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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-26
NEARLY STRANGLED.
Young Girr while AaauaisE . Baby
Nearly Kills Herpelf.

A Young Girr while Anusisx . Raby
Nearly Kills Herself.
A strange case came to our notice
Tuesday, through . physician of this
city. Day before yesterday ayoung
girl, the daughter Of Mrs. Milliken,
who formerly lived in this city, but
now resides four miles from here on
Turtle creek, was playing with baby
trying to amuse 1t. A heavy crash
towel hung on stout roller against
the wall; the little girl put her head
In this aud spun herself around sever
al times. This probably made her gid
1y, and she lost control of herself and
sank down, her whole weight resting
on her throat, which was confined by
the twisted towel. The baby, little
boy twelve months old, evidently re-
allied something was wrong, for he
set up Iusty cry which brought his
mother on the scene, who released the
girl from her perilous position, but
not a moment too soon. She vas in
sensible for long time. A physician
was summoned from this city, and Cd
his arrival found the girl nearly dead.
He applied the necessary measures for
her relief, and she slowly recovered.
When he left she was able to talk, but
her throat was very bore. She said
she had no recollection Of placing her
head in the towel, or Of anything that
happened. IL was curious accident
and narrow escape. A few seconds
delay on the part Of the mother would
have been fatal.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-26
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

Three Men Knock Another or HIS
Ier~o asd Rob Hin, Ono Mile West
OF Ihts CIsy.
Wednesday we met q gentleman
named Hurst who lives in Hunt
county, and from him received the
following account of robbery COM
mitted day before yesterday. Mr..
Hurst states that when in Eagle Ford,
yesterday, he net man, whose name
he has forgotten, with his head badly
bruised up, and who stated that he had
been robbed. The following Is the &C
count he gave of il. "He was in Dali
las on Monday night, and formed the
acquaintance of a man here who said
he was going west in the morning.
They made it up to go together, and
left this city Tuesday morning in COM
pany. When about q mile west of
here, in the bottom, they were joined
by two more men who knew the
stranger: They had proceeded but q
short distance when they demanded
the money of this man, and knocked
him off his horse, he thinks with q
siung-shot, and Mr.. Hurst says that
the wound on his head looks very
much as il it had been done with some
such an instrument. He fell of his
horse insensible, and the robbers took
fifteen dollars off his person, . six
shooter aud his saddle-bags, but left
him his horse. When he returned to
consciousness, he could just see them
in the distance" The authorities
here have not been notified Of the rob-
berry, as the victim went on TO Eagle
Ford The highway, Claude Duval
business, should be put . stop to.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-26
msr. rr,sbI. for Ru..,.

The statements that the Circassiaus
are joining the Turkish army in large
numbers bears the appearance of proba-
bility, and indicates the introduction
into the conflict between Russia and
Turkey of an element of considerable
importance. The name "Circassians"
is applied, and net with entire correct,
ness, to the wild tribes of the CAuca asus,
numbering some l,500,O00 people, who
have always been brigsnds, and have
been noted for their exalted love of
Independence. For quarter of a
century they withstood all the efforts
of Russia to subdue them, and we're
nominally subjugated by the capture of
their prophetchief Schan1yl, in 1859.
Their heroic struggle with Russia made
them famous, and it is quite likely that
they are both ready and anxious to re-
new it, in the hope of regaining their
independence.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-26
ORD-SHERIDAN CONSULTA-
TION.

Ord - Have Power 10 Follow Law
less Nexfeans Across ths BORDER
EMbrfo Anne n alton seneme.
CHICAGO, May "a dispatch Of
the twenty-frst says: General Ord M
rived here from Texas last night, and
has passed most of the day in consult
alton with General Sheridan upon II e
Affairs Of the Mexican border. In view
Of the unsettled condition OF thing, re-
sultipg from repeated revolutions and
raids, and the anticipated Lerdo expe-
ditiou, General Ord urged the proprieiy
of the adoption of new policy on the
part of the United States authorities.
He says that these msrauders should
be punished wherever found, and
dealt with just ~ the Sioux are treated
in the north. He wants General Sher-
idan to give him power to follow law
less Mexicans across the border, and
not appeal to the central government
TO which they owe no allegiance. 1t
is asserted in military circles that this
is to be the fa,ure policy OF our gov
ernment, and raids must cease. Th.
United States troops are to be slightly
augmented upon the Rio Grsud-.
General Ord Remarked yesterday, that
conservative people OF northern Mex
leo favored the Lerdo movement, and
that many OF the best classes are anx-
ious for annexation to the United
States.
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Hayes, Pre.ent Position.

