The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-09-16
NEWS BY LATE MAIL.


The receipts of internal revenue at Wash
ington yesterday were $497 ,9S0.S0.
The Democratic State printer Of Indiana,
r. j. Bright, is on trial at Indianapolis for
perjury. go"
Wyoming, California, Maine, Colorado,
and New Mexico have all been heard from.
All have gone Republican.
The office of the Duluth (Minn.) Tribune,
with all the printing materials, was burned
on Tuesday. Fully insured.
Wardlow Howard, for many years iden-
tilted with the business interests of Mem
phis, died in that city last Saturday.
Paymaster Charles Z. Larned, now sta
toned at st. Paul, Mimi, has been ordered
to duty in the Paymaster Generals office,
Washington, in place of Paymaster Hodge.
A man in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, who has bu-
ried three wives has their photographs in a
group within which his own picture is the
centre figure, and underneath is this touch
ing inscription "The Lord will provide"
The Acting Treasurer of the United
States yesterday made Geographic trans
fer, through the Bank Of California, Of
$500,000 in gold, from the Assistant Trea-
sury at San Francisco to the Assistant
Treasury at New York.
John G. Breckenridge, say the Lexington
papers, is now one of the hardest working
lawyers in Kentucky, and is likely to make
a good deal of money by his profession.
He seldom discusses politics in these days,
having discovered that they are in no sense
remuneratlye. f30
The State Auditors report shows that
the total taxable wealth of the State of
Missouri is S571, l6G,523. OF st. Louis
county, Sl9S,617 $40; jackson county,
81, ABS, 1863; Buchanan county, sl2 ,040,-
1873. Besides these there are twenty-three
counties ranging above 5000, 900 each.
The Democratic State Convention of Min
nesota, on the 18th, nominated the follow
ing ticket: Governor, Winthrop Young,
st. Anthony; Lieutenant Governor, Ia.
Buell., of Houston; Secretary of State, Z.
Folk, of Rice; Treasurer, f. b. Vosberg,
of Stearns Attorney-General, j. j.. Mac
Donald, of Shackopee; Justices Supreme
Court, William Mitchell, of Winona, and
M. X. Birk, of Mankato. The convention
then "departed.o
A dispatch from Montreal, on Tie 18th
instant, says: A rich American lady,
widow Of DR.. Connolly, whoa short time
ago, in New York, murdered his two child
rem in a fit of insanity, and then committed
suicide, became raging maniac in the
midst of church services. She suddenly
shrieked in frightful manner, and was,
with difficulty, removed. Since her hus-
bands tragic end Mrs. Connolly has shown
frequent signs of mental alteration, OF
which this is elimination.
The Massachusetts State Democratic
Convention assembled in Springfield on the
l4th. The complete ticket nominated is as
follows: For Governor, John Qnincey Ad-
ans Lieutenant Governor, S. O. Lamb
of Greenfield; Secretary of State, Luther
Stephenson, Jr., of bingham Treasurer,
Levi Haywood, of Gardner; Auditor,
Phineas Allen, of Pittsfeld; Attorney
General, William w. Warren, of Brighton.
The convention also departed"
Colonel Harrington, Acting Superinten-
dent of the Census, and who is a native Of
Vermont, in looking over the published re-
cords of the census bureau, has discovered
grave error in the census of 1890, by
which Vermont is credited with sixteen
slaves. On referring to the original role, in
manuscript, upon which the enumeration
of inhabitants was made, the Colonel found
that, in TRANSFERRING for the printer, sixteen
''free blacks' in the column thus headed,
were accidentally transferred to the column
headed 'slaves." And thus the error
passed into the book, and into history, and
having been perpetuated by census-makers,
Vermont is set down in history as having
had, in 1870, sixteen slaves, when, in point
of fact, she will take rank with Maine and
Massachusetts as free State when the
first census was taken under act of Con-
preSS