The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-03

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two hours this afternoon.
ALBANY, N. ", March 20 Tie sen
ate adopted the resolution appointing
u special committee 10 investigate the
canal frauds.
MrpDLErowN, DEL. March ~. WIN.
Il. Hlllyard, telegraph operator aud
railroad agent, II dead. He was war
tclcgrapher.
TERRELL, March 27.--Thcre have
been shipped from this point, during
the year ending March !, 1875, seven
teen hundred and twelve bales Of cot
ton, and eighteen hundred and sixty
nine car loads of stock. In the same
time there has been received fourteen
hundred and siXty-one car loads of
lumber.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator
West and Collector Casey are In ac-
cord in listening to Major Dick Win
tersmith's "reminiscences of the war
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new Louisiana coalition. Gererai
West leaves for home tomorrow.
Colonel George b. McCarted retires
from the bureau of printing ana en-
craving. This causes regret 10 nun
dreds of employees of the bureau. his
generosity to them has gone long be-
You'd the requirements OF techhicai
duty in many instances. -,
fHl,n hn,t Innnl nninipn 10 that neither
the president, Mr.. Justice Bradley, of
the supreme court, nor the circuit Judge
can designate successor to Judge
Durell, district judge for Louisiana.
The bench must remain vacant until
congress meets.
| LONDON, March 27.-The bark j.
Ilhea, from Baltimore to Queenstown,
has been abandoned. The crew was
carried to Liverpool by the Dauhtless,
from Galveston.
MADRID, March 27.-General Iona
has arrived at Furaguery. The carlists
there fraternzed with the Alfonsists;
and demonstrations were made in
in favor of peace.
PARIS, March 27.-Louis Amader
Eugene Archerd, the French author is
dead.
BERLIN, March 27.-The Khan of
Khiva has asked Russia for further as
sistance against his unruly subjects.
He has also offered to become II vassal
of the car.
MELBOURNE, March 27.-Twenty
noted communists, under the leader
ship of Doctor Rastrial, have escaped
from New Caledonia in boats built by
themselves.
ROME March 27.-The Asservature
Romano, referring to the manner In
which Archbishop McClOskey's APP
pointment to the cardinaiate has been
received in the United States, and the
reported preparations making there to
celebrate the event, points to the pain
full contrast offered in Germany, where
the new cardinal, Archbishop Ledo-
kowski, is condemned to imprisonment
because he refused to betray his sacred
mission at the behest of n despotic
government.
MADRID, March 2G.-According to
statistics obtained from protestant
sources, thirty thousand have been
converted to protestanism since lSGS.
The protestant chapels of this city and
elsewhere in the country continue
open.
New YORK, March GA Havana
letter of the Goth, reports that on the
10th of March the insurgents attacked
body of Spanish soldiers ut San Jose
de " Inima with n Spanish convoy.
| The Spanish commander of the col
umn ordered a reconnaissance to be
made ut the place where the rebels APP
peared but the rebels who were i'll
ambush, fell upon their enemies and
cut their retreat of. The Spanish
troops, after desperate struggle, broke
through the ranks of the rebels and
succeeded in reaching Fort lIu Estate
and from there kept up steady fire
on the insurgents, who finally re-
treated. The Spanish loss was twelve
men wounded and killed.
SAvILLE, N. j., March 27.-The
Early Bird, from New York to st.
| Augustine, Is ashore on the beach at
Townsend's inlet. She has a cargo Of
sundries.
Boston, March 27.-Simon Bros. u
Co., furnishing goods house, have sus-
pended.
SIOUX CITY, March 27.-There is
considerable anxiety among the friends
here of the Sioux City party now in
the Black Hills caused by the receipt
Yesterday of letter by DR.. b. Y. Shell
by, of Dakota City, from his nephew,
A. S. Shelby, one of Professor Marsh's
party hunting for fossils in the Indian
country. The letter is dated Crow
Butte, White River, ID. Il, March ID.
After giving a description of various
fossils lately discovered, Mr.. Shelby
says:
/ have been among the northern In
dams for the last two Weeks-lived
right in their villages-and from what
| could learn they are going to make a
heavy attack on small mining party.
The Indians say the party are camped
south of and near Bear Butte; that the
party consists of about thirty men, II
woman and seven wagons. Lame An
telope crossed the White river with a
large body of warriors OH the 10Th OF
the month, well armed with needle
guns.
Mr.. Shelby had no knowledge of
any white people mining in the
Black Hills except what he learned
from the Indians, but the description
and location given by the Indians
leave no doubt that the Sioux City
party is referred to.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March S.-The
gold fever has reached this city. Last
Friday party of eleven men left for
Yanton, Dakota territory, where they
will wait the arrival of about fifty OF
their companions, who will leave here
April /. They are mostly young men,
under the lead of n man who is well
acquainted with the Sioux country.
WATER GAP, PA, March 27.-The
ice gorge, seven miles above the gap,
still remains the same. The strong
resistance by the ice in the gap has
been lessened by cutting channel
through the middle. The rain last
night has made no visible impression.
The weather is warm aud the ice melt
ing rapidly. Should the weather re-
main thus for two or three days the
break here is inevitable. Several Wis.,
itors came to-day to witness the eX-
Uected break OF the tremendous gorge.
This gorge consists of 100 miles thrown
into a space of Is miles, which is now
. 80 feet thick.
NEW YORK, March 27.-I'here is q
disposition on the part of the Irish so
cieties to parade tomorrow in memory
of John Mitchell, Notwithstanding mo-
tice that such demonstration was
contrary to law.
LATER-The parade in honor of the
late John Mitchell has been postponed.
There will be called meeting shortly,
at whicn arrangements will he per-
fected to carry out the programme on