The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-28
evening State au,lrnal.
CAPITOL NOTES.

for grapple with the absorbing topic Of
interest on money. The interest Of many
of the grapplers in money mot to speak
of interest,) is bounded by the narrow
horizon of six dollars per day.
The joint resolution extending time
for collection of taxes and county and
township leyies for year 1878, is now a
law ty the approval of the Governor. III
Gov. Kemper is importuned to release
Mr.. McCarty, the imprisoned duelist, from
his confinement in the city Jail because,
among other reasons, he has been subjected
to nine months confinement to his room,
and had endured untold agony from his
wound, and is even now weak, feeble and
in suffering condition.
In the matter of the contested election
from Chesterfield, of Joseph Walker vs..
John W. Wake, for seat in the House of
Delegates, the plaintiff being Republican,
the indications are unfavorable to Wake,
the sitting member, and new election
will probably be ordered. Eaa E .r
Committees of the House and Senate
are trying to agree on some plan to DIS
pose of the state penitentiary on advan.
tageous terms. The proposition to lease it
out would no doubt be eagerly embraced,
but in the absence OF somebody who
desires to embark in that speculation the
project languishes. Meanwhile the con-
sideration OF the penitentiary and similar
subjects have been referred to a sub-com-
Mite consisting of Senators kirkpatrick,
Helladay, and Greever on the part of the
Senate, and Messrs. Fulkerson, Kolner,
Jordan, and A. j. Clark on the part of the
House, with instructions to report as soon
as practicable. Eg sa.i.a'. .'s.s..-r
Messrs. William P. Palmer and
Sherwin McRae are daily employed in the
state library synopsizing the state papers
with a view to publication. Whether the
game be worth the candle remains to be
seen. A part of these archives have al
ready been printed. .,--. Peg -7sss
It is not to be inferred because the
House dismissed the bill Incorporating the
grand lodge of the Independent Order of
Good Templars of Virginia, that the men,
bers are not, as general thing, in favor of
temperance. Hardly any of them fail to
take their bitters regularly. aasa r.
The Governor to-day commissioned the
following notaries public, viz: William Il.
Gaines, Roanoke station, Charlotte county,
and j. P. O'Ferrall, Harrisonburg, Rock
ingham county. r... ........... ..... .
His Excellency also refused to release
Philetus Tredo from the city Jail, where he
had been sent for three months for an as
sault, by Police Justice Joseph j. White.
He also refused to release from the peni-
Tertiary Nelson Poore, sent thither on May
20, 1866, for IS years, for horse stealing,
by the circuit court Of Campbell county.
The contested election case in the House
from Greensville county of VIM. A Reese
VS.. P. K. Jones, sitting member, was ter
minated to-day by the unseating of Jones
and the ordering Of new election. The
vote of the House on Reese's proposition
to become jones' successor showed that
that body did not entertain an exalted
opinion of his claims thereto. Jones, who
is colored man. on the contrary
was unseated solely on account of doubt
as to his residence in the place from which
he was elected. Judge Robert Ould and
General JosephR. Anderson made brilliant
and able but unavailing pleas in Jones'
behalf. Colonel Edgar Allan's speech in
the Senate on the same side, is spoken of
as an argument of unusual power.