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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-25

Countries ethROlOgi
cdikg gr0uped.


cdtty grouped. 1871 1871 1873 1874
----------
England, ScotlarLl
and Wales .......,. .455 1884 S9,4s2 81 ,999
Ireland. ........ 81, ,439 81, ,732 n, ,34I 53707
Teutonic Germany, +
Austria, and Meth -
erlnnds., -. 81, ,431 147,200 159, ,347 81, ,623
Scandinavian Swe- rH rIs
den, Norway and -lE
Denmark. ...... J, 22,l32 29,575 35,4S1 1878
Latin: Belgium
Switzerland, Italy, - -- r., a.. g.
France, Spain aIldl "a ~ /.
Portugal ...... - 0,833 1850 q, ,38i 81 ,694
SclavOnic; Russia,
and Poland. .,.... 1,208 2,641 4,S9S 5,755
China. ............ ...I 1,13ol G1eN 2J,29Z 1878
British North Amer
lean Provinces. Al, ,0S2 40,17el 1881 32, $50
Spanish and Portu- n
guese Colonies .
Cuba, Mexico, POr-
America. !. :. ...tw 1913 1900 1890 ,bs6
All other countries. l,4ld 4.440 5,067 Sill
Total immigrants ssi ,s5Oi4O4 sO6 ass. ss sis ss9
*l6,042 of this number were reported as from
II o. .ttaa.a mob sanI
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-25

mas Deen sentenced TO three months impris-
onment, Both the Government and Won
.Arnim have appealed the case TO a higher
court. e. 1t is reported that Bismarck has re-
ceiyed from the police information of fresh
plot against his life go. F. The Lon
don 4noyning Standard has a dispatch
from Spain reporting the total de-
feat and routing of the Republican Gen.
Lopez Domonquez, in Catalonia, by the Car
lists under Tristany, with heavy loss in killed
and wounded. -. According to Washington
dispatches of the 10Th Irwins testimony
in regard to the disposition of the
$750,000 of Pacific Mail money is to the
3 effect that he spent it in Washington
to secure an additional subsidy, but he re-
fuses to state to whom he paid it, 1t lis de
4 elared that Irwin will be sent to Jail and kept
there until he will testify as to who were the
{ recipients Of the money. :. The new mill
y dam recently constructed at Haydensylle
Mass, to. take Me place of the reservoir
which broke and devastated that valley
a last spring, gave way on the morning o.
the 10Th, the rushing water sweeping
everything before it, 1t is thought no lvei
) were lost. AT its recent session the Min
q nesota State Grange resolved that the pres
"a Eent State law for the regulation of rail
roads is expensive and useless to the people
and 'vexatious to the roads, and It's re
peal is, demanded; and, ia the name o
1000 voters, the Changers demand the
passage Of a law that shall guarante,
9ciIeap trapsportsIonl for the production
Of the farm, especially wheat. ...At New Or
leans'oh the 18th the boys OF the High scboo
repeated their visit to the Lower Girls Higl
pr sehoool'qnd forced the eolored girls TO leave
TAeiratcuon produced some excitement in tn
neghhorhoos but no violence. The sehoo
si BOaTdpissed a resolution dismissing all tn
public schools until after the holidays or un
affuTthar notice.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
A Constitutional Convention

