New Orleans Republican., 1875-12-31
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using the track Of the d hestnut Street Rail
way Company.
whekt.
According to the CdnmerciaI List, the
stock of wheat here to-day consists OF
452, 900 bushels, against 225, 800 last year;
of corn, 347 900 bushels, against 225,o ,o0O last
wear; oats, 2l9,s00 bushels, against ~, ,SOo
last year; the stock of wheat in the mlllers
hands is $4,000 bushels, against 4o'soo iasS
year.
MEMPHIS, December 30-Captain Har-
pham, agent Of the underw ritere, who re-
turned from the wreck Of the Minneola,
last night, reports that river pirates nave
Robtled q large portion of the cargo. The
kull lies about as first reported. Captain
Ehallcross. wrecker, " Ill attempt to recover
the machinery and cargo in the hull. Inc
latest reports from the steamer Fort G!o
son, state that about three-fourths OF the
cargo will be saved, more or less damaged;
the remainder, from ST. Louis, is in the
stern. which lies in sixteen feet water,
while the bow is on logs, SOME six feet un-
The Canal Auditor.
ALBANY, N. Y, December 3O.-Hon.
George w. Schuyler has been appointed
auditor of the canal department, vice
Thayer, suspended.
Not Charley Ross.
Boston, December 3O-The boy found at
St. Albans is not Charley Ross.
A Bogus Mason.
Charles A. DeLagardiere, teacher, well
known in the schools here, has been arrested
for swindling about fifty people by a bogus
Masonic lodge. He pooketed all the tees.
Fire.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, December 30-E.
g. Southwick Il Co.'s dry goods store
burned Loss $4,000.
Crooked Rectifiers.
CHICAGO, December 3O.-Eight whisky
establishments were seized yesterday, most
1y re ctitiers
DR.. C. P. Wilder. implicated in the regent
exhuma mation, has been arrested.
Delta Psi.
NEW HAVEN, CT, December 30.-The con-
vention of the Delta Psi closed with ban
quet. 1t meets next at Philadelphia in
June.
Burned to Death.
RISING Sun, Ind, December 30-Mre.
Rachel Gordon and three of her children,
aged respectively twelve, ten and eight
years, were burned with their dwelling ten
miles above here.
National Labor Convention.
TYRONE, Pa, December 30.-The Labor
Convention, composed OF delegates from
New YO,k, Connecticut and Pennsylvania,
in session here, adopted resolutions oppos-
ing subsidy to the Texas Pacific railroad,
and requesting the government to give the
Union and Central Pacific companies GER
tain time to pay their indebtedness, and
failing in that the government to take poe
session of the roads.
Resolutions favoring National Labor
Convention, to be held in Pittsburg, in April
next, and opposing the third term, were
adopted.
A Tennessee Tornado.
NASHVILLE, December 30.-A terrific tor
nado passed twelve miles east of Hickman
ON Sunday evening, sweeping down whole
forests in it's pathway.
The force of the wind was 30 great that
persons can now walk over the trunks OF
trees where before was dense woods.
Twelve dwellinghouses and barns were
blown down and some shattered into frag-
ments, the inmates barely escaping with
their lives. Fences were all lifted and
blown away.
At Mayfeld two persons were crushed to
death under the rnins of the houses.
negro was killed outright. At another point
q man named Chucks and a Miss Searcy
were killed; her sister was badly crippled.
The hotel at Redtoot lake was blown
down, the guests barely escaping. Some
were badly bruised by the flying timber.
Death and destruction left their trace along
the entire track of the tornado, which
made noise heard for miles.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office Chief Signal Officer, ,
Washington, December 80, 1875, a30 P. M
For the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States,
stationary barometer and temperature, sOu,heIly
winds, partly cloudy weather, with occasional
For the Western Gulf States falling barometer,
warmer southery winds, followed by cold north
erly Winds rising barometer and clearing weather.
River and Marine News.
sourHwEsT Pass, December 80, 6 P. M.-Barometer
20. Wind east fresh. Weather cloudy, thick and
lara, at 9 A. M. johnson, master, from Glasgow,
to A. x. Miller Co. American bark Martha A. Nc
se erSsn %nsstsr days from hysrR99
booker, barks 3. g. MeIri%an and Emily, sohOOn.
MsnPHIs, becemoer 3O-The river rose three
feet. Weather generally clear; mercury $50. Ar.
johnson, Yaeger and Chester, for ST. Louis; Mary
Belle and QUINCY, for New Orleans. A..
,.ns o.sisFs .s DfssnSss NJ Belle
St. Louis. at P. NJ. Arrived-R. 3. Lee.
CINCINNATI December 30.-River farty seven
feet ten inches and stationary. Weather alter
nately clear. cloudy and warm.
LorisyILLR, December 30.-Weather clear and
warm. River twenty feet in the canal nineteen
feet on the fallA The Sherlock, from Cincinnati
- New Orleans, passed down.
EvtveviILs, December 3o-Light rain. River
xisin.
CAI..S December 30-Arrived-St Genevieve
from St Louis, at eight o'clock last night Oak.
land, from New Orleans, at p. NJ. Departed
St 0ene we've, for Pittsbnrg, at ! A. N. River
twenty ak feet eight inches and risng. Weather
clear ar warm.
PIITsBuRe. December 30.-River twelve feet and
falling rapidly both rivers receding rapidly at
head waters Weather clear and warm.
ST. LOUIS, December 30-So arrivals or depar.
tuIes. River fallen three inches. Weather clear
and very warn.
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