The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-06-12

SnefllIS posse was Hreu upon, anu
several killed.
TIE surveying party sent out by the
government to locate the line OF the
proposed ship canal across the lsthmus
of Panama have completed their work
and returned. The expedition was sub
jected to numerous hardships and dam
gers to health, but there was no loss of
life among officers or men, The earli-
est estimate S5G,OOOO0O) for the com
pletion of the work is not now regard
ed as sufficient. The Napipi Atratro
route is the shortest, but requires five
and II half miles of tunneling.
THE recent deficiency of forty-seven
thousand dollars in the United States
treasury has given rise to more than
the usual concern exhibited at the loss
of so trilling amount. Theories of all
sorts are advanced regarding the
means adopted to abstract the money,
and also rs to who may have commit
ted the theft. Nobody seems to know
anything about the matter, further
than the mere fact that the money was
stolen, and yet nearly everybody in
the department appears TO suffer from
fear that some suspicion rests "..son
him.
BY an advertisement which we find
published in one of our eastern Texas
exchanges, the following places are Sc
lected rs points to make proposals for
the location of one Of the state peui-
tentiaries provided for by the last leg
islature: Grayson county, ten miles
northeast of Sherman; Moody's noun
tain, between Longview and Gilmer
the iron regions about Gilmer, Upshur
county, and in Marion, Cass and Titus
counties along and near the jefferson
and Dangcrlield road, from kellyville
to lands known as "\Nomacks lands"
the Iron mountains about Rusk, and
about Philcer's and Ioung's iron works,
Cherokee county. Proposals, with
plats, must be forwarded by the parties
making them to Il. l.. Gregg, secreta-
ry of the commission, III Rulsk, Texas,
by the Sth of July next.
THERE will he grand mass meeting
and banquet, in honor OF Hon. Jefler-
son Davis, in the city Of Marshall, on
Thursday, June II, 1879, under the
management and direction of the Da-
Wis Homestead association, of Harri-
son county. Citizens from every por-
ton ofthe state are invited to attend,
and the ladies particularly are request
ed to honor and grace the meeting
with their presence. The object of the
meeting is to assist in raising Il fund
to purchase for Mr.. Davis II home in
the state of Texas, ard secure him Il
competence for the lGttrr. The meet
ing is to be held in Il beautiful shady
grove near the center .! the city,
where comfortable seats 10 accOmmo-
date thousands will It. prepared. Ia
bles will be arranged, on which the la
Hos or Marshall and vici, iv will
snro,d = moo,iriceut ,,,uuuot ,oyhi.h
all who come will be invited. The
m aatinr will no addressed hv soma Of
tha mast DISTINGUISHED sna,l,ars of .be
state Cener.I ~ IIawtbornoi.
chairman If fine committao of ,rrorge-
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nhoro bo :. now ouartorod >vo ora
o,oosod IN seo tho ge,er,l Iookin, =,
,uob ,o,d hso,tb Ua will m.la n tail,
this evou;pg ot tbe fair croupds h,t
any nurnos. 70 n,ota n
sneach II ongbt IN lao remembered
that Con.roI Pragg wos eduo,taJ In n
,cboo, whose oratorv was daliver.,, iu
and shot and NOT I'm set
,neeches Rut we have M doubt Inf
the generals TAN will be far better
han most neople,s sDeecbes
By the way. il would have been for.
innate for the success of the Dallas and
Wichita railroad, II II could have been
,head of the galveston and Santa Fe
.ompany, In securing the services of so
,killful an engineer as General Bragg.
Besides, having the entire confidence
If the people, in his han s this much
needed enterprise would not be in the
noribund condition in which il is now
A mrpAvp of Amsriean Ri1emeu
eff New York on Saturday last, for
he purpose of trying their nerves and
no-liatt With tho irish ,iaomo, of
,,o'''p' "' w ni,,,- ,r, ' m M
'oii' .'i'r.''' "e''i nu"''',' ii'e ""'
elphia Times says the late scores oil .
hp New York men at I.pptimpOr, ]
ave been most excellent, at light hun I
ra,I aud n thousand yards-bptter than
,v that have been announced from