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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

We would say to ST. Ruth,'' that
while his communication is too long (six.
pages closely written FOOLS cap) for us
to publish, without opening the door
wider than we had intended in the line of
discussion, we shall not materially differ
with him, if he can satisfy us in shorter
communication, that the Republican party
in this state, as at present constituted,
has at least twenty-five thousand white
voters. independently of its federal office
hofdefs..saff it can boast this ndhiber Of
white voters, then it wants no more "white
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

Mr.. JOHN WATSON, the king of wheat
Spectators in Chicago, has been snuffed
out. lie had been specializing heavily in
wheat, and his operations had much to do
with the advance in the price of that cereal
during the past four or five weeks. He
was foremost among the bears of the mar
ket. When he failed he had outstanding
contracts for 100000 bushels of wheat,
and was adding to the amount when the
prices suddenly fell and the crash came.
The losers are principally wheat dealers,
and the losses are the losses of expected
gains, and hence the failure has had but
little effect on the general trade. Mr..
Watson's operations were on his own ac-
count, and the money lost was his own
fortune. We do not regret that he has
gone "where the woodbine twineth."
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

VV UUtCtuHJ UectuFtU as ours, y our ma
yo,1ty falls short Of fire thousand. We
would say, however. that this conf
dence, which is, born, of over-assurance,
and. bshld4Sktyfom imaginary facts and fig
pres, fnay be-a-very pleasing one while it
lasts; but it is suretoI catch a tumble in
the, end. At all events, this has been our
experience in political life; and the world
DON'T change, discourse, Lor the Fates their
tbread, at tthe. beck of more than one man
in a century. They have their capricious
moods, it is true but they take their own
time for them, and adjust their freaks to
the wheel of fortune, according to their own
liking. .-...... ..s..s...
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

THE present gold furry in Wall street,
New York, is universally attributed to
Jay Gould, who seems to carry that
notorious locality in his pocket, or in other
words appears to be able to throw the
market into panic, either in stocks or on
gold as he may choose. Can't somebody
/" cornero Gould as John Watson has just
been corneredn in Chicago? ee
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28
WILLIAM T. BAILEY,
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA,

The BOARD OF VISITORS of the JJniyer-
slty OF Virginia will proceed at their next annual
meeting, on the 18TH DAY OF JUNE, 1878, TO
appoint professor for the chair of MORAL,
PHILOSOPHY and Pc LITIOAL ECONOMY.
III. McGuffey. " ~
Inc subjects embraced in this school are
emy. - - =, "N- A-Oo'i
Testimonials will be addressed tn .trba pao.
tor and Visitors of the University of Virginia.
care of Colonel Charles 8. Venable. Ohairman
OF the Faculty, University of Virginia.
II. G.. H KEAN. .aA
my 26-eod6tsw4tw2t - Ractor
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

ACCORDING to Methodist statistics, the
increase of their denomination in the
United States for twenty years has been
fifty per cent. greater than the increase of
population.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

"H PROFESSIONAL. 7is aa-f
I. II SHIELDS,
Q4ATE OF CHANDLER, MORTON & SHIRLDs,) z
-- ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Marshall HALL, Corner Tenth and Bank Strssts
Hes]e sass RICHMOND, VA.
Practices in the United States Courts.
Particular attention given to cases arising un
der the United States Revenue Laws, and Bank
ruptcy. g U rs e1gsg
Attorneys outside of the city can have their
Bankrupt cases here attended to promptly, and
carefully looked after, by corresponding with me,
thereby saving them the expense of visiting the
city. ~ II oc 23-dsW&w rs
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS.

