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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

THE ALARM OF FIRE.-The alarm that
was sounded from Box Al, about o'clock
this morning, was occasioned by the burn
ing of the canal boat Dispatch, which was
lying in the basin near Tenth street. The
fire brigade was promptly on hand and
soon succeeded in extinguishing the flames.
The Dispatch was owned and commanded
by Captain Robert Vaughn. of Goochland
county, and was valued at $500. The
damage to the boat is estimated OF about
5000, and was not insured. The fire origi-
mated through the carelessness of one of
the hands, who fell asleep leaving light
burning.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

BERLIN, June Pit is probable that
the Parliament will adopt resolution ex-
tending the provisions Of the constitution Of
Germany to Alsace and Lorraine. Should
this measure be carried out. A s ICE and
Lorraine will be entitled to elect fifteen
members of Parliament. None Of the in
habitants who chose French nationality will
be allowed to vote until they have sworn
allegiance to Germany.
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France.

PARIS, June l2.-General DAdmirault
has applied to the Assembly for authority
prosecute Communist Rome, who is now a
member Of that body.
Ex-President Theirs has written let
ter to his friends. in which he says he has
retired to private life, believing that Repub-
lican government in France is. a mistake,
and will only tend to fresh divisions.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

DEATH OF AN EsTIMABLE CITIZEN.
MIR. David j. Saunders, well-known and
highly esteemed citizen, died at at his late
residence in this city yesterday afternoon at
six O'Clock. The city council will meet
this afternoon at 5 O'Clock to take suitable
action relative to his death,
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NEW YORK.
Financial.

New York, June 13.-Stocks active
and strong. Money steady at 4. Gold
steady llG5. There were sixteen bids for
gold yesterday amounting to s3,475 900
from 1865 to 11G.91.
The opening price was III, after which
all sales were made at 1165al17. On gold
loans The rates have been at to 5 for car
rying. Foreign exchange was firm at 1O9a
lO9B and llOall0s for prime sterling, sixty
day bills being firmer for business than de-
mand. Money continues abundant to Dor
rowels on call at four and five, and on
prime mercantile paper at seven, and all
indications, both here and in London, are
favorable for an easy money market. In
the stock market there has been general
advance, prices having risen from to IL.
AT the advance the market is dull and
steady.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

THE BEST SHoT.--At the larger prac-
tice of the Richmond Grays, which took
place at the pump-house yesterday, the
prize for the best shot Of the company, q
gold medal, was won by private G. w.
Duke, who also made the best shot last
year. Ensign Kirby made the second and
Lieutenant Phillips the third best shots,
each of whom received gold badge. The
prizes were presented by J. j. White, esq.
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HUsTINGs CoURr.-Detectiye VIM. Il.
Knox, charged with felonious assault upon
A. j. Berry, was tried in this court to-day
and acquitted. James L. Apperson quail
fled as notary public.
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IN MEsIORIAM.

A lady borne from the wreck of the Metis"
raised her eyes to her deliyerer as he laid her
upon the shore and said; "The angels are not
all in Heaven" and died. Our city has its
angels, and one of them has lett US. Yesterday
about eight p. m, JAMES =. FORD braathed
his last sigh, after seventeen years of uninter-
rupted suffering He was a man OF rare force of
character, great strength of mind. and perfect
in Christian loneliness. Mr.. FORD in 1856, at the
age OF thirty'six, was prosperously engaged in
the tobacco business. Amisstep and fall through
hatchway injured his spine. rendering him
helpless ever below this injury. With faith sub.
lime, and spirit brave and true, has he borne the
loss OF property, and latterly Tin three years. an
excellent wife and four grown children. So
noble and manly was he in word and manner
Il was hard TO credit his physical situation
His sufterings We're very great, but no muTmur
ever passed his lips. "All is right, l rejoice to
CO., was his last utterlnce.
TO know him was privilege; to hear him
read Gods Word better than any sermon. His
life as an heroic example has not been spent In
vain.
Meek souls there are who little dream
Their daily walks and angels theme,
And that the rod they bear SO calm
shall prove In Heaven martyrs palm"
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13
The PO1arIs Survivors, ON an
Ice FIOe-A Parallel Case.

