The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-10
evening State gparnal.
CAPITOL NOTES.

Things at the Capitol are proceeding
very easily-in fact creased hand-set
could not get along over mass of the
most broken ice more glibly. Rural mem
bers have incubated mass of stuff foi
committees (and such committees y as
would require about three years Of
painstaking endeavor to unravel and
get in order. OF course some of them
will be gotten up in the shape of reso-
lutions, bills and other legislative
''ipsedixits" before the session closes,
now set at sixty days. 1t is notorious
fact that the Legislature Virginia annually
Tor semi-annually) passes sufficient num-
Der of resolutions, bills. etc., to answer
the purposes Of flrst-class country with
about one hundred million of inhabitants.
However, very few of them are of any
practical benefit, but the people have to
pay for them nevertheless.
There is member of the General As
sembly known Familiarity by the blasphe.
nous name of "Old Christi 1t is not
his cognomen, and he is worthy gentle.
man.
The resolution of Mr.. Wake, of Ches-
terrified. introduced in the House yester-
day, instructing the committee on agricul-
ture to inquire whether any, and if SO what
further legislation is necessary to insure
full compensation to owners of land on
railroads for damages sustained by fire from
sparks from railroad engines, is expected
to raise an unextinguishable blaze along
the line Of the Richmond and Petersburg
railway.
The Governor to-day approved the bond
filed by the executor Of Jaquelin P. Tay-
lor, deceased, under the act approved
March 20, 1873.
William r. Barksdale was commits
stoned county judge Of Halifax county,
elected vice Judge 7. Leigh, deceased
also issued commission to Samuel G. Gra-
ham as county judge of Tazewell, elected
vice W. P. Cecil, failed to quality.
Colonel Walter H. Taylor, General Lees
acknowledgement. was appointed examiner
of volunteer officers for Norfolk, vice
Thomas j. Corprew, deceased.
The qualification Of III. Wood as judge
of Mecklenburg county was presented and
filed.
The world is full of instances where peo-
pie have mistaken their calling. They as
certain finally, when too late, that they
have been switched off on the wrong track,
and lament the balance of their days the
folly that placed them there. Perhaps
there is no calling more conspicuous for
the number of misguided persons who
have yentured therein than that of news
paper publishing. These STEW brief re-
Marks" while general, may be susceptible
of special application.
The Enquirer of this morning, through
one of its soupes-for its editors we enter
tain profound Regardless off another dis
charge of bilge water to the world in gen.
eral and the operatives of THE STATE
JOURNAL in particular. The only effect
of this is to disturb the olfactories of our
worthy citizens, and to certify them that
they have an open nuisance that requires
abatement in their midst.
We regard with calm and serene dignity,
contempt perhaps were the better world,
the epithets and denunciations uttered
under the sign manual of the soupe afore-
said, in this mornings Enquirer. The
individual who cries liar' so Justify is
either ignorant of the public belief of the
subject matter, or of the hand that feeds
him, or mayhap, is indulging in that habit
himself which he applies so pertly and
impudently to others.