New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-04
WHOLE NUMBER 1904.

sevens s6; North Carolinas, old 32ss, new
20i South Carolinas, old "a, new %,
The employers central executive COM
mlStee are about to send to the manufae-
turers throughout the country to pay the
wOrkmen by the hour, and to engage only
those willing To work ten hours a day, They
also sent blanks containing questions in re-
gard to the system of labor in each estab-
hshment, the person who receives the com
mnnieation and his opinions concerning the
labor question, and the best practical means
Of resisting and preventing strikes.
Between one and two o'clock this morn
ing fire occOrred at the corner of Elm and
Reade streets which destroyed Taylor g.
DarrelPs paper warehouse, and damaged
the builings and business materials of the
complete gas works. The papeT-box fac
tory of Selchou, Hiltz's book-bindery, and
Jones & Kirtland's fancy iron works. Loss
$200,000
There we're nearly 200 sunstrokes yester-
day, and about sixty deaths reported in
this city, although there were numerous
cases not known to the police, The heat
continues to-day.
The prosecution closed in the Stokes case
this afternoon. Mex con made the opening
speech for the defense. He detailed the
trouble of Fisk and Stol es up to the day
that the former was thot. He said that
when Stokes saw Fisk ascending the stairs
pulse was to go down, and he went step
or two down, then paused, and at the same
moment noticed Fisk taking out his pistol,
and as it in the act of cooking it. Know
ing the desperate character of the man
he had to deal with and knowing that
Fisk had threatened his life, he pulled his
pistol which he had carried in self defense
the whole winter, and fred two shots; then
he walked back and descended the main
staircase. Not soul under heaven but two
saw what happened McKeOn, in cUnclu-
sion, assured the jury that some of Stokes
relations had insanity; that Stokes mind
was upset since his incarceration by Fisk
on a charge of embezzlement.
The steamship Russia takes $685., 900 in
specie for Europe to-day.
The Academy of Music viii be given up
Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next
week to Herr Strauss and Nine. Arabella
Goddard. Strauss will bring with him a
large and we'll selected orchestra from the
performers of the jubilee.
Nine. Leutner win give one concert in
Philadelphia and one in Washington, but
will not appear in New York.
1t is reported that COl0nel H. +. Sweetzer
is to be appointed general manager of the
Erie railroad.
Specie engagements for to-morrow's
steamer $3.50, 600, including $500 in silver.
The Assistant Treasurer to-day paid
$725, 900 interest and $l50,000 in the redemp-
tiOn of five twenty bonds.
Twenty-three thousand dollars worth of
the bonds of the Market Street Railway
Company, of San Francisco, were stolen
from a brokers' office on Pine street yester-
day afternoon.
James McHenry says that when the case
of the Erie Railroad Company against
GOuld is brought to trial other large frauds
than those charged by the old management
will be developed.
Public interest in the Stokes case has not
ably close to-day, but it is believed the case
will last week longer
. The local sporting fraternity are greatly
surprised and disappointed over the defeat
of Bassett by LongtellOw yesterday. Many
betting men are said to have lost heavily
on the result Of yesterdays racing at Long
Branch.