New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-01-20
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Proceeds TO 1.-The Little Church
Around the Corner''-Financial Trouble
and suicide in Observation-Disclosures to
Pay Amount Due on Railroad Bonds
The Robson County Outlaws-SOuth
Carolina A1airs-Anniyersary Birth.
day of Lee-Its Observance Mt Lex
inxtOn-Famous Inventor Dead-Liver-
pool steamship Short Of COal-Un.
paralleled Snow storm mt Chicago
Isolation from Other POints-Anti-
Administration Senator in Nebraska.
VlcKsBUHG, January l9.-Mr. Thompson.
manager of the Nicksburg Opera House.
gave q matinee this afternoon. in response
to the call of the George Holland testimon-
NAL. The gross receipts 90 to ':the little
church around the corner"
MEMPHIS, January lo-James kimball.
an old citizen, committed suicide to-day by
taking morphine; cause. financial troubles.
The First Circuit Court issued man-
damus to compel the county court to pay
Amy g. Co., New York, $4,000 due on bonds
issued the Memphis and Ohio railroad.
WILMINGTON. N. c., January l9.-The
commander of the federal troops in Robe
son county has telegraphed to Washington
for more troops, the small number now in
that county being unable tn cope with the
outlaws. As a measure OF precaution, a
squad of soldiers accompany each train on
the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford
railroad, Lowry having threatened to attack
the trains. 1t Is conceded that but little can
be done toward the capture of the outlaw
without a large force of men, aided by
bloOdhounds.
CHARLESTON, S. c. January I9.-The
Ne,cs to-laypublishes letter from Governor
Scott, pronOuneing the allegations OF Hog
geth, Kerrigan and others i'll the New York
San, that they had been offered brides by
><,.v~ nf
Carolina, to be wholly false. The Gov
ernor's letter is corrobOrated by the state
mcnts of officials who were present at his
interview with Hoggett, kerrigan and thciI
companions.
RICHMOND, Va, January I9.-In Lexing
ton to-day all the business houses were
closed, it being the anniversary birthday OF
General Lee. There was public demon
stration and an address was delivered at
Washington College by Hon. J. Z. Hol-
combe.
Troy, January Io.-Hency Burden, the
famous inventor and iron manufacturer,
dropped dead to-day, aged eighty years:
NORFOLK, Virginia. january l9.-The
steamship Australian, from Mobile for Liv-
crpOol, put in here for coal.
CuICAGO January l9.-The recent snow
storm here is almost unparalleled for sever
ity. isOlating us for several days from the
East. Appearing first III Nevada noun
tains, it struck us on Friday, the thirteenth
Instant and did not cease until Sunday
night Twenty-Five inches of snow fell
and it was piled up in fearful drifts in
every direction. A storm of sleet which
accompanied, or alternated with the snow
adhered to the telegraph wires, loading
them down until they snapped in pieces
The wires from this point east for from
eseyenty-seven to one hundred miles were
wrecked as they never were before. Over
ono thousand men have been working nigh
and day making repairs. :,
Communication with the outer world II
,re-establisLed, and by tomorrow the West
arm Union Lines. will be fully restored
What little news we have received from tne
East, between Friday night ana yesMIs a'adS
reached us by railroad express from loleoo