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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-19
STATE NEWS.

The Lynchburg Republican has entered
upon its 34th year.
interior papers report the woods and
mountains as full of deer and other game
George Parrish had his hand blown of
while quarrying near Lynchburg, Friday
IA. X. Chandler has sold his farm
called Saulsberry, near Centreville, Fair.
fax county, to Landon Carter, for $40, 000
The Virginia Farmers association
meets at Christiansburg, on the 26th,
when Ex-Governor Walker is expected to
make an address.
William Taylor, employee at the Har.
risonburg branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, recently fell from the cars
and was cut in two. 54s. y,,ss
Jordan Grant, colored, has been lodged
in Jail at Danville charged with numbering
Lloyd Hairston, colored, in Henry county,
in dispute over game of cards. N
Colonel Thomas f. Goode, Of Neck
lenburg, has retired from the bar. He
was one of the most successful lawyers in
Virginia, and has amassed considerable
fortune. FL
The people of Fincastle are indignant
because Major Randolph, chief engineer Of
the Valley railroad, reports against the
practicabilitv of making Fincastle q point
on the road.
Governor Richard Coke, of Texas,
and Colonel d. U. Barziza of the House
Of Delegates, of that state, are both ma
tives of Williamsburg and graduates OF
William and Mary college.
Rev. James B. Taylor, jr., of Gull
pepper Courthouse, has been elected pastor
of the Baptist church at Danville, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of the Rev. Thomas Hume.
Thomas P. Crawford, residing near
Mt. Sidney, Augusta, went home from the
village Tuesday night and was found dead
Wednesday morning. He is supposed to
have died of disease Of the heart.
Sam Chambers, North Carolina coun-
terfeiter, arrested at Bristol, has been
lodged in jail at Lynchburg, until requi-
sition can be obtained from Governor Kem-
per for his transfer to North Carolina.
--Curran Burruss, of Pamunkey, tested
the relative tension Of his leg and tree,
by riding his horse full tilt against the
latter. The splints that now encase Mr..
Burruss' leg did not come from that tree.
1t is stated that Virginia has more of
her population at college than any other
country save Scotland, also that Virginia
has at her several colleges more students
beyond her borders than any other state in
the Union.
John Farmer, youth of about sixteen
years of age, was found dead on Tuesday
morning last. 18th instant, two miles be-
low Buckingham Courthouse, on the New
Canton road. He was loaded with whisky
and it froze in him.
ri. w. Holmes, United States mail
agent between White Sulphur and Hunting
ton, who was paralyzed while discharging
his duties on the 10th of last month, died
on Sunday last, at his home in Union,
Monroe county, West Virginia, whittier he
had been carried.
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Cheap TRANSPORTATION.

The Cheap Transportation convention
lately IN session at Washington, adjourned
Saturday. Prior thereto Josiah Quincy. of
Massachusetts, was elected permanent
president with vice from each state, and
X. Ii. Ferguson as secretary.
1t was resolved that the next session be
held in Richmond, Virginia, the time of
meeting to be fixed by the executive COM
mlttee.
The report Of the committee on water
routes was adopted as follows:
"Resolved, That some system of inland
transportation cheaper than that which
we now possess is the great need of the
country.
Resolved, That water is one of the best
and cheapest means for moving the heavy
products Of the field, forest, and mine, and
that some system of internal transporta.
ton which shall bring into freer intercourse
the different sections Of the country is i'm.
peratively demanded, if we would revive
our foreign commerce and increase and de-
velop our domestic trade.
Resolved, That this convention ask of
Congress, as means of affording relief to
the country, the enlargement of the Erie
canal and lake route; the enlargement and
extension of the Illinois and Michigan
canal to the Mississippi river at Rock
Island /; together with the completion of
the work on the Illinois river; the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river; the
Tennessee river route. known as the At
lantic and Great Western canal and the
central water.line through Virginia.
Resolved, That committee be APP
pointed to present these resolutions to the
Congress of the United States, and to ask
its favorable consideration"
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GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Energy is good capital to commence
life on.
Man is caught by his tongue, an OK by
his horns.
People obey willingly where they are
commanded kindly.
There is only one love, but there are
q hundred limitations.
The thinking man has wings; the act
ing man has only feet and hands.
When aman asks you to dinner, he
wants you to talk. when he asks you to
breakfast, he wants to talk to you.
The treasures of the deep are not so
precious as are the concealed comforts of
man locked up in woman's love.
Absolute purity of soul is, perhaps,
never seen here upon earth. There is so
rhuch all about us impure and unclean
that we cannot pass unsullied. Our
souls early lose the wilderness of their
youth, and are thenceforward soiled be-
yond our cleansing.
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Items.

