The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-05
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The tocsin begins to sound and the hew-
gag to blow for the spring elections.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM VALENTINE will
give an evening of his popular readings at
Broad-Street Methodist church tonight.
5d A SUBSCRIBER, writing to discontinue
his paper, says he has s'only time to read
of Knights" He is doubtless Pythian.
OLEoMAReARTNE, the new kind of
butter, ought to be popular with lawyers
and ltigants, with whom issue it" is fa-
vorite article.
COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS are REQUIRED
to weigh the coin received in payment of
import duties, and for this purpos they
are provided with scales. s.,a ~
A BALL in Butchertown was opened re-
Gently with prayer. whose closing cadence
blended gently with the inspiring notes of
the "Arkansas Traveller s
FROM PREVALENT INDICATIONS it
seems apparent that the people OF Rich.
mond have gotten tired of most of their
present councilmen and desire a change.
1T IS HOPED that during the coming
spring the money that was boarded during
the panic will see the light Of day in the
shape of private residences and business
houses.
BLIMLEY, who attended supper on
Church Hill last night, says there was but
| few dishes on that occasion, and he adds
quietly that it wasn't so much of supper
as superstition.
THIRTEEN CONvICTs, three white and
ten colored, will be discharged from the
penitentiary during the present month,
their terms of imprisonmen expiring with
in the time specified.
IT HAS BEEN DECIDED HERE that a
| person selling goods on the installment
| plan must in the event of failure of ius-
tice to comply with their promises get the
police justice to intervene.
Why is 1T that Monday and Tuesday
nights our city was without lighted gas
lamps, thereby necessitating our citizens
to plod their way through sush and sleet,
to the serious detriment of clothes and
| health.
| SOME FELLOW has met with eminent
success in fattening his poultry by admin
| istering corn soaked in cod liver oil, HUI
man folks try to fatten themselves by
| soaking their liycrs in the same oleaginous
substance.
| GENERAL JOSEPH Il. JOHNSTON
passed by Richmond the OTHER day en- route
for New York city, where he goes to SUI
| perintend the publication of his book or
the late war, soon to be issued by ID. Ap
pleton & Co. -
HE CARDIFF GIANT, which is made O
gypsum, was lately sold to junk deale
in New Orleans, who proposes to have
broken up and dispose of it as fertilizer
The Cardiff Giant is not the only one tina
has been knocked into smithereens on tn
last turn.
THERE ARE ABOUT EIGHT OFFICER,
connected with the office of collector o
customs Of the port of Richmond, abou
seven in the Petersburg office, and twenty
eight in the office of the collector of Gus
toms at Norfolk, which includes, we be
lieve, Portsmouth.
II THE EDITOR of the Washington Ma
, tlonal Republican says that one of the TIE
Commandments teaches us to "love on
neighbor as we do ourselves Gregory
of the Petersburg Index-Appeal, goo
biblical authority, asks to be shown til
, commandment containing the aforesai
oriental imagery. The case for the preser
/, rests here.
IEE PRESENT HIGH PRICE OF col
: FEE, AZ and do cents per pound, has induce
many consumers to do without it altogeth,
or resort to substitutes, such as we we
o accustomed to during the war. This
. the right way for consumers to act with r
9 gard to every article of food or drink tn
is cornered by speculators-theY will SOC
let 60 their hold.