The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-21

refusing 10 nlluW hoftD ride In % Putt
man car from Cincinnati 10 washing
ton,
NEW T0HR, August 10. suit hn.
been brought In Washington against
Captain Muddoy, of the Murine Cops,
and his bUndsmau, Contractor Bur
mum, 10 recover money Illegally paid
to contractor.
WAsnINuruN, August l0.-Amonp
the bids iur printing check sinmpH IRE
several offers 20 DO the wOrl; for moth
Ing. II Is question whether the Gov
ernment can accept such grntuIly.
The matter will be- referred 10 the De-
partment Of Justice.
BOsToN, August 10. --Gcorgc w.
Pemberton, awaiting execution In Suf-
folk county Jail, stabbed himself in
four place with u handle Of Il spoon,
which he had sharpened for the pur-
pose. lie l. In n critical condition.
MCLEANsDORo, Ill.,, August l0,--Mrs.
Charles NJ. Oglesby, was found In her
room this morning with her throat
cut from ear to ear. An open razor
was found on the floor. Her husband,
aged twenty-threo years, has been M
rested.
SARATOGA, August lo.-The track
was heavy. The mile aud II half race,
for tmee years old, was won By Victor,
Time, 2:lSi.
The mile race, for two year Odds, was
won by Warluck. Time, l:iTl.
The half mile race, for all ages, was
won BY Norton. Time, 2:lll.
The three quarter of mile race was
won by Letting, and the race for two
year olds was was won 10y Clematls in
l2l4.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August 49,
Hon. d. NJ. Key, of this city, has been
appointed TO the Senate, vice Mr..
Johnson.
DU QUOIN, Ill, August 1.-two
more of the Franklin county ku kiuX
have been captured. One of them Is
fatally wounded. The Sheriff still in
pursuit.
BRoCKToN, Mass, August i0.-J. w.
Robinson, member of the firm of which
his father is the head. eloped with Mrs.
Hall, after having robbed the safe ana
firm of all available funds and some
four thousand dollars in government
bonds. He leaves n wife and two chill
dren.
SYRACUSE, August 10.-Charges have
been preferred against Hon. A. e.
Powell, salt superintendent, for mall
feasance in office. Governor Tildei
has cited him to appear before him OH
Friday, to show cause why he should
not be removed. Mr.. Powell was APP
pointed salt superintendent in the
spring of 1874, by Governor Dix.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, August ia spe'
cial from Senatohia to the Appeal says
the Republican Congressional Conven
tlon of the first Mississippi district ha;
split. One wing numbering twenty
four delegates withdrew, and assem-
bling in front of the hotel, nominated
G.. Wiley Wells, ex-Unitcd States Dis
trict Attorney, for Congress, while the
ether wing, mum herring thirty-siX
nominated AR. Howe.
AUGUSTA, Ga, August l9.--Much eX
element exists to-day in Washington
and Jefferson counties, ON account o
the reported attempt by the negroes a
an insurrection yesterday. Eighty ar
rests have been made, and the white
military companies i'll those countie!
ordered, by the Governor, to report e
the Sheriff. The prisoners were al
lodged in Jail without resistance. Tit
alleged plot contemplated II massacre
of the whites OH the Goth instant |
is thought now there will be farther
trouble, though the details are meagr'
and indefinite.
RosToN, August lS.-prof. Joel Par
ker, an eminent jurist, is dead, age'
50 years.
MEMPHIS, August 49, Waddy Thomp
son was released from Jail to-day on ;
bond of three thousand dollars to ap
pear Mt the November term.
The Ledger learns that an attemp
was made to cut the levee Mt Beulah
in Boliver county, Mississippi, nea
Napoleon, Arkansas. The levee 20
lice discovered the villains, when !
fight ensued, in which one was killed
two wounded and four captured.
CoRINNE, August 17.-Reports re
eeiivged here to-day state that the In
dians recently expelled from this val
ley for an attempted raid Oh Corinne
have not returned to their reservation
AS ordered by the Government officers
Reliable parties returning from Cach'
Valley say that Pooatello, with his en-
tire band and several smaller compan
les, are encamped near Logan, twenty
miles from here. They number fully
fifteen hundred and are being sup
ported entirely by the Mormons ant
under control of the Mormon church
Considerable apprehension is felt by
the people in this city that another
attack will be made upon the citizens
rs they have been furnished with nee
die guns and other arms belonging tt
Government, and have their picket.
stationed around the city every night
New YORK, August lS.--rhe Crane
Ledge of Odd Fellows elected j. w
Stitiins, Grand Master.
NEW YORK, August lS.-Senor Ga
briel Garcia Mercus, President of tho
Republic of lGsquador, has been assas'
sinated. No details.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, August Is. =
Two and n half inches of rain have
fell and continues. Another flood il
Mill river valley is feared.
WASHINGTON, August lS.-Major a.
d. Burk, of Mississippi, now here, is
among the most prominent candidates
for Clerk of the next House of Repre-
sentatives. He reports the corn and
cotton crops of Mississippi us the most
promising since the war.
MUsKoGEE, |. r., August l7.-Sherifl
CARLOS, of st. Landry parish, Louis
lana, has arrested Louis Rosen, who
murdered Circus Perignac in Louisiana
in March last. A large number OF
criminals from the States are skulking
in the territory.
CHARLESTON, s. c., August LEX
citing time last evening in Columbia,
caused by the proceedings under the
habeas corpus for the release Of eX-
Treasurer Parker. Interpolation was
heard at p. m. before Judge Mackey,
Parkers counsel claiming his dis
charge under the provisions of the con-
stitution, prohibiting Imprisonment
for debt; the Sheriifs return failed to
allege the case was one of fraud, 4
charge which is expressly excepted in
the constitutional prohibition of inn
prisonment for debt. After argument
the Judge released the prisoner. The
court room was Immediately filled
with an excited crowd. Parker was
re-arrested on a criminal warrant for
grand larceny, but his counsel waived
examination, and urging the amount
involved in the alleged robbery had
nothing to do with the amount of bail,
succeeded in getting him released on
two thousand dollars bail. 1t is gem
orally believed that Parker will escape
and forfeit his bail. The News aud
Courier denounces the release of Par
ker as a gross judicial outrage, and a
job put up 10y certain State officials,
who feared Parker would implicate
them in his enormous robberies.
New ORLEANS, August lS.-The Ply
mouth has reached the mouth of the
Rio Grande. The Canandaigua, re-
Gently at the mouth Of the Mississippi
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