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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-11

.epqrtar-"You are aware that the
I6r iaeu are organizing. What steps
being ,ken to offset their agrees
mp
n. We are ready to meet them
re 10 face, and don't need, either, to
blinds In front of our doors to hide
aind, Ike the saloons. Lecturers are
Che held. Mrs. Saxon, Of Mem
is, Is canvassipg the state.
0 is one of the most elo-
ant women in this country, and her
.secheR are doing great good. Prohi.
4ion lit, .ature is being disseminated
iast as possible. 1 have great conf
.uce il the integrity of the Texas press
4 out OF the 2l5 papers in the state.
believe more than half are committed
pronil ition. Nearly all the others
have ihe kindness, have no doubt,
grant as reasonable space for pro-
ton in their columns. 1 understand
LIQUOR men of Dallas organized to-
Y, aud lake it as a good omen for our
.8eess # there were never any fires
70 would be no fire com
lios and they wouldn't
* Unless they were feeling
atIect Of our work. The more thew
a. y. '.y- J
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-11
He Gets Twelve Years and Six Months.

Fhe case of the State VS.. Howard
Montresser, charged with outraging
Emma Rlapp, 0 year-old German girl,
some three months ago, which was
called Tor trial Thursday morning, was
resumed yesterday. The case went 10
tie iurv at O'Clock and NJ Z O'Clock
last evening they returned a verdict OF
"guilty," fixing his punishment at Il
years and 6 months in the peni-
Tertiary. His wife throughout the
trial was his constant companion.
She was devoted and frequently burst
into tears during the grogress OF the
Iii. TLe accused manifested toward
the end of the trial utter indifference.
The case was prosecuted by County At
torney Clint, and Mr.. Miller,and Messrs'
Spence d. Reeves and Sturman de.
Tended. They made a gallant fight for
their client, handling tho case IN o
mastery manner, and 1t is due to their
efforts no doubt that the verdict was as
light as it was. They willmake mo-
ton for O new trial.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-11
.IY AND COUNTY NEWS.
From Thursdays Daiiy-May 4.
The Prohibition Movement.

The HERALD reporter took occasion
s.erday 20 interview DIR. ]. u. Cram
editor Of tbs Gatesyi,le Advance,
4 perhaps tce best informed Prohtbi-
uist In Texas, on the status OF tho
Inhibition question as state ISSUE
+. Cranfu ia an accomplished jour-
list himself, and the reporter Eound
trouble Ia securing aflGblb, polite
swers 70 al lntorrogeto ries:
Reporter--"Wbat dc You thirk, doc.
:, OF the outlook tor the proaiOltion'
in Teces?n
DR.. Cranfn--"rhs outlook is all thas
most ardent pg1hihitiunist could
Nv. I. every hand II
!ug.t .U stauligl encouragement,
3 frcIA every source comes
uyripT r..s. ne tyranny OF the
.te son.ty retGs!ng, ON the NetuoEs
5O.OlD1f ,.r people, 20 submit the
esJI1ufpH popular vote, has had 3
,uturg lg en the eyes o. M people
mo nlefr.. spirit inanilested every
.or, rYt.. liquor interest, and The
- nan m every quarter OF the
III. lro ami. az IN a iGst Caudcmna,.Oa
.b.outrgH From q state CI 'piii-
tBtrtrr b. 1ple have pecUns a,.gres-
arrt,.g ropOse 70 solve tuc Ques-
n S.rp V Iher Legislators are the
ME- suH iaus or the peoples mas
:. THUS t.r the latter has seemed 70
.rue.
seroItsr-"W What about the prohibi.
partva / political orgsni2stion"'
RI -"Ils prohibitionists nave or
f7zsd ANA arc OF necessity party.
o. lghisl gue- lion Is poll zeal ques'
I,aqt hat extent Is the pronloi'
a orlgr ion a political party. Tine
W. mo-. ave in view Is To secure a
ht tbBt .e trainers of our constitu-
n stsmu. d on every ,psge Of our na,;
1al - he right of petition ana
,nllr 5ui age. In the coming state
tgiou tlJ iohibitionists vii! net
.ninst. ery candidates for state oil
!, Or- iect is 10 elect u Legislature
c viii 1luw us vote. In districts
enc leci-l tive candidates will prop
DO. 20 themselves 10 SUBJ
trr question 20 the peo-
no nominations will DO
Sc. rt in districts where such
does can rot DO had we will nominate
ld1Ga.yr / our own. The party is
de an earnest men and women,
% hGv u gani2ed to protect our chil-
en- ana .ur homes, and the end III
w he inc abuiiCon OF the whisky trsf-
10 thin ext6ut and no further is the
ganizg Ion political party. we are
tcy % lsv aside al political stiilia-
MS daIJEliory TO this reform. 1t 10
tdcggritt 10 !-GkN VIZ Oh ANY yol1tl-
party as such, but we will earnestly
or 10 break down every
ryier LAT stands in the way
our success. 1t is union
God a1I he people against a species
vice 5Gt the pernicious influences OF
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08
LETTER FROM CHARLOTTESVILLE.

