New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-03

The Advisory Council.

The Advisory Council.
NEW YORK. February 2.-Plymoutl
Church has called the advisory council, fo
Febrary Is. Twenty ministers wthou
charges, and seventeen churches are in
| vited.
A Bankrupt Insurance Company.
MEMPHIS. February 2.-The Ledger says
that in the United States Court petition
in bankruptcy has been filed by the South
ern Life Insurance Company. The schedule
OF assets and liabilities has not yet been
made out, but the liabilities are alleged in
| the petition to be about $i,ll7.O0O.
A Planter Assassinated,
Hiram HarkelrOdes, we'll known and
wealthy planter, living twenty-five miles
below here, on the Mississippi side, was
waylaid and shot, last night. near his home.
the ball passing through both lungs, iu,
h.cted wound which 1t is believed will be
mortal. A negro, recently discharged by
Harhelrodes, is suspected.
Snow.
The train from Louisville this mornino
was covered with snow. The weather is
moderating. The telegraph lines are still
denoralized by the storm Of yesterday.
Arrest OF an Abortioniyt.
DR.. D. s. johnson, keeper OF private il fir
mary, was arrested this AFTERNOON on the
charge of killing Kate Mccormick. and her
child, OF humboldt, Tennessee in an attempt
to produce an abortion.
Killed His stepfather.
INDIANAPOLIS, February p Charles Love
tctlored) killed his stepfather, who had as
sauited him with an ak.
Killed His Mother and Hung Himself.
EAST Lyndon, VT, February 2,-Silas |
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his wife's throat seriously, and hung hiu.- /!
self.
Si'as Wilder was thirty years Of age. a |
well to do farmer. His parents opposed his |
marriage, and maize his marital relations |
very unpleasant. This morning difficulty |
arose between them, which probably drove |
him 70 the deed. The wife may recover. /
They had been married but year :
The details Of the tragedy are most horri-
BILE. His father and mother we're aged re- +
spectively seventy-three and seventy years. |
with his wife, who in altering a
pair OF oyeralls had made them too short
After angry words, Wilder started for the
shed, stating that he would get an az and
end the trouble. The wife followed him
and seized the az, when he drew dirk,
stabbed and left her for dead. Then tax
ing up the ak, he started for his father, who l.
had followed him, and struck him fearful
blow, crushing through his head. At this
point he appeared still further Infatuated,
and next attacked his mother, killing her
with three fearful blows over The head aud
breast. He then returned to the shed and
found that his father had crawled into the
kitchen, he struck him as he lay upon the
1 or, the Ak crushing through the head and
'emainlng fixed in the floor. He then cut
lis own throat, and death not ensuing at
'nce, ran TO the barn, fastened rope
lround his neck and jumped from beam,
leath. The father and mother are dead.
The wife, it is thought, may recover.
Dead.
<nox, Of KnoxbOro, is dead, aged mighty
our years.
Wallace g. Co.'S round house, with three
burned to day.
An Old Feud.
NASHVILLE, February 2-In an elterca.
ion at Dresden, Weakley county, James
.ampkin shot Ben Rogers, dead. An old
eud.
Out on Bail.
RALEIGH, N. c., February George w.
~eepson, charged with staying AdOlphus
1oore, was released on SO 600 bail tor the
pTluR tcTlu VI AldluAuCc COurC.
he Dying Confession of a Noted Criminal.
CINCINNATI, February "A dispatch
rom Evansville says j. l.. Termer, the
10 made q confession OF the Quincy rob-
cry and duplicates three others. a man
AIMED Hilsey, of Syracuse, New York;
'nglish Tom, and another whose name
Duld not be ascertained. He says $3.50, 900
! bonds, in tin box, are buried at
hamber's Junction, Iowa, near the rail-
Dad track. He also confessed to having
cen party to diamond robbery in St.
oseph. Missouri, in March last. He said
100000 worth of diamonds are buried on .
10 Iron Mountain railroad, near Bonneville, :
issouri. He died before he could give .
lrther particulars. 3
Probabilities.
WAR DEPARTMENT. i
Once Chief Signal Officer, ) | =.
Washington, February 1876, 4:3d 2. N. |
For the South Altar tic and Eal t. Gulf States,
g followed by ia Ing barcMet, north to east
'uds. and con inued c"id aid cl, ar CT partly |
ondy weather viii prevail f
fortEe Western Gulf, Tennessee and the Oh O | a
III. y falling bsromet r. south to east wind rs
9 ,emH nature, increasing cloudiness and posi-
ioio~td bv rain. d
River and Marine News.
s 20 Pass. February 2. P. M.-Barometer n
Id s,,irl northeast, light: Weather cloudy and h
r. MI one dass from Bremen; American q
~. rom n1nman C'omer, kug master; seven r;
rLs kphrsim Wi liam. r. lic;. E;"hs and .m
ra, brig krminia P, ard schooners l. {. Buil4ri,
Ia ana r. .os sria John Kra and Giuseppe La.
orders, has sailed far Pascaroula. the steam. !, ~
u Gus mo r. = h at an, hsr hound
ntenelis at A. NJ, Katie at ?. M. and Louis. fir
Il at P. ID. ~ " ~
MEMPHIS, February River rose five inches, -
stands 4 feat
thin one foot nine inches of the danger line "
st Louis for 1t. Louis (ytv ~ | ",
ton for Cincinnati The James Howard Va: d. y.
NED by freight and got away tonight The CT
empson Dean lays over. W