New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS.


ning-Warrant Against steamboat Off.
cers-AliOwing n Man TO Drown =
Guilty of Stealing from Adams Elk.
press Company Killed for Stealing
Muies-General Logan Iil-SaratOga
Races-Bark for New Orleans on Shore
and off Again-A North Carolina Out.
law Arrested-The Mississippi Public
Printing AIuddIe-Arrests Under Ku.
Klux Law-Tidal Wave at Duluth.
PHILADELPHIA, July 12.-The steeple Il
the new Presbyterian church, corner TweI.
tieth and Oxford streets, was demolished
by lightning to-day.
MEMPHIS, July PA colored deckhand
ON the steamer Shannon last evening swore
out a warrant before the United States Com
missioner against the captain, mate and
pilots of that boat for allowing his partner,
named Powell to drown twenty miles above
here; Powell having fallen into the river
with barrel of whisky, the captain ordered
the men to let him alone and save the
whisky Before the warrant could be served
the boat had left for New Orleans.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July l2.-George w.
Bradley and t. III. Bradley pleaded guilty
TO the charge of stealing $4,000 from Adams
Express Company.
ST.. LOUIS, July 12-Two persons were
killed near Neosha, Missouri, for stealing
mules.
the lungs, but is now cOnvalesent.
SARATOGA, July I2.-Harry Basset won
first race. Time. 3:2I24. Frogtown won
tho second. Time, 2:3l y. Finesse is the
favorite for the coming fourth. -Nema won
the third race.
KEY WEST, Fla. July I2.-The bark Nor
ton, of st. Johns, from Bremen, for New
Orleans, ran on Loo Key on the tenth. She
was got off badly damaged.
VIZ N n Inlv 10 Oxap
dine, one of the negro outlaws of Robson
county. was captured in Richmond county,
brought to this city and lodged in Jail to-
day.
Notwithstanding the terrible murders and
other crimes to which he has been a party,
no attempt has been made by the people of
Robson county or of this city to do him
violence.
JACKSON, Miss, July l2.-Tbe public
printing business is in a muddle. Gov
ern0r Alcorn, by the appointing power
vested in him, a year since appointed Kim
ball. Raymond & Co., State Printers, who
purchased largely of materials to do the
work. A large portion of the work, includ-
ing the new code of laws, and registration
blanks, and blanks for use in the coming
November elections, is unfinished.
Governor Alcorn, for no assigned cause,
has removed Kimball, Raymond & Co.,
and appointed in, their stead, Alcorn &
Fisher to the office of State Printers.
The matter has been carried to the Su-
preme Court, and all State work ceases till
the third Monday in October.
No preparation can be made for the cleo
ton, and the code, which by law should be
ready for delivery on the first of October,
will be delayed till late in the winter.
The Leader is the name of the Governors
new organ.
There is great dissatisfaction in Repub-
hcan ranks at the action of the Governor.
The United States District Court is in
session, Judge Wood, of the Supreme bench
sitting with Judge HILL A large number
sOf men are expected TO be arrested and tried
under provision of the Ku-Kl bill The
United States Marshal with detachment
of United States infantry, is now in East
Mississippi to make arrests.
CHICAGO, July I2.-Duluth was visited
last Saturday by tidal wave. 1t broke
from the lake into the canal sweeping
away the pier and the crib work, scattering
timbers and RATS in every direction. The
current ran at the rate of fifteen miles an
hour, for half an hour and then ran with
like velocity for minutes, and kept up the
oscillation all the morning alternately car
rylng RATS and cribs out to sea and back,
for hours. No explanation is given of the
phdhomenon.
SARATOGA, July 12-There was very
lair attendance at the races to-day. In the
first race, for the Traver's stake, one mile
and three-quarters, Harry Ba set won
easily, taking the lead at the first quarter
and keeping it to the close, Nellie Gray
coming in second and Alvoy third
HALIFAX, July l2.-The steamship Peru
Wan arrived this morning, and leaves for
Quebec tonight
The French Admiral's ship, Magaeienne,
arrived. Besides Brides feet there are now
anrtf ANA
one French warship.
Weather Report.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office Chief Signal Officer )
Washington, July II, 1871, 7:30 p NJ. }
SYNOPSIS OF THE PAST TwENTY-FOUR HOURS.
The barometer has varied considerably on
the California coast, and fallen slightly at
fhe Rocky Mountain stations and in the
northwest. 1t has risen but little from the
mississippi eastward, and is still falling in
New England. The temperature has risen
quite high on Lake Superior, and to nearly
the same extent from northern Ohio to
southern Missouri. Southerly winds are
now reported west of Michigan, and have
also prevailed during the day on the Gulf
coast with threatening weather in northern
Elorlda. Ram has fallen very generally |
from the Ohio river to the middle and east |
Atlantic coast, but cloudy and clearing !
weather has prevailed over that region this
m.
Low barometer. with fresh winds from
the south and southwest will probably con-
tinue on the upper lakes. A local rain is /
speedily advancing northeastward in West |
ern Tennessee, and light rain is probable for |
tonight or Thursday from Florida to South |
Carolina. Partially cloudy and clear |
weather will probably continue in the Mid |
die and Eastern States.
River Intelligence.
LOUISVILLE, July 12-River about sta
s1onary, with eighteen INCHES in the chute