The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-12-27
TELEGRApHIo NEWS.


W NNllNUluNf b'''lllb'l i's- ~ 0''.
committee oil WO Ina been authorized
tu proceed t0 New Orleans TO take tes-
tim1ny ln The nurrcll matter.
Tho supplementary civil rights PHI
was taken IN for discussion with the
agreement that the vote shall be taken
on the second day after the recess.
In the Senate Mr.. Fenton, frotn the
Finance committee, reported unfavof-
ably on the resolutions Of the Legisla-
tnre of North Carolina. referring to the
tax on cotton.
The committee on Elections this
morning instructed the chairman To
introduce resolution I'm the House
dismissing them from the further con-
sideration of the election contest OF the
fourth Georgia district, Bethune against
Harris.
This will leave the House to decide
the contest without any recommends
ton. The contestant of Rapels was
denied further time TO take testimony.
Senator Gordon leaves here to- night
for Atlanta. :,
4 call is being numerously signed
by members of Congress, headed by
Representative McNulta, of Illinois,
aud Representative Harris, of Virginia,
looking to union of the members or
tho Northwest and the South, for the
purpose of uniting their sections on the
question of cheap transportation from
the West TO the Atlantic seabord. a
meeting will oe held i'm the hall of the
House OF Representatives., on the first
Saturday after the recess.
SALT LAKE, December ia heavy
earthquake occurred at Bear Lake Val
ley. Chief Justice McKeon again re-
fused citizenship to polygamists.
ST.. LOUIS, December ia special
dispatch to the Democrat from Sedalia
saws that information was received
there yesterday that Il farmer living
near Cambridge, Saline county, sold u
lot of hogs in that town on Wednesday,
receiving therefor about one thousand
dollars, and that while returning home
he was overtaken by five men, headed
by notorious desperate named Tom
Stanton, who shot and killed him and
robbed the body.
Shortly after the tragedy a gentle
man living near by discovered the
body i'm the road, and hearing an angry
nlterca ion in an adjacent thickct, he
conprehended the situation at once,
end quietly raised party of his neigh
bors, captured three of the nurderers
and hung them to tree, and then
ptarted in pursuit of the two others,
bot at last accounts it was not known
whether they had been captured.
KEY WEST, Fla, December l9.--The
Virginius left Tortugas at midnight in
tow of the United States ship Ossippee.
PHILADELPHIA, December 19.-Two
employees on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road were killed.
NEW YORK, December 19.-The
trial of Harry Genet was concluded
this evening, with verdict of guilty.
Sentence is deferred until Monday.
A fire in the office of the CUSTOM
house destroyed papers which will in
convenience shippers
Wight and Tillinghast, dry goods
dealers, attribute their failure to the
Spragues.
LONDON, December 10.-Bark Sultan
has been lost with-twelve Of the crew.
=. MADRID, December 19-The bonn
bardment of Carthagena continues
There has been q magazine explosion
within the walls. Domineques offers
pardon to all who surrender. The in
1urgents have provisions, but their
ammunition is falling.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, December 49,
The VirginiuS survivors were delivered
on board the TJuniata, which brings
them to New York.
LONDON, December 10.-Street rate
5-l6 beicw hank rate of discount.
NEW YORK, December l9.-Cotton
dull as at 16b@l6!c.
Money active at I. Exchange heavy
end lower ct SIC. Gold l0s@ll.
I.1vHgPooL, December 19.-Cotton
10 arrive cheaper. Sales of Orleans
rothing below low middling, deliver
able January, SID; February SID.
New ORLEANS, December l9-Cot-
ton active with prices s@i lower; sales
$500 bales. Good ordinary to strict
GOOD ordinary l3s0143c; low middlinS
to strict low middling 15B@l5sc; mid
ding to stricS middling 18t@l6sc |;
GOOD middling 17s@l7sc. Receipts
1871; exports, continent, 1888; coast
wise, 1,32i; Great Britain 3,599. Stock
500, 1856; unsold, 1920. Gold 10l@11.
Currency s0s. Sight, ! discount
Sterling 193@2O--all for certified
checks.
From Saturdays Daily Hcrald.[
WAsHINGToN d. c., December co.
The committee on appropriations go
to Now Orleans to investigate the
affairs Of the Federal Court.
The Senate Slect Committee on
Transportation Routes to the seaboard,
will start on their Southern tour Monday
next. The committee propose to stop
two dayp az Atlanta. They have prom
iscd to give, one day to Mobile, the bus
mess men Of that city having profiered
request to that effect. They will
spend ri least four days at New Or
leans "a 7ril!, if time permits, accept
an in-i,n'i1n To extend their trip to
G.ivc-tuf
NEW f0el, December 20.-Eighty
leading hHHT of the city signed the
protest ad'li, SEED to the United States
SENATE apllist the repeal of the bank
rupt law. hut admitting that the law
needs amending in many of its pro-
visions.
The Brooklyn investigations show
many fraudulent ooroner's inqucsts,
and 62S bogus smallpox eases.
The Virginius has three feet Of
water in her hold and leaking.
- The revenue. cutter, Ell route to Key
West from Savannah, went ashore.
The transfer of the Atlantic and
Pacific lines to the Western Union was
completed yesterday. The Atlantic
and Pacific has 5000 miles of line and
10000 miles of wire.
: LONDON, December 20.-Spccial dis
patches from Madrid say that there is
great rejoicing there over rumor that
the United States Government has de-
.cided that the Virginius was not eDti-
tied to carry the United States flag.
The Times, commenting on the report,
says: Such decision would be consis-
tent with truth and justice.
. Small sales of American securities,
with prices unchanged.
=. There is report that Barthalde, of
the French Legation at St Petersburg,
has been appointed Minister to WASH
ington, is confirmed.
HAVANA, December 20.-The Office
of Diario was entered by burglars early
this morning The Administrator and
his nephew were tied, gagged and their |
lives threatened. The burglars after