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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
ARRIVALS At JEROME PARK.

The racing stable of II. p. McGrath arrived
at Jerome Park from Lexington, XVI on Friday last IL
comprises horses Tom Bowling, years DID, Dy Lex
ington, dam Lucy Fowler; Aaron Pennington years
Old by Tpperlry, dam Lucy Fowler; jury years od
nv Lexington, dam Roxlna; Aristles, years Old by
bennington. dam Sarony; Chesapeake. years OH.
by Lexington, dam R1xana; and CALVIN, Years Olu, ~
Tpperary. dam Lucy Fowler. Tom Bowling VIII run III
me mile and quarters selling race at Jerome FiTh
ON the fourth day o The meeting, carrying III extra. ne
mas grown ntO ine-iOOGng horse standing l0s hdnus
Aaron Pennington Is IN the Belmont S'dAes. ana
his owner has backed him 10 win SIOpV on
that race. Arstid-s y IL the Juyehhe o'"A A
Al Jerome Park ami Saturday MI Mctrith tOOk
bet OF $1,000 To 500 he would WIN CALVIN ana ines
apeake are engaged IN Oh" twO-yelrOd STAKES al Sa
t0ga, hut nave 10 engagement ~ Jerome Firk = IL
Jouc-'s bay hlY SangauOna, by imported bItl, Jam
Brlie OF Wlliamsvilr by Bill Alexander, has arrived
from Il inois to run the Milhes stake, the Only en-
c3gemeut size has the coming meernS s1e - large,
handsome. rlcing-iike lilly, with line acton. ana hrr
owner thinks 50 highly of ner that he recently COX
bp oil s. 900 o. $3.50 that would win ncT race IL was
reported On Saturday az jerome Park that Col. NC
Dduss stable OF horses Saratoga were suffering IRON
sickness and that would not nave anything To run AT
tine jerome Parh meeting. .,
Jonn Hunter has fl red 70 match hinghoit against
any OF Mr. McGra.As JwOy earOlds, one nIld dsh TOT
$1,000 a side
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
OUTDOOR SPORTS.
THE "TRIP

TROTrING AT PROSPECT AND DEERFOOT PAINS
A large number of visitors attended the
Prospect Park Saturday. 20 witness contest
for special purse OF 81 between the pacing horse Top
perDo tom and the trottiDg horse Lucille GOdduS'' ~
heats, best three in five. under saddle Copper'o.o"
Ia wing beaten American Girl and Smmonss roam horso
Walter with running mate, the week previous was
made the favorto and 500 10 $50 was currently wagereu
his winning. The latter the first neat ~ --l ~
a head only, and still COpperDOttOm was the &C.
AT the increased odds 500 $50. but the marc WI
the second heat by head in 22O she UrottIhg s,oa m
hall nile In 1:0sS The odds now changed an" Sonr
$40 was laid on Lucille winning which she dad DIV iour
lengths the third heat, wbca sue tiOtted III LIZ
ooo
PRosPEcT PAnK Fan GHusD.. My 23sPeflal paEe o. fL,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25
oISrIyG CLOTHS MARKET.

PRINTING CLOTHS MARKET.
p-ovpysc, L. 23-Prntng Cloths we're tnns easier
pree, Al the close Sales Of The week 80 SUI pieces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-25

second championship game AT Philadelphia Oh Saturday
A large number OF spectators witnessed the game Tn,
Athletics won the game ny their hard batting McIuilI
na,iup a clean home run. Following Is the score by
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
FROM FORT WORTH.
STILL ANOThER GUN.
The County Convention SOlidly
for TilrOCkmOrtOn.

The following was received last
night at this office
FT. WORTH, July II, 1874.
To the Editor of the Dallas Herald
The county convention has just adj
journed. The delegates to the district
convention were instructedto go solidly
for Throclimortoh for congress.
B. B. p.
Another letter to the editor says:
The county convention to-day pass
ed, by q unanimous vote, u resolution
instructing their delegates to vote for
ThrockmOrton for congress.
The governor made an able speech
this morning, which was enthusiastic
ally received. b.
The resolutions adopted by the coun-
ty convention reaflirm the principles
of the democratic party as expressed
by the last democratic state conven-
ton; favor an economical administra-
tion of the federal and state govern
ments; favor the most stringent meas
ures, both by the federal and state
governments, for the protection of the
frontier; favor congressional aid to
the Texas and Pacific railroad; express
undiminished confidence in Governor
Throckmorton appreciate his just SER
vices to the country and instruct the
delegates to give him the united sup
port of Tarrant county in the district
convention
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
TEXAS ITEMS.

