The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The jury in the Walworth case, when
they first retired. stood, for murder in the
first degree. s for murder in the second
degree, l for acquittal, 3. After some
dscussi on, occupying one hour and fifty
minutes, they agreed upon the verdict as it
stands. ~ u ,A8
Half a mile of the Missouri and Pacific
railroad track, near Kickapoo station,
dropped into the Missouri river and sank
out Of sight in the flooded stream without
any warning to railroad men. The water
where the track was situated is now forty
feet deep. Railroad men say it is the
most fearful rent ever made. The escape
of trains was almost miraculous.
Thomas Adams house, in Hartford, Com
necticut, was burned Monday night. One
child was burned to death and two others,
it is feared, cannot live.
A state grange of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry has been established at Raleigh, N.
O., by the various masters of the order in
the state, with WIS Battle, of Edgecombe,
as president.
The state educational conventiono North
Carolina is in session at Raleigh, Hon. w.
H. Battle presiding. Much interest is man
ifested.
The international convention for the
Yo ung Mems Christian association.is now
in session at Poughkeepsie. New York, and
is fully attended. II. X. Porter, of Pitts
burg, Pa, was elected chairman. The ex-
ecutive committees report on the condition
of the various association districts in the
United States and the Canadas is favorable.
III. Haddes has been admitted as delegate
from Europe. There are in the United
States and Canada over 22G Young Mems
Christian associations.
John w. Gregg, alias John w. Young,
has been arrested in Cincinnati for attempt-
ing to obtain money from the postoffice
upon counterfeit order, purporting to be
from Oshkosh, Wis. He has been opera
ting through the west for some weeks, but
has thus far escaped arrest.
There are now seven persons in Mary
land who have been convicted of murder,
six Of whom have been sentenced to be
hung the other is awaiting sentence.
The steamer Gulf Stream, from Balti-
timore to New, Orleans, collided with an
unknown schooner when off Point Lookout
| Monday morning about 3 O'Clock. Both
were damaged. The steamer put into Nor
folk for repairs. @
| The second instalment--25O,0 ,000, 900
francs-of the last milliard of the war in
demnity was paid by France to
the German treasury on the fifth
inst. There now remains due to Ger
many but 500,00O,00O francs, which,
in accordance with the treaty signed at
Berlin on the 18th of March last, is to
| be paid by the 9th of next September.
A dispatch from Black Rock, Idaho,
says: On Saturday last seven Indians,
who were waiting at Fort Hall for their
trial for murder Of party of white men
ON Lost river, Idaho, last summer, at
tempted to escape while cutting wood un-
der guard. Four Off them were shot and
three escaped. ,el,fr
Very little further news has been re-
ceived from the wreck Of the city Of Wash
ington. The passengers are supplied with
/ cooked provisions from the ship. 1t is ex-
pected she will be got off if the weather
/ continues favorable. The officers Of the
/ ship report no observations had been taken
for eight days. When the ship first struck
there were only few feet Of water oyei
the bay, the tide being low, but the water
came in through the hole which had been
knocked in the ships bottom, and there is
now over ten feet of water in the hold.
1t will be impossible to ascertain the ex-