The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-11-28

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NASHVILLE, November 2o,--'Ihc
democratic party Of tennessee cele'
bratcd the recent policltol yictoriesthis
afternoon AMI evening, The city was
full of pcoplc from this aud surround
ing states. The nsscmhlago was nd
dressed at the Exposition building this
afternoon by Hon. Joseph Il. Beck, of
Kentucky, ana Hon. NJ. G. Kerr, of
Indiana, and tonight by Governor
MclLnery, of Louisiana, and Hon. J.
Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, General
Gordon, of Georgia, aud General Nor
gan, of Alabama. Tonight the city
was illuminated and salute of one
hundred guns fired from Capitol hill,
LOUISVILLE, November 20.-The
clerkship Of the court of appeals has
been declared vacant on account of the
candidate, Thomas l.. Jones, demo-
crat, who received fifty thousand ma
jority, having accepted challenge to
fight duel five years ago.
| CHATTANOOGA, November 20.-The
hardest fought political contest known
here for years come of day over the
municipal election. James, republic
can, was elected mayor 10y two hun
bred and seventeen majority-a gain
of seventy-fvc over Maynard'8 major
ity at the state election.
CHARLESTON, November 2O.--The
board of health has decided to discon.
tinac their weekly meetings as unnec-
essary, and passed Il resolution declar-
ing it perfectly safe for strangers to
visit the city.
RALEIGH, n. c., November 20.-A
number of bills were introduced in the
house of representatives, yesterday, the
most important Of which was a bill to
provide for the compromise and set
Element of the state debt, introduced
by Colonel S. Med. Tate, of Burke,
chairman of the finance committee.
The bill is supplemental to a preamb BILE
in which is recited the reasons for not
paying all the debt, the destruction of
the property upon which the taxes
were based and the reckless legislation
and management of the finances at
time when the taxpayers had no con-
troll in public affairs.
WASHINGTON, November 2O.-The
house appropriation. committee COM
pleted the naval appropriation bill
yesterday. The estimates presented
by the secretary Were for nineteen
million dollars. The appropriation as
agreed upon by the committee is little
over seventeen million dollars. This
is only for the navy establishment
proper, and does not include appropri-
ations for the construction of ships or
| the continuance of work on the League
Island navy yard, or the proposed pur-
chase of the Stevens battery. These
and similar appropriations asked for
the navy department will be included
in the miscellaneous bill.
NEWARK, n. j., November 20.--Rev.
DR.. w. j. r. Nicholson has resigned
the pastorate of the Trinity Episcopal
church in this city, and will join the
Reformed Episcopal church.
SAN FRANCISCO, November 20.-In
the pools in the six thousand dollar
trotting race tomorrow Occident is the
first choice, Fullerton second, and Sam
Purdy third. The weather is fine.
PORTLAND, Me-, N0vemb 81 Five
inches of snow fell here to-day.
New York, November 2l.-The
schooner Hannah l.. Bethel, from Vir-
ginia, is ashore, full of water.
Edward Kidney, o cotton broker of
New Orleans, was arrested to-day on
charge of defrauding Mrs. Van Osterne,
of New Orleans, of fifty-five thousand
dollars. He was turned over to that
lady, yesterday, on a requiSition from
the governor of Louisiana.
A verdict was given for the govern
ment, yesterday, in the United States
district court, for fifty thousand dol
lars in the suit against the bondsmen
of Caleb Lyon, formerly governor of
Idaho and superintendent of Indian
affairs for that territory. There was a
balance against Lyon when he was re-
moved from the Office by President
Johnson of forty-siX thousand dollars,
and he explained as the reason for its )
non-payment that he was robbed while
Ell route from Idaho to Washington.
The suit was to recover the amount
of his bond, fifty thousand dollars.
The verdict was given in accordance
with the ruling of Judge Blatchford
that under an unrepealed law of 1873
no proof of loss can be admitted as a
defense to an action instituted by the
government unless accompanied 10y
other proof that the claim for allow
ance for the loss has been presented
and passed upon by the proper account
ing officers of the government.
WASHINGTON, November 2l.-Nego-
tiations are pending for the union Of
the Pacific Mail and Panama railroad. |
PHILADELPHIA, November 2l.-The
striking weavers have proposed 20 SUBJ
NIT to half of the reduction demanded. |
The owners of the mill made no re-
spouse, The weavers adjourned until |
to-day.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, November q.
Among the guests at the Read house
to-day was Mrs Abraham Lincoln, Ell
route to Florida, where she will spend |
the winter.
Shade Westmoreland was hanged to- |
day for the murder of William q. Ne !