New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-05-31
MISCELLANEOUSs

MISCELLANEOUS.
Indian Raid on n stage koute-Presbs.
teslan Assembly Table Grants InesaE
FOlicy-DecOrniiOn Day mt Memphis
and Elsewhere-CrOp Prospects In
Georgia, South Carolina, Florida anE
Alabama-Firsts Shipment of News
FIour-Planters ali Working Hard
base Ball At Philadelphla-Slx Chill
dren burned 10 flieo SAee
Blown Open-ExplOsiOn of q Still nnG
Loss of Life-Serious Fires In ChicRE~--
An InebriatOd Printer Falls from Abe
Third Story and was Found Deaa-ThR
Races at Cincinnati-General Ax~ens-
bly, Of Presbyterions-Hanco Pre-
pared to Strike the Indians q TerrAaar
Blow-AnnualT Tobacco Fair.
| MEMPHIS, May 30.-The graves of the FED
! eral dead were decorated at the NatioDa
Cemetery to-day. A large attendance, EEzKl-
| cipally colored. An address was delsyEveE
by Dr. A. L. Shaw.
| AUGUSTA, Ca, May 30.-The wheat CROP
of Georgia is good, and promises larsF
yield.
A small shipment of new -four was sent aD
| New York to-day.
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, ami Ala
bama exchanges speak encouragingly OF ths
| corn and cotton crops.
The rains last week were very general aDf1
timely.
A larger area of land has been planseta
| this season and more fertilizers used.
The planters are all working hard.
BRYAN, WYOMING TERRITORY, May a.
| The Indians made raid on the stage ToEa&
| from here to South Pass yesterday, and raD
off ten head of stage horses at Big sandy
| station and wounded man named ~sonE
| Conners All the stock between there ant
South Pass is supposed to be gone. The
country is full of Indians who are known to
| he ArrsDahoes and Sioux.
| CHICAGO, May 30.-At half past one thss
| afternoon fire broke out in u. ). HnDoa1a
&, Co.'s packing house, situated on CaA1-
| bourne Avenue, North Division and in less
| than an hour the entire building, which yyn&
a wooden structure, was burned to the
ground. Loss $4,000.
The amount of stock in the building was
| email. The fire extended to the North Gfl-
cago Rolling Mills, Immediately adjoining it,
aud at one time, it looked as If those exae1s-
sive works would be consumed, but the oDe
| thousand men at work in the mills, with
great perseverance, succeeded in extingnisb.
ing the flames. The loss of that company
| is, therefore, small.
The loss on the packing house is covered
by insurance.
The fire which occurred yesterday morn
| ing, on South Canal street, Nos. l03, l05 AEs4a
| 1O7, was more destructive than at hrSs
thought. The total loss will reach S25, 600,
divided as follows: Burkhart, Hubbard *
Co., machinists, $4,000, fully insured; ClaRis
& Simmonds, picture frame manufaefogyS
| SIG, 900, insured.
| The insurances was divided among sorDe'
| twenty Eastern offices.
Cicero W. Ray, a printer, working in chs.
| Pioneer office, at st. Paul, while In sfose
of intoxicatioD, fell out of the third-stogy
widow of that Office, on Saturday night, and
was found dead on the pavement the next
| morning.
| The returns from counties in :he Firth
| Congressional District of Illinois, show that
Palmer, the present incumbent has secured
sixty delegates in his favor, when ONLY
forty four are necessary to choice.
| PHILADELPHIA, May 30.-The PresbyterfaIs
assembly tabled the resolution approving
of President Grants Indian policy.
The game of base ball between s5a-
Athletics, of this city, and the AtlantiGs. ps
Brooklyn, New York, played in this city to-
| day, resulted in the defeat of the AtlaHticx
| by score of is to IL.
| CINCINNATI, May 30.-The house OF MI
Moeller at Dayton, Ohio, was burned ysstef.-
day morning with six of his children whD
perished in the flames.
The safe in the Frankfort (KentgckyR
postoffice was blown open yesterday snf
robbed of $1,000 in stamps, and 500 i'm
| money.
The annual fair of the Tobacco AssoeiS-
ton of this city takes place August 8.
The still belonging to the distillery aE
Petis Schwab, at Hamilton, exploded tlis
morning, killing Mr.. Kline, beer runner,
and August Frederick, mash hand. Tha
| still was outside the building and was blown
of the main building and destroyed tsas-
mash tub, scattering its contents on The
| floor. The cause OF the explosion Is nns
known.
The spring meeting running races openeE
to-day under auspicious circumstances
There being the largest attendance at s1s
opening the club ever had.
FIRST Rdce.-Mile and quarter dashs EE
ages; S225 to the first, $50 to the second aDG
S25 to the third horse.-Aneroid inst,
Allie Hunt second, Baffe third, Kitty Etse
fourth. Biddy Malone fifth, Fancy Robbins
sixth, Brown Filly seventh, and Dera1gss
eighth. Time: g. 153.
Second Race.-Two mile dash; all ages
s225 to the first, $50 to the second and $1a'
to the third horse.-Barney Stone firssy
Emma Marratta second, Grassland thlrilr
and Conductor fourth. Time: 3.39s
THIRD Rdce-Sweepstakes for three1yess@
old colts aad FLIES; mile heats, $40 saah~
scription, play or pay; club to ada SeSE
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Time-l:464 and las.
LOUISVILLE, May 30.-The proceedings IL
the General Assembly to-day were maints'
confined to receiving the reports of comEaia.
tees.
The committee on bills and overtures, JEa
response to overture fourteen being, an any-
quiry whether members of the so-caliet
Christian commonly known as the Cs.Enae~
belIite) Church, wishing to become merabeTs
of our church, and who had been baptiseE
in the name of the Holy Trinity should zzas
variably be re.baprised.
The committee recommended a re-bsr-
tism, which was adopted.
DR., Palmer from the committee On fUs.-
eign correspondence, reported PASTORAL
; letter of the General Assembly to al ths
churches under its care.
This letter is in regard to the reunion us
the Northern and Southern assemblies Sxass
the recent action of tie Southern Assembly
during its session here.
After long discussion the letter E9E
adopted.
The letter claims that whatever ebssrryA
tions may be in the way of ecclesiastical fsa.
lowship they were not created by the Scuth-
Tern Church, and that they could not al7os