The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-14

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General Sheridan leaves Long Branch
shortly9for tour of inspection of Western
military posts.
The revolutonists in Mexico are ac-
eepung amnesty from the new administers
ton, and the country is becoming paciled.
There Were six cases of sun stroke in
New York on Monday. The weather
Tuesday morning wasintensely hot.
Congressman Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
addressed large Grant and Wilson meet
ing in San Francisco last night. araasy
Rich silver mines have been discovered
in Lower California, two hundred miles
south of the American line.
"A special from New Orleans says at
the convention yesterday Pinchbeck spoke
in favor of the election of Grant and Will
son. t3ts!sI3 r
--Gratz Brown denies that he "buttered
his watermelon" i'll New Haven, Conn.,,
over his signature in theSt. Louis Rpubi-
can.
Harvey Myers, law partner of Senator
Stevenson, has been nominated for Congress
by the Republicans Of the Sixth Kentucky
district. ta N
Emerson Etheridge, in a letter to the
Memphis AcdiQR he, declines the candidacy
as Liberal elector from Tennessee, but sup
ports Greeley.
The Republicans of the third district of
Michigan yesterday nomidated Geo. Will
lard for Congress. The district is now rep
resented by Augustin Blair.
-Wadsworth & Co., of New York, on
Tuesday morning notified the Stock Ex-
change of their failure. Some few hundred
shares of stock were sold out for their ac-
count.
-Forrent & Arms steam saw-mill, on
Muskegon Lake, near Detroit, was burned
yesterday morning. Loss, $S0,000 insu-
rance, $4,000.
A severe storm passed over South
| eastern Kansas Monday night, doing con-
siderable damage to the crops. The court
house at Girard was blown down. Lead
mines are reported discovered in Butler
county.
"A fiat-boat, with seventeen persons on
| board, was swamped at the foot of Wheel
ing, Island, Wheeling, w. Va, yesterday
afternoon by the swell of passing steam
er, and Jacob Watson, his two sons, and
two passengers names unknown, were
drowned.
The following are the latest appoint
ments of postmasters in this State: At
Sabot Island, Rockland county, Fleming P.
Shumaker is appointed postmaster, vice
William W. Sharp, deceased; at Johnson's
Spring, Rochland county, VIM. B. w.
Booking, postmaster, vice Dennis Nicholas,
resigned.
Senator Wilson delivered twenty-one
speeches in twelve days in Indiana. He
says that the enthusiasm for the Admins
tration in the West exceeds his highest ex-
pectations. He regards Grant as sure of
all but two Northern states, with an equal
chance for them-New York and New
Hampshire. The Senator has returned
from the West, and was in New York on
Monday.
A chief disbursing office will be estab-
. lished in the adjutant generals Office at
Washington, d. c., with disbursing offices
! at Louisville, KY, St. Louis, Mo-, Nash
vile and Memphis, Tenn, Vicksburg and
Natchez, Miss, and New Orlerns, La.
Payments to claiments in Delaware, Mary
land and Virginia will be made through the
Washington Office; in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and
in States wherein slavery did not exist, by
officers who will be temporarily assigned to
that duty and in all other States through
the disbursing officers herein before enum-
Grated.