The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-19

are hundred to one that he wouldn'
keep his word.
, GEORGE W. HARDwICKE, ESQ.,, edi.
tor Of the Lynchburg Republican, was 10
f the city yesterday. f'ia't
The SAME text books as now will be
used in the Richmond public schools for
the next three years.
| JUDGE HUGHES, who is now in Nor
folk, will reopen the q. s. District Court
here on Wednesday next.
THE BEST MACHINERY for manufac-
turing ice is cold weather. We were def
cient in our supply the past winter.
WHY ARE THE CHANGERS like boys
playing at marbles? Because their high
est ambition is to knock out the ''middle
man."
| The WALLACE SISTERS are receiving
many laudatory puffs from the papers Of
this state. The puffs are good, now let us
see what the pie contains.
MOSES P. HANDY, esq, of the New
York Tribune, returned from the West
yesterday on brief visit to his family in
this city. He is looking well and enjoys
travelling.
HE POPE says any of the members of
his church can be ga Granger, and with
the Changers stand" if he finds nothing
therein conflicting with his conscience or
the creed of the Catholic Church.
The PEOPLE OF ALEXANDRIA not
content with their abundant supply of Po-
tomac herring, now propose to make
Roach sheriff. These be stiff-necked
and rebellious generation--a scaly set in
deed.
A CHURCH HILL father keeps his boy
in at night by claiming him to the wall.
Such violent measures are not required in
the heart of the city. Have fellow call
on his big sister, and he'll never leave
the house.
YOUTHFUL MALE CITIZENS begin to
figure in the police reports as emulators of
Samson. 1t appears that they can endure
the sings and arrows of outrageous fortune
but the police cannot. A distinction and a
difference.
MAJOR N. III. HoTcHKIss, travelling
agent of the York River and Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroads, was seen the other day
The latter is chief of police Of the thriving
and adjacent and precincts.
IT IS NOW 267 YEARS since Captain
John Smith hoped ashore at jamestown,
Va, and not quite that length of time since
the Indian king, Powhatan, had his head
in chancery, a short distance below Rock
etts, Oh the north side of James river.
Pocahontas then saved him.
MICHAEL MALONEY, indicted in New
York conformity with ex-Deputy Sheriff
Conklin and John Maloney for stealing
Mr.. Croft's gold certificates, while that
unfortunate Virginia gentleman was on
frolic, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to the state prison for three years.
REFINED CHALK, wet with glycerine
and rosewood, forms q cooling lotion for
redness OF the nose or face. Eat fruit,
walk frequently and use medicated baths
to cure it. 1t proceeds generally from in
herited humors in the blood. Sometimes
however ''the bloom is on the rye."
On TUESDAY, Mrs. E. Holzinger,
president of the Ladies' Hebrew Benevo-
lent Association, and wife of Deputy
Sergeant Holznger, of this city, was
waited upon by committee Of four ladies
from the ASSOCIATION, and presented with
beautiful silver water-pitcher and waiter.
SOME REPORTERS, when they go out on
u Coui oitci ncWSs are thoughtful euOuB"
to leave on their desks manuscript histo-
ries Of themselves, in case of an emergency
They will sometimes, such is their enter
prise, Join in fraternal suicide for no other
purpose than to get their obituary remain
ders into print.
A MASSACHUSETTS civil engineer and
New York Herald reporter are princi-
pal characters in the new Verne romance,
to be published in Scribner's, and the
story is of prisoners of the late war es-
Gaping from blockaded Richmond in a
balloon, and being blown away by a hur.
ricane 1000 miles to "The Mysterious
Island" in the Pacific.
The NEW YORK HERALD has sent
Jimmy Cowardin, of this city, as its COM
missioner to North Carolina to investigate
and report on the mysterious mountain
quakings lately heard there. At last &C.
counts Mr.. Cowardin was busily engaged
compiling information with twenty. eight
foot crow-bar. and sulphuric indications
were visible to the olfactories. At the
same time Peter B. Borst, Esq.,, had q
narrow-gauge railroad completed to within
few miles of the earthquake, and would
soon start passenger train.