The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-23

Items.
EX-GOVERNOR Fl. II. WELLS is in
the city.
REEs & Co. have photographs of the
Siamese Twins.
KATE PUTNAM played in Augusta,
Georgia, last night.
Ro. A. PAYNE, long bank officer of
this city, died here yesterday, aged 70
years. ass
MESsRs. RUSH BURGESS AND WILL
LIAM A. GAvETT, of this city, are in
Washington.
The amusement-loving people of this
city are crying out for more CALENDARS
Minstrels and more Oates.
WILLIAM G. ELAN, ESQ.,, special
correspondent New York Times, returned
to his home in this city last night.
ASSEMBLY HALL processes Just now
an s'incarnation Of tragedy" but it is not
as good at drawing as fy-blister would
be.
THE Powhatan Steamboat line is carry
ing to Baltimore Cincinnati pork
brought here by the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad. .4,
THE MILD WEATHER of yesterday and
to-day has revived the ice question. 1t is
arelief to know that there is plenty of it
way down in Maine."
THE GRAND LODGE Knights of Pythias
of Virginia is free from Indebtedness, has
81 ,Ol2.S1 in the treasury, and there is due
from subordinate lodges $S9.40.
THE TWO GREATEST AssAILANTs of
human life in this city last year, as shown
by the medical report, were phthysis,
pulmonia and cholera infantum.
AN EDITOR IN Indiana announces that
he will trade his paper for two swarms of
bees. He wants to exchange his present
attitude for the bee-attitude Of an apiary.
THE ADDRESS at Washington and Lee
University on the 10th, when the anniver
sary of General Lees birth was celebrated,
was delivered by Rev. j. William Jones,
Of this city.
The AMOUNT OF TIME that may be
wasted on tribes cannot, perhaps, be re-
called under more exasperating circum-
stances than in q struggle with greasy
china door knob.
SOME MEN are destined to make a noise
even beyond the grave. A British general,
for instance, was killed in Africa, in 1924,
and his base takers-off converted his cpl
dermis into drum-head.
THE PosTMAsrER-G GENERAL has de-
cided that the new Code of Virginia can
not be distributed through the mails, as it
weighs over four pounds. which is the
maximum weight allowed TO be carried.
THE CIRCUIT COURT of this city has
put out of court the request of William II.
Kinneard and several other Kentuckians,
who claim DIZZY from Sam Miller, de-
ceased millionaire, as his next of kin.
"ARE AMERICANS" inquiries Cleve-
land paper, "becoming a race of liars ?'
| By no means. They like to imagine
things, and in the interest of art a fine in
venton deserves to be indefinitely multi
piled, that's all. $50 .
| AT PUBLIC SCHOOL No. - this morn
ing. little Sam got his gold pen taken away
| for unreasonable scribbling, and the teach
er's desk-key turned on it, and Sam says
that if this course of locking up gold is to
be persisted in, there will be in that school
| financial or some other kind Of disturb
ance.
| MOSES P. HANDY, ESQ.,, has resigned
the position of Most Eminent Grand High
Secretary of the Virginia Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias. 1t is probable that
this gentleman will settle in New York
city. The Norfolk Landmark calls Mr..
Handy "the newspaper hero of the VIZ
ginius."
A PORTSMOUTH, MAN, who was app
pointed by Governor Kemper lumber
measurer, is spoken of by the local papers
there as having 'eminent qualifications
for the position. They know it from the
fact that he was constantly telling his fat
friends how much inch board they would
! make with the aid Of buzz-saw.