New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-24

| flood has been seen in that section OF the
country for fifty years.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Heavy Rain.
CINCINNATI, July 22.-Advices from the
entire length of the Ohio valley report the
heaviest rain Of the season during the past
twenty-fOur hours. 1t is estimated 10000
acres of corn are under water in the wabash
bottom. Throughout Kentucky and South
ern Ohio all the streams are rising. The
river at Charleston, West Virginia. has
risen fifteen feet in twenty -four hours.
Great damsgs TO the crops must result
from this severe storm.
Committed for Murder.
A. j. Cochran and Thomas E. Edmonds
were committed at Greenup, Illinois, for
the murder of Engineer Eames in the late
attempted express ROBBERY.
The Abboitsferd.
PHILADELPHIA, July 23-The Abbotts-
ford is fully insured in English and French
companies. The freight is insured in this
country and England. The City OF Linn
erick takes the AbbottsfOrd's place in the
American line and leaves Liverpool We'd
nesday next.
The agents of tie steamship AbbOtsfOrd
are in receipt to-day of cable from Liver
pool stating that the Superior court had re-
versed the decision of the lower court in the
collision case of the steamer Abbotsford vs.
steamer Indus and had decided in favor of
the AbbotsfOrd.
C0yle, the Swimmer.
Coyle, the swimmer, remained uncon-
scious till one o'clock this morning. He
then slept, and woke up all right. He
claims having been drugged through the
brandy he took just before he became ex-
hausted.
ATLANTIC CITY, July 2O.-j. Deugherty.
ing here.
Rise in wheat.
CHICAGO July 23.-The rapid riso in
wheat the past few days resulted in much
excitement among commission dealers, and
few failures OF minor Importance have
been reported.
To-day Baldwin T. Stone, an extensive
commission business house, both here and
in Milwaukee, suspended. Members of the
firm state the suspension is only temporary,
and due entirely to the failure Of country
dealers to meet their liabilities.
The Bankers.
SARATOGA, July 23.-The Bankers Con-
vention adopted q resolution against the
usury laws by a close vote and adjourned
sine die.
A Place for General Johnston.
LITTLE Rock, July 23-General Joseph
E. Johnston has been elected president of
the Arkansas Industrial University.
An Unluckv Experiment.
NEWARK. July GA building erected
for the purpose Of testing fire extinguishers.
while being saturated with oil, exploded
from prematurely taking fire, terribly burn
;rn n ~ Wsnono rAn tho 7
B. Jones, Charles Hamilton, street commits
eioner, A. Bridge. contractor, aud fifteen or
twenty others, some, it is thought, fatally.
National Cotton Exchange Convention.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Va, July 23.-
There was full attendance and quite an
audience, including many ladies.
The minutes we're read and approved.
Regular business was the nomination of
president and vice president and seven
directors.
John Phelps. of New Orleans, was elected
president without dissenting voice. [Ap-
plause.
Vice Observation-Disclosures Stephen
Harrison, of New York: A. +. Herring, of
Augusta, Georgia; Charles A. Wesson, of
New York. Mr.. Harrison was elected on the
first ballot.
After some ballotlng the following were
elected directors: E. G. Stone, of Gal
weston; w L. Trenholm, of Charleston,
South Carolina: Henry Hall. of Mobile,
Georgia: w. A. Goodwin, of Memphis,
Tennessee; j. F. Wheeless, of Nashville
Tennessee, and w. G. Reynolds, of Norfolk,
Virginia.
Addresses of thanks were made by each
successful candidate.
A resolution that the president appoint
committee of three on the insecurity Of bills
oc 1ol: @lr kn1 Th<.
named Messrs. Whesless of Nashville, Whit
lock of New York, and Pinckney Of
Charleston.
Mr.. Estlin, of New Orleans, moved that
the convention recommend an early COM
pietion of the Texas and Pacific railroad,
and the acceptance Of the proposition made
by Colonel T. A. Scott. Adopted without
discussion.
Mr.. Pinckney, of Charleston, moved that
two grades be established in addition to
those adopted at the last convention, to be
known as middling fair and fair, and that
the committee on classification at New
York be requested to put up the same and
forward to other exchanges.
Ailayed Apprehensions Of Overflow.
MEMPHIS. July 23.-The report of the
signal service of only one inch rise at Cairo
for the past twenty.four hours, and three
inches here, has dispelled fears of serious
Danger lrOm OV6IuOW, as Ln0 Ml6Sl661ppl
will be declining before the freshet from
the Ohio reaches the cotton lands, and the
general impression is that but little damage
to the cotton crop will result from the pres
ent rise.
Explosion and Loss Of Life.
IOWA C1Tr, Iowa, July 23.-The cooking
tanks of Cleee & Sons paper mill exploded
today, killing i've men. Two were blown
over houses across the street and two into
the river. Loss 5000:
a National Baak Robbed.
LEWISTON, Me-, July 23.-The National
Bank Of Winthrop was burglarized to-day.
Loss unknown.
Fuller Particulars.
WINTHROP, Me-. July 23.-The robbery Of
the Winthrop National Bank was . bold
operation. The safes were blown open by
nitro-glycerlne il is supposed, there being
ne indication Of powder. There we're three
distinct explosions, all of which were heard
by several persons. The robbers left with.
in ten minutes of the last explosion, which
was so severe as to blow out all the win
dows in the front part of the bank and
cause a general smash-up inside. It is
thought the amount realized by the robbers
could not huve been large. The capital
stock of the bank is 100000. The safes of
the national bank end tho savings bank
were Yifl ed of their cOntonts