New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-09
Convicted of Murder

Convicted of Murder.
PHILADELPHIA, January 8. - George
Fletcher was convicted Of murder in the
first degree for killing James Harley.
The Celebration In PhIladelphia.
The anniversary of the battle of New
Orleans was observed by q meeting of the
veterans of the war of 1912, at the old
Courthouse, corner Sixtieth and Chestnut
streets. Peter Hay, Esq, occupied the chair
and John B. Springer was secretary. Twenty
veterans we're present.
Suicide.
BALTIMORE, January S-John Foster,
aged sixty, committed suicide. He had
been drinking excessively for the past two
years.
William Thompson, convicted of an out
rage upon girl twelve years old, has been
sentenced to twenty-one years. imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
Policeman Patrick Mcdonald, found
co.ored, was sentenced to five years in Jail.
Committed for Trial.
OTTAWA, January 8.-Mr. Martin, men,
with committing an indecent assault upon
Minnie Mills, has been committed for trial.
A Telegraphic Experiment.
MILWAUKEE. January 8-Experiments
were made here to-day with Gray's har-
monic system of multiplex telegraph. A
loop was arranged by way of Horican to
Portage and back by way Of Watertown, .
distance of 200 miles. Over this single
wire eight messages were sent and eight
received at the same time.
An Anti. Resumption Movement.
CLEVELAND, January 8.-A meeting will
be held here on the thirteenth instant for
the purpose of considering what measures
are necessary to secure the repeal of the
act of the last Congress known as the re-
sumption act. A memorial to Congress has
been extensively circulated in this city and
received the signatures of q very large
number OF prominent business men petit
tioning for the repeal of SO much of
the act as provides for the payment
of United States lenger tender notes in coin
upon the first day of January, 1879, and au-
cell and dispose of bonds of the United
States for the purpose of enabling him to
redeem such legal tender notes; also, rep =
resenting that in the Judgment of the peti-
TONERS the enforcement of the resumption
clause Of the said act would be exceedingly
disastrous to the business of the country.
No Hspe for Stokes.
ALBANY, N. Y, January 8-Governor
Ti1den declines to interfere in the case of
Stokes, the Fisk murderer, for whose pardon
application was made.
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT
Office Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, January 8. t876. $50 P. n.
For the South Atlantic and Gulf States
continued warm and partly cloudy weather
with southerly to westerly winds and sta
tionary or falling barometer, followed dur
ing Sunday in the Southwest by threatening
and cooler weather, rising barometer and
winds slightly to northerly and westerly.
River and Marine News.
SOUTHWEST Pass, January 8, P.M.-Ba-
rometer 1920. Wind southeast, light.
Weather cloudy and hazy. Arrived-Brit-
ish steamship Vanguard, Gill, master, at
ll:2O A. NJ, seventeen days from Pernam-
buco; steamship George W. Elder. Read.
master, from New York; British ship Zea-
landia, Allen, master, fifty one DAYS from
GreenOck; ship Harvester BoswOrth, mas
ter, thirty six days from Liverpool; French
ship Louise and Rosa, Dubose, master
forty four days from Havre; British bark
Liverpool, Bullard, master, fifty DAYS from
Liverpool; bark Flora, Alsen, master, forty.
one days from Christiansand Sailed
ships Sandusky. Regina and Nile. Arrived
and sailed for Mobile-Ship Mary Frazer.
| V!cKsBURG, January 8.-Passed Down.
Katie, ct 10 P. NJ; Church, at 2 A. M. Up
Maude, ct II p. NJ, Friday; Pargoud, at II
NJ; Genevieve, on time.
MEMPHIS. January 8.-The river rose
an inch; now stands twenty nine feet above
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