The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-12
Minor 'EeIegrnns.

n great IRE Is raging in the timber
yard near the railway depot at Santan-
der, in Spain.
John Sergis, an English Calcutta
merchant, has failed for seven hum
dred pounds.
j. ID. Harlan, stranger from Ala
bama, died in the station house at
Atlanta, Georgia.
The boiler in John G. Melker's hat
shop, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, ex-
ploded and killed the engineer.
-Four houses of the Boston Ice Com
pany and six hundred tons of ice were
lost by fire, the work of incendiarlsm
Italy will appoint q commission to
the Philadelphia Centennial, composed
of Italians residing in the United
States.
The American bark Josephine is at
Gibraltar damaged and the crew re-
fuses to proceed on account Of her un-
seaworthinese.
The steamship City OF Berlin, Of the
Inman line, arrived in Queenstown in
seven days, fifteen hours and forty
eight minutes.
DR.. III. Il. Helmbold, the great pat
ent medicine manufacturer and adver-
tiser, has been discharged from Bloom.
ingdale asylum.
The legality of the transfer, in De
cember last, of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith railroad and lands, is
about to be contested.
The Supreme Court of the United
States will commence to call the dock
ct tomorrow. There are six hundred
and sixty-three cases to be tried.
The Pope has notified Centennial
authorities of his intention to send two
mosaics, one representing the Madon-
ma, by Raphael, and st. Agnes, by
Gentili.
Michael Carney, principal, and tho
seconds in the fatal prize fight, in Bos-
ton, gave themselves up to the police
last night and were locked up for ex-
animation.
The London Daily Telegraph has a
special telegram from Constantinople,
stating that Servia and Turkey have
mutually agreed to withdraw troops
from the frontier.
Alexander III. Stephens was taken
i'll Saturday and his suffering is repre-
sented as eXcruciatiDg and his condi-
ton critical. lie is afflicted with
stone in the bladder.
His Royal Higbness, Prince of Wales,
departs from London on Il visit to In
dia at eight O'clock this evening. He
will be accompanied rs far as Calais by
the Princess Alexandria.
The Kaiserhof hotel in the city of
Berlin, has been totally destroyed by
fire. 1t was the finest structure of the
kind in Germany. The loss is estimg-
ted at one million dollars.
w. w. Gorrord, of Savanna, Geor-
gia, Henry j. Leavy aud Armand Pill
lott, of New Orleans, have been adj
mtted TO practice in the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Father Matthew's birthday was cele-
brated Saturday ut Providence, by a
large procession of the Catholic Tenn
perance societies and the cadets and by
a mass meeting in Music Hall.
Attorney General Perrepont has de-
cided, under the twenty-sixth rule,
that General Cowen, Assistant Secre'
tary, cannot legally exercise the func-
tons of Secretary of Interior after to-
day.
1t is reported in Paris that the French
and BRUSH Governments are In COM
munication relative to the taking OF
proper steps in the Turkish debt mat
ter, in view of the recent edict OF that
Government regarding 1t.
The English steamer Biscay, belong
ing 10 the port of Newcastle, stranded
off Jutland while on a voyage from
Cronstadt to Bremen, and eleven per-
sons were drowned. The Blscay was
an iron steamer, built In 1872, and
owned in London.
An unknown schooner ran into and
sunk the coal barge n. Lee, IN New
York harbor, on Saturday night, ana
Captain Cooper, his wife and child,
who were asleep in the cabin, went
down with the barge and were
drowned.
The disturbance at Shenandoah,
Pennsylvania, growing out Of the at
TEMPTED destruction OF the william
Penn colliery has been quieted ana
no further trouble Is anticipated. The
man Johns, who was shot Saturday
night Is still alive.
The hosting works of Utah mine, In
Virginia City, have been destroyed by
fire, including the two thousand feet
shaft which cost u quarter of u million
of dollars. The engineer heroicaliy
hoisted miners until he was badly