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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-18

82oo-o 90 O q O
In gold coin, choice lands farms ana CITY
residences. Among the prizes there VIII be
$4,000 In gold. The real estate IL put III
:" UuMWEN Y.-Having, from oui
long acquaintance with J. Il. Foster, every
confidence In his integrity, we feel justified
In saying we believe he will carry out his
distribution honestly and fairly. Signed BY
the mayor, Hon. j. 4, ID. Wilson, and the city
council.
That old and reliable paper, the Houston
Telegraph, which rarely condescends TO no.
tice Individual enterprises, says OF the first
Not even the most captious and suspectlng
person could take exceptions 10 the manner
OF the drawing. II was fair, honorable ana
The committee and recorders were of our
very best citizens, and kindly gave their time
and labor TO the superintendence0 fthe draw
Ing, or rather did the actual labor of 10.
Captain Foster has acted honorably and
fairly throughout the whole management OF
this enterprise. While some money has been
made by the venture In all probability, yet
the property given rs prizes has only Melted
a fair price, and the profit Is only IN ex-
change of the property for cash.
That staunch democratic paper, the Hous-
ton Age, has the following:
THE COMMITTEE
of gentlemen was one OF The best that could
nave been selected by the audience. Hon.
y. u. Ra-zi2a, who supervised the drawing,
is our present representative, and one of the
most popular men IN the district,
THE DRAWING
was prefaced by An explanation nom cap
tain Foster, of the mode Of drawing. This
was well received and understood, precisely
as explained by the circulars. Captain Eos
Ter said that whilc he wished AL his home
people good luck, he yet was zee to say th Ia
with the people OF poor mississippi, Lonlsi'
ana and South Carolina, he felt greater
sympathy, aud he did nope they would draw
the largest humber ofprizes, that they might
come to a free country, and make white
man Is living. This sentiment was received
with loud cheers.
The drawing asthen proceeded with and
| the result is announced elsewhere"
No connection with the Denison, Wagley
| Il Lockhart, or any other similar enterprise
Tickets S3 each,
and liberal discount on orders t0r greAtel
number. RELIABLE AGENTS WANTED
Must have the confidence or the community
| i'm which they live Send for circular. Ref
erence--Dunn Barlow & Co.'S reference book
Jonnd In all banks. 7. w: HOUSE, Treasurer
Address, j. Il. FOSTER, MANAGER,
Houston Texas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-18
St. Nicholas for 1875.

The prospectus of the second volume shows
that there Is TO be no falling OF, but an In
crease in it's literary md pictorial attrac-
tions. Among other attractive features are
two sp'e ndid serial stories,
"THE YOUNG SURVEYOR"
by j. t. Towbrldge, author of the Jack Haz-
ard stories, etc.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-18

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Others lhNn llomlug Hr,b, VIII do Woi 10 wits
t'.r orders distinctly, and toto nop0 out IN.
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trial, we win forward per mail poh.lad, 10 Hny
p'rl of the Unitll SNtel ono box 'uf Pills Tor
twelve tlutc'reut postage riamps, on ono Mini "
Ncunimgr for fourteen thtteocui stamps. III
orto'r nom Cmnln must DO accompanied w
tWGuty cents extra.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
StOneWl1l jackson.

The formal Inauguration of the statue
presented to Virginia by number of
English gentlemen took place at Rich
mond. Tuesday, the Goth. An imposing
pageant and interesting ceremony COM
bined to make it the grandest demon
stration ever witnessed in that city. The
streets were filled to ovcrHowing, it being
ESTIMATED that fully $4,000 strangers
were present: The procession was an
hour and a half PASSING a given point,
moving rapidly.
Rev. DR.. NJ. D. Koge was orator of the
day, and in his address alluded to the
condition of the country, and said a sol.
der s parole was a sacred thing, and the
comrades of ~Stonewall jackson would be
true to their parole and TO the union OF
these American states. but. at the same
time that the union can only command
their hearts 1--we when it returns to those
great fundamental principles 81 TIE cor
stitpti ion which gives to all of the States
equal rights with Massachusetts, and New
York. ,
At the close Of the GRAFTON. the, statue
Wasnnveiled amid the cheers of the null
titude, the firing Of musketryy and the
booming of cannon. General jackson S
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03

