The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-08-16
WATCHING for new cotton.
MERcHA WIS northward bound.

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MERcHA NTs northward bound.
A DALLAS cxcursionlst, and father
IL 80 pleased with his Shreveport re-
ccptlon that he says his next baby
shall be called shreveport"
NEXT to the seraphic gayety ofmarch'
Ing in q procession, we'd like to ac'
company couple of chinncys on q
promenade, on a plank Il foot wide,
across mud hole, under the amatory
Chances of al August sun, with a fly
boring for oil on the end Of our nose
''TUERE!n exclaimed Dallas man,
rushing up to the walls of the Court
house, aud rubbing his hand over the
surface of the stones, 'they'vc forgot
To dress them smooth, and have gone
and put them up rough. The house
is split, split, spiltw l., a...
AS the Irregular passenger train, bound
north, was passing through the yard OF
!he Texas Central road at Corsicana,
"n Tuesday. morning misplaced
"i.oint" threw the engine and two
coaches from the rails. The engine
WAS badly damaged and owing to the
accident having occurred at the juno
ton of network of switches, the
track had to be torn. up and its position
changed before the train could be got
on.
Two boys, one bootblack and
white and the other colOred, became
involved in n quarrel in front of The
HERALD office yesterday about dark,
and the white boy struck the negro on
the temple with q heavy stick, making
an unsiehtly cut, after whichhe started
to run, when the negro threw rock
which he held in his hand and struck
the retrcating youngster on the back
Of the head, making an incision in the
scalp about an inch in length. 1t was
Dir, sstd at the drug store of Williams
IL Crowdus.
THE name Of General J. w. Whit
field, of Lavacca, as a candidate for
Commissioner of the General Land
Oilice, appears in our column of an
nouncements. No soldier who served
unders Generals Ben Mccullough,
Price or Van Dorm, or who was III the
battle of Elk Horn, Iuka or Corinth,
will inquire who he is. AS Others may,
we have to say that he is n straight-out
.jeilarsonian Democrat, a man Of the
strictest honor and integrity, and well
qualified in every respect for the posi-
ton to which he aspires.
THE truck and ladders of the Fort
Worth Hook and Ladder Company
passed through this city on Wedncs-
day morning. II is Il much larger and
Il much handsomer one than that
purchased for Dallas, but from its size
we can not help but suggest, that, before
lhc members of the company attempt
TO pull the thing, they had better prac-
lice hauling the State of Texas through
The Dismal Swamp with an alligator or
TWO hung to their coat tails, and the
''blarsted varments" filled with an
angelic disposition to march off in an
opposite direction.
IN amt every man who can cut a
thread in two with histeeth. A Lamar
street man tried that the other day,
while his wife was down town shop
ping and when she came home he
loslled as if he could sit on II pile Of
briars and in ecstacy eat the corner of
the courthouse, but she got enough
thread from between his teeth to tic
up her back hair, and his thoughts of
the man who made needles, us his
wife drilled one from the side of his
head, were those a man would have
Tor the owner of a dog, who carries the
calf of the fellows leg home for break
last. D."
THE other afternoon just as a Dallas
young lady and her lover, Oh opposite
sides of the street, saluted each other,
IL gust of wind removed the lady's hal
and carried up streetseveral feet of the
latest fashionable color of hair,
and just as she looked to her
lover him forts rescue, he OPEN
ed his mouth to call to n fellow
ahead to "catch it," when his teeth
fell out That young man has since
gone West" while the young lady is
wondering whether she couldn't make
people believe that 1t was real"
hair, by avering that she expected moth
ing else but that her frequent head
aches would resul5 in her hair falling
out, most any time .--9L =. 7