New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Steamboat Battle.

MISCELLANEOUS.
A Steamboat Battle.
MEMPHIS, August 7.-On Saturday night,
while tho stes 'uer Illinois was ly ',g at
Nible, negro deck ps 'senger became in
yolved II q Quf rel with Phlnees Staw, the
mat,, and shot at him twice. Stow &c
turned the f-e, h ing him instantly. Stow
sent word to the sheriff that he would spr-
render himself and sts id trif' when the
boat returned.
WH.rEHALL, n. Y, August 7.-Sunday
afternoon n person. were drOW aed wfie
crossing Putnam's pond. IN Essex county.
Thirteen were in q sma" row boat about
three rods ION the shore, in eight feet of
water, when squali struck the boat and
capsized it. The names of the drowned ere
Mr.. johnson and wife, John McAuister
and VIE, John Burt and daughter, Peter
Osier Adolph Livingston, Mr.. Holden end
MISS Thatcher. The bodies Of FL butt Mr..
Holden were recovered.
A Drupken Father Depopuiates his House.
hold.
CNCrNSArI, August AT Oxley, few
miles from here, Dudley, colored, shot aud
killed his son, aged fifteen years, who was
protecting ia mother ..om the father. An
other son. aged seventeen yearq, interfered
and IVES beaten over the head with gun
By the father aud left for dead.
The Regatta 1t Saratoga.
AFAroGA, August THE single scuu
race in the International amateur regatta
IVES won by Robinson, TompFins second,
aud Man th,-d. Time-l5:l6h.
The pai--0ared ra 20 YVES won by North.
western in 2l:39. The Atalantss stopped
before reaching the line, but csme II in
| .1:l9h.
The Atalantas cay the water ws1 60
| make time in it. The Neptrne stopped be
fore gong ons nile, snd the Argoaauts at
| the m'ie buoy.
At l2:45 p. NJ. the crews were called for
| the double scull race, but the referee de-
| cided, after rr1uiug over the course, that
| the lake was too rough, and postponed the
race to $50 P. M.
A Chicago Whisky Convict Pardoned.
| CHICAGO, August THE pardon of A.
| derman Cullerton, convic'sd OF neglect OF
| duty While gauger, and sentenced to six
months imprisonment and tue of $1,000,
81 rived from We ellington to-day. Il renits
| imprisonment Only.
| Suicide of an Atlanta Physician.
| ATT .'xrA, August 7.-Dr. w. +. Bond, at
Lithenia, committed suicide By hanging
| bimse!f this morning. Mental depression
l at the sudden death Of friend auu bodily
suffering were the cause.
Matters at tho Centennial.
| PHJIADELPH,4, August 7.-Pait a5ris-
sions to-day 23,3S7. Fifty varieties of
early summer apples srriveu in the Ag.l-
CULTURAL Hall TO- DAY from Cincinnati in ad-
| mirable order. The arrivals also included
twenty six varieties of fruit, including ap.
pies, pluus, pears, etc., feoln New Jersey
| nurseties.
Arrangement, are now being made for
one weeks stay at the exhibition, dating
rom the twenty first instant, for l2O
Chinese youths, now in this country for an
lucatonsl corrse.
The reports of the grand iuries upon all
s-t ;cles in the exhibition are now in the
bonds of General Walker, chief of the
bp-fau of awards, by whom tn ~ are being
rav.sad A subs equent rev sion will be
ma lie by the executive con nit.ee of the
,mmissiOr, after which they will ts for
| maly subDittel to the commission for
li.) approval at fesslou of that body in
SeDtemb7r
ihe number of cattle entered for the
live stock display 10 date foot up 6l0.
1t is sunounced at New Jersey State head
quarters, that representative of the agi.-
cultural and manufacturing interests of the
Stat, ere veiywhere organizing excursions
to the cont ,nuial for Thursday, the twenty
fourth Instant. The New Jersey State COM
mission announces that Cover nor Bedle has
selected Hon. Abraham Browning as the
| orator for New Jersey. Mr.. Browning will
deliver an address illustrative OF the po-
litical aud social history Of that State, on the
twenty Fourth instant. Governor Bedle VIII
hold 9 reception in the New Jersey State
building the same dav.
: Governor Ingersoll, of Connecticut, will
review the visiting Connecticut sOldierv at
the centennial on the sixth of September,
and will meet the people of the State at the
headquarters on the grounds on the seventh
, of that month.
Vanderbilt Preparing for the Worst.
ALBANY. August IA mortgage for
$32 OOO, 900, $30,0000O0 to bear seven per
cent interest, aud $1,000. 900 at ak per cent,
given by the Central and Hudson River
Railroad Company to Cornelius Wander
bilt, Jr., aud William H. Vanderbilt, hes
just been recorded in the county clerks
office in this city.
IL Base Ball.
Boston, August 7.-Bostons G, Athlet
les 5.
7 LOUISVILLE, August 7.-Chicsgos 9, Lo1i:
, villes 2.
t rIarine.
NEW YORK, August 7.-Arrved-Queen
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Cfice Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, August T. i876-43o P. N.
;. For the South Atlantic and Gulf States risn,
/. | followed by falling barometer. slight changes ii
temperature, s0u,hwesterly to southe asterly wind
:, | and clear or partly clOuay weather will prevail
with possibly rain aIeas in the Southwest an
Y | CarOlnas
9 River and Marine News.
{ SOUTHWEST Pass, August Z P. M.-Baromete
q | 29 85. Wind eouth, frssh notwithstanding
W. Lord. at e:lS p NJ. Cation, master. from 81
| vana, to Z. A. Yorke. Ss',sd-Schooner s. &. Da,
t SHREVEPORT, August 7.-Weather partly cloud
Mercury 96o. The river has fallen fourteen inche
| IN the last forty eight hours. The r. T. Bryarl
arrived from New Orleans to day and proceeded
n l jefferson.
- vIcKsBuRa, August T. Weather warn, and cloud
,, | With rain. River fell fifteen inches. D9wn-Pa
IL | goud at P. NJ Arrived-Nstchez at : P NJ
10 ARnPHs, August 7-River fell eight inche
1. stands fifteen feet i've inches Showerv. Maximu
J, looMTQURD on IoUa1R PAohi