New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-20

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MISCELLANEOUS.
Fire at Shreveport.
SHREVEPORT, August ia fire on tn,
levee this morning destroyed CUMMING
and MorrisOn's warehouses. Mcdonald
packery and four small buildings adjoining
The total lose is estimated at $4,000, par
tally covered by insurance.
The Dispatch.
BOsTON, August !9.-The United StateI
steamer Dispatch arrived here day.
Demand for Tonnage at San Francisco
A Boston merchant states he has informa
tiOu from San Francisco that at iea.t 7C(
ships of about 1900 tons each will be Ie
guired to carry the surplus grain crop Il
Europe this season, and that not more than
$50 sail can yet be reckoned on for thai
purpose.
Suppressing A Play.
The new play of Passions Perils.' a,
the Atheneum Theatre, on a hint from the
authorities was withdrawn from the stage
tonight. The play ia founded on the
Beecher-T lcOn scandal, and is cOnsidered q
Immoral by the city fathers.
Forgery.
Henry Selling, associate Just zee of the
police court Of Hartford, and a member OF
the board OF aldermen OF that city, was
brought here on an executive wal rant
charging him with forgery, and was today
arraIgned and held for examination on the
tweuty-third.
BallOoning in Boston.
Donaldson and his balloon made t.ip
thisafternoon. Donaldson was accompanied
by w. D. Balch, Of the Boston Daiiy News.
and c. 81. Bidwln. Of the Saturday Ecening
Gazette The course of the balloon WIS
directly seward, and when over Long
Island Donaldson shouted to men on the
ground TO seize the drag rope, which ia over
800 feet long.
Their efforts TO pull the balloon down,
there being a strong wind blowing, caused
1T to burst, and the balloon came down
with rush. Donaldson Jumped out when
ground, which lightened it go that b g COM
pani0Ds landed without injury.
Another ''War of. Races"
MEMPHIS, August l9.-Passengers by the
Thompson Dean report intense excitement
and fears OF conflict between the whites
and blacks at Bernard, or old Grand Lake
landing in Chicot county. Arkansas. The
uble originated in the killing of white
boy by negro some days since. The latter
took refuge in cane brake after the kill
ing and was pursued by party of rnen and
captured, and while being conveyed to jail
escaped. Several shots were fired at him as
he disappeared in the cane. Some DAYS after
come negroes found his body in the woods
and charged that he had been killed BY bis
white captors, and the body concealed.
Ills story spread among the negroes
who IL IS said threaten TO kill six white
men in revenge. When the steamer Thomp.
son Dean passed the whites and blacks
were both arming and it was feared serious
trouble would ensue. A number of women
and children left Bernard on the Dean and
came to Greenville tor sattv.
He Looked Like Charley Ross.
EDELL, He, August ia man and
woman, with boy dressed in girls clothes.
were arrested. He resembles Charley Ross
But 1t isE't Him.
PHILADELPHIA, August l9.-Oae Durgsn
some time ago went on visit West taking
with him his housekeeper, Mrs. Cole, and
two children of James Henderson. now EN-.
ployed on the steamer Edwin Forrest. Mrs.
Cole holds the relation of aunt to these
one Of when is girl named
Alce, and the other a little boy. Jimmy,
who was mistaken for the lost Charlie Ross.
Like nearly all children Of that tender age.
he wore trock, and this NAV have been
taken by the Western folk as evidence of
an effort OF the part of Mr.. Durgan, or Mrs.
Cole, to conceal its sex.
The Flood iii Nevada.
SAN FRANCISCO, August l9-The loss by
the Hood at Austin, Nevada, yesterday,
caused by the bursting OF a cloud, will
amount to over 100000. The people were
warned in time by messenger on horse.
back and escaped to the hills. The deluge
was about ten feet deep as it rushed down.
Murder and Desertion.
OMAHA, August 19-On August l6, while
On escort duty near old Camp Brown. Wv.
oming, private Charles Green, Company L,
Third Cavalry, killed private Mahoney and
two other soldiers, and deserted.
Custer hns Fight and Kills Fifty Indians,
Sioux CITY. August ia report comes
from Fort Suily tonight that the Indians.
expedition on the fifteenth and were re.
pulsed with heavy loss. Clusters loss is
reported at fifty killed and wounded. This
report was brought into Fort Sully by
ace rider. who states he met one OF Clusters
scents above Grand river and got the news
from him.
A DesperadO's Confession.
ST. LOUIS, August l9.-John T. Morey,
leputy sheriff of Collin county, Texas,
writes a letter to the Ecenuag Dispatch,
Eating he killed notorious character
famed James II. Reed, in Lamar county,
Texas, on the sixth of August. Before dy
1g Reed stated ne was the leader Of the
and that committed the Iowa and
lads Hill, Missouri. train robberies, |
he st. Genevieve. Missouri, bank robbery. |
nd also asserted thar he robbed the Hot |
prings, Arkansas, and Austin, Texas, |
lagos, and had committed several similar |
Dbberies in Arizona, Nevada, California
nd Oregon. He would NOT give the names
{ any Of mis- associates, but declared posi |
vely that neither Arthur Mccoy nor the
ounger of the James brothers had any.
hing to do with these r0bberies.
Forest Fires Raging.
DETROIT, August 19.-Forest fires are
sging along the jackson, Lansing and
aginaw railroad to an alarming extent.
{ Deep river two dwellings were des.coyed
I'D the whole village threatened. Heavy
rec are reported near Standish.
American Science Association.
HARTFORD, August I9.-The session Of
Q American Association for the Advance
INT Of Science closed in this city to-day.
1854 Fires in Ontario.
CARP, Ontario, August l9.-Destruct We
sh fires are raging in this vicinity. Eight
mers living q ehort distance from tere