The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-06-01
MINOR TELEGRA Ms.

The war department has iDforma-
ton of the outrageous murder OF the
two Gros Ventres Indians at Fort Benz
ton. They were arrested on suspicion
of wounding u white man, and taken
out of Jail and shot with their hand
cuffs on, by party of roughs who were
friends of the man who was wounded.
The matter will be investigated and
the lynchers punished.
The internal revenue receipts have
now reached 500, 600 for the cur
rent year; 10y the first Of June they will
reach 500, 10000, and during the COM
ing month at least 100000 more Will
be collected. 1t is expected that the
total receipts from this source for the
current fiscal year will reach Sill, 000,-
600, which will be 800, 900 in excess of
the estimates of Commissioner Doug
las.
The Memphis cotton report for
May, just completed, gives the follow
ing aggregate from one hundred and
siXty-siX responses, with Tennessee,
north Mississippi, north Alabama ana
Arkansas north of the Arkansas river:
/. All the answers are to the effect that
cotton planting is completed, save re-
planting. 2. The acreage-there has
been q per cent less acreage planted
in cotton than last year. 3. Stands
Ninety-five of the answers report Il
good stand of the cotton planting; sew
enty-one report that there is lacking u
per cent of an average, two-fiiths OF
which will be replanted. 4. Weather.
The weather thus far has been more
favorable in that there has been less
RAIN less favorable in that it has been
too cold. The average Is much more
favorable than last year. B. Labor
Ninety-four report very material I'M
provement in the morale of labor
,thirty-one report moderate improve
ment; thirty-six no change, and five
report not so good. 6. Cotton stands
One hundred and fifteen answer that
cotton stands obtained earlier this year
than last; ten report about the same;
forty-one report later, averaging civ
days earlier on.
Reports of the cotton crop are e n,a
couraging. In Alabama the prospects
are good for an average crop, although
the stand is rather backward; the acre.
are il about that of last year. Arkan-
sas sends cheering reports. AT the
present writing cotton was never bet
ter than i'm that State. The overflows
in this state have done no damage, as
thew came and went off much earlier
than last season. Georgia reports are
good. The storms and four months OF
rain DELAYED the season about Two
weeks. Some few localities fear the
catterpiller, and complain of the back
wardness of the season, but the greater
portion of the dispatches give assur-
ances of the yield being equal to last
wear. In North Carolina less cotton
has been planted than in 1874, very
little of which is now up. On this ac'
count it would be premature to predlct
;nore than q fair average. In Solith
Carolina the early planting was some.
what injured by the frost, and IL Is hol
vet up TO fair stand. 1t VIII not
come I'D In the present dry weather. a'
everything issuflering for want OF ram
In Tennessee five per cent more mas
been planted than last year, and, as .
general thing, the stands are goou
with faVOraDle BTOWiHS "N"'hA'
Louisiana the crop prospect is mucl
better than it has been for three years
Mt this time. Indeed cotton ana crops
of all kinds are flourishing III Una
state. Excellent reports reach us IRON
Mississippi as to the condition a, am
prospects, of cotton in that state. Ihe
plant is doing well at present, ON!
needing rain to bring up the ial
planting. There is more territory uh
der cultivation this year than last, ant
better put in, the negroes working a.
siduously and in harmony with th
planters. A.
A dispatch from Arlington, Ma;
sacbusetts, states that the yacht Edit
was capsized on the lake yesterday b
a gust of wind, and three printers an
five young ladies, named Maria Hi
Laura Sands, Mary Bacon and Allc
and Minnie Wellington, were throw
into the water, and Alice and Mimi
Wellington were drowned. The prii
tiers kept the other ladies atloat unit
they were rescued.
THE st. Louis Republicans Kanso
CITY special says startling informatlo
Is brought from the west that larg
hand of indians are encamped on tn
forks OF the Solomon river in Osoor
county. Kansas, and that the citizen
have been Obliged to desert thel