New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ferries Discontinued,

SGA1A1/&AI GOOSs
Ferries Discontinued.
Cold SPRING, N. Y, December 3-All
beck.
Lost In the Ice.
The steamer Fl. NJ. Wells was cut down
by ice and beached at Tsrrytown. All
saved.
National Grange.
LOUISVILLE, December 3.-The National
Grange adjourned sine die.
Mysterious Murder.
WATERTowN, December 3.-Sarah Conk-
ling, aged fourteen, was found dead in
piece OF woods on the way home from
school. 1t was first thought she was killed
by fall, but there is strong evidence that
a sixteen-year old boy named Ruter, fail
ing in his attempt of ravishment, killed her
with hammer. He was tracked from the
spot and a hammer found which fits the in.
denture. Ruter was arrested.
Boiler Explosion.
CLEVELAND, December 3-The boiler of
the saving works exploded, slightly wound
ing two persons and fatally hurting ten.
Dead.
ALBANr. n. Y, December 3.-Dr. James
Il: Armsby, an eminent surgeon, is dead
BALTIMORE, December 3.-Charles 8.
Abel, son of A, s. Abel, proprietor of the
baltimore San, is dead, aged twenty seven.
He was favorite contributor to the Sun.
Exploits OF the Champion Bird Murderer.
The pigeon shooting at Pimlieo to-day,
under the auspices of the Maryland Jockey
Club, was but sparsely attended. owing to
the cold, rainy weather.
Captain a. ID. Bogardus, the champion
wing shot, gave two exhibitions of his skill
as marksman.
The first was to shoot at twenty-five pairs
OF pigeons from two spring traps forty
yards apart, the shooter to stand on line
between the traps, both to be sprung at
the same time, and to kill thirty eight birds
from the traps on his right. He missed the
first and twenty.third bird, and from that
on his left, the twenty-sixth and thirty
eighth birds. and when forty four birds
were sprung Captain Bogardus had killed
forty.
Tie second exhibition was to kill twenty
eight out of thirtythree birds and to load
his own gun within four minutes. These
birds were not set off from the traps, but
thrown up two at time, and when thirty
two had been thrown up he had killed
twenty'nine and accomplished the feat in
three minutes and eight seconds. He
missed the seventh fourteenth, twenty-first
and twenty-third birds.
Navigation Closed.
RoNDoUT, n. Y, December 3.-Naviga-
SAoAA SA ehS AAuNoou ACACO AuIlu lo ClOsCus
ExOnerated.
The grand jurv exonerates the captain
and crew of the Sunnyside, recently sunk
by ice.
A Rescued Crew.
VINEYARD HAVEN, December 3. The
schooner Hesperus, after losing four men,
rescued the crew of the schooner Warren,
abandoned December 2.
The Chicago Horror.
CHICAGO, December 3.-The body found
in the barrel has been identified as Mrs.
Emma Z. Adams, wife of prominent hard
ware dealer of this city. She was buried
on the twentieth of November, exhumed
under the direction of DR.. Wilder, for whom
a warrant is out.
Fire in Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, December 3-By the fire in
the rear of the Methodist Book Concern,
Mr.. Fletcher loses $4,000: Donaldson &
Co., lithographers, SIS, 900. Other occupants
smaller amounts.
The Memphis Bond Case.
MEMPHIS, December 3.-In the case of
bondholders VS.. the city OF Memphis, the
supreme Court of Tennessee has decided
that the I'll 900, 600 of bonds issued,by Mayor
Leftwitch in 1868 was legal, but the excess
OF $!35 600 was illegal, as he was only au-
thorized to issue 81 100000. Secondly, that
though the bonds had been sold at greater
discount than six per cent, the transaction
was neither illegal nor usnrious, and the
city can neither plead usury nor scale the
bonds; that the city is compelled to levy the
taxes necessary to pay interest on bonds is
sued prior to 1875, notwithstanding the new
charter limits the amount to be levied.
A Lecture ON Political Economy from
Governor Smith.
ATLANTA, December Ex-Governor Smith
has just addressed letter to the people of
Georgia urging them to send delegates to
on the fifteenth. He says there is nothing
so essential to prosperity as this matter Of
transportation, and the true cause of our
present commercial depression may be
traced in great measure to its inadequacy;
the cause may be attributed to the want Of
the development Of the vast resources Of this
State. To return to gold circulation,
we must fret restore our commercial
prosperity. We must sell more than va
buy, and to do this we must adopt every
proper means to lessen the cost of products.
High transportation is q serious obstacle to
development. The most powerful and
wealthiest nations of the old world are those
The same is true to-day; England,
Russia, France and Germany great and
prosperous, while Spain, who has done
nothing for the improvement OF her in. 4
ternal Navigation, 10 prOverb OF political
and financial insignifcancy, and go of
Mexics and Peru.
The Governor says, let us profit by the
lesson. Gold, he sayr, is the result of com
mercial prosperity, and not the cause Of
that prosperity. To restore our prosperity
we must look to our great national high
ways of trade; to the rivers and water lines
first while other means OF transportation
should not be neglected. He says the gov
ernment of the United States Is the only
competent power to improve and control
these, and they should be maintained
as free. public highways for the use
Of every body We must look to the United
States government for these improvements.
Opening this line will go far toward solving
the question of transportation BY Legitimate
competition. which will benefit the railroad
equally with other interests; hence there
should be no false antagonism between
them. He strongly deprecates the fght
which is constantly going on between the
great industries of the country. Theea
industries are not nationally antagonistic.
he says We of the cotton States have mo
warfare to make upon any other industry,
but, on the contrary, We should labor fur
the advancement Of all. Georgia has m
war to make on the manufacturer, OF the
miner, or other sections, but, on the -
trAry, her true interest will be found In aid-
ing the advancement of all these. 10 this