The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-10
CLEANING

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-Gratz Brown arrived at New York
yesterday morning from St. Louis.
General Robert Toombs is reported
quite I'll at his residence in Washington,
Georgia.
Hon. II. w. Barry has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of
his district is Mississippi.
Peter ii. Watson has been elected
president of Erie, and Alexander S. Owen
vice-president.
A Dcs Moines dispatch says John A,
kasson will run for Congress in that dis
trict against Frank Palmer, the regular
Republican candidate.
Judge Loughridge has been nominat-
ed Tor Congress IN the Fourth Iowa dis
tiict, how represented by General Walden.
The bounds of the district las been
changed.
"A frightful accident occurred at the
new State Department building, Washing
ton city, yesterday morning, by the falling
of the derricks. Two mel were killed and
live wounded.
Commissioners Douglas of the Internal
ReveRue Bureau, rules that a peddler of
tobacco who pays the special tax imposed
by the act of June 6, 1872, upon peddlers
OF tobacco, IS not required las he was under
the old law) to pay a special tax as dealer
IN tobacco also when he simply peddles.
The Secretary Of the Treasury received
a telegram yesterday announcing the cap
ture of the Cuban priyateer Pioneer off
Newport, r. l., on Monday night, by the
revenue marine steamer Moccasin. The
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twenty stand of arms, twenty-six hundred
pounds Of powder, and sixteen men. The
Secretary has ordered her retention at
Newport until investigated.
The party of enraged citizens in Mer-
Ger county, Ohio. who took from Jail at
Celina, Absolom Kimmell, JacobKimmell,
and Alexander Mcleod, made short work
of the prisoners. After leaving the jail,
they halted at Kimmell farm, nnder a sap.
ling a rude gallows was erected, and halt
tiers were fitted about the necks of the
prisoners. The elder Kimmell and Mcleod
were hung until they were dead, while the
younger kimmell was returned to Jail,
Numerous inquiries have been received
by the Post Office Department in relation
as to when postal cards will be supplied to
the public, and if they are at present ready
for distribution. As the clerks would have
all of their time occupied by answering let
ters of this kind, the general statement is
authoritatively made that the postal cards
will not be ready for distribution for at
least one mouth yet. They will be fur
nished by contract, and advertisements for
proposals will be issued by the Depart
ment next week.
A desperate affIay took place on Mon
day evening at a place called Corcoran's
Springs, on the Virginia side of the Poto-
mac, between two colored men named
John Rollins and Arthur Cole, belonging
to a picnic party from Washington city,
in which the latter was f~earfully hacked
and cut with a razor. Two cuts were
found across the stomach about six inches
in length one across the abdomen about
eight inches in length, from which the en-
trails were protruding one across the
wrist, .severing the sinews, and veins ;
one across the throat one on the side of
the head and face one near the elbow, and
one across the breast and stomachsix inches
long, and SO deep as to expose to view the
vitals. Surgical aid was procured as soon
as possible, and at last accounts he was
still alive. Rollins was arrested by officers
from Washington, but not without a despe-
rate struggle, and was subsequently turned
over to the authorities of Alexandria coun-
ty. The cause Of the difficulty was jeal-
ousy of the attentions of a damsel named
Jenny Dunner, of whom both were enam-
ored.