The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-03
MISCELLAN E0US.
Snow Hook on the Central Pacific
Train Abandoned.
A Large Party 10 Leave LeayenwOrth
for the Black Hills.
Foreign mtelllgcnce--The ROyalisis
Closing In Upon Don Carlos.

OMAHA, February ga Telegram
from Green River early this mornlnl
says the passenger train aud pay ca
bound West, which left there yoster
day, Is still stuck in the snow. Tn
passenger train bound East IL uls,
snow blocked at Washita ~ well a
the snow pillow with four engines. Til,
snow Is blowing SO the men can no
work.
4 telegram from at noon says the
west bound passenger train was de.
layed ut Carter all night and passen.
ger train hound east was abandoned
a plow with four engines started from
Evanston early this morning with u
train Of snow shovelers went west to.
day TO help get the Central Pacific pas
senger train through, which Is blocked
west Of Looms. Tie thermometer this
morning stood twelve degrees below
lero--the coolest of the season.
QUINCY, lila, February l.---Francis
A. Clark and two ,accomplices were to-
day arrested for forging checks. They
were captured while trying 10 get one
for one hundred dollars cashed in the
German.Amerlcan Bank, the teller
having detected the forgery as soon as
the checks came into his hand.
The story of Former, telegraphed
from Evansville, Indiana, con messing
himself to be one of the Quincy banlS
robbers, in 1874, is believed by the
bank officers TO he canard. They
don't believe he had anything to do
with Il, and conclude that Fermer Is
using that dodge to get away from the
Evansville officials.
LEAvENwoRTH, KAN, February -
a large party, whose destination IL the
Black Hills, and which will be led by
q returned miner named Craig, Is now
putting itself In readiness. IL will start
as soon ms the spring opens. Ru-
mors are now prevalent that the head
quarters OF General Sheridan, which
are now at Chicago, are to be removed
to Fort Leavenworth, and that Gene
raj Pope and staff will solourn IN the
Far West, probably at Fort Harker,
The reason for this step seems to be a
desire on the part of the Govern ment
to economist and obviate the necessity
OF paying enormous rentals of offices
and apartments for the General and
his suite.
LONDON, February 1.-The Mark
Lane Express, in its weekly review of
the grain trade, says the damp weather
during the past week has brought the
price of native grain down nearly a
shilling more. The overlooking gra-
narics make millers temporarily mas
tiers of the situation.
The Paris market has maintained its
prices for both wheat and flour. The
markets Of Belgium, Holland and Ger
many are very dull.
Our own weekly sales are sixteen
thousand two hundred and forty-nine
quarters less than last year, while the
price is one shilling higher. There IL
increasing confirmation of our def
cheney, though we may still have II
dragging trade till March.
SAN SEBASTIAN, February 1.-The
Carlist battery on Arratzain continues
to cannonade San Sebastian intermit-
tently. Some of its shells are charged
with petroleum.
Private advices from Bilboa report
that General Loma's troops are COM
pletely master of the Encarticiones
District. General Quesada entered
Durango Sunday.
LONDON, February l.-Advices from
Sclavonic sources reports that the
Turks were repulsed at Gradatz on
Sunday, losing eighty killed, and that
they met with reverse near Kick,
where they lost fifty men.
LONDON, February la Berlin tele-
gram says the Spanish government has
intimated to Great Britain that ii In
tends to end the Carlst war in week
or ten days, after which it will have
more troops disposable for Cuba. 1t is
understood that the practical grievan-
ces specified in the American note are,
in general, not denied; nor is any
counter complaint against the neutral
ity of the United States alleged. The
final defeat of the Carlists is expected
in Berlin, but it is doubted whether
Spain will be able to pacify Cuba, what
ever number of troops she may send
LONDON, February IA special
from Berlin says Cardinal Hohenloha
has gone to Rome. 1t is thought that
this tends to confirm the statements
that negotiations are in progress for
lllt vi u NlNtnui
between the Church aud State in Ger.
many.
MADRID, February 1.-The official
gazette announces that General Reveira |
has captured three Whitworth cannon
at Santa Barbara, and General Quesada
has taken the fort of San Antonio at |
Urgida.
1t is officially confirmed that General
Iona, having captured Valmaseda, is |
advancing on Durango, compelling !
the Carlists to abandon the Siege OF
Bilboa and evaeuate their fortified po-
sitions there. The mining districts are
now free of Carlists. General Reveira
Fort Santa Barbara, near Es-
tella, and General Campos has occu-
pied Port Vilete. The ROyalists, are
closing In upon Don Carlos.
The division of General Morales at.
tackled the Carlist fort at Aratazun on
the Goth instant, but was repulsed, los
ing two hundred In killed, including
one Colonel.
Shoes have only undergone the
changes necessary for winter comfort,
but all fashionable ladies still wear /