The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-09-04
Minor TcIpgraIlls.

Morton & Co., leading lumber traders
in Falmouth, have failed. Liabilities
$500, 900.
Half of the business portion of
Greenup, Illinois, was destroyed yes
terday by fire.
The entire business portion of Rey-
noldsville, Pennsylvania, has been
consumed by fire.
The attendance at the National Board
of Steam Navigation, now in session
in New York city, is quite small.
Additional attachments have been
issued in New York against the prop
erty of the Bank of California in that
city.
The stone cutters of Chicago struck
yesterday for three dOllers day, and
a few small firms that had contracts
acceded.
Intense excitement is the portion of
Lincoln, Missouri, in consequence of
the brutal murder of Il. Walker by +.
Hartman.
Mary Miller, of New York, in at
tempting to save her daughter who had
ventured beyond the safety line at
Rockaway bath, was drowned.
-Four children OF Mrs. Mier, of AS
cension parish, Louisiana, We're pois-
oned yesterday with French worm
lozenges. All died within three hours.
After numerous consultations be-
tween commissioners of the Western
Union and Atlantic and Pacific tele-
graph companies, looking to CONSOLE
datlon, the matter dropped.
The British Bank of North America
has obtained an injunction restrain
ing Laidlow Bros. from negotiating
certain bills of exchange RENTED to
the latter from the Bank of California.
A trio of pretended gas men having
obtained admission into the residence
of General Stager, in Chicago, robbed
the premises of silver ware and other
valuable property.
Baxter, Bell &c Co.'S white lead
works in Brooklyn and several adjoin-
ing buildings burned yesterday. BaX-
ter, Bell " Co.'s loss is Sl43, 900; insur-
ance, $4,000.
DIR. Patterson denies the recent
statement to the elect that he had
given Mrs. Lincoln certificate of dis
charge. The unfortunate lady is more
perturbed in mind than ever.
The committee of arrangements for
the army of the Cumberland reunion,
ut Utica, has received word that Gen
erals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan,
Hooker, Gustav, Coburn, Murray, of
Kentucky, and many Others will be
present.
President Noyes, of the American
Life and Trust Company of New Ha-
ven, Connecticut, has been arrested
for violating the State statute against
refusing insurance commissioners ac-
cess to the cOmpany's books.
Guibord's approaching funeral is the
universal topic of conversation in
Montreal. IL is said il all ecclesiasti-
cal rites are not observed at the grave
by the Catholic priests, an action for
$50, 900 damages will be brought against
Cure Losale.
Fulton, Missouri, is alive with enthu-
siasm and arrangements to receive
Hon. Jefferson Davis, who is to adj
dress the Fair Association. A dele
cation of Senators are to receive him,
and thousands from all parts of the
State will be present
The election begins in California to-
day, and is attracting large share of
public attention. Election managers
heighten the interest by asserting that
upon the result hinges the resumption
of the Bank of California, both parties
claiming the desired result In case of
victory.
The attendance at the Troy, New
York, amateur regatta was very large.
The four-oared crews race, between the
Atiantics and the Mutuals, of Albany,
and Friendship, OF New York, dis
tance one and a half miles, was won
by the Atlantics by a length, Mutuals
second. Time S:22a.