In 1874 James Elliott, Morton's prop.
|erty.clerk during the war, who had just
been dismissed from the patent office,
got possession of Mort0n's vouchers and
accounts, which he turned over to VII
towski, and upon them the latter built
|up1his claims upon the goyernmant. The
lesr claim was supported by D., Stewart,
Morton S assistant at" Nashville Louis
Pick, superintendent of construction at
Brooklyn navy ysrd,and A. Drummer, a
clothing merchant in New Y rk. The
claim was examined in the Third Audi.
to. office by 1. A.. Allen. who recon-
mended the claim be passed. Gen. Ruth.
erford struck out the recommendation
and. sent it TO the Second. Controller,
where it was reported as being recog-
nized,by the Engineers Bureau as one
that ha not been paid, when the reverse
was true. Gen., Negley hurried up the
claim and said he knew ,Witowski person.
ally to be all honest man, who had not
been s;half paid for his services
to the country, and the claim
was paid. The chief OF engineers
hearing of the transaction, wrote an in
dignant letter to the Secretary of War
demanding an investigation. A special
| agent was commissioned to inquire into
the whole proceeding, aud he denounces
it as gross fraud. supported by the
worst Of forgeries. The report further
states that by the aid of Morton's papers
Witowski has manufactured fraudulent
documents by cutting out accounts and
FASTING old heads on new statements of his
own making. These new claims, to the
extent of some 100000, 'Wltowski in
tended to present, and support them by
rgarb'ed statements from Morton's pa.
llpers. The report also states that the
only property ever owned by Witowski
at Nashville never had more than eight
trees on it since he owned it.. The report
concludes with Recommendation to the
government to prosecute all who have
had hand in this gigantic steal.
This narrative only shows how the
government is continually swindlcd by
unprincipled scoundr els, while honest
and worthy claimants pine from hope de.
ferrcd which maketh the hear; sick.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
Food For Caunibals.

A year ago last February the bark
Jewess, Of Boston. sailed from New
South Wales in the direction of the Auck-
land Islands, a group which lies in the
south Pacific Ocean near New Zealand.
A few days later the Boston bark Della
NJ. Long and an English bark, name un.
known. followed on the same course. No
tidings of the two Boston vessels were
received till recently, when Capt. Bremen
of Biddelord, Maine, Of the bark Mara
then, New York, returning from a voy-
age around the world, brought back a
terrible story in regard 20 them. At one
of the ports at which he stopped he had
fallen in with sailor, or some one who
knew MIN, who purported to be the sole
survivor of the three crews. The
vessels. he said, had become be.
Gained in the vicinity of the Auckland
Islands, and laid there together several
days. They were boarded at night by
+cannibals, who came in large numbers,
overpowered the crews, plundered the
ships and scuttled them. The men were
carried prisoners to the shore and furnish
ed food for the horrible feast Of their
captors. No particulars Of the fight or of
the survivors escape were obtained, but
the facts are pretty we'll authenticated,
and the long absence Of the vessels furn.
ishes good ground for believing that the
story may be true. The survivor was one
OF the crew Of the Jewess, and he is said
to have related that the surprise was
complete, the vessels being some distance
from land, and no signs of enemies hav-
ing been seen. The usual precaution tax.
en- when a ship is becalmed in the vicinity
of land inhabited by savages is to drive
sharp nails, placed closely together,
through boards, which are placed over the
decks, and fastened firmly down, leaving
the sharp points sticking up. 1t is then
impossible for the barefooted savages to
st.p upon the deck, and they are shot off
at leisure. This precaution Was not
taken ON board tie Jewes:, the survivor
said, because no danger was suspected.
1t is understood. that no ship OF the
United States Navy is now stationed IN
the South Seas, or within reasonable dis
lance of the vicinity where the terrible
tragedy is credited as having been enact
ed. The Jewe$s was nearly 500 tons bur-
den.. Capt, Mayo Of Chelsea was the
managing owner; and Mark Googins CT
East Boston, Caleb Eaton and Frank
Lane were part owners. Frank Lewis OF
y .st Boston, was one of the mates on the
three vessels. There were probably
thirty men, but the names of any cannot
he ascertained, most Of them having
been shipped in foreign ports. Time
will probably bring to light fuller partic-
qlarss Of, their horrible fate. :, &. ..,;.,-.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
Lively Pistol Practice Between 4, Mar,
and His Insane Divorced Wife.
From the Fairfield Press, Oct. ID. J