RICHMOND,
FREDERICKBURGA AND POTOMAC ROUTE
RICHMOND, FRED'BG Potomac X. r. Co.,
OFFICE OF GES'L TICKET & FkBIaHT AGENT Z
RICHMOND, February IL, 1873.
UP DAY MAIL leaves Byrd-street Station
1P.M.
UP NIGHT MAIL leaves Byrd-street station
$40 p. M. Except on.Sundays)
UP ACCOMMODATION leaves Broad-street
Station, at 600 p. M. Except on Sundays.)
DOWN DAY MAIL, arrives at Byrd-street
Station, at p. M
z DOWN NIGHT MAIL, arrives at Byrd-street
station. at 4:40 A.. M. Except on Mondays.)
DOWN ACCOMMODATION TRAIN arrives
at Broad,street Station, at 1887 A. M. Except on
Sundays.)
Station on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS. and
FRIDAYS, at 6:45 A. M, connecting at Quantico
with the Alexandria and Fredericksburg rail
way. E83Nt
Returning, arrive at Broad-street Station on
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATUR-
DAYS, at 4.40 p. NJ
By order of the General Superintendent.
- J. b. GENTRY,
fe Is Genl Ticket and Freight Agent.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
i ted States for the Eastern District of Viz
ginia- - Aee
In the matter of Joseph Kampner, bank
rupt--in bankruptcy. .tlsrgl...- +
At Richmond, Va, this 10th day May, 1878.
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
The undersigned, Edward MCCARTHY, OF Rich
gives notice of his appointment as assignee of
the estate of Joseph Kampner, Of HenIico co.
in said district, who was, on the Sth day
petition of himself, by the District Court Of
said district. FWlh Wtt t "
Dated at Richmond. May 10th, q. d. 1879. i
-Jlssi fJ1Ss ~ : EDWARD MCCARTHY,
my 17---S8w 4, Assignee.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
PETERSON Il BROOKS,

E.M REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Corner 10th and Bank Streets,
Have on books for sale A LARGE NUMBER
OF VERY DESIRABLE FARMS, in all sec
tons OF the State. and some excellent MIN
ERAL PROPERTY. We also have some oil
the most desirable REAL ESTATE in the
city. ~ '-7f7I n T-s..l
All business PLACED in our hands will be
promptly attended IS and on reasonab BILE terms
III
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILROAD.
On and after 18th May, 1878, the PASSENGER
TRAINS will run as follows
WESTWARD.

SAAEohA A1fahG " Ol1AO naAAhOaD.
On and after 9TH May, 1873, the PASSENGER
TRAINS will run as follows:
WESTWARD.
MALI, TRAIN.-Leaves Richmond $50 A. M.
daily except Sunday, connecting with w. q.
Va. M. Il G. s. railroad at Gordonsville and
Charlottesville and arrives at White Sulphur
Springs at 500 Z. M.
EXPRESS TRAIN-Leaves Richmond n
10 +. NJ, daily except Saturday, eonnectin e
at Gordonsville with w. G. Va. M. & q. S. r. II.
trains for Lynchburg, and southwest, and arrives
at Huntington at 6:20 p. M. next day. Steamer
leaves Huntington on arrival of the train, and
arrives at Cincinnati at O'Clock next morning
This train stops between Richmond and
White Sulphur only at Junction, Gordonsville,
Charlottesville, Stauntoa, Goshen, Milboro
AoCoMMoDATIoN TRAIN.-Leaves Rich.
mond at $40 p. M, daily except Sunday, and
arrives at Gordonsyille at s:45 p. M.
EASTWARD. .
Steamer leaves Cincinnati at p M daily ex.
cept Saturday, and arrives at Huntington at
A: M next day, connecting with express train.
EXPRESS TRAIN.-Leayes Huntington at
10 A. M. daily except Sunday, and arrives at
Richmond at 43O A. M. next day, connecting
with trains going South and with James
Rive River $ Steamer f for Norfolk This train
only at Junction, Gordonsville, Charlottesville,
Stannton Goshen, Millboro' and Coyington.
MAIL TRAlN.-Leayes White Sulphur at
500 A. M. daily except Su ndays, connecting with
w. @. Va. M. II Ct. s. railroad at Charlottesville
and Gordonsville, and arrives at Richmond at
500 p. M.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN-Leaves Cor
louisville at 500 A. M. daily except Sundays con-
Meeting at GGrdonsville with w. @. Va NJ &
q. $. R. R. from Lynehburg and Southwest,
and arrives at Richmond 1915 A. M.
For further information inquire at the COM
pany's office, on Broad near Seventeenth street
A. II. PERRY,
General Superintendent.
JAMES f. NRTHRRLAgD,
General Ticket Agent N.Y.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28
RAILROADS.

