New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS.


DETROIT, October GA ire at North.
vile last night destroyed the Michigan
School Furniture COmpany's building.
Lose $4,000 to $4,000; small insurance.
The suHerers In Nebraska.
CINCINNATI. October 28.-General Brisbin
made an appeal to tho Chamber OF Com.
merce. to day. to aid the suffering poor Of
Nebraska living in the region devastated BY
grasshOppers. A committee of five was
appointed by the Chamber to devise plan
tor securing aid in the way Of food and
clothing.
A Gazette special from Newcastle. In.
diana. reports great CONSERVATION in that
vicinity on account Of fires in the timber
destroying fences, endangering houses and
killing vast areas of growing timber.
Fire in Greencastle. Indiana.
4 disastrous conflagratiOn is reported
raging at Greencastle. Indiana, and the fire
department of Terre Haute has been tele.
graphed for aid. At the last accounts the
fire was in the building adjoining the teie'
graph Office. and it is probable the destruc'
tion OF the latter may prevent particulars
being obtained to night.
White League Crime in Kentucky to be-
Punished.
LOUISVILLE. October 2S.--A Courier jo's'
nai Shelbyyille, Kentucky, special of last
night says the young negro girl shot by
masked men on Sunday morning will prob
ably recover. The affair has produced
intense excitement in the country
The place where the outrage was COM
mitted is among the hills, inhabited by
q very rough population. The Courier.
journal correspondent had a cOnversa'
ton with Governor Leslie, at Frankfort
last night relative to the outrage, in
which the Governor said he had as yet
no further information of the affair than the
acc cunt in the papers, but that as coon as
he has official reports from the county of.
ficers he will use every power vested IN
him as chief executive OF the State to bring
these outlaws to justice. "a indeed he in
tends to use power to- put down 1awlessness
and violence in any part of the State in
which they inay crop out. Governor Los
lies action in other recent cases Of the same
kind guarantees that he means what he
Gays.
sfIyhEAfOlis, October .S.-W. -. Wash
burne &, Brother have failed: liabilities
$500. 600; assets 81 100000: The Washbnrne
paper is held all over the State; $500, 900
is held here. 1t is feared, in the de-
be available.
Fire iu the Woods.
CHICAGO, October .S--The Times specia?
says fro is raging in heavy timber, near
Georgetown, Termilion county, Illinois,
and has already burned a strip seventy five
yards wide and over q mile in length, and
still resists tha efforts of the entire county
to stop 1t.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT }
Office Chief Signal Officer, I
washington. October %. 1874. A;3' r. Ny
go. Tennessee and the Gulf States, falling
cir udv fol tV IA we
pogti0ns TO- morrow.
River and Marine News.
SOUTHWEST PAr., October 90. P. M:-Barometea
1886. Wind southeast. light. Arrived Steamship
Chan. Bremner. master. nom Tampco, for
orders, 20 PIN, Forwood Co; bark George Pea
Ths bslp is "watns M
| wind to sail. The barks Cavour Vale and John
starr and ship Record are here swa,ting orders
I eoutbeaAt, light. Weather fair. Arnved-At half
past swo this morning. steamship William r.
Clyde, Livingston master, from Havana via the
Florida ports, to l. X. Roberts; American schooner
John +. kranz. Hewes master, thirteen days from
Boston, and steamboat j. Frazer from Mobile. No
v,cKssu.s. October 2a1UE-Kate. at "a: N,
3 P. NJ; Weather warm and clear The river has
fallen two inches in the last twenty four hours
MxsyHls, October za.The river has fallen a,. ..'
| and warm. No arrivals os departures sxcspt loca.
packets.
! CIsc1ssAf,. Octobev 1s.-Hver four feet ,hrea
inches and falling. W. ather clear and warm.
PIrrssrxs October 2s-Rivei nine inches An6
falling. Weather warm and pie asant.
BvANsvILLR. October 23.-Eivsg stasiOna afT .
Weather clear and pleasant.
CAIRO. October 28.-Arrved-Bee, from New Or
leans, st A. NJ Departed-Altsn. for Nev Orleans.
1T 10 p. NJ; Bee, for St Louis. at 4. M Nver nv"
aeet and rising owly. Weather clear Mercury z..
LoUHvILLK October 23-Rvep stationary. with
thee feet eleven inches in thS ESnal. "eSthss
very warm and clear
! 81. LOUIS October 20 s-Arrised-COloradc. frons
I vicksburg. Departed-Susie Silver. for New os
! leAna River falling slowly. Westbes @Isu%y snS
| veyy warm. High wind to night