The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18

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Sunday ipst N clUIorU morltis were
taken n MpfgdntWgn, liiH former
home, fof inlorment
Tlp magnificent nov Ho0hn tmho.
H. mlliedrm nj iiufusbura l'cnu'yl
ynnin, wns dedicated WI SUNDAY lHsl.
An attempt wns made a. nasusinuto
Prince bismarck, prime minister of
Germany, on las, MONDAY W shoot
Ing nj him white ho was diving In tho
country. The wmlld.hc as.n--in was
arrested aud nckuDwlrdgCd hi4 guilt.
II IL supposed lic waS incltcd to The
deed by some 0i the priests.
Colonel Robert TYLER Is spoken Of for
the office Of chancellor Of the Georgia
state university.
The Springfield Republican estimates
the damage 10y the Middleiicld disaster
at SS5O, 900, half of which falls on the
Boston ami Albany railroad.
Mrs. !. III. Smith, who lived near
Kansas City, poisoned herself and two
children last Monday while Temporal.
rly insane. one child recovered.
Miss Carrie Ostrander, one of the in
jured in the Syracuse Baptist church
disaster of June -, died on Monday
last, making the fourteenth victim.
j. ID. Johdson, proprietor of an eat.
ing house ut Mississippi City, on the
line of the New Orleans and Mobile
railroad, fell under train and was in.
stantly killed.
The Odd Fellows and Masons are
building an elegant hall at Prospect,
in Giles county, Tennessee. The build
ing will comprise church underneath
and the hall above.
or one hundred and eighty-two boys
in the Connecticut state reform school
the annual report of the Superintend-
ent makes the statement that one
hundred and eighty are liars.
II is estimated that over one million
bushels of wheat have been raised this
wear in the valley of Fall River, Kan
sas, between Eureka and the mouth OF
the stream, Il distance of about sixty
miles.
Grasshoppers, chinch-bugs, drought
and storms have done their worst, but
still the crops are being garnered, and
those left standing are most encOurag-
ing to the farmer. This in most parts
of the state of Iowa.
On Monday boiler in II saw mill n
Fulton, Ky, exploded with terrific
force, fatally wounding Perry Paschal
and seri ously injuring Mr.. Murrell and
DR.. George Paschall.
The corn crop of Alabama is now
safe, and the universal verdict is that
it will be the largest made in fifteen
years. The price of corn is advancing
in the West, but Alabamians will have
but little more to buy.
The Rev. c. b. Stuart, for many
years president of the Mansfield female
college, at Mansfield, Louisiana, has
resigned his position there to take
charge of the Masonic Institute o.
Learning at Marshall, Texas.
General Beauregard declined the po
sition of chief engineer of the Argen
tine Republic ut a salary of S2O, 1000
year. The salary was raised to S25, 0Ol
and the offer renewed, when he ac
cepted. So says the New York Tfih
une.
The Rev. a. II. Clemmons, for sew
eral years in charge of the Baptis
church ut Shreveport, has been called
to take the pastorate of the Baptist
congregation mt Marshall, Texas, anG
has signitied his acceptance of thu
same.
A man who drove through camp o
grasshoppers near Fort Dodge, Iowa
recently, declares that they covered {
square half-mile of ground, and formed
living, squirming, wiggling mass
over three inches thick on the average
Wherever they camp vegetation Il
destroyed.
The remains of the lamented TheO
dore O'Hara passed through Montgom
cry, Alabama, on Saturday last, il
charge of Colonel Thomas Ii. Taylor
of Louisville. They will be land away
i'm the cemetery at Frankfort, as the
Kentucky Legislature has made an ap
preparation to bring to her own soil tho
bodies of all her sons who were engaged
in the Mexican war. Colonel OHarg
was gallant confederate soldier. A
the close of the war he settled in Rus
sell county, Alabama, and died a few
years ago. He was buried in Columbus
Georgia, and OH Friday last his re
mains were disinterred and now res
in Kentucky soil. Colonel OHara was
the author of that beautiful poem
1.-The bivOuac of the dead"