1t is looked upon as an extraordinary
act, and one which causes wonderment,
how the survivors Of the Polaris could re-
main on an ice foe from October until
April, and float from Northumberland
island down to the coasts Of Labrador, a
distance of 1900 miles. Yet similar
act occurred a few years ago from an ex-
petition to the North Pole. fitted out un-
der German auspices. Parties composing
that expedition were wrecked, and remain
ed on the ice from October until June, hav-
ing foated during that time from the north
eastern extremity Of Greenland down to
Cape Farewell.
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THE MODOCS.
The Military Commission for their
ll. T Trial.

The Military Commission for their
. Trial.
BoYLEs' CAMP, June LITTLE Modoc
commission convenes at Fort Klamath. 1t
is thought that Bogus Charley, Hooker
Jim, Shack Nasty Jim and Steamboat
Frank, who aided in the capture of Captain
Jack, will escape punishment as murder
ers.
Those not tried for murder will be for
warded to the fort in San Francisco har-
Dor.
General Ross, of the Oregon volunteers,
denies that his men massacred the Modocs.
y. MISSOURI
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Captain HALLS widow arrived at Wash.
ington yesterday from Cincinnati, and was
surprised to find the crew gone, as she
desired to talk with them about her hus-
bands death. ...-
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TEMPERATURE.--Thefo following is the
range of the thermometer at G. L. John
ston's news and music store, 9lS Main
street, for to-day: At ga. IN. ~; u IN.
II; 3p. M. 80.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

The DELEGATES TO THE CATHOLIC
BENEVOLENT UNION BANoUETED Al
MONTICELLO HALL.-The Catholic Ben
eficial society of this citv banqueted the
delegates to the Catholic Benevolent union
in handsome style last night at Monticello
Hall. But the members Of the union
were not the only ones that were done up
in style. Prominent among the rest were
the president of the city council, the police
justice, and last, but not least, the press
squad, all of whom shared the same fate.
The table was elegantly and profusely sup
piled with all the delcacies of the season,
and decorated in John Dabney's usual
manner. The following were the regular
toasts. which were read by Mayor Kelley
and responded to as follows:
|. The Clergy: Everywhere and always
the earnest and Jealous friends of the
Catholic benevolent societies. Rev. +.
Janssens.
2. The Catholic Benevolent Union of
Virginia May its career be as prosperous
as its proceedings are harmonious. M.
Glennan. $3.50
3. Virginia: Her brightest jewel is the
catholic liberality of her people. Col. 4.
Ii. Wynne.
4. Richmond: AS citizens of Virginia,
we rejoice in her prosperity. Justice j. j.
White.
5. st. Patrick: Would that the earth
were filled with such Presbyterian Bish-
ops, and that each, like st. Patrick, would
convert nation to Catholicism. Mayor
A. M. Kelley.
6. Our Sister Benevolent Societies in
the State and Union: We have no rivalry
with them save in charity. Major NJ. Il.
Urell. II
z. The Officers OF the State Union:
The confidence bestowed on them has been
amply justified. Col. j. d. Brady.
8. Charity: The heritage of no faith
and alien in no land-the lovely flower of
every cline. M. P. Handy.
8. The Press: Free without licentious-
ness, fearless, but just. w. G. Elan.
10. The Ladies: AS they are all
benevolent and all fond Of "union," we
include them all in our membership.
John O'Connor, jr.
The regulars were followed by number
of volunteers, Professor McCann's band
leading them all and playing them out-in
the morning.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

Japan is to have newspaper to re-
fleet the views of Americans in that land.
if Women in Florida make from eighteen
TO twenty dollars week braiding palmetto
hats.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

DEATH OF ANOTHER CITIZEN.-Mr.
Richard Hall, of the firm of Thomas r..
Price 4 Co., died this morning, about one
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

