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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-24
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WEDNESDAY MORNING :::: NOV. d.
DALLAS. TEXAS.
HENRY WILSON.

Henry Wilson, Vice President OF
the United States, died at Washington
ON the morning of the 22d. The cause
Of his death was apoplexy' Mr. VIII
son was.a native Of Massachusetts, he
was born at Pennington, In that State
.tbi the 10th OF February, 1879, which
made him sixt%three years OF age at
the time oflus death. Al an early age
he learbcdA ule trade or shoenaking
and stuck to It faithfully until he ac'
CURED n TASTE for politics. Even
while pursuing this humble calling
Ga1Ie poasessed- great power over his
fellow workmen, and, although SO
young, acquired in n short time the
~ position Of their political leaders. AZ
Tito age OF twenty-eight he was elected
member OF the House of Representa-
tives of the State Of Massachusetts by
~ the working people Of that State, his
principle claim being his honesty, in
dustry aud practical good sense. From
that moment Ills National career has
been steadily upward, until he reached
thesecond position In the gift Of the
people, and in all probability had he
lived he would have received the NOM
ination Of the Republican party for
President of the United States. Mr..
Wilson was an original Aboitionist,
and was noted for his bitterness
towards the South and Southern peo-
pie until he 5becamoNlce President Of
the United States when he assumed
the roleofa paciflcator, and did all his
power to restore u fraternal feeling be-
tween the North aud the South. The
United States has lost a great states
man, and the whole country, North
aud South, should be willing to say
ge1NiGscdt IN pace.
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TO TIE DEMOCRACY.

Attention IL called to the letter Of
Capt. X. M. VanXandl, member Of the
state Democratic Executive Commit
tee, for this District, requesting the
chairmen OF the Democratic Commit
tees ofthe several counties to call Con-
ventlons to nominate delegates to rep
resent them in the State Convention,
to be held in Galveston on the 9th of
January. We trust that these gentle
men will act promptly in the matter,
as there Is no time to spare,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-24
LITTER FROM JOHN HENRY BROWN
The Conyention-Thc judicial Dis.
tricts-Local Atiairs-Supreme and
Appellate Courts-New Counties, Etc.

AUSTIN, November n, 1876.
To the Editor of the Dallas Herald. IL
For the Information of the people
that |, In part, represent, / give you
the following facts
Dallas and Ellis will compose Judi
cial district, with probably ten weeks
ALLOTTED to Ellis, the remainder to Dali
las. llaIA Pa y
Dallas and Ellis will elect Senator,
and Dallas two Representatives.
Each county will elect a County
Judge and -four County Commissioners
the county being divided into four
Commissioners precincts, each to elect
its own Commissioner. All counties
having ten thousand Inhabitants, by
the census of 1870, will elect an Asses.
sor of Taxes aud separate Collector of
Taxes. This applies to Dallas. In
counties having less than ten thousand
Inhabitants the Sheriff will collect the
taxes, until the census OflSS0.
!, Dallas can be divided into eight pre-
cincts, in each Of which viii be elected
Justice aud a, Constable, and la the
city precinct two Justices to be elected,
rs In all precincts having city ii
eight thousandpopulation.
These cover the local matters in
which our people are interested.
ut was with some difficulty Judge
Ferris and myself prevented our Jude
,eial distfict from being slaughtered by
an addition, that would have been
almost rniDous. We awaited ourselves
of the presence of Oliver Welborn,
Esq, to prove to- the committee of
thirty, the actual condition of our dis
trict. Major Syelborn9 as an attorney
of the court, verified so fully our state
ments that the committee could not
deny our demand. AS TO making Dali
las county district to ITSELF under
the prevailing seutimentgof the Con-
ventioii, twas out OF the question:.
The first Legislature, beyond all
doubt, will fix upon Dallas as one of
the three points for holding the. ,Sul-
preme and kAppellate Courts. The
Constitution confers that power, the
Convention.no being willing to fix
the point irrevocably In the organic
law. / proved by the official figures
that eighty-three Thousand registered
voters would be better accom- modated
ut Dallas than any other place, while
only twenty-five, thousand would be
best accommodated at Tyler. One
third Of the Convention preferred hold
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-24

THE Philadelphia Times thinks the
New York H(Tahi has two heavy jobs
on hand in trying to convince General
Grant of the folly and crime OF en-
broiling tho country into foreign war
In order to advance his third term
project and in striving to break up
Tnmmany. .|@ g ~
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County Conventions.

