The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-06
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BISHOP d. s. DoaaETT is on visit
to Staunton.
THE SONG of the poor girl of the period
--"Crum, oh Crum with me-"
ONE OF THE LIvELIEsT English set
tiers Of which Virginia can boast is named
Moth. a
The WHALING BUSINESS-except in
schools-is rapidly becoming extinct in
this country.
BARLEY is said to have advanced in
price, and the next thing we shall hear of
is lager doing the same thing.
A HAND-oRaAN is the latest excava-
ton at Pompeii. The ancients had their
torments as well as the moderns.
THERE ARE twenty.four lodges of the
colored order of Good Samaritans in this
city, and seventy-one in the state.
A FEW DAYS AGO we had the anniver.
sary of St. Blazes. Next we shall have
something in hand Of st. By lingo.
WE SHOULD LIKE to see Mr.. Hamlet
play Edwin Booth we refer, Of course. to
Mr.. Hamlet Of the Kentucky legislature.
So FAR the ssmean temperature" of
February has been greatly in excess of
January. Most of it has been very mean.
ONE THING, said an old topper, was
never seen coming through the rye, and
that's the kind of whskey one gets, now
a-days.
SARAH PINCKNEY is captain of q
Mississippi steamer, and anticipates her
engine whenever it is necessary to have
blowing up.
COLONEL THOMAS F. OWENS, the
late gallant and accomplished aid to Gov
ernor Walker, selects Norfolk as his future
abiding place.
THE cows UDDER is the true fountain
of youth. Buttermilk is attracting great
attention as an article of diet that will pro-
duce longevity.
AN INFANT of Rose Turner, colored,
residing at the corner of Grace and Second
streets, was smothered in bed Thursday
night accidentally.
THE Virginia Stats Gazette. ofthis city,
has recently changed hands, and is now
under the capable conduct and management
of DR.. John II. Pein.
The ORDER of the Sons of Temperance
is very popular one among our colored
fellow-citizens. Their Divisions Of the or
der in this city are very prosperous.
The SOUTHERN HISTORICAL Asso-
CITATION will probably hold meeting in
this city on the 18th, and be addressed by
General Wade Hampton and others.
AN ADVERTISER of real estate in this
vicinity reports more weather to the acre,
and at cheaper rates, than can be found in
any other portion of the civilized globe.
BRoAD-sTREET METHODIST CHURCH
was filled last night, and the LARGE crowd
listened with wrapt attention to the read
ings from the poets by Professor Valen-
tine.
NEARLY ALL REFORM MOVEMENTS
reach point, sooner or later, where they
have more to dread from injudicious lead
ership than from their pronounced ene-
| mics.
THE FEBRUARY AGRICULTURIsT has
suggestive paper on profit from Hot
BEDS" by j. B. Root, and numerous sea-
sonable articles on farm, garden and house,
hold affairs.
LAWYERS who attend only to the collec-
ton of small claims are delighted at the
bill introduced in the General Assembly
to increase the jurisdiction of justices to
one hundred dollars.
JOHN f. REGNAULT, ESQ.,, of Rich
mond, Grand Lecturer of the Knights
Templars of Virginia, will visit Winchester
Commandery, X. T., in his official capaci-
ty, about the 10th instant.
In THIS COLLECTION DISTRICT the in
ternal revenue collections for January,
1874, were 1886, 168.57; for January,
1873, $3.50, 024.05, showing decrease for
January, 1874, of s9,855.48.
THE CITY OF RIcHMoND--which is
rarely prompt in paying its general cred
itor--is vigorously exacting the twenty per
cent. additional upon bills of Taxpayers,
who failed to pay in time.
We WERE IN ERROR in saying that
the ground hog went back into his hole
after coming out on the End Of Feb
ruary. He staid out, and this, accord
| ing to ancient chronology, is sign that
winter is over.
The FURNITURE which is to ornament
the St. James hotel, is now being selected
in New York. Thomas w. Henniger,
! esq.,, the new landlord, was the first boni-
face of the Spotswood hotel, and possesses
1 great experience in the hotel line.
THE BOARD of United States engineer
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