The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-09

aud acquaintance be forgot
Not if they have any money.
CHURCH PROPERTY is taxed in Cali
~fornja, and all sects are satisfied. .
AN elderly journeyman baker is likenet
unto Virginia, because he is an old dough.
minion.
The ANNUAL MESSAGE of his honor
Mayor Kelley will be submitted to the city
council this evening.
|. TREES LEAVE out their summer clothing,
and are able to don a new green dress with,
out opening their trunks.
The MOTHERS of some young ladies
want everything on the square and there.
tore oppugnate round dances.
Mrs. GEN. RoBT. RANSOM, a lady Of
rare gift, will soon open a select school
for young ladies near Richmond.
THERE WAS A FUNERAL in this city
yesterday Of thirty-five hack power. Eight
ostrich plumes graced the hearse.
IT LOOKS SUSPICIOUS, to say the least,
to see two milkmen go to law about the
the right of possession to a spring.
MAYo's WAREHOUSE, opposite the
Danville depot, covers a acres of ground,
and can store 1900 ~hogsheads of tobacco.
SALvINI HAS A RIVAL in q Kansas
Jail prisoner. He played Samson by lift
ing the Jail door from its hinges anddepart-
ing.
The CAUSE of the mysterious disap-
pearance Of letters between Richmond and
New York and other Northern cities, is to
be investigated. @
SOME OF THE PAYMENTS in this city
look as if ''busthcad" WHISKY had been
spilled OF them. They are disin.egrated
to a painful degree.
SOCIETY WILL CUT YOU DEAD if your
visiting card isn't four inches long by two
inches wide, and of heavy Bristol hoard
slightly tinted or watered.
MANY AMERICAN sovERElaNs, in
imitation of the illustrous Caliph of Bag
dad, in the Arabian Nights, wander about
the streets nightly In disguise.
ADMIRAL FRANKLIN BUCHANAN,
formerly of the United States and Cenfed-
crate States navies, and we'll known in this
city, now resides near Easton. Md.
THE EDITOR of the Manassas Gazette
grieyes because of the absence of shade
trees in his village. An ordinary go-cart
could carry all to be found in the vicinity.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD that Postmaster
General Creswell has appointed VIM. FL. H.
Trice, of Louisa county, Va, mail agent
between Weldon and Washington, al a
salary of 81 400 per annum.
THEY ARE ARGUING the question in
various localities, as water Intoxicating ?"
Here comes a correspondent who wants to
know whether the moderate use Of spruce
gum endangers her immortal soul.
A METHODIST PREACHER named
attached to the Baltimore Confer
ence, has been just made to practically cx-
emplify his patroninical prefix by being
kicked put of church on q well-sustained
charge of immortality.
THE PARTY who succeeds in getting
up a contrivance by which smoke and
cinders can be kept out OF r~ail-car windows
will thereby entitle himself to the respect
full admiration of the present and the graf.
itude of the future travelling generations.
THE WIND MARCHED TO THE FRONT
grandly yesterday. The placid surface of
the basin was agitated to an unusual de.
gree. The deep blue of the sky was only
Hecked here and there by small, isolated
and transient banks of clouds of milky
whiteness. ara a
The EDITOR of the Salt Lake Tribune
has received a communication from a
friend of the Mormon prophet, in which he
says: 81 wonder how long it will be before
the lord comes out of his hidin place, and
take vengeance on you for the way you
have been riting aboit his profit"
GAIL HAMILTON says, piously: "No
man can go into an airy, pleasant church,
sit down in peace among his friends and
neighbors, and fall softly asleep to the
sound of holy words from holy lips, with.
out great gain to the life that now is, and.
| believe and trust, with no loss to that
which is to Gomez
A CRUSADE AGAINST WHISKY IN
RICHMOND would fail not for want of
moral support-there would be plenty of
that-but from too much whisky COM
bined with a prevalent desire to imbibe the
same whenever chance offered the oppor-
tunity, or a ten-cent piece gave the perfect
assurance of the accomplishment of o nip
per. Women can never here engage in a
crusade against the ardent such as she is
now conducting out West, for those who did
such a thing could never hope to maintain
the apochryphal relation known as a soci-
ETY. woman.
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