The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-13

CLEANINcS.

Twelve cases of sun-stroke occurred in
New York Thursday.
dispatches announc the recovery Of
Go7ern0r Brown from his sudden illness in
New York. zt.a
Lieutenant Frederick d. Grant sailed
from Liverpool Thursday On his return to
America.
Officer Donahue, of Williamsburg, who
was so badly beaten last Sunday morning,
died on Thursday.
"A Rio JanciIo letter states that the
Russian fleet, with the Grand Duke. left
for the Cape of Good Hope June 9th.
General George Il. Mcclellan was not
at Baltimore. lie intended to go, but, as
usual, he couldn't get ready III tune.
The public schools in Paterson, N. j.,
have been closed, in consequence of the
alarming prevalence of smallpox in that
city.
considerable preparations of a warlike
nature are being made in Brazil in antici-
patton Of the coming war in the Argentine
Republic.
Charles II. Hunt, corresponding secre-
tary of the New York Bar Association,
died at Cornwall Sunday, in the 4sth year
Of his age.
"A colored man named Norton, his wife
and two children, were drowned at East
Hampton, Long Island, yesterday, by the
upsetting Of a boat.
Hon. Edward Stanley, provisional
Governor of Moth Carolina under President
Lincoln, has been struck with paralysis,
and is dying at San Francisco.
- flnntraryy ~ thu ro,,,ol ,nonno,u ~J
statements already made, it seems that the
Boston Jubilee was not a financial success,
there being a deficit Of $3.50, 900. A gem
erous people properly propose to make up
the deficiency.
F. S. Turkey and Robert B. Wood were
yesterday appointed surveyors of distille-
ries in the first internal revenue district of
Virginia. John Stephenson and Robert A.
Houston were appointed to like positions in
the district of Delaware.
General c. O. LOOMS, u. S. A., has
become insane. lie was wounded in the
hc\d at the battle of Stone river, but suffer-
ed Kttle trouble from it until a month ago,
when the wound ~re-opened, and insanity
was developed. The doctors think his case
hopeless. General Looms was at one
time Sherman's chief OF staff.
w. w. Pond. of Milford, Conn.,, has
been blazened as one of the g leading Re-
publicans " in Connecticut who has enroll
ed himself for Greeley. Unfortunately Mr..
Pond is a Democratic member of the Legis-
lature from Milford, and has never been
anything but a Democrat. Of just such
stuff are nine, tenths of the reported changes
made up.
The Wilmington Commercial compli-
ments the Delaware delegates to Baltimore
for delying the whole lines of States and
refusing to swallow the nauseous Greeley
dose. 1t also says that Ex-Governor Sauls-
bury told a gentleman a few days ago that
there were in his Judgment, 1000 Democrats
in Delaware who would not vote for Horace
Greeley.
The Virginia correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says that in addition
to Colonel Mosby, John w. jackson, John
Harmer Gilmer, General Wise, and a host
of other Virginians, formerly identified
with the Democratic Conservative party,
General Joseph e. Johnston, of Confeder-
ate fame, has declared in a letter to Mont
gomery Blair, that he will vote for Gen-
eral Grant as against Greeley.
MIR. Curtis, Chief Clerk of the General
LAW oulSe, ycoteIuaS IeCciNcu u letlcf
from a vary active and intelligent Republic
can Of Chicago, who has made a careful
survey OF the political field throughout the
northwest, in which the writer says in
conclusion: 81 think, and am very GER
tain, that Grant will have the entire moth
west" Information from other sources
equally Intelligent indicates the same gem
eral state Of things.
Mr.. Read, who has been known as the
only Greeley Republican in the Connecticut
Legislature, and who is the president of the
Greeley Club IN Danbury, now says he will
not vote for him, since he has become the
Democratic candidate. Senator Perkins, of
Connecticut, who was claimed by a New
Haven Democratic paper as wavering to-
ward Greeley, declares that he has no
thought of voting for the man with a
I" Democratic hook in his nose"
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
ceivcd important evidence from Arizona
corroborating the denial recently made by
the Department of the sensational stories
invented and industriously circulated by
enemies Of the peace policy of the govern
ment toward the Indians. This policy eff
fectually prevents these evil-disposed par
ties from carrying out their nefarious
designs of plumber, and so they attempt,
in their own bad way, to make spurious
political capital against the Administration
10y every species Of deception and misrep-
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