The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-22
NEW YORK LETTER,
Correspondence Of Tho Herald.

tho relief of tho Irish. II had reached
yesterday the magnificent sum Of $780,
800. 0G, Everything Is received,
from the street gamin's mite
of penny up to the handsome donations that
reach hundreds of thousands, Yesterday
three Brahma chickens, cock and two hens,
were received from New Haven, Connecticut,
donated by Mr.. Charles Renckodt, we'll
known poultcrer of that city, for the Irish
fund. They will be sold at auction Mt Il
o'clock Monday, at the City hall. They
are already attracting much attention and
quite IN enthusiasm is being aroused over
them, MS well because Of their exceeding
beauty rs Of the cause they go to aid.
The action of Republicans at Utica yes
terday occasioned no little excitement in this
city. II was II clear case Of
SIT UPON
For Mr.. Conklng. His friends and that
means the GRANTEES, were in the mn iority in the
county convention, but with impudence and
boldness they took matters into their own
hands, elected Grant delegation with Mr.,
Conkling at the head to the State convention,
entirely ignoring the opposition, and then
declared the convention adjourned. The
opposition, however, would not adjourn, and
after the Grant men left elected anti.Grant
men to the State convention with instructions
to vote against Grant movements,
Senator Conkling will have the State
convention under his control, and the anti
~ "a l. ITtsn, ,v.n ~ ha
nized. The big fight Mr.. Conkling has to
make is here in New York. The monoyed
men of tho party and Treasury officials all
support Sherman because there are millions
in him, and Mr. George William Curtis OPP
poses Grant on principle, and with these
forces to meet, Mr.. Conkling has no easy
contest on his hands here in the city. think,
though, that he will gain votes enough here,
which, added to the Grant strength in the
country, will enable him to threw the State
for his favorite at Chicago.
Last night the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine was conferred upon
TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR
Young men, graduates of the University
of New York. Last year the
graduating class was composed of two hun
bred and four young men. The degrees
were conferred at the Academy of Music,
the faculty occupying the stage and the NJ
DIS the orchestral seats, while all the other
seats in the building we're filled with lockers
on. Chancellor Crosby, of the University,
read chapter from the scriptures
and then offered prayer,
ceremonies most appropriate indeed, consd-
ering the number of pills these young men
will give during the coming year, the num-
Der of pulses they will feel, the number Of
we'll, various other duties they will perform.
Robert Chalmers Davis, of South Carolina,
delivered the valedictory.
witnessed
PITIABLR SIGHT.
Yesterday while stroling through Castle Gar
den. 1t was a party Of forty destitute Hun
garians. They were all men except three
women and seven little children. 1t was
sorrowful indeed, to look upon them, for
their faces showed signs of privation, want
and misery. | never saw more woe-begone
expressions than we're theirs. Despair seemed
10 have in its strong grip their hearts, and
hope was dead within them.
the feet of their mothers, laughed in their in
nocent glee, unmindful of the wretchedness
around them, and their mothers smiled
sadly as they looked upon them, glad that
they were spared their misery. The freshets,
of which we had such sad accounts last year,
had destroyed their homes and property, and
they were forced to come to America to look
for relief. They were all married men,
but only three had been able to
bring their families with them. Through
an interpreter, talked to some of the men
and learned that they left Semlin three weeks
ago last Sunday. and left provisions enough
with their families to keep them alive for
some three weeks. "God alone knows what
our women and children at home will do
after the food that we left is gone" said one.
"We thought to have sent them money by
this time. The Government will do nothing
Tor them, and they will starve unless we can
send them money soon. We are all strong
men and good workers, and we only ask en-
ployment; we don't ask charity. We are
Door enough, God knows, but we think our
selves happy in being able to get to this
country. There are many more in Hungary
who are starving and who cannot get away.
There are at least one hundred and fifty fam
lilies in Semin who cannot get money enough
TO get away from the starvation that threatens
them at home, And in the south the suffer-
ing is even more widespread
God help the poor 1t makes ones heart
ache 10 contemplate the misery and suffering
that want makes in this world, when there are
SO many around us with useless millions.
ALDIYE.
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