The st. Louis Times. under its new
thus speaks of the presi-
dents southern policy The president
has developed no policy. He has sins
ply accepted the situation created for
him by the democratic victory of No
vember last, and entered upon the path
way marked out for him by the demo-
cratic majority of the house of repre>
sentatives, As by his own action, or
rather by his own failure to act, he has
postponed till October all discussion of
this policy in the legislative chambers
of the nation, it is ridiculous to discuss
personal attentions bestowed upon him
self or personal sights offered To him
as if they could possibly express in any
way or in either direction the judgment
and the will of the American people.
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STILL IMPROVING.

\ few days since we. with great satis-
faction, announced very decided and
comfortable improvement in trade.
Within the last week the improvement
has been more marked, owing 10 the
daily increasing promise Of the growing
crops, and the confidence which this
circumstance infuses into all depart
ments of trade. The ground work of
all this improvement is to be found in
the Tact that the farmers descern a
clear margin of profit in the years OPP
erations, and are bringing out and using
their reserved capital, panic money,
which, with its accustomed sensitive
ness, had went to the bottom OF the do
mestie strong-box. when the first grass
hopper put in an appearance last fall.
While the farmers of Texas are usually
very easily frightened take alarm from
insufficient causes, and when once
thoroughly stampeded they are difficult
to rally, yet when once brought back
to the work, they go at it with no par
tial or divided purpose. This seasons
business illustrates this trait in PEI
culiar way
Last fall when the grasshoppers first
came,very many wise farmers concluded
to reduce the acreage OF their fall crops
by AT least twenty per cent This was
actually done, and the reduction in
acreage has only been overcome by the
increased amount of new land cultiva-
ted, so that the usual years increase Of
agricultural business i. not interfered
with. Now, since the certainty OF sue
cess is recognized, these fearful gentle-
mea are buying more and better farm
machinery than ever before. Are build
ing better houses taking in more land
and are loaning more money TO each
other and to merchants and manufae,
turers than ever before.
Indeed, we can hardly suggest a
branch of trade which has not very
largely improved within the last six
weeks, and which has not gained at
least twenty per cent. within the last
three. The merchants of this city. as
well as those of surrounding towns and
villages, as well as of north Texas gem
orally, are nobly meeting this situation
by large purchases, and relying more
upon large sales than upon large profits.
If all classes of people will now not
only gather all the advantage from the
changed situation which is possible, but
will resolve to profit by past experience
and save, by practicing the severest
economy, no future grasshopper raid
viii be able TO produce effects such as
the last did. Texas should always have
one years supply ahead, and the bust
ness of her people should be so arranged
that one single crop disaster could be
borne without apprehension of bank.
ruptcy and ruin. We will take long
stride ahead this season. Let Us SO
( plant each blow as that its effect will
be permanently advantageous to us,
and little panics and little grasshoppers
will, in the future, have no big terrors
for the business men and farmers oi
| Texas.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-26

EVERY inch of the domain of triekerv
viii be explored TO defeat the passage
of the Texas and Pacific bill when con-
gress meets. The Union and Central
Pacific roads, the California Pacific. and
every other scheme having present or
prospective designs upon the public
treasury, viii move heaven and earth to
throw an insurmountable obstacle in
the way. The meeting and organiza>
ton of the new scheme, which is to be
put forward for this purpose, announced
at Austin the other day, is Formidable.
1t presents many features which will
attract attention TO it. With southern
men the Gulf aud south-Atisntic cons
nections will prove very taking, Yet,
1t should be recollected that its only
purpose is 20 defeat the Texas and Pa
cihcbill. If this is accomplished years
and years will elapse before anything
can be done to forward the interests of
a trans-continental rail route far enough
south to insure effectiveness. Every
m an interested in the true progress of
the whole country, of the south and of
Texas, is directly and personally inter
ested in the passage of the Texas and
Pacific bill at the next session, if possi-
hie
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-26

