New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS
Killed by udians,
A Young Lady Murdered.

FORT LARAMIE, September 23.-The body
of John Little was brought here. He was
killed and mutilated by the Indians.
A Young Lady Murdered.
BELLEFoNTAINE, Ohio, September 23.-
Yesterday Miss Loughlin. a Young lady
AIRED sixteen wears. accompanied a man
named Schell and wife on an excursion to
the reservoir. several miles distant. Mrs.
Schell, being fatigued. was left with the
team. Schell, with the young lady. started
ai'"r plums. Schell returned without Miss
loughlin stating she had strayed from him
and he could not find her. An alarm was
given, and search made, resulting in the
finding Of the body of the young lady nearly
nude, her throat cut from ear to ear, the
grass showing IA desperate struggle had oc-
CURED. Schell was arrested and a bloody
knife was found in his pocket. He is now
under arrest with a heavy guard around
him to protect him from the excited people.
Fire in Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, September 23.-The Chi
cago House, st. James Hotel and Union
depot burned. George Finoley, a guest
at the Chicago House, was burned to death.
The Statue of StonewaIi jackson.
RICHMOND, September % -Foley's statue
of General Thomas j. (Stonewalll Jackson,
pres nt2d to Virginia by Hon. Beresford
Hope. member of Parliament, and other
A%bsllSh SthllCIltut hltA dll4NCu g lac
evening from Baltimore, was formally re-
ceiv: to-day by Governor Kemper. The
people turned out en- masse TO witness the
reception. the streets presenting a holiday
appe.-dnce.
Action of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com.
merce on the New Orleans sugar Tare.
CINCINNATI, September 23.-The Chamber
OF Commerce has adopted a resolution in
dorsing the action of the New Orleans
Chamb Der in its adoption of twelve per cent
for the actual tare in hogsheads of Louis
lana plantation sugar. The resolution was
accompanied by the indorse ment OF over
leo grocers, who agree to instruct their
agents or commission merchants to pur-
chase for them on no other terms.
Base Ball.
In a game of base ball played, to day.
the ST. Louis Club scored ), and the Phila-
delphias l.
Georgia state Fair.
MACON, Ga. September 23-The Georgia
State fair, which opens at Macon On the
eighteenth of October and continues a week,
promises TO be the largest in point of ex-
hibition and attendance of visitors held in
the South since the war. Many distin-
guished gentlemen from the Northern,
Western and Eastern States will be present,
among them Senate Thurman. Hon. George
III. Pendleton, Mr.. F. Hassaurek, of Ohio;
Messrs Hendricks and VOORHEES,, of Indiana;
Bayard, of Delaware; Kelley, OF Pennsyi-
vaDis; Hon. Fernando Wood. of New
York: Poland, of Vermont; and Christiancy
and Willard, of Michigan; DR. George B..
Loring, of Boston; General Hawiey, presi-
dent Of the United States centennial com
mission board, from the centennial, and sew
eral of the above named gentlemen will
deliver addresses on different days of the
fair.
Georgia Crop Report.
ATLANTA, September 23.-The monthly
report of the crops of the Georgia State
Department of Agriculture for the month
ending the fifteenth instant gives the fol-
lowing general averages for the crops
named, compared with the yield of last
year.: Corn IS, cotton 70, sugar cane 20,
sorghum l0j. sweet potatoes IS, field peas
81, ground peas IS. The area of turnips
towed, as compared with last fall, is 102.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, September 20, 1875, 1870 P. Ny
see and the ohio valley. partly cloudy weather
and stationary or slightly rising temperature, with
esste,ly to southeIly winds, and high followed by
slowly falling barometer during Friday.
River and Marine News.
souTHwnsr Pass, September 90, 6 P. M.-Ba.
rometer 2s;s0. Wind east-nortbeast, fresh. Weather
cloudy and hazy; No arrivals. Sailed-s steamer
America, hsrks Florence and Margaret, and
schooners Novina and Monadnock. The bark
Chevreuil is inside, bound out.
VICKsBuRG. September 23.-No boats down to day.
Cp-H. c. iaeger, at l2 last night. River rose one
inch in the last twenty'four hours. Weather clear
and cool.
CINCINNATI, September 23.-River five feet ten
inches and rising Weather clear and pleasant.
PiTTsBuRs September a3.-River three feet five
inches and falling. Weather cloudy and cold.
ST. Louis, September2 3-No arrivals. Departed
St. Genevieve, for vicksburg. River fallen three
inches. Weather clear and warmer.
CAIRO. September 23.-AIrived-City of vicks.
burg. rem vicksburg, 2 P. N. Departed-st.
Francis Belle. for New Orleans, II last night; Citv
OF vicksburg, for st. Louis, , F. NJ. River eighte q
fect eleven inches and rising. Weather clear.
Mercury $40.
EVANSVILLE, September 23.-River two and q half
feet large and falling slowly. Weather clear and
pleasant.
LOUISVILLE, September 23.-River three feet two
inches in the canal. Weather clear and pleasant.