The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-06-23
co NDENSED NEWS.

Indianapolis has penny paper.
Small as well az cheap.
A recsiver for the Iron Mountain
route, has been denied by the courts.
Missouri is now beins.agitated in the
interest Of the narrow gauge railroads
st. Louis is making great preparations
to have It's exhibition a grand success.
The Cheyenne Indians passed Sidney
on Tuesday euroute 10 the Indian ter.
ritory.
one and third million barrels of ell
were taken from the oil region of Penn
sy lyania, in May
England's house Of commons refused
% establish capital punishment, by a
vote Of lj5 to 81.
An inhuman father in Philadelphia
placed hls son upon a red-hot stove un-
tai he was burned 10 death. lie assault
ed his wife and erandchild with a
Ratchet, and set fire to his house. He
was finally arrested.
Train time from Chicago to New York
has been reduced TO tweuty-six hours
and twenty minutes.
Since the New York Herald has rung
in General Nieioyschetzky' on va, the
country can take no more stock in those
war maps
The union depot in Kanszs City was
Oyerflowed by high water, aud passen-
gers had 10 he transported to Wyan>
dotte 10y street cars
The recent fye-mile scull race at st
Louis. between Schariif and Morris. was
won by the latter in 56I5. Shariffs
time Was 81 minutes.
General Crook gives his opinion that
the Utah war excitement is over, and
there Is little need to he alarmed con-
corning the Mormons
Though the convention does not NEE
until the Sth Of August. the contest for
the nomination of governor Of Vir-
ginia Is waxing warm.
Hon. c. :. Conger of White county,
Illinois, is strongly urged by his friends
for the positions of judge of the appel
late court for his district
The railroads east are beginning
another war, owing to the unsettled
condition of the eastern rates A fast
train now runs east from Cincinnati.
The Omaha (Nebraslxa) Bee reports
crops slightly damaged by frost on
Monday morning. The grssshoppers
have almost entirely disappeared from
there
Burglars are so plentiful near Cairo
Illinois that the preachers are praying
for deliyeranoe from them, and the PEG
pie talk strongly of vigilance com
mittee.
The weather in San Francisco il very
dry and hot. The thermometer rang
ing from ninety TO one hundred and
i've degrees IN the shade. The heat Is
unusual
In Mississippi, the supreme court has
decided that Jefferson Davis is entitled
to the proceeds of the sale OF the plan
tatiOn belonging to his brother, General
Joseph L. Dayis.
Governor Mobiles heirs are going to in
stItute suit for about two hundred acres
OF land in indianapolis, Indiana, which
j. considered TO be worth three or four
million dollars
c. II. Moore, president of the Dana
Coal Company, at Dana, Illinois, fell
down the shaft, distance OF one humid
red and hfty feet, and was instantly
killed. on Friday Of last week.
An Appeal special from Holly Springs,
/ Mississippi, reports the Mississippi Gems
/ trsl had a train wreck on Monday from
wsshout, which resulted in the kill
| ing of the engineer O'Hara, and two
train men.
The river at the union depot in Little
Rock WAS three feet deep on Tuesday
/ The river Is eighteen inches higher
than ever known before. The levee
broke and a thousand acres OF cotton
were destroyed
/ The police officers of St Louis re
I Gently saved the character of two young
girls who had been enticed in den OF
| prostitutes. They entered the house
aud demanded of the young girls to
know their business, and this confused
them 80. that they acknowledged that
they had just come into the house They
we're promptly returned TO their pa
rents
letter trum paraguay says that Pres.
ident GIL and his brother William
were murdered in the most barbsrous
manner. The president was at home
with his family when he was surprised
and killed by band of assassins head
ed by Colonel Goiburs and commanders
I Morales and Cooley. In subsequent en-.
gagements with the troops, Goiburs
and Morales were made prisoners.
Ia reply to question of a newspaper
man on Texas-Mexican affair, Sec
rotary Evarts said II anticipate no
trouble with Mexico. All we desire is
the Observance Of our rights "a q soyer-
eign power and the inyioiability OF
American soil. These we must have.
and, as the Mexican governments has
expressed a determination TO see that
these two requests are observed, there
can be no cause for complication. At
the same time the United States forces,
from Laredo 10 Brownsville, will be
vigilant They have their instrnc-
tlOns.'