The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-12-31

W, - s>'<&f'>' l''>>'N''oii VII siAN
9th of january.
Another accident on the Jackson Rail-
road. The South bound passenger train
ran into the freight train. Edward
DAILY, engineer, was severely injured.
HAVERIILL, Mass, Dec. 27.-Thc
woolen factory of Edgen 4 Co. burned;
loss $15O,OOO.
BOSTON, Dee. -. Charles Curtis
statues burned; several tircmen injured.
CoRNwALI, Canada, Dec. 27.-Thc
Cornwall woolcn factory burned; and
POO men are out of employment. Loss
$500, 900.
ST.. Louis, Dee. 27.-Dr. f.. NJ. Pow
crs is arrested for violating Mrs. Viola
Hill, who is represented as highly re-
spectacle lady, recently v from the South.
Mrs. Hill visited Powers office to OBJ
tain Il subscription for new publication.
w. w. Howard, of Nashville, Tenn,
has mystcriously disappeared from the
Southern Hotel.
RIO J4\NEIRO, Dec. }.-Thc siege of
| MonteVidcO continues.
BORDEAUX, Dec. -. - \ dispatch
from Sus:e announces that the Alps were
pierced through yesterday and that
worlmen from both ends of the noun
tain tunnel joined in congratulations
| upon the completion of the work.
At Il grand review of 10000 National
guards held here Monday, CremieuN
presented flags to the various regiments,
and made II speech in which he assured
the soldiers that a republic would
surely save France. The officers and
men wcrcall enthusiastic in their Vivas
for Il republic, and as they passed the
residence of the American consul, gave
utterance to hearty demonstrations of
friendship to the government and peo-
| nlp nf fhn IT,lifnl SfnfoS
LONDON, Dec. 27.-Thc Standard of
to-day, in reviewing the work of DR..
Francis Lieder on Arbitration, express
ses the opinion that, considering polit-
zeal as well as legal aspects of the ques-
ton, Il social umpire is preferable to
any faculty of law.
A delegation of inhabitants of Lux
emburg to-day presented to Prince
Charles Henry Il patriotic address. In
| reply, the Prince expressed his conf
dcnce in their ability to defend the
rights of the Duchy ,and he had faith in
the justice of their cause and loyalty of
the treaty of 1867.
Gladstone has published Il letter in
dignantly denying the report of his con-
version to Romanism.
NEW York, Dec. PA World spc-
cial, London, 9th, says A dispatch
from Versailles, 23rd, says that plot
to asslsinate the King, Won Moll<tc
and Bisnark was. discovered here IL few
: days ago. "A number of strangers ar
rived in the city on Wednesday, when
the gates were closed and the citizens
ordered to remain in their houses upon
pain of death. Patrols have been
searching every place aud arrested two
hundred persons of whom seventy were
armed with guns and pistols.
| BERLIN -I}iS,noI1.l.
upon Switzerland IL better observance
of neutrality.
| NEW IoHK, Dee. 2S.-Thc lIcrulu'S
! special from bordeaux, 22, says:
| ''torrcSpOnlcnt interviewed Chad
ourdy, the French minister Of foreign
affairs, who is trying to make peace
He said he thought peace still distant,
as to accept the rrussian terms would
reduce France to Il third rate power.
Scarcely II man in France, rich or
poor, is willing for the government to
give up territory.
Arms plenty. We have offers of moro
than we can use from England alone.
Three months ago it. was difficult to
excite patriotisnl-now the only trouble
is to got the people to be patient.
France is now struggling for exist
cncc, and if she is crushed England will
feel her loss more than any country
England cannot dream of consequence
if she should allow France to be eXtcr-
minated; for Russia will then do what
she plcaScs in the East, and Prussia
in the West; and England, without IL
single ally, will cease to belong to the
| family of European nations, and Will
be reduced to Il third rate power.
ChadOurdy then spoke in terms of
deep indignation of the ingratitudc of
| England, and intimatcd that the day
of reckoning would surely come for that
cOwardIy nation. lie closed by stating
that the new lcvics in the south and
southeast were proceeding with sucrcss
beyond expectation"
st Louis, Dee, Weather miIdcr,
with Il prospect of rain and Il speedy
resumption of navigation South.
Passengers on the Pacific railroad
We're snow-bound ten days. Snow
drifts ten feet deep.
NEW YORK, Dee. -. A Herald
special, London, 27th, says, the Man
chester Guardian contains IL statement
that King William and the Princess
Royal of Prussia wrote to Queen Vic
tOr;l protesting against the marriage of
Princess Louise to Marquis of Lornc.
The Queen replied vchcmcntly, advis-
ing them to mind their own business.
MEMPHIS, Dec. 2S.-Mrs. Iawton
sent her two sons, aged l3 and i6, with
negro JEFF, to Laudcrtlalc, Miss, to sell
il bag of cotton. JEFF had an interest in
the cotton. lie killed the elder boy,
and the citizens killed Jeff
i WAsIINGTON, Dee. 2S.-Thc confer