The question of lawlessness, and the
remedies to be applied, is ever an inter-
esting one where crime prevails. The
Agc places the responsibility upon the
jury system. The petit jury especially
as the rule is now, is defective. The
best men in the community should be
compelled to do jury service. and the
courthouse loafers, the ignorant and
the vicious, kept off the bench. We
are inclined to the belief that the .Aqe
is considerably more than half right.
When the law declares that a man
shall be tried by a jury of his peers, it
cannot be distorted to mean his peers
in crime. Let the papers discuss the
reforms necessary, and when We have
another constitutional convention some
of them will surely stick.
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MILITARY ACTIVITY.

General Ord's visit to General Sheri-
dan Mt Chicago, and what has already
transpired regarding it, leads US TO hope
that the long reign Of indifference as TO
the well-being Of our frontier is TO pass
away at last Not a moment too soon
all will say, The injuries inflicted upon
our frontier by predatory bands from
Mexico for the last twenty-five years.
il gathered together, would foot up
tremendous sum, and call for the sewers
est measures both of retaliation and
defense. The policy of every national
administration for that time has been
wretchedly weak and unmanly, and
with the exception Of the bold McKen.
zie, the policy of the military officers
in charge Of our Rio Grande frontier
has been equally faulty. The fruits OF
this weakness are a plentiful crop of
murder, ruin and desolation. where
ought to be found peace, quiet and
prosperity. The selfrespect of the ma
ton demands change. demands that
this sickly Difference to the tender feel
ings of the Mexican government ought
to give way TO the firm determination
to protect our exposed people and en-
force upon the maurauders q whole-
some dread Of our power.
General Ord is an effcer of mature
age. One who has grown gray in the
military service OF the country He
has long since passed that stage of life
when he. like poor Custer. or the dash
ing Mckenzie, would court brush
with the Mexicans merely for excite
| ment He is a wise, cool-headed officer
and patriot, and his urgings will have
all the added importance which these
qualities entitle him 20. so justly We
trust Sheridan will heed his represen.
tstions, and so represent our Mexican
border affairs at the war department, as
that the secretary and the president
will both see that every consideration
Of self-interest, humanity and sound
policy demand that the most vigorous
means be used TO settle forever tn,
question Of our border difficulties.
| While all this is incontroyertably true
yet we would not see a war Of conques
entered into. We have no presen
need of Mexico. She would only prov,
burthen to us, and were war com
menced the opportunity presented b.
the present gigantic struggle in Europ'
to retrieve our financial condition
would be lost. Above and beyond al
other things this should restrain US, an,
keep our military spirit within du'
bounds There Is no necessity That on
complications with our Greaser neigh
bors should so beyond the point whicl
would require more than the strength
Of our army reduced 10 . strict peac
establishment but should IT requir,
j every man and officer in both brauche
Of the military service, they should b
90 employed.
Il Since the fancied necessity of tn
employment Of the flower Of our arm,
to keep the whites of the south from
cutting their own throeta BY cuttia
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WAR NOTES.

Eu-sis Z .osssk. Her D~~fs ~ tn la.
Htner-Tse Possession sf h.r. and
Aos~xstioa of Essersans the eo,es~.l
keys OF Eastern Trade.
DosDoS, May "a Vienna ds--
patch To the Times says the -hsik u
irlzm's proclamation Of . holy waT
against the Russians, and the Almo-;
simultaneous announcement from Con-
stantinopie that the departure Of the
sultan for the Danube had been d..
cided upon, would seem 10 show that
the advice OF those who al along
looked upon the present struggle A.
enc OF existence Tor the Ottoman en-
pire has gained the sscendency In the
eounsels Of the porte
a Times bucharest dispatch says II
is believed that Russia viii fist reeog-
nize the Independents of ROumNii..
and that Germany, Fraree and Italy
will follow, England and Austria ars
expected TO delay recognition.
A ConstautiBople dispatch says tn .
ohsmber of deputies has voted q re-o.
luton demanding the Impeachment OF
Mahmondnednen Pssha- INote-Msh.
mondnednen pasha was grand vizi-s
under Sultan Abdul AXIS. and ~H,
known ~ . friend of the Russians and
. tool Of General Ignasieff.l
ACoastantinopls dspstch says the
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-26