HoUDoUN's WAsHINGT The
Houdoun statue of Washington will be
placed in position in the rotunda of the
Capitol this evening.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

ST.. LOUIS, June 13. The Atlantic and
Pacific railroad applies to the Federal court
to restrain the Governor from selling the
road to satisfy the state lien. This is a call
upon the Federal court to restrain the
state executive from enforcing state legisla-
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

BsEn CHURCH COMMITTEES TAKE
NOTICE.-GAS FIXTURES and CHANDF.
LIERS, REBRONzED and REPAIRED-mad4
to look as good as newly
DANIEL O'DONNELL,
ap Sim SIS Rroad Street
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CALIFORNIA.

Death of a Greek Consul.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.-George
Fisher, the Greek consul at this place. is
dead.
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ps- w. s. CATLETT g. CO., q
1859 MAIN STREET, -
NEAR OLD MARKET

Pay more attention TO laying In an assortment
Of Misses, Children's aud Infants Colored Shoes
and slippers, than any other Merchants in The
city, and sell them cheaper.
ie13-6t
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DIED.

SAUNDERS.--At his residence, ON Thursday,
the 18th instant, DAVID j. SAUNDERS, esq,
in the sixtythird year of his age.
His funeral will take place from Grace.street
Baptist church TOMORROW, June the l4th,
at o'clock p IN. Friends and acquaintance
are invited TO attend without further notice.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

Auction sales of real estate specially. Real
estate purchased and sold on commission. Par.
tcular attention to renting property. Loans
negotiated on real estate and other securities.
my l5--1m
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FOREIGN.


10 FaH #hg France.
PARIS, June 13.--The government has
decided to transport Henri Rochefort to New
Caledonia.
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DB~ 4. L. CROUCH & CO.,
REAL ESTATE
AUCTIONEERS AND BROKERS'
OFFICE NATIONAL BANK OF VIRGINIA
BUILDING, CORNER ELEVENTH AND
MAIN STREETS, RICHMOND,
VIRGINIA.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

Das~ MRS. JOHN P. BALLARD
WISHES TO TAKE BOARDERS FOR THE
SPRING, SUMMER AND FALL MONTHS.
Can accommodate two small families The
house is a new one, pleasantly located ~ miles
frmo the city. and the accommodation train on
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac
railroad stops at the place daily at sA O'Clock n.
M; returning, leaves Richmond at O'Clock, D.
m. Address JOHN p. BALLARD,
apll-tf Richmond Va
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

MEETING CAPITAL BUILDING FUND
WI ASSOCIATION, JUNE 18th, at 81 O'Clock
p. M, at No. II Tenth street, Persons who
have subscribed for shares will please be present
wishing to take shareE. 1t is proposed to make
the association what the name indicates.
w. o. CARRINdTON,
Je R-2t President.
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MEETINGS.

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY GRAND
" WORTHY SUPERIOR OF THE CITY
OF RICHMOND AND COUNTIES OF VIR-
GlN1A.-To the Worthy Supporters and Mem
Gel eral Grand Accepted Order of Love and
Charity: You are hereby requested to attend a
communication of a Union Tabernacle on MON
DAY EVENING, the 10th instant, at O'Clock,
at Love and Charity Hail.
BY order of THOS, R. JOHNSON.
Je l5-lt# ID. G. VS.
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BsSnCITY FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY, OF RICHMOND, VA
OFFICE, No. lll3 MAIN STREET,
Urndar tho RANKING -hnusa of Tanoastar ~,