RICHMOND AND DANVHLE r. r,
OFFICE OF ENGINEER AND SUPT.l
RICHMOND. VA, May 1873
GOING wESTJ
Train No. 3 Through Passenger) leaves Rich
mond daily Except Sunday at 5:ieA. nj; leaves
Danyille at 1865 p. M; arrives at Greensboro
Train No. Z u4ynchburg Passenger) leaves
Richmond daily at 9 A. NJ; arrives at Lynch
Train No. 10 Through Mail and Passenger,
leaves Richmond daily at $50 p. NJ; leaves
Danville daily at lG4l 7. M; arrives at Greens.
boro' daily at l:25 A. M
GOING EAST:
Train No. 1 Through Mail and Express,
leaves Greensboro daily at lao A. M; leaves
Danyilie daily at1;s2 A. M; arrives at Richmond
T2ain No No. tCrhroueh Passenger, leaves
Greensboro daily Except sundays) at ll:l0 A.
M; leaves Danyille at l52 p. NJ; arrives at
Tram No. 10 QIy ,hburg Passenger) leaves
Lynchburg daily ats A. M; leaves Burksville
at l0o +. M; arrives at Richmond at 400
Trains Nos. 8 and IL 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. M.
Passengers leaving Raleigh at 7l6 =. 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.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and
Richmond, and of r. i. WALKER, Agent of At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad, No. 1928
Main street, Richmond.
Papers that have arrangements to advertise
the schedule OF this company will please print
as above. L M. II. TALCOTT,
myz7-u Engineer and Superintendent.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-05-28

allies" andshay slam the door in as
many white des asst please Eors6p o.
der to carry 3hc HtatS III lpAB shd8a
not have onS asss(hartl This Hhn fr of d.
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-25
Rum Dfinking-Its Costs and Physical
Effects.

Mr.. A. p. FLAGa, of Springfield, Mass:
| gave d temperance lecture to very large
audience at the Fifth Baptist Church last
evening, and abandoning the Usual strain
of prohibition advocates, had something
readable to say upon the physical effects
and facts. of liquor drinking and the liquor
trade. Eminent surgeons said they knew
the bftil of q lidttor drinkcr as soon as
they saw ii. The blood loses its bright
red color and becomes foHl. When this
foul blood is driven into the brain il
gorges the vessels and very often presses
the brain against the skull, leaving the
man senseless and stupid. Finally the
brain becomes hardened, having been
picked by alcohol, and looks very much
| like a toper's nose Sometimes the blood.
vessels burst, leaving in the brain clots OF
| blood, which causes sores, paralysis and
death Sometimes the alcohol oozes
| through the blood-vessels until it turns the
brain to grease or causes what is termed
fatty degeneration"
II Is well known that the animal pro.
| pensities lie nearest the base of the brain,
while the portions of the brain that affect
the moral and religious nattire lie near the
top of the skull. When the blood Is right
1t reaches all parts of the brain equally,
but when il is Glogged and foul il dams up
around the base of the BRAIN stimulating
the animal nature, while the moral and
religious faculties remain dormant. Thus
intelligent men are transformed into be-
sotted, ferocious and unreasonable brutes,
whom stupor, horror and despair drive to
the mad-house and the tomb.
The speaker introduced the following
striking statistics, showing the vast amount
of, and rapid incfease In; the production
of intoxicating liquors:
In 1850 the total value of the liquors
produced in the United States was $21,-
100000 In 1867 ithad increased to $41 ,500,-
000 In 1867 about $2400OO000 were pro
duced, or more than six gallons for each
man, woman and child i'll the Country
The number of distilleries in the United
States in 1860 was 1, ,193. In 1867 this
number was increased to 5000. There are
in the United States 100000 habitual
drunkards. The revenue from liquor alone
in the United States for the year ending
June 3, 1867, was 81 ,463, ,491 ,56j; the en-
tire annual sales of the article being about
one-eighth of the aggregate products of
the country-about ten times the value of
all the church property in the United
States, and more than that of all our rail
roads, those of Pennsylvania only being
excepted.-Chtcago Inter-Ocean.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-25
A Long and Fruitless Watch.

