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The New York herald., 1878-09-16
Don estic Tragedies.

In the Billings murder case, in the in
vestigation of the death of Mary Stannard,
in the case Of the murder mystery at
Gravesend, we have typical instances of a
species Of tragedy that has become almost
a. common feature Of our American
life. These are so many terrible dramas
OF passion, confined generally in their
development to the domestic circle or
within narrow sphere beyond it,
but within that limit working on day
by day and year by year with IN ever
growing intensity Of fierce hates and des-
perate impulses that end logically in the
last terrible act, which is the first that
forces the interference of society. Crimes
like this are, paradoxical as it may sound,
characteristics Of civilization, and are
inseparable generally from certain amount
OF what is called responsibility, and from
regard for the opinions OF friends and
neighbors and o morbid apprehension of
scandals. Barbarous men also kill, as well
as civilized men, their wives or the women
they love, but not in this way. They beat
them in savage rage, and sometimes the vio-
lence carried too far ends fatally, or they
murder them outright before the world in
jealous fury, and the savage society then
murders the murderer in precisely the same
way. But this horrible family tragedy of
the Billings is case Of two fierce and Bit
ter enemies tied together for lifetime by
marriage, and the rights OF the woman
under the law and before society virtually
compelled its continuance. Flagrant out
rage on his part ''to fight it out" as men
and women do in the slums and alleys,
would have called in the police, which
would have been scandalous and horrible !;
divorce and alimony would have made q
dreadful pull on the keen husbands purse,
and hence the continued attempt to keep as
fair a surface as possible and plan secret
and desperate solution. In these murders
that are reasoned upon for months, per-
haps years, before they are committed, there
is no doubt that the common miscarriage of
Justice in murder trials acts as q direct in
centive and encouragement to the criminals.
1t is commonly said by opponents of capi-
tai punishment that the dread of the gall
lows does not prevent murder but how
do they know? But for the gallows every
case OF assault and battery would be a case
The New York herald., 1878-09-16
A Royal Funeral in America.

Seldom has the mysterious and the 70.
mantle braved the sunlight Of our literal
age and country as it did yesterday at Day
ton. Ohio, where the gypsy tribes in the
United States gathered to bury their queen.
The occasion was to many people the first
intimation they had ever received that
within our national limits there existed
kingdom and a royal couple, to
whom implicit obedience was rendered by
thousands Of people acknowledging no other
rule. Contrasts and contradictions were
strong and peculiar. Ruler only of band
OF scattered outcasts, the dead queen and
her royal consort could trace their lineage
farther back into tho ages than any
sovereign of Europe. The funeral cort6ge,
which civilized people would have invested
with many attributes Of gloom, seemed to
be made almost joyous by the. flowers and
gay colors which decorated everything,
even the hearse itself. Believers in no re-
ligion, unless it be corrupted fragment of
tradition handed down by the priests Of
ancient Egypt, the gypsy mourners
listened respectfully to funeral SER
vice conducted by Christian minister,
though the words of faith, hope and censo-
lation probably never fell upon ears less
competent to understand their precious i'm
port. Yesterday this strange nation within
nation had visible shape to-day it will
disappear so thoroughly that only frag-
ments Of it will be perceptibIe anywhere,
and even then be undistinguishable from
other unattractive wanderers. Were it not
that the obsequies and the mourners were
beheld in broad daylight by thousands Of
clear-eyed Americans the whole afiair would
appear like a misty dream of an ancient day
and an unknown land.
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A New Spirit in tho Vatican.

The sagacious ecclcsiastics who at present
direct the purely worlly or political for
tunes of the Catholic Church in Europe
seem likely to regain in short time all the
material advantages which the blundering
non-possumus policy of the ultramontane
leaders under Plus TX. had lost to it.
Those who have carefully watched the cur
rent of religious events on the other conti-
nent for the past six months must have seen
Vatican, and that Leo and his ministers are
skilfully handling the silken threads Of
diplomacy. Germany and Rome are closer
to-day than they have been at any time in the
last ten years. Bismarck is not unwilling
to court the alliance of the Church against
the socialists, nor is the Church unwilling to
withhold the awful thunders in her eccle-
siastical arsenal which he is so anxious to
hurl at the would-be king slayers Of the
Empire. In the extreme North the Pope of
the Greek Church sends the most loving
greeting to his brother in Rome, and both
are quietly arranging for religious parti-
ton of Poland Our cable dispatches this
morning show how Swiss Calvinism is melt
ing in the soft religious sunshine that
streams from the seven-hilled city, and, as
described by our correspondent yesterday,
the funeral pageant Of Theirs in the splen-
did Cathedral Of Notre Dame was really the
bridal ceremony of the young Republic with
the political power of the Papacy. 1t is
sweet to see SO many religious and political
brethren beginning to dwell together in
peace
The New York herald., 1878-09-16
Another Battle au..,lou.a.

