The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-29
FIGURING MILL BURNT !!
NATIONAL BANK ROBBED !
SOCIAL EQUALITY AT LONG BRANCH
BOAT RACING AT HALIFAX! 7!
sc. Sc.
&c.
Social Equality at Long Branch.


Long Branch. Aug. 29.-Major Gaul and
sachusetts colored volunteers, sought, but
tary and civic ball at the Continental
Hotel.
The ball was grand affair, there being
1000 persons (whites) present, including
the full Ninth New York regiment. A
band of 100 instruments furnished the mu-
sic.
The Polar Expedition.
Neio York, Aug. 29.-The steamer Con-
gress has returned from Greenland hay-
ing made $500 miles in less than thirteen
days. Returning, she passed hundred
icebergs but not packed of ice. The sea-
son very open ; not unlike May in New
York. Day became perpetual as the steam
er advanced north.
The 'Polaris" sailed northward on the
the 18th with her party, amid cheers from
the crew of the Congress. The Congress
is the largest ship ever before in Disco Bay.
Serious Results of a Panic.
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 29.-Several hum
dred negroes who had collected around the
Danville Jail to protect prisoner, charged
with arson, from the Ku Klux, becoming
panic-stricken during the night, they rushed
into the streets and fired about hundred
shots, wounding several of themselves.
The New York Abortion Mystery.
Ne,o York, Aug. 29.-The mystery of
the finding of the corpse of young wo-
man in trunk at the Hudson river depot
is clearing up. DR.. Jacob Rosenwerg alias
Asher, from whose notorious abortion
house the trunk was taken, has been ar
rested. The people attempted to lynch
him on the way to jail.
Tho West Virginia Convention Election.
Wheeling, w. Va, Aug. 29.-The cleo
ton to decide as to whether State conven-
ton shall be held or not has been decided
in the affirmative by 1860 majority.
Boat Racing at Halifax, MS.
Halifar, ~. s., Aug. 29.-The Paris
crew have definitely withdrawn from the
proposed four-oar race, but will challenge
the winner for race i'll smooth water.
News from DIR. Livingstone.
London, August 29.--Adviccs from
Zanzibar report that DR.. Livingstone is
slowly making his way homeward.
FIGURING Mills BurneJ--Heavy Loss.
Detroit, Michigan, August 29.-Bennctt,
Kenckerborker Il Co. IS, tlouring mills were
burned last night. Loss 100000.
Indian Troubles in California.
San Francisco, Cai., August 29.-The
Indian troubles in South California are
growing serious, and general uprising of
the Indians is apprehended.
National Bank Rol,bed
Nep York, August 30. The National
Bank of New Ark, N. j., has been robbed
of 81, 900 in fractional currency, by col
ored woman who was employed to sweep
the office.
French News.
Paris, Aug. 29.-Thc Prussians will pro-
badly evacuate the forts near Paris on the
10th of September.
The report of the committee to consider
the prolongation of Theirs powers gives him
the title Of President, with power to pro-
mulgate and execute DEGREES of the Assem-
bly,; allow him to participate in the Assem-
bly's deliberations, and to appoint and dis
miss ministers who shall be responsible to
to the Assembly for Thers' acts.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.
The Yellow Fever in Charleston---No New
Cases.
Charleston. S. C., August 2S.-Diligent
inquiry fails to discover any new cases of
fever in the last twenty-iour hours. The
whole number of persons now with the
disease hardly exceeds dozen. The dis
ease seems to yield readily to medical treat
ment, except in cases which were neglected
in the early stages. The apprehension of
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