The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-20
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oei vi tne Lee Uuaru OF tnlS CITY.
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The spring lamb moveth mp this way,
Next Sunday will be Pater Patrie day.
CoLEMAN's DEFALCATIoN was $16,-
600 in bonds, and he is in bonds for it.
1T rs MUCH HARDER to climb thu
Jungfrau and Mitterhorn than whisky
horn.
THE fierce blasts of March are antici.
pated with feelings Of dread by the average
citizen.
Forty car loads of freight, destined fol
New York, arrived via Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad yesterday.
Mr.. ROBERT III. MAuRY has been ap.
pointed as expert to unravel the mystic
rious sinking fund disaster.
VIRGINIA members of Congress are
hammering away on that body for re-
duction of duty on leaf tobacco.
THE Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
company are having large track scale
put in near the depot at Hinton.
CALVIN DAVIS has been elected to rep
resent Danville in the Virginia penitentiary
for five years, for stealing horse.
SLEEPING CARS as at present managed,
are productive Of ceibacy. No girl will
marry after seeing an unwashed man in his
sock-feet.
WHAT A JOLLY GIRL to spark would
be one of those nychatopians who cannot
see in the daylight, but do wonderfully
well in the dark.
AN OLD MAID in Massachusetts, has
twentY-eight pet rabbits, and with these for
pets and hot brick for comfort she
manages to get along very nicely.
GEO. B. DEEToN, conductor on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, had his
hand badly mashed while coupling cars at
Gordonsville, on the mornin 6 of the 10th.
The NORFOLK VIRaINIAN is in
quandary to know "whether Governor
kemper has really accepted the position
of Grants Lieutenant and Fugleman."
A MANCHESTER WIFE thus manages
to secure for herself quiet day. She no..
titles her husband in the morning that her
mother is coming to spend the day with
her. g.
OUR NEW RESERVOIR is expected to
cost 100000. fla City Hall is ordered
to be constructed, it will not cost less than
that amount, and may be will 60 as high as
$500, 900, tw ava
THE INVITATIONS to some entertain
ments in this city are printed on large
boards, so that in case of the happening
of an accident one could be carried home
on his admission ticket.
IT MAY BE ASSUMED as a postulate
susceptible of easy demonstration, that
that it is no more, right in law to legislate
about Sunday than any other day. All
the days are equal before the law, or should
be.
IT is STATED as one reason why re-
cent marriage here should be placed in the
category of swell-head affairs that the min
lister got twenty. dollars for his part of the
job. A good woman is cheap at that price,
we think.
CAPTAIN CLAYTON, stevedore, was
seriously injured yesterday by bale of
cotton which struck him in coming down
hatchway at the wharves Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad. lie was bruised
about the head and face, and it is thought
internally injured.
DIR. w. LEIGH BURToN's poetical de-
scriptiou of the skedaddle of the Senator's
on Thursday, has been printed on slips by
Captain G. f. Johnston, newsdealer, 9lS
Main street, and was sold at the Capitol
like hot cakes to-day. 1t is published in
erte',so in the Petersburg News of yester-
day.
A PARTY writing from Little Rock,
Arkansas, says, 'there are very few Vir-
ginians here. l have only met two-Mr.
John w. Rison, formerly of Richmond,
and Mr.. Charles A. Ginnochio. The latter
is an enterprising Italian, who formerly
lived in Petersburg, where he has host
of friends"
IT IS STATED that the affairs of the
"Dollar Savings Bank" of this city
are being investigated. During the late
panic it incontinently "busted," and has
not since shown any signs of vitality. 1t
is alleged that the perspi ration of many a
poor mans eyebrow has been swallowed
up in its financial chasm. ~
The PETERSBURG GUARD, Capt Hill,
the colored company who will the be guest of
| tllC htLuCk6 Oudru dHu OtuCES III tLlo Clty
on the 23rd, are highly spoken of by the
papers of the Coclade City. The News
says "We are betting our pile on the
Guards, for they are equal to the best col
ored company in the State or elsewhere"
WEDNESDAY NIGHT passenger from
the South on the Northern bound, got out
at the Eighth street depot, in this city, to
wet his whistle. Meanwhile the engine
blowed its whistle and started and he was
left behind. Procuring the aid of Police
man Pryde he was shown to the telegraph
office, where he telegraphed for his bag
gage. He lost his ride on the sleeping car
however.
AN EVENING CONTEMPORARY favors
q municipal legislature, with two branches
for Richmond, for the reason that they
would afford checks upon each other"
Checks are good. We have many a time in
, vested our last red in q stack. But, Sc
riously, our idea is that the people favor
the two-branched council because the sin.
gle one they have had heretofore have dealt
f too much in checks, for whose payment
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