The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-10
wEEkLY HERALD


Cruz, Sunday, In the steamer Guy Of
Havana.
A pI8PATCu from Berlin reports
that eighty ecclesinsllcs IRE imprl.oncd
In POsrn nIpnc.
on the 05,OOO,OlO bushels Of wheat
imported by Great Britain, the United
States furnish half
DALLAS may congratulate herself
Her council would reflect honor upon
any metropolis In America.
THE national seat Of government
will be temporarily removed, about
the LIST of May, TO Long Branch.
THE recent election in Connecticut
has been the most severe blow Grant
has yet received to his third term
hopes.
As YET, Major John Henry Brown Is
the only candidate from this county
announced for the constitutional con-
ventiOn.
Our new postmaster, General a. Il.
Norton, took charge of the Office yes
terday. So far, no changes have been
made in the clerical force Of the Office.
The faculty of Yale have invited
Governor Chamberlain, of South Car
olina, to deliver the oration before the
Law School ofthat college, Mt the next
commencement.
The first regular train of cars went
through the lloosic tunnel, in Connec.
ticut, from Troy, on Monday afternoon
last. A large coal traffic is expected
over the new route.
CAPT. j. w. GosDEE, one of the old
est and wealthcst merchants of Louis
vile, KY, while attempting to get on
the ears, Oh Friday last, fell under the
moving train and was killed.
THE Victoria Advocate, like two
thirds of the people of western Texas,
now that the International is to be
built, Is bitterly opposed, and properly,
to the subdivision of the State.
A NEW directory has just been
made in ST. Louis, which gives that
antiquated village population Of
100000. Now is the time for Chicago
to step up head with cool half mil
lion.
THE New York World says the dem
ocrats of Rhode Island have not in
twenty years entered into Il canvass
under more favorable prospects of sue
cess than they do that which they are
now prosecuting,
JOHN G. NEW, of Indiana, bank
cashier, is to succeed General Spinner.
Nothing worse is known, and, rs for
that matter, nothing better, of Mr..
New than that he is recommended by
Senator Morton.
THE new usuIy law of Georgia al
lows twelve per cent to lie taken by
special contract, the legal rate being
otherwise seven per cent. The penal
ty of taking an excess is the forfeiture
of the interest.
THE Dallas and Wichita railroad
question will soon present itself to the
new council, and THE HERALD has no
fear but what it will be disposed of in
manner most conducive to the inter-
ests and welfare of the people ofDallas.
The latest returns from Connecticut
give the state to the democrats by
handsome majority. Three out of four
congressman are elected, while the
democrats have Il clear working ma
.orily in both branches of the legisla-
ture.
In the municipal elections held in
the principal cities of Ohio, Tuesday,
the democrats, in nearly every in
stance, succeeded in electing their can
didates. Truly, for defunct body,
democracy keeps up q terrible lot of
noise.
THE advocates of the force bill, in |
the last congress, who were defeated /
by the people for reelection, are being
provided for by King Ulysses as fast us
circumstances will permit. The more
jealous the advocate, the betterth po-
sition.
HUNNIcUlT, formerly a captain in
the state police, under the Davis ad-
ministrati0n, was sentenced to the
for life, in Waco, Monday,
for the murder Of eugene Carter. The
murder was committed in 1870, and
was most iiendish and brutal.
TIE Michigan legislature has passed
a resolution submitting to the people
nh amendment to the constitution
out the section which prohib-
its the legislature from passing any act
the grant of license for the
sale Of ardent spirits or Intoxicating
liquors.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Sioux City,
Of the Goth, states that two men who
have just reached Springfield, Dakota,
from the Black Hills, have with them
several nuggets Of very fine gold which
they dug out of the ground with an .
lx, their party being destitute of min {
ing tools.
ONE vessel with two surveying par /
les on board, will probably begin to
'urvey the south pass of the Missis-
iippi river this week, and another ves- ,,
vel left New York about week ago I
With two other parties on board, and {
will arrive at the pass and be ready for !
york by the fifteenth instant.
As THE southern states are expected |
o furnish large share of the electo-
al vote which is to elect democratic :
resident next year, the south is con- {
eded to be entitled TO considerable
on the national ticket, and
is further conceded that Texas is the
tate from which to select the gentle .
nan. =
THE state constitution of New Hamp- n
hire still contains clause which dis c
ualifies Roman Catholics from hold Il
lg the office of governor ard from il
fhe functions of legisla- II
Or. A movement has at last been n