@# @~ FORT W ORTIZ, Nov, %, 1875.
In pursuance of the call of Hon. j.
ID. Sayers, Chairman of the State DEM
ocratic Executive Committee, hereby
request the Chairmen of the Demo
cratic Executive Committees of the
different counties in this Senatorial
District to call Conventions in their
respective counties, to select delegates
TO represent them in the State Demo-
cratic Convention, which will assem-
bic Mt Galveston on Wednesday, the
fifth dayofJanuary, 1876.
X. NJ. VANHANDT,
Member of The State Democratic
Executive COMMITTEES for the 10Th Sen
atorial District.
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The report of immigrants arriving
at New York for the month ofISeptem-
Der shows large falling of as COM
pared with the same month the pre-
vious year, The decline is said to be
one of the significant results OF the
hard times, and II is likely to continue
even long after the country has regain
ed its usual prosperity.
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TIIANIKsGIyING,

Governor Coke has appointed Thurs
day the 18th inst, tomorrow MS q
day of Thanksgiving and prayer.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-24

IT is said the smallpox is prevailing
badly at the Federal capital.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-24

THEY'VE got n "Grapger's Life and
Health Insurance Company" in Mo-
bile,u
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-24

Isn't IL about time to quit filling the
papers with whole columns on "The
Search for Charlie Ross?n
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09

IHE Rochester Post understands that
parties connected with certain Iowa rail.
roads are willing to undertake the con.
struction OF that portion Of the Lake Pc
pin & Omaha railroad, between Waba.
shaw and Rochester, the present wear.
provided the people along the line renew
their bonuses.
ACCORDING to the Glencoe Register all
the noses up that way look as if they had
been stubbed against the sharp edge of
the north pole, where they had stuck and
got badly peeled in pulling them off,
What nice looking crowd shey must be.
Mr.. LOUIS GR1EsER has invented a car.
brake by which. it is claimed, one man
can govern an entire train far more read.
lily than under the present braking pro.
cess. The invention has been examined
by Supt. Van Horn of the S. Nj. R. R.,
who has agreed to give it trial.
G. T. BRockwAY, partner in the late
firm Of N. F. Phelps & Co. Of Dover Gen.
ire. whose failure was announced some
time ago, was arrested at Winona Thurs
day at the instance of creditors of the
firm, on the sapposition that he had per.
sonal effects which: ought to be in the
hands of the assignee Later he gave up
certain notes, ETC., and was released.
You can steal rails now. One T. L
Fe1elon Was tried before Justice Griffith
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09
Skillfully Planned Robbery.

MEMPHIS Feb. LA most daring rob-
berry was committed about quarter past
9 clock this morning on Madison street,
on which is situated the banks and in
surance Offices, and which created intense
excitement. On Saturday evening man
giving the name Of w. R. Parker, rented
the basement of the Knickerbocker build
ing. No. Ii Madison street, as stated, for
the purpose Of opening stock insurance
office, and put up TIE sign of Nv. K.
Parker & Co.," and placed an old desk
and few chairs in the rear part, which
has back entrance through an alley by
the First National Bank. This morning
John Brady, messenger of the Southern
Express Company, who deliveries all VAL
liable packages, entered this Office,
having package said to con-
tain ten dollars, addressed to
W. r. Parkor & Co., 10 Madison street,
expressed from Collierville. Tenn. Brady,
on entering, asked for member Of the
firm and told his business. There were
two white men and three negroes stand.
ing behind the counter. Brady presented
his receipt book and at the
same time threw his pouch, con.
tanning a large number Of money
packages on the counter. At this mo-
ment rope was thrown over his head,
and he was beaten almost insensiblc. HIS
cries soon attracted crowd, as the street
was full of people, but the robbers had
secured the pouch and fed by the back
door, and up to this writing, have
not been apprehended though the
city has been secured by the police in
search of them. brady is dangerously
but not fatally injured. 1t is evident that
the whole robbery had been carefully
planned by some one who knew the man.
ner of delivering packages by the express
company, and with view of securing al.
most the entire amount received Satur.
day night and yesterday. The express
officers cannot as yet estimate the amount
lost.
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The Civil Rights Bill Passed tho
House.

