The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-15
TELEGRApHIC SUMMARY.

Gold closed in New York yesterday
at 1lla.
Snow fell at Nashville, Tenn, yester-
day afternoon.
Slavery in Siam is to be abolished in
January, 1872.
The number of deaths from smallpox in
Philadelphia is decreasing.
Rev. Alfred Goodman, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Philadelphia, is
dead.
Gen. Howard recommends the aboli-
ton of what remains of the Frecdmen's
Bureau.
lion. Caleb Gushing has resigned the
consulship before the American-Spanish
Commissioners.
The Morris and Essex canal will be
closed December II, unless ice previously
stops navigation.
-Werner's Hotel, East Newark, was
burned yesterday morning. Loss 100000;
insurance $1,000.
Charles Francis Adams sailed yester-
day in the steamer Trpoli, from Boston,
for the Geneva Conference.
The principal school-house in Virginia
City, Nevada, was burned yesterday eve
ming. Loss, nearly $4,000.
"A cyclone yesterday swept the entire
country, coming from west to east and up
the gulf along the Atlantic coast.
There were 49l cases of smallpox
in Philadelphia last week, being decrease
Of So cases on the previous week.
The British government has granted a
pension of e300 to the children Of DIR.
Livingstone, the African explorer.
Two passenger railroad cars on the
Philadelphia railroad We're destroyed by
fire yesterday. Loss about So, 900.
-"Goldsmth's Maid" beat Lucy"
yesterday in race at Philadelphia, three
heats, for So 900. Time-2:25; 2:19 ;
1923.
The opening of the Selma, Alabama,
Fair was postponed from yesterday until
to-day, on account Of the mclement
weather.
Mr.. Fred. w. Loring, Unpopular Bos-
ton magazincist and journalist, was murder
ed few days ago in Arizona by Apache
Indians.
THE Merchants and State banks, of
Boston, Mass, have divided loss Of over
half million, paid upon Miller, Ward Il
Co.'s checks.
The Hon. Reverdy johnson iavors the
proposed abandonment by the Democratic
party Of the ground it has hitherto occu-
pied. Next
AT Kenosha, Wisconsin, yesteid day af-
ternoon, E. P. Morris shot his wife dead,
and then blew ont his own brains. The
cause is unknown.
Minnesota gives Horace Austin, the
Republican candidate for Governor, $4,000
majority. The Republicans have fifty ma
jority in the Legislature on joint ballot.
The Legislature Of Georgia yesterday
elected, by an overwhelming majority, Hon.
Thomas M. Norwood moderate Democrat,
Of Savannah, to the United States Senate.
Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, has
authorized the furnishing of 5000 feet Of
lumber. free Of expense, to every family
who will rebuild on the lots recently deyas-
tated by the fire.
The brig az. G. Swell" of Bath, from
Philadelphia for Portland, was lost about
seven miles off Sandy Hook Friday night,
and the captains wife and three of the
crew were drowned.
Gen. Sherman and party did not en-
bark on the "Wabash" yesterday, as that
vessel was not ready for sea. She encoun-
tered a severe gale on the trip from Boston,
and three men at the wheel were severely
injured.
"A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn,
says reservoir of oil was struck last
night on the farm Of George Hudson, in
Dickson county, about thirty miles from
Nashville. The flow is estimated at 100
gallons per day.
The appellants in the case of Mrs.
Fair, in San Francisco, have twenty days to
file brief. The people will then have the
same time in which to respond, so it is
doubtful if decision will be rendered be-
fore January LIST.
A mail train was thrown from the
track yesterday near Bulord's station, on
Tennessee road. A colored woman named
Adelne Turks was killed, and two colored
men seriously injured. The conductor also
received painful injuries.
The Sublime Porte is alive to the
improvements of the age, and has directed
the Minister of Public works to inaugur-
ate comprehensive plan of improvements
in view Of the network of railways pro-
jected by foreign capitalists IN the Otto
man Dominions.
The New Orleans Times Democrat,
speaking of the late elections, observes =
1.-THE National Democracy, as it has been
for some time organized, receives its coup
de qrdce. Almost the only stay and hope
of the party has been swept from under it
by the general result in the State of New
York"
Propositions looking to the construc-
ton Of new railroad bridge across the
Mississippi river at Carondelet, or South
ST. Louis, have been made. Three railroad