The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-25

Roberts men that il was impossible for
the secretary to write them down in the order
of their nomination. Each faction wed with
the other TO get their men elected, and it re-
suited in the election Of a divided delega.
ton which can DO safely put down as seven
for the old AlcalGe and five for Sayers.
Tho delegates elected to the congressional
convention are almost, ifnot wholly so, for the
Hon. Seth Sheppard for congress from this
district. After the election of delegates Ma
jor Spencer introduced resolution that the
delegates TO the convention be instructed to
cast their votes for the Hon. 0. M. Roberts
for governor, and the Hon. Frank Lubbock
for state treasurer, and that the congressional
delegates be instructed to cast their votes for
the Hon. Seth Sheppard for congress from
the 9th congressional district. This created
quite breeze, and motion followed
motion in rapid succession. Finally,
after terrible "phillipie against
the Roberts administration by Judge w. ii.
Williams, the motion Of Mr.. Hand to lay
the resolution on the table prevailed by de-
cided majority. This was regarded as de-
feat to the Roberts iaction,an ELECTED hearty
applause. The convention then went into an
election of chairman of the county Demo
cratic executive committee, and committee
men from each ward and the county. Colonel
Thomas Nj. Jack WIS unanimously elected
chairman, and the wards and precincts
named the candidates they had selected to
represent them on the committee. After
which the committee. djourned sine die
AT the sale of lots in the new town OF Cald-
well, laid out and offered for sale by the
Gulf, Colorado Il Santa Fe railroad, over a
hundred lots were sold, on Tuesday last, at
prices ranging from $50 to 500 per lot
The British steamship Hamsted arrived
Tuesday, and is discbarging 1908 tons of
railroad iron for this road.--Tuesday
morning the captain Of sloop lying in u
slip next to Williams wharf, foot Of Twenty
fourth street, saw the body of dead negro
boy floating in the bay near Lawrence point,
but it was too far advanced in decomposition
to be secured. 1t is supposed to be the body
of the son of Tom jackson, who Tell over
board from the sloop FLY, while cruising up
the bay about ten days ago.--Charles Gay,
the Fort Worth pedestrian, is in the city, and
is willing to match himself against
any pedestrian in Galveston. Gay has thus
far found no one of the walkists here that
have the nerve to face him, Louis
Schwartz, of the large wholesale hard ware
house of Schwartz e. Bro, and vice-president
of the Spanish Fort railway, has been in the
city for the past fow days, and left for Hous-
ton on yesterday mornings train. He will
visit all the principal cities and towns in the
state. His house furnishes all the railway sup
plies for the Houston & Texas Central and
Galveston, Harrisburg Il San Antonio rail
roads. He stated to your reporter that the
New Orleans merchants were determined to
push their trade to every part of Texas ms
) on as railroad connections were secured.
grand jury have thus far brought in
over forty.fve indictments against iufractors
IF the law, and are not yet through their
abors. "A cool norther blowing,