New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-13
NEW YORK,
The Responsibility for the Loss of the
City of Waco-iow Her Owners
LOnded Her Down with Death and

City Of WacO-HOw Her Owners
Londed Her Down with Death and
Destruction.
New YORK. November 2-The Times of
today says: The steamship City of Waco
had on board 300 cases of petroleum. in de-
tiance of law. 1t says its reporter yester
day saw, at the customhouse, the manifest
of the City of Waco, from which it appears
that 300 cases of petroleum were shipped on
her from G. II. M. s. Co. &c. III. Mallory g.
Co.. to p. & P. Gaslight Company, of Gal
weston. The remainder of her cargo con-
sisted of dry goods, hats. groceries, provis-
ions, notions, hardware. bricks, iron cast
ings, tinware, glass and other general mer-
chandise.
At Sen in an Open Boaf tor Twenty.one
Days.
A Spanish negro was picked up from the
bark Toronto, of Glasgow. The negro can
give no details, but it seems all abandoned
the ship with him, and all were lost. He
was insensible when picked up.
The following is the narrative of the man
picked up from the bark Toronto: The
Toronto was at Naoasa taking guano. In
September the captain put to sea in conse-
quence of a terrific gale. The vessel be-
came unmanageable. The crew of, fourteen
abandoned her in the long boat. The boat
dashed against tho vessel, drowning seven.
He gives confused account ofthe fate of
the remainder. The mate said, "Good by"
and jumped in the sea. After ten days
they had no provisions or water. but it
rained every day, and they drank from the
bottom of the boat, They caught few
fish and a great many sea birds. Then,
from the confused account, the man evi-
IDENTIFY became temporarily insane. He had
been twenty one days at sea in an open
boat when found.
smallpox In Brooklyn.
Smallpox prevails to an alarming extent
in the sixteenth ward of Brooklyn, and
vaccination is in active progress, though
much opposition thereto is manifested by
the Inhabitants of the infected section, who
are msstly Germans. The sanitary police
arrested German lager beer seller yester-
terday for secreting three persons sick
with the smallpox in room djoining his
shop, which was kept open and beer sold
to customers by his bar-keeper, who alter
mated his business of waiting on customers
with that of nurse. The sanitary police in
their rounds found most of the population
engaged in manufacturing clothing, and
We're working on garments while some of
the family lay sick with small poX, some
times in the same apartment
The Survivors of the British Ship Senator.
Details of the burning of the British
bark Senator, with coal, from Philadelphia
for Panama, show that nineteen persons, in
cluding the captains wife and two
daughters, got into two boats. The wife
died from the combined effects of hunger
and cold. The Others were saved.
The Board OF Missions.
The Board of Missions of The Methodist
Episcopal Church continued in session.
proDriations were: Erie, $1,000; Florida,
$500; Georgia, $500; Louisiana, $4,000;
Mississippi, $1,000; North Carolina, S7OOO
Philadelphia. $1,000; Pittsburg, $1,000; South
Carolina, $500.
The Board OF Missions made the following
appropriations: Texas conference $550O,
Western Texas $4,000, Virginia $780, Wash
ington $35OO, West Virginia $45OO, Whining.
ton $4,000.
A resolution was adopted recommending
the removal of the seat of the General Con-
ference from St. Louis to Boston.
All Quiet Mt Panama.
Advices from Panama of the first report
all quiet on the isthmus. DR.. PARA has the
votes of five States and is considered elects ed
President of Colombia.
Tho Electisn In Perm.
The election in Peru was bloody; the SOL
diers and police were ordered not to inter
fere as long as the electors only killed each
other.
The Loader Case.
The motion of Joseph Loader, the alleged
| perjurer, for q commission to take the tes.
timOny Of James Richards, the brother of
Mrs. Tilton, and his wife, has been granted.
Proposed Monument to the French Sol
diers of the Revolution.
DIR. Thomas w. Evans, the we'll known
| American dentist in Paris, sends the follow
| ing cable dispatch to the Associated Press:
| "Feeling that the coming centennial ami
versary would be fit time to open a sub
| scription for Americans to erect in Paris a
monument to the Frenchmen who assisted
| us to gain our national independence,
offer subscription of $4,000 to commence
the subscription"
| Fire at the Union Club House.
The fire at the Union Club House origi-
mated in the kitchen. Loss $a5, 900. The
frescoes in the billiard room are ruined.
| Union Prayer Meeting.
| Some hundred ministers of different de-
nominations held an hours prayer in the
Lay College adjoining the Brooklyn Taber
nacle, for Gods blessing and aid in the re-
vival.
| Failed.
Armstrong & Morrison and T. S. Doremus
| Il Co., butter and cheese dealers, have
failed.
The Ciews Bankruptcy Case.
In the United States District Court to-day
the trustee in bankruptcy of Henry Clews
! & Co. filed bill in equity, asking that biz
| rights as trustee be protected against Mr
Lo0mis, q member of the firm of Frederick
Butterfeld e. Co. Clews g. Co. have {
large CLAIM against Butterfeld & Co., and