The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-08

1 InoTnhhS, OF Tie pusiheSS portion oil Frog
Level, IN Newberry county, South Car.
olina, is reported. Loss, 100000.
In the American and British claims com
mission the number of claims against the
United Estates is AS; number against
Great Britain, 10 /; number of cases already
decided, 35; number to be decided, I4i.
Not half million dollars have thus far
| been awarded.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of proper
| ty was destroyed by rockets and fire-eracL-
ers in New York on the Fourth.
A shoe store, photograph gallery and
flour store in Strathroy were burned SIM
da. Loss $4,000.
From April 9Th to the 1st instant there
were dispatched over the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad 6G5 ,504 pounds of documen-
tary matter from the capital. OF this
amount 220, 900 pounds went east of Balti-
more. 4I .'
William Il. Lincoln, of Dedham, Mass.
while walking out near the village with
his wife Sunday evening, was shot by
some unknown person, one ball entering
The left side just below the heart, and
another at the knee. The wounds are
| dangerous. There is no clew to the assas-
| sin.
True bills have been found against
George Bidwell, Austin Bidwel,
George Macdonnel and Edwin Noyes, the
Bank Of England forgers, aud they will
| be tried at Old Bailey in August.
The Post says the Shah of Persia, be-
fore. leaving London, made many presents,
| including $S. 900 to the servants of Buck
ingham palace, and $l2 900 to the police
men who were stationed there.
Requisition from the postoflice depart.
ment on its agents in New York for ordinary
postage stamps to supply postmasters,
amounted on Saturday to $4,000,00J.
Such orders indicate that the postal cards
have not affected the demand for ordinary
stamps.
A French woman and two children in
Dudley, Mass, were burned to death by
an explosion of kerosene oil Saturday
night.
Carl Kustner, found murdered IN the
Hudson river, near Hoboken, Sunday, was
a merchant of Stettin, and recently ar
rived here en- route to California on
business. His face was found battered to
| jelly. Ills pockets were turned inside
out, and all indications betoken that he
was brutally murdered, robbed, and the
body thrown into the river. His effects in
his hotel show that he was in possession
of some twenty thousand thalers.
OConnor. New York policeman, was
beaten fatally Sunday morning by four
ruffians with stones. Three of them were
subsequently arrested. O'Connor is dying,
his head being nearly mashed to pieces.
A dispatch received in Washington, from
Staniey's Yellowstone expedition, dated at
camp, forty miles west of Bismarck, Da-
kota, June 80, states that the health of the
whole company was good. The Indians
were offering no serious resistance TO the
location of the railroad through their hunt
ing grounds. Abundant coal, of good quail
ity, was found twenty-seven miles west of
the Missouri river, on the surveyed line of
the road, and the country thus far Travelled
by the expedltionary force, is an excellent
one, well grassed and watered.
At Pioche, Nevada, Monday afternoon,
man named Harrington shot and mortally
wounded five men named Lynch, Beal,
Frank, Shoemaker and Sullivan, in
street alteration, originating in Harrington's
throwing dog across the street, the ami
nal belonging to Schonmaker. The pres
ence Of officers in strong force alone
prevented the lynching of Harrington, who
was arrested by Sheriff Travis and his
deputies after making desperate resis-
tance.
During heavy shower in Andover,
Mass, last Friday afternoon, the lightning
struck the Old South church, and stunned
the Rev. Mr.. Abbott. who was delivering
an Grafton, and also Mr.. Carter, the tenor
of the choir. Both recovered in few
moments. The church was materially
damaged.
Advices from Arizona, via San Diego,
state that the Tatagus band of 200 war.
rious, located fifty miles south of the
Apache pass, on the Cochise reservation,
recently left for Chihuahua, intent on war.
On the oath of June Captain Randall, Of
the 2lst infantry, and command, with fifty
Apache scouts, surrounded their ranch and
captured twenty-five bucks, squaws, and
children. The next day Delchay's camp
was surrounded, and he, with the remain
| der of that once formidable band, to the
number of l3l, surrendered.
Stokes, Simmons and King will, il is
supposed, escape the death penalty through
| the new law requiring proof of deliber-
| ate intent to kill for conviction of murder
in the first degree.
The New York Evening Telegram says
that the law under which Rozenzweig, the
abortionist, offended with its penalty of
seven years. Imprisonment, was legislated
out of existence by the passage of a new
law making malpractice attended with fatal
results punishable with death. Rosenzweig
has lain for months in the tombs awaiting
| new trial, but has not been indicted, and il
| is believed cannot be.
| ONE DAY NEARER His DOOM
| When man has been sentenced to be exc