New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-01
WHOLE NUMBER 269o.

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house and barn, qaits a distance apart,
were both burned.
Drowned.
OswEGo, n. Y, December 31.-William
and james Diekerson, aged eight and ff-
teen years, broke through the ice in Oswego
river and we're drowned.
steamer Aground.
NEWPORT, R 1, December 3l.-The
stramer Olus hence for Wexford yester-
day, struck in Wexford harbor. Her bow
is high, and dry, and stern submerged. The
passengers we're landed.
Disorder at Clinton, Mississippi.
MEMPHIS, December 3l.-A special from
Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the Appeal says
that another difficulty arose at Clinton yes
terday between blacks and whites. Two
Caldwells loolored) went on the streets in
tOxicated and bravadoed the whole town to
| fight them and finally retired unmolested.
About sundown Charles Caldwell lex
State Senator1 appeared on the streets mnch
| intoxicated, and declared himself afraid OF
no man. A pistol was accidentally fired in
| the rear of a store which Caldwell entered
and he ran into the cellar.
AS citizens rushed into the store Caldwell
commenced firing, and at the second nre
Dr. E. G. Banks fell, seriously wounded IN
the knee. The citizens returned fire, NOR
tally wounaing Caldwell.
Fearing further trouble, the mayor tele-
| grapbed TO the mayor of Vicksburg for as
sistance. and at nine O'Clock last night 100
men left by special train. NO further
trouble, however, is apprehended.
Bloody Crime Near Memphis.
The Ledger says. on last Wednesday
evening, w. Carroll Bolton was shot dead,
at Randolph Landing, at the head Of
Island No. 40. by some person then IN
/ known. rifle ball passed through his.
heart and he tell dead near the dwelling OF
Jack Stinson, fisherman and suspicious
/ character, who lived with a woman, said
not to be his wife. Stinson circulated the
report that Bolton had been shot by the
Hollis boys, who resided in the neigh
borhoOd and with whom Bolton had
| 1uarreled the day before, and that
| after he was shot he reached Stinsop's
cabin and fell dead. That night Stinsen
got up a crowd aud made a raid on the
| Hollis boys, firing a number OF balls into
the dwelling of one of them, but without
killing or wounding any one. Yesterday
Stinson and young Tom Bolton came to
Memphis and obtained burial case, which
they took TO Randolph Landing on the City
of Chester. On the way up Bolton began
to suspect that Stinson had killed his
uncle, but both being armed no hostilities
took place until the boat reached the land
ing, where a crowd had assembled. AS
it was proven at the inquest, held during
Tom Bottoms absence, that the Hollis boys
were innocent, and that Jack Stinson had
shot Bolton from the window Of his cabin,
some one in the crowd cried out to Tom
| Bolton that Sunson had killed his uncle,
| Whereupon Tom Bolton drew his pistol and
commenced firing at Stinson, who by this
time was in charge of Constable Dick Gay
and man named Prewett. Twenty or more
| shots were fired in rapid succession by dli-
ferent parties. Jack Stinson was riddled
with balls, and fell dead over the guard Of
the boat. Constable Gay was shot in the
arm and Prewett severely wounded in the
thigh. Stinson had been seen to assassinste
Carroll Bolton, and this was proven at the
inquest. No further particulars concerning
the tragedies could be learned.
Sale of Old War Vessels,
NORFOLK, December 3l.-The United
States ships st. Lawrence and Macedonian
were sold to-day at the navy yard by
Leigh Brothers & Phelps, auetioneers, and
purchased by Northern parties The St
Lawrence was sold for $1,000 and thC
Macedonian for $l4,0N. These vessel!
were among the Oldest ships in the navy
and have been famous in their day. Tht
Macedonian was captured from the Britisl
| | in the war of 1872, By Captain Stephel
: | Decatur. commanding the United State
frigate United States; and the st. Law
| renee was present in Hampton Roads dur
ing the engagement between the celebrated
\ ironclad Merrimac and the United State
; feet. Both have been lying at 1.-THE nav
yard, dismantled, for number of years.
Amount of the swindIe.
CHICAGO December Silt is though
$3.50, 900 will be found due the government
! OF recent whisky seizures in this city.
showed Up.
SALT LAKE, December 3l.-The snow
q twelve feet deep on level at Alta City, n
= mails. The Central Pacific train was te
i. hours behind st Ogden yesterday.
i The Sonora RevOIuriOa.
Q SAN Francisco, December 3l.-A di
o patch from Tucson says three companies 9
,s United States cavalry made forced mare
to San Rafael last Sunday, finding that q
armed bodies had entered Mexico. Pa
q aueras' troops behaved badly, but the reyt
= lutionists paid fo- everything they took
y y The sunnyside DIsaster.i
ALBANY, n. Y, December 3l.-The loct
y ipspeotors' who have investigated the Sur
y nyside disaster, revoke Captain Teson
: license as captain and first class pilot fo
Il one year He should have been PERSONAL
n on watch. The total loss is $65,00o.
q Starved to Death.
v MONTREAL, December 3I.-A man die
h at Lachine, yesterday, from starvation
s. The neiEhbOrs hearing pititul cries comm
u IrOm Inc room WntcA Ao OAO AehAAAJ "
s. oupied, repaired there to learn the oaus,
" They found that the unfortunate famil
1t had not tasted food Of any kind for thre
70 days. Nourishment was at once procure
s. for the sufferers, but the father was beyon
n recovery, and expired from sheer stary;
ton.
o MOBILE. December 3l.-As usual, M
K bile's MYSTIC societies are celebrating Ne
l, Years eve by brilliant display, witnesse
'r BY thousands of citizens and stranger
d The Cowbellions de Rakin Society celebrat
,r their forty-fifth anniversary; aubject-T1
% War of the Roses; on horseback. The di
le play was very large and brilliant, tt
q Strikers celebrate their thirty-third ann
5. versary; subject Jerusalem Delivers
g Seven cars aud seventy horsemen; veI
is fine. The T. d. SIS thirty-frst anniversar,
st subject-Fables of Infancyi comic an
n good.
10 SANDY Hook, December 3l.-Tbe steaI
D. er City of Chester, several days overdu
ss arrived of Sandy Hook at forty minut
past two o'clock yesterday afternoon. 4
eight O'Clock this evening she was still on
side in dense fog.
Probabilities.
WAR DHPARTNEST
of once Chief Signal O1aeer,
n Washington December 81, lsI5, go ?. II.
ts For Saturday In the South Atlantic and Easte
- Gulf States stationary barometer and temperAtul
= southeast to southwest winds and partly elou
NJ / weather,