correspondence OF the Alexandria GAZETrE.J
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, August 7, 1885,
1t was the pleasure of your correspondent
to attend the district conference Of the
Chariot tesvlle district, NJ. E. Church south,
now in session at Barboursville, on yester-
day. A large crowd filled the church to
ovel flowing long before the hour for SER
vices. DR.. J j. Lafle1ty, editor of the Rich
IN nd Christian Adrocate, made stirring adj
dress in the interest of his paper. DR.. VIM.
G.. Stare, pastor Of the Methodist Church in
this place, delivered the sermon on missions
at ] l o'clock. 1t is our pleasure and privi-
lege to listen TO DR.. Stare three times a week
but the sermon delivered before the district
conference on yesterday, was one OF the
finest efforts we ever heard. Its soul stir
rr g influence was plainly visible upon the
audience and will doubtless he rs bread
cast upon the waters Among the distin-
guished ministers and lay men present, were
Dr. w. W. Bennett, presli, Mt of Randolph
Macon College, DR.. J. ]. Lailerty, editor OF
tie Richuond Christian Adrofate, Prof.
Francis H. Smith, of the University of Fir
sinia and Capt. &. f. Fawtire, principal OF
the Miller Manuel Labor school of Abe
marie.
The hospitality Of the good people of Bar.
louisville is unsurpassed by any communi-
IT, The doors of all denominations were
thrown open wide tp the delegates and Wis
ilurs Of the conference, and The chief con
Germ of every one seemed TO be to make his
guests eric themselves, Hon. 3. Johnson
Barbour, who resides at Barboursvile, was
regular attendant upon the conference and
enter tanned many of the delegates.
Barboursville is Furnishing settlement,
which has recently been visited by q cou1a-
grafton, but through the energy of the peo-
pie new buildings have been erected, and
scarcely any l.ncc of the flames arc now Wis.
lille.
There is one thing we must mention to its
credit. A Coed Templars lodge has recent
~ been established there, with aatterug
prospects for success. Mr. G. +. Head, an
enlerprsing merchant of the place, has been
elected Worthy Chief Templar.
We are now having he much needed rain.
The copious showers are descending upon
the thirsty soil, which will greatly improve
the corn and tobacco of this vicinity, which
was beginning to suffer
The laying Of the wafer pipes has been
completed. aud the new hose has arrived.
The water flow is sufficient to throw the
water on top OF the highest building in town.
When the dome, which is only haif done, is
completed, The winter supply If Charlcttcs-
vile will be equalled by no other city in the
South. EULALIA.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08

PREFERS TO FIGHT MALONE State Senator
John Callahan, who was ousted from his position
as foreman at the Portsmouth (Va.) navy yard at
the instance of Senator Malone, and reapponted
few days ago, has declined to accept the posi-
tion. Yesterday he wrote to the Secretary thank
ing him for his magnanimnus action and said ::
while it is true that have acted with the demo-
cracy in matters appertaining TO State politics.
yet only did that which / conscientiously and
honestly believed to be for the best interests Of
my State aud her people, and would pursue the
same course again under like circumstances, be-
lieving now, as I did then. that the conduct Of
the last administration in turning over the whole
Federal patronage of the State to one man, was
not only american. but contrary to the genius
Of our republican institutions and outrage upon
our people. III conclusion, permit me to say that
having recently made arrangements to engage in
private business and desiring to take part in our
coming State canvass, l am constrained to re-
specially decline the position referred to. Again
assuring you of my appreciation Of your magnan-
imous act / am, ETC." He will take the field
against the Mahoueitcs, and will possibly run for
the Senate again on the straightout platform if
the democrats make no nomination in the Ports
mouth district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08
The CORPSE and the Tomb.

