New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-08
WHOLE NUMBER 26l8.

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The board have no Knowledge Of tho
exlstence at present of sny case Of yellow
fever in the city. The last case they have
any report of originated September "a.
The few cases that occurred we're CON-
dned to one locality. and no disposition to
spread has been unaffected. The board
have tsken sli precautions deemed neces-
ssry to disinfect the locality 10 question.
Rsg Dlsease In 0his. si.i
COLUMBUS. October IAN obscure dis
ease has killed 1000 hogs in this vicininy
within month.
Incendlnry Fire in the AIises.
PoTTsyiLLk,, October 7.-- W.tchrsan
Srsloer, at k'mbaiis colliery, was shot ct
small fire they had made In the uios. Tho
ire got bsyond his control. Loss 800. .OOO.
Three hundred men and boys were oueted.
The fire 10 attributed to the "Mollie
Maguires." el5s ~ - -
...-. sAnefher Account.
Last night an attempt was made to de-
stroy the large West Brookeide breaker.
Coal and Iron Company. The blacksmit6
shop, tan house, carpenter shop and oil
house, connected with the breaker, were
burned. The employees succeeded in saving
the breakers. West Bro0kside is the south.
ern portion of region which hitherto has
been free from violence or incendiar,sm.
RssiGned. sQsa9A l l1
SAN FRANCsco, October 7.-ueneral La
grange, superintendent of the mint, has re-
signed, In consequence of the connection of
his name with Pinney, the defaulting clerk.
Nsrtheaster ON Lake Huron.
DETROIT, Octeber IA severe north
nm a IT,
vessels are ashore.
Found Dead In his Bod,
HARTFORD, Conn, October IAN Eng.
lish Baptist minister, travelling for bis
health, was found dead in o bed IN the
house of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.,
Temperance Union.
CoBoURG, Canada, October7 The union
OF the British and American Templars was
contaminated here to-day. The title Of the
ciety." 4ss---
Not the Man. -,.r
LOWELL, October John Maker, the
tramp arrested on suspicion of being the
murderer Of Mics Langmade, was dis
charged. He could not have been at the
scene of the outrage.
The Lottery Swindle.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, October THE Gasette
says it turns ont that the plate upon which
the tickets, signature and all, were printed,
was allowed to remain in New York, and
that all the prize numbers except two were
held in New York. m
The River Cenveptisn.
ROME, Ga, October THE Mobile and
tennessee water route convention ad-
jourped to-day, after adopting resolutian
recommending to Congress aud theLegis-
latures of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
legislation to aid in the connection of the
Alabama and Tennessee rivers; also iudors-
ing the four great water routes proposed
by the Window committee, and calling upon
the government to select this city as the
site OF the proposed Southwestern arsenal.
JEFF Davis Triumphal March.
memphis, Tenn, October IA special
to the appeal, from Clarksville. Tennessee,
says Jefferson Davis had brilliant recep-
tion there on his arrival at eleven O'Clock
last night. He was met at the depot bv the
knight Tempiar and Knights of Pythias,
and o large cOncOurse of citizens, and es-
corted TO the residence of M. 81, Clark,
where: where an address Of welcome was de-
Mr.. Davis responded in q feeling
manner, alluding to the fact that in his.
early youth he had embarked there on q
steamer for his future home in Mississippi,
since when he had never visited Clarks-,
vile. He left to-day in q private convey
ance for Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he
speaks at the agricultural fair to morrow.
Before leaving Clarksvile be was invited
to deliver an address Saturday next at the
colOred agricultural fair now being held
there. but was unable to accent, owing to,
other engagements. - \
Base Ball. t... ....
PHrLADELPHIA, October 7.-Bostons 8,
Philadelphia z. ---
Escaped from Prison.
ST.. LOUIS, October IA special from
Jefferson City says; Nine. F0rtmeyer, the
notorious abortionist of St. Louis, who was
sentenced to the peDitentiary for ten years
yesterday, escaped from that prison last,
night by squeezipg hereelf through the.
trsnsom OF her cell, and has not yet been
captured. 'lff III ls
President Grant and Party.
DENVER, Colorado, October 7.-President
Gxant and party returned from southern
Colorado this after loon, and will visit Gem
tral City, Blackhawk and Georgetown to-
morrow, and leave for Washington Sunday.
Georgia Negroes in Council. .
AUGUSTA, October IA colored conven-
tion assembled here today for the purpose
of refuting the charge that the negroes in
tended an insnrrectiOn. and to determine
=. rat course was best for the cOlOred race
10 pursue. About fifty delegates were
present. raFIe
Il. n. Turner, in q speech, attacked the
weak general government for it's conduct
to the colored people of the South.
Revolutions were introduced BY Edwin
Beloher thanking Judge Herschel v. John
eon, who tried the Washington county pris.
oners. for the rigid spirit Of fairness and i'm
partiality which he had displayed, evincing
sn infiexible determination to accord the
parties implicated = full measure of Justice.
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