New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-05


NICKsBURG, December 4-Peter Grosbr
unlocked and took possession of tho shes-
ms Office this morning, but almost inn
inediately a!terward retired. There gas
IL" meeting OF the court or Of the board OF
supervisors to-day. 1t is reported that the
State authorities will sustain Peter Crosby
al sheriff at all hazards. All is quiet to-
night.
WHISKY RIds n Memphis RaiirsaA OF q =
Employe.
MEMPHIS, December 4.-IIenry Hen .
drixon. an employe of the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad. formerly of Chicago,
while intoxicated last night, fell out of The
third story window of his boarding house,
No. pig Main street, and was instantly
killed.
Another Naughty Frencllcr.
PHILADELPHIA, December 3. Res.
Thomas Cooper. pastor of the Free COngfe-
tional Church Of Frankford, to-day an
swered to a capias issued by the sheriff. and
is under bond in $1,000 to answer a charge
Of felonious assault and battery upon Flora
May Peters, also of Frankford. The charge
is brought by the father of the girl who iS
eighteen years old. The suit is a civil one.
damages being fixed at $4,000. The men,
beTs ot C0cper's church believe HIM inDo+
cent.
still Counting in Democratic Congresss
MILWAUKEE, December f-Cate, Demo
crat, is elected from the eighth district by
two majority.
Harrassin9 Gamblers Landlords.
SAVANNAH, December 1.-THE grand Jury
OF the Superior Court to-day found true bills
against the owners Of property occupied by
gamblers. and also indicted several gam.
blers
Spanish Steamer Sunk.
The Spanish coasting steamer Tomas
Brooks, from Santiago de Cuba for Guam
tanamO, struck Yesterday morning on tho
Morrillo. near Guantanamo and sank in.
snediately. About thirty lives we've lost.
Cheap Transportation.
KiCnMOSD. December 3.-In the Cheal.
Transportation Convention to-day all tho
substitutes for the report of the committee
an water routes were withdrawn and
Colonel II. G. Cabell, OF Virginia, offered as
compromise a resolution recognizing in
addition to the lines Of transportation
recommended bv the United States Senate
Committee on Transportation the proposed
Rock island and Hennepin canal, in IIli-
nois, connecting the Mississippi with the
Illinois river and canal, and the chain of
waterways to the seab0rd as a project of
great merit and urging upon Congress the
necessity OF the speedy construction Of the
work. This resolution was UNANIMOUSLY
adopted.
Resolutions of Colonel Trobel, of Georgia.
showing the ne cessity OF cheap Transports
tion to improve the finances, were adopted
The railroad men then came to the 'front.'
and the rest of the session was spent liz
discussing the advantages of railroad trans
portation and in hearing an able paper
IRON Engineer Greene, Of New York. OLE
steam canal boats.
The name of the association was changed
to the American Board Of YranspOrtatios
and Commerce.
Colonel Cabeli, on behalf of the citizens
Of Richmond. rendered to the con vention an
excursion in carriages to visit :he places ef
interest in the city. which Nas accepted fey
ten o'clock tomorrow.
To-night's session will be protyacaets -
an adj"":ament sine die is expected.
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once Chief Signal s,;ic~s
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~. The south Atlsntic end Gulf States clear O.,
fair weather, except near che immediate tilIl 4
cOass, With sOutheslv winds light fall ss tii~ tenn
p.ra;n:e east u tis Mississ v,. ALI sic Sly sisle
barometer.
Esw V.Is. Decessb-S THE E,~pins il sas
comparative cotton stAseAen. f0s t!,e week ending
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