New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Coal Oil Death.

A Coal Oil Death.
PIrTsBURG. August 23-Jessie York.
while kindling fire with kerosene. was
burned TO death. The house, with its con.
tents, also burned.
SYRACUSE, August 28.-Colonel E. w.
LOngstreet, Of the firm Of Longstreet d.
Denison, leather dealers, was found insens
sible from laudanum and chlOrOform. and
has since died. Cause, financial troubles.
a Defaalffng State Treasurer.
TRENTON, N. j., August @. Joseph Sore.
Jr.. State Treasurer, is q defaulter In
$50 0OO. His bondsmep are abundantry
good
High Bread and Dull fusiness,
TORONTO, August 28.-Th4- BAker's Asso,
citation announces q further rise in the price
Of bread to twelve cents at wholesale and
thirteen cents at retail. A meeting is called
by the mayor of this city for Wednesday
next, to take into consideration the causes
OF the present depression of business.
A Steamboatmnn Shot.
MATAMORAs, Mexico, August 28.-Caotaip
George Hazlett, OF the steamboat Andrew
Ackley. was shot and seriously wounded
this afternoon by William Doughty, the
ball penetl atlng. the stomach. Doughty
was arrested and imprisoned in this city.
Hazlett being q man Of peaceful disposition
was uDarmed when attacked. He is q
native Of Pittsburg, Pennsyl vania, and we'll
known on the Ohio and Mississippi as .
steambOatman. He il now living at the
United States consul's.
An Old Preacher Accidcp tally Killed,
INDlANAPoLIs,. August 28-Rev Isaac
Denman, we'll known Baptist minister.
aged eighty yeare, was killed at Lodi, In
diana. this afternoon, by being run over by
train.
BANGOR, Me-, August 28-The iron cate
OF Gates e. Butterfeld, at Lincoln Centre.
was blown open last night by burglars and
robbed OF large amount Of money. The
thieves escaped with their plunder.
Base Ball.
CHICAGO, August 2S.-Athletics 3. Chi,
cagOs 0.
BosroN, August as.--Bostons II, Mu-
tuals 8.
Probabilities.
Var DEPARTMENT =
Office Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, August 49, 1875, ,l:3O P. n.
For the Guif State 8, southeast to south.
west winds, slowly falling barometer. high
temperature and increasing cleudiness,
with local rains. The Mis ississippi river will
continue to fall at stations above New Or-
leans.
Special River Report.
The Mississippi has fallen two inches at
st. Louis, eighteen inches at Cairo, twenty
eight inches at Memphis, one inch At
Vicksburg and twenty six inches at Helena.
1t has risen one inch at New Orleans.
River and Marine News.
SOUTHWEST Pass, August 2S, 6 PM
barOmetor 29.7O. Wind east, fresu Ar
rived-Steamship Knickerbocker. from New
York, to A. MoultoD, crossed the bar and
passed up at pine O'Clock last night
steamship New Orleans, Dearborn. mas.
ter, from New York, to A. Moulton ::
crossed the bar and passed ND at seven tbia
morning, was assisted in by the towboats
Lsviathan and Equator; schooner Elite and
JOSIE, Bunker, mater, seven days from o
Havana, with sugar, to Cbaffraix & Agar
schooner William Lay ton, Layton, master
twenty lone DAYS from Tuxpan, with geue
eral cargo, to M. Payro. On tie way up
Snip Mary f. Riggs. Inside, bound up-v
Bark Mamie t. Bell. Inside, bound out
Ship Unland. The steamship Sr. Louja in
aground on the bar. The dredges Es.ayons
and McAlester apd the tow boat. Rio,tsrande.
Ocean and Admiral worked at her and
moved her up about thirty feet. and she ia
now about one breadth to the westward of
the channel, with nineteen feet of water to
the eastward OF her. Twenty four inches
tide rise to-day. The packet boat Ib4ria
went up at A. NJ. The drec peb1ats Es-
ssyons and McAlester are working on the
bar. The steamship st. Louis and ship
INLAND will probably go to sea in the.
mGrning. High tide at A. NJ.
~ rAss-A-LOUTRE, August %, Gas r. M
Wind east, light. Weather shOwery. No
arrivals. Sailed-Steamship State Of Ala @
bama at GAO P, N,
VIcKsBURG, August 28.-Passed down
Mary Houston, 6 A. NJ. Up-Charles Nor
gan, II A. NJ, Friday. Up to-day-Katie.
T. n. Arrived-Capitol City. 3 P. M.
River fallen half an inch. Weather clesx
aud warm.
MEMPHIS, August 28.-The river fell tws
feet f"nr inchea to-day. and has fallen fo.r.
lsos11Ssss on saea1E sAsA