The Texas dental association meets
at Waco on the fifth of August.
President Grow, of the international
railroad, left for New York on the 10th
instant, having had long interview
with Governor Coke.
C. w. Matthews, of Tyler, has been
appointed immigration agent for the
southern states, and will leave on his
mission Immediately.
Old state warrants are firm at sew
enty.two in Austin, and in demand
for conversion into bonds. New war
rants are selling at eighty-two.
The county court of Travis have or
dered the erection of an elegant court
house and Jail, on the block next to the
capitol, to cost ninety thousand dollars.
Financial Agent Moody left Austin
again for New York on last Monday.
1t is thought by the governor that CO.
lionel Moody can get enough money to
run the government.
The Christian church convention
met at Waco on last Friday. An or
ganization was effected by electing {.
NJ. Wheat, of Dallas, chairman, and
L. w. Scott, of Sulphur springs, secre-
tary.
a..1,nn1 orlh coll
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18

WE ARE gratefully appreciative of
the kind words with which our contem-
porary of the Fort Worth Standard
welcomes US into the "press gang"
What he says of Mr.. L. r. Simmons,
one af the proprietors ofTHE HERALD,
is so well and worthily said that we
can not forbear copying it:
Perhaps there is no man in the south
better able to conduct the business de-
partment of a journal than Mr., Sim
mons, a man of energy and good judg-
ment. The paper is bound to prosper
under his supervision. No man in the
south has better record than he has.
During the late epidemic in Shreve-
port he was chosen president of the
Howard association, and with con-
slant devotion to the wants of suffer-
ing humanity, his time, his energy
and his purse were constantly exercised
to render relief and ameliorate the suf-
ferings of the sick and dying. No duty
was too severe, no cross too great for
him to bear, and with a moral courage
unsurpassed by any living man, he
now stands before the world as one
truly worthy of its respect and confi-
deDce.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
DECISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL
BOND QUESTION.

This case, involving so much of i'm
portance to the people of Texas, was
disposed of by the supreme court on
Thursday evening last. The following
statement is from the Austin States
man of the 10th instant:
The supreme court decided, yester-
day, that mandamus did not lie against
the comptroller to compel him to sign
national railroad company, or in any
other case; that his duties were not
alone ministerial; that he formed a
part of the executive power of the
state, and that he could exercise a
sound discretion as to the duties which
he was required to perform under the
constitution and laws. Judge Reeves
delivered dissenting opinion, in
which he held that the duties of the
comptroller were ministerial; that the
supreme court had jurisdiction. and
that mandamus would lie against him.
This prevents the issue of the bonds
to the international road, and is, in
our Judgment, most unfortunate de-
cision. The credit of the state is inti-
mately involved in the issue. The leg
islature in effect admitted that the state
ought to pay the bonds to the road.
The supreme court avoids it by dispos-
ing of the case on legal technicality.
Wouldn't it be better in every point of
view to come out square and fiat footed
and say that Texas does not intend to
issue the bonds?
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
ANm. q. ON sTATE rINANCES.

