The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-22

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to inspection. Deterioriated drugs, etc
shall not be allowed to pass the custor
house, but must be either exporte
within six months, or destroyed mt th
expense of the owner, under the super
vision of the collector. Paper import
ed for printing purposes and to be eX
ported afterward IL dutiable. The de
partment does not permit the reshil
ment of goods in bond from points
delivery to which they have been sen
In bond from ports of entry, the ship
ment In bonds of delivery being onl,
allowed for the purpose of Withdrawal
Of payments of duty at subj ports.
SUNDAY.
The New York assembly has unan
imously passed resolutions calling upol
the government to recognize the bel
llgerent rights of Cuba.
Secretary Brstow has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address ut the
decoration of the union soldiers graves
Cave Hill cemetery, near Louisville.
Prince Bismarck has sent tele
graphic dispatch to the German consul
ut Penzance instructing him to takt
care of the survivors of the Schiller dis
aster.
The condition of General Brecken
ridge remains unchanged. He is still
free from pain, and those in attendance
upon him are less apprehensive of his
sudden death than they were.
The distillers at Milwaukee have
called ON those Chicago and st. Louis
for aid in procuring the services oI
Hon. Matt Carpenter to obtain the re
lease of their works. The Chicago
and st. Louis distillers responded that
aid would he furnished them.
M. Rouher has informed the gov
ernment of France that eX-Empress
Eugenie will accept no compromise OF
her claims on the civil list, and will
bring an action demanding the fulfill
ment of the convention concluded by
the De Broglie ministry.
-"Deo Volente,n the national organ
of Prince Napoleon, in leading ar
ticle, declares If the prince should
never claim the throne, the principle
of hereditary succession is dead, and a
third empire, aiming at the resoration
of Prince Napoleon, or his neph ew,
would end in ruin.
One of the Schiller's officers has
informed correspondent of the Lon
don STANFORD that many persons on
board the steamer were drunk when
she struck, and THAI :everal firemen
and many steerage passengers lay
helpless until they were swept away by
the waves. Thus far about one hun
dred and thirty bodies of the dead have
been recovered from the wreck of the
Schiller.
An elaborate crop report, CON-
piled at one hundred and fifty points
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri
and Iowa, indicate that there has been
from one-quarter to one-third the
wheat crop this winter killed, but that
this has been nearly offset by the in
creased number of acres sown.
No considerable quantity ofwheat
ground is reported as having been
plowed. The amount OF corn being
put in this year greatly exceeds that OF
last year.
Agents from Deer creek, Bates
county, are in Kansas City, asking aid
for people of that county who are suf.
fering from the ravages of grashoppers.
A horrible story of ravages by the in
sects and suffering of the people is re-
lated. Vegetation of every description
is represented rs being eaten complete.
ly, leaving the ground bare. Families
innumerable are said to be actually
starving. The couuties adjoining,
Cass and Johnson, are also suffering
greatly.
Josh Mayer, colored, was hanged
at Camden, in Maryland, yesterday,
for the murder of Benjamin Cooper,
in December last. He was convicted
OH circumstantial evidence, but after
conviction lie confessed the crime.
On the scaffold he confessed that he
had also murdered his wife and child
and negro woman, and that he had
burned many barns and gins. He was
perfectly resigned. The rope slipped
and death was caused by strangulation
i'm twelve minutes. Six thousand
persons were present.
The whisky frauds are still receiv'
ing attention by the treasury depart
ment, and Solicitor Wilson is cOntinu-
ally unearthing new frauds. Further
record evidence was discovered to-day
against the Union Copper distillery al
Chicago, and one hundred and fifty
barrels of spirits were seized at theil
works; three hundred barrels were
also seized belonging to Bevis Il Fra
zier, st. Louis, fresh proof being OBJ
tanned against them. Photographic
copies of finternal revenue returns are
being made at the treasury department
and forwarded to offices at different
cities; among those made to-day wa'
one from the gauger at Cincinnati, Ger
tifying that a certain number of bar
reis of spirits had been emptied anC
stamps destroyed In accordance with
law, and on further search, a lot o
spirits were found in Chicago, in thu
original packages, thus conclusively
showing collusiOn of the gauger will
the distillers. On this transaction
alone the government lost $50, 1000.
TUESDAY.
The democrats of st. Louis have
elected their entire ticket.
-Boyton will make a second at
tempt to swim across the English
channel on the 2Sth ultimo.
The preparations for the three day
musical festival to be held in In
dianapolis next week are fully com
pleted. The event promises to be
worthy successor to the Cincinnati fes
tival.
M. ROuher has informed tn
French government that ex-Empres
Eugene, will accept no compromise 0
her claims on the civil list, and will
bring an action demanding the fulfill
ment of the convention concluded b.
the de Broglie ministry.
Yesterday Mr.. Crawford. lieutenan
governor of Ontario, died aged So. III
was a conservative in politics, barriste
by profession, and was nominated L
office by the Mcdonald government
before resigning in November, 1873
The office is the highest in the hand
of the Dominion government.
A special to the Kansas City Journa
of Commerce from Pettis states tina
the chinch-bugs swarmed so thickly II
the vicinity Of Sedalia that they be
clouded the sky, and that great unea
siness was manifested by the farmin
community. They seem to be direct
ing their course north, as do also tn
grasshoppers. Terrible reports fror
johnson and Cass counties have com
I'm of devastation and destruction b
grasshoppers. In those counties th
farmers are discouraged, and all ebu
ready to cease their labors entirely.
The revenue cutter, John A. Di,
with Captain J, B. Eads and John L
Bofinger, Of St Louis, Colonel Al
drews, Of Pittsburg, and others o
board, left New Orleans at noon ye