IT is not often, in our struggling, busy
town life, that we light upon an incident
at once so pathetic and so unobTusive as
this which comes to us from Brooklyn.
There, in front of the park across which
the City Hall looks down upon the chief
square of the city, the passer-by, any day
between the hours of nine and twelve,
will see a man whose forlorn and dismal
figure, and melancholy attitude, can hard
ly escaps his notice. Never absent from
his post, and never sitting down, he takes
his stand where the great face of the city
clock is plainly visible, and with STOPPING
shoulders and bowed head, watches the
slow revolution of the hands. He is well
known to the old hdbttues of the Hall, who
seldom disturb his solitary watch. He
never speaks to any one, and, if addressed,
bends forward in eager scrutiny, glances
nervously at the clock, and then, muttering
unintelligible words, relapses into his
customary interpretive silence When
the ponderous bell at last rings out the
hour of twelve, he starts up with anima-
ton, looks round in all directions, as if
expecting some one, and finally, convinced
that his long waiting has been vain, slips
quietly out of the busy tide which flows
and Gibbs about the square during all the
day The story is that, many years ago,
he lent five hundred dollars-the gradual
savings of his toil-to friend, who was
to return it in the City Hall Park on a
given day, at twelve of the clock The
watch has been well kept, but the friend
has never appeared. 1t is pitful to think
what an agony of waiting he must have
endured before madness came to his re-
lief but his daily watch now is probably
that unconscious and mechanical action
which the brain continues to perform after
its higher functions have abdicated.-Ap-
ptetOn's Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-25
A Story of the Lost "Atlantic."

JAMES BATEMAN, good-looking young
Englishman of twenty-siX years, from
London, was with the emigrants, and de
sircs to make statement concerning the
death of his wife on the ship He was
the only passenger who was able to bring
his wife on deck, all of the others being
drowned below stairs. His statement is
as follows:
"On the 1st of April, three O'Clock in the
morning, | was awakened, with my wife
by hearing the ship strike heard them
say it was only the noise of the anchor
and that we were in port in Halifax. |
and my wife ran upstairs, nearly naked
to the door, but the sailors were guarding
it, and said they had orders to keep ali be.
tOlo. | burst open the door against the
men, and my wife and | fell upon the
deck. At this minute they were
firing the last rocket, and Mr..
Ryan, passenger, was trying to launch
IA boat | got into the boat with my
wife, when the sailors came and said
they would split our heads open if we did
not get out naturally preferred to stand
my chances on deck rather than be killed
in the boat, so we obeycd them, and got
into the rigging. My wife and | held on
to the rigging, and just as we got hold fast
the ship kceled over, and we were sus-
pended in the air by our hands. My wife
was twenty-five years of age, strong wo-
man, and | pushed her into the rigging
again. Then the sea swept over us several
times. was dressed in nothing but a
shirt and coat, and my wife had only a
chemise and flannel petticoat so we suf-
fered greatly from cold. My wife was
freezing nine hours in the rigging before
she died The last man saved was the
first mate and l think they could have
saved my wife at that time. Her last words
were, to an officer, "Please give me some
thing, if only handkerchief, to save me
from freezing" but the officer, though
warmly clad himself refused to aid her.
"a Halifax paper gives the statement of
First Officer FIRTH, to the effect that he
staid by my wife until she perished.
This is false. He did nothing for her.
/ think he is the biggest coward God ever
made. A number of other passengers
corroborated this. tried as a last eff
fort to save my wife to cross the deck from
the mizzen rigging to the fore part of the
ship, and while dozens who made the at
tempt were washed overheard, | was sue
cessful. | asked Captain Williams to try
and save my wife. He replied: Fetch
your wife, If you want her saved;' but that
was impossible, as | could not cross the
deck again, A lot of sailors cried Save
the women but none dared try. II was
too late. When last saw my wife she
was frothing at the mouth, and nearly
dead. We were bound for Boston. am
a bricklayer by trade, and have no friends
in the city, ,"-BOStOn Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-25
A Young Girls HerOism.

