The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
General Cox, OF North Carolina,
In the Tolls.
The Gulf, Colorado and Sante
Fe Railroad.
The Union Consolidated Mining Com.
pany, Of Tennessee,
In Robbed orR MiiiIon anu u quarter
NY Rohi, LIS Former supeTiniend.
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RALEIGH, March l7,-Geneal W. H.
Cox, chairman OF the State Demo.
cratic Executive Committee, was ar
rested on II warrant issued 10y United
States Commissioner Cassidy at VII.
mngton, charged with conspiring
with four OF the commissioners of
Robson county to deprive H. NJ, Nor
ment Of his seat IN the state Constitu-
tional Convention. He left this even
ing for Wilmington In charge OF
Deputy Marshal, The Democratic |
Executive Committee met yesterday
and appointed meeting Of the State
Democratic Convention to be held /
in Raleigh on the i4th OF June. The /,
Raleigh News was to-day sued by W. |
II. Howerton, Secretary of state, in |
the sum of fifty thousand dollars, for
libel for the exposure of certain trans.
actions with which the Secretary is
charged.
WESTON, March II, -- Judge
Moore, of the Supreme Court, deliy-
cred an opinion to-day affirming the
decision of Judge McCorming ia re.
fusing to grant the injunction against
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Rail-
road Company and county of Gal.
weston. This decision places the road
upon a solid basis, and It Is expected
the work will now be pushed rapidly
forward to completion.
NEW YORK, March l7.--Sult has
been brought in the Supreme Court Of
the State by the Union Consolidated
Mining Company, of Tenn, against
Julius +. Rohl its former Superintend-
ent, charging him with delrauding the
company, In tho course Of two years,
out of one million two hundred and
seventy-live thousand dollars, and
charging his brother, Charles Rohl,
former Secretary, and John Thomas,
who was President until last Novem-
Der, with cnnniving at and aiding in
the frauds OF the first named defendant.
Most of the alleged frauds are said to
have been committed through what is
known in England and to some extent
in this country as the store system, by
which claims are paid from stores of
merchandise instead of cash,
ST. LOUIS, March IA locomotive
and eight cars of freight train on the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad went
through the bridge over the Merimac
river yesterday at noon, killing Chris
Leason, engineer, badly burning Har-
rison Preston, fireman, and destroying
good deal of property.
KNOXVILLE, March 1i.-Henry G,
Avery, convicted before the United
States Court of presenting fraudulent
claims against the government, was
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary. Heavy westerly winds have
prevailed all day, prostrating tele'
graph wires and blowing down walls.
New YORK, March 1.-THE WASH
ington rumOr to the effect that Attor-
ney General Pierrepont had sent a
u man to Canada after Marsh, under
promise of safety, aud that he will be
back in the capitol in o day or two,
grew out OF the fact that William
Marsh, of Illinois, Cale6's brother Is
in Montreal with the view OF his
brother return to Washington, the
Committee on Expenditures in the
War Department having removed all
likelihood of his arrest by refusing to
turn over to the District Courts testi-
mony and documents bearing on Bel
knap's case.
The phrase, :" Mr.. Beecher ought to
be blown out of Plymouth pulpit"
having been imputed to ex-President
Woolsey, of Yale College, that gentle
man writes to say "Since the trial
of 1875, if not before, have, upon the
whole, believed him, to be innocenti
hut | will not deny that may have
felt strongly his want of wisdom in the
whole affair, aud may have expressed
myself accordingly
Judge Savage, of the Omaha District
Court this morning delivered an opin-
, ion in the case of General W. Frost
versus the Credit ;Mobiier of America
e and the Union Pacific Railroad, In
which suit was brought by Frost to
compel them to pay additional or back
salary while purchasing agent for
Z them The Court allows Frost $4,000 a
vear salary, and compels Durant to
convey the property held in trust by
: him to Frost as payment of Ssoi'
q shortly before noon "Wednesday, as
. the Kansas Pacific express from Kan
. sos CITY was leaving Bismarck station
= inst east Of Lawrence, a gentleman
!. who subsequently proved to be Rev. IL
/. F. Chalk, of Armstrong, jumped h"r
e riedly from the train. He slipped OF
d the wet planking, and fell headlonl
DO, ho trnck of the rear car. MIR