New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-16
WHOLE NUMBER l847.

loss attributed the disaster to the watch Oa
deck mistaking SambrO for Devils lighfo
1t appears that Miss Rowder, who was reV
ported as among the cabin passengers. dis
embarked at Queenstown.
Ihe Jersey City board of education rAs
opened the sectarian war last evening sp
discussing the resolution, that no child ha
compelled to take part in any devotional;
exercise, vocal or otherwise. in Oppositiora
to the wishes of it's parents.
San Francisco special states thai
Meacham was not fatally wounded Gp
Modocs and that he is improving.
Colonel Chapman, an old Oregon nioDeee
and the president of the Portland aud SaIs
Lake railroad. said last evening that tb.a
Modocs were known through Oregon as "a
most treacherOus tribe, On whom kindness
was utterly wasted
General Candy was a member Of GhN
Methodist Church, and Rev. DIR. Thomas
was it's book agent at San Francisco.
This afternoon Sandford Murray, coffee
tor tor the New York Gas Company. enc
tered the dispensary of DR.. Brown, No, 3JP
William street, to collect the gas bill A
quarrel arose. when Brown attacked NIUE
ray with an ak, inticting several serious
wounds on his head. scuff1e ensued, in
which Murray secured the ak and dealt thep
doctor powerful blow. The men we're
then separated, arrested and taken To- the
hospital.
John Murphy and John Wallace. noted
thieves, quarreled to-day, and the latter
fatally shot the former through the backe
Wallace was arrested
President Grant has pardoned Sosepfn
Hartnett, sentenced in 1871 to ten years
imprisonment for embezzling letters from,
the New York postotfice.
private meeting of the brass manufaGs
turers OF New England and the Middle
States was held to-day. The general ire
terest OF the trade was talked over and an
arrangement made regarding the settlee
ment of prices.
The Swiss Times reports that while Father
Gavazzl was preaching recently on the supo
preston of religious corporations two me1s
Ia tailor and a Roman student) attempted
to fire a large bomb at the door of the
chapel. They were discovered in the act,
and arrested in time to save many lives
The national convention of advertising
agents hold meeting here Tomorrow
The object is to provide against undue como
petition between established agencies, and
to cultivate more confidential relations beo
tween agents and publishers.
Judge BlatchfOrd to-day granted wria
of habeas corpus in the case of Carl NogGo
the alleged Belgian murderer.
Alderman Ottendorf refuses to receive
his salary both as a member of the board
of supervisors and as an alderman, On tho
ground that the salaries paid are excessive
and that $500 instead of 5000, as new
paid, would be amply remunerative.
The investigation as to the mental cOn,fE
ton of George Francis Train was to-daT
resumed. Dr Thaddeus W. B. Cross teso
tited that at the request of the district
attorney, be and DR.. Hammond had made
an examination of Train, and, from the
conversation. manner and appearance OF
the subject, they formed the opinion that
he was of unsound mind The witness
visited Train twice, and cOnversed with
him on politics, religion, Grant. Greeley
and his property in Omaha.
General Chatfield, Trains counsel, CROSS
examined DIR. Cross very severely, asking
him if he thought Bacon, Newton and
Socrates were insane because they formed
theories Of their own in direct opposition to
the general belief of their era. At the con.
clusiOn of the testimony the court adjourned
until tomorrow.
Ira Paines pigeon shooting tournament
began to-day, at Halls driving park, on the
COney Island road. The prizes were $500
to the first. $500 TO the second, and 800 t0
the third.
The result was Myles johnson, Of New
Jersey. killed fOrty-six and missed four: Ira
a. Paine, of New York, killed forty-three
and missed seven; A. II. Bogardus. of Ini-
nois, killed fOrty-one and missed nine: A.
W. Tucker. of Providence, Rhode leland.
killed forty and missed ten; }. Carling. of
Hac,lensack. New Jersey, killed forty and
missed ten; w. Carson, of Philadelphia.
killed thirty nine and missed eleven. Each,
man shot at fifty birds.