The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-11-08

SKIES as checrless as n miscr's hearl.
RESTAURANT windows full OF game.
THE ladies were out yesterday with
the sun, and some with their sons.
SOME shopping yet done through
carriage windows.
THE street car track in many parts
of Main street, is Submerged i'll mud.
THE streets of Dallas just now con-
stitute her sinking fund.
Corn is bringing seventy-five cents
(specie) at the bin, in this county.
The mud question cannot be dis
cussed in one issue; it corers too much
ground.
OUR farmers occupying prairie lands
are turning their attention to the
planting of forest trees.
DURING this weather at least, the
permanent inhabitants of this city
belong to the floating population.
"STRAws show which way the wind
blows" and when used in glass also
often raises the wind.
SOME beavers are Oh the way to locate
in the gutter between the Odd Fellows
Hall and Prather 4 Murphy's new
store house.
THIS kind of weather is productive
of umfriendly feelings, as very few OF
us but what turn the cold shoulder to
each other.
ONE man ate three cans of oysters
on wager i'm this city, the other day,
and says he can do the same thing
over two or three times more, ifpush-
ed.
THERE are enough oyster shells
thrown from restaurants in this city,
to make one hundred substantial street
crossings.
A CORD of wood was sold in this city
for one dollar and half yesterday,
and in the hole of one of the sticks was
found q diamond ring worth fifty dol
lars.
THE ad valorem tax for 1872 has oil
been collected, save about seventy-ttiiyee
ao''qltss, rhe collector is p King,
Who's trump.
ONE of Our leading merchants enact
ed the character of juryman yesterday,
and late last night had contracted for
sheet iron seat to his breeches.
THERE is division of opinion
among brclllayers just now as to the
propriety Of putting up brick walls this
frosty weather. 1t is worth consider
ing.
THERE are great many brick walls
in this city we know, but we warn
individuals that it is useless to expect
to9 bick splinters off Of them to pick
their teeth with.
WHEAT, the very popular Elm street
dry goo1s merchant has some very in
terestipg matter in ANOTHER mammoth
e4yertissmeenlt, in an another tlle e column
A Young lady on ELM street, yester-
day, considering tho whalehpnes in the
inside of an umbrella, all at once
oYclaimed, Just think what a heav-
eniy figure | could get out of them it
they were made into a corset W
TIE fellow who walks off on his ear
In this city now, would do very well to
wear india=ribhers to keep from mix
ing too much mud with his brains,
A LITTLE more sunshine like yester-
day and Wen soon tread on something
solid.
"WOrth makes the man" says the
poet and Fort Worth is making a
town.
LARGE droves of horses are passing
through our city daily. The most as
tonishing thing about them is their
thinness. Tissue paper would
look like three inch plank beside
lem.
A MAN was brought down on the
Central road yesterday with one side
Qfhis face torn in o terrible manner,
by the teeth of a dog which, attacked
the man while he was sleeping on the
ground near some wagons containing
freight, on q prairie in western Texas
A LADY dropped bundle on the
pavement fronting Sanger's yesterday
and 1t rolled off In the mud Of the
street and disappeared. Turning to a
gentleman standing near by she re-
marked: "It's no use to dig for that,
my only chance is to go on the other
side OF creation and catch it as il comes
Eli1bJblsrli,i,ti':i' i9iti!i ! 4 7 VIZ IL
ADoG sseatched a twenty-five dol
irr,shawl hanging in front " . store
b, slm street yesterday, and running
out into the street with it, soon occa-
5 stoned a fall In the price Of that shawl
to valuation of just about twenty
five cents.
A CoLoRED woman thrashcd white
man back Of the Central hotel the
Sfiier day, until he bellowed iSf
quarter His otiense was, that on the
Wqman's return from down town she
discovered him asleep IN her'bed, with
his boots on, clothes on, hat ON, and
a drunk on. This irated the African
belle, aud she proceeded to smother
him with a billet of wood. Officer
Crabbe took them both in custody.
YESTERDAY WAS the local editor's
birthday. He presented himself with
astaek of toethpieks, and Pacific en-
zine gave him einder In his eye,