PETER L. For, the new editor-in-chief
of the St. Louis Times, is an old and ex-
perienced Journalist. and writer of
force and ability, second 70 no man in
the west Under his man nagement, we
shall expect to see the 7smx take high
rank in the discussion Of democratic
principles, and in giving wise eounsei
Of policies 70 be pursued by the party
for the good of the whole country. Mr.
Foy's ripe scholarship and tsenohant
pen have. in years gone by, done much
70 influence public opinion for the right,
and now, in the fullness of his prime,
We have right TO expecs still better
things from him in the future. Success
TO the zsmss and ,ss new management
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BY ]. l.. BARTOW. VOL. XIV.

those of the negro. has passed into the
public memory AS broad, idle and
mischievous Joke, the army can safely
embark in the business of protecting
our frontiers from the armed incursion
of the Mexicans, and they should do it,
even if they have to follow them to
Durango itself to accomplish it. After
that is done, let them quietly drop back
to this side, and content themselves
with simply holding the fort" against
the contra efforts of the mongrel gem
tlemen who ride upon cattle raid to
the grandilloquent cry. God and Lib
ertyn
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LOUISIANA.
Proeeesfuxs fn n Divorce SUIT cut
shors by As.a~~fnstioa-Ea I'm ns ham
Law severely Bsstsa-steaus-
beat InA peetor.' Garner

Proceedings fn Divorce SUIT cut
hhors by Easns ham
Lawrence severely sssssa-steau-
beat IasVectors' Corner.
NEw ORLEANS, May 2i-The Pic
ayune learns from resident of Eist
FeliciaBa, that Laws mother testified
before the eoTouer's jury that the as
ssssiu of Law was a negro. It is stated
suspicion rests on the friend or para.
mour of Laws wife. A suit for divorce
of Law from his wife has been pend
Ing for several weeks. on the ground
OF adultery, and letters from the wife.
acknowledging guilt having fallen into
the hands Of the husband, il IL suppos-
ed she iDstigated the murder.
Hon. Ei,ingham Lawrence, ex-mem-
ber of congress, was asssiied and Sc
verely beaten, on board of one OF the
lower coast packet bosts, yesterday
The cause is said TO have been the res
olutions passed by Plaquemine Parish
police jury, Of which he is president.
censuring the United States steamboat
inspectors for inefilciency in connpc-
ton with several recent steamboat
accidents, by one of which Lawrence
lost a considerable amount Of proper.
ty. The Plaquemine police jury have
taken steps to bring the matter before
the grand jury. They assert that sew
enty-seven lives have been lost 10y
steamboat explosions in one year,
within u distance of sixty miles Of
New Orleans.
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Kars. the Key to Russian success In
Asiaate Taskey.