In the House of Congress yesterday,
when the vote was being taken to substi.
tute for the preamble section of the
Democratic platform Of 1872, Mr.. Potter
of Kentucky, asked leave to add as an
amendment to the preamble the fourth
section of the same platform, as follows:
Local self government, with impartial
suffrage, will guard the rights of all citi-
zens more securely than any central pow
er."
Objection was made, and the amend
ment was not received.
The preamble was then adopted-yeas
2l9; nays 26.
The following is the vote in the mega
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Of Austin the other day for stealing rails
from fence. Though the charge was
proven, the attorney raised the point that
the rails were part of the realty and
not therefore subject Of larceny-in other
words that real estate cannot be stolen.
The point was sustained by the learned
us ticc and the prisoner was discharged
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09

"A Rockland county IN. " girl, who
was recently Finished at a fashionable
seminary, has begun diary. Her mis-.
chievous young brother cut out the first
entry, and it got into print. Here is a
portion of it: Sunday Night-It has
lust struck twelve. and am Still writing.
What are these thoughts that surge
across my heart What is this strange
longing after, the. unattainable Am
what / really seem, or. is it, as it were,
not|so much the infnitesimal IS the un
speakable ? Let me be calm. I have re:
read Don juan to-day. All! alas
will there ever be another Byron! May
there not be somewhere, coming toward
me from the mist of the mountain.top,
or the flowers of the valley, some sun
crowned youth, who"
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09

1T is generally believed in some of
the counties of Michigan that men will do
more plotting aid planning to rob hen
COOP than would be necessary to insure a
successful bank burglary.
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trembling like woman's. The audience w
a. merciless as their Roman progenitoIs in
Neronian day.; and. though he might be .
martyr, none the less terrific were me
pangs which overthrow his SELF control and
Some parts of Tilton's story were 20 disgust
ing that even the men blushed, and an instinct
OF pity went out to the husband who was d1a6-
ging his wife's fate through such -loathesome-
ness. At this strange opPoftumty,, MIS-.
Beecher laughed, almost aloud, and, barring
her grim, white teeth, turned to her husband
to whatever cruel speech she uttered, for his
eyes were fixed upon the chandelier, and his
fingers drummed upon the aching crown OF bis
Icannot conceive ..-.
ANYTHING MORE TERRIBLE
than Beecher's plight this morning and After
noon: There he sat, with his wife by his side,
and their two grown-up sons fanking both In
front OF him, In the view Of the whole court,
DRY. of his ssrrows that his lips burned
With fever and he trembled unoeai ngly. The
Court must have been all eyes to Beccher: Old
gray haired men stared rheumly at him.
Young mems lips curved in mockery as their
gaze blistered him. His friends shrunk away
involqntariiy, and their eyes, full horror, were
turn e! to hum as if to say, rs this, lndesd
AHo cuASe COlU SlnHO0 Aeosou Va ILL.
like flake of ice. His enemies faces hased
with contempt and joy at his suffering There
was one pair Of eyes to spare him. Theodore
Tiltonn, writing in his chair, never looked It
his adversary, but stared all the while at the
spectres which haunt his desolation, and which
seemed to be gliding at him and fouting him
with phrases Of the dead, unburied past.
Passing through the Valley ofthe Shadow Of
Death must be easy to Beecher after the terri
BILE experience of to-day. If he Is innocent, i
was the flames of martyrdom. If he is guilty,
twas foretaste OF hell fire.
DOCTOR SYNTAX.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-09

People who dance never pav the f;d-
dler. 1t is those who get up The bali.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-15
COnlnlcrce.

We wish our Wilmington papers
you'll be AZ prompt in Furnishing the
details Of the works OF th.t port as l.
Norfolk. The latter is always up 10
the mark Whatever Is to be lllustfa-
It'd il -h, arrival Of vessels, or the ex-
ports OF the port, the landmark is al
ways ready 10 -xh'bi'; n. Norfolk j.
really North Carulins port, We are
always willing to recognize it as such.
Gladly we do SO, for she supplies "a
want that is rot furnished by ans
town Of our own.
Let Wilmington come to the front.
-RaIeigh Neacs.
We regret to tiud that the Raleigh
Nct0s does not read the papers of Viii
m,rgton. Rep orts of the receipts and
exports of the port, of the arrivals and
departures Of vessels and steamers, If
the prices current and the variations
of tho market as published daily,
Wee ky Gu fuller form) monthly,
(still fuller) semi-annualjy and anuu-
ally We do not know when We have
neglected to give the public Ill the in
form alton possible TO obtain on tie
subject mentioned in the above item );
in fact when we see our reports pub
lished in the papers of England. Scot
land, France sud Germany, and YES
sells coming from ports of those coun-
tries to load at our port we conclude
that the merchants there have some
how found out more than some of the
newspaper men in North Carolina.
We published lately a description Of
two new enterprises of Wilmington
which has been noticed in Northern
papers as evidence of the advance of
North Carolina. Has the NctOs no
HcfG 10
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-15

