The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-11
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WASHINGTON.


Items.
WASHINGTON; June IL .--Fourteel
temporary clerks in the pension Office
have been dropped from the rolls, no pro
visions having been made by Congress fo
their payment.
The award in the Farragut prize cas-,
confirmed by the court in general term OF
Saturday, amounts to the balance of The
prize money appropriated by Congress,
SIPS 900. and of this sum S3l 900 will
go to pay counsel. expenses of arbitra.
ton, &c.
Judge James M. Thacher, assis-
tant commissioner of patents, has been ap.
pointed by the President to represent the
United States at aconvention called by the
Emperor Of Austria to meet at Vienna,
August a, for the purpose of discussing the
subject of patents, and the feasibility of an
international patent law. lie will leave for
Europe on the 9TH Of July.
Receipts from internal revenue yester-
day were s223, 3S9.sO
The Polaris investigation at the navy
.
yard is still in progress, and is conducted
by Secretary Robson in person with closed
doors, with every precaution to prevent
newspaper reporters from getting hold of
the facts developed. Yesterday Heron,
the steward with the cook Of the Polaris,
and one member Of the crew, were exam
ined, but no new facts of importance, be-
yond those already published, were
elected.
The state department will furnish a copy
Of the investigation, regarding Mr.. Van
Buren,, to that gentleman, who can make
what use of it he pleases. The official re-
port will be made to the next Congress.
but the state department will Withhold it
from the press.
Commissioner Schultz writes that the
American department of the Vienna expo
sition will be completed by the 18th inst,
which will not be the case with any other
nation.
The following balances remained in the
Treasury at the close Of business yesterday:
Currency ...................S 5,093,0 "a
Special deposit oflegal ten
ders for redemption of
certificates Of Deposit. 30,295 900 90
Coin ......... ......... ......... 77,379, 1886 SO
Including coin certificates 35, 487 300 90
Outstanding legal tenders. 356, 000, 900 90
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| Financial.
NEW York, June 11.-Stocks dull
and heavy. Gold heavy liza. Money firm
4ae. Exchange long ST; Short, ss.g Gov
ernments dull and steady. State bonds
quiet.
New York, June 1.-THE steamer
Washington, now at New Orleans, will
proceed to the Bahamas and tow the dis
abled steamer George Cromwell to this
port.
Rev. Drs. Bellows and Taylor, How
ard Potter, Professor Hitchcock, j. e.
Williams and Others have left on the
steamer Wyanoke for Norfolk to attend
the examination exercises at the Hampton
Normal Institute on the 18th instant.
Miss Mary Carpenter accompanied the
party.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Terrible Colliery Explosion : Ten
Victims Already Recovered.
| SHAMoAKIN, Pa, June 1.-THE
Henry Clay Colliery exploded this morn
ing. Ten bodies have already been
brought out dead. Many men came from
the surrounding mines to render assistance.
The excitement was intense. Wives and
children were rushing to the scene of the
disaster, finding husbands and brothers
dead or gasping for breath, while others
were eagerly watching for the arrival Of
friends on the slope-wagons from below.
There were fifty men in the slope thirty
| five of whom are known to have escaped
The Remains Of Minister Orr.
New YORK, June IL. The remains OF
the late Minister Orr, were landed from the
steamer at II o'clock this morning, and re-
ceived by the Knights Templar and de-
tachment of the police force. They were
taken to the City Hall, where they will lie
in state in the governors room.
TENNESSEE.
Cholera Abnting In Nnshville-Increas.
Ing I'm Memphis.
| NASHVILLE, June 1.-The excitement
about cholera is abating. The waether
has turned unusually cool, and, contrary
to the expectations of physicians, the
prevailing sickness shows fewer and lighter
cases. Very few have proved fatal fol
several days where medical aid was
promptly summoned.
MEMPHIS, June 1.-THE cholera is
undoubtedly increasing. There were eigh.
teen interments yesterday against eleven
day before yesterday, and at 8 o'clock the
undertakers had received orders for four.
teen burials to-day. The waether con
tinues cloudy and cool.
Hon. Jacob Thompson. secretary of the
interior under President Buchanan, is
lying dangerously i'll of cholera in this
city.