The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-05

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MCnMOND, Va, December 8.--ll
the cheap transportation convention
to-day, II bill prepared 10y General Dul
Green, Of Georgia, providing for th
Inauguration Of n scheme of intcrna
improvements, 10 lac sustained by
system of banking connected there
with, was presented aud referred.
NJ. B. Floyd, OF Illinois, presented
his views ~ to the construction of I
double track trunk railway, by thu
government, to secure competition II
transportation Of freight.
General Frobel, of Georgia, present
ed II resolution looking to the estab
lishment and maintenance of CONNER
cial intercourse between the states o.
the union, and to revive the commerce
of the nation.
The committee on resolutions pre-.
sented report upon the resolution OF
Colonel Johnson, of New Orleans, ask
ing government aid in the construc-
ton of the Southern Pacific railroad
and the great water lines. Such aid to
carry the right Of the government to
control the rates of transportation oven
such lines, and provided that the gov
eminent guarantee asked shall be Sc
guaranteed as to protect the national
treasury from loss.
Four members of the committee pre-
sented protest against the adoption
of the report, and against asking the
government for aid in the construc.
ton of railroad. The report and pro
test brought prominently before the
convention one of the most important
questions connected with the mission
ofthe association, that of government
subsidies to railroads and other lines
of transportation.
Pending a motion to substitute the
minority report for that of the major
ty, the question of government subsi-
dies was discussed at length. On Il
call of states the vote seeming to be
largely in favor of the motion, Colonel
johnson, by permission of the conven.
ton, Withdrew his resolution.
LOUISVILLE, December 3.-It is re-
ported that White, who defeated Cock
rell in the ninth district, killed Cock
rell yesterday. The canvass has been
a very bitter one. The ninth district
is known as the mountain district.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, December 3
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
after paying discharged all their strik'
ing employees, and the road is now run
ming as usual.
WASHINGTON, d. c., December g.
Judge Durell, district judge, Louisiana
under whose rulings the present gov
eminent of that state obtained power
has resigned. His resignation was moi
accepted, but it will be.
KANEs, Butler county, Penn, De
cember 3.-Seventy-tive buildings, in
Guiding two hotels and the postoflice
were burned to-day, Loss, one hun
dred thousand dollars.
LONDON, December 3.-Great Britain
has finally and formally declined t'
participate in the international law
conference proposed by Russia.
The cable steamer, LaPlata, hence
to Rio Grande del Sur, foundered a
sea. Sixty lives were lost. Fourtec,
were rescued from II boat after twenty
four hours exposure. The loss is ut
tributed to the shifting ola heavy crap
ping apparatus.
The captain, surgeon and three othe
officers, engineer, seven stewards ant
cooks, eleven stokers, fourteen seamei
and the whole of the cable staff, mum
herring sixteen, and including Mr.
Ricketts,, chiefelectrician, were drown
ed. The chiefsteWard, who was saved
reports that the fires were all out 10y
ten o'clock in the morning of th4. 18th
A heavy sea carried away two o
the boats, the ship gradually settled by
the stern, and at 1890 foundered. Th'
captain and doctor were on the bridge
having failed to clear the patent lif'
RATS, and went down with the crew
The decks burst as the steamer sank.
PARIS, December 3.-The radical re
publican journal La Republique Fran
Gals says that the greatest confusion
exists among the various parties II
the assembly. Both the right and lief
consider dissolution imminent.
NEW ORLEANS, December 3-The frs
race for the Orleans stakes for colt:
andfillies three years old; S25 entrance
play or pay, with 500 added. Secont
horse $500, third 500; two miles
There We're twenty-five nominations
but only two started. Ballenkel leat
from the start, winning by length
and easily beating Colonel Neligan
Time, 3:42. In the pools Ballenkel sole
at 800; Colonel Neligan, $50.
The second race was for the clut
purse of $500, one mile, with one hun
dred pounds on each, the three yea
Odds to carry their proper weight; S3Ot
to the first horse, SIS to the second anc
S25 to the third.
After a half dozen false starts they
all got off well together, running clost
until reaching the half mile pole, whel
Crown Prince and Pauline Sprague
went to the front, closely followed 10y
Lolita Moon, who took the lead, on en-
tering the home stretch, winning by t
length; Crown Prince second, Pauline
Sprague third, beating King Amedus
Carrie p, Mary l., Bob Britton and
Tom Leathers. Time-1:45f.
In the pool Lolita Moon sold at Sl25
King Amedus $50, Carrie p and Mary
T. S35, Crown Prince $25, and the field
at $l3.
The third race was fora club purse OF
500 for all ages, $3.50 to the first and
$3.50 to the second, two mile heats. This
was won by Falmouth beating Planter.
The latter broke his fetlock before fin
ishing the first heat, and was distanc-
ed. Time 3:479. In pools last night
Planter sold for $l60 Falmouth, $50,
but before the race to-day the betting
was ten to one OH Planter. There was
q good track, but small attendance.
LONDON, December 3.-The steamer
Viking spoke the Direct Cable compa-
ny's steamer Faraday, on the 10Th Ill
timo, in latitude forty degrees north,
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