The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-27
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/ Vi Items.
The brig "Der Pomma," Jahnke, from
Richmond, was at Liverpool 9th instant.
/, No MAN should deprive his family of q
newspaper. If he has not got one of his
own he should use somebody elses.
THE BED BUG is like unto United
States postage stamp, for he requires a lick
ing to develope his useful qualities.
THERE ARE MANY who are of the
opinion that watered milk and mean
whisky are coeyal with the advent of
man.
PATRONIZE YOUR HOME PAPERS.
Recently a lady who suddenly deceased
among strangers was identified by the
papers in her bsstle! $50
A CARGO OF ICE was sunk in He'll
Gate last Thursday. The place where the
article is most needed can be reached
only through that gate.
A FAITHFUL BROTHER, in an uptown
church, recently prayed for the absent
members /" who were PROSTATE on beds of
sickness and chairs of wellness." s..,
lTHAs BEEN DISCOVERED that "a tink-
er's dam" is not profanity, . and by that
same token" as our Milesian friend C'Cal-
lahan observes, " nayther is mill DAM
HoT ALUM WATER is recent sugges-
ton as On insecticide., Tt will DESTROY red
and black ants, cockroaches, spiders,
chintz bugs, and all crawling pests which
infest our houses.
y A DELINQUENT CHURCH-MEMBER in
this town has been tried and found guilty
by his brethren of not always handling
the truth with sufficient carefulness to
meet the demands of veracity.'
GENERAL JOHN E. MULFoRD, who
was attacked With severe spell Of illness
for three months when on a visit from
this city to Boston, has but lately re-
covered sufficiently to get about.
AN ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE during
the coming summer months, which it is
hoped may be attended with success, for
the procurement of permanent pastor
for the Unitarian Uniyersalist church, on
Mayo street. H
The ROADS LEADING INTO THIS
CITY are terribly muddy, and the patience
of many fellow countyman Of the immor-
tai Henry and the God.like Clay has been
severely tested lately in getting his "gard.
ing sass" to market.
ONE OF THE HIGH CoNsTABLE'S DEP
UTIEs lately, on the faith of judgment,
seized the implements of trade belonging
to working shoemaker, and was imme-
diately injuncted by Judge Fitzhugh at the
request Of the disciple of st. Crispin
A BAND OF PRAYING FEMALES at
Piqua, Ohio, recently entered a liquor
saloon there for the practice of their pecu.
liar tactics, but found the proprietor get
ting out of his clothes, and hastily left.
The Washington Republican calls it the
shirt-tail movement
A CLAY.sTREET LADY, who has suf'
fered much from the calls made by Z" his
| lodge" on the time and attention of her
husband, it is said, is at work upon pat.
ent watch, which will have hands so made
and adjusted as to seize the wearer by the
coat collar every night about ten O'Clock
and walk him Oft home. usdl,a rzN
NIGHT BEFORE LAST "one Of the
| loveliest of her sex" was married al
Broad-street Methodist church, on which
occasion the sacred edifice was crowded
to excess. Beauty and brilliancy was len,
to the enchanting scene by the appearance
of some half dozen or more gorgeously
caparisoned bridesmaids
TITS SAID THAT A LADY OF THIS CITY
| has been SO fortunate as to recover evel
| six thousand dollars In gold, which wa!
| left by her late husband, as a special de
posits at one Of the banking institutions o
this city. He died before he could tel
where it was. All hopes of getting it hat
been lost, when suddenly in cleaning up tn,
bank vault the missing package came Ii
4 sight. the widow of the owner producet
the key of the treasure box, named tn,
amount. and gotit. Lucky. rFr3a
i WE RECENTLY HAD THE PLEASURE
! Of inspecting portfolio of characters pro
duced by that consummate wit and comb
artist, Major Willie Caskie. No one coul'
look over it without recognizing that tn
artist was to the "manner born.n Itis
legend Of street scenes, viewed throug
grotesque glasses disturbed bu
not robbed of its naturalness. Not tn
hideous stupidity of Mat Morgan, bu
comic art with meaning. Each DRAWN
is interspersed by pungent little poems.
THE FINE TASTE, sense, critical acru
men and rightful appreciation of "the etei
nal fitness of things" leads the averag
! Richmond amusement seeker free to er
tirely neglect very meritorious dramatl
performances Carried on under the auspice
!, Of nome folks, and equally as free to brea
his or her neck in their mad haste to be 0
hand when some foreign singing or TRACED
], duck Of doubtfult talent comes along. Wei
| the fool killer to sail in with his club i
al H,xJ H. x(o~ u
attend to. -tlil4sA 'AsitR aaA N'ahi
( The SEASON FOR PLANTING SHAT
: AND FRUIT TREES has nearly con
q again. The ornamental and Eealthf
j. characteristics Of the one are as patent
the useful and reproducing capaci
s Of the other. A city without shade tire
d is blot on the face of nature a far
without fruit trees is domestic institute