The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-10
MISCELLAN E0US.


NEW YORK, February 0.--The Con-
tinental House and large number Of
stores IN the rear were burned, Loss
OF stock and two buildings, about, II
million dollars.
81. LOUIS, February 9th.-Captain
Eads has received dispatch from Colo
mel Andrews, contractor OF jetties ut
the mouth of the Mississippi River,
announcing thirteen feet OF water
through Crest bar ut the Southwest
Pass, being an increase Of three feet
for the past eight days. Seven feet adj
ditlonal water will entitle Captain
Eads to the first payment on the terms
Of the grant from Congress.
GLovERsvILLE, N, ", February o.
James Ii. Johnson, dealer In glovers'
material, made an assignment yester-
day. Liabilities, seventy thousand
dollars.
BALTIMORE, February 0.-Joseph NJ.
Rathrock plead guilty to taking letters
from the postolllce, and was sentenced
to three years.
NEW YORK, February 9.-Dale Broth
ers, flannel and wooden Manufacturers
in this city and Boston, have failed.
Liablitis over million; assets nearly
twice that amount.
WHEELING, February 9.--E. A. Ben
nett, State Auditor, was acquitted of
the articles of impeachment preferred
by the Legislature. The vote Oh the
third article lacked one Of the two.
third vote necessary to convict.
Enhenurky
A. Maston, convicted OF murder and
sentenced for life, was taken from Jail
by n masked mob and shot dead.
New CASTLE, Pa, February 9.-Miss
Leah Roche, committed suicide by
throwing herselfi in cistern.
Boston, February S.-The Stunte-
vent Manufacturing Company, of
Lebanon, New York, has been declared
bankrupt.
New YORK, February S.-Among
the passengers on thesteamer Weiland
were Mrs. Thomassen, wife of the
author OF the Bremerhaven dynamite
disaster, and her four children. She
expressed unwillngness to talk about
the cause of the unpleasant occurrence,
particularly in the presence of her
children, who rs yet are ignorant OF
tee whole affair. She proposes to seek
retirement in her own home in this
country.
SALT LAKE CITY, February S.-Chief
Justice White, In charging the grand
jury concerning polygamy, said: I'VE
had better look 1t squarely in the face,
dlstasteful rs II may be to some, and
govern ourselves by right reason and
manly discretion in dealing with 1t.
Polygamy must be suppressed in this
Territory. MormOnism may, survive,
and relieved from 1t, would stand I'M
shackled aud free as every other creed
or mode of religious worship, shielded
and protected by the constitution Of
our common country; but If Mormon
ism cannot sever itself from poly
it will be to 1t the bridal of DEATH"
OMAHA, February S.--A letter from
Gustav City, in the Black Hills, dated
January 25, says: Over forty houses
are now up and sixty in process of
erection. Water was found twenty
feet from the surface. A steam saw
mill Will Oe III OEeTuliuu ~ oiShU unyo'
Flour is So per 100 pounds; bacon, thir-
ty cents per pound. New parties who
arrived here this winter made new
laws. Old pioneers find mining claims
jumped. Miners from the north this
side of the Big Horn, report new dis
coveries far surprising any yet made.
Thirty men left here to-day to prospecl
them. Red Cloud and several hundred
warriors have gone north. 1t is re-
ported they have said they would die
on the war-path rather than stay on
the Reservation and starve. Sitting
Bu! will cooperate with him. Every.
body well.
LONDON, February S.-Cardinal Man
ming writes to the Times, to-day, stat
ing that kilograms from Rome that he
intends to proceed thlther, to promote
u union of a portion of the English
ritualistic clergy with the Roman
church, and that he had made propos-
ais TO the Vatican looking to that end,
are both from first to last, wholly de-
void of truth. He proceeds as follows:
"No scheme whatever on the subject
of Rituallsm has ever been conceived
by me; none has ever been, to my
knowledge, proposed or opposed or de-
Tended at Rome"