| from the Falrneld PieSS, oct. H.
On Friday mor14ng last Mrs formerly
Miss Mo!lie) Farnsw orth, divorced wife
Of Wells I. Clark, arrived at our depot
The morning train from the south.
On the route down town she inquired OF
James Ford if he knew Clark and where
he worked. She carried in her hand a
small: paper package, which subsequent
events proved to contain pistol. Ar
irving down town she proceeded to Dr..
Siblcy' S residence (where Clark formerly
bo>, ded) and inquired for him. Being
told that he was probably at the church
at work, she went directly to the build.
ing. Mr.. Clark was, at the time of her
| arrival, engaged in placing the .joists for
the seco2d floor. Mrs. Clark entered
the basement and looked around Tor
Clark, saw him on the joists some ten or
eleven feet above. She unw:apped her
paper parcel, remarking at the time {:
"Wells Clark, I've given you warning
now I've got YOU She then pre-
scented her pistol and sought a good
opportunity to shoot Clark be-
tween the joists. Clark saw his danger
and drew pistol and fired. Reports are
somewhat conflicting as to which fired
first, the reports being almost simultane-
Gus Mrs. Clark's bullet struck joist
and rebounded to the floor. Clark shot
three times. The first shot was miss,
but the other two took effect. One en-.
tered Mrs. Clark's forehead just above
the left eye, and taking downward
course, came almost through the eye.
The other entered the forehead near the
edge of the hair and ranged backward
along the scalp. After the firing Mrs.
Clark sank down, and was helped to DR..
Vertree's office by Messrs. McNely and
Clodfelter. With their aid she was able
to walk, notwithstanding the loss OF
much blood, and had faith to believe that
she would live to again make target OF
Mr.. Clark at some future time.
On Friday evening we called to see
Mrs. Clark and found her getting along
finely under the circumstances. One half
of her head and face was covered with
cloths, but her visible eye was bright
and she was able to talk as rapidly and
theoretically as ever. She had much that
was bad to say of her late husband. She
said she had joined him in many crimes,
and that he is responsible for her wrong.
doings. She is evidently not of sound
mind. She says that when in Texas and
other distant states (Clark being in
lllinois) he would pinch her hands and
feet and annoy her in many ways, and
she concluded that she would kill him to
prevent his thus following her around
and Tdisturbing her.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
. supposed to obey the laws iur1der,: VII CHI
they exist, the t'Na.ional sChief' offthe

shey exist the t'Na.ional sChief' offthe
.kedlvlvil on receipt of the letter called a
council Of the mysterious organization,
which met, as it was alleged, by sum-
mons Of dagger and cord delivered to
leach Of the mem eTs of The ssupreme and
fextraor diiIary couhciEr ddr s6theyaare
Sailed. The number seven has always
had mystic powers, and the! ''Council Of
seven met on the 7th OF, October,4 at the
Fhotel kept BY O'Donovan Rosa, in Chat
nam square. The proprietor of the hotel
knew nothing Of the purpose of the Seven
men l1 who called on him, headed by Nc
Namara, and he readily allowed them to
engage a.ro0m. Six of the men were par
TALLY, disguised and were not known.
They met in room up stairs after order
ing some ginger beer, and locked the door
$50 that no one should enter. No
zone except those present can
teii what happened in the
room yet, incredible as it may seem,
one OF the seven, under the solemn obi.
| CATION Of secret oaths, was deputed to
kill Thomas j. McGeoghegan wherever
found, no matter if it were in a church,
as traitor to Ireland and the Sacred
Order of the Redivivi. Our reporter dis.
covered last evening that the name Of
the man who is to execute the sentence Of
| death on the unfortunate McGeoeheean
is James Walsh, who is a bother Of
champagne, and belonged formerly to the
firm Of Walsh & Peel, but when not 9th.
erwisc engaged is peddler Of maps. MIR.
McGeoghegan called last evening at the
Herald office and declared that he was
not a traitor to Ireland, but that owine
to his honest religious belief he had to re.
sign his membership in the Redivivi.
He seemed little frightened, and de.
| clared that he did not know what the
members Of the Redivivi might do if they
were excited. e., 49,
"A Herald reporter called at the Dis.
trict Attorneys Office yesterday to know
what steps would be taken by that off.
| cial in case that Mcnamara should, at.
tempt to carry out his insane threat OF
executing the unfortunate McGcog hogan.
Mr.. Phelps was at the time busily en-.
gagrd Ii, trying Dolan for the murder OF
Mr.. Noe and could not be seen, but the
the officials in the District Attorney
office informed the reporter that the laws
would protect Mr.. Geoghegan from the
numerous attempts Of the man McNam.
era, ifhe would apply in time for such
protection. The National Chief" Nc.
Namara, met Mr.. McGeoghegan in a
Hamilton ferryboat a few nj hts since
and after abusing him in a savage way,
soleinnly sentenced him to be shot to
death by James Walsh. The latter indi-
vidual bought a Smith 4 Weston seven
shooter last Saturday evening and is sup.
pose; to wreak vengeance on the fatcd
McGeoghegan, and it is quite possible
that inside Of forty EIGHT hours our cti-
zens may be startled by the news of a
dreadful murder. The 'schief.' McNam-
ara, was yesterday Seen on Tryon row
and other public places armed with a
bludgeon, and On being appealed to for
mercy stated very resolutcly that he saw
no reason to reverse the sentence pro.
nounocd, and that McGcoghesan must
die at set of sun.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
The Las, OF :, r enn.ylvania TRACED,

