The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-10

below Cairo, and IL appears from
tho report that all Of the last
ton is exhausted, and there is urgent need
Of an immediate appropriation OF ST.
600, 600 10 continue the work without loss OF
time, IN view of the approach OF the Hood
season aud attendant danger. therefore
recommend 10 congress the early passage
OF a separate bill on this subject"
(SiEned) CHESTER a. ARTHUR,
Executive Mansion, January s, 1884.
ANOTHER MESSAGE.
The president also sent 10 congress q
special message ia respect TO tho construc"
tion Of the Hennepin canal. Accompany
ing he message are COPIES ofthe act OF the
general assembly OF IllinOis csdinF TO the
United States the Illinois and Michigan
canal, the record OF the state vote upon the
proposition TO code at the state election,
the act OF cession and letter from the CHEZ
engineer transmitting to the secretary OF
war the report of the survey OF the proposed
Hennepin canal. In the message the presi
dent says:
II submit the communication OF the gov
ernor of Illinois with q copy OF the act OF
the general assembly of that
state, rendering to the United
States cession of the Illinois
and Michigan canal upon the condition that
| it be enlarged and maintained as a national
! water way for commercial purposes. The
proposed cession is the subject congress
has hsd under consideration, directing by
act of August ID, 1882, a survey for
a canal from point on the illinois river,
at or near the town OF Hennepin, by the
most practicable route to the Mississippi
! river at or below the city OF Rock Island, the
| canal not 10 be less than seventy feet wide
at the water line and not less than nine
feet deep, with capacity for vessels of at
least $50 tons, and also to survey the llir
nois " Michigan canal and
estimate the cost of charging it to
! the dimensions OF tho proposed canal
eetween Hennepin and the Mississippi
river. The surveys ordered in the above
act have been completed and the report
upon them is included in the last annual
report Of the secretary of war and q copy
herewith submitted. 1t appears from
those papers that the estimated Weld of
corn. wheat and oats were in 1882 in Ill,
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kan.
bushels. Ii is claimed that If
a cheap water transportation route
whicb is now continuous from the Atlantic
ocean to Chicago 10 extended to the upper
Mississippi. By such a canal great BEN
eft in the reduction of freight charges will
valley, whose productions have only bsen
partly roted not only upon their
own shipments but upon articles of
commerce used by them which are now
taken from the east by water only us far as
| Chicago. Ii is matter of great interest es
| pecially to citizens Of that part. recon-
mend The general subjsct to yeur consider
alton.
| TSignedl CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
Executive Mansion, January s, 1884.
A Woman Only in Love With Girls.
Miss Alcott cerries the burden of her
| fifty years lightly" writes Mrs. Moulton.
"If you meet her now you would see
| stately lady, unusually tall, with thick,
dark hair, clear-leeing, blue.gray eyes, and
strong rosette features, full of varied ex-
preston. How well l remember the hui
| morous twinkle in her eyes, which half be-
| lied the grave earnestness of her manner,
when she told me once that she was in
clined to believe in the tlansmigration
of souls. Il have aiten thought saiv
she. that l might have beg
horse before was Louisa Alcott,
| long-limbed child, had all he,o,SS ".
| light in racing through the field, u a;r.
| ing my head to enif in the an sd.d Hal
Now 1 am more than half q fresi, ma
am am mans ;s0u lI put ody." why dc
S you think , 2ssddressing DR.. Johnson
T. M M.,i oS SYe thing land the hlue-gray
wen, lHqkled with laughter), because
h hses ALLEN in love in my life with SO many
lefty girls, and never once the least bill
with any man.