General Grants destruction of the ro-
nance of the ''Battle in the Clouds" is fol-
lowed by denial on the part of a number
of5the correctness Of q despatch sent by
General Pope to General Halleck on August
30, 1862, giving an account Of an alleged
'terrfic engagement" with the enemy on
the previous day, on the identical battle
field of Bull Run" The witnesses posi-
lively swear that there was no general en-
gagement on August 20, and that the
firing on that day was confined to occa-
sional dropping shots from the lines OF
skirmishers and a little artillery practice in
the evening This is very remarkable tes-
tmony, for General Pope's despatch states
that the battle ragged from daylight until
dark with continuous fury y that the
Union loss was eight thousand men in
killed and wounded. and the loss of the
enemy not less than two to one, as compared
with our own. 1t seems that the witnesses
who fatty contradict the story Of battle
must be mistaken, inasmuch MS the Con-
federate chronology OF the second year of
the war, records on August 20, 1862, the
'battle of Groveton, between Generals
Jackson and Longstreet and the federal
army under General Pope" But the en-
gagement is not spoken of as q severe one,
having been mainly skirmishing attacks,
and General Pope's official report of his
campaign in Virginia, made in January,
1868, while enlarging on the operations of
the Goth, scarcely carries out the idea Of the
'terrific battle which, according to his
despatch OF the following day, 'lasted with
continuous fury from daylight until after
dark" Indeed, in his more careful official
report General Pope states that "from twelve
until four o'clock very severe skirmishes
occurred constantly at various points
on our line," and that Mt half-past five
o'clock Generals Heintzelman and Reno
were ordered to attack, when a ''sharp con-
fct of an hour and half occurred. This
is not consistent with the story of q "ter-
rife battle" which "lasted with continuous
fury from daylight until dark as told in
the Halleck despatch. There was, no doubt.
n fight on August 20, but it was probably
magnifed in Importance by General Pope.
1t is singular, however, that in the highly
ccngratulatory despatch sent to General
Halleck on August 30, in which the "great
captures" made on the preceding day Of the
extent of which General Pope declares him
self unable then to form an idea nre all uded
to, no mention whatever is made of any dis
appointment at the failure Of General Fitz
l..
On the contrary, General Pope promises in
that despatch to push matters in the
course of the morning august 3O), as soon
as General Fitz John Porter comes up from
Manassas"
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make the government of Egyptians a pay
ing business from that point--with the
debts, but without too minute an inquiry
last compelled to give way, and then the
secret came out. Throughout his reign the
Khedive had been doing just what Abbas
Pacha had also done in his time--acting on
a secretive and miserly impulse and put
ting the public money away on private ac-
count
Enormous estates had thus been pur-
chased with the money that should have
paid the expenses Of government and pre-
vented the accumulation of debt; and while
the country publicly regarded had become
burdened with extreme obligations the
Khedive had become the proprietor of one
sixth OF the land in Egypt. Naturally no
financial system could 80 on and no credit
could stand in the face 81 Such diverticu-
lum, and the financial experts recognized
this and declared it, and France joined with
England in the agreement that all that system
must come to an end, and that the Khedive
must give up his plnnder or lose the coun-
tenhlce anu support VI tHe w oStcrH So'-
ernments. In other days the Khedive
would not have given up. He would
have sent few millions to Constantinople
with the expression of his opinion that
these financial infdels Of the West were
liars and sons of liars, and would have gone
OIL indefinitely in the same groove. But
this is critical time. II would be hard
fate to lose the confidence of the Western
Powers just now, because, in fact, the coun-
tenance of the Sultan is OF no great value
to anybody: and a prince in the position OF
viceroy in Egypt needs rather the sup
port OF others against the Sultan than Of
the Sultan against the others. London, not
Constantinople, is the source of support to
him who has become merely the keeper Of
the locks in the Suez Canal and the Khe-
dive therefore bows to the strange DEGREES
OF destiny--hands over his great estates for
the benefit of the nations creditors, and
even surrenders his kingdom as to all money
aspects to assignees who have the conf
dence of the creditors, and sits down to
watch the edifying spectacle of the pay
ment of his debts.
The New York herald., 1878-09-16

