The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-10-18

AID OFFICE, Corner Elm and ITous-
ton streets.
A MODIFICATION of the Trinity
bridge tariff is talked Of
TRAINS on the Pacific Road run no
further than Longvicw.
MANY business firms going into new
quarters.
IN Dallas we call huggiag the "psy-
Geological treatment"
SOME twenty more brick store houses
are to be constructed in no time.
ONE THOUSAND new farms will be
opened in this county by spring.
WE should be pleased with another
call from Jack Frost. "There's light
in the" stove "for thee"
THERE are deserving objects OF
charity in our city that should be cared
for. Now, show your eleemosynary
bump.
A WATCH may be called the most
IN ignanimous of instruments, as ii
never "runs" anything "down" but
itself.
SEE announcements of j. NJ. Salmons
as Il candidate for Sheriff, and VIII
liam C. Young, for District Clerk-both
on the independent line--in to-day
II HRALD.
TIE young lady who couldn't drink
out of anything less than cut glass
goblet at u picnic last summer, was seen
succeed quite well last evening, just
before the moon rose, in drinking out
ola bucket.
Two children were poisoned near
r this city on Sunday morning from
paint oil the cheeks of their dolls the
Leeds of which they had in their
muutl,G. ,~easonable medical aid saved
them.
SOME Dallas hotels talk of employing
OILY females to wait on their tables.
Upon hearing this we heard mar
yied man chant, "NYould l We're Il boy
again. He was able to speak his
mind, as his wife was absent.
Two eight thousand dollar iron front
rick buildings are what the Building
association is going to put up on the
corner of Houston and Main street.
We will have something more to say
OF these edifices in "Our next"
AN old plowshare of the quaintest
description, was found on u farm tw D
niles west of this city, on last Satur-
day, eighteen feet below the sur
face of the ground. 1t was discovered
Ivy some men who were digging well.
Numberless conjcctures have failed to
give satisfactory reason of chow come
it So" still we may venture the
hypothesis that it was left there by the
a,nder strata of some ancient farming
element.
A BOX of butter crackers fell off n
dray on ELM street yesterday morn
ing, and the box coming to pieces, the
crackers were soon scattered over the
street. Some school boys eventually
used them to pelt drunken negro
with, and then they became 'fire'-
crackers.
PERSONS wanting lumber are referred
ioithe card OF d. Cooper fin to-day'S
baper. liz yard is on Elm street near
the Texas and Pacific Railroad depot,
and ut the crossing of the Texas and
Pacific and Central Roads. He keeps
always ON hand all kinds of dry lum-
her, lath, doors, blinds and shingles,
and invites all to give him call before
purchasing elsewhere.
A DALLAS man could not tell for the
life of him why his wife practiccd kick
Inc heavy hillets ofYQod eQppd theyafd
tintil yhe first frostymorning last week,
When She told him to getup and make
the fire, and when he said it was too
cold and he wanted to warm some
more, Der feelings and foot were moved
ut the same time, and he was heard in
few moments afterwards to express
some very highly seasoned views
about gathering himselfup of an UNI
carpeted floor. with the thermometer
It thirty degrees, and 2 epIopy 81
i'hafrs; stoolg and washstand CORNERS
holding n war hanee over him. Z
OSs of the candidates yesterday
skipped from poll to poll to learn what
his chances were and all this time his
wife was hunting him up. After find
ing that he was defeated he expe-
rienced a yearning for peppermint aud
went home to get it, and ut the throsh'
fold lie met his wife ana he ioid' her
hfaf n5t d poll went for him, and sht
iu!d him 'lnwas erroneous, "'thattherf
vas n pole for him aud that sho habit,
gad Il would go for him at once, and II
should cover him all over with glors
or something red, and-then the dooi
slammed tn as though the woman was
mad.
PIows.