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Notice.

no THE TAXPAYERS OF DALLAS COUNTY. -
-, Alter April 18th, 1873, | will make out my De-
lnqnent List for theyear 1872, when you can have
shs pressure OF settling yonr State, County, and
School Tax with some attorney or with tbe Conn.
troller at Austin. shall issue no further notics,
feeling that have pcrfoi med my duty in the mat.
tor Those who are in arrears for Occupation Tax.
are requested to come forward and settle at once /
can be found at my Office in Dallas, until April 10Th,
iSI3. Very respectfully,
hdSt j. NJ. BROWN, Sheriff.
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OFFICERS or DALLAS COUNTY.

"fFiuEks OF DALLAS COUNTY.
JonN d. KsRrOoT, Dallas, j. p, Precinct,
ROBERT y. GUY Lancaster, i" q
MEREDITH MYiRs,
WILLIAM J. H,LsELL, %
@. Q. HusrEAp q
Jons u. LAWS Clcrk Of tho Dlstrvs Court,
z. II, CooaBEs,
HENRI Boil,
JERE. NJ. Brown, Sheriff.
NV. OoLE, Treasurer.
MA. KEEN, Comfy Surveyor.
CITY OFFICERS,
BEN. Lone, Mayer jJAs, IT. Fu1n c,,v ...,..
HENRY BeLL,Treasnrer THos, FLYNN, Marsha
G. s. MITCHELL, ssc'y, u. King, Ass'or k"a,,,.
:, ALDERMEN p: Bryan, G. Capy. G. M.svint
Lane, A. n. Cochran. '"'' w.
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II o u s e HOLD LIN e M s
GOSLIN & CO.'S

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WANTS.

VIVIAN TED-INF0RMA J. WOOD
w left Clark county, Arkansas, on the 22d of
January last, since which time nothing has been
heard Of him, md 1t is feared he is dead His wife,
Mrs. H. A. Wood, reached this place on Friday
last, aud ia much disturbed In mind at his absence
She is staying with her husbands widowed mother
Mrs. j. A. Crawford, one milo west of Dallas. Any
information of the missing man will DO gratefully
received by her.
Texas papers please copy. old
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bagging and Ties furnished atlow,st cash ra,os :.
se p,e iSr wnen cstton is sold Orders sspt 70 air.
er noass sr Merchandise, Plantation Supplies Farm.
u'en'''S Machinery, ETC., promptly filed. "'n'
klsla's' i'r sale on New York. New Orleans and st. I,,i,
mtssas. 7. ., JORDAN 4 Co., Bankers pa,t0s IA.
~s, VIII mako liberal advance, on eoosi Saas, TEX
dther Of the above houses finn t ,s,o ms
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
Sick Headache.

Almost every one has a different
remedy for this most common but none
the less distressing complaint. And the
truth is, that very few of them have any
effect at all, while some OF them only
aggravate the case. The best and safest
way for the sufferer is to let himself
alone till the gastric or nervous de-
rangements which haveproduced ithave
subsided, when sleep generally comes
to the aid of exhausted nature, and per-
fects the cure. The British Medical
Journal, in treating of this subject, says
the only remedies which are of any avail
are those which act on the nervous sys-
TEN, such as hot tea and coffee, or, after
the most violent symptoms have passed
off, little wine or ammonia. The
bromide or potassium is also highly
recommended after the nausea subsidies.
While this exists, it is of no avail. The
writer also thinks that tea and coffee
used in excess constantly, although they
may relieve headache, may also pre-
dispose to the difficulty; and he cites
instances of several patients, who, BY
giving up the use of those beverages,
became cured of chronic or frequent
headaches"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
Matrimonial.

The primitive marriage ceremony of
the Puget Sound Indians was very sim
pie, the giving over to the father or
friends of the girl, by the bridegroom,
so much blanket, or gun, or ammuni-
ton, and the taking and carrying away
so much wife. Young wen usually mar
ried the older women, and young girls
the older men, because, as they said, if
young people marry among themselves,
both are piltons, fools, and do not
know how to care properly for each
other but if young man marries a
mature woman, she can cook for him
and see that he does not drink up Mt
once all of the whiskey; while the mid
die aged husband with a girl bride can
make the lodge tight and wrap her up
we'll in the blankets, and provide her
delicate appetite with "hyu-muck-a-
muck" plenty to eat. Contact with the
whites has broken up much of this SIM
plicity. Parties now make their own
bargains, where they are made at all,
which in the vicinity of towns is not
often, without much regard for anything
but chink-a-min and muck-a-muck, mon
ey and food. And if civilization adds
something sometimes to the religious
ness of the ceremony, it is to be feared
it has taken away great deal more from
its sanctity, says q correspondent OF the
Christian ReQister.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
Murder and Suicide.

