The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-17


letter from tie president accepting hl.
ro7lRhntint ~ treasurer NJ the nifet
Sirtes, md expressing for Tie fetlfinp
Official the w1fmtst sentiments NJ fp
gard fuf HIN personally, with n hIal
appreciation UfhlsWel Known pfOblty
patriotism and official Integrity.
III tie supreme court In the case Dl
the state Of Florida, complainant, w r..
&. Anderson IT A., the court granted
II motion appointing II commission Ia
take ana report the testimony In the
cause, and denied motion for nh or.
der on the receiver to pay ANYTHING
from the money IN his hands to derray
the expenses OF the suit.
The chief Justice announced the adop-
ton of the amended general orders In
bankruptcy.
There was n light snow here to-day.
IL is quite heavy throughout Pennsyl-
vania, being five inches deep In some
places.
The United States steamer Fortune
has arrived from Key West. There il
no yellow'fever on board.
The president has signed the COM
missions of Ben. Longley, postmaster
of Atlanta, Georgia, J. NJ. Parker, post
master of New Orleans and j. w.
Word, postmaster Corpus Christi.
The president leaves Thursday. The
entire cabinet, except Williams, will
join him in New York on Friday en-
route for Boston.
John ID. Wilson has been appointed
postmaster at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Frauds amounting to seventy-iive
thousand dollarsper year have been dis
covered in the st. Louis and Indianap-
oils mail bag repositories. They would
cut new bags to patch old ones and
charge for both.
The parties to the mail route swindle
had partial hearing to day. The
statement heretofore telegraphed was
sustained. Kettle bid i'm the name of
Lodlow and Eddngs. There were
nine or ten bids for Texas. There will
be further hearing tomorrow.
BERLIN, April l3-The North Ger
man Gazette accepts as reassuring the
disavowal of warliKe intentions by the
French press.
The Post sa. n draft has been COM
pleted of the bill prohibiting religious
orders in Prussia, except those EN-
ployed in nursing sick.
The Gazette says its article of the
9th, indicating the possibility of war,
was not inspired by the government.
PARIS, April l3.-The La Union says
the pope has made representations
through the patriarch of Venice to the
emperor of Austria that the position of
the church is becoming more and
more intolerable, and if the unreason-
able demands of Prussia are not
resisted by the Catholic powers, the
latter will loose all influence and be-
come subject to the German national
ity under one scepter. The emperor,
replying through the Austrian ambas-
sadOr at Rome, deplores struggle be-
tween church and state, and advises
prudences.
LONDON. April 13.-The Humane So
ciety at Boulogne has voted q gold
medal to BoyntOn.
The Rothschilds issued u prospectus
for the new Russian loan of one hun
dred and fifty million pounds sterling.
The interest is to he four and a half
per cent per annum, to be issued at
ninety-two million eight hundred
thousand pounds sterling for subscrip-
ton in London, the balance at st.
Petersburg.
In the house OF commons to-day,
Disraeli answering the question what
the government should do in case the
independence of Belgium was threat
ened said, there had been great mis-
representation and exaggeration in
this matter. The Prussian note to Bel
ginm was not menace-i was only a
remonstrance. No rejoinder had
been made to Belgiums answer
and he believed The question was
concluded. Germany had showI her
cordiality for England 10y commune
eating to her the correspondence. In
conclusion, Dlsraeli declared that were
Belgium's neutrality really threatened
her majesty's government were pre-
pared to do their duty to the sovereign
and would not fear to meet parliament
BOMBAY, April l3.-The cholera has
appeared in the Province OF budee.
PARIS, April ll.-fhe Diplomatic
conference upon the metrical system
of weights and measures met here yes
terday. Brazil, the United States, Ven
ezuela and the Argentine republic were
represented. 1t was resolved Ito estab-
fish international weights and meas
ures.
New YORK, April l3.-The Post has
the following speciali The statement Is
made upon excellent authority that
the supreme court will not render any
decision of political nature at this
term of the court, postponing all such
until after the fall elections, This
gives rise TO q story which Is credited
in high quarters that the court has been
polled and majority found opposed
to declaring the enforcement acts con-
The beliefis that the court
will sustain the views of Judge Bradley
In the Louisiana case, from which an
appeal was taken and the case brought
into the supreme court,
SAN FHANBIsCo, April Ia. - The
steamer Mikado has arrived, There
are no hopes of the recovery of the
missing boat of the steamer Guthen-
burg. Only two hundred persons were
saved. All of the officers were lost.
PATTERSON, n. j. April l3.-The re-
publicans elected their candidate for
mayor by eight hundred majority.
PORT Royal, s.. O., April lathe
United States frigate Colorado arrived
from Key West this afternoon.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, April BRUSH
x Co.'s elevator was burned to-day,
with thirty thousand bushels ofwheat.
Loss so, 900.
CLEVELAND April, IA steamer
arrived from Detroit to-day. She en-
countered very little ice.
OMAHA, April li.--Slx companies
of cavalry and two Of infantry have
been ordered to the Black Hills as
an escort to the scientists who are sept
by the government to survey the
New YORK, April l3.-The Acapulco
has arrived from Panama, with COM
Little's party. They COM
pleted the survey from Panama to AS
pinwall and pronounce the route most
feasible of any yet surveyed. Central
America Is unusually tranquil.
PHILADELPHIA, April l3.-The
weight of the snow broke down the
canvass of Barnum's hippodrOme.
Forty persons were buried beneath it,
but none were seriously hurt.
A dispatch from iaaletOn represents
affairs dis unchanged.
TRENTON, n. j., April l3.-The dein-
Dcrats elected their entire ticket except
the tax receiver.
PORT ROYAL, S. G., April lathe
United states frigates Worcester, Ply
mouth aud 'Shamut, the iron clad Die
tator, the hospital ship Pawnee, dis.
patch boat Pinta arrived from Key
West to-day. The frigate Colorado
arrived yesterday. The entire fleet il
here now and all are well on board.
New York, April l3.-Advices from
Buenos Ayres say that only three