OFFICE, No. lll3 MAIN STREET.
Under the Banking of Lancaster & Go.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL.....so $500, 900
lOUsVVV
DIRECTORS Peter w. Grubbs, Clement r.
Barksdae, Charles T. Davis, William M. Ar
cher, William H. Palmer, L. b. Tatum, S. ii.
Halves, t. William Pemberton, d. S. Wool
bridge, F. T. Glasgow, T. L. d. Walford, John
Tyler, Isaac H. Darlington, James Dunlop, w.
r. Quarles, Anthony Bargamin, w. II. Lucke,
Bailey Davis, Frank ID. Hill, F. b. Watkins,
Lewis d. Crenshaw, George w. Gary, Samuel
Freddy, William H. Powers.
This home company is now ready to issue its
policy against LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE
ON BUILDINGS, MERCHANDISE, HOUSE,
HOLD FURNITURE and other insurable pro-
perty and solicits patronage.
ASA SNYDER, President
+. b. MEADE, Secretary.
je Him
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Grtning State gnslraal.
HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRICUL-
tfe 1910 TURAL SCHOOL.
TO WITNESS THE CLOSING ExER-
Y CISES.
DISTINGUISHED visit0rs--The New Build
tng-Some Account of the Normal
SchOOl-HistOry. Objects and Plan of
the InstitutiOn-The Work II Has
Done and Proposes to Do.

A special correspondent of The Norfolk
Journal writing from Hampton, June u,
1873. says: KS
The closing exercises OF the Hampton
Normal school came off to-day. The ex-
aminations were conducted almost exclu-
siyely by the teachers. There was
A LARGE ATTENDANCE OF VISITORS
not only from this community but from
other states. The following are some Of
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3 CENTS Per C0PY.s
STATE NEWS.

--Harrisonburg's town council has Or
ganized chain-gang to work on the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-22
AN ANATOMICAL CURIOSITY.

On the 10th of October last, John
Conway, n boy of fourteen years, was
asked to ride horse at Hagerty's sta
BILE, and he did so. The horse ran away
at rapid rate and threw the boy over
its head, on Twenty-second and O'Fal-
Ion streets. He received a fracture of
the front part of the skull, two pieces
being loose. The boy was treated by
DIR. Hogden, and then sent to the City
Hospital For about two months he
progressed favorably towards recovery,
without any inconvenience, and the
physicians were thinking of discharging
him, when his case underwent n change
for the worse. He unfortunately took n
chill, and symptoms of consumption
soon became apparent. A tubercle was
formed in the lungs, and swelling en-
sued near the place of his injury on the
forehead. 1t was probcd, but without
any effect. It was next lanced, and a
cheese-hkc substance issued from it.
The patient felt relieved for time. At
this stage a very remarkable phonome-
non occurred. The cheese-like sub
stance issuing from his forehead formed
itself into protuberance in the shape
of horn. The patient, however, con-
timed to improve until one night, when
he struck the projection against the side
of the bed and broke it off. Hemor-
rhage and bleeding ensued, and his con-
dition gradually grew worse until he
sank under it and died. The peculiar
nature of the circumstances has excited
considerable interest among the medical
faculty.-.T. Louis RepuJlican.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-22
FARM WORK IN ENGLAND.

In Exeter, England, the other day, n
farm labOrer was summoned by the Cor
poration of the Poor for having neg
lected to maintain his wife and six chill
dren, thereby leaving them chargeable
to the parish" 1t was shown that the
wife and children were admitted into the
poor-ho,tse in November last, and their
maintenance had cost the corporation
five dollars week. 1t was also shown
that the defendant was working on
farm four miles from Exeter, and that he
was getting three dollars a week and
liquor, out of which he had to find every
thing-board, lodgings, etc. 1t was,
moreover, shown that the defendants
master deducted little over one dollar
week out of his wages, which was
paid over to the authorities toward the
support of his wife and family. The
defendants answer to the charge was
that he gave two-thirds of his miserable
pittance weekly, which was as much as
his means would afford, and that he
had not neglected his family on the
contrary, he had been trying to get a
house for them at the village where he
worked, but could not succeed in getting
house large enough for his family.
The magistrates, however, made an
order, calling upon the defendant to pay
up all arrears, and get house for his
wife and family. The question which
naturally occurs in one is, How can this
man maintain his wife and family of six
children on three dollars week, and
find house large enough for them into
the bargain, when the bare maintenance
in the work house costs five dollars a
week?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-22
GLASS NECkTIES.