| To the Editor of The Dallas Herald:
What has become Of the constitu-
tional convention, promised by the
Democratic State conventionP
The federal government, by an act
of Congress admitting Texas to repre-
sentation, has given its consent. Some
of the reconstructed and several of the
Northern States have held constitu-
tional conventions, and we have yet
to hear of the government interposing
any objection, 1t is true, by the terms
of our present constitution and the act
of Congress referred to above, we can
not make certain changes without the
consent of Congress-such as the right
of suffrage, the right to hold office,
equality of all men before the law,
and the article concerning free schools,
etc. ! believe that all men recognize
the fact, that the right to regulate suf-
frage is absolutely vested In the federal
government; it is not a concurrent
power, but a power absolutely delegated
to the government.
The people of Texas have no desire
to change or in any way to tamper
with suffrage, the right to hold office,
equality of all men before the lay, or
the act relating to public free schools.
They wish new road system. They
wish q new judiciary upon the basis of
1866. The Office of district attorney
abolished and an attorney elected for
each county to represent the State.
The wish to take from the hands of
the executive the appointing power,
and make every Office elective.
They wish a usury law They wish
to fix a maximum rate of taxation,
and specifically define the manner
aud purposes for which disbursements
of public money shall be made. They
wish a constitutional provision prohib-
iting State Indebtedness. None 0fthese
can We have under our present consti-
tuition. Besides, many other desirable
changes might be pointed out, and re-
marked upon, but the deficiencies of
our constitution, its contradictions and
doubtful meanings. are too well known
to require comment
The people are astonished at the tar |
diness of this Fourteenth Legislature
in approaching this question, as well
as the Notwithstanding of Governor
Coke i'm his message, wherein he re-
constitutional amendments
or a convention. This is not what was
governor, by the convention
that nominated you-a square fat
footed convention was promised, and
the people demand 1t of you-they de-
mapd it of the Fourteenth Legislature.
No amendments, if you please; ''it is
not 20 specified in the bond" Con-
convention, convention, was
this we demand speedily,
hat we may, b. the grace Of God,
the consent Of the federal govern
nent having already been given make
UGH a constitution, republican in form
md subordinate to the supreme law Q !
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07

WE have given Governor Coke's
regular message a careful reading, and
feel pleasure in saying it is an able
paper-clear and statesmanlike-and
breathing that genuine conservatism
which is thorough characteristic of its
author. He shows the impossibility OF
furnishing the Legislature with the
true condition of the State, because
the late State officers had entirely
failed 20 make their annual reports.
Bat he gives his own views on immi-
grafton, education, internal improve
ments, the business of insurance, from
tier protection, ETC., etc, in all of which
we find clear exposition of sound and
comprehensive views, satisfying us
anew that in Governor Coke We have
a clear headed, honest and highly
practical man to preside over our State
government. We only regret that the
governor is not more emphatic in ia
voring a convention TO make a new
constitution. 1t will require all oftwo
years to patch that instrument, while,
through a convention, the whole work
can be completely done by next Octo-
Der.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
rs,rrpsrArrs cornrs ronrrxAs,

Il has been tclcgrnphed from wash
iugton TO Texas that all the Texas del
egation were agreed on II bill Intro
duced into the Senate by old Glover
Port Flanagan, fixing the terms OF the
United States court ut Jefferson and
Galveston. From information In our
possession, we pronounce the state
ment false. The delegation Is agreed
on no such thing. On the contrary, II
majority of our delegation, including
Roger @. Mills, is in favor OF holding
the United States court for the eastern
district at Galveston, Dallas, Tyler ana
Jefferson, and of the western district,
Mt Austin, Waco, San Antonio and
Corpus Christi. A sickly majority Is
in favor Of the East Texas district court
being held only at Galveston and ~
Ter. That would be the preparation o.
an outrage. TO withhold court from
Dallas, the center of North Texas, anc
plant one in Tyler, at an angle or Eas'
Texas, would be one Of those acts O.
Injustice over which justice wept be-
fore this was country. We hope nc
Democratic Congressman from Texas
will give countenance to so gross
wrong.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
SIGNS.

Radicals have proclaimed from the
house tops, for circulation in the North
that the Democrats of Texas were OPP
posed to free common school education.
To show the utterly brazen-faced false
hood of the charge and the deep inter-
est felt by the people in the success OF
a beneficient school system, we have
only to mention the fact that in three
of the greatest counties of the state,
the only ones from which we have de-
tailed returns, the following results APP
pear:
In Galveston county, Thomas n.
Waul, a Confederate general and an
ex-member of the Congress of the
Confederacy, has been elected county
superintendent of free public schools.
In Harris county, lin which is the
city of Houston), Colonel Ashbel
Smith, a minister from the Republic OF
Texas to Great Britain, and man dis
tinguished in literature, has been elect
ed to the same office.
In Dallas county, covering the city
of Dallas, General William l.. Cabell,
a graduate of West Point, a captain in
the United States army and general
in the Confederate army, has been
unanimously elected to the same Office.
We have seen the results in no other
counties, but if these three cases are
not sufficient to choke Radical Threats,
what more proof is wanted?
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07


