The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-12
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DEoBsTRuENTs, disinfectants andde-
odorants CONNIE il JtW
"OuT ON A LARKn-'rhe feathers on
the back Of a lark.
THE neighborhood of the new mar
ket carries n business air.
THE hood every sensiblc-lninded girl
seeks to wear--Womanhood.
THE cholera, as yet, has not regis
tered at any of our hotels.
A RULE for our Dallas Dramatic Am
ateurs-" think before you act"
THE rcd of sunsets and the red of n
toper's nose may both be seen in our
city.
Nor a esprit of health" but ''gob-
lin damncd'-A suitof WOODEN clothes
this weather.
A MAN sneezed yesterday. Where
he got cold enough to get up that nasal
note is a puzzle to us.
DALLAS merchants send thousands
of TIE HERALDs to their. correspond
ents and customers, gratis.
THE butcher-boys like their new
quarters. The citizens of Dallas like
the quarters on the butchers stalls, too.
CHARLEY BABcoCK, the agent of the
Vandalia route, threatens to sling some
railroad knowledge all over the Gal
weston News
By the News or yesterday we see
that Captain Ed. G. Bower declines to
become a candidate forthe Legislature,
or for any other office.
BOYS who can't get little wooden
toy called top, might use their hats
for substitute, as they are evidently
intended for their top.
DALLAS picks its teeth with ten thou
sand tooth-piels per diem, and Dallas
economist picks their remains up and
uses them for kindling wood.
A DALLAS county horse thief, having
used suspender to ride off stolen
horse, was presented, after being cap
tured, with another suspender--frem
limb.
THE Criminal Court organized on
Monday last at two CLOCK, and is now
regularly transacting business, Judge
Samuel Hare, of Sherman, presiding,
and Major John /. Ault, District At
,tOrney.
The implanted savage who wanted
ito scream few furlongs of sanguine-
Gus verse through our columns yester-
day, and we wouldn't, was seen in the
afternoon sliding down an unplaned
plank in distinguished and breezy rage.
TIE Galveston News says we are in
scOnsistant when we say that the hand
soonest lady in Dallas is a German.
Not any more so, dear News, than you
were; when you said, sometime ago,
that'Sue Anthony was chair-mdn.
The man who in company with a
friend bowed TO his wife as she was
throwing out some kitchen Stops, a few
days ago, doesn't get down to his Office
as early as he used to. He says she's
resigned and he's enlisted.
A MAN in Dallas has such big feet
, that the occupants of two pews in front
of him in church in which the pews
communicate from below, complained
to the sexton, that somebody had left
a lot of leather in them.
THE musical genius of Dallas boy
will assert itselfamidt the gloomiest sur
roundings During a fifteen minutes
flogging by the maternal hand, yester-
day, he sang with ardor and much feel
ing, Mother, when the battles oeEs!"
THE following is the new roster of
the peace guardians of our city:
Marshal, Thos. Flynn; Deputy Mar
shall, A. w. Nixon; Police, J. w. GAM
din, w. A. Baker, w. S. Pharis, I. A.
Pharis, Thos. Mcbride, Jno. Driscoll,
Chas. Buck, A. ID. Nye. 1850
Mr.. J. HI. Baker, the proprietor, has
changed the name of the Houston Un-
ion, to that of the Mercury, and has
improved its mechanical appearance
greatly, as well as added largely to its
value as a medium Of news. We wish
the Mercury success.
LAST night man was seen crawling
out of window of private house on
Elm street, extended. He crawled out
because six shooter crawled after
him. The occupant OF the room dis
covered him in time to save some val
uables and wallet of money lying on
the bureau ~
THE man who Clipped the new bar
Der pole on the corner of Jefferson and
Elm streets the other. day, thinking it
a huge stick of candy, carried it home,
and in gushing bcnevolence, gave il TO
his wife. The next morning tailor
sewed up a rent in the back of his coat,
and he paid four bits for new broom.
THEState Executive Committee have
been informed on good authority that
the city can accommodate as many as
fifteen hundred delegates, should they
determine to hold the Convention
here. If any city in the State can do
better, it should be named, and not
Dallas. Will any Of them speak out?
WACO must be a fearful place to
live in. Scarcely paper we take up
from that city but recounts the details
of some horrible tragedy. II lawlcss-
ness is the rule down there we don't
blame the good people of that section
Tor appealing to Judge Lynch to pre-
side oyer the decisive decisions which
are being enforced against the desper-