The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-08
SUMMARY.

1.-Two deaths from smallpox occurred
IN washington yesterday.
The French Atlantic Cable company
have resolved to lay another cable.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, has fully
recovered from her late accident IN Florida.
The trial of tho Tichborne claimant ON
the charge OF perjury occurs in April next,
in London. a
Three persons were killed at the En-
pire Iron works in Trigg county, Ky., by
approaching tardy fuse.
The storehouse of Ii. w. Pitts & Co.,
at Beston, together with large quantity
OF cotton, has been burned.
-tIen. Benjamin G. Howard, an es-
teemed and Influential citizen of Maryland,
died IN Baltimore on Wednesday.
Three passenger cars from Buffalo
to New York city were ''dtchedu yester-
day morning. Twelve persons were hurt.
Nineteen illicit distilIeries were broken
up in jackson county, Ala, on yesterday,
by United States troops acting under Su-
pervisor Emory.
"A severe storm occurred at Halifax.
N. s., Wednesday, which continued
throughout the night, snow falling to the
depth of fifteen inches.
A riot occurred Wednesday night in ,Jer-
sey City, at the Wilson'S Zouaves' (colored)
ball in which negro was shot and police
mans thumb was bitten off.
. -Four men, sleeping in the basement
OF house in Boston, Mass, were suffo-
Gated with coal gas. One is dead, and the
others are IN critical condition.
The crank pin of the steamship ''Mo-
tropolis, )" from New York for Wilmington.
N. G., broke, off Cape Hatteras, causing
her to make for Norfolk under sail.
The loss on the barned steamboats, at
Cincinnati Wednesday night is thought to
be much less than at first reported. Par
ties estimate it not above $4,000.
The committee appointed by the con-
stitutional convention to carry its instru-
ment to Washington and urge its passage.
left Salt Lake City for Washington yester-
day morning.
john Mcpherson, county Judge of
Benton county, shot and killed 0. NJ.
thompson, merchant, March 1st, in per-
sonal encounter. Mcpherson has been
lodged in Jail. =
"A new paper, called the DAILY Ne,cs,
Democratic in politics, made its appearance
IN Chicago yesterday. Another calamity,
IN the shape of snow storm, also visited
the unfortunate city.
In the election for city officers held in
Newport, KY, on Monday last, the Re-
publican ticket was elected by maiorities
ranging from l70 to 800. The vote polled
is the largest ever cast in the city.
Gen. j. r. Hawley is president of the
centennial commission, and j. l.. Orr, of
South Carolina, is on the executive com.
mittee, though it is stated he will not or
cannot qualify as a commissioner.
A Wilmington, N. c., dispatch saws it
is not known there whether the reports OF
the death of Henry Berry Lowery, the nc
torious swamp outlaw, are uniour d,d.
Additional reports are current that he was
either murdered by his brother or drowned.
The philanthropic ladies of Hartford.
Conn.,, have taken very practical way OF
showing their sympathy for working men.
They have just opened a restaurant. and
have brought down the scale of prices so
low as to place it within the reach of the |
poorest mechanic and laborer. Added to |
the dinning saloon is comfortable reading
room, well stocked with material from the |
libraries and newspaper offices. The main
object is to induce men to frequent it who
now spend most of their time in bar-rooms.
and judging from the attendance on the
opening day, the experiment promises to be
completely successful.
The Rev. Stuart Robinson, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian church in Louis
vile, Kentucky, has sued the Chicago
Epensag Post for libel, laying the damages
at 100000. The libel consists in this,
that the Post, during MIR. Robinson's late
illness with the smallpox, published an
article stating that the disease was an in
Fiction from Providence on account of the
advice which the reverend gentleman is said
to have given his people during the war to
infect clothing with smallpox virus and
send it to the Northern cities. The Spring
field Republican and the st. Louis Demo
crat, it is said, would have been in the same
boat with the Post, but for elaborate apollo
gies which they made Tor publishing the
statement