The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-10-26

A DEAD beat--a broken drum.
DO not forget the social hop at Days
tomorrow night.
DALLAS sacked, sealed and delivered
four hundred and fifty dollars for Mar
shall.
THE subject OF inquiry in Dallas
nurseries Is: Was Captain Jack any
relation TO Jack Sprat.
A BOOK canvasscr found n wintry
maiden the other day In this city VINO
declared "a man hadn't called on" her
"for year"
A MAN who claimed TO have walked
from Bangor, Maine, was selling on
the street, yesterday, n debilitated des-
cription Of his trip, woven into very
creaky doggcral.
THE AGENT of the Howard Associa-
ton of Marshall, Colonel Sweetman,
pushed things with beaver.energy yes
tcrday In behalf OF the suffering city OF
Marshall.
THE discourses of Bishop Gregg, de-
llvered In this city during his late
annual visitation, are pronounced
among the finest pulpit efforts ever
delivered In this State.
ARAINY day Is not without its pleas
ures. A canvassing agent, who was
collecting money on subscriptions,
was detained long enough by shower
Yesterday, to learn, OH reaching the
house of his heaviest subscriber, that he
had Just started on a whaling voyage.
The following are the names Of the
parties confirmed at the Episcopal
Church, on Wednesday night last;
Mr.. and Mrs. Coughanour, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwards, and Mr.. Hereford, the
junior member of the firm Of Here
ford Bros
AN OLD lady in this city, who can
always tell when the dogs are fighting
her cat by the noise hr grimalkin
makes, took the buzz Of cross-cut
saw, yesterday, for her cat in distress,
and 1t was three hours before she
found 1t out.
SEE the card in to-day's paper Of
Harvey Bros, fashionable boot and
shoe makers, in Clark q Bryan's new
brick, corner Main and Lamar streets.
This is the place to get your fine
custom made boots aud shoes.
GENERALS SUPERINTENDENT Dickson
OF the Texas Pacific, reached this city
last night, andhas furnished the How
ard Association with car to forward
the provisions contributed by our city,
to our stricken friends of Marshall.
REED Il LATHRoP have well dis
played advertisement in to-day's paper,
announcing that their large stock of
books, stationery, etc will soon arrive
and will open In the building OH
Austin street, opposite the postofllce.
See advertisement.
A YOUNG gentleman Of this city
hunted all day for his rubber shoes,
and couldn't think what had become
Of them, until just as he was going to
bed, when he remembered that he left
them last winter at a certain residence
up town, the night he was kicked out
by "herp "papa."
The Commercial hotel has two
advertisements In our local columns
this morning, to which we call the
attention Of our readers. The Com.
n1ercial Is one of the most elegan,
appointed hotels in the State, and It's
tables are always up with the season
and In quality and quantity not sur.
passed In the South. Read theil
advertisements.
AN old "beat," who took sugar ir
his, laid down under the oaks back O
{ the Christian Church, the other night
and on waking up in the mornin,
found the end of his nose tipped will
frost. Looking at 1t for few momenti
he exclaimed, DAM me II that suga
hain't soaked through"
'THERE Is nothing like IT," exclaim
ed fruit man down town the othe
afternoon, holding up fine pear b.
its stem. "Not less than fifty cent
will buy it, He had no sooner 60
the words out Of his mouth than h
sneczed, this broke the stem an
( the pear rolled under horse who, i
ahying, stepped on It. He says an
body can have the stem. now for a do
Tar.
THERE arrived In this city, yeste
day, returning prodigal, broken
pocket and seeking his fathers 70
gIvencss. just before he reached Ii
fathers house be met his little broth
crying bitterly, and asked him VII
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