The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-07-07
WASHINGTON.
f"sent scptrafssioo.r sr.rnr- CHARGED
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Patent Gonsnafssiss.r srrnr. shs.u.s
-"'hs"Fr"piio"-N"tss AMI s.".>ip.
Minister Noyes sail- for Paris sA;ur-
day.
Minister Lowell leaves for Madrid
July i4th.
The pressure for employment &. a..
most overwhelming.
Assistant Postmaster General TyB.r
has gone home for two week..
Private Secretary Rogers las an nt,.
seucr OF leave for n week.
Governor Mccormick acts a. s.cr,.
tary during Secretary Sherman, at.
-en@e.
L. b Hort, patent lawyer. Las filed
charges of corruption against Patent
Commissioners Spears
Work ss= resumed 1t all the navy
yards to-day. Old workmen Are ~.
tended % have preference.
Judge Demu-l ID. Evans. ex.memb-,
Of congress from Texas, l. dead. Hz,,l
sixty eight \ loyabie gentleman.
The condition of national Tanks a,
the close Of business. June -. j.
wanted BY the comptroller Of eur.
rency.
Lieutenant Bloom has been relieved
from duty ~ professor Of military
science and tactics al East Tennessee.
University, Knoxville.
Collector Wilkins, OF baltimore, re.
fusing TO resign, has been suspended.
Thomas takes possession OF the cue.
tomhouse Wednesday.
James L. Porter, travelling through
the country "a secret service agent. a.
published hy that branch Of the ireas-
ury ~ "a fraud.
The reduction Of charge Oh interest
of public debt since lssG H. nearly tao
millions 1t Is attributable IA fun,iina
operations.
Deputy Marshal Frssks IL held Ia
s-ODO for appearance before the No.
vember term Of the United States dis.
tTiet court for North Carolina at A-l,.
vile.
The presidents domestic establish.
meut Is removed 10 the soldier home
His Is tie largest cottage on ths
ground that which was ocs4ipitsi by
the late lAmented Lincoln IA n sun.
msr residence.
Subsidiary silver issued Ly the gov
ernment to-day, IL over thiriy-three
millions.
tive-eights OF a million legal tender
notes WAS destroyed during ihe month.
on revenue cutter, To inspect TIA,
lighthouse aud liie-saving stations ou
the Atlantic coast nOTthward, aud will
he absent about three weeks.
Mr. Upton, chief clerk oi the trsasu
~ department, aud =. =. Middleton.
banker, are verifying accounts Ina tie
Treasury, preliminary 20 the transfer
to the new treasurer, Mr.. Gilhin.
Rear Admiral Trenchard, com
manding the North Atlantic station,
will transfer his dag t. the steamer
pawhattsn, which will arrive al
Hampton Roads, Tuesday.
1t is stated that the department la.
sdVices Tint ex-President Grant leaves
England afte- the Fourth of July, and
visits Belgium, Switzerland, Nor say,
Sweden and Russia, In tie oTdeI
named.
IL II stated the department also ha.
a'ivices that the new Russian loan ui
five per cent can be readily I.lsesd II
Il share of twenty To twenty-five per
cent. Rothschilds will take 1t.
The legal tenders outstanding. $40
100000; fractional currency ouistand.
ing, S2,5JJ,OOJ.
Franks hearing j. closed. The com
missioners decide Monday whether &c
send him back 10 North Carolina iul
trial OF discharge him. Proceeding,
were feeble, some say purpo-ely -
The payms-ter general OF the army
announces that DTexel u ca. wil
charge six per cent PER anuum for al
vances of pay for July, August al,
September. Officers may draw or
them for ninety five per cent. Of theii
pay.
The Spanish minister took the iui
tistiye IN the alleged Ellen Ei-pai
outrage affair. lie called on EvArti
and assured him reparstion, il All,
IVES ionnd proper, would he made
Evarts took no action beyond request
ing the secretary of the treasury 10 A.
certain the facts through revenue cut
tiers.
President Hayes will reach Green.
brier White sulphur Springs, we-i
Virginia. about July i2ih. GCvernol
Randolph and Fernando Wood ~il
reach there July 10Th. Cox and Ssylol
will arrive later. The congress of gov
ernors will convene between July 2jtl
and August 30th. The National Cotton
Exchange Of America meets ther,
July 18th.
General Ledue, it Is said, thinks n.
can do more than his Predecessor 10
the agricultural department, for the in
terest of farmers. He promises
rashly unless coLgress L. more gener
Gus to the government than while A
was under the management of Com
missioner Watts.
The agricultural department report
oats superior Ia condition in most a
the southern states. The south Is find
ing Immunity from loss in their re-,
rust-proof oats. There Is Nh iner.ss,
in clover, especially in the south, an,
very marked in Texas.
An investigation into the los. q
sheep, during the past year, shows ,
total OF nearly three million sheen an,
lambs destroyed by dogs and wo!ye
anu various disease, and an aggreRati
money valne of nearly eight million
dollars The average percentage O.
loss is nearly eight The proportion i
highest respectively In North Carolina
Florida aud Louisiana, and rang.
from seventeen per cent in the forme
state TO three per cent. in Nebraska
The rate Is highest in the south, ans
lowest in states having dog laws.
INDIAN NEWS.
Deputy Marshal. Twyman and uart,
arrested G. i,eilcy. at Muskoere. Cor IS
ling whisky on the sly.