New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-25
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.


Gen. Clarke, postmaster of Galveston, ha
resigned.
French Garden, at Memphis, was burned
Sunday night
A compromise finance bill passed the Sen
ate Monday. 1t was supported by Southern
and Western senators.
Four days mail reached Washington on
Monday from New Orleans.
Half-a million dollars worth of property
wrs destroyed by fire in indianapolis on
Monday.
The Supreme Court has decided the case
Of Burke VS.. Gregre ct ais, sustaining the
authority Of the Provisional Court estab-
Mshed in New Orleans during the war.
Cutlery works burned in Hartford. Loss
100000. Five hundred hands are thrown
out of employment.
A large fire occurred in Elgin, Ill.
A break has occurred in the levee at Boil
ivar.
Z. L. Davenport, the actor, is dying.
Senator West on Monday introduced a
bill in the Senate appropriating $4,000 for
the removal of the Bailey dam near Alex
andria on Red river.
He also called up the bill appropriating
deficiency of $4,000 for the work on the
mouth of the Mississippi, but under the
pressure of the finance question the bill
went over.
He presented memorial of the Louisiana
Changers, yesterday. asking an increase of
duty on sugar
Gov. Hebert was a pall-bearer at Judge
Dents funeral. The remains were taken to
st. Louis. DR.. Sharpe, Col. Casey and Fred
Grant accompanied them.
The Senate Committee on Finance will
report favOrably on the claim Of citizens of
New Orleans to have duties on sugar ma
chinery refunded.
The towbOat Crescent City, from New
Orleans, blew to atoms Montezuma Island
yesterday, and six barges burned. Captain |
james Lawson, Henry Gesler, John Ostran-
der and wife, VIM. Mundy, and the cabin |
boy were lost. Three firemen, George Van.
houtOn, Patrick Bacon, Dunn, (cook) and |
Peter Hall, wounded, were cared for on
board the Phil. Allen, bound for Memphis.
The engine and baggage car of the pas
senger train from Jefferson to Marshall,
Texas, were thrown off the track by the
trestle work being weakened by high
water. The engineer, Tony Bolts, is injur-
cd, and the fireman killed.
The water below Napoleon is higher than
ever known. Twenty-Five miles of the
Chicot and Pine Bluff railroad has been
swept away. Upper Red river is unusally
high at Shreveport.
All railroads from Mobile have been re-
paired and are running on schedule time.
The Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad
was ordered to be sold by Chancellor Tur-
ner in the suit of the trustees Of the first
bonds. The road is 236 miles
Iong, and the property includes 400, OOOacres
Of public lands.
Governor Woodson, Of Missouri, asks the
Legislature to pass law to enable him to
punish an organized gang of outlaws who
now murder and rob with IMMUNITY.
BY Cable.
The movement of SerranO's troops on Bill
boa was q failure and has been abandoned
'errano lost fifty men by an explosion of
Archbishop Manning will be made car.
linal.
The N. Y. Heraid's special from Madrid
avs the government contemplates the pro-
notion of General Burriel to field marshal,
DR. his eminent services in Cuba.
The Highlanders from Ashantee landed
t Portsmouth Monday, and the Queen re-
ewed them at Hyde Park yesterday,
The remains of DR.. Livingston have ar.
we'd at Calcutta.
The Cure Santa Cruz has been placed
,ross the Spanish border by the French. a
Gambetta, Rollin, Lacour, Peyrates and o
erdet presented protest to the Assembly y
its dissolution. 1t will adjourn 4
arch % till May I'd. n
King Victor Emanuel was congratulated ),
: 5000 people on the 25th anniversary Of 8
Q accession. & Il