SERIOUS FEARS ARE ENTERTAINED in the
vicinity of Sidney. Neb.. that the Cheyenne
Indians who have lett their agency will form
junction with Sitting Bull and 90 on the war
path. II is hard to say whether Sidney is or is
not rejoiced at the prospect. The little place
we are told, has an exceedingly warlike appear.
ancc owing to the presence of five hundred
cavalrynen. There is at lciyst one set of
patriots who are suprcmely happy-the Indian
contractors. They maintain strict neutrality
and are selling 10 both parties.
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THE SUGGESTION in our columns yesterday con-
cerDing Mr. kclly's possible candidacy for Mayor
threw all the politicians OF high and low degree
into a state of considerable excitement. Many
of them will be relieved this morning to learn
that Mr.. Kelly declines. More modest than The
Pope who put the tiara OH his own brow, he
refuses 10 nominate himself.
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1T Is A PITY that in the terrible explosion in
the oil regions yesterday, by which four men
we're blown to pieces. the scoundrels who had set
in order the awful cnginery were not the victims
instead of the innocent sufferers. The police,
il is to bc hoped. will he able to bring the guilty
scoundrels to justice.
The New York herald., 1878-09-16

CONNECTICUT. it will be seen from the letter
elsewhere printed. is as badly split up the
greenback question as Maine. The democratic
politicians are in delightful state of perpleNty,
aud with the exception of u few sensible men,
like senator Eaton. do not seen TO krow what
TO DO. IL is somewhat remarkable to the
land OF steady habits as unsteady on the iinan-
cial question az the wild, wild West.
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GENERAL SHIELDS is still in critical condi-
tion. lie had sufficiently recovered last even
ing. however. to justify his removal from the
Astor House to a private residence IN Brook yn.
The New York herald., 1878-09-16

1He probabilities arc hat The reoNer IN Ne~
ydrk and lis c1inity fodoy wW be cocier and
clear. 1o-morror il ,rW get slightly ma'1aer, but
NN remain ci,dr.
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of murder, perhaps. There might be hun
dred murder cases where there are now ten,
and we believe that crimes hike those to
which we refer would be less common if a
man proved a murderer had more reason to
dread the gallows than he now has.
The New York herald., 1878-09-16

Tnr WEATnrr.-Al traces of Fridays storm
have passed away, aud the districts wherein
the barometer was exceedingly low during the
latter part Of the week are experiencing 10
high pressure. The area of low barometer is
making very slow progress in the Western dis
tiicts, and the pressure IL yet only relatively
low. 1t is probable however that the pressure
will decrease as the low area travels over the
lake regions and the storm centre of the deprcs-
sion becomes more defined. The barometer il
highest over the lake regions. II is above the
mean in all the districts except those in the
West, where the depression IN located.
The pressure is low on the Atlantic Ocean
south Of the West Indies. No rain has fallen
in any of the districts east Of the Mississippi
River during the past twcny-iour hours. except
over the Western Gulf coast. There has been
slight fall in the Northwest. The weather has
been generally clear ia all the other sections.
The winds have been from fresh to brisk in the
Northwest and northern lake regions from light
20 brisk on the Middle Atlantic and New Eng.
land coasts and elsewhere light The tempcra-
turc has riscn IN the Middle Atlantic ard central
valley districts. II has been variable elsewhere
The weather in New York and lis vicinity to-
day will be cooler aud clear. To morrow il will
get slightly wsrmsr. lut will he clear.
The New York herald., 1878-09-16

THE MELANCHOLY DAYS have come for the
summer hotel keepers.
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TUE SERMoSs.-''shall We Give Up the
American Sabbath p was the interesting and
important question asked yesterday by Mr. Tai
mage in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The answer
of his dcvout congregation was, Of course
laundering negative. In the Calvary Baptist
Church, hy "a singular coincidence. Rev. II. :.
Macarthur preached on the same subject. iakiug
precisely the same view against secularizing
Sunday. II may be that the short sermon in
our own columns on tho same question Yesterday
morning was read 10y both gentlemen before they
assembled their pulpis. II they did not read il
they will do well to turn back TO il and try our
sd,ice-to make their sermons more interesting.
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Our REPORTS from nearly al! thc yellow
fever districts this morning are very favorable.
aid it may be confidently expected now that
each day will continue to show an improved
saiiitary record
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One hundred. and nine thousand FIVE
hundred and eighteen U09,5ls) HERALDs
were sold yesterday.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