Captain F. J. Agnew, of Sherman,
arrived in town Wednesday, from
Archer county, with about q, 1000 pounds
of copper ore, for shipment to Phila-
delphia. A previous shipment of an
inferior ore from the same mines,
assayed fifty per cent of pure copper.
Captain Agnew and Major George
Nelson Smith have associated them
selves with Philadelphia capitalists in
the organization of stock company,
with capital of one hundred thousand
dollars, for the purpose of mining and
developing the mineral wealth of
Northwestern Texas.
The captain has been prospecting in
the northwestern counties of the State
for several weeks, with large party of
miners, and reports all quiet on the
Wichita, so far as Indian affairs are
concerned, but says, should the red
skins dispute their rights to possession
of the territory, he is ready to meet
them in their own style of warfare, as
his company is composed of "TeXas
Rangers" and that they are under
strict "frontier military discipline"
Captain Agnew also reports the i'm
migration to the counties of Clay and
Montague to be steadily increasing,
and that the grazing in these counties
is excellent, the range cattle still look
ing finely,
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
THE LOUISIANA QUESTION.

Mr.. Carpenters speech on the affairs
of Louisiana was concluded in the
United States senate OIL Friday. A
correspondent referring to it says the
senator took up stand near Senator
Morton. Every seat was filled. War
moth, Sheridan, Pinchback, Mcmillan,
Sheldon, Sypher, all were present.
His exposure of the utter rottenness of
Louisiana politics is described as ter
rife. When he informed the senate,
and especially Senator Morton, that
the Republican party must unload all
this corruption before entering upon
the next presidential campaign, the
sentiment appeared to meet the
approval of all the leaders of the party
who heard it uttered. His speech on
all sides was admitted to have been
the most powerful and thorough one
thus far beard in Congress on the
Louisiana question. 1t was replete
with facts and figures.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
GALVESTON,

We are glad that Major Howelps re-
port for the improvement of Calves
ton harbor has been approved. Stu
ated as Galveston harbor is, with
twenty feet of water in the inner and
outside bars, she is destined to become
quite city. The whole State of Texas
is interested in this matter, The price
of freight, which Morgan guages at his
own pleasure, will soon become thing
of the past. With deepened channel
into the wharf twenty or twenty-five
feet, many steam craft will compete
for the trade of Texas, and MIR. Nor
gan's monopoly is gone. OF course, the
ships built for the trade of our gulf
coast have not been bad investment.
On the contrary, the commodore of the
gulf can say with much composure, ~
have enough any how, and have made
it out of you, Texas. So deepen the
bars, and let the world compete for its
trade ~
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
TARDY JUSTICE.

The Republican majority in the senate
of the United States has belittled itself
for ten yeas past by refusing to allow a
of bust Chief Justice fancy to be placed
in the Supreme court chamber, along
side of the other distinguished jurists
that had preceded him. Sumner, Of
Massachusetts, was the leader of the
opposition to this measure. Recently,
while he was absent from his seat in
the senate, a bill was brought forward
and passed, providing for doing this
tardy act of justice to one of the most
eminent and purest men that ever
wore the ermine of the United States.
The measure has to pass the house
before it becomes n law.
As, however, Butler, who seems to
have the house bottled up and under
bis control, once ranged politically
with fancy and swore by the bred
Scott decision, it is not likely that any
opposition will be made in that body.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
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MISCELLANEOUS.

WASHINGTON, February 3.-There
was brief cabinet session to-day, and
all the members were present.
James NJ, Harvey was elected sen.
alter from Kansas. He is a Virginian.
Nomination-Joseph A. Lee, regis
ter of land office, Gainesville, Louisi-
ana.
A bill was introduced i'm the house
providing that after October LIST the
bureau of Military Justice shall be
abolished, and the duties of the judge
advocate general and bis assistant shall
be performed by officers detailed for
such service.
The house is engaged on n bill from
the Banking committee.
In the senate, the bankrupt bill was
resumed, and the first six amendments
of the Judiciary committee to the bank
rupt bill We're agreed to.
Flanagan. of Texas, presented a pc
tition from the colored citizens Of At
lanta, Georgia, denying the statement
of Hon. A. Fl. Stephens, made In his
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07

