The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-24

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Iliut Iu church M .lMnunali nud VIA
he Auditor NJ the nniiun, Iho Hou'
arnl Council ~ thr Seminole Nation ia
ln session 100 WDWUuhrr, aud u iH /
they will reject Tho new con
stilulion reported by Tie Grand COuu-
ell ~ Okmulgoe.
NEw YuRi(, July1G.-ludge Donnhue
has ordered n bill Of particulars In tile
cl,se Of The people against Tweed.
GALVESTON, July lG.--lho first bale
OF new cotton was received to-day by
Dibrcll ~ Hodges. II was nhlpped
from Brownsville, Texas, July 10Th,
by Robert Dnlzell. 10 classes good
middling, weighs four hundred ANA
thirty eight pounds and was sold to
James Burke of New Orleans for TWEEN
~ eight cents per pound. IL VIII be
shipped by express TO Moody " Jem-
ison, New York.
NEW ORLEANS, July lG.-tiVo bales
of new cotton were received from the
Rio Grundc and were disposed of MS
follows: one bale, classcd good mid
ding, good staple, sold ut auction for
Ia cents, shipped to ~. Louis; one
bale classed middllng, good staple, sold
Mt auction for 10 cents, shipped tn f..
H. Robertson d Co., New York; one
bale strict good middling staple, con-
signed tn Goddard ~ Co., New York;
one bate sent to Mobile consigned to
j. NJ. Parker; one hale consigned to
Wonderland ~ Berge, 81. Louis.
NEW York, July lG.-Leading bank
ers here have been advised from Lon
don to be prepared for offerings in this
market of forged Bank of England and
Bank of France notes. The dispatch
says large amounts of forged Bank OF
England and Bank Of France notes
VIII be offered in the United States
Caution your friends.
An unusually cold, lowering rain
closed this morning. Dispatches from
the inundated districts reports that the
Hoods are subsiding.
ST. LOUIS, July lG.--Gcneral Woody
Thompson has been rcmanded to the
custody Of the Sheriff of Memphis.
LOUISVILLE, Ky" July lO.-George
n. Jackson, Deputy Collector and
Cashier for Collector Buchner, is forty
five thousand dollars short. Jackson
is sick and is supposed TO have taken
arsenic.
BUFFALO, July lG.-The Hebrew
council, after electing Board of Gov
errors, adjourned to meet in Washing
ton next year. Several thousand dol
college fund was received last night.
BALTIMORE, July lG.-The Chat
worths and Streckers rivers have flood
ed the western portion of the city. a
number of wholesale houses in the
central portion of the city had their
cellars filed with water.
WASHINGTON, July 16.-Tremend-
Gus rain. Trains from the north due
at nine last night were thrown from
the track by floating cross-ties. No
body hurt. The passengers returned
to Washington as the track was badly
flooded between Bladensburg and Bal
timore. Travel was resumed this
morning.
WASHINGTON, July l6.-General
Longstreet called on Secretary Bristow
for nc cess TO the archives of the Con-
federacy in order TO make up his per-
sonal record at Gettysburg. Permis-
sion was granted.
The Postmaster General has received
the following:
NEw,ORLEANs, July II, 1870
Have closed the contract with the
Nicksburg Packet company for the
weekly service between New Orleans
and Vicksburg to the first of October,
at the rate named III your dispatch of
Yesterday. Service to commence to-
day. Please send blanks to the post
master at New Orleans.
Signed. l.. NJ. TERRELL..
The price named is S29, $50. An or
der was issued to-day to readvertise
the route.
Ex-Governor Wells, of Virginia, will
succeed Fisher, as District Attorney for
the District of Columbia.
A dispatch reached the Navy De-
partment reporting one death and four
new cases of yellew fever in the previ-
ious twentyfour hours ut Key West.
1t is understood that General Ba-
deau, formerly Private Secretary to
the President, will be appointed Min
lister TO Belgium.
MONTGOMERY, July l6.-An inter
esting legal question arose before
Judge Bruce, OF the United States Dis
trict Court at this place. William Is. |
Ford, OF Memphis, Tennessee, was ar
rested for shipment in 1868 of six hun |
ilred and sixteen bales of cotton from
this District on alleged fraudulent per-
inits. He had been previously indict-s
Ell III the same court of the same of |
tense, and under the reign of Judge |
Busteed the indictment had been nOlle |
prosed. Since that time Ford has been |
4 resident of Tennessee, and the ques-
ion was whether this uOn-residence
md absence from the state prevented
.hc running of the statute of limitation.
after full argument Judge Bruce refus-
I'd to discharge the prisoner and held
him in a bond of ten thousand dollars
o answer AN Indictment to be prefer
ed ut the next term of the United
states Circuit Court.
NEW YORK, July ia Key West
ettcr dated July 9Th, says among the
most prominent persons who have
lied here of yellow fever, are Mr.. Al
en-, telegraph operator, Mrs. Town
end, wife Of the Deputy Collector of
'ust0ms, MIR. Van DuHen, Methodist
larson, Mr.. Logan, cigar manufacture
r, Nv. Palhcmus, second engineer of
he revenue cutter Seward Mr.. Jour
lin, of the light house establishment,
nd many others of less note,
WASHINGTON, July 19.-Captain
lads was recently in Washington on
BUSINESS connected with the .ietties
which he is constructing at the mouth
II the Mississippi river. He says he
las now four hundred men employed
nd has projected work toward the
Ieep water to the extent of over three
hundred feet with the water about
light feet deep over most of the dis
ance so far reached. The improve
nent is progressing at the rate of near
Y twenty feet a day. The force will {
Don be increased.
Superintendent Eads calls what is ,
ow being built the provisional work,
1hich is to be strengthened and mate
tally changed as the work progresses,it
ow serving as a barrier from mud [
nd water. He expects in one year to /;
each water deep enough for the larg- F.,
st vessels. He left for New York last S
light. {
BANGOR, Me-, July l9.-George Med (
'ay killed his wife yesterday. They
ad separated. Z
HARTFORD. July l9.-The match be- :
ween the Hartford and Philadelphiasl-s
Iubs was won by the former by a score 9
{ fourteen to five.
NEW YORK, July 10. = The Book i
air opened this morning in Clinton
Iall. There were few visitors. 1t has
OF yet been settled how long the Fair /.
lall remain open.
WASHINGTON, July l9.-The Catbo- /,
C Benevolent Societies Of the District )
Columbia met Friday to make ar
lngements for celebrating the Cen I
.npial Of Dauial niDonnelI