ClLNORE's GARDEN rHosAs' CoSckErs
NEW YORK AoUARiUM-LivtSc WONDERS
GRAND OPERA HOCsE NKw FRITZ
PARK THEATRE-HuRaIcANEs.
BROADWAY THEATRE Nrw MAGpALKs.
BOOTHS THEATRE-JASE sHoRr.
wALLACK'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HArLOwr
BowERY TuEA1RR-THE SrnrEr.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR.
srANDAcD THEATRE -OrkS VERDICT.
KURTZ ART GALLERY -hDlsoss PnoNoGRArH.
UNION SQUARE THkArRE-oLnrA
YIfTg AVENUE THEATRE -EvApss.
LYCErM THEArRE-JosmuA wHIrco,vs.
GERMANIA THEATRE--t;KAP ESSEX.
GLOBE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
EIBLU'S GARDEN-MLrss
THEATRE BRIGHTON VARIETY.
TIyOLI THEATRE-vARrsrY.
THEATRE COMIQUE-yARIxrr.
EAN FRANCISCO MiNsTREis.
TONY PAsrOR's-vAnErY
HAyxARKEr THEArRE-vAKIErr
CRY THEATRE-vARIryY
ST. JAMES THEATRE-vAEEIY.
BRoUKLYN PARK THEATKE-FAusr
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TRIPLE SH e e Il
The Herald Circulation.

NEW YORK. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER le. 1878.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-09

emony whatever the door Of
tho chamber was asaalled WIN
yshemenee that would have
done credit 10 u French mob-arouH'
Ing the yerdAnt pair from their peace
ul SAUNDERS, Win q nayy'slA la hln
right hand, the young man openedlhe
door, asking what In lhe darnalloh
they were up 10, The clerk Ia lremb'
ling tones told the young gent that II
they were not u married couple, he
would rather they would not occupy
tho same room, The young man said
he would do anything to DO aooomlno'
dating, aud that II tho clerk would
send for u minister ora Justice OF The
peace, he would settle the bill, aud geI
hItohed 10 Mary Ann, 80 such partleu
lar folks would feel easier The neoen
sary person putting In M appearance
the knot was tied,
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AbOut women

Frau Won lngersleben h said 10 be
the rising novelist Of Germany
Mias Fanny Davenport says her nose
IL not dlshgurod, but IN just IN nice aa
ever II was,
Carlotla Patti IN III from the effects
ola surgical operation. Her physlc'
lans are confident Of her recovery.
Alice Klngsbury, the actress, IN about
10 publish II book Of her theatrical ex-
peflenCo,
The Duchess Of Hamilton has asked
the pope 10 annnl her marriage with
the prince Of Monaco.
Mrs, Butler, wife Of the South Caro-
lima senator, In the daughter Of OK
Governor Plckens, Of that state,
Fanny Kemble weighs two hundred
pounds aud acts very much with hel
old tragic spirit when sho thinks
Of II.
They had II dance out In blackberry
precinct Nebraska, and the mothers
Of families piled their babies, sixteen
In number upon one bed, while they
danced.
Mrs. ex-senator Sprague donated tn,
land for the lifo'saving station at Mar
ragansett pier, Rhode Island.
jennie June speaks of Kate Field N
the greatest American woman. Thi
won't create argument and hard feel
ing--oh, certainly not.
Mrs. Yeager, IA widow OF seventy
three years, last week walked from
Perry township, Penn to Reading ant
back, distance Of thirty.four miles
within twenty four hours.
A young lady Of DR.. Tiltany's church
New York, has undertaken to tuild
at her own expense, II sensible hon,
for sick children, the first expense o
which Ia TO be about 1000.
Neuralgia IL more fashionable THU
season than ever before among fash
ionable ladies', because the fashionable
hat leaves the top OF their headl
bArp
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At the election for Ulcers Of the
above company, held yesterday, tn,
following result was had:
Board Of Directors w. III, CASTOR,
M. Pointer, Ira Harris, Dr.. Silas Reed,
ii s. Ervey, George w. Erw in, c. f.
Stephens, J. w. Calder, o. q. Welsh
Immediately after the election Of
the above board Of directors, the new
board met and elected the following:
Officers for the ensuing yedr-Presi
dent, w. II. CASTOR; vice president, J
w. Calder; secretary, George Shields;
treasurer, ]. w. Crowdus.
The board of directors is a comprom.
ise measure, and Is designed to har.
monte all diverse interests.
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Adams A Co. hll orders for grain
aud produce "
Adams a 90, solicit consisnmehIs
aud fila orders, "
Adams a Co, hll orders for graln
and produce, III
Five hundred bushels seed rye o.
Adams A C0,-tt
Two car loads of huggles enl plAl'
orm wagons, at Oru.-iL
-lfyou want to trade an old buggy
Tor a new Que, OT's ID the place IL
Fresh celery aud tub Saddle Rock
oysters received daily At Delmonleo' u
--Ifyou want to buy n family car
rlage, Orr has the latest styles ana
patterns,-It
The most beautiful aud latest dc
signs Of chamber aud parlor suits at
Jansen Brolhers', on Elm street, lOl'
-lO.lm,
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Neiioe,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUARY o.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

