New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-06
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EorfI America put into Sidney, G. b., short
VI SIT LIT LAKE. December 5-Full advices of
che diamond swindle show that California
&ost s., 600 600, and New York $75V,0o0. ~,
san Francisco, December D. Inc dda
qaInnns stanton ruby, valued at $50, 900;
groves to be sofc garnet, and worth apouV
SiRP9 osros December 5.-The Legislature
9iag leased the Old South Church !or post
Rev Dr. Haight York has been elected
Bishop Of tie Protestant Episcopa! CHURCH
Sf Massachusetts, vice East burn, deceased.
6tryCryStTt. December s. = The Grey
Eagle. of the Louisville and henderson
line is sunk. She was valued at Sb0 IVY
and insured in Louisville for SlU,OUU.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, December lille
GyapitoI BODY ballOted for Senator without
result and adjourned till tomorrow, owing
90 the death Of member elect, VINO hal
not taken his seat with that body, but with
the courthouse. The courthouse boay olo
clothing but meet and adjourn, one OF its
members, Bennett, having died during the
night This makes two deaths si1ce the
aneeting Of the Legislature.
Senator Spencer left this morning for
Washington.
SAN FRAECIsCO. December 5.-The Colo
yado diamond fields are certainly bogus
1t was certainly a great swlndIe' Aho
grand Jury has the matter IN charge.
PHuADEIpHIA, December J.--Ihe STOCK
holders of the Texas and Pacific railroad
held meeting today. Nothing OF import
ance was done. 4 letter was reao from
General G. w Dodge, chief engineer, snow
ing rapid progression in the WORK o. push
ing the road to completion.
To-day decisions we're rendered III dozen
cases of cruelty to animals, brought against
Messenger railways for overlooking cars
during the prevalence Of the horse disease,
and imposing a fine of $l2 in each case. The
regular amount is $40, but the amout was
increased TO give the defendants the right
to appeal to d higher tribunal Ihls Will
be done.
new railroad to Mexico have subscribed
large sums of mOney-sOme as high as
$4,000
This road, it is said, will run from the
CITY Of Mexico to the Rio Grande, dis
lance OF 800 miles, and connect with the
road from the Rio Grande TO Denver, 8oU
miles more III is to be three feet gauge.
At the Book Trade Association meeting
Go-day, it was urged that works on political
economy favoTing protection to home In
dustry be published to supplant the text
books now in use in most of the schools and
colleges, which almost uniformly favor free
trade views.
DETROIT, December 5.--The Tribune has
special from Marquette which reports the
return to that port OF the steamer CHINA,
with 400 men from Sault Ste Marie.
The barges Jupiter and Saturn, and
schooners w. o. Brown and G. G. Griswold
were lost on Lake Superior, with probably
all on board.
The schooner Middlesex was lost-crew
Gaved.
The Sault river is closed, and many pro
S,ellers and vessels are frozen in.
The weather here to-day is very mild,
A number OF steamers which had left for
Buffalo are reported as making good pro
laress through the ice in Lake Erie. Two
steamers left for Alphena last right.
JEFFERSON CITY, December 1.-The Elec-
Coral College voted: Gratz Brown s. Hen
bricks David Davis |.
Boston, December 5-Garvin Il HoWe's
otable and eighteen horses burned this
mOrning.
The remains of two human beings have
6een found in the ruins of Walkers car
Giage factory, burned in the great fire. This
snakes six bodies recovered in the same
Slace.
Q san. FRAHcGsco, December 5.-KenC will
Shortly present TO the diamond executive
committee full account of the transactions
of himself, Harpending, Ralston. Mcclellan
and others, from the first to the last, with
arnold, Slack and Janin. 1t if understood
shat the name Of the man who made the
confession OF the swindle is Coopefe OF this
GitY.
the gems were purchased il Europe and
displayed here. Arnold, Stack and Cooper
Realized $4,000, with which they bought
Gnore gems in Europe and sailed the ground
erith them, and took Janin to the place and
picked up diamonds for him The latters
first report was then made, and on the
strength of it Kent HarpendiDg and others
9nyested in the stock. Detectives arc an
Che lookout for the swindlers.
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