The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-01-09
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un0 OnilUfcli ufe Nuulll lne lIhln lcHhN
10 pull out nj q moments notice. The
Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger
tain N being detained and II Il fear
cd II has been overhnnled by the mob
They number two thousand armed
mon, mostly full bloods. Scouts re-
port them within twenty miles Of this
place.
Troops arc badly needed. There Is
intense excitement and trouble Is an-
ticlpated, as there are men arriving
hourly from the lower part of the ma
ton, reporting murders along the line
of their march.
LATER.
The PRS did not attack last night,
as was expected, but are reported to be
twelve miles from here, making good
time. Almost every white person has
left the place, and the probability Is
there will not be woman or child
here at Il o'clock to-day. They mum.
Der twenty-five men, well armed.
Further and more reliable reports
say the PRS are one thousand strong,
Every person has left Chouteau sta
ton, south of here. The Cherokees
residing Oh Grand river are coming
into town by droves. The advance
guard starts in half an hour to meet
the enemy.
WASHINGTON, January 1.-The usual
reception took place at executive man
sion to-day, foreign ministers, cabi'
net officers judges of the supreme
court, army and navy officers and
many others, paying their respects tc
the president.
A large delegation of the Mexican
war veterans, under the marshalshil
of Ex-Governor Herbert, of Louisiana
were received by the president in a
cordial manner. He is decidedly In
favor of having pensions granted to
them. Ex-Governor Herbert after.
wards entertained his old comrades in
arms at the Gilbert house. a.
The members of the cabinet and
hundreds of Others opened their houses
to visitors and entertained them hos
pitably. wy W
During. the afternoon there was u
slight fall of snow.
The Texas or Southern Pacific rail
road, embracing the Texas and At
lantic and Pacific in combination, as
appears 10y the pending bill introduced
10y Senator Scott, of Pennsylvania,
and also from the map of the COM
pany, showing the route of the road
and connections on the line from
Shreveport southeastward to New Or
leans, and from Springfield, Missouri,
on the Atlantic and Pacific via St.
Louis, to the northeast and north,
there is no connection provided for in
the present bill or the programme
with the railroad centers of Vir-
ginias the Carolinas, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi Tennessee and
kentucky. To meet this deficit in the
route, connection, are proposed from
Springfield, Missouri, to Memphis,
and senators from the eastern and
southeastern states, including promi-
nently and especially Senators john
ston, of West Virginia, Ransom, of
North Carolina, Robertson, of
South Carolina, Gordon, of Georgia,
Goldthwaite, of Alabama, Alcorn,
of Mississippi, Cooper, of Tennessee,
Dorsey, of Arkansas, Stephenson, of
Kentucky, and many leading southern
congressman, are waiting to insure this
modification in Senator Scott's bill,
which would unite the entire system
of railways east of the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers; and make it essentially a
southern Pacific railroad. The meas
ure thus modified promises great
strength, not only us a matter Of conf
ty and justice in view of the liberal aid
given the Union and Pacific railroad
by the government, but is further ia.
yored by prominentnorthern congress-
men as an important practical meas
ure for the relief of the impoverished
states of the south. $1,000.
MONTGOMERY, January 2.-Judge
Martin, the oldest lawyer at
this bar, died last night.
The supreme court organized to-day
r. C. Buckell, chief justice, II. J.
Judge and a. r. Manning associates.
they appointed Thomas j. Jones re-
porter. He is the gentleman whose
speech at the last memorial day in this
city was published all over the north
and especially his tribute to the valor
OF the federal soldiers.
PARIS, January 2.-Isabella in re-
spense to dispatch of General Primero
de Reverb sent the following telegram:
''The king proceeds to Spain immedi-
ately. Alfonso -telegraphs to the pope
asking his blessing and promising that
he will, like his ancestors, defend the
rights of the holy see."
King Alfonso's ministry is an
bounced as follows: Castro, minister
Of foreign affairs; Cardenas, minister
Of justice;- Jouvellar, minister of war
minister of finance; Molenz,
minister of marine; Roberts, minister
Of the interlori Oronco, minister of
Ayala, minister of the
colonies. I'B it-' Ttn'
Alfonso did not pass through Paris,
but has Comet Spain direct. He will
iisemb bark either at Cadiz or Valencia.
General Martinez Campos has enter
ID Alencia at the head of the troops
hat were sent to oppose him when he
pronounced for Alfonso.
The Carlist leaders, Darygay and Al
yorez, and others have entered Cata-
oniaY flsAf y ..t.iff-t-
Dispatches from Spain say it is ru-
nored that the Carlist general, Dairy
ray has laid down his arms and that
.thar nrominpnt Carlists are about To /