The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-02-19

The moon has commenced its horn
taking again.
DEFENDERS of the ''ironn interests
Washerwomen.
GREAT fellows to take to their
heols"-Shoemakers
MANY of the cutters in the back
streets haven't felt a shovel since last SUM
mer.
THE McCabe stove case was before
Judge Kerfoot yesterday and the defendent's
attorney stove In the State.
REACH your children, Dallas parents,
through their pride, their affections, their
ambition, at the same time n succulent hck-
DRY Ii not bad thing TO have within reach.
YESTERDAY being Ash-Wednesday
and the commencement of the quadragesi-
nal fast or Lent, services were held In the
Episcopal and Catholic churches, in this
city.
MRS. HAYNES, the widow of the late
DIR. Haynes, Is having couple of very neat
and convenient sized residences built on n
Portiou oi inc BTOuHu HuJOihlnR neT noine-
stead.
The negro, Lewis Hamilton, who
was shot some time during Monday night
died yesterday from his wounds He was II
vicious character and the colored people do
not lament his decease.
SoDDING yards is business entered
into in this city by partnership of boys,
numbering eight In all, and on declaring
dividend of their days work yesterday, they
each received one dollar and seventy-iye
cents.
Mr.. w. X. Wheelock, agent Hous-
ton and Texas Central railroad company,
requests us to say that he has received his
local railroad tickets and Is ready to supply
them at the city ticket Office, on Elm street,
one door east of Austin street.
A DUNN sorrel done trick or two of
standing on his rear legs on Ross avenue yes
terday afternoon, to the establishment OF n
crowd Of spectators and the irrascibiity of
his driver. 1t took wholesale amount Of
verbal sugar 10 sweeten him down on all
fours.
SEE card of the Dallas Transfer COM
pany, Office on Elm, one door east OF Austin
street. where baggage can be checked to any
part of the country. Passengers called for
and conveyed to either of the railroad
depots by leaving orders at the office az
above.
ONE of the spokes of q wheel to a
wagon coming in from the country yester-
day, broke and flying from the wheel while
the horses were being driven very rapidly
struck tho hind leg Of one of them and so
injured Its tendons as 70 render him unit for
any further use.
A TWO story brick storehouse, 25xS0,
will be erected at once on the corner of Mar
ketand Main streets by our enterprising citi-
sen ]. g. Mcconnell. Esq. The contractors
are Messrs. Champion IL Wharton, a firm of
as energetic and as reliable builders rs can
be found In the State OF Texas.
THE lot on the corner of Main and
Lamar street, formerly used as q cotton
yard by Boulware & Co.. has been leased
by Mr.. Goufe, its owner, to Joe. Leonard,
Esq. for Ave years. Mr.. Leonard started
an excavation yesterday for the construction
ola two story brick, upon the same, 5Ox3O.
A HORSE stumbled and threw his
rider on Lamar street yesterday, near Coch-
ran, and from the way the equestrian went
groundward II appeared as though he went to
stay. He returned to the saddle, however,
with little delay, in perfect physical integ-
rity, save that his air-pipc were not quite so
full.
A SUCKER got Off the cars at the de-
pot yesterday to buy "snack" and man
In hurry asked him to give him "two ten
dollar greenbacks 'or n gold twenty" He
gave the man In hurry the two ten green
backs and found after the man In a hurry
had been gone about ten minutes that the
"gold" twenty wasn't worth cuss He said
he'd like to stab himself to death with black
berries.
A SYMPATHETIC gentleman in this
city jumped into a street car yesterday to
catch creditor, who was about to leave him
In the lurch by taking his departure on the
noon train on the Central. As the car passed
Lamar street the sympathetic gentleman
saw child walking by the Episcopal church
with pair Of very red legs, and thinking
the child was beggar and half frozen, he
sprang out OF the car and charitably went to
its assistance. The red legs turned out to be
red top boots, and his creditor, Of course, got
away.
A GENTLEMAN who had taken lodg-
ings at boarding house near the Central
depot heard his name pronounced by some
one In an adjoining room TO his on Tuesday
nigh, and, CD giving closer attention, discov-