The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-04
--LATEST NEWS.


Nll'lbNs
by news from Port.nu.princc dated
the 18th ultlmo, II Is learned that Gen.
ernl Michel Dominique was unnni
mously elected, by the national assem-.
bly,, president Of the republic of lIayti.
HAVANA, July l.--Cnptaln General
C0ncha has Issued u decree requiring
on md after July lSt, the payment Of
fifty per cent in gold of the regular
taxes aud duties. The rate, Mt which
paper will he received in payment OF
these dues Is to he fixed BY the gov
eminent. The decree OF June 18th au-
thorizing the banks 10 sell gold for the
payment Of land taxes is revoked.
A lighter with thirty-iive persons on
board capsiaed to-day or the village of
Cojimar, six miles east ofHavana, and
sixteen were drowned.
LONDON, July IA special to the
Standard says that Marshal Serrano
has decided to take command of the
republican army Immediately.
General Xubala has arrived at Taf-
faln.
BAYoNNE, July l.--Don Carlos and
wife have arrived here from Estella.
They were received amid great reJoic-
ing.
YoNKERs, \. V, July flames p.
Saunders was shot to-day by the defen-
dant, in case he was prosecuting.
He is past grand secretary of the order
of Odd Fellows and lis well known.
Two shots were fired, one of which, it
is feared, will prove fatal. The affair
occurred just rs court was adjourning.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Julyl.-In the
state temperance convention, seventy
five delegates, including twenty wo-
men, formed all Independent party.
Among their nominations is that of
Miss Jennie +. Willie for superinten-
dent of public instruction..
WASHINGTON, July 1.--Mr Hale has
finally declined the postmaster general
ship on account of impaired health.
His successor will not he named for
several days.
QUEBEC, July Limited States Con-
sui Strove, whose term of office had
just expired, is dead. Strove had been
promoted to the legation of Leghorn.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Va, July
Matt Fox, a visitor from Chicago,
aged twenty-eight, died suddenly to-
day of heart disease.
LOUISVILLE, July There is no
truth in the story of the family being
murdered in Spencer county.
ST. PAUL, July 1.--Rev. DR.. Willes
of Red Wing, accepts the bishopric of
Wisconsin.
BERLIN, July 1.-The North Ger
man Gazette, the official organ, pays a
warm tribute to Mr.. Bancroft. 1t says
the German government sees his de-
parture with regret, feeling which is
lively and general in private as well as
official circles, and declares that since
Frederick the Great received Franklin
the mutual understanding between
Germany and the United States has
never been more profound than at
The emperor has presented
his portrait, life size and painted to Or
der, to Mr.. Bancroft.
LONDON, July 2.-Dispatches from
Spain report that the republican troops
are greatly excited over the reports of
the murder and multilation of wounded
soldiers by the Carlists, and it is feared
that they will make sanguinary re-
prisal.
New YORK, July 1.-The freedmens
saving and trust company received Or
1ers yesterday, from the national
board of trustees, at Washington, to
stop taking in and paying out money.
A forged bond on the Central Pacific
'ailroad was discovered on Wall street
,o-day. 1t is thought it came from Eu-
'ope.
The church of England synod and
wO Presbyterian synods are meeting
lere. The question under discussion
8 on the Episcopal church union with
ach other and with the Canadian
Presbyterian church.
PROVIDENCE, II. l., July 1.-The So
ial mills, at Woonsocket, running
fifty thousand spindles md one thous-
nd looms on cotton goods, was en-
rely destroyed by fire this morning
[. caught about three o'clock from the
riction of the main belt about the
liddle of the structure, which was six
undred feet long and built of stone c
nd brick. The flames spread rapidly,
ut the employees, seven hundred in
lumber, probably all escaped. Loss
'om seven to eight hundred thousand
ollars; insured for six hundred and =.
lirty thousand dollars.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, July 1.-The re-
lblican state convention passed reso-
ltions in favor of submitting to the 4
eOple an amendment to the constitu- G
on extending suffrage to women, and a
latcongress has the power to regulate :,
,mmerce between the states, whether +,
7 rail or water, and that right should Ii
gislate against eXtortions and dis O
and under that right I
lould provide for the improvement of =
lr great national waterway. The con- OF
'ntion approved the new currency Is
II. r.
Texas, July 2.-Yes- eI
rday the Matamoras authorities re- pl
ased w. H. Green, accused of forg- N
g, on the ground of insufficiency of III
oof. The judge held that Green could
It be held longer than three days UNI
r the constitution of Mexico without m
lficient proof, and when that should to
rive he would extradite Green if to ar