The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
New Hampshire Republican By
Twenty-Five Hundred.
Affairs In the Black Hills Coun.
try Looking Serious.
Violent and Destructive Gale on the
English aud French Coast.
A Protest offered In the House Of
Commons Against the Adoption
Of tn" Title Of Empress
by Victoria.

, NEW YORK, March 10. The wife of
ex-senator Carl Schurz died here yes.
lerday, Of puerperal fever
CHICAGO, March lG.-Hoyt and
Bridges have been indicted for whisky
frauds. They have gone to London.
Canada. .tH
NASSAU, n. V, March lG.-A fire in
Victor, New Hampshire, destroyed the
railroad house and Newalls block and
was still spreading. At last accounts
assistance was sent from here and
Melford.
CINCINNATI, March l8.-A conven.
ton of railroad officials representing
the principal railroads of the United
Safes and Canada was held at the
Grand Hotel yesterday for the purpose
of arranging a summer scedule. Last
summers scedules were adopted with
a few unimportant notifications.
CONCORD, March lG.-Returns from
234 lows give Cheney, Republican, Al
24O, Marcy, Democrat, 37,474, Kendall
and scattering, 4l0, which makes
Cheney's majority S,Si7. There are
ten towns yet to hear from, the vote of
which last year gave Cheney, Republic
can, ola, Roberts, Democrat, co., and
White, Temperance, so. According
to the latest count the House stands
Republican 2O7, Democratic IFS.
BALTIMORE, March l0.--.At Wood
stock, Shenandoah County, Virginia,
yesterday, coroners jury investigat-
ing the cause of the death of the VIC
tins of the narrow passage bridge dis
aster on the Harpers ferry branch of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Oh
Monday night, March Q, rendered
verdict that they came to their death
by the breaking of the narrow passage
bridge, and that said breaking of the
bridge was caused by the unsoundness
of the timbers of the bridge.
The gale of Su nday last at London
was very violent and destructi We
around the entire coast. Numerous
shipping casualties are reported. An
brigantine was seen to |
founder Off Portland at midday. All
hands were lost. The sea was rum
ming tremendous high, and it was i'm.
possible to send assistance. The tele.
graphs throughout the country are
still deranged, and communication is
slow and difficult. The weather con-
,inues unsettled In France. Tele-
graphic communication was deranged
% an unprecedented extent. In Paris,
o0fs, chimneys and trees were blown
Town or carried away. Numerous cas-
Ialties are reported, some fatal. The
amage in the districts which were
CODED by the rivers Is greatly in
reased In consequence of the gale. !
of the undermined houses Z
long the Seine were blown down. .
he gale was also violent, on the
rench coasts.
Captain ]. II. Fowler, stationed at
Fort Anderson, on the Union Pa [
fic Road, sixty miles west Of Chey-
nne, has just arrived In Leavenworth,
,ansas, and reports the present exist =
lg condition of affairs in the Indian J
: Big Horn country, where Sitting
all and his warriors are at present
fairs look quite serious. The Sioux, 2
lder Sitting Bull, have, during the
ltire past winter, been busily en- A
lged in fitting themselves for the
ring campaign. They have sup A
led themselves with arms and am. SC
unition sufficient to carry them =
trough. They are at present divided r
to two bands, one of which is camp
upon the Wind River, and numbers :
,rhaps five hundred warriors. The
her Is stationed upon Powder River,
I'd about numbers the same. Va =.
BUS Indian scouting parties are.now II,
lt, but they do not operate in the
cinity Of the posts, with the excep-
Oh of an occasional sally, when they vi
ampede stock. Generals Crook and '
lister, the former with about five
lndred and the latter with perhaps
mr. hundred men. have taken the
I'D, and will at once proceed to ac-