Items.
WINTER is now beginning to show us
the drift of its meaning.
NOTHING comes nearer the genuine
than thorough counterfeit.
The DEEDS that men do live after them;
and so, unhappily do the other docu-
ments.
No MAN need feel physical misery
when he can lift his panes by raising a
window.
The LECTURERS are making no money !;
but the people appear to be more comfor-
table than they have been in many winters.
REALITY PLANTS q thorny hedge
around our dreaming, while the sporting
ground of the. possible is ever free and
open.
WE REGRET TO LEARN that our young
friend, David Richardson, esq.,, clerk of the
police court, is detained from the perform
ance Of his duties by indispositon.
A LARGE SHAWL PIN was recently
found in the interior department of Sidney
COW, and the rest of the unfortunate
woman still remains to be heard from.
ON THE BODY of PROSTATE individual
who was found, not to put too fine point
upon it, dead drunk, last night on Main
street, appeared the mysterious legend,
"Gone Quito take drink. -
THE REASON given by Church Hill
boy this morning for being late at one of
the public schools was, that the boy in the
next house was going to have dressing
down with cord, and he wanted to hear
him howl.
The BOARD OF VISITORS of the Vir-
ginia Military institute will hold their
semi.annual meeting in this city on the
21st instant. The examination of the
different classes has. been concluded, and a
report is to be made to the Governor of the
progress made.
AMONG THE PATENTS GRANTED in
Washington, for the week ending Decem-
Der 80, 1878, was one for "Blade to Agri-
cultural Implements to Winfield Scott,
offs Floyd Court house. 1t was not the
first time either that Scott had hourished q
blade for the defence of his country.
CHESTER WRITES FROM RICHMOND
to Petersburg paper that the income Of
the store-keeper of the penitentiary is re-
ported to be $4,000, and that the board Of
directors of that institution having recon-
mended curtailment of per centage,
Talaferro, the recently elected store
keeper, hesitates to qualify in consequence.
Too sensitive, by a jug full.
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GENERAL ITEMS.

The Potomac river is covered with ice.
Limited States steamer Ossipee has
arrived at Norfolk. fsa e
The Spanish government has sup
pressed three Madrid newspapers.
Tho railway viaduct at Torauella,
Spain, fell Saturday killing thirty-three
workmen.
In Spain General Dominquez com.
mands the central army operating against
the Carlists.
The steamer City of Panama, for As
pinwall, is detained at New York by a
strike of her engineers.
The printers of Boston on Saturday
celebrated the 18Sth anniversary of the
birth of Benjamin Franklin.
The Indians at Vermilion lake are
dying of starvation owing to scarcity of
game and failure of wild rice. They are
eating their own children.
lin Texas. Governor Davis still holds
out and no transfers of either state offices
have been made. His friends say he will
await the result of the Cabinet meeting at
Washington to-day.
All the Sunday concert saloons and
IiCalACo VI 1NOW IOrh WcTt Ill luil Dldbl
Sunday, Notwithstanding police prohibi-
ton. The Germania and Stadt theatres
and Terrace Garden only were closed.
The board of trustees of Vanderbilt
University met in Memphis Saturday and
elected their professors in the literary and
scientific departments. The board will
meet again in April at Nashville, when
the other chairs will be filled and the
organization completed.
The circus is wintering. near Quincy,
Mass, and the royal beasts are, fgurative-
" speaking, of course, in high feather. A
Bengal tiger recently breakfasted on q
lady's shawl. and an Alaska dog made
mince-meat of two white peacocks.
The tomfoolery of celebrating mard
gras, or holding carnival, is to be
observed in New Orleans again this year,
and great preparations for the event are
already being made. This sounds strange
in the face Of an effort made in Congress
the other day to get the general government
| to vote relief to the people ofsome portions
of Louisiana to keep them from starving
"A short fat man. says the Detroi
Free Press. rushed into grocery hous,
on Woodward avenue the other day, ant
asked: lis it true that Congress proposes
to re-establish the tariff on tea ?'' "That'
what the papers say" replied the grocer
"Then believe I'll lay in stock befor
the rise. Give me a quarter of poun,
of your dollar Japanien continued til,
citizen as he drew out his wallet.
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,.
MONDAY, January 10.