1t was built by Armurath III, in the
latter part Of the sixteenth century,
and obtained in Asia reputation for
impregnability on account of the gar
rison within, it having in 1885 repulsed
all the efforts of the famous Nadir. Shah
at the head of ninety thousand Persi.
ans, after he had defeated one hundred
thousand Turks in its vicinity. Kars,
to-day, is one of the gates between
Turkey and Persia. and opens TO the
invaders road to the great route to
Teheran on the southeast; toward
Erzeroum and the Euphrates on the
southwest, and, most important of al
to Trezibonde on the west--which could
not long be defended by land. and which,
once invested by :the Russians. could
render elective service to the cars
Black sea squadron. Kars is. in fact.
the key to Russian success in Asiatic
Turkey. Its fortifcations cover an area
Of ten square miles. The town is on a
plain nearly I 900 feet above the sea,
and 10 surrounded on three sides by
rugged hills which form natural bases
for defsnse. A little stream Of the
same name fows by on the southeast.
The population is about 1900. chiefly
Armenians, who make scanty living
out Of the through trade between the
cas-. and the West. The climate L. 90
severe that travellers are glsd 10 get on
the road again. and the surrounding
hills furnish hospitality for 50 large
bands of rob6es thst srmed guards &C
company the nefchantG stocks to the
plains The city was the capital Of an
armenian kingdom, but T,ifkish con.
quest. Ottoman administrators, and tax.
alton BY the porte. hare reduced Is to I
mere halfway house.
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AMERICAN PILGRIMS.
DistH ace oEiy Increase. Their n-s o.
tion To Gs- Tspr-Ia.ir oneriE.s
A.sooar 10 over sa5. .esO-EspIy 81
His HolIne-~.

Distn ace oEiy Increase. Ts.ir Dove
tion To Gs- Tspr-Ia.ir oneriE.s
ansoaar ts over se5.osO-Esply At
His Hsliue-~.
ROME, May @i-The pope received
the American ,ilgritn- to-day. The
archbishop of PHILADELPHIA. Rad Al
address 10 his holiness, expressing IT,.
devotion aId slioction OF the a meficAn
Roman Catholics, Affirming that the
suii-fings OF the pope are thrir-, AUD
that distance but Increased their d.Vo-
tion. Another bi-hop read al sdsiry--
when the archbishop OF New York sx-
prs-sed the -zIne sentiments. Sut,-s.-
queDuy nine of the blshops presented
the pope the offerings OF their diocese,
amounting to 5000. aud other Off,T-
iugs were presented by - rsprereuta-
tive of the American Catholic AsscclA-
ton.
His holiness, ia reply, expressed hi-
joy at seeing himself surrounded ~
tie faithful, who had come from sBcl
distant lands. He spoke OF the fA.gil
in the infallitiliiy Of the church, ahd
dwell IL detail on the progress Of the
church in America lie alluded to tie
persecations 10 which the church l.
su9jecied IA Europe. and, in conciu-
sion, thanked them for their ourEIusz.
and gave them his blessing.
The lati-e Of fla chief if.zf..-,.f.r 80.
police at Lerar, who showed 80 nIaJ IA
irmDess against the brigands ~ the
time OF their capture OF the English-
man, Mr.. Rose, Wa, ON the night 81
the 18th insi-, destroy 81 by the eX-
plosiou OF gunpowder. Himself, hi
vile and two sons escaped alive,
though severely hurt The house had
been secretly undermined.
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4 L,,s,. Do. n.l. N.r,h.

The news of the breaking out of mob
violence at the capital of the great state
of New York is startling and signifi-
cant. The veto OF the governor if an
appropriation of 81 600. 600 to complete
the capitol building. and the refusal of
the assembly to pass the appropriation
over the veto, formed the occasion of
the outbreak. The rioters are reported
to have been workiugmen, who were
out Of work. and had expected employ
ment under the appropriation. Such a
scene, for such q cause, is entirely un.
usual in America, and there il surely
something wrong in the financial and
political course that has reduced our la
boring men TO these straits. While it
is necessary to strongly suppress such
riots, il is impossible TO avoid sympa-
thizing to some extent with the rioters
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road comps ny, held at their Office yes
terday afternoon, committee of three
members was appointed to confer
with the officers OF the Dallas, Psles-
tine and Southeastern railway compa-
ny, looking to a consolidation with
said company, or II not practicable, to
organize under the general law Of the
state OF Texas, Immediately to locate
and build the Dallas and Wichita road
southeasterly from Dallas to the gulf,
or the Mississippi river, or both. Il
is the intention, We believe, TO eom-
inence work At once on this line be-
tween Dallas and Kaufman, and that
the bonds of the road can be placed on
the market at once, in fact, will be
handled by the same parties who are
taking the Dallas and Wichita first
mortgage bonds.