The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-02-27

LAS HERALD, and money paid to him on
Ouraccount will be duly acknowledged ny us
THE LiederkranZ society of Houston
is making extensive preparations to
perform Wagner's grand opera OF
"TannhRuser.
IT is currently reported in New
York that Mr.. A. II. Stewart has
bought the grand opera house for $780,
600 and will convert it into grand re-
tail dry goods palace.
MARSHAL MCMAHON, president OF
the French republic, continues~his
search for some one that can success
fully form new cabinet out of the
mauy discordant political elements
in France. The general prosperity
and business of the country seems to
be going very smoothly, nevertheless,
under the septennate.
Mr.. DIsRAELI's new Irish policy
will be the repeal of exceptional stat
utes in relation to the peace Of Ireland,
the enactment of laws for the trans
fer of lands, and the recOnstructing OF
the judiciary. These reforms carried
out, he looks for better state of feel
ing in that country.
The immigration from Europe has
30 decreased, and our exports have so
fallen of, that it is having very de-
pressing effect upon the European
lines of steamers. Many OF them are
barely making expenses. There are
three hundred steamships laid up in
England for the want of paying em-
ployment.
THERE is a good deal of pickering
and recriminating going on over the
case OF DIR. Dekoven, the newly elected
bishop of Illinois. A very caustic let
ter from layman advises that it be
stopped, and that some of the unanim-
ity and cheerful discipline of the Ro-
man Catholic and Methodist churches
be emulated by TIE opponents and up
holders of Dr. DeKoven.
A PARTY by the name of Tompkins
from. Charlestown, West Virginia, has
been discovered to be u relative of the
Presidents and Immediately appointed
to office as United States marshal of
Colorado. The popular impression that
all of Grants relations had been pro-
vided for, is thus dispelled by this sud
den unearthipg of another specimen
of the great barnacle family.
A Mr.. RoBART J. SMITH wrote a
letter to the Houston Telegraph, re-
porting the killing of Captain Thomas
E. Hogg, the editor and poet of Den
ton. The thing turns out to have been
heartless hoax, and now Captain
Hogg writes that he is alive and will
be kicking if he can find Smith. An
example should be made of iieartless
idiot who is capable of such piece OF
impertinence and cruelty combined.
There IL neither fun nor sense i'm these
sort OF practlcal jokes.
THE New York Sun thinks we may
as well prepare ourselves to hear OF an
attempt to restore the empire and the
Bonapartes in France. The arrange
ments are srid to be about complete.
Bazaine is mixed up in the new
scheme, and public opinion in France
has been very adroitly and thoroughly
prepared for it by the ex-Empress
Eugene.
SHERIDAN has been repeatedly asked
for the names Of The twenty-one hum
dred men murdered in Louisiana for
political reasons, hut us his report be-
longs to the secretary of war, he feels IL
shrinking 'Ielicacy in giving the names
to The world.
MIR. THOMAS CARLYLE has declined
the grand cross of the order of the
Bath offered him by Queen Vic
toria, and Tennyson, the poet, not
to be out-done in independence, has
refused baronetcy.
GENERAL GORDON has proposed to
Wendell Phillips that he will accom-
pany him through the southern states
on tour. Phillips would then see for
the first time in his life that he has
been talking for thirty years about n
people and country he knew nothir &
of.
MAJOR JOSEPH DELAFIELD died on
Friday last, a week ago. i'm New York,
at the age of eighty-five. He was the
oldest of five brothers, who were men
Of high standing in society and their
professions. Rufus r. Delafield died
two years since, aged seventy-two; Ma
jor Richard Delafied also died about n
year ago; DIR. Edward Delafield died
OH Saturday, and the last brother left
Is III with pneumonia and not expected
to live. The major was veteran of
1872 and major of the forty-sixth in
fantry In 1914.
Mr.. HARMON DoANE a prominent
business man of New Orleans, and
President of the Factors and Traders
Insurance company, of that city, is
dead.
THE Hon. Samuel Hooper, member
Of congress from the fourth district of
Massachusetts. whose death has been
already announced, was born at Mar
blehead, Mass, in 1908.
The small pox has nearly subsidized
ct BreDham, and 1t ia now reported