The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-08-30

AID OrrICE. Corner Sim and iious'
ton streets.
FADING beauties the trees.
ALTOGETHER out Of rcach-thc stars
LEr not IL single Democrat iai! 10
register
DALLAS has lhe finest stone GUAR
rles In the state.
THE Holly Water Works is decided
upon by the City Council.
HAVE you registered? If not, 20 ~
once and have your name enrolled
TnE demand il still for more dwell
ing houses.
FRErdlrrs ARE increasing on the Pa
ciiic road.
THE road bed of the Texas Pacific Is
pronounced in No. condition.
WoRK on the Trinity railroad bridge
will be resumed Monday
ATTENTION ~ called TO the cald Off.
w. Jackson us a candidate for District
Clerk of this county.
FIVE hundred more business houses
wouldn't be a bit too many. We tell
you we're a growin.
THE proportion of arrivals to dcpar-
lures of our city is ten to one. That's
lively, amt it:
Mr.. BEN. i. JONES requests us to say
that he has declined to run for Sheriff.;
and is no longer a candidate.
WE wish we had an Esquimaux rela-
tive, and he or she would ask us up to
loaf round q few icebergs.
THE second STORY of Whors fine
new business house on Elm street, is
approaching completion.
"WuEN does those fellers show
agin ~ asked an old lady after the
Radical Convention had broken up,
last week.
TALENT goes down into the mine
and brings out the gems; genius dis
covers their brightness and sends them
sparkling around the world.
LIFE is conflict. After the contests
of the day you end by striking the
bed at night, and open the ball by
bounding up and Striking the floor
in the morning.
A DISTINGUISHED politician of this
city was asked TO take a drink of water.
He declined taking drink of any
thing with which lie was not familiar
uutil he had first tasted it,
On Main street yesterday, domes-
tie left Il bucket bottom upwards, out
side of the kitchen door, and in an
hour afterwards found on removing it
two big rattlesnakes under it, eating
kitten
a SECTION HAND ON the Pacific road
received letter from Montpelier, Yer
mont, yesterday, stating that Il rekl-
tive of his had died leaving him a
sword that the deceased had fought
with in the revolution.
A DALLAS dry goods clerk says to an
unsophisiicated maiden yesterday,
"rhc damage makes the difference in
the price of this piece, Miss" 'Well,
don't mind that, Mister, I'll take the
n-the-diifercnce piece"
Hon. JOHN II. MCKEE, one of Missis-
slppi's representative citizens, is in
our city, and with the cyc admiration,
Niews. oar spirit of growth and don't
know hut what he'll take part in it.
The way with all good men.
TEN miles from any house, in the
Easter,: part Of this county, traveller
found III top of a tree q suit OF clothes
of bonnet cloth of the finest quality.
The suit was pronounced worth one
hundred dollars.
THERE are two thousand acres of
-pickled cabbages going to waste in the
Northern counties of this State for .hc
want of vinegar. Ar'nt there any
: spinsters up that way?
A LAMAR street man may not milk;
he says he DON'T but we want to know
il his washerwoman is in the habit Of
marking his shirt bosoms with the
outlines of the surface Of a cows hoof?
IL The stone quarry near Terry's
mill piece of rock was found yester-
day with what seemed to be a perfectly
formed bird bill cmbedded in it. 1t was
handed to Captain CASTOR, who was
passing at the time of its removaban
was shown us by Captain SwinlI.
ls1E young physician who called to
see young lady patient the other day,
aud decided, by seeing her tongue, t'iit
he would bave 10 repeat his visits,
nor, since she has had occasion TO III
form him shes "engaged,n has decided
that he can discontinue his visits by
having heard her tongue,
NOT few boys, from hine to fifteen
years Of age in the city, spend too
much of their time around and in
saloons. Tear away the veil of the
future to their lives and You'll see des-
olatel homes, broken, hearts and dis
honored graves.
To assist,a LADY by the hand in the
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