The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-29
LATE NEWS NUGGETS.

on Friday last.
one wing the new State capitol at Lin
n coin, Nebraska, is completed, and the Stat,
officers moved in on Friday last
The Governor of Missouri, ON Friday last
Il pardoned John Sweeny, who had been sery
4 ing out twenty years sentence since June
4 1878.
4 Charles WUse, well-known theatrical
4 coStumer, committed suicide in st. Louis
ON Friday night last by taking strych
i nine.
One hundred emigrants were landed IN
the Union depot at st, Louis ON Saturday
last, destined for Kansas, Texas and the fan
West.
On the 22d instant three hundred and
seventy-hye shares of stock in the Philadel-
phia Times, face value 800 each, were sold
at auction for $l5l.5l per share.
The St, LOUIS & Cairo Short Line Rail
road Company has iSSueda special rate from
st. Louis to Galveston on grain and hay of
forty cents per hundred. The former rate
was fSrty-fve.
= Robert A. Watt well known local poll.
ticlan Of ST, Louis, who has been sick for
some time is in dying condition. His
physicians gave up all hope of saving him
on saturday last
pany has opened connections with Balti-
more and other eastern points, and starts
out with eight wires running into its main
st. Louis office
The Governor of Illinois has appointed
Mr.. Charles Ridgely President of the
Ridgely National Bank of Springfield a
delegate to the National Tariff Convention,
which meets in New York to-day.
The body of John Bachmann, ofFairfeld,
Iowa, was found floating in the Mississippi
river at st. Louis last Friday. In one of
his vest pockets was found 1913, 1t is sup
posed Bachmann was accidentally drowned.
The Danford Bank, in the towns of Cald-
well and Hunnewell, Kansas, closed their
doors and suspended business on Friday
last. 1t is claimed that the suspension is
only temporary and that funds win be forth
coming to pay off all the deposits in full
The st. Louis Express, Greenback or
gan suspended on Saturday last. One of
the parties interested in the paper said to a
reporter that it died from too much credit,
too many subscribers, and too much Read
luster policy on the part of delinquent sub
scrbers."
Il is probable there will be no extra ses-
sion of the Nebraska Legislature, as Gov
ernor Nance declares in positive terms that
he will not call an extra session unless the
action OF Congress in passing a new con-
GTess!onal apportionment bill makes it his
imperative duty to do so for the purpose of
redistricting the State.
Mr.. Hitchcock, chairman of the COM
mittee on lectures, has received an answer
to the invitation extended to eX-Secretary
Bristow to deliver a lecture in st. Louis
this winter on the subject of civil-service
reform; The eminent gentleman regrets
that other engagements will prevent him
from accepting the invitation.
Speaking at the Conservative banquet in
Toronto, last Thursday evening" Sir John
A. Mcdonald said an imperial federation
was impracticable. As to independence,
there was no loyalty in it because it meant
ultimately annexation to the United States.
1.-THE choice, however, were between indie
pendence and annexation, he himself would
prefer annexation at once.
The National Marriage Aid Association
ofIopeka, Kansas, has been incorporated
with capital stock of $4,000 The plan is
cooperation, the object being to aid those
contemplating marriage with money at n
time in life when most needed to enable
parents to give their children moderate
financial help, giving young married people
a start in life with their own capital and
saving them from debt. The officers are ::
! "
Secretary; j. ID. Knox, Treasurer; w, j..
Thomas, General Manager.
The Mississippi River Commission, which
was in session in st. Louis all last week,
adjourned Saturday Their report will not
be made public until it passes through the
War Department, when its recommends
tons will be communicated in the usual
mode to Congress. II is understood the
commission in their report ask an appro-
priation of $3,0O0000 from Cairo to New Or
leans for channel improvement, and 81, 0O0,-
OOO for levee improvement as incidental to
channel improvement, They also indorse
the report Of Captain Ernst, who has charge
of the river between st. Louis and Cairo,
recommending whatever he may ask. Re-
concentrations are also submitted for i'm
provements above st. Louis.
James Burner, a conductor on the Iron
Mountain railroad, met with an accident
Friday morning at the foot of Taylor street
st: Louis, which will in all probability re-
suit in his death. Burner was walking on
the track. A train from St. Louis came
rushing along behind him. The engineer
saw Burner, and knowing him to be rail-
road man, presuming that he would imme-
diately step Off the track did not blow the
whistle until Burner had been struck by
the tender, thrown into the air and badly
mangled. After he had fallen to the ground,
the wheels of the locomotive crushed
in burners side and broke his left arm
and leg. He was conductor on the train
which struck and mangled him. He was
married man and leaves q wife and two
children. At the time he met with the ac-
cident he was engaged in the charitable oc-
cupation of collecting some money for the
widow of q railroad man, who short time
ago was killed by the car-wheels.
"A late special telegram from Ottowa,
Canada, says: There will be large addi-
ton to the fleet of vessels plying between
Montreal and Europe in 1882. The Domin-
ion Steamship Company is now building
three large iron vessels on the Clyde,
two being 1000 tons each and
one of nearly 5000 tons burden,
These steamers are only entered for
passenger service. Two will be launched
in January and will make their trips early
IN the spring. The third will be on the
route next summer. The Allan Company
has contracted for .another leviathan
steamer, companion to the Passion, but
OF greater capacity. She will be 500 feet ON
Keel, iiity-two feet BEAM, thrty-seyen feet
three inches deep, 6,59I tons register with
1000 horse power engine. She will be
named the Athenian. The Thompson line
will increase its sailings and add one or two
new steamers to its present fleet. The
White Star Line to Antwerp will add one
steamer to its fleet, and should large Ger
man Immigration take place. they will have
weekly sailings. A new French line from
Hayre will begin operations early in the
spring with fleet ofseven steamers.