The snow left the streets In most
wrotched condition,
Farmers represent tho roads IN
being In a wretched condition
"A Fort Worth man committed
suicide by drowning In tho alreots oil
that village,
The boy on lila atllts, high out oI
the mud, Ia envlcd by The paler faml'
llas IA he trudges along,
Considering the condition OF the
weather, there was n good quantity OF
hay ON the market yesterday.
Let the people turn their attention
TO tho building Of good, Substantial
county roads, and Dallas will then he
sure OF stOOdy and prosperous trade
"A physician of thia city went down
the Central road the other day, TO see
patient, and on his return, In getting
oil the train, got the wrong valIse'
Arriving home he found he had lot
OF baby clothes instead Of hls doctor
tricks.
The dry goods store Of H. Cohn a
Co., on ELM street, which was seized
under attachment by the sheriff, WA
yesterday taken charge OF by Deputy
United States Marshal Tom Rainoy
tho parties having gone into bank
ruptcy.
In the report Of the council pro
ceedings, In yesterdays HERALD, the
report OF the committee In favor OF H.
suing bonds to tho Dallas aud Wichita
railroad company, not, however, until
the road was put in running condition
TO the highlands on the cast side OF
Elm Fork, should have read WcSt side
OF ELM Fork
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snooKLEY q BROTHER.
The senior member ~ ihe FiF" .H's
AIS Fiii ~ free "hishy-A No"
make Ia she Way Of DaadbeHiinE'

IN, aeuior member ~ she Firm os's
IIia nm 81 free whishy-A No"
make Ia 1he Way OF DeadbeH''nE'
Monday there arrived In this city u
man who called himself Samuel W.
shookley, of tho trm Of shookloy y
Brother, who he claimed were doing u
thriving business At High Tower,
which, lao said, was located IN john
sou county, lilo brought In with him
siH head Of mules which he disposed
Of at fair prices. lie called on the
most prominent merchants Of the city,
most Of whom no impressed with tho
idea that no was well'tO.do IN this
world'a goods aud was about ~ open
up lare house NJ High Tower lie
went from hOuse 10 house In the city
buying rather extensively In many
but taking care not ~ pay any cash.
but ordering the goods shipped 10
High Tower. The merchants we're
elated aud there WINS u mighty rush
throughout the stores lilllng the orders
Of ShOokly n Bro, while tho marking
brush was In many instances busy
lnsorIblpg \. n Bro, on the divers
goods to bo shipped, prominent among
them that NJ u whiaky arm, who were
rolling barrels Of old Bourbon right
aud left lie played hla game very
Ane did shockly, but he waa, destined
to come 10 gfleL lie bought from eev"
eral wholesale liquor houses, drinking
"A gallon or 40 In each, but still he wan
nol'satlanod aud continued on Ia his
mad career llo inquired for Kelly "
Stevenson, aud, finding tho place,
rushed In, In u busineas-liko manner,
aud said no wanted four hundred dol
lars worth Of liquors, saying lac want
ed them shipped to High Tower, John
son county. Mr., Stevenson, who Ia m
old and experienced Texas drummer,
suspIcIoned nj once that Nil was not
right, aud began to lnlerrogale the
gentleman concorhlng the town he
called High Tower, which ended IN
Mr. Shockley, OF Shockley N Brother,
being completely conioundOd.an hur-
| richly lpnvlnu the store la great con-
fusion. From this the news rapidly
spread that the man wasa fraud, aud
the boxes on the sidewalk were taken
IN and the goods put once more In
their places, The scraper was brought
TO bear upon the box tops, and the
name Of the wealthy country mer-
chants, Shocliley N Brother, obIitcr-
ated. An attempt was made to arrest
the beat but he Ind left tho city.