The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-12-27
The Late Election OyerthrOwn BY the
Returning Board,
Fatal RCnCOntre Between Dan. g.,
Bycrly, Manager Of the Bulletin,
and Ex-Governor Warmolb.
Statement Of WRrmOlh Concerning tho
Affair heath Of Bycrly From
The Wounds.

NEW ORLEANS, December 2O'-GoV-
ernor Kellogg states that the returns
show three republicans and three DEM
ocrats elected NJ members OF Congress.
The house Is nearly, II not quite n
tic, as Ex-Governor Hahn aud other
conservative republicans will probably
remain neutral.
The constitutional amendments are
declared carried by about ten thousand
majority.
Bienylle parish, which gave Grant
and Kellogg six hundred votes IN lS'2
sand Dubroca no votes this year, Is not
counted, aud Grant parish, the scene
Of the CallaX massacre, is also thrown
out, though II gave small republican
majority.
In the fight between Dan G. Byerly,
manager of the Bulletin, and ex.Gov-
ernor Warmoth, on Canal street, Dyer
" Knocked Warmoth down with
stick and Jumped on him, when War
moth drew his knife and stabbed
Byerly several times in the abdomen.
The wounds are dangerous. Warmoth
was arrested.
The difficulty between Byerly and
Warmoth grew out of n controversy
between Warmoth and the Bulletin
which led 10 u publication Friday 10y
Wamoth of card addressed to the
manager Of the Bulletin rejecting
upon that paper and Mr.. Jewell, one
Of its editors.
Governor Warmoth to-day made the
following statement about the dim,
Guilty to an agent of the associated
press: yesterday, after my card APP
peared in the Picayune, | was called
on by friend of Mr.. Jewell, who de-
manded of me an ahject apology for
the card, which / declined to make.
He then asked me If | would accept
a challenge to fight duel, remarkin1g
at the same time, that it was generally
understood | would not fight. l re-
piled that would not fight If ! could
rs well avoid it; that ! was not
fighter and that it would be time
enough to answer the question about
dueling when twas challenged. Later
i'm the day the affair was confined to
our respective friends, They met at .
o'clock last evening aud agreed that
Jewell and myself should fight i'll Ala-
bama Monday morning. weapons, duei-
ing pistols; distance, ten PAGES ihese
terms having been accepted, ana not
of course, apprehend an attack, es'
pecially from any one connected WIN
the Bulletin. My understanding was
that my antagonist, pending II meeting,
should he courteous, and | was just ON
the eve of touching my hat to Mr..
Hyerly, in front Of whom there were
tWo ladies, the street being crowded,
when lie struck me, with heavy stick
on the head, inlicting the wound you
see,"
The governor, taking off his hat, OK
hibIted cut about two inches long
over the left temple, extending back
from his forehead.
"He struck me three times with the
stick, when | clinched with him.
Meantime taking u knife out OF my
pocket, and With my afins nfn9hn hl3
Shoulders, got my hands tocAetheran,,a
ppened the knife. Just then ! 1eli,
Byerly falling or me, and soon after
we fell policeman took the knife out
of my hand, and some of the crowd
pulled Byerly of. understand Byerly
has been cut and am accused OF doing
the cutting"
Warmoth was arrested Immediately
otter the fight, aud cpnyeyed "a the
third precinct station. lie has since
been transferred to the parish prison
to await the result of Byerly's wounds
in the abdomen, one of which his ply
sioians consider very dangerous but
not necessarily mortal. Shortly after
being wounded, Mr.. Byerly was remov-
ed to the Orleans intirmary on Dau-
phine street.
The Bulletin tomorrow will publish
the statement of an eye witness to the
Byerly- WarmOth recontre. The state
ment differs somewhat from that of
Warmoth as to tho cutting. This wit
Mass States that the knife was open
Waan drawn, and that two or three
stabs were made. before they fell.
Byerly's wounds were in the lett side,
lust o~er the hip, one of them being
over four inches deep, and indicates
the length of the knife blade.
Byeriy died at twenty minutes past
ten O'clock.
There was row yesterday evening
on the corner of First and Canal
streets, between the negroes and
whites. Two negroes were Killed.
There was also row between the
soldiers and citizens on the corner o.
Canal aud Basin streets. Two soldiers
nx,,o.al,, xrnilndat