The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-17

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~ ns SET slow sIpu4 uf compromising.
'flip territorial nud U.ly -u0 NJ ilIo
TrlIune which Wus thlH mWnlnR it
the lifst tine issuol from i.4 mn9nlll'
cent new bulldog, slnuulIlps tie
event lN the presentation to-day IA
Mr.. Whltclnw Reid on set of silver.
l,rflf ROCK, April No. The storm
0f Inst night Frustrated the telegraph
wires IN all directions below tie ciiy'
A number Of houses. were blown down,
five persons Killed nld several
wounded. About the same hour the
storm struck Tcxnrk M unrOOilng tl,
public school house, fatally wound
Ing one aud slightly wuunhing sevcra
other children. The water fell In tor
rents flooding the streets throughout
the city.
SCRANTON, Pa, April lO.-A Ballot
taken at the several mines, resulted
one thousand live hundred and seventy
two for, ana three hundred aud nine
teen against work. The result givc'
unbranded satisfaction.
poTTsvILLE, Pa, April 10TH,
Miners journal says that the supply
of coal in all the regions Is II million
tons short of last year.
SALT LAKE, April lO.-Judge Bcmal
is trying the polygamy case at Beaver
lie has decided that polygamy Is 4
continuous crime and limitations dc
not apply.
OMAHA, Ncb., April lO.-Ihe mum
her of cmigrants westward bound n
/ the present season Is unprecedented
Ninety.three hundred have lett hcl,
since March the first. over one thou
sand were delayed here yesterday fol
want of cars, hut were seat on spe
cial trains to-day.
MEMPHIS, April l0.-rhe fire a
Greenville, Mississippi, destroyed til,
planning mill aud II number o
other buildings. Loss SjO,OOO. Sew
eral citizens were hurt by falling chin
neys.
The Gibson county ku.kluX were nc
quilted.
KEY WEST, April l0.-Sinrgeon Gen
eral Beall says the weather is still ia
vorahle and that there have been M
case or cases of yellow fever since the
last telegram. The fleet has all gone
The health of the city, rs reported by
the health officer, is unusually good
/ WASHINGTON, April l2.-Nolney V
Smith, of Arkansas, has been appoint
ed consul to st. Thomas.
The interior department has 10 in
formation of the fight at the Cheyenne
agency, in the Indian territory.
Assistant Surgeon Llbry has beel
ordered to report to the commander o
the department of the south for duty
Although cotton is not yet planted
in Il of the southern states the depart
ment of agriculture is sending out cir
culurs in order TO obtain earliest infor
nation concern ming the crop. The aver
age will not be ascertaincd until abou
the middle of June.
Private information from midland
and northern Georgia is to the cflec
that twenty-five percent more corn VIII
ne planted there the present yea
than heretofore. This will not inter
fpre with cotton, the corn plantin.
being simply for economic purposes
owing to the high price of corn an'
bacon supplied to Georgia from lh'
west.
( The following was received thi
/ afternoon
hUSIISt AlIli L.,
To Hon. Geo. III, Williams, AIT rnry general
Washington, ID. C.:
We have recaptured the notorious
counterfeiter, Pete Mccartney, who es
capped from special agent Duckwortl
and Deputy Callahan.
THos f. PuRNELI,
United States Marshal.
I Senator ConOver of Florida, is her'
( looking after the interests of tina
state.
In the supreme court to-day, til,
! case of the North Carolina railroad
company and Others against Swaney
and others, appeal from the circui
court for the eastern distrSct of Nortl
Carolina, was decided. The appeal wa,
dismissed because the amount of the
debt involved was not determined and
the decree appealed from Is therefore
held to he not final, The chief justice
delivered the opinion.
The cost of all the investigations or
dered by the house OF representatives
/ ut the last session has been approx
mately ascertained to amount to about
/ 1900, a much less sum than has been
generally supposed. OF this Pacific
Mail cost about $4,000. There were
/ nine Investigations, and three Of these
namely, louisiana, Arkansas, and Ala
/ bama, were virtually conducted by
| two committees each, 50 that the sep
arate Investigations actually were
/ twelve in number
/ Vice President Wilson has been con-
siderably exercised over the publca-
ton of an interview with him by the
Chicago Times Washington cores
pondcnt, in which he criticises Grant
| for appointing so many eX-cOngrcss-
men to office. The National Republi-
can went for him the other morning
very sharply. Wilson has been at the
white house trying to explain the mat
ter to the president, hut it is said failed
to establish his loyalty in a satisiacto,
| ry matter.
| Bishop Beckers, of Delaware, to day
confirmed three hundred and ninety
six persons at st. Aloysins church,
more, he said, than he had ever CON
| firmed at one time. OF these one hun.
/ dred and fifty-six were boys, one hun
dred and forty girls and eighteen adults.
| OF these ten were converts from Vari-
Gus protestant churches.
New YORK, April l2.-There was a
| fire on Worth and Leonard streets to-
day. Loss on stock: George Trlm-
bull 4 Co., 10000; Wendell, Hutch.
inson & Co., $4,000 Park, Goodman
g. Co., $4,000 ; Parker, WILDER " Co.,
$4,000, all dry goods. The loss on
buildings is trifling.
TITUsvILLE. Pa, April ia fire in
Millerstown, Pa, to-day destroyed for
ty buildings. Loss 100000, including
an opera house.
LOWELL, Mass, Apri! l2.-The mill
corporations will talk with their own
employees, but decline to hear depu-
ties from recent societies. They claim
that they can run one-third to o he
half of their machinery after the strike
threatened on Tuesday. They prefer a
three months lockout to yielding to the
demands of the spinners.
NEW YORK, April l2.-SiX desperate
convicts succeeded in getting out of
the penitentiary on Blackwelrs island
yesterday, but five were recap
tured before they got across the
water. The sixth is Thought to he
hidden on the island, and search for
him is in progress.
BERLIN, April l2.-rhe Roman Cath
ollie ishops, soon after their confer
ence at Fulda, addressed II petition to
Emperor William in person, remon-
strating against the Withdrawal Of the
state grants, for the maintenance of
which, they declared the honor of
Prussia was pledged. They also pro-
tested against being required to obey,
unconstitutionally, the state laws.
The ministers, authorized iy the en-
peror, have replied, expressing regret
that the bishops should object to obey
laws which were always obeyed in
othpr countries and adding that the