New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-15
NEW YORK.
Hottest Day of the Year-102o in the
shade-The North Carolina POisOner-
An Astronomer Dcad-YellOw Fever

Hottest Day of the YeRr-1G2o in the
shade-The North Carolina POisOner-
An Astronomer Dead-YeIlOw Fever
Victims.
New YORK, August IL Thermometer
100 to 1929 in the shade-the highest point
this season.
Arrived-Steamer Cambria.
A Greensboro, North Carolina, dispatch
says Jim johnson, the ice cream poisoner,
has been indicted and Jailed. Several poi
sOned persons are yet in great danger. One
or two of their lives are despaired of. The
excitement there has greatly subsided.
European mail advices report the death Of
NJ. LASER, the celebrated astronomer, pro-
tessOr at the University of Leyden.
NJ. Beck general of the order of Jssuits,
has cOnvOked the assembly of Jesuits at
Rome to consider the project of changing
the form in Prussia, and making as many as
possible enter into The orders still suffered
there.
Three of the victims of yellow fever on
the Numencia were yesterday inferred in
the Quarantine cemetery. Strict health
regulations are exercised in reference to the
pest, and it is not apprehended that the
scourge will visit Staten Island, within
mile of which the ram is anchored.
A Pittsburg dispatch states that the fail
ure of Fisher Brothers caused great excite
ment in oil circles there. Their liabilities
but they ask time to make everything good,
ATrived--MOrO Castle and Regulator.
Arrived Out-Herrmann. .
Governments Is a "A lower. Skies of 1881 :,
Il77s; fivetwenties of 1862. ll6ls 1864,
1858; 1865, Il613; new lI5lB; 1867, 1853;
1868, lisa; new fVes 1895 ten-forties ll2ls.
State bonds quiet but steady; Tennessees,
old 73 new 1875; Virginias, old 454, new
504R, consolidated 50I5, deferred l5; Louis
ianas, old So, new As; leYee skies co. eights
20; Alabama eights 49, tives 5O Georgia
skies 73 seveps 81; North CarOinas, old "a,
new 81, special tax Ia; South CarOlinas, old
81, new 2SA.
Arguments in the BlOOmingdale Asylum
case of Rose McCabe was continued to-day
without conclusion.
The grand jury of the court of general
sessions was discharged without finding an
indictment against Jennings, of the Times,
in the Fitzpatrick libel suit.
The Spanish ram NumenCia will leave in
about ten days The crew now remaining
on board are in good health.
James Brennan, another witness in the
Stokes case, has been discharged from the
House of Detention, by order of Judge Bar
rett.
A test case will be made in the persons of
two keepers of a sailor clearinghouse,
charged with a violation of United States
laws Each is held in $4,000 bail to await
the action of the grand jury.
The lager beer dealers today elected del
egates to the central body now being or
ganized to oppose the enforcement of the
excise law.
Hugh Began and William Wilson have
have been sentenced to twenty years in the
State prison for an outrageous robbery of
Mrs. Hardy, in BrOOme street, in July.
Nellie Wilson, an accOmplice, was accorded
five years Imprisonment. Mrs. Hardy was
gagged and tied IN her own house, and a
pistol held at her head, and the thieves
were about to apply a torch to her feet
when told where her jewelry and other val
uables were secreted.