A few days ago, James d. Page, Of
Vallejo, California, was arraigned on n
charge of having opened letter sent
by the murderer, Russell, now in Jail,
to one Warren Haley. The case was
not concluded, and Page was released
on bail. Page and his wife separated a
short time before, in consequence of
domestic troubles. Mrs. Page returned
to Vallejo from San Francisco. Page
went to her room at Vallejo, entered,
and locked the door, leaving their two
daughters outside. The girls heard
angry words between their parents, and
finally their mother exclaimed, kill
me, then kill me. You have often
threatened to kill me, now carry out
your threat" The next instant the
girl heard shot fred, followed by two
more in rapid succession. The screams
of the daughter brought James Fust to
their aid, and he broke open the door.
Mrs. Page was reeling over the floor and
blood was streaming from her neck.
Page was PROSTATE, with pistol
through his head. City Marshal Edgar
entered the room, when Page gave him
two papers, became Immediately insen-
sible, and died in n short time. Mrs.
Page is shot in the neck, near the wind
pipe. She is insensible, but there are
only slight hopes entertained for her
recovery. The tragedy causes intense
excitement in Vallejo, where all the
parties are well known.
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EMBARRASSING:

There is habit peculiar to many
walkers, which Punch, some years ago,
touched upon satirically, but which
seems to have survived the TESTERS
ridicule. 1t is that custom of stopping
nothing whatever to communicate, but
whom we embarrass for no other pur-
pose than simply to show our friend
ship. Jones meets his friend Smith,
whom he has met on nearly the same
locality but few hours before. During
that interval, it is highly probable that
no event of any importance to Smith,
nor indeed to Jones, which by friend
ly construction Jones could imagine
Smith to be interested in, has occurred,
or is likely to occur Yet both gentle
men stop and shake hands earnestly
Well how goes it ?" remarks Smith,
with vague hope that something may
have happened. $50, so." How
are you knocking them ?" replies the
eloquent Jones, feeling intuitively the
deep vacuity Of his friend answering to
his own.
A pause ensues, in which both gentle
men regard each other with an imbecile
smile and a fervent pressure of the
hand. Smith draws long breath and
looks up the street Jones sighs heavi-
ly and gazes down the street. Another
pause, in which both gentlemen olsen
gage their respective hands and glance
anxiously around for some conventional
avenue of escape. Finally, Smith
with sudden assumption of having
forgotten an important engagement)
calculates, "Well, l must be off"-a
remark instantly echoed by the voluble
Jones, and these gentlemen separate,
only to repeat their miserable formula
the next day. In the above example /
have compassionately y shortened the
usual leave-taking, which, in skillful
hands, may be protracted to a length
which shudder to recall.
have sometimes, when an active
participant in these atrocious transac-
tions, fingered in the hope of saying
something natural to my friend Feeling
that he, too, was cropping in the mazy
labyrinths of his mind for a like express
sion), until have felt that we ought to
have been separated by a policeman.
1t is astonishing how far the most
wretched joke will go in these emergen-
cies, and how it will, as it we're, convul-
sively detatch the two cohering parti-
cles. l have laughed (albiet hysteric-
ally) at some witticism under cover of
which escaped, that five minutes after
ward l could not perceive possessed
grain of humor. l would advise any
person falling into this pitiable strait
that, next to getting into the way of
passing dray, and being forcibly dis
connected, joke is the most efficacious.
A foreign phrase often may be tried
with success. have sometimes known
au repoir, pronounced "o-reveer," to
have the effect (as it ought of severing
friends. s.-Bret Harte.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
her cap at me' supposed it was
we'll I know hetter now


we'll, / know better now.
We arrived off Porto Rico about day
break the next morning, and as gave
the word, "Let go the anchor!" Clara
camo up and saluted me as cheerfully
as though had never confessed to her
the real state Of my affections.
l couldn't help worshiping her still
quietly of course-and her dress finish
ed the matter. / lent her my binocular,
and she rested it on my shoulder as
though l had never "gone over the
falls"
"There he ISL she cried, almost drop
ping my telescope in her excitement.
"Oh, they have shaved half of his body!
and dear Jack, he is looking ut mel"
Here she kissed her hand to something
in the boat, then Yrasped mine, and
said, "Don't you forget, Captain G---."
Six-foot brother thought, as the
boat swept alongside but cousin Jack
and brother Jack were, one after the
other, recognized and kissed to in panto-
mine; and began to wonder which of
the knaves would be her trump card.
They were all tall, handsome, and any
thing but the puny creatures OF my
imagination.
Jack number one, with tho poodle,
climbed up the side, running aft, caught
Clara in his arms, while she laughed
and cried in turns, patting his brown
face and saying:
Dear Jack oh, dear Jack y
The people smiled round me MS
though half afraid that l was a weak,
self-conceited young skipper, who ought
not to be noticed but soon brother
Jack and cousin Jack came tearing aft,
but%hen the brave little woman-Miss
Clara Bell-told them how good l had
been to her, and
"To which Jack am 1 to confess ?"
I ruefully inquired, knowing that either
manly fellow would be lenient Judge.
"To dear Jack !" she laughed "but
wait moment. When Mr.. Shocks in
troduced you, what did you think he
said q
miss Clara Bell !" I answered, be-
coming wiser every moment.
"Dear old Shocks he always pro-
nounces the word Mrs. as Miss, and that
was how you became confused but now
you see am Mrs. Clara Bell, and l
admit to having kept up the joke but
before dear Jack ask you to forgive me,
my very good friend O."
All the Jacks had smothered her
with caresses, and my jack was in
her arms.
"My friends !" said, noticing that
they understood the joke, twill one of
you be kind enough to point out dear
lack to me p
Mrs Bell advanced, and placing the
hand she had most tenderly caressed in
mine, merrily looked me in the face,
and said,
Captain C., allow me to intro
duce to you dear Jack-the Jack of
Hearts-my husband y
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
Why jerks Never Married.

