The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-10

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Austin, January 8.
The Supreme Court, In the Ilodrl-
guez case, decided, to-day, that the
late election was Illegally held.
The new Legislature Is expected to
organize on the l3th instant, and
Governor Coke will be inaugurated.
PENANG, January THE cholera
and other diseases prevail TO u fearful
extent In the Dutch camps In Acheen.
The native allies are the greatest suf-
ferers.
GENEVA, January THE Catholics
Of Switzerland have sent protest to
the government against the expulsion
from the country Of the papal Nuncio
LONDON, January IA special from
Berlin to the Times says the impris-
onment OF arch Bishop Flochielski is
threatened. All Of his furniture has
been distraiped, and he still refuses TO
pay the fines imposed by the courts.
a telegram from Carthagena says 1t
Is reported on good authority that
the burning OF the man-ofwar
Leetvan was intentional and that
the Numancia and Mendez Nunez
were to have been destroyed Mt the
same time, but the plan was discov-
cred and they were saved.
MADRID, January IA dispatch
reports two thousand people killed and
wounded before Klisburn, Saragessa
and in Valodolid.
1t is supposed the government in
tends soon to add ten thousand men to
the reserves.
Boston, January -Four masked
men overpowered, bound and gagged
the patrol Waterman between the
Abingdon national bank and the tack
factory, in Abingdon last night, and
started for the bank, half n mile dis
tant from the scene. The Waterman
managed to free himself and gave
the alarm, when the ruflians fled.
PHILADELPHIA, January q A
severe storm of sleet prevails west OF
Pittsburg which has pre- strated all the
wires, cutting off communication with
Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Column
bus, Indianapolis and st. Louis.
PITTsBURG, January There are
reports of the telegraph lines being
broken i'm many places.
SANTA FE, January s7.-Border trou.
bles increasing.
NEW York, January IA meet.
ing of the Bar Association passed reso,
lutions deploring the nomination and
objecting to Williams. Resolutions
favoring the unconditional repeal OF
the bankrupt law were voted down.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., January AR
rived at Tarpaulin, yesterday, the
schooner John Batch from Whining
ton, North Carolina, with the loss Of
the Captain, swho died on the passage
CONCORD, N. H., January I'm the
Republican State Convention james
&. Briggs made speech favoring
woman suffrage.
BOSTON, December THE Legisla
ture organized with the old officers.
Mrs. Adeline Badger, principal of &
large private school and member cleo
of the Boston School committee, il
missing and it is believed she has
suicided.
WASHINGTON, January I'm the
Senate Mr.. Morton gave notice tina
when the salary bill was disposed OF
he would ask the Senate to take up ant
dispose of the Louisiana case.
Mr.. Stevenson gave notice that wher
the Louisiana case was taken up, HI
would move to refer the whole matter
back to the committee on Privileges
and Elections, with authority to take
proof as to the validity of the election
Mr.. Sumner presented petition o
thirty-five thousand citizens of Ohio
against the proposed theological amend
ment to the constitution.
A tedious debate over the salary bill
exhausted the day. There was no ex
ecutive session.
In the House Butler said that hi
wished to prune the civil rights bill O.
absurd amendments over which the
House could vote two or three days
A resolution was adopted calling fol
the names of paymasters of the late
war whose accounts are unsettled.
Mr.. Crutchford, of Illinois, asked
leave to offer an amendment to the sup.
Elementary civil rights bill providing
penalty against any woman who re.
fuses an offer of marriage on account
of race, color, or previous condition OF
servitude. Laughter
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts, OBJ
jected. In the course of his speech Mr..
Butler said if he might be allowed to
speak for the Republican party he
would emboGy the doctrine in a SEN
tence-not that all men were equal,
but that every man had a right to be
the equal of every other man. If he
could all constitutions, all laws, all en-.
actments, all prejudices, all caste, all
custom, all thought against that, in
contravention of that, were unjust,
wicked, unchristian and certainly must
be brought to naught. The bill only
removed all impediments 10 every
man to be the equal of every other
man, if God had given him the power
to be the equal.
Mr.. Monroe, of Ohio, from the Com
mittee on Education, made report on
the resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Sypher, of Louisiana, directing army
rations to be issued for the relief of the
starving poor in the Southern States.
The committee had talked over the
matter fully and freely and the result
arrived at was, that the committee did
not regard it as the proper sphere of
Congress to enter on general system
of providing for pauperism III the
States. If this precedent were estab-
lished it would soon he found that Con-
gress had entered on the whole BUSH
ness of taking charge of pauperism
generally throughout the States. The
report was adopted and the committee
was discharged from the further con-
sideration of the subject.
The McEnery Legislature, through a
committee, have telegraphed the pre-
siding officers of the Senate and House
at great length. The communication
is in the form of petition for relief
and recognition. The dispatch is
signed by Messrs. Booth, Worrall, LODI
bell, Foster and Searcher.
General Ames, with his family,
leaves for Jackson tonight to take
possession of the gubernatorial chair
and mansion. Mrs. General Ames is
a daughter of General b. +. Butler.
There was no executive business
to-day, affecting the South, except the
theft of about eleven thousand dollars
worth of drafts for refunded taxes,
mostly belonging to the people of that
section. These drafts were In tin