The editor of the Tyler Reporter hav-
ing been pleased with some views eX-
pressed by Hon. w. S. Herndon, in
conversation on the condition of our
state finances, addressed the honorable
gentleman note requesting him to
set forth the same in writing. Gene
raj Herndon's reply, published in the
Reporter of the llih instant, is of very
great interest to the people of Texas.
We regret that our space does not al
low us to copy it entire. His scheme
is however fully set forth in the follow
ing extract:
The remedy that / would apply is
this: Issue one million dollars, state
warrants, in denominations of not less
than ten nor more than one hundred
dollars to bearer, running ten years,
bearing interest at six per centum per
annum, principal and interest payable
at the state treasury in Austin, with
the faith of the state pledged for their
payment in lawful currency of the
United States; the same to be secured
for all dues to the state, and when so
secured to be cancelled and burned.
The distinguished gentleman gives
three reasons for preferring this plan to
the issue of bonds: First-"That the
bonds up to this time have not and cam
not be sold, and, therefore, no relief
had therefrom." But even if the
bonds could be sold at eighty-tive cents,
the price at which they have been Of
fered, the state would lose $l50,000 on
each million of bonds, discount on the
principal. In addition to this, $4,000
would be taken out of the state yearly
to pay the interest, which in thirty
years would amount to 100000, and
eventually the principal, $1,OOO,OOO,
would have to be paid in New York
also, which would make the sum of
So, 100000 paid to New York for the
loan now of SS50,000. Second-"They
will not be sold at all, but will be paid
out to citizens for the Indebtedness of
the state, and both principal
and interest payable to our own
people, and within our state" Third
-"This plan would enable the state to
be Independent of the rings, corners
and combinations made in foreign
markets to depress her securities, as
we'll as her enemies at home, who seek
to de,troy her credit" The great OBJ
ject to be secured by the adoption of
this plan is to "make our state self
sustaining, and dependent Oh her own
resources"
We are not prepared, without more
reflection 5han we have yet been able
to give the subject, either to approve or
disapprove of the scheme. 1t looks
plausible, but very grave objections oc-
cur to us at this time.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
A HARD CASE.

The readers of The HERALD will re-
member that when the yellow fever
broke out at Shreveport, Lieutenant
Woodruff, of the United States army,
was ON duty in charge of the work for
removing the raft in Red river above
that city. Immediately upon the ap-
pearanoe of the disease, he fastened to
the doomed city and devoted himself
with untiring energy to organizing
means of relief for the sick and suffer-
ing. Finally he was stricken down by
the disease, and his life was a sacrifice
to his heroic devotion of himself to
the succor of his fellow-men. He left
a mother in impoverished circum-
stances, and upon her applying to the
war department for the usual pension
allowed to the representatives of those
in the army who lose their lives in the
service of the country, she was refused
it on the alleged ground that Lieuten-
ant Woodruff was "not in the line. of
duty" when. he lost his life.
The head of the department, govern
ed by the statute law of the land, is no
doubt correct i'm his ruling; but if con-
gress does not provide the pension, it
will afford another striking illustration
of the ingratitude of republics.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
From Wedneday's Daily Herald.l

A MANUAL labor school, near this
city, is project talked of.
THE sportive gamboliers of our city,
whose occupation in this corporation
has been cut short by the disaffection
of the city council, talk of emigrating
to San Antonio.
TRY your luck in the Dallas Agricul-
tural and Mechanics association.
Drawings at ~ NJ. andG p. NJ. daily.
Office south side of Main, between Aus
tin and Market streets.
AN affrighted saddled horse pulled
out a post he was hitched to, on Ross
avenue, yesterday, and starting to run,
encountered with the post, 1t tripped
him to the ground and broke his leg.
AN insane man appeared on our
streets yesterday with a two foot
square piece of paste board on his
breast, pendant from his neck, on
which was inscribed: "a candidate
for successor to Pope Plus"
IT is proposed by several families of
this city to get up an excursion to Gal
weston, provided "sleeper'' can be
chartered of the Central road, and q
party of twenty-five can be "made up"
Another provision is, if round trip
tickets at reduced rates can be had.
A TEAM of unmanageable oxen, at
tached to freight wagon, backed into
the culvert which crosses Lamar
street north of Ross avenue, yesterday,
and the forcible manner in which the
wheels dropped into the trench shifted
the weight of the load upon the hind
axle, which crushed it into splinters
and smashed both of the wheels.
AN elderly man was knocked down
by two villains near Mr.. Boards resi-
dence, on Houston street, on Monday
night, about eleven o'clock, and his
groans attracting the attention of
couple of Mr.. Boards boarders, who
were just retiring for the night, they
went to his rescue. The object of the
assailsnts was robbery but they, fled on
the approach of the gentleman afore-
said.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
AN HONEST CONFESSION.