MONDAY, January 10.
,Senate.-The Senate met at IL O'Clock
M, President in the chair. Prayer by the
Rev. DIR. Garlick.
Several bills of private nature were
reported from committees and advanced
on the calendar.
Senate bill, reported from the committee
on general laws in relation to subscriptions
by counties, cities and towns to works of
internal improvements, was read twice and
tabled.
The same committee reported that they
had had under Amusement that portion of
the Governors message relative to abolish
ing the Office of superintendent of public
buildings and deem it inexpedient to do so;
recommend that superintendent of pub
lie buildings be appointed at salary OF
81 900 year, and that the power to APP
point be vested in the governor. The re-
port was considered and tabled.
Mr.. Wynne offered joint resolution,
which was laid over under the rules, amend
ing the law in reference to the distribution
of the new Code.
The amendment proposes to vest the
power to fix the price Of. the Code in the
committee on library, instead Of the secre-
tary OF commonwealth and superintendent
of public printing, with the power to sell !;
also that the fund accruing from the sale
be placed to the credit of the library fund
instead of the general treasury fund, as
heretofore, &c.
By Mr.. Smith-Bill in relation to pay
of sheriHs and sergeants, referred. Reso-
luton was adopted that the Senate meet at
o'clock p. m. until otherwise ordered.
| Adjourned.
| House.-The House met at / p. M,
Speaker Hanger in the chair.
| A number of bills, resolutions, etc.,
were introduced and referred, among them
a bill to alter the present law in regard to
chancery dockets, and resolution to reduce
toll for ground corn to one-tenth also
bill to alter the law in relation to the
granting of charters by circuit courts.
| Mr.. Ould introduced bill allowing
Union-Station M. e. church to mortgage
its parsonage to secure debt.
Resolutions by Mr.. Armstrong, askine
the board of public works for list of al
stocks owned by the state in works of in
ternal improvement, and what dispositio
has been made of them also indebtednes
of such institutions to the state.
Also by same, resolution inquring int
the expediency of extending the Brock,
Gap, Hardy and Hampshire railroad ives
to the Ohio river, AND. east via Masanuttol
to Petersburg.
| ByJ. Horace Lacy-A resolution enqulr
+ ing into the expediency of instructing tn
Virginia senators in Congress and request
ing her representatives to use their infu
ence to secure to the state her just shar
in the distribution of the national currency
etc. Ht
The bill amending the law in referenc
to the salaries of city and county Judge
was reported on adversely; also bill i
reference to larceny.
! Favorably reported on, bill surrender
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evening State SrarnaL
CAPITOL NOTES.