The face of General Grant as it lay yesterday
in his coffin in the City Hail. New York, was not
a pleasant sight to look upon. 1t was pinched and
haggared, the eyes sunken and the muscles tight
" drawn, IS if the dead man was even yet in
agony. His beard, reddish gray. seemed bristly
aud unkempt In short there had faded from his
face every lincamcut of strength and character
with which those who knew him long were so
familiar, aud the skin was CHA thy blush white.
No description has given any idea of the bar
renness and desoateness of the spot chosen for
Gen. Grants last resting place. 1t stands near
some six or seven slckly-locking trees, which
average distance of ten feet apart in an area the
dusky barrcnness of which is not relieved by a
single blade of grass. There is not even pretty
view from the site of the tomb. A little further
to the north the eye commands sweep of the
Hudson stretching away to The Palisades, bnt at
the tomb itself there is not a single thing which
could be said To favor the selection. Everything
is new, oven the roals being unfinished. The
bluff, which begins to descend to the river about
seventy. five feet from the tomb, is ragged, ugly
and slovenly. At its base the rumbling; rafting
trains of the New York Central road almost jar
the tomb and scatter dust and cinders over every
thing
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08
The "Confederate" Colony in Brazil.

Mr.. Bedford Mackey, Consul at Rio
Grande do Sui who has just returned here,
brings interesting accounts of the confeder-
ate colony in Brazil. 1t will be remembered
that Immediately after the close of the war
a number of Southern families left this coun-
try to settle in Brazil. Some of these later
returned home, others are still settled in the
interior of Brazil and are getting on com
fortably. Mr.. Mackey says: MIR. Robert
Burton, civil engineer, leading member OF
the colony, called upon me at my consulate
in Rio Graude de Sui, in April of the pre-
sent year. He says the colony consists of
about six hundred souls. the males prepon-
derating. II is located in the province of
Sac Paulo, or st. Paul, about four hundred
miles southwest of Rio Janeiro. With the
exception of Rio Grande do Sui and Parana
this is the most southerly province of Bra
zi Its members, who have lived there
now nearly nineteen years, are nearly all
engaged in farming and manufacturing-the
cultivation Of cotton, coffee, corn, tobacco,
&C., and the manufacture Of wagons, ploushs
and other agricultural implements. It is a
fine farming region, well watered by many
navisable streams, and in the centre of the
great coffee section. 1t abounds also in
good iron ores. and there are extensive iron
works at St. Paul. the capital of the pro-
vince, about thirty miles northwest of San
tos, It's principal port of entry. Mr.. Burton
informed me that he has, with several Of
his old comrades in arms, built house in
the wilderness of Sac Paulo, and hung a
sign from it on which they have inscribed
the words 'The Rebels Rest" The mem
bers of the colony are reputed 10 be highly
moral, thrifty and prosperous, and loyal
and law abiding subjects Of the empire in
which they have made their homes. They
are still thoroughly American in character
and sympathies. They live in o healthy
country and among brave and hospitable
people. The United States Presbyterian
Board of Foreign missions has several mis-.
slonary stations in the province of Sac Pau
10, comprising ten or twelve clergymen, and
four or five churches. There is no religious
intolerance in Brazil"
Mr.. Mackey, who is himself a South Car
Gilman, adds: "The American colony is,
learn, not Indifferent to current events in
the United States, although not fully ad-
vised of the steady growth Of that fraternal
sentiment in our country, which to day
brought Wade Hampton and Fizhugh Lee
the nephew Of Gen. Robert E. Lee-arm
in arm with Sheridan and Sherman as sim
cere mourners over the coffin of the great
commander of the armies Of the Union''-
lJiaah. cor, ". Y. Herald.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08

SENATORIAL SNUFF TAKERS When Sen
ator Thurman first learned to take snuff.
says Washington letter to the Cleveland
Leader, there was hardly man in the
United States Senate who was not addicted
to it. Clay was an inveterate snuder, and
there's a-story that he once stopped in the
midst Of an argument before the Supreme
Court, and. stepping to the front, asked
Chief Justice Marshal tor pinch of snuff.
Captain Bassett, the venerable door-keeper
of The Senate said there used to be q snuff
box kept on The desk of the President of the
Senate, aud one of the duties of the pages Of
the past was going to this box and bringing
a pinch of snuff to different Senators. Cap
tain Bassett was a page when Van Buren,
gave him every week fifty cents to buy snuff
for his box. The last week of his term he
told Captain Bassrt to fill the box but forgot
to pay him, aud 80 President Van Buren,
owes Bassett fifty cents to this day. When
Fillmore became Vice-President he grew
disguised with the Senators rushing
up to his desk in the midst of
speesh TO get pinch from the Vice Presi
dents snuff box, and he told Mr.. Bassett to
buy two and put them on each side of the
desk in the recesses of the wall. Mr.. Bas-
sett did this, and the snuff boxes are kept
there to this day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08
EEWs 0P THE DAY.

