, in Harmony Hollow, upon tn
western slope Of the Blue Ridge, vein Q
copper ore, about twenty yards in width
) and which he has traced upon the surfac
, about quarter of a mile.
! The Lexington Gazette "goes for
. Albert iMenet, a New York. advertisin
I agent, who, it seems, is cOnsumate hun
< bug. 1t did not amount to much as 18th
: party of the first part" had gotten out {
: sight before the other started on the WIS
s path.
8 Mr.. A. M. Crane, formerly Unite
: States assessor in Staunton, has been al
h pointed supervisor of distilleries in the di
trict composed of North Carolina and I'll
y two Virginias. The salary Of the positio
IS is nine dollars per day and travelling e,
q penses. Mr.. Crane's headquarters will
e in Staunton. sass
~ Chatham Tribune Of the 22nd: Re
;. j. HI. Lacy, the esteemed pastor of Il
J. Baptist church of this place, will be unite
10 in rnatrimony with Miss Mary T. Hard
at the residence Of her father, in Botetou
!, county, tomorrow evening We wish Il
:. happy couple unbounded joy in their ne
y aud noble alliance.
- MIR. Sower, formerly of the Nor
:. gomery Messenger, proposes to establish
a. new paper at Floyd Court House, to
- - called the Floyd Reporter.
" IDesDite his name he nromiaes ta piya