A YOUNG girl named Lottie Dougherty
recently died at Millville, N. j., from the
effects of wound sustained by her during
successful effort to save the lives of
nearly thousand people. In August
last, according to the Millville Republican,
the deceased, while occupying the post of
telegraph operator at Eagle Station, on the
line of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad,
was placed in position of responsibility
which might have proved too much for
most men. During a fearful thunder
storm, an immense tree was struck by
lighting and thrown across the railroad
track, Almost at the same moment, the
telegraph apparatus was disabled Find
ing it impossible to send message to
warn the approaching train of danger, the
brave girl seized a red lamp and ran up
the line swinging it above her head. The
engineer saw the signal in time to avoid a
fearful disaster. The engine ran against
the tree, however, with sufficient force to
disconnect a heavy branch, which struck
the girl on the shoulder, and inflicted the
injuries that resulted in her death. The
passengers were so grateful for their
escape that an attempt was Immediately
made to reward her; but she firmly de
clined to accept anything for having done
her duty. Such acts of personal heroism
should not be allowed TO go unrewarded,
and the men and women who were on the
train on that August night might have
now an opportunity TO mark their appre-
citation of poor Lottie's bravery by caus-
ing handsome monument to be erected
to her memory.-N. Y. Times,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-25
American Teeth.

IT is said by those who have taken
pains to inform themselves on the subject,
that there is no country in the world,
civilized or savage, where bad teeth are
so generally the rule, and good ones so
rare an exception, as the United States.
And there is probably no other nation
who so generally swallow tea and coffee,
hot enough to scald the throat, and then
"cool off" by an immediate draught of
ice-water. An Englishman would regard
such habit as absolutely suicidal, and he
is amazed that sensible Americans should
so recklessly jeopardize health and life.
AT English hotels, people can, of course,
have whatever they demand and pay for,
as at pubLic-hOuSeS elsewhere; but i'll pri-
vate families in England, even the wealthy,
the use of ice is only moderate and occa-
sional-not by any means the constant,
everyday, excessive affair it is with us;
and there it is never taken Immediately after
hot drinks, as at breakfast and supper
among Americans, neither do English peo-
pie eat irregularly, and at all hours between
meals, as do SO many of our countrymen
"a practice by which the digestive or
gans must become impaired, and the gen
eral health suffer, even if the teeth did not.
Another deleterious practice, common in
our large cities especially, is the excessive
use of ice-cream and sOda-water Nothing
is more common on summer evenings than
for young men to swallow, at their boarding
houses, cup or two of coffee 60tJing hot,
and as rapidly as if they were drinking
for wager; and then TO rush out for an
ice-cream or glass of soda, "to cool off
with"-the 'tiuitsyrups" of the soda
water often containing fusil oil and other
poisons, apart from the deleterious effects
on the teeth of these extremes of heat and
cold following each other in quick sue
cession.
A distinguished dentist told me recent
ly, that it was difficult TO conceive of any
thing more ABSOLUTELY deStructige to the teeth
than the simultaneous use Of cold and hot
drinks. And he added that he had known
some scores of Europeans who came to the
United States with teeth that, with the
habits of life to which they had been ac-
customed at home, would probably have
lasted to extreme old age-glad, in less
than five years to avail themselves of the
services of dentist to manufacture an
artificial "set"
Surely something may be done to avert
this widespread curse of tooth-ache, and
discolored uncomely teeth, or the only
alternative that remains of wearing those
not "to the manor born;" so that Ameri.
cans of future generations, at least, may
cease to enjoy the unenviable distinction
of belonging to t0OthtesS nGtSon.-,Sctence
of Health.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-04-25

heart, and it doesn't matter ,oho did it, you
must thank Him. You know He has
promised special care and blessings to
the widow and the fatherless."
When, an hour later, the committee
gave report of their visit to the "Young
Ladies' Benevolent Society,"" they all de.
clared themselves abundantly repaid for
the trouble and selEdenial it had cost,
and voted unanimously to continue the
good work so happily begun, by minister
ing to the comfort of the needy as they
should find opportunity Wild, frolic-
some Bess said it was the .jotItest fttR IN
the ac0rld-Chrtsttdn Unt0R