General Jubal A. Early, always unique
and original in his views, is credited with
saying that the Virginia representation in
Congress has never been of any use to us,
and that he is in favor Of abolishiDg it. and
for the United States government to pay
over to Virginia the salaries of The eleven
senator's and members, being about
100000.
The legislative mind is now exercised by
the query, wha. shall be done with all the
eminent retired Virginia statesmen which
the recent contest for senatorial honors
evoked from their shady retreats? A
solution of the conundrum would probably
develop one of the most interesting Of
human problems.
The Lexington Virginia GazettTsays Of
our new senator: "He was shot in the
war, and the lead in him has been cork
and not sinker. He was born in Camp
bell, doctored in Appomattox. a Know
Nothing, wounded, had heat. Of
4" Claims don't drink, poor speaker and
q clever follow, plain family nsg-safe
and decent
A countryman applied few days ago
to the Richmond Chamber of Commerce
for its aid in getting the Legislature to pass
a law which would enable the farmers to
procure money with which to till their
lands. He was told to go back and come
with country influence and he might get
what he asked for; that recommendation
from Richmond would be sure to kill it.
He was further comforted with the remark
(Which is said to be true) that tho state leg
islation for the past seventy-fve years has
been invariably inimical to the cities Of the
The House committee on roads are exc
aiming into all the authorities respecting
restrictions thrown around railways, with
a view of framing law to punish willfu
negligence on the part of engineers or con-
ductors. A cry has come up from the
rural districts, and the useful class referred
to are to be legslated into toeing straight
line hereafter. Pa'ia ~
It is said that Ex-Governor Walker will
make Richmond his permanent abiding
place.
Several of the House and Senate COM
tees who have been hard at work, perfectipg
for legislative action, have made
progress. With good working
committees much of successful legislation
begins.
The Governor to-day offered a reward
of $50 each for the apprehension Of Will
liam Brown and Robert Harris, colored,
charged with burglary in King and Queen
county. ei
The commission of Robert e. Withers,
esq.,, as senator Of the United States from
Virginia, from March 4th, 1875, was is
sued to-day by Governor Kemper, on a
large sheet of parchment, ornamented
with the grea. seal of state. ~.
Owing to some accident on the Fred
ericksburg railroad this morning number
of the officials of the House and Senate
were detained from their arduous labors,
among them Clerk Bigger Of the House.
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is true. 1t is no humbug; the recipe is printed
around each bottle. A circular containing
certificates of wonderful cures of rheumatism,
neuralgia, lock-iaw, sprains, swellings, burns,
scalds caked-breast, poisonous bites, frozen-feet,
govt, salt-rheum, ear-ache, &C.. and the recipe
of the Liniment will be sent gratis to any one.
1t is the most wonderful healing and pain-reliev
ing agent the world has ever produced. 1t sells
as no article ever before did sell, and it sells be-
cause it does just what it pretends to do. One
bottle of the CsNrAUR LINIMENr tor animals
yellow wrapper) is worth hundred dollars fol-
spawned, strained or CALLED horses and mules,
and tor screw-worm in sheep. No family or
stocl-owner can afford to be without CEsrAun
LISrMRsr. y. b. ROSE & Co., SO Broadway New
York.
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SOME people will tell jokes on all sub
jects. A ''praying bando isnow visiting
Watertown. The Times relates that one
of the band accosted a spectator with the
question, "Are you Christian ?" 'No,
sir" was the reply, ~ am one of the
editors of the Democratic paper of this
city" "For Gods sake, then, let US
pray" was the immediate response of the
questioner. That was rather q severe
test of the efficacy of prayer, but was the
best evidence Of the indomitable faith Of
the "brother.D
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THEPooR CARED FoR.---At the morn
ing services yesterday at the First Presby-
terrain church, it being collection day for
the poor of the congregation, the pastor,
DR.. Preston, said he was authorized by the
board of deacons to make the gratifying
announcement that the fund for that pur-
pose up to the present time had been am
pie for the comfortable maintenance Of
those who were dependent upon the
church, notwithstanding that the number
of these was three times as great as any
previous winter.
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Reported Disaster to n Skating Party
--Twenty-Seven Persons said to be
Drowned.
CHICAGO, January ia special from
Grand Rapids, Michigan, say report is
current there that while party of people
were skating on the river at Burr Oak, on
the Michigan southern railroad, one person
broke through, and the rest of the party
twenty-seven or twenty-eight- to
the rescue, broke through also and were
drowned. No particulars are given and the
report lacks confirmation.
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FIRES.

BosToN, January 19.-Leavey & Co.'s
stamping and japaning works; at Cam.
bridgeport, have been burned. Loss,
100000.
WHEELING, w. VA, January ia
dispatch from Charleston, West Virginia,
says fourteen business houses and a num-
Der of others have been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
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PIETY, according to Mr.. Beecher, is the
best cure for scolding wife; but we are
not told whether the wife must have it or
the husband. Everybody has heard of the
lady who was in the habit of scolding till
she was black in the face and then striking
up the hymn. " Nearer, my God, to
Thee" II that's the sort of piety recon-
mended by Mr.. Beecher, we beg TO inform
him that he doesn't know what he is talk
ing about.
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1~ II. MICK,
AUOTIoNEER AND COMMISSION MER-
CHANT l4I4 MAIN STREET