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the country, as shown by the census Of
1860. According to the great sta
tistician, David Wells, half of that
capital was FUSED up" in the war. and
yet amazing. and to future generations
incredible fact, Congress has kept
army in the South for ten years, and
spent thousand millions to prevent
aoy restoration of Southern surplus!
If man. owning farm worth ten
thousand dollars, had mortgagel it for
FIVE thousand ten years ago, and spent
The money in bad liquor ard poor
cigars, and paid the police say thous-
and dollars more to prevent any labor
or production on two-thirds of his
and, and tLen demanded that bis notes
should be at par aud as good as gold,
why. even Christian Statesmen +"
would call him id fool and his
demand ''barren ideality." though
pregnant VIII just az much sense and
INSTANCE o. Lat of Grant & Co. for
rscle pc f"'-,'t -
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-15
NEW YORK.

Declined the NOminatiOn-Chesapeke
l. Ohio r. R.-Failure-W. U. T. Co.
New YORK, Oct. 13.-General W. Il.
Bartlett has declined the Democratic
nomination for Lieutenant Governor
of Massachusetts.
Between o'clock on Monday and
three yesterday afternoon the holders
of 1913, 900, 600 worth of the bonds and
stock certificates of the indebtedness
of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad,
hal called of Fisk & Hatche's Office
and stipulated to assist in an effort to
arrest the receiver appoin ed by Judge
Bond, of Virginia. OF tn $40, 900, 900
indebtedness OF the road, nearly $4O,-
900, OO0 are held in this vic atty.
The Liabilities of VIM. b Hunter
Z Co, tea importers and Canadian
commission merchants are $50, 900.
There viii be meeting of the credit
Drs to-day.
Tie !ol owing is a Synopsis Of the
tnupal report of President Ot'on. f,r
'l!t. ii cal " ar ending June 30 h, 1875,
which wsm presented to-day to the
stockholders of the Wester Union
legrnph Company. The gross r.
..eip's for the year from all sources,
EXCEPT the proceeds of the bonds,
were $685.. 457 AGO. The gross expens-
es were 1888, 54l ,467. The i fferenc
1922 9l5, 9S3 being the net profit The
hnrded Dc bt of the Company July LIST,
1874, was S., 946. 800, of which 81. 49,
0p0 Is the seven per cent. god barring
bonds aud "a, 448, 900 the seven per
cent. currency bonds which mature
Nov LIST, 1875. The annual election
of the directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company: was held to-day,
at which the old board was reelected
with the addition of John Duff, of
Boston. in place of Geo. II. Mumford,
deceased.
Judge Lawrence granted an order
requiring Washington A. Rochling to
show cause on the 18th why the order
of arrest against Dsncan, Sherman &
Co.. should not be vacated:
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-15

most distinguished marshals of France.
But to come down to a more recent
period, even to the present. [ find In
looking over the list of those elected
to the next Congress that among the
very few-only two, or Unrestricted
from the South who were in the last
two Congresses. the name OF your
friend, Col A. M. Waddell. The rest
are new men, and most of them mex
perienced in the tactics of such legis-
lative bodies, where snch knowledge Ia
of the greatest possible value. Now,
it seems to me, and you will pardon
me for suggesting, that sue a man,
holding such an exceptional position
should have been brought forward by
the press of the State and a decided
recognition of his claims for prornI-
hence in the organization of the Hhnse
demanded. The press and people of
mary other States are doing as much
for their own citizens, but l have
looked in vain for any such demand
from ours-a brief allusiou to the
fact in your columns soma months agt-
is all that [ have seen. The South has
not put forward a candidate for tt p
Sponsorship and 1 don't know tina
ma viii, bat, if she should, L know pi
no man among them all WHO would
Ill the n,ncn more ably than or Ein :
satisfactr rily than Col Waddeil. H,
- 40 or,:luary map, as the people ct
ais district we'll know-but they do
not know to what extent he is appre-
risted her, in social, as well as Con
gressional circles.
The few speeches he has made IL
Congress have tanght them tina he rs
the peer of the best Of them, and h 80
who differ from linn. respect hln 10 :
Lis manly independence and great a':i.'
ty. His infuencehs steadily increHs Il
and he is now looked to as leader of
the Southern wing of his party in Con
gress. "Hold up his hands'-for IN
honoring such men, we honor our
selves and the good old State that
gave US birth.
The Old North State forever!
ST TOD.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-15
STATE NEWS.

