The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-01-02

The house IA nearly, " not Vullt u .
To, ~ ox.OOyornOr Hahn aud other .
republicans viii probably |
remain neutral. RI
The constitutional amendments arc
declared carried by about ten thousand
lIlenvlIle parish, which gave Grant
and Kellogg six hundred votes In 1877
and DubrOCa no votes this year, II not
counted, and Grant parish, the scene
Of the CalfaX massacre, IL also thrown
out, though II gave u small republican
majority.
In the fight between Dan G. Byerly,
manager OF the Bulletin, and eX.tiov-
ernor Warmoth, on Canal street, Dyer
~ knocked Warmoth down with n
stick aud jumped on him, when War.
moth drew his knife and stabbed
Byerly several times in the abdomen.
The wounds are dangerous. Warmoth
was arrested.
Tho difficulty between Byerly and
Warmoth grew out OF controversy
between Warmoth and the Bulletin
which led TO "a publication Friday 10y
Wamoth of card addressed to the
manager of the Bulletin rejecting
upon that paper and Mr.. Jewell, one
Of its editors.
Governor Warmoth to-day made the
following statement about the diin-
Guilty to an agent of the associated
press: yesterday, after my card ap-.
peared in the Picayune, l was called
on by friend of Mr.. Jewell, who de-
manded of me an abject apology for
the card, which / declined to make.
He then asked me if would accept
challenge to fight duel, remarking
at the same time, that it was generally
understood / would not fight. ] re-,
piled that would not fight if j could
rs well avoid it, that ! was not II
fighter and that 1T would be time
enough to answer the question about
dueling when | was challenged. Later
in the day the affair was confined TO
our respective friends. They met Mt s
o'clock last evening and agreed that
Jewell and myself should fight in Ala
bama Monday morning; weapons, duel
ing pistols; distance, ten PAGES. These
terms having been accepted, l did not,
of course, apprehend an attack, es-
pecially from any one connected with
The Bulletin. My understanding was
that my antagonist, pending n meeting,
should be courteous, and | was just Oh
the eve of touching my hat to Mr..
Byerly, in front Of whom there were
two ladies, the street being crowded,
when he struck me, with u heavy stick
on the head, inflicting the wound you
see.n
The governor, taking off his. hat, eX-
hibited cut about two inches long
over the left temple, extending back
from his forehead.
.'lie struck me three times with the
stick, when ] clinched with him.
Meantime taking knife out of my
pocket, and with my arms around his
Shoulders, got my hands tOgetherand
opencd the knife. Just then j fell,
Byerly falling OH me, and soon after
we fell policeman took the knife out
of my hand, and some of the crowd
pulled Bycrly off. understand Byerly
has been cut and l am accused of doing
the cutting"
Warmoth was arrested Immediately
after the fight, and conveyed to the
third precinct station. He has since
been transferred to the parish prison
to await the result of Byerly's wounds
in the abdomen, one of which his ply
scians consider very dangerous but
not necessarily mortal. Shortly after
being wounded, Mr.. Byerly was remov-
ed to the Orleans infirmary on Dau-
phinc street.
The Bulletin tomorrow will publish
the statement of an eye witness to the
ByerIy- Warmoth recontre. The state
ment differs somewhat from that OF
Warmoth as to the cutting. This wit
ness states that the knife was open
when drawn, and that two or three
siabs were made before they fell.
Byerly's wounds were in the left side,
just OYER the hip, one of them being
over four inches deep, and indicates
the length of the knife blade.
Byerly died at twenty minutes past
ten o'clock.
There was o row yesterday evening
on the corner of First and Canal
streets, between the negroes and
whites. Two negroes were killed.
There was also row between the
soldiers and citizens on the corner of
Canal and Basin streets. Two soldiers
were severely wounded.
NEW YORK, December 27.--Gover-
nor MciGnery in n dispatch, dated the
18th, to the Herald says:
The wrong just perpetrated by the
returning board against the people of
Louisiana, and which vitality threatens
the safety and integrity of republican
institutions in the United States is n
more browning infamy than the action
OF the Lynch returning board. 1t sur
passes even the midnight order of Dur
rel, and would not be submitted to by
any free people. Resistance to the ma
tional authority, represented here by q
large portion of the army and naval
fleet, sustaining q usurpation and sti-
fling the voice of the people, has never
been medtated. JOHN McENERY.
Tilton in card says he would not
accept penny, but complains that the
manner in which the cross suits are be-
ing engineered will not bring Beech
er'S guilt into question.
William Sides was crushed by rail-
road accident at Round Hill to-day. No
other casualties are reported.
HAVANA, December 26.-The Diaro
says Seniors Aldoma and Aquilera have
purchased two steamers for the purpose
of bringing q filibustering expedition
to Cuba.
General Jordan is to return to the is
land accompanied by Aquilera, and
the former will assume command of
the insurgents.
The Diaro further states that Aldoma
and his companions intend to reestab-
lish the Cuban junta in New York,
with the object of regaining the in
fluence and power formerly held by
that body, and creating situation in
Cuba similar to that existing in 1860,
by the commission of all possible
depredations 10y the insurgents. 1t says
Captain General Concha knows much
more of the plans of the insurgents
than what it now publishes. 1t gives
publicity to the foregoing because Con-
cha dislikes mysteries. Concha is re-
solved, as on former occasions, to. COM
bat the enemies of Spain everywhere.
A letter to the Diaro reports that
strong efforts are being made in Wash
ington to sustain the recognition of
Cubans as belligerepts. The letter
couples the names of Aldamo and Col
lector Casey with these efforts, and
SAYS the object is to throw on the
market the Cuban bonds held in Wash
ington.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-Thcrc
is much idle gossip about Generals
Terry or Sheridan being sent to New
Orleans. General Emory is said to