New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-09
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'xGrsther would plead with father: Father
don't whip me any more! Oh, don't Will
s.1e any morew / liked him. Brothe
'ESezt to bed about ten o'clock. III,
SAID he did not know why father
whipped him so. He never told stories
only when father made him. Father
would say if he didn't do so and SO hi
would whip him, and to avoid it, brother
would own to things he never did
"Wednesday | got up and got breakfast
ready. Father rose when breakfast was
ready, and brother got up, but felt so badly
he went back to bed. Father made him gel
up, and go out and feed the stock, and when
The came back, father whipped him and sent
him to the field. He went for him and
brought him back, and made him take of
his clothes, and then whipped him, and
picked him up and laid him on the stove
The stove was hot enough to heat him. was
baking biscuit. Father put him on the
stove twice, brother pleading all the while,
Father don't burn me-" he screamed very
3sud; his skin came off his back and his
feet, and stuck to the stove; it smelled so
II opened the door, and father Immediately
2hut it; while brother was pleading, father
said he would burn him until he worked; L
have seen father strike mother with his fist
many times; he knocked brother down sew
eral times with the butt end of horsewhlp;
4 never saw nv brother after he went into
mothers room.
PHILADELPHIA, July S.-Colonel Cephas
G. Childs died last evening, aged seventy
eight years. He was formerly connected
with the North american, and for quarter
of century editor of the Commercial List
and Price Current.
LOUISVILLE, July s, 8 P M-James A.
Edwards. treasurer Louisville and Shelby
Vile railroad, and prominent banker of
Shelbyville, was run over by train and
killed at Shelbyville Junction, near anchor
age, on the l.. &. & l.. railroad.
One case of sunstroke to-day. Mercury
stood 1902 in the shade at p. M.
TAMAQUA, Pa, July S.-Lehigh coal mine
burning-miners safe.
CHICAGO, July S.-The Abeline (Kansas)
Chronicle gives the following as the most
accurate figure of the Texas cattle trade
this season. There are now on the line of
the Kansas Pacific Railroad $4,000 head
which passed Red river station to be driven
on that line, 5000 for Atchison, Topeka,
and Saute Fe Railroad: $4,000 for Missouri
River, Fort Scott and Gulf railroad; $4,000
for Union Pacific; $4,000 to be wintered in
Kansas and Colorado; $4,000 Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad Total $780,
000 This is lower than all previous es-
Inmates, though larger than any previous
year.
LONG BRANCH, July S.-Te-day was the
finest of the meeting. The weather was
beautiful and cool, and the track in fair
condition. More ladies were on the stand
than on the first day. First Race-Hurdle
race over eight hurdles, seven entries; five
started, coming in in the following order:
Julius first. two lengths ahead: Vesuvius
second, Sanford third. Astronomer fourth
and Climax fifth. Second Race-Three
miles, three entries, and starters-won by
Helmbold by five lengths, beating Regards,
second, and Gerold third Third Race
Sequel stakes, twenty-seven entries, and five
starters, won in the following order: Nellie
Ransom won by two lengths, Monarchis
two, Nathan Cakes three, Stockwood four,
Express five, and twenty-five lengths be-
Kind
Weather Report.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Office Chief Signal Officer, ,
Washington, July 8, 1871, 7:3O P. NJ.
SYNOPSIS OF THE PAST TwENTY-FoUR HOURS
The barometer has fallen On the Cali
fOrnia coast. 1t has risen to-day rapidly
at the Rocky Mountain station. The lowest
pressure, which was Friday evening west
of Iowa, apparently has moved north and
northeast over Lake Superior. The ba-
rometer still remains quite low west of
Michigan and Illinois, having fallen since
Friday in that region. The area of high |
pressure in the gulf has moved westward, |
and, with light rains and cloudy weather |
extends into Alabama. The temperature |
has risen decidedly at most points in the |
interior OF the country, especially in Wis
cOnsin and Michigan. Southwesterly winds |
have continued on the South Atlantic |
coast, and now prevail in the Ohio and |
valleys and on the lakes. North |
and westerly winds have continued in the |
Eastern and Middle States. Threatening
and rainy weather have prevailed in the |
northwest to-day, as also on the coast from |
II
now prevail in Southern Michigan and Ohio. |
PROBABILITIES.
The conditions are favorable for local |
storms from Missouri to Lake Ontario to-
night. Threatening weather will probably |
extend generally north of this line. Falling
barometer, with increased cloudiness and |
Middle and Eastern States Southerly
winds, with threatening weather, are prob
able from Louisiana to South Carolina.
River Intelligence.
SOUTHWEST PASS, July 8, P. M.-Ba-
-oneter 1920. Wind south, light.
Arrived: Italian schooner G. Lanata,
Rosaco, master, sixty-fve days from Genoa,
With fruit to A. Lanata; schooner Island
Belle, Blair, master, eight days from
FrcDtera, with mahoganYato Charles Gin
ton- Sailed Steamship AIstin.
MEMPHIS, July S-Weather cloudy Mer-
curry 93o. River falling Passed down:
Belle St. Louis.
LOUISVILLE, July S.-The river falling;
twenty inches in chute and forty-four
inches in canal; clear; hottest day Of the
season, mercury reaching 1902 in the shade.
No business done. Arrived: Belle Row
and, Pittsburg. Departed: Belle Row
and, Red river; H. s. Turner, New Orleans;
Ada Heilman, Cairo; r. c. Gray has gone
% Madison for reDairS
CINCINNATI, July 8.-River five feet nine;
allen six inches in twenty -four hours
Arrived Lawrence, Memphis. Departed
Emma Floyd, Cairo. She will reship at
Cairo.
ST. LOUIS, g. = Departed: Jas. Howard.
New Orleans; City of Vicksburg, Vicks-
,urg; Oceanus, Red River; Columbia, Ar
KANSAS River: River falling; all upper
treams are declining. Clear and hot. Mer-