Colonel Don Piatt, who was gallant
federal officer during the late war, has
the manliness to utter the following
brave words in q recent leader on "the
misrule of the southern states :"
We of the north now have glim-
mering of understanding why it was
that in our conflict of arms and appeal
to the civilized world, the civilized
world decided almost unanimously
against us and gave their sympathies
to the south. The unprejudiced minds
of Europe condemned us out of our
own mouths; they judged us by stand
ard of right-set up by ourselves, and,
taking our sacred declaration of inde-
pendence, they sought to know of us
why it was not as applicable to the
south in her struggle for a government
as to us when both sections rebelled
against England. No satisfactory an
swer ever has been given or ever will
be given. The case was so conclusive
against us that the leading men of the
north at first decided against their Sec
ton and advised peaceful separation.
And looking back now to the fearful
loss of life and desolation of homes,
and turning our eyes to the heavy in
debtedness that not only chains labor
to the earth, but makes republic an
impossibility, remembering that we
have transferred the chains of the
slaves to the shoulders of our white
brothers, and above all, contemplating
our great result--the carpetbagger-
there are many among us prepared to
regret that the more peaceful counsels
did not prevail.
There We're two obstacles in the way
of such quiet solution. The principal
one was the overbearing insolence of
the south. The other could be found
in the blind bigotry and cheap philan-
thropy of the north. Blind and cheap,
for we were not animated so much by
love of the negro as hatred of the
ma ster, and our philanthropy consisted
in freeing another mans slaves. Had
these negroes been owned in the north
the abolition of slavery would have
dated at that day when in the end of
time all nations of the earth will be
called to account.
The wrong done the republic, how
ever, was not in the war itself. From
that terrible shock of arms our politi-
cal fabric survived unharmed. 1t was
only when we went about what we are
pleased to call the reconstruction that
the fatal injury was inflicted. Such
reconstruction was the offspring of
deadly passions engendered by war and
selfish greed, and exhibits to the
world the white man of the south, lately
the governing element chained help
lessly to the earth by ignorant negroes,
that carpet bagger may sit upon him
with impunity.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
TFrom Tuesdays Daily Herald.l

KENO was all "no" last night, for the
city carried Off the "key" part.
BUSINESS on the Central road has
increased in the last week in very
marked manner.
SEVERAL hundred convicts are to be
at once put to work OH the line of the
Texas and Pacific road to further i'm
prove the track.
WEBB, the desperadO, who menaced
the life of Justice Coates, of this county,
was brought to this city and lodged in
Jail OH Saturday, by our excellent
deputy sheriff, Captain Tom Floyd.
THE city engineer brought his slit
tie" compass and chain to bear on the
lot on the northwest corner of Com
merce and Lamar streets, yesterday,
for two-story brick store house, to be
built by J. E. d. Blades.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18

and / should wonder If the charge
proved false.
But great changes have been made.
The ponds-those nurses of sickness
and breeders of death-have been
drained or filled, their sites being now
occupied by substantial buildings; the
forests and chapparels have been so
cleared or thinned that the gulf breeze,
with "healing upon its wings" now
sweeps the very earth, and brushes of
all unwholesome eXhalations mustang
grapes, black haws and bOis dare APP
pies haye been driven from the market
by an abundant supply of excellent
fruit and vegetables, and Dallas, no
longer "cribbed, cabined and confined"
has leaped mile beyond the foul bar
rier once interposed by the ponds, and
now breathes the pure, uncontami-
mated air of the prairies.
Coincidently with these great changes
in the physical and hygienic surround
ings of the people, began beneficial
change in their health, which has
kept pace with their material progress
until now our bills of mortality will
compare favorably with the most ia
vored parts of the union, and here is
the proof
The records in the office of the city
sexton show that from the first Of July,
1873, to the lst of July, 1874, there
were one hundredand fifty-four burials,
exclusive of those from the country.
OF this number thirty were of transient
persons and ten met their death from
violent causes. Assuming that our
entire population, both transient and
permanent, during that time averaged
ten thousand, and no one will put it at
q lower figure, it will give our death
rate as 15.4 per thousand, or one in
64.29.
That the full significance of this
statement may be appreciated, / give
the death rates for other places in 1872
or 1873, taken from reports of boards
of health, or other authentic sources,
which will enable the readerata a glance
to compare the mortality of our town
with that of other places.
Dallas, l5.4 per thousand.
California, III per thousand.
Pittsburg, 2G.46 per thousand.
Brooklyn, 27.6 per thousand.
Providence, r. l., 80 per thousand.
Yew York, 1926 per thousand.
New Orleans, 81 per thousand.
Comment upon tine above figures is
unnecessary. They certainly demon
strate the assertion made in the begin
ming that Dallas is one eff the healthi-
est towns in America.
j. S. CARRINGTON, Nj. ID.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
ANOTHER DENIAL.