on Tie pnfl NJ lhc English government
~ ward IN, mil ~ NJ plenty, the rny'
ages NJ n mighty famine would not
only do serious damage Ia liz prestige,
but would cause the Eaat Indians 10
despiso n power which could not OF
would not protect ~ subjects against
such devastation, aud might not i'm
probably be followed by rebellion ANA
resistance TO the British yoke.
To inaugurate proper measures the
British government ought to get from
this government the loan OF the
"christian warrior" o. o. Howard,
and let him organize Hindoo bureau
Tie would keep them from starving
1t il true he might feather his own
nest as he went along; but then the
British government is mot constitution
ally opposed to robbery in East India,
and could wink ut his populations ana
condone his offences in consideration
of the moral and religious training he
would put into the little Hindoos with
their vice. This country, besides, is too
narrow and contracted in its views for
man of the large humanitarian i'm
pulses of the one-armed christian. The
idea of calling him to account about
the beggarly sum Of three hundred
thousand dollars, after all he had done
for the elevation and advancement OF
"the man and BROTHER" must be SUI
premely disgusting to him. BY all
means let him go to India.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
Inin.fr. nr nnapEaI.

~ n meetlug u Plano lodge No.
$50, u. and A. Masons, held Vt the
lodge room on the - day Of January,
a. d., 1874, the following resolutions
were adopted!
Whereas, II Inns pleased the Great
Architect Of the universe to remove
from our midst, Oh the Goth u Decem-
Der, 1873, our aged, worthy aud beloved
brother, Thomas j. Malone;
Resolved, That In the death Of
brother Malone, Plano lodge No. 235
A. L. and A. Masons, has lost one OF
its most respected members, IN bright
and shining light In masonry" the
Presbyterian church an able and zeal
Gus minister.
Resolved, Though II Is with sorrow
we submit to the affecting hand of
kind providence, we know that HE
doeth nll things we'll" and we feel as
sured that He will have as conductor
through those gloomy portals one who
is al le to give the true password which
gains admission into the celestial
lodge above, where the supreme archi-
tect of the universe resides.
Resolved, That we tender to the
family of our deceased brother our
heartfelt coincidence in their sad be-
reavement.
Resolved, That copy Of these reso.
lutions be sent to the family of said
brother, and copy to The DALLAS
HERALD and Cumberland Press with a
request to publish.
Resolved, That the foregoing pream-
BILE and resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of this lodge, and the usual
badge of mourning be worn by the
members. T. J. VANCE,
!. X. KEPPLER,
J. W. AEvERLY,
Committee.
w pEyERIy Secretary
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07

WE take the following extract from
q letter in the Shreveport Times from
Hon. r. w. Loughrey, late of the JEFF
ferson Times, and now of the Austin
Statesman. 1t lets us somewhat into
the secret of the defeat of Governor
Throckmorton. The end Is not yet;
the people will have something to say
of this matter yet:
1t is scarcely necessary to write. you
anything in relation to what has been
done here. That, no doubt, has been
anticipated by telegraph. But cannot
refrain from saying few words IN re-
gard to the election of United States
Senator, which occurred yesterday.
AS YOU are aware, the veteran journal
ist, Colonel DeMorse, was Withdrawn
early in the contest. The race was
then between Ex-Governor Throck-.
morton, Hon. John III. Reagan, and
General Sam Bell MaXey. The first
named gentlemen were in the lead,
/ with preponderance in favor of the
ex-governor. But 1on Tuesday night
the friends of Reagan and MaXey held
CuuCuS anu
which resulted the next day, to the
surprise of every one, in the election
of Maxey, who up to that time had en-
hibited no great strength, and it was
supposed had been Withdrawn. Why
Judge Reagan submitted to such a
result is ineXplicable. The sole pur-
pose of the caucus was to defeat
Throckmorton, whose election up to
this period seemed certain. When we
consider the eminent services OF this
distinguished gentleman, his lifelong
devotion to the interests of the state,
and that he was displaced by federal
power and its bayonets, such treat
ment, it occurs to many thinking men
here, was as unjustitiable as it was
reprehensible. Not that Judge Reagan
would not have been acceptable to the
people, or very large portion OF
them-it may have been in the end to
majority of the Legislature-but that
his friends, despairing of his success,
should have thrown their strength to
a weaker candidate.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
ENGLAND's STRUGGLE AGAINsT A
NEW FOE,

