New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-15

| Rai'road Company, in not having sufficieps
| employees on the road"
! The Great Race Fixed for Chri.rmas.
SAN FRANCISCO. December l3.-It is now
considered certain that the great $50 900
race Will come off Christmas day, the
weather permitting. All the horses are
| In good condition. except WildidIe and
Grinsiead. The former will not Jun. and
Foster IL coming from Oregon to take bis
| place. Irinstead will, no doubt. be all
right IN time for the race. 1t is probable
that not less than six horses will start.
| An Attempt to Burn Church,
PRovINcETowN, Mass. December IA
| While the Cniversalist Church was in ses.
sion, with 500 Opsople assembled, an ait mpr
was made to burn the church. The flames
| we're soon extinguished, but quite a panic
ensued.
The Virginia senat0rship.
RICHMOND. Va December 1.-The Con-
servative caucus to nominate United
States Senator. met at 10 A. NJ and pro-
ceeded to ballot. Seven ballots-tbirty-
three in all-were taken, with no result:
Flounp was dropped. Tucker, Smith and
Stewart we're dropped twice each. and John
stor. Goode and Letcber once each The
last ballot resulted as follows: John w.
Daniel, -; Ex-Governor Smith. 52-the
Goode men mostly voting for Smith or not
at all. An adjournment then took place
until after the session of the General AS
semblY al which a formal ballot will be
taken Tor Senator as re,uired by law. Pre-
vlous TO adiOurning, the caucus adopted
resolution tnat in voting for Senator in the
JOINT Assembly, the Conservatives so scatter
thelr votes as to prevent an election till
nomination be made by the caucus.
At noon vote was taken in both II ,uses
Tor Senator. with no result. the members
scattering tueir votes so t1at the highest
y tnr nm "a IA
imediately after adjournment of the
l. lslature the caucus again mat, aud the
tbirty-fourth ballot resulted-D4niel SO
Letch'r 39 The latter was finally dropped,
ami GIode renominated
Thirty fifth b&llot-Dapiel 81. Goode 63.
Daniel was dropped, and Johnston re-
nominated.
ThiIty-si ballot--Good 60. Johnston ID
Goode was dropped and Judge Christian
renominated. A Iecess was then taken
until four o'clock.
The caucus reassembled at p. NJ Chris
tian was Withdrawn, and COchraue renom
mated.
Thirty seventh ballot - Johnston g.
CochEane Ct. Johnston was droppsd the
second time.
Thirty-eighth ballot-Judga w. r. Sta.
pies renomnaued. Cochran 80; STABLES 40.
Staples was finally dropped.
A spirited but unsuccessful etf)rt was
which the caucus has been acting since YES
terday, After some discussion, looking To
The adoption OF new rule placing all can
dIdates not finally dropped in nomination
and dropping the lowest on each succeeding
ballot until choice is made. the caucus ad-
iourned until ~ A. NJ tomorrow, the new
rul- being withdrawn.
Eleven eligible candidates still remain. TO
wit: GnOde. Daniel, Johnston. Tucker
Smith, Stuart, Robertson Cochran. Cog
hill, Christian aud Shetfey. The seven first
named are only entitled to one renomipa-
non. The friends of Goode. Daniel and
Johnston. who are conceded to be the
strongest candidate. are backward in nut
ting their man up for fear of combinations
which. defeating either one will throw him
out entirely. Hence the adoption of a new
rule similar to the one above mentioned ia
probable,
Destruction of sewing Machine Works
by Fire.
BRIDGEPORT, CT, December I3 A fire
was discovered tonight in tue cabinet shop
OF the Wheeler Il Wilson Sewing Machine
Company, and in a short lime two brick
buildings belonging to the companv-oue
fronting on Washington avenue and the
o'her on Ba,num street-were wrapned in
flames. The Secor sewing machine factory
and st Mary's Catholic Church are threat
ened The wind is blowing a gale, and the
II
1t ia thought the fire will he confined in
the Wheeler n Wilson buildings Their
loss will reach $500 900; insurance $500 900
Locomotive Engineers.
INDIANAPOLIS, December l3 The animal
national convention OF the Brotherhoo1 of
Locomotive Firemen met here to-day.
Sixty delegates present.
Failed.
The indianapolis Brass and Supply Com
pany made an assignment to-day for the
benefit of it's creditors. Assets sI90 0on.
liabilities $4,000 The failure was cansedl
by the firms inability TO make colleotions,
One hundred men thrown out of emplov-
ment.
POttsviile in the Hands of Outlaws,
Po1TsvILLE, Pa December I3 F. Wen
rich, the Mahoney City merchant. who. on
the oath OF Mrs. ODonnell, was lodged in
all last week as being one of the ma sked
men who shot O'DoGnell and the woman
McAllster, was today released on a writ
of haheas corpus.
1t was feared at Mahoney City last night
that the city would be fired. and posse of
men went up from here in late train. A
very uneasy feeling continues there TODAY
IN consequence OF large bodies of strance
men lowering about the town up to a late
hour last night II is rumored another raid
similar to that of last spring is contem-
plated by these outlaws.
All Quiet.
MEMPHIS, December 1.-THE 1oncore
Nicksburg special reports all quiet at Roll
ing Fork, Mississippi.
Homicide at Water Valley.
Arthur Larmy. an engineer. was shot and
Killed. at Water Valley. MississiDpi. vestar-
day. by Walter Reddick, barkeeper
Waddy Thompson's Case.
The case of Waddy Thompson is being
argued before the United States District
Court. to-day, on habeas corpus.
Stupendous Land swindle.
ST, LOUIS. December IA stupendous
land swindle has Just been unearthed in
Southeastern Missouri. 1t appears that
deeds to land in Northern Arkansas and
Southeastern Missouri have been forged for
some years past, and that agencies for this
work were established in Cincinnati. Pitts
burg, Philadelphia, New York aud Man
chester, England. 1t is estimated tba,
deeds to over 100000 acres of land have
been disposed of.
The land was operated upon and owned
by non residents, and as the records were
mostly destroyed during the war. the ring
had every facility to carry out the enormons
swindle. Deeds have been sold ali over the
United States and England. The grand
Jury OF shannon county has Indicted DR..
Thomas X. Harman, Davis S. Bingham and
j tmes l.. Lawton for compciy in the
fraud, Lawton seems to have been the
leader of the swindlsrs, and operated az.
tensiyely in England
Probabilities.
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