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


~ foDls. Doeombtrgl. -.1lc fMllrI
White lead and on Works Nor
hufrcd ludnt, los 1VlulO.
NFw yOnK llreOmhcr "a. ifhMint
q. Chisholm, PRECEDENT VI tlle Chlcnpu
flrnln Dealers Association, WHO re-.
GENTLY arrived here, has disappeared,
PArla, December ~. Tho rcp1ficG
flight Oi linxrnr IN unfoundOl.
Nav YORK., December 2i.-.Isolanl@
llurrull flour dcillcrs. AMI William II
Carpenter, millinery goods, have sus-
PENDED THE amount involved Is be-
llcved to hc aiout SlOn,OOO.
Tho care of john w. Norton, who y
charged with approprlaling TO his ov "a
use Sllo,OOD of government. lunh,
willis employed IN lilo money order
department, IN tho CITY PostoNgcc,
came up yesterday. a motion wnt
made 10 quasli the Indictment, on the
ground that Ma. Norton had turncu
over all the property on the ground
that all criminal proceedings agaius
her husband should be abandoned.
Decision reserved.
KEY WET, December 9i--A dcs-
pitch Says the Wyoming under special
orders, left last night for Aspinwall 90
fetch the steamships General sherman
to the former port.
Advloes from Cuban aourbes relative
to the military movements of the
Cuban army, State an attack on Alau-
zanlllo, on tho 9th OF November. The
insurgents captured twmty-siX rifles,
eight thousand cartridges, Il quantity OF
gold and Spanish bank notes, cloth, pro-
visions, etc, besides destroying 81 800
900 worth of property and capturing
one hundred prisoners, who were
paro.gd, She lNss uf the f3paaiards
Was estimated at 0vor two hundred,
whlle the Cuban loss was thirteen Off
GERS and sixty privates killed aIG
wounded. On November 20, the Cuban
army wentinto camp at San;a, having
made further capture Of ,60ll .pAFt,
ridges, ~ rifles aud . numhor of horses.
Cuban agents in this city state that no
more rifles are needed by the Cuban
forces, as they have captured more
than sufficient to arm all forces they
can at present put in the Held.
Ii tlins OF 10 be u mistake that the
Secretary OF the Navy has ordered all
wort; to cease. at the navy yal,is
the order is that extra hours q Wofk
shall cease.
The Minhegota viii not go into eom-
mission.
NEW York, Dcecmber2 I-1heStock
Exchange closes today, and on next
Wednesday at one O'Clock.
BOsroN, Dcccmter2i. City Solicitor
Healey to whom the question was re-
fesfetl, gigea isis opinion that women
cannot legally serve on Boston Schooi
Commission. Fourwomenwere chosen
TO that position at Il recent election.
BALTIMORE, December 2i.-JOlin
Hopkins, the wealthiest man in Balti-
more, died to-day at the age of 10.
Hopkins last March gave Sl,000G00 to
found u free hospital also $4,000 to
found University on his Clifton cs-
tate.
PAnIa, Docenibcr2l. -Bazane.i is still
confined at Frianon.
BAYoNNH, Deccmber "a. Ten steam
ers are at San Sebastian for the purpose
|,of en!haiiking q force of Republicans
under General Mafioica, WHO Is sur
rounded by three thousand Carllsts, and
cannot escape capture except by taking
refuge Oh vessels.
LlyERpoo!., December 24--Noon---
Cotton steadior. Uplands 81; Orleans
iG9gd.
NEW ORLEANS, December 2i.--Co.-
ton moderately active at yesterdays
prices.
!. WASHINGTON, ID. G., December a. -
Colonel r. G. 1Wintersmith has arrived
for the winter.
Boston, December 2l.-At meet
Ing Of tho Board of Trustees OF the
Museum of comparative zoology TO-
day, resolutions representing the ire
parable loss the Museum, has 70
| bear III the death OF Professor Agassiz;
were adopted.
UNSATISFACTORY, December 24.-The
Executive Office will be closed from
now until after New Years day.
New York, December 2i.-~Gold
| ceased at 1885,
Cotton met receipts $40 bales; gross
a2ll, t'9ttoii steady; 2279 bales at
| i6Ml6s.
MADRID, December 24.--'Thc Epuca
publishes a letter from Gen. Sickles de-
clsring that IN thcVirginius disputes
Translngentcs, Of Madrid, PROPOSE to
make n dpm Qpstration hostile 70 the
United States. The Ispoca denies there
wss any such intention, and regrets
| chat f5icnles took no pains 70 contra
dict the dispatch from America re-
porting that such demonstration had
actually taken place.