NEW FIVE.
The statesmen of England IN the
midst of heated contest between the
Liberals and Conservatives for the
possession of the home government
find their attention called to their
East India possessions by the danger
of one of the most appalling calamities
that the history Of the world furnishes
any account of. All the accounts from
the East represent the famine i'm India,
caused by the failure of the rice crop,
as assuming frightful proportions.
Sixty million of souls dwell in the val
ley of the Ganges; Of these at least one
half are without their usual supply of
food, and in imminent danger of starv-
alton unless they are fed by the gov
eminent. This supply must be con-
tinued for seven months, until a new
crop comes in next September. The
magnitude of the task thus thrown
upon the rulers Of England can be
judged from this brief statement of the
facts of the situation,
Lord NorthbroOk, the Vieeroy of
India, is fully alive to the perils of the
and has begun to make ar
for the impending calam-
ity; and the people Of England are
becoming fairly aroused to the gravity
of the case and to the necessity OF their
taking steps to save the lives OF
their fellow subjects. England has
to struggle not only for the
purpose of preserving the lives Of
thirty millions Of her msjesty's most
thrifty and docile Hindoo subjects, but
also Cor the purpose Of preserving her
'wn prestige in the East. The failure
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
Trichina SpirRIis.

That loathsome disease, trichina
spiralis, has made its appearance in
New York and also st. Louis. If you
don't want it be sure your pork and
sausage are well cooked before eaten.
The disease is frequently mistaken
for typhoid fever, or II low form of con-
tinued fever. 1t is frequently ushered
in by vomiting and purging, followed
by soreness of the muscles, and fe-
brile condition, sometimes for weeks,
and this, with the tendency to diar-
rhea, Stimulates typhoid fever In many
of it's characteristics. The disease is a
new one, or rather, only recognized
since 1860.
The trichina themselves are little
round villiform worms, and as seen
under q microscope are cOiled up in
little cysts, or nests. A square inch of
pork would sometimes furnish thirty
thousand. When meat Is eaten they
are taken into the stomach where they
Increase and multiply, and passing out
through the intestines and tissues find
a lodging in the muscles, and here after
a while they become nested in little
cysts. Pork is the only food we eat
that contains trichina.
No effective medical treatment Is
known. When they once become i'm
bedded in the muscles, however, not all
cases are fatal, but the patient never is
the same in health as before the attack.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
Parker Comfy Hangers

Are In camp near Skein's Peak
called camp Bfiscoe, which is situated
sixteen miles northeast of Weather
ford, on the road leading from VeaPs
station to Jacksboro. Captain Hunter
informs us that his men are all In good
health, well AIMED and equipped, and
ready for raid after the Indians when
ever an opportunity offers. He desires
that information shall be sent him OF
all depredations, and we give the spe-
cific locality ofhis camp for that pur-
pose.-T Weatherford Times.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07

We stated, some days since, that Mr..
John Stevens, late private secretary to
Governor Davis had been retained in
the same position by Governor Coke.
This is an error. We now learn author
itatively that for few dayssome ofthe
old clerks of the State and other de-
partments, assisted the new ones in get
ting the run of the offices, but none
were employed by the present admin
istration. Mr.. Stevens, we see by the
Galveston News, has accepted posi-
ton with the collector of customs ut
Galveston.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07

THE weather is pleasant and trade is
revivlng; the farmers are bringing in
cotton and providing themselves With
supplies for the year. The Increased
area of cultivated land Is perceptible
everywhere in Dallas and the adjoin-
ing counties.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07

GENERAL JOHN G. WALKER, for
merly associated with us in the States
man, we are pleased to announce, Is in
our city and intends remaining here
several days. General Walker severed
his connection with the Statesman
some ten months since to assume con-
troll of the immigration department. of
the Texas Pacific. Since then he has
been spending his time mostly in New
York and Philadelphia, putting his
department in trim. When he left
here his health did not seem to be the
best, but now he comes back robust
and hearty, looking ten years younger,
and with countenance full of content
ment. We look back with pleasure to
our connection with General Walker,
end feel happy to state that in leaving
us he expressed publicly his regrets at
doing SO, and his earnest desire to sec
the Statesman move on with increased
He has host of friends
in Texas who will be glad to learn that
he is doing exceedingly well.-[Austin