New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-02

nights since, the store of Holloway ReedA
at P0maria, thirty miles from this city, was \
burned to the ground, with stock Of the
value of $4,000. The safe was robbed Of
$4,000, and the body of Mr. Reed was found
in the ruins, burned to q cinder. The cor.
oners jury rendered verdict that he was
murdered before the arson and robbery were
committed. Governor Chamberlain has Of
fered q reward of $1,000 for the apprehen-
sion of the guilty parties. Three negroes
we're arrested, last night, at Newberry, for
the crime.
SOUTHWEST Pass. January 1.-The cap
tain's gig of the ship Zelandia capeizad in O.
heavy sea while en- route from East Bay to
Pilot Town, for orders. 1t contained Cap
tain Allen, second mate, Pilot G. Gersdorf,
and several seamen. They .clung to the
boat until they were washed ashore, with
the exception of the second mate, who was
washed away from the boat aud drowned.
They had been in the water for an hour and
half. when they were picked up by Philip
Wuertz, pilot, who started to their rescue
in small boat, and brought them to Pilot
Town.
Mr.. Frederick Hansen, q native of Dem
mark, was drowned yesterday morning, by
falling overheard from the bOwsprit of the
pilot boat Morgan, while she was sailing
in over the bar.
A Destructive Fire.
WHEELING, w. Va, January la fire in
Piedmont, in this State, consumed twesty
buildings, ten of which were stores. The
courthouse and postOfice were also de-
strOyed.
Perjury.
Boston, January -Four well known
citizens Of bingham were arrested for per-
jury in swearing to 9 certificate that all the
capital stock Of the bingham Manufacturing
Company had been paid.
Embezzlins Postage Stamps.
Isaac H. rockingham, chief clerk in the
Boston p0stof6ce, has been arrested for en-
| bezzling stamps, and held in $1,000 bail.
The Grounded Steamer.
| NEWPORT, R. l., January The steamer
Eolus, which went ashore in Wexford
harb0r, yesterday. is valued at $5O, 600:
Should the wind come to eastward she will
fare hard.
Marriage Of Miss Davis.
MEMPHIS, January miss Maggie II
Davis. daughter of Hon. Jefferson Davis,
was married at St. Lazarus Episcopal
Church, this morning, to j. Adison Hayes
cashier of the State National Bank. Rev.
Church, officiating, assisted by the Rev.
Churchill Eastin, rector of St. Lazarus, in
the presence of very large congregation.
Quiet Day.
The day has been an unusually quiet ono.
I Business almost entirely suspended, and
, weather unusually warm and showery.
Centennial Salute.
} NORWICH, N. Y, January la salute of
, 100 guns was fired here at twelve o'clock
last night in honor of. the centennial year.
State OHlcers Sworn In.
ALBANY, n. Y, January 1.-The State
! officers elect were sworn into office today,
and took possession OF their respective
offices.
The Fisk University.
NASHVILLE, January Tho new Fisk
University, named in honor of General
Clinton B. Fisk, was formally dedicated to-
day in the presence Of large Assem- asseIblsge Leg
:n earnest end
races; for the edueasion and elsva-
ton of the colored people, and for
the cultivation Of . liberal. patriotic feeling
Tyeire, ex-commissioner Smith, president
Of the Howard University, and others, also
r | made addresses. The building cost $780,
J. 600. The institute partakes somewhat of
:. the nature Of . normal college, as since its
ated about 100 teachers and candidates for
the ministry-all colored.
Hendricks' Centennial Speech.
INDIANAPOLIS, January lat the centen-
NAL New Years celebration, Governor Hen.
"a bricks addressed the assembly Referring
n to the progress which the country had made
!. during the past century, he characterized
to produce these results as enterprising and
courageous. Two ideas were prominently
advanced by the Governor as Of special i'm
portance First-while he would not say
that American schools surpassed those Of
70 other countries, still the foundation was
/ v-:I Of fpan nj,
# within quarter of q century would sur
: pass them. The free school must be re-
| garded as the foundation of American
stability, and the people must consider and
g ! treat as . foe any one who will bring the
r system in contro yersy with . view of injur-
? | the country has borne itself proudly and
! | successfully against its enemies; first in tho
seven years war, with Washington at it's
head, when it laid the foundation for fu-
, ture permanent government; then in
? the foreign war; more recently in the civil
war, which is the hardest for any govern
ment to sustain, and in all of these it came
out with it's institutions preserved and in
tegrity sustained.
In conclusion, he drew an eloquent pic
f ture of the manner in which American sem
. timent was recognized by other govern
, ments, and said that this sentiment, en-
| braced in the one idea that the government
rests upon the consent of the governed,
would eventually end in every man living
free.
Other addresses were made.
; Canadian Pacific Railway Surveys.
OTTAWA, January IAN important event
in connection with the surveys of the
Canadian Pacific railway has occurred.
Those surveys first began in the summer of
1870, one from the valley Of Ottawa on one
side, and one from British Columbia on the
other. The government has received tele-
| grams from Battle River, station on the
. Pacific telegraph line in the Saskatchewan
, | county, announcing that the surveys had at
+ | last been connected. The point of connec
ton is in latitude $50 So north, longitude
ll3o 2 As" west.
, Mild Weather.
q PoUGHKEEPsIE, January 1.-The extra
ordinary mild weather still continues, and
| if it lasts twO-days, navigation will be open
), from New York to Albany. Reports come
/ from all points up the river of the ice break
ing up and ferry routes open.
Probabilities.
;. WAR DEPARTMENT,
2 once Chief Signal Officer
Warrington, January l, 1876. 40 P. NJ.
For the Gulf and South Atlantic States
and Tennessee, partly cloudy or clear
> weather, eoutherly winds, veering to west-
< erly and north westerly, stationary or slowly
. rising barometer, and continued warm
- weather, except possibly lower temperature
west of the Mississippi
The Ohio river will fall above Louisville.
| Tho M;saioouni uiI1 cOntinua m riao ha