The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-05
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tor Of The Plcnyune, aud judge WIN
If. Cooley, the leading counsel In tn
case of HnwlSlns versus the Plcpynne
Tho lncts of the controversy VIII b.
hereafter elected, We presume, IN full
suffice u for the prcscnttostatc tina
on last Friday, Col. luIetl gent u per
empt0ry challenge TO Judge Cooley
which wnsaecepted by him, hemoot
ing however, 10 he postponed unit
Tuesday, OH account of Judge Cooley
enlargement Ia argue the rule for ,
new trial before Judge Hawkins, which
came up yesterday. ....,Jl.as .urA
During the course, of the argument
Judge Cooley, iiropposing the motion
for II continuance, remarked That II thu
case went over until "Wednesday, h'
might not be alive 70 argue II, ana sc
!, il has sadly turned out. To-day The
loarties left in the Mobile train at $ a
w., arriving Mt Montgomery Station
about 10 A. NJ, where the party dlsenl
bArkcd. Montgomery Station, where
the duel occurred, Is n wild, sandy
looking place, some four or five miles
this Side of the Bay st. Louis, Where
the road passcss through IL wood of tai
pines, behind which Il, m open field
Near by, and on the line OF the rail
road Is II small cottage, occupied by q
family. But with this exception, there
are no residents nearer than three
quarters of II mile. This difficulty Is
one of the snd results of the ubiquitous
Hawkins trial against the Picayune,
of which Col. Rhett was editor. In his
speech for the prosecution, Judge Cool
ey made an attack upon that paper
which called forth an editorial in it,
next issue, pronouncing them false.
Judge Cooley then addressed II COM
nrinication to. the editor, calling for
explanations, which not being accord
ed, he followed it up by IL published
carl .assailing Colonel Rhctt a chal-
lense promptly followed, and the re-
suit is now before or readers. Judge
William ii. Co0loyWas born in Pointe
Coupee, and was the SOP OF. Judge
Thomas j. Cooley, his mother being u
Lenox, also Of the parish of Pointe
Coupe. He was educated and gradu-
ated IN the Academic Department of
Transylvania University faKentucl1y,
in 1919, in the same year and ut the
same Institution where Governor Yor-
hees graduated at law. He was subse-
quently appointed Parish Judge of
Pointe Coupee by Michael Hay. The
first appearance of Judge Cooley prom
incntly before!the Now Orleans public
was as u representative from Pointe
Coupee in the reconstruction copven-
ton which sat at Mechanics Institute,
in which he took Il leading part.
4 When tne reconstruction election
took place, Judge Cooley, having Sc
lected New Orleans AS his residence,
was nominated by the Democracy as
their candidate for the .judgeship Of
the Sixth District Court of this city, to
which position he wius elected,a and
which lie maintained until thes recent
election, when he declined submitting
his name before the convention. ~
the tinre df his death Judge Cooley
was about forty-seyen years old. Judge
Cooley was a widower, having mar
ried Miss Ploutirnant, who died
about four years ago His only child
IL now about ten or twelve years old.
His father, Judge Thomas J, Cooley,
and his two hrotheis, james aud
Thomas, are well known TO the legal
fraternity and officers of the court.
He was i man Of eXtraordinary abii-
ties, and what he know of either laW
or language come TO him as it went,
by intuition
His mind, while it was easily
warped by -passionaor prejudice, was
exceedingly analytical, and in eases
neither Eersoual feeling iiGfI
party animOsitics interfered to cloud
his Judgment, his decisions were almost
critically correct. With an inexhaust-
IDLE fund of hnmOr, o keen sense of the
and being an adept IN the
Use of satire, ho was at once q warm
friend and bitter enemy. This is not
5he first duel in which he has been con-
cerned Some years before the war he
met DR., Kaufman, one of his par
upon the field of honor,
md after ali exchange Of Shots, an ami
able adjustment of the difficulty was
made and thereafter the parties became
warm personal friends.
lie had Z Aalprrne contempt for
'hnms, and was fond of launching the
lrr0ws of wit aud SARCASM. against all
manner of hypocrisy. He had reli-
,ion and a code of morals peculiarly
Ills own, and with all his eccentricitiei,
vas man of liberal ideas and warm |
IMPULSES. The body WAS brought to
he city on the evening train, and left
1t the L,lxenbufg Hospital. The fI-
leral takes place to-inorrow morning, |
It 10 O'Clock, from the corner of Sew
nthand ST. Charles streeta.a,
NV YopK, Jnivo %pl@orthfound |
niity of murder in the second degree.
The Billiard Championship games
esulted ilfa tie for the first iiiHe,. be-
wecn GARNER, DAILY and Dion
Cyrille Dion challcngesSG aFnicr to
lay for ore thousand dolldrs and the
championship. ~ ~
Ubassey challenges for the cham
'lonship lof tho world, q thousand
'oints, for five hundred dollars, or asl.
much more as desired. Z" s,isft III
Dion won the second prize Of the
-bsssaaf2" st aia4lfa til
The 'ssit fer $4,000 iagainstr ~ dry
GODS house has been compromised for
ST. Louis, July Ono death from
holera yesterday.
GrTetNSAgf, July a.EA mass meet
ng OF Opponents to the Republican
arty has been called at Columbus, for
nlyl Sd, to confer and perhaps. COM
inc upon q now departure, 81
NAsHyIIi,Es July 2.--Slx cholera
eaths yesterday. 80. .t
NEW YORK, July 2.-rhore was. q
leeting of Italians last evening t6
rotest agairst the child traffic. lt,was
failure as 10 attendance Eu-Gov., I
of Wisconsin, was the prinr,l