Prof. H9nsley. formerly of Liuco IL
| ton, and subsequently, CT Shelby, de q
recently at Memphis, Tennessee. :
The State Grand Lodge T. O. G. T,
| n.ut III Fayetteville last week Mr.. j.
f. Little was elected ". L. Ct.
Lexington wants q So, 600 tobscco
factory.
Charlotte has q shoe f.ctory that
Knocks the pegs into $50 pair = day,
Tue 4 st, mper is raging among tin
cattle in Davidson county.
There arc sevent, five students at
Chapel HJl, and the number is daily
increasing.
Hon. tir. Sibley, Of Washington,
d. c., has donated his plantation in
North CaroIlns, of 6i5 acres, to the
Seminary at High Point.
The Sentinel saya: Sixty shares of
Raleigh National Bank stock were sold
Al the court house door Monday at
from $50 to $40 share.
A true bill was found at Rutherford
court this week, against Thomas
Mode, for shooting and killing his
brother IN law, Gamble. The murder
was committed at Nodes house one
6OOdtu ana AGi)L
in the family for six years.
The commission of three persons to
take charge of the Western n. O. Rail-
road and superinteud it's construction,
consists of W. L. Rollins, of Ashe-
Vile; ". $. Pearson, of Morganton;
and w. P. Canady, of Wilmington.
We leorn that arrangements were
made toe y for sending a large num-
Der of convicts to work on the Wes-
tern N. c. Railroad. The Peuiten-
tiary Board was in session in tue Ex-
ecutive office, and full understand
ing with the newly appointed Commits
eioners of the road has been arrived
al.
The accident on the North Carolina
road last Saturday is thus described
by the Charlotte Observer "a very
unusual thing, an accident on the
North Carolina Railroad, occurred on
Friday night. Tho ont going train
from Charlotte ran off the track about
81 miles from this city, everything ex-
cept the engine leaving the rails. The
sleeper was the only car which left the
ties and this broken out of the win
dows but this was about the only
damage done the car. Only one
person was Injured q gentle
man had his foot slightly hurt. In
consequence of all the cars being off,
the delay was very considerable, and
the train did not get off until O'Clock
yesterday morning. The track being
obstructed, the incoming train was
delayed about an hour and a half in
getting in Charlotte yesterday morn
ing. The cause of the accident is
latter of doubt. It may have been
that the track spread, but this is not
very probable, and any other theory
which has been advanced seems as
improbable as this.
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> IlG ELGS i l0N -
Ohio, I3Wa, Illinois and Nebraska, all
Republicans.
CRIiIE AND CASUALTY.
Demucc.};c Nominations.
NEWS In CINE RAJ.
9 OIL : IS S-S.
lBy TELEGRAPH To TIE Journal
CRIIE AND CASUALTY
Democc.l &c Nominations.
NEWS In GENE Raj.
OIL IS 3-8.
IBY TELHaRAPH To Tue JOURNAL |
OHIO.
Republican Victories,

CINCINNATI, Oct. l - irse ,fficial r.
turns from eighteen yard ard pc
cin,'t- In Hamilton CO y. & v'.s r yes
S34 and Allen 4,3 ). [! e whoe
Republican county ii 4 : IL pIobabt>
elected.
I! OF the So prec ."rs IN Hamilt",
cnunty, gave H.yes Ji6 nj 'ritv. 81
prt'r'"cts give Young III" t.'pnDIic1u
ca 1didate for Lieu ~"ant CIV rn"r.
$500 majority ovec Cry. pa Re
prt.!icans elt CT thr = 2:~i'tr - %
Al average ma, oriiy Il nj. H7v"'s
majority in Ham lton county wii reach
1900
lie returns from 565 precincts,
nearly on.,- third thu state, show a Re-
publican gain of :, 400
COLUMBUS, Oct, 13.-The Democrat
concede the state to the Republic no.
ty IS, 600 majority and lar m tiorlty
III both branches OF the Gene'al A.
sembiy
TOLEDO, Oct. 13.-Lucas county,
With one township 70 hear from, gives
HAYES 7,743 and Allen 4, 433.
DAYTON, Oct. ID. Montgomery com
plete, gives Alien 3d. majority, Garry
579.