The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-16
Financial.
CLEANINCS.

Carl Schurz and Colonel Grosvenor
have left New York for st. Louis. Yu1 p
Ex-Governor Jewell, of Connecticut,
has purchased the interest of j. ii. Brown
ley in the Erening Post of Hartford. .sr4
A German schuetzenfest of five days.
duration commenced at Hoboken yesterday.
Delegates are present from various parts of
the country.
The Cleveland Plaindealer of yester-
day published a letter from Hon. A. G.
Thurman, of Ohio, accepting Greeley and
Brown, "as it is the will of the party"
An examination from the official rec
ords shows that the BROOKLYN water board
expended eight or nine million dollars du-
ring the year, most of which was under
circumstances justaying suspicious Of fraud.
Samuel Platt, a well-known criminal
lawyer of San Francisco, died suddenly on
Sunday. He was in early life a student in
the office of Hon. John M. Clayton, of
Delaware.
AN accident occurred on the Morris
and Essex railroad at Newark, on Sunday,
caused by the breaking of the coupling of
a freight train. Two cars were completely
wrecked and several thrown from the track,
Nobody was injured. sg,a.a
? 1t has been decided that soldiers who en-
tered homesteads prior to the passage of
the recent act Of Congress, known as the
Soldiers Homestead law, are entitled 10
have the time they served in the army de-
Quoted from the time heretofore required to
perfect the title to homesteads. a
The sensible decision of the Commission
er of Pensions, by which pensioners are en-
abled to get their new ratings at the Depart
ment without the intervention of agents.
has been affirmed by Secretary Delano.
and a saving of $3.50, 900 is thus secured to
them.
The London Echo of yesterday evening
devotes a leading article to Catacazy's state
ment. The Echo a y /: " Catacazy's PAM
phlet, which was offered up for G200. has
been published and fully ~justifies our opin-
ion. 1t was not worth the money /; indeed.
it is hardly worth noticing. The ex-Minis-
ter is simply trying to Justify himself.n
The Echo thinks Fish did well to bow Cat.
acazy out of Washington.
The States which hold elections pre-
vious to the Presidential contest in Noyem-
Der are as follows: North Carolina, August
L; Kentucky, Montana and Utah, August
5; New Mexico, September L; California,
September 2; Vermont, September 3 ;
Maine, September 8 /; Colorado Territory,
September 10; Dakota, Indianna, Iowa,
Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and District
of Columbia, October s; South Carolina,
October Is West Virginia, October "a.
Acting Commissioner of Patents
Thatcher has decided that when a patent
has been surrendered and reissued the origin.
alIcan be extended when it appears that the
original p~atentee neither assented to nor has
been interested in the reissue thereof; and
that where a patent has been SURRENDERED
and reissued by the patentee himself he
holds that the extension of the original pa.
tent must be refused on the ground that
the application should have been for the
extension of the patent as reissued.
The returns of the letter-carricrs for
the month of June, just submitted to the
Postoffice Department show the fol.
lowing free delivery of mail letters
in the principal cities of the United
States New York, 2,253, SOB Philadel.
phia, 1,103,S $40 Chicago, 1901 1854 !; st,
Louis, 500, 65l ; Boston, ass, GAS Balti.
more, $4,000; Cincinnati, 366 ,S7l ; De.
troit, 254,336; Buffalo, 227, $50: Cleve'
land, 224, 900 Brooklyn, 217 ,996; Louis
vile, 215,5 ; Albany, 191 ,266; Milwau'
kee, 16G, 76S F; Rochester, 161 $50; Indian
apolis, 157, 1927; Washington, las, 392
New Orleans. 1913 $50.