The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-01-01
NEWS ny TO.DAY,s MAIL.

THE Graphic says the fate of the Viz
ginius is eminently fit and proper, consid-
ering the the number of regulations she has
sunk.
| THE town of Woodford, Bennington
county, Vermont, one hundred and four
years old, has just dedicated its first
church.
AFTER this day first of january wo
men will be eligible to any office connected
with the control of the public schools of
Pennsylvania.
A ROCHESTER, New York; man named
Forbs gets sixty days in the penitentary
for stealing one newspaper left for sub
scriber by a carrier.
A SPECIAL committee of the San Fran
cisco chamber Of commerce has made
report to. that body, recommending the
creation by the legislature of board of
transportation commissioners.
| NOTWITHSTANDING the destruction o f
the great fire and the panic, Boston has
shipped l 1885, 553 cases of boots and shoes
this year. against l, AS, 596 last year-not
asmuch of falling off as was expected.
The jury in the case of Maggie Jordon,
charged with assisting in the escape Of
Sharkey from the tombs, in New York city,
were unable to agree, and were discharged.
The prisoner was sent back to the tombs.
THE fate Of Ralph Keller, the, Tribune
correspondent, who mysteriously dlsap-
peared from the steamer between Santiago
de Cuba and Batabano, has not been
solved by the close search which has been
made for him.
THE grand jury yesterday, in New York
city, found indictments against William
Conkling, Charles Lyons and Thomas E.
Smith, assistant deputy sheriffs, accused of
robbIng Burr s. Craft, of Virginia, of$15,-
900 gold certificates.
THERE is said to be very distressing
condition of affairs ina portion Of Alaba-
has been failure for three successive
yeass, and the people are without money
and food. 1t is feared O famine will make
itself felt before the return Of spring.
GODFRIED KUHNLE, a German baker
in Philadelphia, on the Franklin road,
below Girard avenue, was murdered
yesterday morning in the bake.house by
a young German in his employ. The
murderer robbed the house of ffty-fve
dollars, and attempted to kill Kuhnle's
wife in her bed. He then fled, but has
since been captured by the police in
neghborng lager-beer saloon. The MUIR
derer was an apprentice, known only as
Fritz. Kuhnle was killed with blew of
q shovel while engaged in leaning into
barrel Of flour, causing his death instantly.
THE strike of the railroad engineers
upon the Western leased lines of the Penn
sylvania railroad company is nearly
thing of tho past. The men employed
upon the Pittsburg. Cincinnati and st.
Louis, the Cleveland and Pittsburg and the
Pan. Handle roads all announced their SUBJ
mission to the reduced rates of wages and
went to work again yesterday; SO that
trains have once more commenced to run
on regular schedules. The strikers at
Columbus still hold out, but the company
has found other men to fill all the vacant
places.
NEWSPAPERS that have been anxious
to pervert every incident connected with
the Virginius affair to the discredit of the
government have not hesitated to insinuate
that the sinking Of the ship was planned as
the speediest and easiest method of getting
rid of all questions as to her ownership and
whatever complications with Spain might
arise therefrom. A competent witness on
this point is the commander Of the Ossipee,
who, in reply to such an insinuation, rather
warmly characterized it as entirely false.
1t may have been a mistake in the Navy
department in ordering the unseaworthy
vessel on q dangerous voyage, but it is GER
tain that the officers of the navy only ADAM
doned her when no skill or labor could
have kept her afoat.
THE Treasury Department is kept adj
yised of the movements connected with the
Edgar Stuart, now undergoing repairs at
Baltimore. A clearance will be denied if
the proof shall be sufficient to show that
she intends to violate the neutrality laws,
but IN this there is some difficulty, as
under our customs laws vessel may clear
ostsnsibly for legitimate purposes, even with
arms and ammunition as her cargo but
after she reaches the high seas there is no
authority to prevent her from changing her
destination. This vessel was cleared two
years ago at New London, the collector
taking the responsibility of issuing tenn
porary register without consulting the
Treasury department. She had arms and
ammunition ON board, and changing her
alleged destination, she carried them to the
Cuban insurgents.