New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-31
MISCELLANEOUS
Escape from Arkansas State Prison-0l 0lis
sissitpt Legislature-Shootin at Jack
sOn-Import Duty on Rice Unwise-Firc
at NLeMphis-SeYeufY lIiles Of Ice


sissirpi Legislature-Shooting at Jack
sOn-Import Duty on Rice Unwise-Firo
at Memphis-Seventy Miles of Ice.
CAMDEN. Ark, January 30.-Five prison
ers, including two sentenced to death, have
| escaped from the State Prison.
JACKSON, January Ex-Governor Power
vetoed the bill reducing the price of tho
Revised Code to five dollars.
The House passed bill authorizing the
boards OF supervisors to employ counsel at
| a regular salary.
During an affray at the railroad station
| in this city last night, colored Senator
| Caldwell was shot in the side by some per-
son unknown, and Caldwell, in returning
| the fire, accidentally shot Charles Erskine.
| better known as Shorty" a popular loco
| motive runner, in the thigh. Caldwelrs
wound is slight. Erksine serious but not
| dangerous
COLUMBIA, s. c., January 30.-The House
| OF Representatives to-day adopted joint
| resolution declaring the proposed repeal
OF the import duty on rice unwise, partial
and disastrous; also instructing Senators
| and requesting Representatives to use their
influence to secure the continuance Of tho
present duty.
MEMPHIS, January 30.-A fire this morn
| ing destroyed the stave warehouse of j. w.
WOltering, on the corner of Main and Wash
| ingtOn streets Loss on stock, $3000-unin-
| sured. The building belonged to w. Il.
| Greenlaw, and was valued at SIC, ,000-fully
| insured.
HALIFAX, January 3O-The steamer City
of Halifax. from ST. Johns, New Found
| land, yesterday passed seventy miles Of
| field ice. The opinion prevails that the Do
minican government will accept the treaty
| of Washington. 1t is known that q largo
majority in Parliament are in favor OF it.
The steamer Peruvian, from England, re-
ports heavy weather during the entire pas
| sage.
| commerce, the board of trade and the COM
mon council have resolved to. appoint .
| committee to visit Washington and receive
| the appropriation of 100000 for the COM
pletiOn of the Louisville canal. Richard
Smith and Benjamin E. Eggleston were ap-
! pointed on the part of the chamber of COM
! merce. The opinion OF James Speed, tho
| attorney for the canal directors, was read,
| to the effect that the directors can not
| realize the mortgage until the bonds arc
| paid.
At a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance
| last night, William f. Dodge WAS elected
! president; Chief Justice Chase and several
| others were made vice presidents.
| DR.. Chaplin said the Christians of America
| ought to take the newly arrived Japancso
| commissioners out of the hands of the ,p0iik-
! icians and show them something Of tho
| workings of our Christian institutions. Hs
| said the Burlingame mission was acOmparz-
| tive failure, because the Christians kept
aoof from it,
The committee that went to Louisville to
| invite the Grand Duke, in behalf of the citi-
zens, to visit Cincinnati, telegraph that
owing to the arrangements with the rail-
roads and steamer ON the Mississippi made
prior to leaving st. Louis, they cannot ac-
cept the invitation. The Grand Duke ro-
grets this the more inasmuch as his visit to
Cincinnati was a part of the original pro-
gramme prepared by the Gar before the
party left st. Petersburg.
The Cincinnati Cotton Exchange, for
which handsome accommodations have been
provided in connection with the Chamber
OF Commerce, was formally opened to-day
in the presence of large number OF busi-
ness men.
EVANSVILLE, Ohio, January 30.-No busi-
ness done today. Weather slightly ln0der-
ated. Mercury 800.
HARRISBURG, January 30.-The eastern
bound Erie mail train ran off the track near
Lock Haven last night. Several persons
were I'M jured, one fatally. No names gwen
The baggage car, two passenger coacheS
and one sleeping car were burned.
BOsTON, January 30-The commercial
agency established two months since i'm
DevOnshire street. by Jefferson and Henry
Brock, brothers, hailing from New York,
collapsed to-day, leaving 100 young men
and girls, employed as clerks, without their
pay, MANY Of them destitute and among
strangers There are also numerous credit
ors for stock and fixtures, and merchants
minus their advance payments.
PHILADELPHIA. January 30.-Henry M.
Gray was elected Senator of the fourth dis
trict by $40 majority. The Republicans ma
jority last October was 1896
Weather Report,
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