New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Last Of the Squattcrs Rem0ved..NOr.
folk and Great Western Railroads.&c..
!, press Robber Shot-Henderson Prize
Lotfery Drawn--Nlike McCoole Chal.
lenges Tom AIleu-.Fires..Injury to Fire.
. nen--Railr0ad Exfension--Track Lay.
fns--Attemptcd Murder and suicide.
NoRFOLK. Va, July 7.-Sheriff Mayhew
and Deputy Sheriff Stevens to-day CON-
pleted the removal of seven hundred negro
squatters, who have since 1863 occupied the
2 Taylor farm. nine miles from Norfolk. The
negroes were well armed, but offered no
forcible resistance to the execution of the
writ of ejectlnent. The larger part of the
sauarters have been settled on General But
ler's land near Hampton.
A large mass meeting of citizens was held
last night to consider the proposed sub
scription of one million dollars to build the
Norfolk and Great Western Railroad Ex-
Mayor DeCardy presided.
The meeting was addressed by Colonel E.
C. Lindsay, Judge Asa Biggs, James VIII
son and DIR. Bayne.
The meeting strongly Endorsed the pro-
posed subscription, and believed the time
had come when intelligent and well directed
enterprise must take fireplace of traditional
waiting for greatness to be forced upon us.
The route of the road extends from Nor
folk via Danville, Virginia, to Bristol, on to
the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad.
MEMPHIS, July 8.-Ei Cole, the messen-
ger who robbed the Southern Express Com
pany, at jackson, Tennessee, until recently
confined in jail at Huntington, Tennessee,
was shot and killed last night, in attempting
to make his escape. All the prisoners except
Colo escaped Wednesday night.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 8-The Henderson
Prize Lottery, with prizes amounting to
upward of $500, 600 in lands, was drawn
here Thursday night. Ticket 1858, held by
L NnT ne To-,
isiana, drew the first prize, a farm IN Hen
derson county, valued at $150,O00 and
$4,000 in money. Robert Hunt and Frank
Karsner. of Louisville, drew the second
prize, valued at $780, 900. The third prize,
of the same value, was drawn by
H. Brown, of Mobile, Alabama. The fourth
prize prize, SiS s p was drawn By Ex-Governor
No. 81 ,0Sl drew the fifth prize; q, 478 the |
sixth, and 81, 287 the seventh. The holders |
are unknown.
There were several hundred prizes of town |
lots drawn. One of the prizes was attached |
to-day for debts due. The lottery was fairly |
conducted, and the result is satisfactory.
ST. LOUIS, July S.-Thc lumber ward of |
Hartman g. Graham, corner of Monroe and |
Main STREETS, was damaged by fire last night
Loss about $1,000; insured for $500
Mike McCoOl publishes a challenge to
Tom Allen to fight him. The stakes to be
the belt owned by each. The winner to
take the excursion money.
Two tiremen were severely injured by
falling at the fire this morning.
The City Council passed an ordinance |
authorizing the Missouri Pacific Railroad to
extend their track to the levee, and to Law |
the track along the river front to connect |
the Iron Mountain Railroad with the North |
Missouri road.
The Presbyterian Synod has reorganiz |
the Presbytery of the State thus completing
the consolidation of the old and new schools |
as one body.
CHICAGO, July 8.-Pontiac, Illinois, was
visited by a fire Wednesday night, which de-
stroyed thirteen buildings, involving a loss
of $4,000. The principal sufferers are Wa
tors s. kinkead, $4,000, insured for $4,000;
City Hotel, $500; Odd Fellows building,
$3.50: Judge Duff, $1,000, no insurance; w.
Is. Lion, $500, with a large number of |
smaller sufferers. Origin Of tho fire I'M
known.
Yesterday evening, at LaSalle, Illinois, |
clerk in grocery named Jones, fell down
the shaft Of the Illinois Valley Coal Com
pany, distance of four hundred and fiftyy
feet: He scarcely breathed after he struck
the bottom.
The Red River Ne,o Nation, saws that m
june %, the Legislative Assembly of Ami
sofia was convened by Riel for action on
Manitoba bill and articles of confedera
ton, as reported by the delegates. They
were adopted, at which Riel expressed his
1t is thought that the com
missioners must have brought back as
srrances from Ottawa of amnesty to RieI,
or the adoption of the bill would not have
been so sudden and unanimous
Track laying ON the Iowa Falls and Sioux
CITY Railroad was completed YESTERDAY.
shus putting Dubuque and Sioux City In
iirect railroad communication.
At eleven o'clock to-day, at the residence
f Mr. McMasters No. % West Washington
treet, a colored lad named William Sanders,
mpleyed as servant in tho family, en-
cred the room wbere Annie Conlin, white 1
ir], also employed as servant, was engaged
t her work, locked the door, and asked ]