The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-08-28
BY TELEGRAPH.
Special to Vindicstor.
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
Washington, Aug, 3.-Thc Treas
ury Department has ordered revenue
cutter Dix, at New Orleans, to the as.
sistance Of the Rio Bravo.
Among aids for printing checks and
stamps are several offers to do the
york for nothing The question
whether the government can accept
en'h gratuity will he referred to the
Department of Justice.
Snt has been brought against Capt.
Maddox, of the Marine corps, and the
bondsnan of contractor Barnum, to
recover money illegally paid contrac-
tors. ira.a
A colorel woman sues tue Pnl;n,e.
Palace Car Company for 10000 for
refusing to allow her % ride in q
Pullman car from Cincinnati to WASH
ington. ~ , t...
Washington, Aug D.--For the
South Atlantic and Eastn CT States
clear or fair weather aid stationary
or falling temperature with light
wind from the north, slowly rising
barometer and possibly light rains
near the coast. For the Western
Gulf States, Arrears of rain aud rising
Temperature With eastehy 70 soutI,er-
y winds and falling barometer. The
Ohio will continue to fall It all sta
tons. The Mississippi vill fall at
Cairo and Memphis aud rise very
slowly at Vic,:-. irg and H,lena. Spe-
cial river report-Tbe Mississippi has
fallen one inch at St. Louis five iuch.
es at Cairo audthree iuclns at New
Orleans. 1t has remained stationary
but is reported falling a, Memphis
and stationary but rising at Vicks.
burg and Helena.
Providence, R. l., Aug 2O.-Pres.
ident Grant was entertained a. Clam
Bake at Gen. Burnsides, 1t which 200
guests were presents fpm various
parts Of the State. At 81, o'clock the
President and party embarked on
cutter, U. s. Grant, intending to make
q brief call tomorrow at Black IL.
land and thence to Long Bmnch.
New York, Ang. 2O.-M,. Jewett,
receiver Of the Erie Railroad Co., filed
his inventory in the county clerks Of
flee, showing the receipts and dis.
easements since his appointment. The
total receipts dating from bisgppoint.
ment to the last of June, of Which lie
gives daily items, was3 lG, ON F; total
disbursement, S,759,6O5, leaving on
hand 4,&4,3.
Memphis, Aug 2O.-A special from
Scnatobia to the Appeal says: The
Republican Congressional Convention
Of the first Mississippi District split
and one wing numbering twensy.four
delegates withdrew and assembled in
front of tile Hotel and nominated G.
Wiley Wells, ex.Unitel States Dis.
riot Atty, for Congress, while the
other wing numbering thirt; six, nom.
mated A. p. Howe.
Brockton, Mass. Aug. 2O.-Joseph
W. Robinson, member of the firm
# his fathers, eloped with Miss
Hall after having robbed the safe and
irm of all valuable funds and some
our thousand dollars in government
,onds. He leaves a wife and two
children.
Augusta, Ga, Aug. 2O.-Much ex. ,
itement to-day in Washington and
effersons counties on account of re.
'orted attempt by the negroes at in ,
direction. Eighty arrests were made
nd the white military companies in {
hese counties have been ordered by {
he Governor to report to the sheriff.
he prisoners. were all lodged in Jail 1
'ithout resistance. 1t is alleged that a
he plot contemplated a massacre of
he whites on the 18th inst. It is /
bought now there will be no further q
'ou6le though the details are neagre !
nd Indifferent. I
Washington, Aug. 2l.-The stats. 9
cs of sugar cane for July; at the &
gricultural Department, show that Il
|ississippi has an increased acreage n
70 per cent, Georgia one per cent. 4
Their sugar producing States show a
ecline. Louisiana two per cent, e
)uth Carolina three, Texas five, Ala. 6
,ma six, Florida fourteen per cent a
mt below last years acreage. Louis II
na reports an average condition. 81
ississippi three per cent above 9TH n
ates. All below from three to ten l;
r. cent. s, q i
Washington, Aug, 2l.-The gov b
nment has appealed to the Supreme Of
urt from the decision of the Court n
Claims awarding $780, 900 in gold to p
9 State National Bank of Boston and =;
Is appealed from the decision of the
,ur of Claims in seventeen cotton m
Yards involving three or four hun. &c
ed thousand dollars. The title to e.
Q Hot Springs property having been 8
cided BY some court to be Ia the ia
nited States, the claimants have ap. o.
alcd to the Supreme court. el
Washington, Aug. 2l.-For the ca
nth Atlantic States, warm and part 81
cloudy weather, with east to south d.
nds, stationary or rising barometer 81
d rains in the southern portion of i