The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-12-06

The Omaha bee gives an amusing
account Of IL buIlaiu hunt eXtra0rdi-
nniy III Nebraska: GOA recent sun
day, while the citizens of Sidney were
enjoying the Sabbath, a drove of eight
hui.,ilnes came gallGping over the roll
ing hills, entered the town, and took u
spin around the streets. In less than
ten minutes every man, woman and
.cil;id i'll The place were armed with
shot guns, rifles, revovcrs, dirk knives,
and pltchiorks, While at the barracks
every soldier was Oh duty at once.
The enemy was outilauked, and de-
tachment Of one buffalo became scpa.
rated from the main body of the mon
archs OF the plains, and dtiven inside
the post Then the solderailew around
tile buffalo in the inclosure, as did the
glndiators of OLD around the Infatuated
bulls in the amphilicatre, Col. Dad
ley, eonluander of the post, acted as
chief director of lie thrilling sport.
The bufialo was finally cornered and
killed, after receiving shots too nu-
meroUs to mention, and after having II
bombshell thrown down his throat and
exploded.
In the meantime, the seven buffaloes
in the town were havinga red hot time.
One of them effected an entrance into
the dining-rocm of Rumscv's Hotel,
and broke several chairs in attempting
to sit down at the table 30 make u
square meal of antelope ptents. Get
ling his back up at the toughneSs Of the
steak, he overturned the table and
smashed the rrockeryWnrc. MIR james
Rumsey, WHO was out Oh the wur-patb,
returned to turn the intruder out, or
else serve him up Oh the nalt-sIlejl.
just as Mr.. r.. entered an- door ~.
Buffalo ran out of the uti,ee r. level
cd his gun, bat it would not ~ iii, and
tie buffalo escaped and joined the re-
nlsii,isg six, MO then turned tail on
town, and cantered over tie hills and
far away, after having smashed several
windows created an intense excite
mcn!, and played the deuce generally.
Horace Greedy smd ,iis s'anderera.
During the toiisome months of las
year, when we We're doing orr best Co
urge the claims of Horace Greedy to
the suflfages Of his countrymeD, we
were constantly told that MIR. Greedy
Was man SO unskilied in financial
economy that his election would dis
trl b the ncneyed classes. Henry
CLOVIS d Co., Jay Cooke Il Co., Fisk Il
Hatch. and other firms maze them
seves conspicuous by discrediting Air.
Greedy, on the ground that his election
would unsettle the money market.
"Under President Grant, said they,
1--we shall have have prosperity and
ease.n
Eut Grants election has been fol-
lowed by the very panic which il was
expressly Designed to prevent. More
over, the very firms that trusted to i'll
for safety are the chief victims to their
own false rrophesy. Furthermore, the
capitalists, who last sum-
mer ADVOCATED Grants election--we
mean such men as Horace 3. Claim,
Henry Clevs, William Ortoii, eni 9TH
ers- distinguished themselves on q re-
cent Sunday morning by urging Grant
10 violate the law Of the land in order
to relieve them from pinch and press
ure which they We're once sure could
come only through the election of
Ora It's rival.
The campaign ISLANDERS which these
professed opponents Of the business
uttered against a blameless
man a year ago, have DOW been brought
home, by sort OF avenging poetic JUS
ticc, to their own doors, and find
strong commentary in their own mis-
fortuncs.-[Golden age.