The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-02-20

legislature will not adjourn for n
month yet, II then.
THE cotton gin aud corn mill OF Mr..
A. h. Palm, on Big Brushy twelve miles
north Of Austin was burned Sunday.
The property was valued at $4,000 and
insured for $4,000.
The presidents attempt to get con-
gress to permit him to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus at his discretion,
raises up storm, of Indignation all
over the United States-and Texas.
The Irish home-rule members of the
English parliament threaten to with
draw in n body If the act of union is
not repealed. This looks as If English
rule in Ireland was about to be tested.
On Sunday morning last, about 4
o'clock, fire was discovered In the
third story of the state capital build
ing at Austin. 1t was soon extin-
guished, however, with butslight dam
age. ser .,..st...,.
The regular annual parade OF the
New Orleans. fire department will take
place on March 4th. All the COM
panies Of that city will join in the pa
rade and great preparations are going
OH for the occasion. ..
COLONEL JOHN ID. LOGAN, for many
years proprietor Of the San Antonio
Herald, is in Austin negotiating for the
State Journal establishment, with a
view of opening a job and book print
ing office at the capital.
The last within of those who are the
style queens is revival of embroider'
ed and dotted muslins, SO that the belle
of to-day is arrayed in her grandmoth-
er's garments. Rigorous, sweet SIM
plicity is to be the charm of the coming
season. r.-
The next novelty IN France is the
"Second Septennate," in the way OF
government The royalists are In DIES
pair, the Bonapartists not 80 sanguine
and the country hesitating about per-
petuating the republic, with strong
chance of its being permanency.
In view of the action Of the ways
and means committee on the whisky
tax, large orders for whisky stamps
were sent to Washington. One dis
trict in Kentucky ordered $5OO,OOO
worth, and got them, and now the pur-
chasers want to know how they can
get their money back. a.
Hon. GALUsHA A. CHOW, counsel Of
the International railway, has written
a letter to c. B. Johns, Esq, banker of
Austin, in which he says that unless
the company are assured before the
first of April next that they will re-
ceive the bonds of the state, the COM
pany will be bankrupted, and the road
70 into the hands of a receiver.
TITS declared by the Austin Statesm an
that the direct representatives OF the
Central vote for the International sub
sidy, but privately work against,it and
that the Central proposes to buy the In
tsrnational when it is sold in May
next, and in buying the road, buy all
its rights. 1t will then go into the
federal courts and compel Texas to pay
the whole sum the. State, it is claimed,
now owes the Information al.
THE state senate voted on Monday to
adjourn on the oath instant, but it is
believed the house can not get through
by that date. The correspondent of
the Telegraph says: "The Interna'
tional and the convention are yet UNI
disposed of, the school law is In statu
quo, the appropriation bills are not yet
reported, and the finances are hard
nut to crack. There is a great deal of
work in the house in the hands of
committees, but under the constant
suspensions of the rule which have be-
come the normal course of proceeding,
committees have not been reached for
about ten days."
A TEXAS correspondent of one of
the New York papers suggests Hon.
John Hancock, the present member
of congress from the fifth district of
this state, as candidate for president
in 1875. He thus speaks of Mr.. Han
cock i'm connection with the centen-
NAL anniversary:
The dawning of the great centennial
Sabbath morn at Philadelphia is to be
the aurora of the south's year of jubi-
lee, Then names and deeds OF old
will be revered as never before, and
through Forney's letters from aristo-
cratic iiresides In old England all in
ternational as well as sectional hates
will be appeased. Texas looks forward
with eagerness to the dawning OF this
blessed day, and to consummate its fe-
licities aud illustrate the perfect and
eternal fitness of things, Texas, repre-
senting the south, proposes to furnish
a faultless candidate for the presidency.
His name will be echoed with delight
Ly myTiads who will tread consecrated
ground in Philadelphia for the first
time, in 1876, and his fame and virtues
are us faultless and spotless as his
honored patronymic in its gilded
framework of history. He is aud ever
was devout democrat and following
In the foot steps of the World, never
faltered when war came, in devotion
to the Union. When war was sup
planted by peace he was still demo
crat and now represents the Austin
0rehelp district in the federal congress.
He Is the tallest, most graceful and
finest looking. as he is one of the most
intellectual members of the house, and
In his personal and political history,
and, in fact. rs In name, represents
alike the north and the south and the
union, as perfect to-day as conceived
one hundred years ago. There would
lie singular appositeness in browning
the beginning Of each Of two success
i've centuries in American history with
The name of John Hancock"
The Austin correspondent of the
Houston Telegraph sends that paper
the following synopsis of bill which
passed the house on Monday last, hav-