The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-08-18

| MARINE.--Entered to-day at dhe Gus
tOm-house American brig ii. Huston, from
Boston, to load with tobacco for Fiume,
Austria.
The RIGHT SIZE for man is exer-
else.
| THE BEST IRON TONIC for fashiona-
BILE ladies-The flat-iron. 4
A QUESTION OF PRIvILEaE--Asking
to 60 home with o girl.
TINE NEVER ssTAYs.o That accounts
for the great waste Of time.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS to.
day amounted to $4,000. 05.
STARK HAVING IMPROVED his Dixie
plough has obtained a new patent therefor.
A SECONDHAND PULPIT, is said to
serve for crab and oyster stand in down
town restaurant.
IT is NOT GOOD nowadays for a
man to offer his hand, if there's nothing
in it.
1T TAKES TWENTY-FOUR HOURS to
make one day, but good dose Of physic
will make one weak.
THERE ARE SOME MEN who think so
much about religion that they forget to
pay their debts.
RANGE OF THE THERMOMETER at
O. +. Johnston's news and music store,
9lS Main street, to-day: At 6 a. IN. "A
a. IN. 7S; IL IN. SO 3p. m. Sc.
A VERY HEAVY RAIN yesterday
cleaned out the streets and also number
of ''early birds,'' principally in pursuit
OF matutinal cocktails.
A FOND LOVER who serenaded his lady
the other night on Grace street was very
wet when he got through it didn't rain
much either.
WANDERERS ALONG THE sEAsHoRE
may be considered as members of the
coast survey. Richmond's coast survey
delegation is rather small.
A PLACARD in down town barber
shop announces, shoots blacked inside )"
but must not that be very bad for the
stockings?
PIANO-FORTES BEAR TIE BEST
CHARACTER of all manufactured things,
since they are classed as grand, square and
upright.
THE NEW ROOMS OF THE Y. M. c. A.,
in Grants block, next to the Spotswood
hotel site, Main street, were opened to the
public to-day.
ONE OF SNYDER & BOWERS
customers being told that tho 'Incompara-
BILE" stove would save half his fuel, said,
"then I'll take two and save all of it."
PAPER PREPARED BY A NEW PRO
CESS is going to be introduced as material
for clothing. AS it can be made bullet
proof, there will doubtless be a great de-
mand for it here,
A CHARLESTON PAPER is cony inced
that one of the great wants. of the south
is "cheap yarns, manufactured at home.o
This conviction probably accounts for its
fondness for the homemade yarns which
adorn its columns.
THE WHEELER AND WILSON sewing
machine company have bought on Ninth
street the site of the old Blair mansion, adj
joining the Virginia Opera House, and VIII
erect thereon place of business.
THE RICHMOND CHAIN GANG is out
one valuable working member, George
Freeman by name, who on Saturday left
the low grounds of sorrow which encom-
passed him and struck for taller timber.
WILLIS CHURCH, located in grove of
noble oaks thirteen miles from Richmond,
and near Malvern hill, is said to be the
handsomest as well as largest country
church ediiice in the state.
THE CARNEY GUARD, Captain john
son, of this city, went to Petersburg on an
excursion this morning. They mustered
with full ranks and were accompanied by
band of music and troops Of friends.
INTERESTED MATRoNs consider the
appointment Of bachelors as a committee
to award premiums at q baby show an
insult, and SO il is, for how should they
know 'tother from which ?n
Mrs. SARAH LEATuERgoTToM Of
Sidney, was visited by her minister yester-
| day. In pious sort of way he asked
her if she had any religion. The old lady
innocently replied, /" have slight touches
of it occasionally"
THE CHIEF AMUSEMENT of some lads
living on Clay, near Fourth street, is for a
score of them to get on the moonlight side
Of some building and whistle '1en thou
sand miles away" which makes the neigh
bors wish they were.
| CAsToRIA.--Is more than substitute