The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-03-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Major N. II. Hotchkiss, of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad, is in the city.
Fourteen cases of smallpox have oc-
CURED in the vicinity Of Culpepper.
Mr.. Joseph Percival, an old merchant
of Church View. Middlesex, died recently.
The editor of the Fairfax News wit
messed fox chase from his sanctum few
days ago.
j. f. Early, Ruckersville, has been
granted patent for rotary steam engine
invention.
Work has been entirely suspended on
the Orange and Fredericksburg railroad
for want of funds.
Major Jed. Hotchkiss will probably
arrive at Norfolk in the Allan line steamer
Saturday next.
The new organ in the Baptist church at
Fredericksburg is bully instrument, having
been thoroughly tested Saturday last.
1T is expected that some, ifnot all, the
public schools of Alexandra will be closed
soon for the want of money to carry them
on.
Rev. John L. Pascoe, local minister
of the Methodist Church, died at his resi-
dence, Amherst county, few days ago, In
the Gath year of his age.
MIR. John Edmonds, of Charlottesville,
was relieved of diamond pin worth 5000
while in Washington city Saturday. The
pin was taken from his shirt front while he
was getting out of Car in Pennsylvania
avenue.
Mr.. F. Montague, of the London Tele.
graph, after having spent several days in
Virginia, has returned to Baltimore. 1t is
his intention to make an extensive southern
tour within the next two or three months.
He expresses himself highly pleased with
what he saw in our city and state.
AT meeting OF the Agricultural and
Mechanical association of Northern Virgil
mia, held at Warrenton last Tuesday, G..
| Nj. Bastable was elected president and A..
T. Forbes, corresponding secretary. The
next meeting of the association is to be
held on the 18th instant
The assessed value of real estate in
Essex county is $2,O52,775; personal
s146, 1856; total, $2,199, 76l. Amour,
of state taxation, $7,6O4; county tax.
ton, all kinds, s7,2os; total, si4,sl2
Number of paupers. 35; annual cost o.
! ouPpOIts ts6oVs
The Danville Times has found mar
who has no use for newspaper. This won
derful person knows all about raising to-
bacco, corn, &C., and is well posted as tc
the market price of each; and as be makes
weekly visits to Danville, he has no neet
Of a paper to tell him the local news
Happy man!
| The Lynchburg Republican says tina
city, Ike every other portion Of the south
ern country, has ''too many loafers," ant
wants to know if it ever occurred to thu
"spruce and fippant sprigs Of this super
fluous gentility, who never did stroke 0
useful work in their lives, that they nigh
form considerable addition to the state'
industrious population" The Republi
cans head is entirely level on this point.
The Virginia People, referring to Gov
ernor Walkers recent debt message, han
dies his excellency thusly: ''As 70
J Governor Walker, we are at a loss to com
|, prehend this triple summersault. But
few short months ago he was entirely to
states-right to think of letting the generi
government aid the James River and Kans
: wha canal; and now to get out of littl
financial difficulty, he could sell the las
vestige of states.rights !"