The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-03-14

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to attend ex-president Fillmore's fun
eral.
LANCASTER, n. H., March 10.-The
democrats and liberal republicans have
elected moderator and town clerk in
this village by about thirty majority.
LONDON, March 1O.-A Berlin special
to the Daily News announces that
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
will make tour around the world
next summer. He goes eastward
through Russia, Siberia and Japan,
lands at San Francisco, trayerses the
United States, and returns to Berlin by
way of London.
The government will not proclaim
next Thursday, the day appointed for
the entry of the duke and duchess of
Edinburg into the city, holiday, but
elaborate preparations are making to
decorate the route of procession. Ex-
tensive pavilions, richly ornamented,
are being erected on Regent street.
Eight thousand soldiers and eight
hundred sailors and marines have been
detailed to line the streets.
A .utc spinning mill at Dundee was
burned. Twenty thousand people sur
rounded the burning edifice. Loss one
hundred thousand pounds sterling and
seven hundred operators thrown out of
employment.
WASHINGTON March 1.-THE senate
adjourned without transacting any
business Oh account of the illness of
Senator Sumner.
Senator Summers death is momen-
tarily apprehended.
CONCORD, N. H., March 1l.-One
hundred and fifty-nine towns give Nc
Cutchin 2s,192, Weston 2S, 494, Black
mer ,G93. These towns last year gave
Straw 2S.025, Weston 26,26l, Blackmer
lao. There is seventy-tive towns yet
to hear from.
New York, March, ia meeting
has been called to give expression to
the public feeling on national finances,
and protest against the delay of con-
gress in concluding effective legisla-
ton on the subject. The date of the
meeting will hereafter be determined.
The call assigned by leading merchants,
with Peter Cooper at the head of the
list.
Boston, March l1.-rhe Boston Adj
vertiser, remarking upon the result of
the New Hampshire election, says,
after making allowances for special
local disturbances which prevail to
some extent in all elections, the salient
fact remains that the republican ma
jority averaging nearly forty-five hun
dred in the last ten years, has been
wiped out, and that, too, in favor of
party which could present no claim to
public confidence, except as affOrding
way of escape for republicans who
feel that in their own party their
confidence has been sadly betrayed.
New hampshire marks the inevitable
tendency of our politics, the waning
power of once popular leaders, the I'M
willingness of a large class of intelli-
gent voters to own allegiance to party
which fails to keep its promises, the
settled and increasing dissatisfaction of
the country with the administration in
its appointments and its treatment of
the great questions Of the hour.
LONDON, March 1.-THE latest dis
patches from the Ashantee expedition
state that the British loss in the war
was sixteen killed and three hundred
and siXty-eight wounded.
The Daily News and Telegram give
an account of the treaty of peace with
the Ashantees. The king agrees to
pay to Great Britain war indemnity
of fifty thousand ounces of gold, re-
nounces- all claim to AID Ansc ASSN,
Denkeraakin and Wassaw, withdraws
his forces from the parts of the coast
belonging to or under the protection of
Great Gritain, undertakes to maintain
good road from Coomassie to Prah riv-
er, and to protect merchandise trans
ported over said road, prohibits human
sacrifices and swears perpetual peace
with England.
MCKINNEY, Texas, March 12.-
Work has commenced on the mer-
chants mill at this place. 1t is expect
ed to be completed by the middle of
July. Water is to be supplied by a
large cistern or well, twenty-five feet
in diameter and thirty feet deep.
Business is very good. General inn
provements are being made that will
make Mckinney show up with any
Town of the same population in the
state. A.
LONDON, March 12.-Thursday, the
lay of the formal entry of the duke Of
and his bride into London
will be observed as holiday at the
government docks and arsenal at
Woolwick.
If his health will permit, Mr.. Glad
tone will resume the leadership of the
LIBERAL party. The members of the
ate cabinet had a meeting to-day at
which, at the request of Me- Glad
tone, they agreed to accept the tenn
,orary leadership of the marquis Of
darlington. A section of the liberals
propose to temporarily follow the lead
rship of Vernon Harcourt or Robert
owe.
The weather is very unfavOrable for
be great event of the day-the entry
nto London of the duke of Edinburg :