The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-11
. Ms. monL,s WASHINGTON LITTER
Senator Thnrman's sudden Illness
HiaiHe's soiieitude for Ills 0hio
Friend-A Ghasiiy Hanging
Espianaiion of The star mail
Service, Iie,

fell down M One dead While speaking on tho
Geneva award bill, But all tho world has
not heard that his most vigorous aud deter
mined aud implaeabls political adversary,
blaine, rushe, 10 tho coak'room where the
old veteran ay M mort, llfuess masa upon
tho hoor aud cried out In accents Of tic
keonesl disirera, "Whore ID hei What can
dol Oh how can | help my frlond 2"
Nor wis ho content with
words Of sympathy md grief
but when tho doctors directed the sick man
to be laid on n som, tho clothes looSened
about his lhront and bis hands mud feet rub
bed 10 sustain circulation, the ptalwArt soma
tor from Maine lifted the Ohio Democrat
into a comfortable position, aud with the
strength ofa giant, mud tho tenderness ofaw
man, nursed "hls friend" back 10 partial con
seriousness This isa beautiful episode. !
love 10 write Of such thlngs, md | hope If
W. are doomed 10 have Republican Presl
dent Nj Nil, which heaven forbid, TINT the
fnpulsiye bighenrted Blaine with great
faults and great virtues, will be- the man,
When introduced Mr., Townsheld into
my letter last week, II WINS with h0inlenllon
ofslylng your readers some Idea OF his per
sonal appearance, but ! got of on another
tack aud forgot all about H. until too late
Mr., Townshend looks about ~ lilo has nm
abundance OF dark, brown hair, gray eyes,
which are rather long aud far apart II
chnrnotcrlcsa nose, M uncertain mouth,
shaded by brown mousmche, and
balanced by n tocIahly firm chin, and CON
siderable breadth Of jaw lie is quite tall,
Ofa good figure and n very passionate md
oScteable speaker, but hus no chance In de-
balo with u cool, interruptions, shilty, ro-
sourcolu man like Garfield, llo was so In.
furintod by Garllolds taunts and vulgar rail
cry that he could not speak intolligibly mud
only made sport for the opposition by his in
nrtlcuhte rawlings. But he WIS entirely right in
using every means OF warfare against the
aachinations Of those who aro keeping the
people from even II hearing ON the question
of all others most necessary to their prosper
ily--lho "tnrcd" M Pig Iron Kelly calls It,
For the first time IN six years criminal
has received the Just punishment of hanging
In this District. He murdered his wife and
thought he had killed ms sister, but the lat
tor recovered aud her evidence convicted
him. lie was twice rcprevcd by President
Hayes, and hoped for n pardon but did not
get II. llO had grown very stout from long
imprisonment, and the rope broke with his
weight, but not until no was doad'
When tho body fell the
head rolled Il, the rope having cut
entirely through tho flesh, Let us hope this
execution of the sentence of the law will have
n Mlutary effect upon the twenty thousand
othcr negroes in Washington, who are mostly
without any legitimate means Of support.
Three other negroes arc to meet the same
fate (if not pardoned) before long, Allmy
feelings are opposed to capital punishment,
but recognzoi,s justucss aud necessity.
The spring crop of scandals is unusually
large, aud tho rcporter-who has entirely
surprised Damo Rumor-having rcapcd
the senatorial crop, has become lowly mind
ed, and now holds up to view the wickedness
of tr, asury clerks and plain citizens, |
am reminded of II sentence in one of Gabo.
reaus novels "A newspaper is n tub whore.
in people of every grade wash their soilcd
| linen"
The Randolph who shot a man in Now
York Saturday, is grandson Of Mrs. Eaton.
A scandal was the cause Of the shooting. My
opinion is that more shooting would ca So
less scandal and such u contamination is de-
voutly to be wished even though it cost the
press reporter or two.
The arcdo railroad bill is
again delayed, thi) time in the Senate com.
mittce A speedy hearing is promised, how
ever and n probability of its getting mo the
House Monday The two Pacific railroads
are the obstacles this time, believe. | had
loug talk with Colonel Mills on the subject,
and, MS predicted, he ha very good reasons
for differing from the rest of the delegation
on this subject, the principal ono being an
objection to government subsidies, which is
sound DEM cratic doctrine. Another rea-
son was, this road was not rs useful for mill
tary purposes as other roads going further
north. This last strikes mo as b tier reason
for other roads than against this one, ms no
one road, unless 1t run parallel with the Rio
Grande, could supply all the forts, aud such
n road would be too liable to be cut by the
enemy, and would require continuous line
of forts TO protect It. Colonel Mills said, in
case of war with Mexico our supplies
would be sent by sea to some seaport on the
Mexican gulf, Ms they were in the war of As
| also had talk with Senator Maxey on
this subject, and others of interest to Texas.
He told me the Texas delegation had n meet
ing from which Messrs. Mills and Gull
berson were absent) and decided to
support any road which Con
eral Sherman, the Secretary of War, and
the Quartermaster General should recon-
mend MS military necessity. They went in
body to General Sherman. He received
them very cordially, and learning the object
of their visit, he took big map, spread it
out on the floor, and they all got on their
all-fours round it, and traced out the differ
ent routes projected toward The frontier of
Texas. General Mickey, who was made
spokesman, gave, without any comments
whatever the various points of destination,
and routes new contemplated, tracing the
routes with his finger on the map.
General Sherman listened with the closest
attention, asking questions whenever he was
in any doubt, and when General Maxey was
through, remained few minutes in deep
thought. Then putting his finger on Laredo
he said, "Maxey, this is the route" and this
route he and the other military authorize:
have heartily and persistently recommended
Now rs the only possible chance for getting
a loan from the Government is on military
grounds, and u. n road to the frontier is al
absolute necessity, our delegation, with
one exception, have decided to
advocate this road in Con
gress, as they would have advocated any
other with the same show of success. "As