The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-25
tender of $4,000 in cash to locate Their
works at that place.

works at that place.
Excitement continues in San Francis.
co over the proposed cession of Goat
Island to the Pacific railroad company,
who are suspected of an intention to build
a rival city.
DIR. w. A. Hudson has been convicted
OF manslaughter in the second degree for
causing death by abortion, and sentenced
10 three wears Imprisonment in the Mis-
Souri, Pepitentiary.
| "A North Carolina State Senator Las
been fined one dollar for shooting robins on
| the public highway, and he asks what's the
use OF being Legislator if highway robin
is not to be suppressed.
The Massachusetts Labor Reform
State Committee repudiates the protest of
the Eight-hour League against the Column
bus platform, and agree to sustain the do
ings of that convention.
AT temperance meeting held in
Washington yesterday, Vice-President COL
fax urged "a temperance revival to save
the young as well as the old, the pledge to
be the banner of the cause"
The Rome tGa.) Courier says the wheat
crop of North Georgia and Alabama is
unusually small for the season. vet the
stand is very good, and the prospect is
favorable for heavy yield.
Dallas Dyer, of Twiggs county, Geor-
gia, while intoxicated last Saturday. amused
himself by cutting a colored woman aged
seventy years, to pieces. Dyer was sober
enough to make his escape.
"A boy named Vincent, EMPLOYED in a
shingle mill at Cape Vincent, recently en-
deavored to kick away some sawdust
around buzz saw. He will hereafter
walk on one foot and half
The New York Times says it is ru-
mored that the prosecution of w, r. Weld
y Co., of Bosten and New York, for al
legged frauds on the revenue has been COM
promised by the payment of 100000.
The annual boat race between the Ok
ford and Cambridge Clubs of England came
OIL on Saturday, and was won by the Cam
bridge crew. A fierce snow storm pre-
vailed at the time and the water was very
rough.
In Philadelphia yesterday Robert
Brown, aged IL years, stabbed Thomas
Wharton, aged II, inflicting serious
wound, during quarrel about whip
which Brown was making, having knife
in his hand at the time.
Nicholas Ferkel, laborer at the Coke
works in east st. Louis, who married the
illegitimate daughter of Col. Davenport.
finds that, by the will of the colonel, he is
the owner of block of ground in Dayen-
port, Iowa, worth $4,000.
The Baltimore Gazette, the leading
Democratic paper of Maryland, has been
sold to William Ii. Welsh, late proprietor
of the Philadelphia Age, and Henry TAYLOR
and Williom II. Carpenter, of Baltimore.
w. w. Glenn, retiring.
"A letter received at the treasury de-
partment from Brownsville, is to the effect
that on the 9th instant seven hundred head
OF cattle were crossed by armed Mexicans
at Santa Maria. They took Inspector
Sheldon and others prisoners, and held
them until the drove was safely landed in
Mexico.
In Cincinnati, on Sunday, woman
named Charlotte Wessling was taken to
police office as insane. She was furnished
breakfast, and half an hour later was found
lying on her face in the cell, with the fork
which she had used at her meal buried in
her bosom. She lies in a precarious situa-
ton.
On Saturday a man named Clark, in
Cold Spring, near Otis, Massachusetts, by
the most foolish carelessness with loaded
gun, shot and killed his sister, aged 90
years, and wounded her daughter, six years
old, SO that amputation OF the arm was
necessary. His sisters head was shat
tered.
The trains on the Belleville and South
ern Illinois railroad have been stoned late
", and the lives of passengers endangered,
by gang of scoundrels near Pinckney-
vile. Two men were arrested in the act,
and while being searched by the city mar
shall, one of them drew knife and stabbed
him, inf1icting wound thirteen inches long,
whereupon the marshal shot the desperate
lead.
"A fire which originated in stable in
liagerstown, Nd, yesterday, destroyed
.he extensive works of the Hagerstown
Leather Manufacturing company immed:-
ately opposite. A large stock of bark and
aides, together with considerable guam
,ity of leather, was burned. About three
ourths of the stock of unfinished leather
vas saved. The loss is estimated at fifty
thousand dollars, one-half of which is coy
,red by insurance.
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