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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-16
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. e. M. Mason, widow of the late
Hon. James M. Mason, died at A o'clock
Saturday morning at Clarens, her residence
in Fairfax county.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Cabell. relict Of
the late P. Henry Cabell. of Lynchburg,
died at "Glen Owen," Loudoun county,
on the 4th inst, in the 6Sth year of her
age.
Richard Key, of Augusta county, was
last week handed over to the sheriff OF
Logan county, ILL.,. where he is indicted
for larceny, upon requisition from the
governor Of that state.
Colonel T. F. Owens, past grand
master ofthe Grand Lodge of Virginia, was
received with appropriate Masonic honors
at Owens Lodge, which bears his name,
in Norfolk, on Thursday night.
The Warrenton, Index, of the 14th
says that Aunt Judy White, an old colored
woman, whose age exceeded ninety years,
died at her humble residence in Warrenton
on the 10th instant. Her life was above
reproach, and she enjoyed the respect Of
all classes"
Mr.. M. P. Handy, formerly of the
Richmond Dispatch, now occupies per-
manent position on the staff of the New
York Tribune, and is following Mr.. Gay,
the great temperance reformer in the
West. To speak technically, he is
writing up" that movement.
On saturday last Father Meurer, the
Catholic priest at Wytheville, was robbed
of the following articles by German who
he had betriended, who gave the name of
George Fresh, viz: A sorrel mare, saddle
and bride, saddle bags, felt saddle blan-
ket, a quantity of bed clothing and wearing
apparel (all the Father had except such as
he had on), a gold watch chain, meer-
schaum pipe, black cassock or gown, two
razors and shaving implements, $40 in
foreign gold coin, and silver coin and cur
rency to the amount of $35 or $40.
Intelligence has been received Of the
death at Rome, on the 10th ultimo, of
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Chapman, aged Ga
years. The deceased was the wife of John
g.. Chapman, the eminent American
artist, and daughter of the late Fielder
Luckett, Of Alexandra, Va. Mr.. Chap
man is prominently known as having
painted the Baptism of Pocahontas,"
and Marriage of Pocahontas, " which
adorn the rotunda Of the Capitol at
Washington. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Chap
man have been for many years residing at
Rome. One of their Sons, Mr.. Conrad
Chapman, was volunteer on the staff Of
General Wise, of Virginia, during the late
war.-Alerandr1a Sentinel, 1871.
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Items.

1b0mS. .....TI
1T is SAID that the eminent actor, f. L.
Davenport, will soon play an engagement
IN this city.
A NUMBER OF PEOPLE will leave here
to attend the celebration of Mardigras in
New Orleans on the 18th.
BUSINESS is getting brisk. The streets
were crowded with people to-day, and
thousands were abroad yesterday.
IT IS SAID that Colonel T. H. Wynne
will be candidate for the office of police
justice at the election which occurs in July
| next.
DIR. LEROY MARSH, member of the
Evangelical Alliance, who has been dan
gcrously i'll IN this city for several weeks,
is recovering.
THOSE WHO IMAGINE they were not
listed IN the recent enumeration of citizens
can lind out by calling on the chief of po-
lice at his office.
GOVERNOR KEMPER gives it as his
opinion that 'sPresident Grants policy
towards Virginia in future will be satisfac-
tory to her citizens.n
AT REGULAR MEETING of Rich
mond Section No. 2, 1. O. of Cadets of
Honor and Temperance. Mr.. j. G. Gibson
was elected G. A. for the balance of the
term.
THERE is A COURT IN THIS CITY that
can change mans name if he desires it /;
also several who can change mans for
tune from something to nothing, if they
get pull at it.
Two RICHMOND MEN and a Fincastle
party will plant 200, 900 pear trees on a
farm in Surry county costing 500, 900,
the ultimate object being to raise fruit for
shipment North.
Mr.. BLIMLEY, of Church Hill, this
morning told his son, who proposed to
buy a COW in partnership, to be sure
and buy the hinder half, as it eats nothing
and gives all the milk.
JAMES SAVERS, colored, dropped dead
at the corner Of First and Leigh streets,
at 81 o'clock on the night of the 18th in.
slant. Coroner Taylor was notified, but
deemed an inquest unnecessary, as death
was caused by disease of the heart
brought on by incessive use of liquor.
RICHMOND HAS AN ORDINANCE
which prohibits the sale of liquor on Sun
day; it also has an ordinance prohibiting
barberizing on Sunday. The former is
grossly violated, the latter is strictly COM
piled with. Why are such distinctions al.
lowed?
A CHARTER was granted Friday by
Judge Wexford. Of the circuit court, to the
Virginia Protection Life insurance COM
pany, with present capital of $50, 900,
susceptible of increase to 5000, 900. The
company is empowered to hold in this city
or elsewhere. Principal office here.
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ILLINOIS.
A Family Poisoned.

