The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-12
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WET, damp, and disagreeable to-day.
GOVERNOR WALKER left for New York
city last night.
IHE Old DOMINION NAIL WORKS
nave resumed operations on Belle Isle.
A RECRUITING SERGEANT is said to
be like the wind, because he blows where
he 'listeth
BROTHER j. B. JETER, of the Bap-
tist church, is soon to loquate on what he
saw in Rome.
A PATENT has been granted to Haxall,
Crenshaw Co., of this city, for trade
marks for plows.
WIFE-BEATING and sister-beating is
not uncommon among the minor deyiltrles
practiced in Richmond.
The JOURNAL TYPES Yesterday
changed the name of Revenue Inspector
w. A. Gavatt to W. A. Gooch.
The CASE of Vickefs VS.. James River
Bridge company is set in the city circuit
court for the 2lst instant.
Rev. WILLIAM E. MUNsEY. the elo-
| quent Methodist pulpit orator, will be in
tnis city on the 26th instant.
Rev. RICHARD MCILwA1NE, of Co.
lumba, S. c., recently of the Presby terian
Board Of Home and Foreign Missions, is
in the city.
A MAN ordering clock recently said
he should prefer one made by Telnpes Fu-
glt, as all the best clocks in the neighbor-
| hood had that name on the face.
MEDICINE AND LAW are finely mixed
in the appointment of DR.. John Ii. Win.
free as constable of Manchester township,
Chesterfield county.
@TEMPERATURE.- following is the
range OF the thermometer at Captain g.
+. Johnston's bookstore, 91S Main street
a. m. 43 ga. m. so; II IN. A p. m.
AZ.
| COLONEL THOMAS +. OWENS and his
aid, the governor, were at Williamsburg
lunatic asylum yesterday, celebrating the
one hundredth anniversary of that lnstitu-
ton.
The STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
yesterday appointed number of school
| trustees for different counties of the state.
we omit names, as possessing interest only
to those appointed
IT is SAID that Major Samuel II. Boy
kin, OF Nansemond county, is candidate
| for the office of auditor of public accounts.
The claim will be audited by the next
general assembly.
We KNOW of no article of household
use SO greatly affected by the panic as the
lacteal product of horned cattle. Its value
has been gradually shrinking of late until
its hardly "worth putting IN tea"
Mr.. VIM. Ii. TYLER. of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, has been appointed general
| agent OF the Domestic sewing machine
company for Virginia and North Carolina
with office at No. Sl9 Main street, Rich.
mond, Virginia.
A PARTY OF FOUR GENTLEMEN, from
this city, with five dogs, yesterday
hunted industriously over the ground be
tween Hanover Courthouse and Wick.
hams Crossing, distance Of. sixteen miles
and succeeded in bagging two hares anc
four partridges. They came home tired
and are of opinion that that locality is no
good for game.
The DAMAGES to the Occoquan bridge
on the Alexandria and Fredericksburg rail
road, caused by the rain few week,
since, have been fully repaired, and to-day
trains are passing over it.. The line be
tween the north and south by the Bati
more and Potomac road and its connection
is now unbroken.
THERE IS AN ANECDOTE floatin
around the newspapers about x-Governo
WISE, which gives an account of an affai
Of honor, said to have taken place betwee
Governor Wise and "Old Cooke, of Vii
glnia." The last named was Hon. Richar
Coke, an M. @. from this state, and wa
by no means an old man when the diff
Guilty occurred.