New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

Cars Wrecked-Conductor kiiled-Death
of a Pennsylvania SenafOr-AnOther
Tie Created-Severe Sentence of a De.
faulting City Treasurer-LegaliziDs
Rates of Freight and Weight of
Grain-Attempt to Throw a Train .OG
the Track-Miscreants Arrested-Pre.
tended Robbery of n County Treas.
urer-oIississippi Legislature Coming
to Mardi (ras-Funeral of a Bishop
ut Baltimore-Flag Ship at Key West.
CHICAGO, February l0.-A broken rail
wrecked five cars on the Illinois Central
railroad. Conductor Charles Blanchard
was killed.
PHILADELPHIA, February l0.-Henry S.
Evans. State Senator, is dead, restoring the
State Senate to tie.
Mercer, the defaulting city treasurer, has
been sentenced to S3O0,000 fine and five
years solitary confinement at hard labor.
Yerkers associated with Mercer, was SEN
fenced to $500 fine and three years impris-
Onment.
CoLUMBus, O., February lO.-The Senate :
passed bill equalizing rates for freight.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, February lO.-A bill
was introduced to day making the legal
rate of a bushel of clover seed sixty pounds;
oats thirty-twO pounds; corn seventy to
sixty eight pounds, according to age.
SAN Francisco, February l0.-Charles
Chapman and Charles Behrens were ar
rested yesterday and taken to Alameda
county Jail, for attempting to throw pas
senger train off the track on the Western
Pacific railroad at Lavermore Pass.
The Caruthers estate litigation, involving
title to about one-quarter of the city of
Portland, Oregon, has been settledby com
promise.
Treasurer w. S. Blakely. Of Santa Cruz
county, who claims to have been robbed by
masked men last week, was examined yes
terday and held to answer.
JACKSON, Miss, January 10 The Legis-
lature met this morning and Immediately
| adjourned to Thursday next, in order to al
| low the members to attend the Mardi Gras
| festival at New Orleans Most of them go
on the train tonight. A large number OF
| citizens from here and from Vicksburg Will
| also attend the festivities.
| BALTIMORE, February 10.-The following
| is an outline Of the ceremonies attending
the funeral of the late Archbishop Martin
John Spalding Monday next:
The members of the Young Cathol;s
Friends Society will form a guard extend
ing from the door of the archbishop's resi-
dence, on Charles street, along Mulberry
street to the door Of the Cathedral, on Ca
thedral street. The procession will be
formed with platoon of police, officers IN
front. followed by special Dooyguaro% % OF
rear of these will be the trustees OF the
Cathedral, followed by the cross, borne by a
body of seminarians.
The body of the archbishop will follow
these in a casket, carried on a bier by six
teen priests, according to the rubric, fol-
lowed by the visiting archbishOps, bishops,
clergy and societies. The body will be
nlaced on catafalque in font of the altar,
at each corner of which bishop will stand.
Solemn high mass will be celebrated, and q
sermon delivered by Archbishop McC cCloskey,
OF New York. After which the body will
be taken out at the front door Of the Ca
thedraI and borne into the crypt, where it
will be deposited in the vault under the
man altar at the east end of the church.
A mass will be offered tomorrow morn
ing at seven o'clock in all the churches OF
this city for the repOse of the souls OF the
| dead. The exteriOrs of all the Catholic
churches are draped in mourning, and all
through yesterday and to-day. countless
throng of persons of all denominations and
classes visited the residence OF the arch
bishop, where the body lies in state. The
features of the deceased are almost as
| natural as in lite.
Bosroy, February l0.-Dr. McDonough,
who was Yesterday Ommitted to Jail tor re.
fusiug to kiss the Bible, on being sworn as
a witness, reversed his decision to-day, and
was discharged from custody. The law, il
is said, Obliges witnesses to take the oath
in whatever form the court considers mos;
binding.
NORFOLK, February l0.-It ia reported
that tho schooner Wake, hence for Phi ils
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