81 think a woman is tremendous
being" said jerks. "When she S
right, she's the rightest thing that
floats. When she's wrong, she's the big
gest nuisance that plows the sea, even
if she's little and don't draw two feet of
water. Perhaps it isn't just the thing
to say to boy like you, but you'll never
speak of it, if l should tell you little
something p
ooh, never" l assured him.
"Well, s'pose I might have been a
married man." said jerks, avoiding my
eyes by pretending to discover horse
shoe in the road.
You don't say sor / exclaimed, in
undisguised astonishment, for it had
never occurred to me that such as
jerks could marry.
"Yes, waited on girl once"
"Was she beautiful ?" inquired.
"Well, 1 should say fair to mid
ding" responded jerks, pursuing his
lips as if determined to render candid
Judgment. Fair to middling, barring
a few freckles."
"But you didn't leave her for the
freckles 2"
"No, didn't leave her for the freck-
les. She was a good girl, and L waited
on her. 1t don't seem possible now
that ever ra'aly waited on girl, but l
did"
"And why didn't you marry her?"
"Well, there was another fellow got
to hanging round, and-you know how
such things 60. was busy, and didn't
tend up very well, s'pose, and she got
tired of waiting for me, or something,
and the other fellow married her, but
I've never blamed her. She's been
sorry enough, 1 guess"
jerks gave sigh of mingled regret
and pity, and the subject was dropped.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
Does Gold Mining Pay?

Twenty years ago the late Mr.. Gree
ley essayed, in the paper founded BY
him, to prove that gold mining, on the
whole, was not profitable, and that it
even tended to impoverish, rather than
to enrich, a country where it is carried
on. At late meeting of farmers
club in Oaklands, CAL, the same idea
was advanced by DR.. E. s. Carr, and
his arguments, having been extensively
copied by the press, have revived the
old discussion. DR.. Carr affirms that
every dollar of gold that has been dug
in California has cost from one to one
and half dollars. Fifty thousand
people, he estimates, are engaged in
mining in that State. The gold pro-
duct Of the State for 1872 was 500, 600, :
600. Now, if you reckon labor at 81. 30
a day, DIR. Carr calculates the miners
wages would come to S37, 5000 His
deduction is, that the difference be-
tween this sum and the actual gold
product represents the loss to the COM
munity that resuks from gold mining.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
Following the Flag.

A flag is but yard or two OF bunting
when it is looked at rs matter OF fact
but the men who have been willing Il
die for IL all these hundreds OF years
have seen in it something moro thar
coarse cloth, certainly. A popular
English lecturer, not many years ago
told some anecdotes strongly illustra'
tive of the universal prevalence Of this
poetic feeling among the plainest OF
people. We can only repeat two OF
them from memory. An English regi.
ment in India had had its colors moth
ing but a square yard Of bunting, OF
course) taken away from II for some
act Of insubordination. Every man had
his rations and pay as usual, and no
physical punishment OF any sort was
added to the ideal one mentioned. Yet
every man in that regiment groaned
and suffered under the chastisement.
Coarse, illiterate, brutal fellows, per-
haps, they we're. Why should any of
them mind the taking away Of regi.
mental flag Common-sense would
laugh at such q punishment for such
men. But the commander knew what
he was about. A fort was to be storm
ed at the top of long hill The enter
prise was peculiarly perilous one, and
one that required something more than
ordinary courage and ordinary persist
ence. The commanding officer rode
down the line to the position occupied
by the disgraced regiment. Men !"
he cried, your colors are at the top of
the hill--charge !" And charge they
did, that single regiment, up the long,
cannon.swept hill, through the abattis,
over the ramparts, into the fort at last,
n mere handful of them left to receive
the flag again, for which more than two
thirds Of the brave fellows had gladly
given their lives ! There was no COM
nonsense in the matter, else the fort
never could have been taken at all.
The poetry in the souls Of those rough
soldiers overbore all that, and who
shall say that the poetic was not the
worthier and more manly view?
Some of the warlike tribes in India,
when enc OF their men falls in battle
after showing extraordinary courage,
decorate his wrists with red silk
thread if he be private, narrow rib
bon if he be an officer, and broader
one as the rank of the dead rises. Not
many win this posthumous honor at
all, and there is no mourning for those
whose death is thus repaid. An Eng
lish army marching upon Lucknow
came upon strong hill-fort which it
was necessary to reduce. A sergeant
and seven men constituted the advance
guard on the march, and when the close
of the fort was discovered,
the buglers with the main body sounded
the recall as an order for the sergeant
to withdraw his guard and join his regi
ment. The little squad mistook tn.
bugle sound. and thought it was an
order to charge. Obeying it as such,
they went to their certain death on the
of the fort. The army coming
up stormed the place, and after some
hours of desperate fighting they took
it. They found there the dead bodies
of the sergeant and all his men, and
around each ,Cr'ist Uas the broad red
ribbon, a poetic tribute from the Sepoys
to the heroism of their dead enemies.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28
Eight Hours a Day.

