New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
Continuation Of MIR. HarrisOn's State.
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CINc1SNAr1, April 27.-Mr. Delano, Sec
retary Of the Interior, Mr.. Harrison says
wrote letter to q prominent Republican
official, saying it was deemed best on the
part of the government to change the en-
tire board of directors of the Union Pa
ciic railroad, and that he therefore pro .
posed to appoint some one from Indi-
ana in the place of j. S. C. Harrison.
This proposition of DelanO met with such
strong opposition that it was abandoned :,
and none Of the directors were removed.
We were Engaged at that time in making
an active fight against the Wyoming Coal
Company, which was swindling the Union
Pacific out of $50O,O or 5000, 900 a.year.
If the committee wants that letter Of
Delano's they can find copy Of it in the
Interior Department.. Bear in mind that
this action on my part, ~ government di
rector, and tho correspondence to which
have referred, and the effort on the part of
Secretary Delano to have me removed from
the board of directors, ocsurred in 1879
and early in 1879. just about the time of the
reelection of President Grant, and when
in 1876.
1t is therefore unreasonable to suppose
that anybody at that stage Of the proceed
ings was interested in defeating Mr.. Blaine's
occidental aspirations.
This Little Rock bond matter would have
been investigated by the United States
Court at the time but for the killing off Of
the Credit Mobilier suits. showed to Mr..
jerks, the government special attorney :,
who with three others was charged with in
vestigating the affairs, this order of the ex-
ecutive committee:
"NEw YORK, December 16, 1S7I.-O--
dered that Morton, Bliss & Co. be author
lied to draw on the treasurer of the COM
pany for $4,000, payable at forty DAYS
for the company seventy-6ve land grant
bonds of the Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railroad Company, of $1,000 EACH"
He made q copy of it in my presence, and
would have entered suit upon it at once had
not all these Credit Mobilier suits failed in
the courts, being ruled out on demurrers.
In conclusion, have to say that am ready
and willing at any time to 90 before the Ju-
dietary Committee of the House and make
oath to the facts in this statement.
The Centennial Jurors.
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-The centennial
commissioners have approved the action of
the executive committee in its selection of
ninety-si6 jurors. The whole number is to
be 125.
New Railroad Opened.
The new railroad between here and New
York was formally opened to-day, and an
excursion train carrying q number of
Berks and American streets this morning,
en- route for New York.
The through distance to New York on
this road is eighty eight and fOur.tenths
miles. The track is double, and Is COM
posed throughout of steel rails, weighing
sixty-six pounds to the yard, all of which
is stone ballasted. One of the most promi-
Nf< y
bridge over the Delaware river at Hardley.
Vile, which, like all the other bridges, has
a3double track.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., April 27.-The City
Mills. Norfolk, Massachusetts, burned
Loss $4,000.
Suicide OF Chambermaid.
CINCINNATI, April T.-May Sherman, a
German chambermaid, was found in her
room with her throat cut. She had been
guilty Of infanticide and suicide.
Murder.
PEORIA, April 27.-Yesterday afternoon
John Gobel shot John Lockwood, literally
blowing his head off. Lockwood had beat
en- Gobel's wife.
A Poisoner In Custody.
Boston, April 2.-Mrs. A. NJ. Holder
ness, otherwise known as Nine. LamOnte, a
| fortune teller, was committed to Jail to day
on q charge of poisoning her husband, who
died suddenly last Tuesday.
An Escaped Murderer.
ATLANTA, April 27.-Charles Kelly, q
desperadO, sentenced to be hung for nur-
der, escaped, but was captured after being
mortally wounded.
Probabilities.
WAn DEPARrxRnr, }
w..ane9nn 4aee .Dh; Chit s. siGnsl fss "a ossgsr
For the Cult States. failing barometer, c w:lmss g me-
possibly followed by moderate nolther in West
River and Marine News.
1885. Weether cslm, hazv and cloudy. xese xrrlVeae
SE dwstce 1SD'a aga, MASTER fifty days from Rio
l:;t night WAS Al that could % desired westhe
I:tu. No >. 10: new oriesn. o.''-n' DepA''e0 :
| 10 a NJ; Illinois, at F. M. Up-Mande At tia ii a III
Mitchell. at RI y. DownSkorgsn, at ) +. N
Jon Jones @ st 5 F: NJ; Dean at eleven last nleht. Tho
| morning. since then the boats ali passed through
nznPa1s. April 21-River station ny; thirty -thfe
| rived.Parker, from Cincinnsti. Depalted-sher
lock, fof Ctncinnati; Shreveport. for st. Louis
tIed s Wilson e,a and tex for New Orleans Private
through the cutoff TODAY, and cautions n. boa
men 70 be careful in APPROACHING the CUTOFF
eleven inches and rising. Weather cloudy and
warm. Arrived-Church and Turner from New or
1 leans.
P1rrsBuRe. April 27.-River seven feet five inche
and stationary. Weather cloudy and rainy.
l LOUISVILLE, April 27-River falling; eight feet
eight inches in the canal Weater clear and pleas.
.1s G.1.s. April S@zrrived-city Of vie1sDars
| from vicksburg, at 10 p. M. John F. Tolle, iron,
New Orleans, at II A. NJ. Departed-City Of Vicks-
| burg for St. Louis ut A. NJ; Tole. for St. Louis
1T P. N. The river is thirty-nine feet and falling
| Weather clear. Mercury Do
| New Orleans; Ste Genevieve for vickahure. The
river has risen two inches and 10 still rising so WV
/ Weather warm and pleasant during the day: heavy
rain tonight. Edward Ryland, . wolf kno ~
steamboat clerk and at one time river reporter Tor
for the Vtcksburg Herald, died here tonight,
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