New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

5oid Weather North and West-Denth in a
Church Choir-Clerk of United States
Courts Dead-Young Girl Ground TO
pieces in n Paper Dissertation OF
the sabbath at Cincinnati.
BosrON. February 6.--Weather intensely
cold both North and West.
MEMPHIS, February E.-Colonel Duncan
K. McRae, formerly a Congressman. has
been appointed Clerk Of the United States
District and Circuit Courts, vice A. ID.
Mitchell. removed.
Mrs, Edwin Spottswood. while singing IN
the choir of one of the churches yesterday.
fell dead of heart disease.
ST. LOUIS, February e.-B. F. Hickman,
Clerk of the United States District and Ilr-
cult Courts here, for the past twenty-five
years, died yesterday.
CINcINSATI, February Con Saturday
evening Martha Kriengenhufper, seventeen
years old, employed in paper mill at
HAMILTON, Ohio, fell through a trap-'oor on
the third story, into hopper used for
grinding rags, and before the mill could be
s.opped. was literally torn in pieces.
Considerable interest has been produced
in religious circles from the opening Of the
Young Mems Mercantile Library on Sun
day. To-day the Ministerial Association OF
this city adopted q paper deploling the pre-
valence of the Sabbath dissertation here,
declaring that public travel, pleasure cx-
cursiOns, traffic i'll Intoxicating liquors and
sales of Sunday newspapers are demoraliz
ing in high degree, expressing their anxiety
concerning the disposition 10 promote tacll-
tiles for secular reading by opening public
reading rooms on Sunday, and eutreating
members not to embrace privileges thus eN-
tended. Also favoring establishing religious
reading rOoms.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST PASS, February G, 6 p. NJ
Barometer 1880. Weather calm. Arrived 4:
Ship Eagle, Coffin, master, thirty tve days
from Rio Janeiro, with coffee, to J. l..
Phipps & Co. No departures.
VICKsBURG, February 6.-Passed up:
City of Quincy, ut ten last night; Colorado
at9P NJ. Passed down: Belle Lee at , =.
NJ; City vi Alton at p. NJ. River sta
tionary. Weather clear and pleasant.
CINcrNNATI, February G.-River twenty
eight feet six inches i'll tho channel, and
seventy-threc feet six inches under the
bridge. Arrived: K. w. Skiltinger from
Wheeling, Annie Laurie, kanawha and st
Charles from Pittsburg. Weather cloudy
Temperature 29".
The iron steamer John T. Moore will no
depart to morrow. She still attracts grea
attention
PITTsBURG, February 6.-Weather cold
Both rivers falling. The Monongahela ha'
six feet five inches at OH City. Arrived
Curtis and Waunita. Departed: Argosy.
ST. LOUIS, February 6.-Arrived: San
Brown and Mary Alice, from Cairo. De
parted: Richmond for New Orleans; CIT,
Of Chester, for Memphis, and Sam Brown
for Pittsburg. River rising slowly
Weather cloudy. and cold.
LOUISVILLE, February 6-The river la
risen three inches during the past twenty
four hours, and continues rising slowly
with eight feet scant IN the chute, and tel
feet in the canal. Weather cloudy AM
cold; mercury $50.
Freights are not abundant.
Arrived: Virginia, Sam Parker an'
barges, from New Orleans.
Departed: Little Condor with eight barge
Of salt, for Memphis.
Colonel Sawyer to-day sold his interest il
the steamer Sioux City to Captain +. Il
Cooper and clerk Frank Edgar.
Loading for New Orleans: Steamers Vii
ginia, John Kilgour and Sioux City.
The splendid new steamer Matte
nearly completed, and viii receive for Ne'
Orleans as soon as finished
CAPTAIN Pink Varblc is doing well