New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-12

Car Shops DestrOy ed by Fire-Destrues
tive IInil and Wind stOrm-Chinamen
En- Route for Massachuaetts-Vande
biI.'s Reduction on Freight Of Live
Stock-Naticnnl Anti.SecreB Society
Convention.
CINCINNATI, June IA boy named Nor
ris was run over by the train at Cummin-
vile, last night, and instantly killed.
ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE car shops of the
Kansas and Pacific Railroad, at Wyandotte,
Kansas, were totally destroyed by fire
Thursday night, together with three passen-
ger coaches, three flat cars, one box and one
stock car belonging to the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad, besides 50, 600 feet
Of walnut and oak lumber also burned. Loss
to the company about $50, 600; insurance
small, Most of the mechanics working IL
the shops lost their tools.
A very destructive hail and wind storm
passed over st. Charles, Missouri, last Mon
day evening, destroying gardens, vineyards,
etc, to the amount of about S25, 600.
CHICAGO, June IA gang OF seventy-five
Cinnamon arrived here this morning from
San Francisco, en- route for North Adams.
Massachusetts,, where they will be employed
in boot and shoe factories. This is the first
gang ever sent east. They are under the
direction Of Koopmanschap.
John Shreelzer committed suicide at his
house on George street, last night. He had
| been absent from his family since Januarys
| He returned last night, raped at his wife's
door, bade her good bye, drew pistol from
his pocket and blew out his brains.
Commodore Vanderbilt telegraphed to
the live stock dealers in this city, that the
New York Central Railroad will carry
| freight from the suspension bridge to New
YORK for twenty five cents per hundred
peuuds. and forty dollars per car from Buf-
| falo to New York.
Live stock is now carried from this city
via the Michigan Central for ninety-hv
dollars for two story cars. This is great re-
duction on previous rates.
CrNCINNATI. June 1.-THE National Anti
Secret Society Convention to-day adopted
| the report of the committee, setting forth
| that the secret societies to which this Con-
vention is opposed were essentially immoral
and unchristian, therefore injurious to the
| whole social fabric, and were OF heathen
origin, especially the Masons; charging that
| they ignore the Christian religion, pray to
| unknown gods and naturally desecrate the
| Sabbath in parading through the streets at
funerals: tbey send their dead to heaven,
| however they have lived or died; they are
| insubordinate to and rivals of the church;
snare to the young and fallacious and de-
| Ceptive.
| River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST PASS, June II, P. NJ
Barometer 29:4O. Wind southwest; strong
breeze.
| No arrivals or departures.
| VICKsBURG, June l-Passed up: H. M.
Shreve, 10 A. NJ. Down: Mary Houston, z;
John Kilgour, 10 A. NJ; Olive Branch, II
NJ. Simpson Horner, P. M. River rising.
Weather cloudy and pleasant.
| MEMPHIS, June I1.-Passed up: Henry
Ames, Continental, Kellogg and barges.
Down: Robert E. Lee and Dexter. River
rising steadily. Weather showery and un-
usually cool.
| ST. LOUIS, June 11.-Arrived: Marble
| City, from Vicksburg Bismarck, from New
Orleans. Departed City of Cairo, for
vicksburg Richmond. for New Orleans !;
st. Joseph, for Memphis. River still falling.
Weather cloudy and cool.
LOUISVILLE, June 11.-Departed: virginia
| for New Orleans. River stationary with
FIVE feet in canal, and three feet IN the
chute. Weather cloudy, with indications OF
rain.
P1TTsBURG, June 1.-THE Monongahela
is falling slowly, with three feet four inches
in the channel.
Considering the amount of rain which has
fallen in the past few days, the lack OF rise
in the river is unaccountable. At Green's
boro three feet six inches in the channel; at
Brownsville, three feet stationery, now
rising heavily. Thermometer IL.