The intimation by the employing car
penters and builders of New York of an
intention to return to the ten-hour sys-
TEN, has aroused spirit of indignation
among the journeymen, who declare
that they will hold out to the bitter end
against it. Last week, New York pa
per says, some twentyeight OF the en-
ployers met, and majority was in favor
of returning to the ten-hour rule at
stated time but as there was not an
entire unanimity on the expediency OF
assuming what might be considered an
aggressive attitude, it was determined
to defer decisive action until confer
ence with the journeymen could be had.
With this view, a committee of five was
appointed to confer with committee
from the unions on the subject, and
communication was addressed to the
United Order of American Carpenters,
setting forth the spirit that actuated the
employers. The carpenters, in their
various organizations, made up COM
mittee to meet the employers COM
mittee, but with instructions to listento
no compromise whatever. The jour.
neymen say that they are backed by the
whole force of the societies in England,
and that they intend to maintain the
eight-hour rule and S3.50 per day.
The boss carpenters and builders Of
Brooklyn declare their intention OF re-
fusing the demand of the carpenters
and journeymen's association for $3.50
per day for eight hours work, as the
allowance of these terms would entail
heavy losses on their spring and sum-
mer contracts.
Employers are unanimousin the opin-
ion that there is not work enough at
present to admit of successful strike,
and many declare that they would throw
up their contracts rather than yield to
the demand. Some who have been pay
ing 1926 for ten hours work will in
crease this to SO. so, but further thor
this they refuse to go.
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SIGNS OF DEATH.-In 1870. the Acad-
emy of Sciences in Paris offered prize
of 90 900 francs (S4 1000 for a simple
but positive sign of death which any
on-professional person could under
stand and apply. The British Medical
Press and Circular says: "The most
practical and satisfactory one given was
to tie a string firmly around one of the
fingers of the supposed corpse if the
blood circulates in the least, the whole
finger from the string to the tip, will swell
and become discolored. This depends
upon the fact that, however profound
the syncope, or however death-like the
person may appear, if there is any cir
culation whatever, the person is not
dead. The test is simple and conclu-
siye,"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28

FUNNY.-Directly after the reading of
the report of the Poland committee was
concluded the other day, Oakes Ames
went down stairs to the House restaur-
ant, and taking a vacant chair at table
with two other members of the House,
inquired with a chuckle if they would
allow the wickedest man in Congress to
fit with them, and receiving an affirma-
tive answer, he proceeded to put dozen
fried oysters where they would "do the
most good. "-,Selected.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-28

In the following notice there is some
thing truly Homeric: Have care. A
fat COW will be hewn to pieces in my
yard, on Tuesday at II a. m, sharp,
and the flesh will be sold at Sd. o h.
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Wait and See.

Walt and See.
When my boy with eager questions,
Asking how and where, and when,
Taxes all my store OF wisdom,
Asking DER and DER again
Questions Oft to which the answers,
Give to others still the key,
have said to teach him patience,
Wait, my little boy, and soe."
And tho words taught my darling,
Taught to me a lesson sweet;
Once when all the world seemed darkened
And the storms about me beat,
In tho ''children's room" heard him,
With child's sweet mimcry,
To the baby brothers questions
Saying wisely Wait and see."
Like an angels tender chiding,
Came the darling's words to me,
Though my Fathers ways are hidden,
Bidding me to wait and sec,
What arc we but restless children,
Ever asking what shall be;
And the Father, in his wisdom.
Gently bids us, "Wait and see"
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