The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-01-05
wAsHINGroN NOTES.

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wAsHIsaToS. December 2s.-Pat-
terson was restless Last night.
The secretary of the navy has re-
turned.
Attorney General Deyens Ia expected
Monday.
The cabinet propose giving decisive
consideration to the recognition Of
Diax next week.
DIR. Baxter, who has been among the
attendants on Patterson, Gays he is
progressing rapidly toward recovery.
szemens At Chandler's letter In
creases. The New York Evening Post
says the latest performanee of Mr.. E
Chandler is enc which, u suspects,
even the other Chandler would be
ashamed or
Assistant Secretary Howiey repre-
seu.ed the treasury department in the
cabinet. Rio Grande affairs were dis
eussed, but action postponed for mort
definite information.
Judge Cartier issued a rule against
Mr.. Sehurz, secretary of the interior,
to show cause why writ OF msndamns
| should not issue a deed for certain
lands. The writ lie retnrnable Jsnu
airy 9TH.
WASHINGTON, December 29.-tiep
erai q. w. Cook, of Ohio, died in New
York, of paralysis.
Secretary Evarts is quoted rs saying
that the president may reBominste the
persons whom the senate has rel cted.
| IL il said A. Clark is to be appointed
| postmaster at Cincinnati. One of the
applicants fl the place is Mrs. Will
bur, formerly q sohooImistress OF Mrs.
Hayes.
| A negro knocked down, outraged aud
robbed q sixteen year old girl, between
ak and seven o'clock last evening. ia
the northern part of the city. The
brute on leaving his PROSTATE victim,
gave her parting kiek. A like OUT
rage occurred in the same locality u
month ago. Judge Lynch is organic
ing.
A special to the Baltimore Sun says
Secretary Schnrz states, personally,
| that he considers he has work To per-
form in bis present position, and that
he will remain and do it, unless he is
removed. Also that the president ana
Mrs. Hayes have distinctly iatimated
to their friends that no presents will be
received on the occasion of the sp-
preaching celebration of their silver
| wedding.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Roum to-day directed the abatement
of the tax assessed against the State
Savings bank. OF Chicago, accounting
10 over $4,000. Thare are six other
inselvent Chicago savings bank, in
whose case similar relief will probably
be granted depositors. 1t Is under
stood that Commissioner Roum has
addressed a letter to the com mittee OF
ways and means recommending that
all savings banks, without distinction,
shall be relieved from taxation. He,
however, favors the retention for the
present of tax Gu banks aud bankers,
and is strongly opposed to any change
in the existing rate of taxation ON
whisky and tobacco.
Nine tons OF silver and one ton OF
gold was shipped this morning from
the assay Office here to the PhilndeI-
phia mint, for the coinage of subsidi-
airy coins.
| WASHINGTON, December 3l.--The
honor of assisting Mrs. Hayes at to-
morrow,s reception devolves upon
four ladies from Ohio, VITO are guests
to the silver wedding of the president
to- night.
j The formal announcement that no
presents will be received, is regarded
fatal to BANDS silver bill.
A Brownsville, Texas, dispatch says:
Large numbers of witnesses have been
summoned from this frontier to appear,
January 10th, before the house for.
eign relations committee. The wit
nesses are mostly of the fillihuster
class. Among them, their head Gen.
ire, Colonel John s. Ford, who com
msnded the filiibusters that burned
Matamoras, In the Csravojal revolu.
ton, and who sent sensational tele-
| grams from here to the Galveston
News about Mexican affairs. Last
year he was in the pay of General
Cortina, and later of Disc, and recent
| ly enlisted in a regiment of Texas vol
nnteers to invade Mexico. Ford an d
his fillibusters will chow that war will
| Mexico lie positively necessary and at,-
soluteiy inevitable.