The Last OF IL ennsylvania Tragedy
William Russell, the old farmer who
married Mary Stokes, his hired girl, near
R'osevllle, Pa, in September, has become
insane oyer the terrible domestic tragedy
which followed his marriage. The. par
ticulars Of this tragedy.-the deserving Of
her fathers house by Harriet Russell;
her marrying Horton Hurst, a bitter enc.
my Of her fathers; the following of the
couple~by the farmer, and subsequent &C.
c'dental shooting Of the daughter by her
nus band, and his blowing out his own
brains over the dead bod of his wife
were given at the. times, Russell is Kept
under strict surveiilance~by his friends as
1T is feared that he will commit suicide,
his: arrangement evidently having that
tendency. :, Ills young wife is nearly worn
out by her devotion to him and by the
exciting events that followed her mar
riagc. Russell is to bo placed in an asy.
iul1l' '~' nIe SIS .. - ct e.. .4i..
= Sporting MEN are to have a Mecca in
Washington The skeleton Of the famous
race horse Lexington n is to be wired,
mounted nd preserved III the Smithsonian
institution.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
Better Feeling at Virginia City.

A dispatch from Virginia City says
matters are much more cheerful. Women
are doing a noble work in relieving dis
trcss. Large numbers of men are al.
ready at work clearing the ground and
rebuilding. Work has been commenced
on the Ophir shaft, and men are clearing
away the ruins of the Consolidated Vir-
ginia works. One engine was found good.
The record vault of the court house is
being dug out of the ruins. The Bank of
California is being cleared away, and a
great many workmen are engaged for pri-
waite parties. A number Of firms have re-.
sumed business. The insurance adiusters
are hard at work. The liabilities, as far
as can tprescnt be asccrtained. are about
one and half millions. Prisoners held
for petty ofenses have been set free, and
the others removed to Carson and Gold
Hill. A meeting of lawyers was held to-:
day to make such arrangements as the
necessities of the case demand. A COM
mittee was appointed to call meeting of
the county bar next Thursday to consult
with regard to rcconstruct:ng the county
building, and petition for an extra SEES.
sion of the legislature to provide for cases
arising from the destruction of records
and municipal institutions.
The work of obtaining and forwarding
relief to Virginia City has been going on
vigorously to-day. Several thousand dol.
lars were collected, citizens and corpora.
tions, especially mining companies, re-
spending literally. Donations of cloth
ing. blankets and other necessaries were
also forwarded: Favorable reports of the
condition Of the mines received to-day
have had the effect to Great much more
hopeful feeling in business circles.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03

Flowers have their time to bloom!
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-19
Dismissed for Doing Their Duty.
from the Chica 90 Times

In respect to Solicitor Buford Wilson and
District Attorney Over, of St. Louis, the phi
losophcr says: i" These gentlemen have done
their duty in an able, fearless and honest man
ner, and the country will not stand idly by
and see them dismissed for doing their duty
How about the dismissal of Mr.. Henderson
for doing his duty Mr.. Henderson has been
tie head and front OF the whisky ring prose-
buttons. He did more than all the others
together to convict Joyce, Mcdonald and
Avery all Grants office-holders, and crowned
his efficiency by bringing to light the evil
dence upon which the man Babcock was in
dicted. For doing that he was dismissed by
order of Babcock's friend, U. s. Grant. It
does not look much as if the country were
going to stand idly by and let this outrage
pass without an expression of its condemna-
ton.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-19

