The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-08

Agency California, and Nlntah Agency
Utah, lately congregated in the Southern
section of the Territory, and who had start
ed to leave few days before, had stopped
and declared their intention to remain, and
showed determined hostility.
L. T. Neal, of Ross County, is the Liberal
candidate for Congress in the Seventh Ohio
District. Judge F. G. Whiteside, of Logans-
port, has been nominated for Congress by
the Democrats and Liberal Republicans of
the Eighth Indiana District. Samuel z.
Nash, of Gallopolis, is the Democratic can
didate in the Eleventh Ohio Congressional
District.
The South.
On the evening of the Goth passenger
train on the New Orleans, Jackson & Great
Northern Railroad was thrown off the
track near Magnolia. Kilbourn, baggage
master, and Mrs. Baker, of Texas, were
seriously, and several others severely, in
jured.
A fire at jefferson, Texas, on the Both ult.,
destroyed two entire blocks of buildings.
Twenty business houses, including the St.
CT aries Hotel, were burned. Loss estimated
at $4,000. Supposed work of an incen-
diary
A riot occurred in Savannah, Ca, on the
Doth ult., caused by negroes attempting to
ride in street cars set apart for whites. A
car was fired into by the negroes and the
riot became general. Two ladies and four
children were shot while standing in front of
their homes. Several negroes were wounded.
The police were armed with musketS and
ordered out by the Mayor, but the cars
stopped running and the demonstration
ceased. Three young men were arrested,
charged with ejecting negroes from cars,
and their cases were postponed by the
United States Commissioner until august l.
The first two bales of new cotton were re-
ceived at Savannah, Ca, on the 31st ult.,
one from Florida and one from Bainbridge
Ga.
The City Bank of Memphis suspended on
the 31st ult. Liabilities $3.50
The Georgia Senate on the 31st ult. passed
an act to allow colored men, excluded from
the jury lists, to appeal to the Judge of the
Superior Court.
A Montgomery (Ala.) telegram of the 31st
ult. says: ''The boil and army worm is ruin
ing the crops. One plantation which, three
years ago, made 100 bales of cotton, will now
make but so. There is great depression
among the planters, who consider themselves
ruined"
Lie 0OVcTuOT VI ATkdnSdS issued d prOcla-
nation on the 31st ult., threatening to de-
clare martial law in Pope County, the scene
of late acts of lawlessness.
The news from North Carolina on the
morning of the I'd was to the effect that the
election in that State had resulted in favor
of the Conservatives, Merrimon's majority
for Governor) being placed at about 5, 900.
A Little Rock (Ark.) dispatch of the LIST
says: ''Parties from Pope County, this
evening, report armed bands of militia still
at large, Notwithstanding the Governor S
| command for them to disband. Everybody
is now looking for the Governor to declare
martial law, and many merchants are remov-
ing their goods and families from the coun-
try
A dispatch from Charleston, s. c., on the
I'd, says that the drouth was so excessive
throughout the State that the crops were
almost parching up, and that if rain did not
fall soon there would be nothing left for the
caterpillars to eat. The cotton crop in some
sections of the State would be an entire
failure.
Raleigh On. Co. telegram of the I'd says
returns from twentyseven counties indicat-
ed positively the election of Merrimon, Con
sentative candidate for Governor, six out of
eight congressman, and sixty majority on
Joint ballot in the Assembly.