The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS.


President Grant has returned to Long
Branch.
AT Wilmington, North Carolina, business
was entirely suspended on the Fourth.
A national salute was fired at Fort
Monroe on the Fourth, both at sun rise and
at noon. ~ -
The Fourth was celebrated in New York
city on scale of greater magnitude than
has been known for many years past.
Mrs. Candy, the widow of General
Candy, will take up her permanent resi-
dence at Indianapolis.
Suspension of business, parade of the
military, and fireworks display, were the
order of the day in New York on the
Fourth. .s. ....
The report of an outbreak of the cho lera
at Munich is contracted. Crafts on the
Vistula are subjected to- a rigid quarantine.
The Shah made an unofficial visit to the
Crystal Palace Thursday. Immense pre-
parations are making for his reception at
Paris. I'D. ..-. ....
The Americans in London celebr ated the
anniversary of the declaration of the
independence of the United States by a
dinner at Langham Hotel.
The Connecticut senate has passed a res
olution condemning the back-pay bill and
commenting senator's and representatives
of that state for refusing it.
Dorian and Flood, convicted of illicit
distilling at Spring Valley, New York,
have been sentenced to three years in
prison and fine of 81 900 each.
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warehouse and four sheds filled with lum-
Der, at the arsenal at Watervilet on Thurs
day. Loss $40 900.
The report of an earthquake in the north
western section of Italy Thursday, caused
by the eruption Of volcano near Farra,
is contradicted.
George A. Buskirk, president of the
First National Bank, of Bloomington,
Iowa, shot and mortally mounded Aaron
Rose, barkeeper for refusing to sell him
whiskey. -.
The Hamilton wooden mill, at Hamilton,
was struck by lightning on the 9TH instant.
causing the roof to fall in. One man was
killed and two others hurt. Loss, $50, 900.
Insurance, $4,000. .a. -.
Mr.. Garrett, president of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, has announced to the
board of directors of the company his
contemplated trip to- Europe, and the
board have elected Mr.. John King, ir.,
the yice-president of the company during
the absence of President Garrett.
Advices from Arizona state that Lieu.
tenant Babcock with fifty cavalry, who
was sent in pursuit of the murderers of
Lieutenant Almy, overlook them in the
mountains and compelled them to fight.
During the engagement fourteen were
killed and six captured. Two of Babcock's
Indian aids were wounded. General
Crook is still at Camp Apachee. #
General Butler made an electioneering
speech to large temperance convention at
Framingham, Mass, Yesterday. His re-
marks were directed against monopolies
and special legislation. He did not commit
himself to approval or disapproval of the
prohibition or temperance laws, but de-
clared, as long as they were on the statute
book, they should be enforced. ..
Three families, bound to Chicago, arrived
in New York recently from Germany, and
were kidnapped and sent to North Carolina,
when, after working month at the rough
est farmwork. they escaped and begged
their way back here. They found tickets
here at the board of immigration which
had been sent them by their friends in
Chicago. Mayor Havemeyer is investi-
eating the case. ..ws#. "a.
In consequence of the passage of the bill
abolishing the constitutional guarantees the
irreconcilable deputies have withdrawn
from the Cortes, which action has served to
restore quiet in Madrid. Detachments of
troops are, however, yet posted at various
points throughout the city, and the utmost
precautions have been taken by the author
tiles for the suppression of disturbances.
Tho secretary of the interior has received d
dispatch from Governor Campbell. OF
Wyoming, in relation to the trouble with
Ute Indians, in which he says that boy
who came into Rawlins' slightly wounded
reported that he had been shot BY Indians,
and that party of citizens went in pur-
suit, overlook and had fight with them.
The party returned to Rawlins' with eleven
ponies and one rifle captured from the In
dians, of whom they reported several killed
and wounded. None of the whites were
injured. at
The draft of the new constitution was sub
mitted to the Oortes Thursday by the COM
mittee appointed to- draw up the instrument.
1t provides Chat the President Oft Repub-
lie must have been born on Spanish terri
tory and be twenty years of age. The country
is to be divided into cantons, like the Swiss
Republic. The Assembly of each canton