Interest has been excited by the discover
of remarkable coincidence between the well
known passage in Byron's "Childe Harold,
beginning
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll;
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee IN vain,
and certain stanzss in an code TO the Sea,
by Chenedolle, French poet, which are al
| follows:
Dread ocean, burst upon me with thy shores,
Fling wide thy waters when the storms bear
sway;
Thy bosom opens to thousand prores,
Yet fleets with idle daring breast thy spray,
Ripple with arrows track thy closing plain,
And Craze the surface OF thy deep domain.
" Man dares not tread thy LIQUID wav,
Thou spurn'st that pot Of day,
Tossed like snowflake on the spray,
From storm-Sulfs to The skies;
He breathes and reigns on solid land;
And ruins mark his tyrAnt hand;
Thou bldst him in that circle stand
Thy reign his rage detes.
" Or, should he force his passage there,
Thou risest, mocking his despair;
The shipwreck humbles all his pride;
He SILKS within the darkk ONE tide
The surges vast unfathomed gloom
His catacomb-
Without name, without tomb.
1.-THE banks are Kingdoms, where the shrine,
the throne,
The pomp of human things are changed and
The people, they are phantoms, they are flown.
Ilme has avenged thee on their strength at
last.
Thy pillows idly rest on Sidons shore.
And her bold pilots wound thy pride no more
Rene, Athens, Carthagel what are they!
Spoiled heritage, successive prey;
New nations force their onward way,
And grasp disputed reign;
Thou changest not, thy waters pour
The came wild waves against the shore,
Where Liberty had breathed before,
And Slavery hugs his chain.
. States bow; Times spectre presses still
On AppeDine's subsiding hill;
No trace of Time is left on thee,
Exchanging sea,
Created thus, and Sid to be. |
Sea Of Almightiness itself the immense
And glorious mirror how thy azure face
EenewG the heavens n their magniticenceI
What awful grandeur rounds thy hesying |
space
Two worlds thy surge, eternal warning, sweeps,
And Gods throne rests on thy majestic deeps !"
Chenedolle's ode may be found in Longfel- |
ellow's Poetry Of Earope, from which the
bove translation is derived. Some doubt ex.
IT'S as to who vas the piagiarist in this case,
any plagiarism there is The fourth canto
" Childe Harold, III which Byron's famous
Z &c to the sea appear, was published in 1918;
henedole xss born in 1858 In 1907 he pro.
uced "Ihe Genius of Man." poem greatly
lnaired: in 1920 he published collection of
is early odes, witt some new ones. 1t is un-
srtain when the DDS from which the extract
Dove IS given frs. appeared.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-19
THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE WHISKY
RING.

The altered cause for the discharge of Mr..
Henderson Is That IN his argument on the
trial of Avery-a pet of tho President and q
| confederate of Babcock-he used language
which reflected on the President personally.
That charge is unfounded, and is denied by
Mr.. Henderson On the faith of the stenogra-
piers notes. But even in the free report of
his speech there is nothing which is obnox-
lous to propriety. He was illustrating the
weakness of Commissioner Douglas in Weld
ing to external Influences in the discharge of
his proper duties and the consequences that
followed from interference; and these are his
words:
What right has the President to interfere with
Commissioner Douglas in the proper discharge
OF his duties, or With the Treasurer? None: and
Douglas showed a lamentabl9 weakness of char
acter when he listened to Babcock's dictates.
Why did Douglas bend the supple hinges of the
knee and permit auy interference by the Presi-
dentP This was Douglass own business, and he
stood responsible for it under his official OATH
+ was bound to listen to no dictation from the
President, Babcock, or any other officer. and it
was his duty to see that that order was carried
out, or he should have resigned his Office.
Admitting that he used this language,
which is much stronger than the verbatim
report, there is not word in it to which ex-
ceptlon can fairly be taken. He condemns
the submission OF Douglas strongly and
properly, eud in connection Herewith makes
manifest the interference of the President.
The point which provoked Grants ire, and
stings him most in presence of the Whisky
ling exposures, is the truth of Henderson's
statement Ee did interfere directly. unwar-
rantably, and suspieiously.
After approving Mr.. Bristow's order last
winter to change the supervisors and agents,
which WIS tie first move against the Ring,
Grant reyCteG that order at the instapna IF
and the other thieves, without
word of notice to the Secretary of the Treas
ury That az least was not Babcocks work,
though he MAJ have aided in bringing it
about. The President made the or Ter him
self over the head of Bristow, Douglas and
everybody else In SO doing he gave his own
license to continue the frauds and to defy the
Treasury. 0 wonder the Ring exulted and
proclaimed war against Bristow.-M 7. Sun.