We published last week a rumorthat
q man named Davis had died of yellow
fever in Galveston. We have already
published contradiction of the rumor.
On yesterday, we received the follow
ing by postal card:
No man by the name Of Davis has
died within the time designated in
your notice. There has been no case
Stimulating yellow fever in this city.
There is not a word of truth in the
report and / ask your emphatic ccn-
tradiction of it,
GEORGE w. PEELE,
Health Physician.
Galveston, July 10.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18

A CHILD, six years old, was badly
scalded on the arm, yesterday, near
Young's warehouse, by the upsetting
of kettle of boiling water.
A SUBSTANTIAL sidewalk was laid,
yesterday, in front of Franklin's book
store by the owners of the building,
Messrs. Connor & Bowen, who, we will
add, design raising that store house
one story higher.
JUDGE BURFoRD sold to Colonel John
B. Stone of Selma, Alabama, yester-
day, lOOx2O0 feet of ground on Main
street, near the Southern hotel, for
two thousand dollars. The John B.
Stones are the kind of stones we like
thrown in this city.
SOME smouldering Goals from kitch-
EN- stove We're thrown too near the
latticed well-cover in Mr.. Hodgett's
yard, on Bryan street, yesterday, and
that wood work was in Il few minutes
burning finely. The roofof the kitchen,
which was within two feet of the well,
ignited from the latter, and but for the
vigorous attention of Mr.. HIS two
hundred.pound female cook with
buckets of water, we would have had
to chronicle another conilagl alton of
no small shakes.
A THIEF stole q wagon load of water
melons, near this city yesterday, and
brought them in for sale. While stand
ing on the corner of Elm and Market
streets disposing of the same, the own
er of the melons rode up, and, dis
mounting from his horse, climbed up.
in the wagon and took u seat beside
the man who had stolen the melons, and
said he'd "take the receipts so far and
consider himself the cash box for the
balance that might be sold" The
thiefs eyes were very large when the
man climbed upin the wagon and said
this, but he did as he was requested to
do, and after the sale he drove off an
other way, while the genuine owner of
the melons rode home with the "filthy
lucre.n
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18
The Health of Dallas.

To the Editor of the Dallas Herald:
Dallas was formerly unhealthy; it
is now one of the healthiest places in
America.
A chain of ponds, at one time, ex-
tended from the northern to the south
ern limit of the town, bounding 1t on
the east, as the river did on the west,
and distant from the river about three
hundred yards. The ground sloped
from the river to the ponds, so that
these received the drainage from the
village and were the convenient recep-
tacles of filth and garbage, a prolific
source of disease. A dense growth of
hickory and oak, filled in with stunt.
ed growth of cedar and vines, afforded
an impenetrable barrier to the fiercest
"norther." The old town was thus
embraced by fever-breeding holes and
saturated with poisonous exhalations j
the dwellings were uncomfortable, ana
fruits and vegetables not to be had.
When such conditions obtained, no
wonder, it was said "Dallas is sickly,"
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-18

LAST Monday morning posse of five
men, heavily armed, made their APP
pearance on our streets, and arrested
Mr.. John w. Stallcup, on a charge OF
having committed murder in Arkansas
some two years ago. The party con-
sisted of four brothers to the man
killed and one other. The friends of
Mr.. Stallcup sued out writ of habeas
corpus, and upon examinations before
Judge Bonner, it was found that the
warrant under which the prisoner was
held had no state seal attached to il,
and the prisoner was discharged. He
was held, however, until an affidavit
could be filed, but, as it could not be
sustained by proof, the prisoner was
discharged.-[Tyler Reporter.