On consignment, large and desirable stock
OF FURNITURE, CRoCKERY, GLASSWARE
DRY GOODS HATS, GAPS, NOTIONS, CLOTH
ING, sc.
. would respectfully call the attention of the
citizens Of Richmond and public generally, to
this large and varied stock of the above named
goods, embracing as 1t does nearly every article
to be found In wel-stocked house. The most
of these goods have been purchased since the
great financial crisis. at greatly reduced prices,
which enables me to offer to the trade and con-
s,imers, at private sale, greater Inducements
than can be found elsewhere in the city.
AUCTION SALES DAILY.
Consignments solicited. Outdoor sales
promptly attended to.
Fl. MCCORMICK,
oc4 Auctioneer and Com. Merchant.
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STATE PROXIES IN RAILROADS.
The board of public works have made the
following appointments
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, proxy,
r. w. Burke, Stanton, vice Henry d.
Smith, deceased; Valley Turnpike COM
pany, directors on part of the state, s. G..
Roller, Augusta; Benjamin Crawford,
Staunton Robert Lasky, Harrisonburg !;
George A. Hupp, Strasburg; Henry Kim
eel. Winchester proxies in same, W. g.
Sterrett, Staunton; r. G.. s. Meem,
Shenandoah; Thomas Moore, Rockbridge.
A commissioner was appointed to en-
quire into the condition OF the Staunton
and Parkersburg turnpike.
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TEN sEAMEN DRowNEr
wAsHrNaros.
Loulslana Matters.


WASHINGTON, January 19.--In the
Senate Mr.. Morton will not press Louisiana
matters until some conclusion has been
reached upon financial affairs. He may then
yield to other business and indefinitely post.
pone. McCreery of Kentucky and
Hamilton Of Maryland are in favor Of fore
ing direct issue upon Pinchback's creden.
tials. Stevenson's amendment, which will
be voted upon before Morton's motion to
seat Pinchback upon prima facie, will be
further amended by Ferry, and in this he
will be supported by Carpenter, instruct
ing the committee Of privileges and cleo
tons to report q bill for new election in
that state. The trouble hinges upon by
whom and how the new election shall be
managed.
Congressional
WASHINGTON, January 19-Smate.
The financial discussion was resumed this
morning.
House. The morning hour was occupied
in the call of states.
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ing state jurisdiction over Federal ceme-
teries in Henrico and at Danville.
Adversely, bill to prevent pulling down
and leaving down fences, etc.
Reported on favorably, bill to organize
chain-gangs in counties; also, bill to
establish the Virginia club at Norfolk !;
also, bill to amend the charter of the
Female Humane association, of the city of
Richmond.
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CASTORIA.--Is more than substitute
or Castor Oil. 1t is the only safe article in exis-
tence which is sure to regulate the bowels. cure
wind-colic and produce natural sleep 1t is
pleasant TO take. Children need not cry and
mothers may Sleep
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MEMBERS Of the General Assembly
wishing The JOURNAL left at their rooms
every afternoon, by prompt and reliable
carriers, will please leave name and adj
dress at our Office.
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EX-GOVERNOR HENRY A. WISE
We regret to learn that Ex-Governor Wise
continues very i'll. The carbuncles with
which he is afflicted are charging their
area. The last time he was operated on
his condition was such as to require the
use of chloroform,
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MISSOURI.
Indian Raid.

ST. LOUIS, January 1S.-Captain
Wykoif, Of the United States army, who
has arrived here from Fort Concha, Texas,
reports that on Monday last while at Fort
Griffin, he learned that the Comanche In
dams had just raided settlement in that
vicinity and had driven off fifty horses.
Troops have gone in pursuit.
Captain Wykoff also reports Indians
about the Fort Sill reservation, and it was
believed they were on a raid.
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VENICE ceased to be free port with
the close Of 1873, royal decree subjecting
all merchandise not destined for re-export
or for storage in the customs warehouses
to payment of certain specified duties on
and after January LIST, 1874.
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LOOKING-GLASsES, PICTURE
FRAMES, &C.

Large assortment constantly on hand.
FRAMES Of every style and all sizes MADE
To ORDER at short notice, 20 per cent.
cheaper than any place in the city
We are also agents for the celebrated STATEN
ISLAND DYE WORKS. Parties living at a
express and have them returned the same day.
All goods left with us will receive prompt atten-
ton ANDREWS PETERSON,
POT Broad Street, between Second
and Third streets, Richmond, Va.
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