The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-27
TELEGRAPNlC SUMMARY.

The great race at San Francisco has
been postponed until Christmas, and
all pools declared of.
General Quesade has captured San
Crlst0bal, with all the Carlist positions
In the neighboIhood of Pampeluna.
Additional reinforcemen,s of one
thousand three hundred aud siXty.fye
men have embarked for Cuba from
Madrid
The canal between Montreal and
Lachine is blocked with ice. Navlga.
ton is closed some days earlier than
last season.
The schooner Stella ,Marin, from
Halifax for the Magdalena~ Islands,
went ashore at Broad Cove. All hands
were drowned.
A heavy and disastrous gale occurred
Off the coast OF Fi(eshire, England.
Some fishing boats were lost, sixteen
fishermen We're drowned aud fourteen
are missing.
James Cavert, Of Binghampton, New
Hampshire, aged eighteen years, who
plead guilty TO felonious assault on
girl nine years OF age, was sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment.
The signal service operator at Mount
Washington, Name, started to de-
scend the mountain Tuesday, since
which time he has been unhearl from. !
1t is feared he persisted in the storm.
Messrs. Kerr, Wood and Cox are
prominently mentioned in connection
with the Speakersbip0f the next 1onse
Of Representatives in Washington
circles. Senators and members are
coming in 'apidly.
Royal, Giekey 4 Co., of Boston, ex-
tensive coal and lumber dealers, have
failed. The liabilities are estimated at
$25, 1000. This failure was caused by
their inability to collect from u large
number Of master builders and carpen-
tiers, who were indebted to them.
A boy named LOsetta, aged eight
years, while performing at the Thea
ire Comique, Cleveland, made II leap
from the tTapeze and struck on the
carpet held by attendants. In some
way the carpet slipped from their
hands, throwing the boy OH the stage,
'everelY injuring him.
The National Grange has elected the
officers: Master, John II.
ZONES, of Arkansas; Overseer, G.. &. ,
of Michigan Lecturer
l. b. Smedley, of Iowa; Steward,
\. J. Vaughn, of Mississippi; Treas ,
Irer, +. Nj. Mcdowell Seeretkey,
}. II. Kelly, of Kentucky. {
At meeting of the ticket agents in
chicago, rates to u mum Der of South
'rn cities were reduced. The rates 10 !,
Atlanta, Charleston, Raleigh and 9TH
n principal cities in that section have
,een reduced from two to three dol
ars. Also reduction of three dollars :
N emigrant rates to all points In I
'eXas.
The Postmaster General has re.es. !,
ablished mail service from Fort Con- !
no, via Forts Stockton, Davis, Quit. /
nan and Bliss, to the Flo Grande, at ;
Il Paso, a distance Of five hundred :
niles, by contract with the Texas and -
'alifornia Stage Company, at cost of n
&c, 600 year, being less than one n
alf paid for the same service last year i
y the Government h
Private letters received to-day from o
ant. McNelly's company, at Browns o
lie, state that instead of being sur q
bundled by Mexicans and treating for q
,rrender, he actually dictated the a
rms of his withdrawal from Mexico,
hich were that the Mexican authori- p
es promised to return the stolen cattle Il
nd surrender the thieves. Seventy II
We head of cattle have been received Il
v MeNelly, and one thief hung by
ie Mexicans. y
Jefferson Davis, Generals Joseph f.. a
ohnson, w. 4. Sherman, Beauregard :
nd Colonel Thomas A. Scott were M
monp the distinguished guests yester- 7
ay at the Railroad Convention In st. fe
ouis. The Inequalities ofthe city have q
, every way been extended to the N
which is National in every h
sspect. Northern capitalists are evil ~
emily looking to the passage OF this W
nj with View to investment in the k
outh.
William B. Astor died In New York, IL
ester day, aged eighty-fou years. He OF
al been In i'll health for long time
nd the event was not unexpected. -
urinq the course of his long life the 1
alue of his property bequeathed to ~
Inn by his father has been constantly d
,creasing, and II is almost impossible q
the present time TO estimate its al
mount. II consists Of real estate in all "
arts of the city, and Is worth many n
illions Of dollars. He was buried !.
day. ~