CHICAGO, February 15.-Upon neigh
Dor going to the house of David Thompson
in this city yesterday to see Mrs. Thomp-
son, who was recently confined, the doors
were found fastened and were forced open.
Mrs. Thompson was found lying insensible.
Two OF four children were dead, and the
other two in an apparently dying
condition. The cause of their illness and
death was not ascertained, though it is
supposed they were poisoned.
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
MONDAY, February 1G.

'Sbia~i ~
Senate. The Senate met at 1910 M,
President in the chair, with t,centy-one
members present. No prayer.
A number of House bills were reported
and referred.
A communication was received from the
governor, transmitting a communication
from the United States lighthouse en-
gineer, relative to the granting of jurisdic-
ton by the state to said authorities over
lighthouse rights in navigable waters Of
the commonwealth.
Mr.. Wynne offered a joint resolution
recalling from the governor the resolution
in reference to the removal of the library,
which was adopted IA. noes IA, the
President voting aye.
Mr.. Eubank moved to reconsider the
vote by which the resolution was adopted
Carried-ayes IA, noes 10.
Mr.. Cochran moved to adjourn. Car.
ried-ayes Is, noes IA. III
Hoase.-The House was called to ordel
ut noon by the Speaker, and opened witt
PRAYER by Rev. DR.. Campbell.
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NEW YORK.


: New YORK, February 16-Noon.-
Stocks dull. Money!. Gold 1921. FIX.
change long, 4S5; short, 1881. Govern.
ments steady. State bonds quiet and
strong.
The Woman's Temperance Movement,
New YORK, February 16.-Ten women
and two men organized here yesterday for
q crusade against alcohol. They will de-
vote this week to work and prayer for the
increase of their numbers. There is much
feeling on Long Island against the whisky
trade, and it is probable that a movem ent
will be inaugurated there.
CINCINNATI, February 16.-Specials
to The Gazette from various points in
southwestern Ohio report that about so
out Of 14O places where liquor was sold
have been closed since the beginning of the
temperance movement. The reports come
from fourteen towns and villages.
Shooting Affair in Hoboken.
New YORK, February 1e.-In Hobo
ken yesterday David Bowie was shot and
dangerously wounded by Constable John
son. Citizens who saw the shooting set
upon johnson, kicked him about the head,
fatally injuring him. No arrests were
made.
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A resolution was introduced to enquire
into the expediency of amending the law
concerning sign-boards at road crossings.
Resolutions TO enquire into the expe-
diency of utilizing convict labor, and to
provide for paying medical experts in muir.
der cases were offered and referred.
A bill was.presented TO enable the James
River and Kanawha company to extend its
canal tol some point on Jackson's river
west of Clifton Forge.
Mr.. G. O. Round presented petition Of
citizens of Fairfax, asking that Bull run
be made lawful fence from Warrenton
pike to its junction with the Occoquan.
The request of the United States that
the state cede jurisdiction over sites occu.
pied by light houses in Virginia was re-
ferred to the committee Of courts of Justice.
A bill was reported amending the law in
relation to the jurisdiction Of the chancery
court of the city of Richmond.
The Speaker appointed Messrs. Allan,
Bagwell and O'Neal on the committee on
the part of the House to investigate all
matters connected with the late defalca-
ton in the office of the commissioner of
the sinking fund.
Mr.. Riddlebarger, under suspension Of
the rules, offered resolution to prepare
bill providing for the collection from the
several railroad, steamship, navigation, ex-
press, telegraph, and insurance companies
of Virginia, Of per cent. on their gross
receipts. Agreed to.
The Senate bill preventing the sale of
intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath, with
House amendments, was passed.
Senate preamble and joint resolution in
reference to the construction of q suitable
memorial to commemorate the achieve.
ments of Commodore M. f. Maury,
deceased, was recommitted to the COM
mittee on federal relations and resolutions.
Adjourned.
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Etc, Etc. Etc.
PENNSYLVANIA.


