The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-09-04

uolai commercial Convention which MSS
TO meet here on the second Of September.
has been postponed TO the twenty-fifth Of
November
CoLUlnIA, 5. c., August S7.-The SUI
preme Court to-day decided the case of
Morton, Bliss & Co. bondholders v The
State, adversely 10 the taxpayers The dc
cision covers one hundred pages Of legal
cap, and is just what the Taxpayers antici-
pated.
JAcKsoS. Miss. August 27.-The Repub-
lican State Convention met here to-day.
Every county was represented. The col
ored element were present. Gen. Ames
was nominated for Governor on the first
ballot, receiving 1877 votes r. G. Powers,
the present incumbent, received forty votes.
Other nominations viii be made tomorrow.
The Lieutenant Governor and Secretary
of State viii be colored, no whites Of
fering for these positions. A platform will
not be adopted until the nominations are
completed. The proceedings thus far have
been dignifed and orderly. Senators Ames
and Alcorn are here.
CHICAGO, August 29.-The Tribune has
crop reports from about forty counties IL
Illinois, embracing the greater part of the
corn growing portion of the State, and from
twenty counties in different parts of Iowa,
with the exception of half the counties in
Illinois, all but the corn crop at only from
one-half to two-thirds of an average yield,
although in some localities where the yield
will be short, there is greater acreage
planted than usual. The reports from Iowa
vary similar to those from Illinois; the
drought has injured the corn very material
" and the season has so far advanced that
rain would hardly benefit it.
SAN FRANcIsco, August 2S.-A man
named Irving, in Jail here, confesses be-
ing complicated in the murder of Mr..
Nathan. His confederate, McNelly, the
housekeeper's son, got them to do the muir
der, suggesting that Washington Nathan's
basement door would be left open. Irving
and his companion remained in the dark
some time, when a man came who said g l
have finished the old man, +" and then went
up stairs. Irving says he has in New York
some stocks and memorandum book,
partly written in Hebrew, which he took
from the old man. MeNelly got SCI, 600.
Irving gives graphic details. He came
here as sailor on British ship.
TERRE HAUTE, August 28.-In the col
lision of the paymaster's and gravel train,
on the Vandalia Railroad six were injured.
LITTLE Rock, August 2S.-Judge Elisha
Meurs, of the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court,
at GAINESVILLE, johnson county, was mortal
ly wounded while going to dinner, and died
at o'clock.
LOUISVILLE, August 2s.-Capt. Ed Hal
borck was thrown from a street car yester-
day, and died of his injuries. The de-
ceased was one of the pioneers of the to-
bacco trade of this city.
BALTIMORE, August 2S.-Schowletor,
who cut his wifes throat fatally with a
razor, then his own, fingers at the hospital.
He was originally from Uniontown, Alaba-
ma, studied medicine and graduated in New
York.
BALTIMORE, August s9.-Dr Showalter,
who cut his wife's throat, is dead.
SAVANNAH, August 29.-Mitchcll Cogs-
we'll, a negro, sentenced to be hung to-day,
was respited for few days by the Governor,
as it was alleged he was insane.
BALTIMORE, August 29.-Louisa Ross, a
young girl, was disinterred at Hagerstown.
The examination showed that abortion pro-
duced the death. A woman and man
were arrested. The affair creates great ex-
citement throughout Washington county.
CAIRO, August 29.-Wm. G. Campbell
was hanged for murder. The fall broke his
neck and he died almost instantly.
PHILADELPHIA, August 31.-Snowden,
clerk of r. G.. Hill s. Co., insurance agents,
hid $40 under his desk, and hit himself
over the head with dumb bell The money
was found and Snowden confessed that he
was in debt.
BROOKLYN, August 31.-Assistant Treas
urer Rodman is unable to get bail.
LITTLE Rock, August 31.-The last spike
of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad was driven
E,,14o,, Tho road sc NOW ,,lofo1
from st. Louis to Fulton, 461 miles.
SAVANNAH, August 31.-Jacob n. Cor
doza, who has been connected with news
papers at this city and Charleston from the
beginning of this century, died last night,
aged 81. He was the oldest living editor
in the South, and has been engaged on
newspapers to within the past two years.
PAToKA, Ind, September bingham
Brothers's distillery has been burned. Loss
$50, 600, including $50 hogs, 5000 bushels
of corn, and forty barrels of whisky.
NORFOLK, Va, September 1.-The
schooners Martha and Bangor twenty-five
days from Mobile, with cargoes of timber,
have arrived, towing in the wreck of the
steamer ResOlute. The steamer sprung a
leak during the storm on the twenty-seventh
instant, and when taken in tow she was
four miles from the beach.
FoRTREss MONROE, September 1.-The
steamer Ironsides, belonging to the Poto-
mac Steamboat Company, which has been
running between Baltimore and Whining
ton, went ashore on the Hog Island shoals
last Friday night during a thick fog, after
which an eastcrly wind and a rain storm
wrecked her. The crew were taken of and
saved Ironsides was a sidewheel iron
steamer, with a capacity for one thousand
tons.
CINCINNATI, September IA letter from
a prominent physician of AIillcrsburg, Ken
lucky, says the cholera is raging fearfully
there. There were fifteen deaths this morn
ing Most of the victims are negroes. There
have been thirty deaths since Thursday.
CLEVELAND, September 2se-The steamer
Jay Cooke bas run down yawl containing
nine persons. -Four were drowned.
WICHITA, KS, September 2.--The stage
leaving Fort Sill, August 2S, reports the
massacre hoax. There is no trouble with
the Indians at Fort Sill or on the route
BosToN, September &C. I. Reed, re-
Gently Attorney General and judge of the
superior court of this State, died at White
Sulphur Springs, Va, to-day.
SWEET CIIALYBEATE SPRISes, Va, Sep
TENDER 2.-Gen. d. N. Darlington, of NORTH
Carolina, died last night at White Sulphur
Springs, Of jaundice.
BROWNSVILLE, September Cattle
thieving has been resumed with unusual
vigor. About 200 beeves were crossed into
Mexico near Guerro, few days ago, and
badly driven on the highway to Monterey,
by thieves, without the slightest intcrfer-
ence on the part Of the Mexican officials
The depredat.ons are Of daily occurrence,
robbing this section of Texas Of thousands
of cattle each month.
Foreign.
LONDON, August 27.-The trial Of The
Bank of England foTgsrs has resulted in
verdict of guilty. They were sentenced to
penal servitude for life.
PARIS, August 27.-The high price Of
bread causes agitation in the populous quar-
tiers Of this city, out Of which Is appre-
hended serious troubles may grow. A spc-
cial meeting Of the Cabinet Is called for to-
day to consider the question. Several mem
bers Of the Assembly have proposed as
remedy tho immediate urrrrane1or ~ die