New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-04

u D0ttI0 OF NoWS.
CHICAGO, August "a bottle, WITH tho fol
lowing card; was picked up on The lAko
1 shOHe:
"July l6,.2 A. M.-we can not stay up
more than an hour longer, as the eas is
| rapidly escaping. n. s. G."
This date is that of the niaht on which
the balloon ascendsds
Avery,s Plea.
Sr. LOUIS, August 3.vAvery pleads not
guilty to the indictmep6. He has not yet
gwen 00no' Dead. y
C1NCAtNA11, August 3.-Robert A. Nc
Farland, financial editor of the Enquirer.
| is dead.
Bishop Ecclestsp's Position.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, August IA hotter
l from Rev. j. II. EcclestoA of Philsdelphia.
bishop elect of this Episcopal diocese, re-
I ceised by the chairman Of the standing
l spending to the announcement of his elec-
tiOn in May Vast be6ause a the protest
| againstth manner of the election that had
| been sent here. He had carefully weighed
the evidence a both sides, and sees no
| good grounds for the charge made. He,
therefore, leaves the fiual result With the
| standing committees throughout the coun-
| try and the House of Bishops. With their
decision he will be content.
WadH Thsmpson's Case.
MEMPHIS, August 3.-The Jury in Wad6y
Thompsons case today reported to Judge
Flippin that they could not agrae and were
/ disoharged Judge Riippin hel9sAe former
b6ad of $4,000 good and unf&feteeA and
placed ADDITIONAL bond of $4,000, which
Thompson has failed to give. ~ : stated
States District Court, tor writ Of habeas
Receiver Appo,.tcd.
Judge Emmons, of the United States Cir
cult Court, has appointed c. H. Allen. re-
ceiver of the RRduoah and Memphis rail-
road, with VIII. Smlthers, cofeceiver.
who are required to give bond Of $4,000.
John Phillips. oolored, one of the murder
ers a. Frank Williams, near Shawneso vii
lage, Arkansas, asd who escaped lrom the
mob ~hch lyAehed his confederate, John
Randolph, has been arrested. lie was
found mortally wounded.
Operatives Out Of Work.
FALL RIVER, Massy August 3-About
$4,000 operatives of this city Are idle, and
probably will 10 for~shirty days, although
rumors prevail that work will be resumed
EXISTS sesa bsn deal bs1Ss Of Mav
willing to work. including good part of
the epinnera whN heretofore aeteA almost
s2 . unit How long the mills will remain
closed it is impossible to say; the nanufsc-
turcrs Gay they do not know themselves.
One thing that will influence them very
much is, they thinkit hard the operatives
who are opposed 70 the strike. and - will
ing to w19 st tho np4uction, should b
locked yut. pny storskeepers have given
notice that If the strikes can afford . vsca-
tiOn of thirty days SheY can afford to pey
ooeh fR oo0ds. No ee11t Oio y dvea an
til they get to cork. Every mill 10 stopped
with the sxceptin of Stafford g, which viii
seon close.
.T6o Dsaiae Dard eaisel.
sKex West: Fla. August 3.-Ths bark
pool, whieh came il here on fire, has been
repaired, and sDled today.
Baoe Bale e
PHILADELPHIA. August 3.-Athleties j.
St. Louis 9.
New YORK, Auguak3-The Mutual Chi
cagO game was called at tho fourth inning
on account Of rain. 8acf had scored ono
esins - the cesteQsiaa
GALvnsToN, August 3.-EhA Galveston
artillery eompasx the Oldest Organisation
in the State, has decided to attend the cen.
tennial at Philsdelphia next July.
Tho Canal 1rvestigatiss.
ALBANY, \: Y, August 3.The first 70.
portsf the Governors canal investigating
eommissioa r11e0 naialy @ the Denison
contract betMDQ Port Schuyler .sad tho
lower Mohawk sqpedoct, on which more
than S40O, 600 has been paid for work con-
trscted nsH ted toshave been done for less than
In this report the commission has dsvsl-
oped the prodigate system upon which OK
trsordinarJ repairs heye been made for tho
Last eight 70 ton yeaFs throughout tho east
ern divisio0 OF canals. It. Il understood
sAas 0his 6lGe vll 30 1onowed by suo-
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