1t is estimated that over 100000 people
viewed the remains of Gen. Grant at the
City Hall, New York, yesterday.
Capt. Thomas Whitehead has retired from
the editorship of the Lynchburg Adrance
and will be succeeded by Mai. Robert Fl.
Glass.
A number of Sioux Indians, including
four women, passed through Washington
Yesterday en- route for the colored and
Indian school at Hampton, Va
The steamship Etruria, from New York,
arrived at Queenstown yesterday Her
time to Fastnet was six days five hours and
thirty i've minutes from New York, the best
time ever made.
A Washington dispatch says: minister
Kelley will return TO the United States. LII
is understood that he will soon resign his
present Office, and that ne Will not be ap-
pointed to another foreign mission"
A party Of Alabama capitalists have pur..
chased five thousand acres of land in and
around Calera, in that State, on which 1T is
proposed to build factories and other indus
tries, and to give the town sold, suhstan-
tial boom.
Last Monday as Mr.. W. E. Thomas was
going out of Charlottesville at galop his
horse fell, and throwing its rider to the
ground rolled on him. Mr.. Thomas recev-
ed severe injuries, from which he died yes.
terday. He was about 45 years OF age, and
leaves a wife and five children.
George j. Fogg, young man aged about
20 years, made u desperate attempt at sui
eide in Richmond yesterday. He shot him
self in three places, twice in the chest and
once in the left side When found, the
young man was flying upon the floor, with
Hood pouring from his body. 1t is believed
that Foggs wounds will prove fatal. No
cause is assigned or known for the act.
Three men, all convicted of atrocious
murders, were hanged at Fayetteville, n.
c., yesterday. They were; Joseph 0. How
ard, white, who killed e. G. Blackman, a
farmer, nfer robbing him; Tom Gee, col
ored, who cut to pieces with an axe his
white pnramour; Mary Hughes, and Tom
Mcneil, who killed his brother, Simon Nc
Neill. The execution took place at l:3O p.
m. None of the men made any confession.
An immense throng of people witnessed the
execution, which was public.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08

The NEW YORK Tribune says the demo-
Gratis of Virginia "mean to overpower ma
jority of the people of the State, to deprive
enough of the right of suffrage in defiance of
the constitution to give tbs minority the
power, and to nullify acts of Congress de-
signed to protect citizens in the exercise of
the right of suffrage" And this. too, in the
face of the facts that under the Malone re-
gime two of the three judges at every eiec-
ton precinct were Mahoneites, when all the
registrars were Mahoneites, and when no
negro dared vote the democratic ticket lest
hisown race should make it hot" for him.
Now that the Malone regime is clean gone
forever, there will be free vote and fair
count" at all Virginia elections.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08

THERE is rebate of the duty on sugar
when, after undergoing the refining process,
it is exported. This, in elect, puts all the
raw sugar that is refined for expectation on
the free list. The consequence is than an
immense quantity of refined sugar is export
ed; so much thai the English refners find
the American manufacturers taking their
trade away from them in their Oldest and
best-established markets. And 50 it would be
on all, or Yearly all, American products if
the duty on raw materials were removed.
But it is plain that American manufacturers
can not pay high duties on their machinery
and raw materials, and compete successfully
in the markets of the world with foreign
manufacturers who buy saose articles free
ofduty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08
General Grants Memory.

PARIS, August S.-The memorial serv. ces
In honor Of General Grant were held in the
American Chapel here to day. Many French
officials and the representatives of foreign
powers attended the ceremonies.
LYNcHBuRG, Va, Aug. S.-According to
a resolution passed by the City Council last
night and proclamation Ivy the Mayor, all
city Offices, banks and few business houses
were closed to-day in respect to the memory
Of Gen. Grant Bells have been toling since
10 o'clock d. m. There was no other de.
monsratiOn.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. s. The public
offices, Board Of Trade, all banks and most
Of the business houses were closed here to-
day during the hours OF tho funeral Of Gen.
Grant, and many buildings are draped in
mourning. At seven o'clock detachment
Of Wilson's Battery began firing guns every
half hour, to continue during the day. A
procession composed of various organza-
lions paraded the streets during the hours
Of the funeral.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08
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PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Funeral of General Grant.

