The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-14
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The Memphis cotton exchange have me
m0rallZed congress to remove all duties on
cotton-ties.
The legislature of Mississippi has invited
| General Hancock to visit Jackson during
It's session, ana has appointed a committee
of reception.
The trial of the s:ar-routers Gilman and
voorhees,, at Lincoln, Nebraska, is exciting
mat large sums of money are being used to
influence the jury witnesses, and public
opinion.
The Bourbon democrats of the county in
which Eureka Springs. Arkansas, is stu
ated held n convention the other day, and
stage load of officials, while EN- route, was
washed down Il swollen stream, and while
the inmates escaped, one horse was
drowned.
A farmer named John Jacob Anderson,
near San Bernardna, California, in at
tempting to take his shotgun from his
wagon Saturday evening, received heavy
charge in his stomach by the accidental dis
charge of the gun. With his intestines
protruding he walked fifty yards to the
house, but died that night about II o'clock.
farmer named Lee, living in Montsom-
cry county, Illinois, cut his foot with an AK
d
II healed, hut pain setting in fc y days af-
forwards, the wound was again opened. and
the tobacco was found in cotted blood.
Now tobacco poison has got through Lees
system and the physicians pronounce his
case hopeless
Two switch-enGines, each pulling a long
! train Ai cars, came into collision near Atch-
/ lson, Kansas, day or two ago aud demol-
lshed the engines and number of cars.
The engineers and iiremenwcre al injured,
but ii is not thought seriously with the OK.
cepuon OF Pat Mackey one of the iiremcn,
whose legs were crushed, and it is thought
both will have to be amputated.
Ross Jones, a farmer living three miles
from Greensburg, Kentucky, committed
suicide the other day by taking poison.
| About a year ago he attempted to kill him
self by shooting, failing in which, he pur-
chased the fatal dose, which he carried
until Saturday. That night he took it and
died Sunday. He was incorporate in
habits, % years old, and leaves wife and
| four children.
At Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the other day, a
team of wild horses ran away with wagon
heavily loaded with manure, and little
Charlie Brides, aged IL years, who was in
it, was thrown out, and the full weight Of
both wagon wheels passed over one leg
most horribly mutilating the thigh and
breaking and crushing his leg in two
places. Though suffering exquisite pain,
when the little fellow reached home he de-
sired his father to present his thanks to the
gentleman who brought him home, and re-
minded a little companion that there was
an apple for him in his LEFT coat pocket.
An old man named Weile, who was once an
architect and member Of the firm of Weie
Il Griesc, of Cleveland, Ohio, hung himself
in the police station at Kansas City
Saturday. He has been since his
arrival there chronic drunkard
and beggar, and Saturday morning
was found wandering the streets without
shoes on his feet and begging money from
passers.by. He was locked mp in the sta
ton, and was found hanging from the graf
ing OF his cell some time afterwards, Weile
was known by number Of Germans in
Kansas City, several of whom went into the
station to see about the manner of his
death.