terrible Railroad Acknowledgement
Men Killed and IDtured-Large
amount OF Freight Destroyed, &c.
ALLENTOWN, February 16.-A terri
Ole accident occurred this morning
near Slate Dam station. on the LehigR
and Susquehanna railroad, between one
and two O'Clock, by which two men have
LOST their lives, large amount of property
destroyed, and several persons sustained
serious and perhaps fatal INJURIES.
"A freight train heavily laden. and rum
ning at high rate of speed, ran into a
landslide which had completely blocked
up the track. The engine Jumped the
track and now hangs over the bank of the
river. Eighteen cars were thrown from
the track and piled up on each other,
smashing freights of all description, which
was strewn along the road and hurled into
the river.
Not one of the train hands, as far as
could be learned, escaped without some
injury. The body of the engineer, Daniel
Shannon, was found under the engine con.
slderably burned. Otto Shannon. the
fireman, and Frank Ryan, brakeman. were
badly scalded and burned, Three other
men, unknown. were reported killed.
Wife Shooting.
PHILADELPHIA, February 16.-Leon-
ard Warabolt, keeper of beer-saloon,
fatally shothis wife last night, without the
least provocation.
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ATLANTA AND RICHMOND (VA.)
AIR LINE RAILROAD There was a
meeting of the holders of the first mortgage
bonds of the Atlanta and Richmond Air
Line railroad held in New York on Satur-
day, to take action on a proposed fore
closure of the bonds, the company having
failed to pay the interest. A resolution
was adopted to proceed at once to fore
closure, and committee was appointed.
1t was stated that there was likelihood OF
compromise with the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, az most of the stock of the
air line was owned by that company.
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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, cakedbreast, 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 1t sells be-
cause it does just what it pretends to do. One
bottle of the OSNTAUR LINIMENT for animals
yellow wrapper) is worth hundred dollars for
spawned, strained or CALLED horses and mules,
and tor screw-worm IN sheep. No family or
stock-owner can afford to be without CgSTAuR
LIsImEsr. J. b. ROSE Co., IS Broadws- New
York.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-16

