New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-10

/
| his trial to-day, manifests more agitation
than yesterday.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
Schooner Abandoned.
Boston, October 9.-The schooner Luov
ana Nancy, OF Bangor, was abandoned. The
captain and crew took to the boats One
| man is dead, one was washed overheard.
and the captain is barely alive.
| Deaths in Philadelphia.
| PHILADELPHIA, October 9-John L. Red
ner, an old grain merchant, is dead. John
Cook ls dead, aged eighty-twO. Chaplain
Henry Wood, United States navy, is dead.
Strike of Female Operatives.
I 4 number OF the female operatives O?
: the Campbell mills have struck, in conses
| quence OF the reduction of wages and five,
| days work in a week. The strikers are
| visiting other mills, with the view to jnduefa
| q general strike.
Suspended.
1t is rumored that Bushong Brothers, OF
| Reading, Pennsylvania, have suspended
Voters in Philadelphia.
| According to the revised list of canvases
| ers there are l64 $40 male taxab.es or qualIs
| fed voters in this city.
Lawyer Dead.
l =.
| Laughlin, prominent lawyer, is dead.
The President and Cabinet at Pi,nlicse,
The President, with Secretary of Was
belknap. Postmaster General Creswelt
| and General Babcock, visited the MARYLAND
State agricultural fair at Pimlico to-day
During the afternoon the presidential party
| occupied the judges stand, witnessing the
| trotting contests. The party left at fvss
| o'clock.
Brigham Young.
SALT LAKE, October 9.-Youpg has beeiA
elected president of the Latter-Day Saints
Resumed.
CHICAGO, October 9.-The Third National
Bank has resumed.
Celebrating the Great Fire.
The second anniversary of the great fire.
was observed to-day by the closing of the
public offices, public schools and courts,
and many people made it the occasion for q
holiday. The exposition managers had ar
ranged special musical programme and
many exhibitors some special features to
their departments appropriate to the oce
casion.
The attendance at the exposition was ime
mense, the number being estimated at
$4,000 during the afternoon, and tonight
not less than &c, 600 were in the building.
The number of visitors from the country is
daily increasing. A notable event in con-
versary was the performance tonight by
the Thomas orchestra, of programme
which was to have been rendered BY them
on the night of the citys destruction two
years ago, with the addition of grand ane
niversary festival written especially for the
occasion.
Charges Against Business House.
Charges have been made in some of the
city papers against X. NJ. Hough & Co.,
oil af a.
grain receipts. The firm to-day asked Of
the Board of Trade the appointment of q
committee of investigation, which request
was complied with.
Augusta Banks Resumed.
AUGUSTA. Ga, October 9.-The banks
have resumed currency payments.
Cotton.
The receipts Of cotton are heavy, but
money is too scarce to move it,
Frost.
Light frOsts throughout this section.
New Orleans Steamboat Line.
CINCINNATI, October 9.-The New Orleans
steamboats, organized for the season to day
with ten boats. These boats will leave
weekly. Three men are to govern the line.
and the wharfboat company is to transact
it's business. Each boat deposits $1,000 tors
felt
Action Of the Cincinnati Clearing House
The Cincinnati Clearing House Associa-
tion at meeting this evening decided to
issue no additional Clearing House certiti-
Gates, and also retired $4,000 already
issued. thus reducing the aggregate to
$450,OO0. They also appointed committee
to devise plan for settlement between tho
banks while the process of retiring certifie
Gates shall be proceeding, and instructed
President Cook to correspond with the
Clearing Houses of New York and cities in
the West and South relative to the mode
and time OF currency resumption.
Races at Pi;tsburg.
PITTsBURG, October 9.-The races TODAY
were well attended. The trotting race for
purse of $3.50 was won by Tom Britton
IN three straight heats. Time-2:39lss
2:N, 2:3S.
Steam Canal Navigation.
BUFFALO, October 9.-The steam canae
boats William Newman and William BAKE
ter, with full cargoes of grain, left for Syrae
cuse, the former last evening and the latter
tonight, competing for the prize of $l00 900
for the best system of steam canal naviga-
ton. Several other boats will follow.
An Outrage.
CUMBERLAND, Md, October 9.-Consider-
able excitement was caused here this morn
ing by the perpetration of brutal outrage
on the person of little girl, aged seven
years, ny Iudu udueu ~. u. Lear. Inc
fend was arrested.
Gala Day at st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, October 9-To. day has been
the annual gala day of the fair. Business
was almost entirely suspended in this city
and the day almost universally observed as
a holiday The gate receipts of the fair
show an attendance of nearly $1,000. The
success of the exposition is assured beyond
question, and has tar exceeded ex pectations.
A special feature of the day was the trot
between Goldsmith Maid and Gloster, but
it being utterly impossible, with all the
police and special force organized for the
occasion, to keep the track clear of the inn
mense throng, which fairly oyerfiowed it,
only one heat was trotted and that
in very slow time, neither driver be-
ing willing to risk his horse or
himself in such an unruIy aud excited
crowd. subsequently, another trial was
made in the arena of the amphitheatre,
which was witnessed by fully $4,000 people,
but the circle was too short to show high
speed. The Maid took the purse, OF course.
Coming Out.
MADRID, October "a brisk cannonade
was kept up yestered by the republican
force besieging Cartagens. DuriRg the.
day many deserters from the Intransigentes
ranks came into the camp of the govern.
ment troops. The national squadron ia exs
pected to arrive at Cartagena at any mo.
ment.
Emigration from L. eIand.
DUBLIN, October 9.-The Irish Agricultus
raj LabOrers' Union, in the event of the
government failing to settle the question of
waste lands in Ireland hava dacided tn