New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-19

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T6RoSTo, October 18-The epidemic
among the horses has now extended over
the dominion, seriously interruptlng the
business of the country.
Street cars in Montreal have stopped
running. In their stables there are more
than 800 horses sick
Farmers are unable to bring grain to mar
ket. The disease is not fatal, but recovery
ia slow.
LEXINGTON, October 49, he trotting at
the horse fair to-day was very fine. The
third trot for yearlings was remarkable, the
time made being nine and three-quarter
seconds faster than has ever been recorded
before, and the entlre race was IrottCd
"- FTrst TEot~Premium $3.50 for four year
Odds and under; 500 to first horse; $50 to
second; mile heats, best three in five to
harness.
6 doiliS. lac. Observation-Disclosures:
Time-2:3324, 2:33N, 1881.
Second Trot-Premium $3.50 for horses
that never beat 240; 500 to first horse; $50
to second; mile heats, best three in five to
harness.
Sugar-in.the. Gourd .................4....3 ! 9
R0deTick. .........................2 =
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Carolina ..Gistahced
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Time-2:4l14, 1887, 2:35
Third Ifot-Premium $l60 for yearlings,
mile heats to harness.
Meubrino Patchen.. ,.,......,..................1
Time-3;l4A, 1884.
MADISON, Ind, October 18.-Henry A.
Armstrong, formerly one of the proprietors
Of the marine ways, came to his death
about eleven o'clock last night under mys-
FERROUS circumstances. The evidence before
the coroner's jury disclosed the fact that
Armstrong had not been living amicably
with his wife for some time past. During
the.last two weeks he has been at New Al
bany, and returning home last night, took
his boots off in the parlor, and went
up stairs to his wite's room, where, Mrs.
Armstrong says, he beat and abused
her, finally dragging her, down the.
stairs. AT the foot of the stairs she
screamed when he released her and she
Immediately went up stairs to her room
again. Presently she heard a pistol shot
Armstrong was found by neighbor lying
outside the back door witha bullet hole
Just over the left eye, lis forehead covered
with bruises and one Of his hands some
what Iacerated, showing that the deceased
had been engaged in violent struggle.
The jury has not yet returned q verdict.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, October 18.-The
straight outs have organized q committee,
with Charles p. Sykes as president, and re-
solved to press forward the Louisville
nominations.
BALTIMORE. October i8.-The Right Rev.
Michael OConnor, formerly Bishop OF Pitts
burg, died this morning at Woodstock Col
lege, near this city.
PHILADELPHIA, October 18.-At an in
formal meeting Of merchants held to-day at
the Philadelphia Chamber Of Commerce,
the following was adopted:
I2cS0LUed, That a meeting of the mer-
chants manufacturers and bankers of Phil
adelphia be held on the twenty first instant,
at the Chamber Of Commerce, to consider
the expediency Of petiti0ning Secretary
Boutwell, to relieve the money market by
purchasing $44 100000 of interest bearing
debt with like amount of legal tenders
retired by Secretary McCulloch.
MEMPHIS, October I8.-Lewis Holmes and
j. +. Eubanks, both planters, Of Henderson
county, had a difficulty yesterday, during
which the latter struck the former over the
head with q stick of wood, from the effects
OF which he died soon afterward.
Last Tuesday James Davis, drunken
desperate. while intoxicated, shot and killed
himself at Bottoms store, in Shelby county.
Backenstee's circus sold under execution
Yesterday for indebtedness to the captain Of
Che steamer Tyrone and members OF the
company.
Colonel Dorsey, of Helena, and Hon. Asa
Hodges, Of Cuttenden, committee APP
pointed by Governor Hadley, Of Arkansas.
TO investigate the late riots at 0sceOla, are
in the city, and took the testimony of yari-
GUS parties at Oyerton Hotel yesterday
To-day, accompanied by several United
States marshals, they will proceed to Osce
ola, when number Of prominent persons
on both sides will be placed under arrest
and tried for melting a riot.
SAN FRANCISCO, October lS.--TheTe is
urpaf 1iaaDnDiOtmnnt aft the VGsUII of the |
race yesterday. Current reports led many
persons to believe that Occident could trOt |
in 2:l6 and q large amount of money
changed hands on the result. Lucy and |
Occident will trot at Almeda Park on the |
twenty-third instant, unless the programme |
is changed.
Timbers' of Virginia City, and the Tucker |
railroad tunnel, 700 feet long, near Ameri- |
can Hat, have been burning since last night, |
and the tunnel is caving.
BOSTON, October l8.-Rev. George T. |
Chapman, ID. d., died to-day at his resi- |
dence in Newburyp9rt, aged eightIy-tour |
years. He graduated at Dartmouth Col |
lege in 1904 entered the Episcopal ministry, |
and formed a parish at Lexington, Ken
lucky, remaining there until $780, Henry |
Clay was parishioner, and the closest |
friendship continued between them until |
MIR. Clay's death. -
SALT LAKE CITY, October f8-Two boys, |
IdtuCu NGt5Uh dHu uIbiy4 WSLS 4uuuu
guilty of mapslaughter in the second degree |
at OIden to-day for rape and murder Of
little girl in Hooper City last summer, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty
years.
George M. Smith, one of the presidents
OF the Mormon Church, with party started
on religious pilgrimage to Palestine and
the Holy City to prove the connection be-
tween MOrmons and the lost tribes.
Rev. MCGEE is lecturing on Mormonism to
large audiences.
PHILADELPHIA October lS.-The Execu-
tive Committee Of the Municipal Reform
unanimously resolved to contest the cleo
ton of Republican officers.
BALTIMORE, October l2.-The Baltimore
Mutual game was postponed in consequence
of the wet condition Of the ground.
Weather Report.
WAR DEPARTMENT., |