New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

| Courthouse Burned and Records De.
| strOyed-NIrs. Wharton-River Choked
Below Quebec-Hide and Leather In.
surance Company-Trial of a Muir.
| deress-Sentenco Of q Murderer.
| ST.. LOUIS, December 2-The courthouse
OF Reynolds county, with the records, have
BALTIMoRE, December elafrs. Wharton
has been removed to Annapolis, where her
trial commences Monday. = =
QUEBEC, December 2.-The river is
| chOked below, and many vessels have beef
abandoned. The crews were rescued in a
| frozen condition.
BosroN, December 2.-The affairs of the
Hide and Leather Insurance Company,
have been placed in the hands Of re-
ceiver.
LAWRENCE, Kansas, December 2.-The
| tria! OF Mrs. Ruth upon the charge of COM
plicity with Dr. MedlicOtt in numbering her
husband commenced here to-day.
PHILADELPHIA, December q Elwood
Biddle, who was convicted for the murder
of John Gamble, who interfered to protect
woman who Biddle was insulting in the
street, was to-day sentenced to eight years
and halt IN the penitentiary.
Weather Report.
WAR DkPARrMRs1,
Once Chief Signal Ofacor,
washington. December 2. 1871, 7:3O P. II. }
SYNOPSIS OF THE PAST TwENTY-FOUR HOURS.
The area of the highest barometer, which
was Friday afternoon central in Western
Tennessee, has moved eastward, extending
now over North Carolina. The pressure
has risen in New England, and clear wealth
er has generally prevailed today in the At
lantic States. The winds have. however.
backed to northeast and southeast in the
south Atlantic and Gulf States, with rapidly
increasing clOudiness and threatening
weather. An area Of low barometer, with
rain has pressed eastward from California
and Oregon into the upper Missouri valley,
and the pressure has fallen decidedly, with
southwest winds, from Lake Erie to Texas,
and nOrthwestward.
PROBABILITIES.
The barometer will probably continue to
fall on Sunday east of the Mississippi river,
Sunday morning, with increasing southwest
winds, and rain from the lakes southwark
to the gulf coast Southeast winds and
cloudy weather on the South Atlantic coast.
River lntelllxesce.
SOUTHWEST Pass, December =, 6 p. M
Barometer 3O:50. Wind nOrtheast-strong.
Arrived: steamship HammOnia at 3 p NJ.
Meyers. master, from Hamburg, to vii.
liams, Ruperti e. Co.; British schooner
Fancv, Nelson, master, eleven days from
Ruatan, with fruit, to New Orleans and
Bay Island Fruit Company. Sailed: shin
Francis P. Sage.
MEMPHIS, December 2-Weather cloudy
and cool. River rising. Passed down: Marie
Louise.
VICKsBCRe, December 2.-Passed down.
Oceanus at ten last night. Boats down to.
day: Flirt and Mary Houston at IL A. M.
Potomac al IL A. NJ. Weather cool and
cloudy. WV w"
CAIRO, December 2.-Arriyals and d.
partures: The Warner and Crescent Civ
cleared for New Orleans at 3 A. M: Shan.
non from New Orleans to Cincinnati at 10
A. NJ; Peytonia from Louisville for New
Orleans at noon; Emperor from Cincinnati
for New Orleans at p. NJ: Glencoe ar
rived from New Orleans at III A. M: CITY
Of Vicksburg from St. Louis at p. M! The
Colorado is at Powers Island lighting the
Belle Memphis, Dexter and H. &. Yaeger.
Ihe river has fallen seven inches in the
past twenty -four hours. Weather clear and
warm. Thermometer 400.
EVANSVILLE, December 9. We ather
cloudy. River has fallen four inches n the
pest twenty-four hours. Passed dow n: j.
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