New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
Authorization Meeting.


CNcIsNATI, April l5.-At the anti-infa.
bv George +. Davis and sixty. nine vice
presidents.
On the other side, document was signed
by fifty manufacturing firms, claiming to
employ 5000 hands and to represent SiO,,
OO,OO0 capital. signifying their approval OF
Congress authorizing the reissue OF the
GA, 600, 600 reserve, and the proposed IN
crease Of the national bank circulation.
Fire Mt sioux City.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa. April IA fire broke
out about ten o'clock last night in row OF
wooden buildings, corner 81 fonlta anu ,ha
Douglas streets, and, under pressure OF the
high wind, burned everything between Ihe
FIRST National Bank and the Academy OF
Music. The losses aggre gate x35,0UU; IN
suranee about $500 in the Home, Column
bus. Atlantic and Pacific State insurance
compauies of Iowa; Clay, of Kentucky; st.
Joetph Fire and Marine. Amazon, OF Cln-
ciunati, and New Orleans Mutual.
Lyuched.
ToRINNE, Utah, April l5.-This afternoon,
sVble the officers were taking the emma
man who murdered Bernstein, on the fifth
instant. 10 Brigham City for safe keeping,
the ci-izens took him from the marshal and
hanged him from the trestle work OF the
railroad bridge.
Election Of Mayor.
ALBANY, April 1.-THE Republicans have
selected the mayor by 1900 majority.
Tie Massachusetts Senat0rship.
BosroN, April Is. - The twenty ninth
ballot for Senator gives Dawes 80, Hoar SO,
Cnrtie II. Adams @, Banks 7, Washburn ).
Whittier /. Adjourned till to morrow. 1t
ia understood that after the caucussiDg this
morning the friends Of Dawes resolved to
stick to him.
Destructive Tornado Mt Nashville.
NASHVILLE, April ia tornado passed
over and through this city from west to
east at half-past twelve o'clock this morn
ing, doing an immense amount OF damage.
1t struck the city at the Fair Grounds. pass
ing diagOnally through the city and out by
the University and Mount Olive Cemetery.
Its width seems to have been about quar-
ter of mile. After passing the Fair
Grounds it struck@the Exposition building
and Kidwell House. seriously damaging
the former. front of the Academy OF
Music, j. H. Fritz's grocery store, Dor
ney's Wholesale liquor establishment and
several other smaller buildings near the
corner OF Broad and Cherry streets were
crushed Beadle's livery stable, containing
iced, wagons, horses and cattle, was blown
off its foundation into the back water. Sew
eraI horses and, it is thought, one man were
drowned. The tornado caused other dam
age 10 property; the whole will probably
exceed 100000. Many families have been
rendered houseless, and it is feared there
has been some loss of life. The telegraph
lines were Frustrated all along its track
from Union City to Nashville.
Statements of the Officers of the Greece
and the Europe.
New YORK, April 15.-The morning pa
pers contain additional statements of the
officers of the steamers Europe and Greece,
respectively supporting ana denying the
charges made by Captain Lemarie against
Captain Thomas in relation TO placing a
salvage crew on the Europe.
The rescued cabin passengers of the Eu-
rope have presented Captain Thomas with
chronometer watch and chain as a slight
token in acknowledgment OF his services in
saving their lives.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office Chief Signal Officer, ,
Washington, April IS, 1874, As P. Ny
From the Gulf nor.hward to the lower Ohio
valley and Missouri, fresh and brisk southeast 10
northeast winds cloudy ard rainy weather.
The Mississippi river will continue rising.
River and Marine News.
MEMPHIS, April l5-River rose six inches Weather
COOL raining steadily since ten o'clock this morn
ing. Arrived-Parker from Cincinnati Ashland.
from Little Rock. Departed-Longworth and
for st. Louit; Mary Houston, for Louisville. I he
James Howard ad her chinneys blown down in a
gale at Tiptonviile Monday night, and was there
last accounts.