The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-09-06

ONE bottle of Dallas atmosphere I'M
corked in Shreveport would stop al
that '.yellow" business.
A MIGRATORY photographer was
showing on the street, yesterday like
ness of a child taken on leaf.
WHEN we buy sugar we are particu
lar as to its No. quality, and yet
when it is weighed, we insist that il
must be in the descending scale.
ABSENTEE officials have gone out to
see how that little white piece of paper
which is to have their names on it is
going to be handled.
ONE lightning-rod man carried of
five thousand dollars for work done in
this city this summer. He also car
ried off another fellows "gal."
DALLAS plasterers have. no peers in
the State. Some of their work is not
excelled in New York. Bully for Dali
las plasterers!
FROM the character of the weather
the conclusion is irresistible that Sep
TENDER has entered into the August
speculation in fire.
OLD lady up town misses her band
box and finds it in the hennery with o
missing hen, incubating for chicks.
And she didn't get mad, she just said
"let her set"
BY reference to the display "ad" OF
Mr.. Ludwig, Oh second page, it will be
seen that this gentleman has just re-
ceivcd a heavy and elegant invoice OF
new boots and shoes. Call up and eX-
anime them.
A LAMAR street man has discovered
exactly how long it takes the average
female to say "good by" at the door,
after \ visit. He has "timed" it and
finds it fakes just thirty-fve minutes.
TIE Reverend (?) Charles Freeman,
who was arrested in this city some
time since on various charges, and
taken back to FreestoHp county, has
been found guilty and sentenced TO the
penitentiary.
a WE'LL rope broke in All up town
yard yesterday afternoon, carrying a
Young and prepOssassing African head
foremost down the opening. BY the
aid of some parties who saW the catas-
trophc, he was rescued.
AN old lady up. town having heard
that there were several cases of bilious
fever in the neighborhood in which the
daughter intended to make some calls
yesterday, told her that she shouldn't
think of going down where it was
without wearing her veil.
THE fee of Dallas physician for an
opinion of the female tongue is no.
ticeably in excess of all their other fees.
Possibly this may be accounted for on
the ground that the subject is much
longer one.
THE dead beats who loaf around the
Courthouse square and fill it with al
kinds of trash, ought To be made IL
shoulder it, carry it. and deposit it, as
the law directs, in the Trinity bottom,
northwest of the old graveyard.
A MINISTER was seen in Dallas
bookstore, yesterday, examining an
illustration in the Days Doings with
the eye of cOnnoiseur, while at the
same time and at the same place, one
of his parishioners was standing on a
Bible to get good view Of a painting
representing festive euss taking the
last "drop of the cratur."
In a neighborhood quarrel near the
city yesterday, man rushed al
another with an axe, when the dog
belonging to the party assailed, caught
the murderous assailant by the back OF
the neck and then threw him to the
ground. On the man promising to
stop fighting the dog was driven off
when the man got up and left,
THE young Lady who has attended
an uptown church for several year:
couldn't tell her ma whether it was
the pastor or somebody else wht
preached last Sunday; but she did know
what that "horrid" Miss Crusher wore
and how every body else was dressed
PoLITENEss debars us from affirming
that Nobbs was drunk, but why die
Nobbs lavish endearments upon an or
namental flower-pot for q moonlight
hour last night under the suppositior
that il was his wife seated upon the
grass, with her new hat on, prodigally
adorned with rose buds.
AN Irish woman, formerly a resident
of this city, - been heard ron
by her ~ La -. She is now il
ireland, whittier she went with her si'
children in one Of the Inman line, a.
cabin passenger, she having saved
money enough in one year, from wash
ing and by systematic economy, to g
to the Gould county, in as-nuch style
IS she terms 1t, as the family Of a Lord
The first III OF the season took place
in a small new frame house near th'
street car ticket Office yesterday. Ab5sii
noon a lighted cigar was laid on pile
of shavings, under the impression We
suppose, that they wcre chips Of stone
Upon the shsvings bursting out in
flame, the proprietor Of that cigar al
once sprang upon that pile Of shaving
and sat on Il. and now his wife dresses
hlra every thirty minutes With a fiaS
ssel Psgltlss.