NEW YORK, August S.-yhe casket con-
tanning the remains of General Grant was
placed on the catafalque at $50 a. m, at
which time the procession started for River
side Park. One thousand persons were at
the City Hall waiting their turns to view
the corpse at one o'clock this morning.
They were allowed to enter and soon hus-
tied past the casket, after viii, h the build
ing was closed to the public. The under
taker then closed the lid over the glass
plate, forever sealing from view the face of
the dead General, and tho coffin was left in
charge of the guard. The floral displays
on and around the casket were of gor-
geous nature. At 9:25 this morning an i'm
posing funeral car, drawn by twenty -four
jet. black horses in black trappings, halted
On the plaza in front OF he City Hall, and
shortly afterwards the casket containing
the remains, borne by twelve men, emerged
from the hall, and was placed upon the
dias of the mounted catalelque. In the
meantime the procession began to FORM
the numbers Of organizations which were to
take part in the parade and funeral cere.
monies rapidly assuming their positions in
the line, and in short while the funeral
cortege, doubtless the largest ever wit
messed in this country, began winding its
slow length along toward Riverside Park.
The crowds in the streets by this time had
grown into immense proportions, and win.
dows, balconies and housetops were black
with people, as were the pillars, cornices
&C., with the sable emblems Of mourning
AS the procession moved it passed between
solid walls of myriads of human beings
The booming of minute guns, the doleful
dirges of the bands and the measured tread
of the military and other organizations, and
the surgings of the innumerable throng
which followed, were sounds and sights
never to be forgotten. Coored men, at,ired
in mourning livery, walked beside each Of
the twenty.four horses which drew the
funeral car. Carpenters had been busy
during The earlier hours of the morning i'm
promising stands along the proposed route
of the procession for the benefit of those
who desired to witness The pageant from
elevated positions, seats on which were
rented at prices ranging from one to ten
dollars each. General Joseph f Johnston
did not, owing to inlisposition, appear
among, the pail bearers, and his place was
filled by Mr.. A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia,
who was appointed by the President. The
carriage containing President Cleveland and
Cabiuet was drawn by SIX hor- es At 1890
p. m. The procession entered Riverside
Drive, about 9! miles distant from the park,
and Mt twenty minutes past one o'clock
he head OF the pageant arrived in front Of
the tomb, where, according to The published
programme, the remains were placed with
impressive ceremonies The multitude in
and around the park was he largest over
assembled in New York, tho sea Of heads
extending for miles in all directions
MIS- Grant did not attend the funeral, be-
inc too weak to leave Mount McGregor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08
Fire

ST CHARLES Ill, August S-'rhc ir. houses in
this city belonging to Squrts. OF Elgin, and con-
tanning 1000 tons OF Ice burned last night The
building cos: $1,000. Supposed to be inccndiary
FLORAL DEsIGN.-lhe Wormleys, The
colored restaurateurs of Washington, sent
yesterday. a floral tribute TO be placed al
the grave Of Gen. Grant, the dimensions or
which werc six feet long by four and hal
feet wide. The centre of the design was :.
crayon by Frey representing Gen. GAR
lifting up a colorci man who knclt q: h,-
feet with clasped hands. The frame ,tr.
rounding the picture was composed OF god
and purple i.nmor!eles, ard the upper and
lower panels bore The inscription in purple
immortelles ''Innsmuch a. ye have done it
unto the least Of these ye have done it unto
me. Enter thou into the joy Of Thy LORD :"
At each Of the four corners was shpal az
wheat held in place by roseltes of black
Grape, and four white doves held The ends
Of the Grape in their hcaks. Between the
side panels We're laurel Wreuths caught with
white ribbons. anl tie whole was surmount
ed by branch Of Saga palm and wheat en-.
tWined.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08

THE SMALL and rapidly decreasing sur
plus Of the revenue may, as all other means
have failed, induce the self assumed soions
who will compose the next Congress 10 80
alter the tariff as to establish it on revenue
basis. The present tariff is so high as TO Dc
almost prohibitory on many articles thereps
deriving the country of the large revenue
that would be derived from them II tne
duty on them were reduced. A revenue
and not protective, is thas sort of tariff that
would benefit this country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-08

GENERAL MALONE already sees the hand
writing on the wall; and, rendered desper-
ate by his straits, raves and yells that Par
son Massey is an assassin" and that Con-
gresham Barbour is 'the hero of Danville."
Now, that is a good way for the General to
render himself ridiculous, but bad way 10
gain votes among intelligent and self.
respecting people. However, the General
has so few of that sort to follow him that he
doesn't deem it worth while to pay any at
tention to what they may think.