The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-10-13
The Message Vii. gereiy cali Atiea.
ton 10 ths Deficiency 10 Various
Appropriations 0aher Matters
so ever 10 the Next Reg
aiar Session.
The Georgia Republican State Committee
Dissolved Ohio Delegation Serenaded
in Honor Of Tuesdays Work-a
Government Informant Killed
in Tennessee.

'rary, Attorney iienerai Dsvens and
n. w. Corcoran, left here this morn
Bg at 7:45, TO attend the Frederick
county faif, at Frederick, Maryland.
.ir. Evarts appeared in the supreme
,ou!t today, and argued = private ease.
The Ohio delegation was serenaded /
.o-night, at Wizards, in honor OF |
work.
There are no pew developments re-
gsraiug the officers of the house, but |
the canvass is quiet AID hot.
The presideatiai party arrived safely
from the Frederick county fair attend
anee. Immense speeches were made
mostly of an agricultural character.
An Atlantis, Georgia, dispatch says
the republican state CONN ittee met TO-
day, and 10y vote of nine to two
passed the following resolution: ''That
this com mittee Is hereby dissolved
Deputy Collector A. NJ. Hughes, teIe
grsphs from Columbia, Tennessee, that
he has Information that Thomas ].
Williams, who guided the raiding
parties, was taken from his house ami
murdered.
A caucus of the democratic mem.
bers elect to the ferty-fffh congress
will De beld, according to Usage, In the
hsh of the house of representatives,
on Saturday evening, October 18th, at
S O'Clock, 10 nominate candidate for
speaker aud other officers of the house
and to transact such further business
IS may BE- necessary.
The Star says sensationally: 1.-THE
speakership contest presents no new
phase. The situstion, in nat shell,
is this: Sitting aii sources of infesfna-
ton and canvass of tht grotnd, Ran
dail has aboa; forty eight votes pledged
beyond & certainty ca the first bsiIot,
and has the even chance OF eight
more, which will make up tie balanee.
Tie democratic strength Is didnsad
respectively between Saylor, Cox,
5ioode, Morrison aud Black burn.
q The opponents of Randall have
abandoned any general continuation,
s'at viii endeavor to unite the free
trade and aDti-resumptioE element o.
the west and senth against him, ans
/ ehoose their candidate TO be REPRESENT
ed in the eaucns either from the west
OF SOUTH"
1 .tst f..tI 4
Sc ms to have tie inside track for til,
| speaaership. There lis little doubt thu
| he viii he eiectetln
/ A baltimore dispatch says confer
enee WAS Geld yesterday at the arehi
episcopal residence between Arch
bishop Gibbons and the bishops Of til,
archdiocese of Baltimore, and th,
tarles OF three clefgymen determines
TO be forwarded to the pope to Gil tn,
vacancy in the see OF Richmond. Al
though the names are not divulged 1t i.
| believed that che Rev. Jansens, the
present administrator of the Richrnous
diocese. was selected az one OF the
three. Archbishop Gibbons viii prob
ably be Installed in about a week a.
priinate Of the Catholic church IN
America.
The message to the extra session
will merely call the attention of con.
gress to the deficiency In the various
appropriations and that legislation be-
effected to remedy the Inconvenience
that exist. Other matters will be post
poued until the president sends his
message TO the regular session.
A Chicago dispatch says, General
Sheridan, having received from Adja.
tant Gsaerai Townsend, dispatches
oongrafuiating himself, General Terry
and Colonel Miles on the result Of tie
Indian war, teiegraphed the same to
officers in command, adding that be
considers the capture Of Joseph exceed
ingiy important, especially in its in.
f1uence on the Oregon Indians. He
slso adds his own communication for
the conduct OF both officers and men.
The solicitor OF the treasury has adj
dressed letter to the secretary rels-
tive to the governments interest il
Dismal Swamp canal. The govern
ment has invested $4,000 therein.
Mfr. Elns, chief clerk In the collectors
office, has examined into its affairs
and obtained from the trustees, who
advertised the property for sale, q