The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-14
HERE AND THERE.
The Hue and the 0rey Anniversary
OF the Shields Guards.

Iuo niue anu tho Nfey -AhNNNNaNFy
OF tho shields Guards,
AUBURN, n, ", June 10. -Thetw
ty,ilith anniversary OF the Shields
Guards, OF Auburn, will DO held ON the
Goth instant. General Shields, Cover
nor Wade Hampton, the Honorable
Kernon, md other distinguished per-
sons will DO present.
An Area Of ono Hundred Miles De-
wasted by LOcusts.
PARIS, June ia Reuters dispatch
from Malta says accounts at Tripoli
and Barbary are current that an area
Of one hundred miles has been devast-
ated by locusts, The crops ARE entirely
destroyed, A famine Is believed inns
minent. Severe distress already pre-.
walls.
Southern Postal Arrangements VIA
Richmond.
RICHMOND, VA, June lS.-lnforma-
ton has been received here that the
postal commission have decided To
recommend, or have recommended, to
the postmaster general, to concentrate
all southern mails via Richmond which
have heretofore gone via Lynchburg,
Virginia, and Louisville, Kentucky.
Alabama wnI Meet Her Jniy bond
Intercst--Crop Prospects.
MONTGOMERY, June lS.-Rains very
general In Alabama, and have been
OF great good ~ the crops, Oats are
comparatively failure; wheat Is the
best crop ever made; cotton 10 clean
and doing well.
The governor has forwarded money
to the bank of the State OF New York
with which To pay the interest, due
July /, on Alabama state. bonds.
A brush with she Conanches Near
| Lake Quen,ado.
CHICAGO, June l3.-Captain Lee, OF
the 18th cavalry, forwarded to General
Sheridan, from Fort Griffin, Texas, an
account OF an engagement with band
OF Comanche Indians near Lake Que
mado. Four Indians, ak squaws and
iiity-six head of mules and horses were
captured, and fifteen lodges, with
large supply of powder, lead and drie'
meats were destroyed. First Sergean
Charles Butler was killed.
Partial Returns Indicate the success
Of the constitutional convention
| Question.
SAVANNAH, Ga, June 13.-Chatham
county gives 1897 majority for the
convention; Wayne county, 600 ma
jority for; Macon county, $50 majority
for; Dongherty county, 40 majority for;
Bibb county, 1872 majority for; Lownes
county, 10 majority against; Sumpter
county, 175 majority against.
AUGUSTA, June l3.-Partial returns
from forty-eight counties give S,O0l for
convention ami 5,94s against.
ATLANTA, June l4.-Partial returns
from forty.eight counties give 2,0l3
majority In favor OF the convention.
The indications are that the question
has been decided In the Affirmative.
Decoration Ceremonies at Hngers-
town-Oration by Fitzhugh Lee.
BALTIMORE, June l3.--rhe WASH
ington cemetery near Hagerstown,
where the Confederate dead killed In
the battles of Antietam and South
Mountain are inferred, was formerly
dedicated yesterday with appropriate
memorial ceremonies and the graves
strewn with flowers. The Grafton was
delivered by General Fitzhugh Lee, OF
Virginia. About four thousand per-
sons were present, The cemetery was
incorporated in 1870 by the legislature
of Maryland, with an appropriation OF
5000, which has since been increased
to $4,000. The states of Virginia and
West Virginia have also made appro'
priations. Handsome marble monu'
ments adorn tho grounds. About
twenty-five hundred Confederates are
buried there.
Teiegraphic Breyities,
New York, June l3.-The Pennsyl'
vania coal company sold two hundred
thousand tons OF Pittson coal, at o
price lower than at last auction.
DETROIT, Mich, June 13.-Berger d