The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-24
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ABOUT THIS TIME the gardens of the
wealthy as well as the poor look seedy.
No MATTER where the wind came from
to-day, it was like poor Tom in s. King
Lear, a-cold.
WINSTON BROWN was brought to the
penitentiary to- day from Goochland county
for three years for house, breaking.
A MOVEMENT looking to the stirring
up of moral dellnquents will be initiated
tonight at Union Station Methodist church.
EVERY WOMAN connected with the
temperance movement sets up for censor
mo11tn, but not in The sense O. more rum.
Rev G. 9. BITING, of the Second
Baptist church, will leave in June for q
trip to the Holy Land, and be gone six
months.
SAM Young, an admirable baritone
from Washington, D. c., will sing at AS
semblY Hall tonight in aid of the poor.
In his line he is as ''good as Wheat"
ANDREW F. CRUTCHFIELD, ESQ,
editor of the Baltimorean, native OF this
city, and one of the best fellows in the
newspaper guild, is here on visit to his
relatives.
1T COSTS A DOLLAR year to keep q
chicken. That is it costs the man that
owns it that much, but the next door
neighbor, who has garden, hasn't made
his estimate yet.
The PENITENTIARY CoNvICTs were
preached to Sunday by Rev. Mr.. Massey, of
Albemarle, and Rev. M. L. Lipps, of
Buchanan and Wise, both members of the
House of Delegates.
Rev. PIKE Powers, Episcopal licen.
tate, lately of Albemiarle county, will be in
charge Of the Episcopal chapel, soon to be
erected on Laurel street, near Monroe
Park, by st. James church.
THE LAST CONVICTION OF Bob
ACRES, one Of Colonel Strother's boarders
from Fredericksburg, involved the abstrac-
ton of nine cents and caused his seclusion
for twelve calendar months.
Hon. A. M. WADDELL, M. c., of
North Carolina, delivered, last night at
Association Hall, with much acceptance to
large and appreciative auditory his cee-
brated lecture on ''Amerca before Column
bus.o
HE FOLLOWING are the officers of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians in this city /:
President. w. II. Ward; vice.president,
| Edward Kelley general secretary, Daniel
| Horgan; assistant secretary, James Glib
lin; treasurer, James Sweeney.
Mrs. EMILY j. CHICK, nee King, q
lunatic, from Chesterfield county, who has
been confined in the city Jail for some
some time, awaiting to be sent to an asy-
lum, died on Sunday evening Of paralysis.
Her friends took charge of the body.
THE ESTATE of the late William Barrett,
eminent wealthy retired tobacco manufac-
turer OF this city, has been donated in pro-
portions of $4,000 each to the Richmond
Male Orphan Society, the Richmond Fee
male Humane Association, and St. Paul's
Church Home.
The ATTEMPT of number of gentle.
men in this city to institute movement
in favor of city reform Conservative
ticket is reviewed by old party hacks witt
distrust and alarm, and is pronounced 8
dangerous and uncertain way of betterinf
the condition Of things here. Why?
| MANY YOUNG LADIES who have con
sented to sacrifice themselves on the ALTA
of Hymen, after Lent is over, for the goot
of mankind, are pining for the termination
of the penitental season. The agony 0
the young gentlemen in the meantime a
the slow ebbing of time is perfectly excru
ciatiDg.