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

Fresh shocks Of earthquakes arc reported
in Belluno and vicinity.
Secretary Richardson has ret turned to
Washington.
The Shah of Persia has accepted an invi-
tation to visit Italy. ....
+. H. Jackson, Boston real estate
broker, died in his bath tub on Saturday.
The trial of Marshal Bazaine will proba.
bly, take place at Compiegne, in the latter
part of September. ..s..
A dispatch from Havana says, the tele-
graph cable between Cuba and Porto Rico
is in working order again.
Vigorous measures taken by the govern
ment have prevented declaration of inde-
pendence which the Irreconcilables were
intending to issue at Barcelona.
Governor Washburn has Withdrawn
from the contest for governor of Massa-
| chusetts, which leaves the field clear for
General Butler. ENf 0HIs
Rev. A. A. E. Taylor, of Cincinnati.
has been elected vice-president of the
Wooster, Ohio, university, vice Rev. Will
lis Lord, resigned.
George Curtis, a boy eight years old,
beat little three year old boy to death
with club in the woods near South Ac.
ton, Massachusetts, on the 4th. He fled but
was afterwards arrested in Cambridge.
Martin Evans, of the United States sig
nal Office, was shot and instantly killed in
Wheeling, West Virginia Friday, in an
| alteration with man who was visiting a
lady to whom he was paying attentions.
The New York Times excursion took
place Saturday, when 1,2S6 children were
taken away for holiday, which they EN-.
| joyed hugely, and were returned safe and
sound.
A dispatch from Bombay reports ris-
ing among the Hindoo peasants in the dis
trict ofPoonah. They refuse to pay their
rents and have plundered and burned sew
eral houses. Two bands have been dis.
persed by the police. >
s There was no banquet in London in eel.
ebration of the Fourth of July. The rep
resentative of the United States was absent
trom the city. and there was no American
vessel in the Thames.
An estimable man was shot dead in
the most unprovoked manner in billiard
saloon, in Charleston. South Carolina, last
Friday night by John A. Duffus, a youth Of
eighteen. An inquest held resulted in 9
! verdict of willful murder. Duffus is in
Jail.
The anniversary of the Independence o
the United States was celebrated at the
American legation at Madrid by grand
banquet. Among the distinguished guests
of Minister Sickles were Senator CASTELAR,
the members of the Cabinet, the foreign
representatives at Madrid, and the president
of the Cortes. ~ = M
During a display of fireworks al
Binghampton, New York, Friday evening
| Wexford Thayer and son, of Montrose,
were probably fatally injured by runa-
way horse that went through the crowd
Three children and a woman were also
hurt by the same horse. Mrs. Charles
Carman was drowned in the Little Church
creek while returning home from the cele-
bration of the Fourth. Her husband was
drunk and drove into the creek. -
Terrible Domestic Tragedy-Fratri
eide at the BreaIkfa fast Table--Six
brothers I'm the Fighf-The Mother
seriously WOunded-Excttemo ant
INDIGNATION. ,lalahH
A special to The Baltimore Sun from
Winchester, Va, dated July 9th, says:
A terrible tragedy occurred YESTERDAY
morning at the residence of Franklin Little
a very highly respectable citizen Of Clarke
county, Va.,. about seven miles from thi
i place, in which six brothers, Clinton
i Columbus, Gilbert, Wallace, Oscar, ant
ILycurgus were involved. 1t seems tina