A glass composition, which may be
made at any time into curled or frizzled
yarn, has been discovered by M. Brun-
fault, of Vienna. These frizzled threads
surpass in fneness not only the finest
cotton, but even single cocoon thread,
and they appear at the same time almost
as soft and elastic as silk lint, and beau
tiful to the eye. These smooth threads
are now woven in textile fabrics, which
are made into neckties and various other
articles. In softness the glass yarn al
most approaches silk and to the touch
it is like the choicest wool or cotton. 1t
also possesses a remarkable strength,
remains unchanged in light and warmth,
and is not altered by moisture or acids.
Another great advantage which it neces-
sarily possesses, is that of being nom
inflammable and incombustible. The
composition of this glass material is
peculiar to the inventor. The spinning
requires extraordinary dexterity and con-
slant attention, and is said to be very
trying to the sight. With a wheel of
the diameter of five Austrian yards, one
operator is able to spin three thousand
yards per minute, all OF the most uniform
size and beautiful quality.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-22
IT Is THE FASHION.

Thin, scraggy, badly-made women in
vented hoop-skirts and pulled out dresses
which gave the hips huge proportions,
and they said /" II is the fashion"
Bcautifully-formed women, who re-
quired no stufiing, consented To the dis
figuremcnt, and they, too, said at is
the fashion"
Short little women invented high
heels and high head-dresses, making the
face in the middle of the body, and they
said 1T is the fashion" Tall and
graceful women, with sigh, said I" 1t
is the fashion," and so made themselves
too tall, giving the dwarfs the stature
that nature, without high heels and
high hcad-drcsses, had bestowed upon
them.
Women with large, fat feet, thick
ankles and low insteps said, 1--WE must
hide our feet and ankles" They invented
long, dragging dresses, and said "It is
the fashion," Then all women with
dear little feet said 80 dear it is the
fashion, and we, too, must wear long
dresses"
That long dresses have q certain style
about them is not to be denied, and II
pretty woman can manage to show just
a glimpse of small foot, II high instep
and well turned ankle Dresses with
trails may be worn in a drawing room
(the carpet supposed to be clean and in
IL carriage, but i'll the street, dragging
through mud and dirty water, making
the stockings filthy, it is the very height
of folly and extreme of vulgarity. The
opposite of cleanliness in woman is II
crime so great that, like the absence of
a law against parricide in the code of
Lycurgus, it is not to be supposed pos
sihIn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-22
THE STRONGHOLD OF TIE MODOCS
IN OREGON.

Jessie Applegate, writing to the Port
land (Oregon) Buiictin, gives the fol-
lowing description of the lava bed in
which the hostile Modoc Indians are
now intrcnched
"The stronghold ST the Modoc In
dams is 'pedrigal of the most extern
tensivc and elaborate description-an ir
regular volcanic basalt, trachytc, etc. :,
more or less broken into by upheavals
from below, and cracked and tissurcd in
the process of cooling. 1t occupies,
with but few intervals, nearly 100 square
miles. If you can, imagine Il smooth,
solid sheet of granite, ten miles square
and 500 feet thick, covering resistless
mines of gunpowder, scattered at irregu-
lar intervals under it that these mines
are exploded simultaneously, rcnding
the whole field into rectangular masses,
a church, heaping these masses high in
some places, and leaving chasms in
others. Following the explosion, the
whole thing is placed in one of Vulcan's
crucibles, and heated up to point when
the whole begins to fuse and run to-
gether, and then suffered to cool. The
roughncss of the upper surface remains
as the explosion left it, while all below
is honeycombcd by the cracks and crev
ices caused by the cooling of the melted
rock. An Indian can, from the top of
one of these stone pyramids, shoot IL
man without exposing even so much as
an inch square OF himself. He can,
without undue haste, load and shoot Il
common muzzle-loading rifle ten times
before a man can scramble over the
rocks and chasms between the slain and
the slayer. If, ut this terrible expense
of life, a force dislodges him from his
cover, he has only to drop into and fol
low some subterranean passage with
which he is familiar, to gain another
ambush, from which it will cost ten
more lives to dislodge him.