THE Loss OF TIME.-What does it mat
ter if we do lose few minutes in whole
day ? Calculating 313 working days of eight
hours each to the year, the answer is that
five minutes lost each day is, in a year, three
days, two hours, five minutes 10 minutes
lost is six days, four hours, ten minutes
twenty minutes lost, thirteen days, one
hour, twenty minutes thirty minutes lost,
nineteen days, four hours, thirty minutes
and sixty minutes lost, thirty-nine days
one hour.
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POLICE CoURT.-Justice White dis
posed of the following cases in this court
to-day:
lssac Brown, stealing, jailed sixty days.
Wexford Miller, indecent conduct, jailed
fifteen days.
Charles Fisher, drunkenness, jailed sixty
days.
Joseph Baker, disorderly conduct, dis
charged.
John Rafferty,, unlawful assault, contin-
ed until tomorrow.
Henrietta jackson and Kate Thomas,
unlawful assault; the former fined $3.50,
and the latter So.
Addison Lewis, making disturbance,
discharged.
Robert Brown, unlawful shooting, fined
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ROLLS OF HONOR. The following are
the names Of the scholars in the Third
district colored schools, who were on the
roll of honor, Qor excellence in deport-
ment and recitation,) for the month of
January:
Third Grammar-Ro Smith, Hester
Cheatham, Jennie Semms, Lucy G. Brooks,
Ernest Miles, William w. Fields, John
Quarles.
Fourth Grammar-Annie Hill.
Third Primary-Alice Hunter, Harriet
Harris, Henrietta Harris, Willie Farmer,
Rose Patterson.
Fourth Primary-Ellen Hickman.
Fifth Primary-Martha W. Myers, Fam
ny Hill, LaviDa Lee, William Scotland.
Sixth Primary-Lucy Christian, Elsie
Cralle, Maggie Cralle, Agnes Flagg, Mary
Burnley, Ida Hall, Sarah Hall, Mary Hun.
ter, Mary Hill, Mary jackson, Louisa
Smith, Annie Williams, Robert Forester,
Jane Cross, Luthenia Cooper, Cornelia
Hawkins, Arthur johnson, james Moore,
James Leonard, James Parker, Frederick
Coleman, Abram Graves, Ida Braxton,
Alice Woodson. -Four schools in sixth
primary grade.
Richmond Normal school for the week
ending February ID, 1874:
| Senior class-Edward Boiling, Eddie
Carter, Henry Hucless, Armstead Walker,
Kate Archer, Josephine Brown, Bette
Mcdaniel, Jennie Roberts, Ann Smith
Virginia Warren, Mary Wells, Hester Viii
lis, Hardinia Willis.
Middle class-Richard Scott, Temple
Miles. Mile Holmes, Lucy Hucless, Car.
RE Johnson, Martha Trice, Fanny White
Junior class-Richard Boiling, james
johnson, Richard Combs, Willie Yancy
Elizabeth Brown, Emma Blunt, Susi
Campbell, Lucy Harris, Emma Jones Car
RE Kemp, Victoria Pollard, Martha Samp
son.
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One hundred and twenty-five thousand
valentines passed through the New York
postoffice Saturday.
\ "A man named N. M. Wood shot him
self and poisoned three of his children
at Rutledge, Ca, Friday night. The
cause is supposed to have been desertion
by his wife.
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THE TREES ON THE SQUARE.--The
following is copied from the executive
record during the governorship of William
municate to the Common Hall Of the city
of Richmond, as the wish and determina-
ton of the executive, that until the trees
upon the public square shall have attained
to size that will better enable them to
resist the injuries likely to be sustained
from mischievous and idle persons, or un-
til the further advice of the council, the
gate on the western side Of the square
ought to be continued effectually closed"
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DEsCANTING on the "galling tyranny"
Of the government which permits him to
foam out his reasonable rawlings without
the slightest interruption on its part,
Toombs tell his eager Georgii auditors II
these expressions continue, will show you,
young men, that an old man can die.n The
sooner the better, Robert.
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A NEW BooK.-The life and times of
a distinguished chancellor and counsellor,
of this city, is being written by promi-
nent judicial functlonary, whose practice at
the bar doth legal and liquor is Of such
extensive sort as to give the fullest as
surance of work complete in all its as
poets. 1t is in contemplation to petition
the General Assembly to have the work
issued under the supervision of the super
intendent of public printing.
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Items.

WASHINGTON, February 16.--Hon. A.
Il. Stephens, Of Georgia, is quite i'll at his
rooms in this city. He has, himself, APP
prehensons in regard to his condition, and
is evidently failing with an augmentation
of his ailments.
Julius Howe, of South Carolina, con-
vlcted of Ku-Klux crimes, and imprisoned
at Albany, has been pardoned by the
President.
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IT is stated that the leading Grant Re-
publicans of New York, not satisfied with
the course of the New York Times, or
indorsing the views Of its editor, have just
completed negotiations for the purchase at
the New York Evening Express, formerly
owned by the late James Brooks. The
new organ will be increased in size to that
of the "big dailies. (" The price paid for
the paper was $25O.000.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-16
FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.
Vessel Abandoned.

Vessel Abandoned.
LONDON, February 16.-The schooner
Leda, from Wilmington, N. c., for Lon
don, was abandoned at sea, February 10th.
Her crew was saved.
Items.
LONDON February l6.-The House of
Commons will have ZIG new members.
The total number Of Home-rulers elected
in Ireland ia 81.
A meeting of the cabinet is to be held
to-day to consider what course it shall
adopt.
The Telegraph says that the MARQUIS
of Salisbury will become Secretary Of
state for India.
The Emperor of Russia visits England
next April.