The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-28
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guilty at Oxford, Miss.
The Los Angeles anti-Chinese rioters
have all been convicted of manslaughter.
Commissioner Douglass will start for
Havana on Saturday for the benefit of his
health.
The Pierpont House, in Brooklyn. was
damaged by hire yesterday to the amount Of
$4,000.
The Cincinnati Commercial considers
the nomination of Davis and Parker a flat
failure.
Wilcox Bros ship-chandlery, at To.
ledo, Ohio, was burned Tuesday night.
Loss, $4,000.
-Garth's metal works, at Montreal,
were damaged to the amount of $40 900 by
the fire yesterday.
The National Railroad Ticket Agents
convention, in session at Louisville, KY,
arranged rates of fare yesterday.
The New Jersey House of Represen-
tatives has passed resolutions indorspg
President Grants administration.
Frank Aiken has broken ground for
new theatre ON the corner Of Wabash
avenue and Congress street, Chicago, so by
l20 feet, to cost 3l00, 900.
- Parties in Newberne, N. c., Memphis,
Tenn, and Little Rock, Ark, have been
detected in bounty swindling, and several
OF them have been indicted.
George w. Hull's libel suit for 81 0 900
against the Louisville Cou1ier-Jou,nal. for
calling his employment office den,. was
decided IN favor Of the defendant yester-
day.
-Auguste Belmont, the head and front
of the Democratic National Committee, is
in Washington, comforting with leading
members of the party concerning the situa-
ton.
-George Oakes, of Louisville, KY. has
entered a suit for $4,000 damages against
Ii. b. Essington, a real estate agent, for
the alleged seduction of bis daughter, Eliza
Oakes.
The steamship "Nestorian,n which left
Liverpool on Tuesday for Norfolk, Va,
and Baltimore, Md, took out one hundred
and fifty colonists who intend setting in
Nebraska.
The military members of the Japanese
delegation at Philadelphia remain there to
inspect the arsenal; the others have gone
to Reading to inspect the coal mines and
furnaces.
Mr.. Archer, of Maryland, was ycs-
terdry appointed by Speaker Blaine to fill
the vacancy on the Naval Investigating
Committee, occasioned by the resignation
of Mr.. Voorhees,.
General Rutherford, Third Auditor of
the Treasury, has been requested by a
meeting Of the Republicans of the Third
Congressional district of North Carolina to
become their candidate for Congress at the
next election.
1t is said that some of the South Caro-
lima delegates to the Philadelphia converl-
ton will soon visit Washington to demand
the removal of several government officers.
among them the collector and postmaster
Of Charleston.
The Attorney-General has notified all
territorial judges that they must reside with
IN the limits of their respective DISTRICTS,
and that hereafter they must not leave their
posts without the permission of the depart
ment of justice.
-Ex-Goy. Gibbs, of Oregon, having
been appointed United States District At.
torney, refuses to surrender the office Of
prosecuting attorney of the 4th district,
claiming the right to hold both federal
and state office.
The Washington Republican of this
morning says: Governor g. G. Walker,
of Virginia, and Judge VIM. G. Riley,
prospective candidate for the Governorship
of that State on the Republican ticket, are
both in Washington
"A legislative committee, after tho
rough investigation, yesterday recommends
ed the impeachment Of Charles A. Ed
mund, Land Commissioner of Michigan,
for malfeasance in office and for crimes and
misdemeanors.
The executive committee of the CEN
tennial commission were in session with
the Philadelphia council yesterday, discus.
sing plans, etc. Hon. Daniel J.. Morrell
has been chosen permanent chairman oi
the committee.
Josephine McCarty, who killed Henry
Ii. Hall IN Utica, n. Y. street car, in
stead of her unfaithful paramour, Milton
Ii. Thompson, whom she intended to kill
but the ball passed through his cheek into
Halls heart, was arraigned Tuesday, anc
pleaded insanity.
The Mexican bandits of the Texa:
border, chiefly belonging to Gen. Cortina':
government forces, have stolen SO, 300 ,OO(
worth of cattle the past five years, beside
committing numerous murders, all of whicl
facts are to be set forth in detail before th
United States government.
From late dispatches we learn that th,
famine in Persia shows no signs of abatc
ment. Men and women are dying in tn
streets /; corpses Of children strew tn
roadside. The sickening odor of the de
cayed dead taints the air, breeds pcsti
lence and hastens the work of starvation
The British steamer "Rosamon visite
Nazapu, New South Wales, to investigat
the circumstances of the murder of Bisho
| patterson The natives 6rad npop tb