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

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/ dIJItupiilo slDHmpr Fortune has arriV-
/ rd no Kingston, Junulca, ull well. The
MuuuuH1lplu, detailed ~ observe the
. imusIl ~ Venus at Sable bay, has mr.
rived, n.l well.
Tho Ming Of the Cannlbal islands
leaves san Francisco for Washington
| Saturday.
MullctpR reports for the sites for the
| proposed public buildings at Helena
and Little Rock have been purchased.
10 viii 10 necessary 10 resort TO con-
demnatiOn to secure property at Grand
Rapids.
In many instances the appropria-
lions are inadequate, the prices assess
ed under condemnation being In eX-
cess. Memphis has presented the pro-
perty to the government for public
buildings valued at three hundred
| thousand dollars. The old custom
house lot at Norfolk was sold at auc-
| ton,
hh' vuoIolil hpuSVi COURT house anu
posIoilice at hnoXViiie nave been COM
pleted within the appropriation.
The building ut Columbia, >. o., VIII
be completed within the present year.
Quarermaster Meig's report states
that railroad companies, principally in
the south, owe the government seven
million five hundred thousand dol
lars.
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PARIS, December "A draft or
the message to be submitted to the as
sembly by President MacMahon was
read in the council of ministers yester-
day. A paragraph in the message in
regard to raising the state of seige was
encrgeticaIIy objected to 10y majority
of the members, who claimed that the
maintenance Of the state of seise was
necessary IN consequence of the re-
cent successes Of the radicals in the
municipal elections at Paris and else
where in The country. Several OF the
members Of the cabinet also objected
to the manner in which The constitu-
tiunal laws were amended. Another
meeting oi the council 10 determine
these questions is to be held to-day.
| MONTGOMERY, December 1.-The
first annual session of the Alabama
state grange, met yesterday, n. IL.
| Chambers. worthy master, president
| SiXty-hvc counties Were represented
by one hundred delegates and others
are coming Each county with twelve
oranges, or less, sends one delegate
those with more, send two delegates.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, December 2.
-siXty-siX employees of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad struck to-day
| for back wages. An engine with the
mail was allowed to pass; other trains
were detained.
| NEW YORK, December 3.-AmOnS
Havermeyer's pail bearers were Gov
ernor Tilden, Peter Cooper and Thur
| low Weed.
A special dispatch says that Fred.
A. Dockery, who was condemned to
death by the Spaniards in Cuba, but
whose sentence was committed to ten
wears Imprisonment in Spain, has been
pardonpd
! Castallar has been appointed a COM
missioner to represent Spain at the
centennial exhibition in the United
! States.
The trial of Count Won Arnim will
probably be POSTPONED TO January. The
| Cyuusel for the defense have permits
! sion ouly during the space OF two hours
| n day 10 examine the papers, subject to
Ilhg surveillance of the officers of the
! foreign department. These restrictions
retard the progress of the preparation
LOT the defense, and it may be found
necessary to postpone the trial again
! from january until spring
A New Orleans special to the Her
aid states that Judge Durell has sent
| his resignation to the president as
United States district judge. 1t is said
| That Walker Fearn will be his success
| sOr.
1t is said that Kellogg is negot, Eating
| for the sale of all of his property in the
state.
the operatives in Higgins corset
! factory, OF this city, fifteen hundred in
number, struck to-day against u reduc-
ton OF wages.
The anniversary of the Reformed
Episcopal church was celebrated last
night in the churches of Rev. DIR. Sabine
| of New York, and Rev. William III.
Reed, of BROOKLYN. The exercises of
| the BROOKLYN celebration was partici-
Dated in by Mr.. Turner, secretary Of the
general council ofthe Reformed church,
! Lieutenant Governor Steward, j.
WOodford and Revs. Mason and Gala
| CHER.
Booths theater was bought to-day by
Oliver Ames for 1919, 900, subject to q
mortgage OF S27G, 900.
John il. Seymour, wholesale crock
ery dealer, failed to-day for S2OO,OO0.
The lon shoremen's strikes appear
TO be approaching close. The steam
ship companies are fixed in their pur-
pose 10 maintain the reduced rates of
wares. The sailing ships are taking
back their old hands at the former
rates.
A Little Rock special states that
lieutenant Governor Smith and former
Secretary of State Wheeler have quiz
a+Iv Inft for kVoshinuton.