The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-15
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| INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTIONS to-
day amounted to $10,715.20.
A LARGE NUMBER Of Kentucky mules
are being transported over the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad to the east.
"A KEMpER KAMPAIaN KLUB is being
established over Woods drug store, corner
OF Ninth and Nam streets.
RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER at
o., F. Johnston's news and music store,
9lS Main street, to-day I: AT a. m. GO ;
ga. IN. "a I; IL m. 50 +; 3p. m. 50.
STEPHEN WEss, a colored man, was
received at the states prison to-day, from
Russell county, for twelve years for a
lacivious assault.
OUR CATHOLIC FRIENDS cease to-day
their iridium, or three days of prayer. The
Assumption Of the blessed Virgin was cele-
brated to-day.
VIM. JACKSON, condemned to be hung
to-day in Alexandra, for the murder of his
wife, was executed at ten minutes to one
o'clock.
FREDERICKsBURd HAS A BRASS BAND
that "plaYs on the square," McCann's
First regiment band would scorn to do any
IulIlS tiSc.
TRIBBETT's WORM CoNFECTIoNs,' y
Richmond concoction,.. is making its way
slowly but surely among the people of
Farmville at least that is what the local
paper there says.
A CLERK IN THE FIRST AUDITORS IS
OFFICE to-day, in attempting to get on the
Fredericksburg cars, corner Henry and
Broad streets. was thrown into the mud
and split open $35 coat.
MRS. J.. A. WILSON, through the New
York Herald, acknowledges 81, ,752 from
the Virginia, Piedmont and Arlington Life
Insurance company Of this city on her hus-
bands life.
Two cows YESTERDAY stopped train
which was about crossing the Petersburg
bridge. They were not allowed "the right
of way" being unceremoniously kicked
off by the engineer.
The SHERIFF Of Fayette county, Penn
sylvania, having obtained from Governor
Walker permit to take George Riley,
from the Berryville Jail to Pennsylvania
for trial for horse-stealing, has departed
thence for the subject of this brief notice.
THE NEW CANAL STEAMER is named
Edith, and will be run by General Bartlett
between Eighth streets and the Westham
iron works. The boat was built in Phila-
delphia. Her dimensions are as follows:
Fifty feet long, 12 feet breadth of beam, and
4 feet deep. The engine is twelye-horse
power, and she claims to make nine miles
per hour.
TIIETOWN OF MANCHESTER has at last
possession of its corn mill, whose right
ofpossession was so long sturdily resisted
by ono R. D.. Hogan. The prospective
city threw Hogan i'll the courts. Hereto
fore the people over there have been COM
PEELED to use flour. diet that was insult
able to the tone of their stomach.
THE GRAND CIVIL AND MILITARY
EXCURSION to West Point, ON September
list, rendered McCann, leader of the First
regiment band, promises to be grand
affair. The one gold and two silver medals
to be given away to the best shots on that
occasion, will be ON exhibition at West,
Johnston & Co.'s on and after tomorrow
till the day of the excursion.
For SEVERAL DAYS, or rather nights,
past some petty. two-cent scoundrel has
been making malicious attempts to stop
the flow Of water from the capitol pump
at the intersection Of Twelfth and Frank
lin streets. As this pump is great con-
venience to many, 1t is hard to divine the
object in attempting to divert the flow Of
water, save perhaps the innate deyiltry that
abides in some miserable creatures.