The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-08
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Advices from New Orleans say that The
gale which set in Friday continued all night
The wind was to the east. At O'Clock
Saturday morning the wind changed to the
southeast, ana at I a. m. it reached {
velocity of A miles. At 10 it changed &c
the east; the velocity was 4G. At 1916 il
veered sgain to the southeast and had in.
creased to SO miles per hour. At this city
little damage was done as far as known
About II o'clock Saturday morning the ilrc,
mans lookout tower, at No. Julia street
fell, crushing in the roof Of buildings Nos,
l6l aud 1865 julia street, doing $4,000 dam.
age. On the lower coast the cam &c is ereat
The gale from east to southwest, which had
continued "A hours, carried the waters of the
gulf over the lowlands along the route of the
New Orleans 81 Mobile railroad. 1t was re-
ported Saturday night that portion Of Che
track between MiChou snd Lookout station
is submerged, and several miles washed out,
and no tram has passed over the road since
2 O'Clock Saturday morning. A freight train
i. reported wrecked between Michcu ana Chef
MenIaur. The telegraph wires are nearly I'LL
down.
AT New Orleans on Friday night an ex-
plosion occurred in front of H.. O. Palmer &,
Co.'s paper snd printers warehouse, Nos %
and 95 Camp street, blowing fragments of a
window entirely across the street and setting
fire 10 the building, The cause Of the ex-
plosion or the extent of the damage is I'M
known. 1t was apparently the work of in-
experienced burglars. The safe doors were
blown open. TIE conclusion was so great
that it completely wrecked tho front window
on the second floor and opened all the doors
Of the building, shattefing glass and splinters
Of wood work. A number Of windows across
the street were also badly broken. The
place at frat was thought to be on fire, but
no damage resulted from it, The alarm
created by the explosion probably prevented
the burg srs from getting anything
The extensive wholesale house of the
Greedy, Burnham grocery company, on the
southeast corner OF Second street and Chrsty
avenue, ST, Louis, caught fire about 10
o'clock Saturday night, and within fifteen
minutes IN building was totally destroyed,
The fire extended to tic large candy factory
Of o. Ii. Jeckham 81 Co., which was also
totally destroyed, and the paint and oil store
of l.. Baucher, the adjoining store, were
badly damaged. The stock of the Greedy,
Burnham company was valued NJ
S250,000, and insured for $4,000.
The building, which was entirely
new, had been occupied only about =
month 1t cost $50 1000; insured for S45,
600. 1t was owned by Garter S, Greedy.
Sale u Co. estimate their loss at S6000O
insured for $4,000. Long & Hail had
about $4,000 worth of coffee, rice, molasses,
etc, in storage The insurance is not known.
Butchers loss will not be- large The fire
was caused by the falling OF platform
erected about midway between the floor and
the ceiling of the shipping room in the rear
of the building upon which were piled about
thousand cases of matches. These ignited
when they fell and in two minutes the whole
building was in flames.
The land league excitement ran high
in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon. The four.
tenth ward branch of the lesgue held u
large meeting at Hancock hall. The meeting
wss addressed by Rev. Father Mckay, Il
Catholic priest, who hiss lately arrived from
Ireland. lie said that no was glad to learn
that Parnell, Dillon, Dayiit, and all other
Irish representatives In parliament, have
acted so nobly and well. When Davitt was
arrested they stood up like men and gave
the representatives of the English govern
ment t. understand that they were not only
representatives Of the Irish nation, but that
they were heart and soul Irishmen,
and the Irish will never go back on these men.
| Eat1,a MIX at llppl tpn tpiob uytn
submit to coercion and that they will yet
achieve national Independence. If Mr.,
Gladstone were wise he would yield in time.
Father Mckay further said they were driven
to the use of Pe,or Coop2rs word. They
might as well die fighting as TO die starry
ing" The applause aud excitement that
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speaker was forced to pause. The thirteenth
ward league held meeting and app oin'ed
d committee which reported resolutions de-
ncuncing the arrest of Davitt by the British
government as an act of vindic.iye tyranny
deserving The execration of the world.
At Philadelphia, Pa, in October
last criminal prosecution Of libel was in,
stituted by Thomas Dawson against Charlie:
Il. Smith, editor Of tho Philadelphia p ess
for publishing statement that "at demo
cratic parade in Oxford, Dawson had ex
hibited rebel flag" II was brought to trial al
West Chester Friday, and after examining
many witnesses, given to the jury Saturday
The defense rested on the truth of the publ
cation and absence of malice. The jury
rendered a verde! in favor of Mr. Smith, The
prosecutor to pay all costs.
The Irish national land losgue, which it !
proposed to amalgamate with the Parnel
league, held a large meeting in New Yorl
Sunday, when it was reported that sinct
March 2Stb, last year. S47 800 had been ro
ceived, ofwhich $2765 had been sent TO Ire
land, and there was q balance of Sd4l OF
hand after deduoting expenses. at meet
ing of tho national land league in Brooklyn
last night it was reported that $40 has
recently been raised from various leagues.
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