The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-14
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WELLS sunk or bored. See advertise
ment.
Will we have such a thing M II
county fair this year?
A FIFTY cent hack line we think,
would pay In this city,
THE Empire restaurant Is stu offer
lug meals nj twenty-five cents.
WHATS left Of vegetation in this city
looks like bois dare shavings.
TIE occupants of the municipal "ily
trap" have thinncd down to seven.
The down Central train yesterday
morning had n coach full of sherills.
SHERIFF BARKLEY left yesterday to
attend the sherll's convention at Cor
slcana.
PRIZES continue to be drawn ut the
Agricultural and Mechanical gift socl-
ETY., daily.
The probability is that coal will be
used In this city this winter, to the al
most entire exclusion Of wood.
TIE wheel keeps turning at the Dal-
las Agricultural and Mechanical CIT
society, and turning ont fortunes.
ONE wagon three stories high and
one two stories high, went through
this city yesterday in an cmigrant
train.
THE query with the restaurant keep
ers Is, whether the bakers will all run
out of bread this Sunday like they did
last Sunday.
GALL American citizens are peers"
--[Commercial. We have heard some
addressed as "me noble duke" tine
lord etc, etc.
SEVERAL hundred dollars were
drawn, yesterday, ut the Dallas Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Cit society.
AN distracted street car passenger,
yesterday, just did grip in time TWEEN
" dollar gold piece he was about to de-
post for his five cent fare.
II will be some two weeks, we I'M
derstand, before the iron fronts win be
received for the new buildings going
up next to Odd Fellows hall.
THERE will be a meeting of Tame
hill lodge No. SO +. and a. NJ, at their
hall this friday evening, for work in
the entered apprentice degree.
A YOUNG lady, not five miles from
this city, has got herself in n devil of a
fix by marrying II man by the name of
Fix. who hadn't cent of money.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT NOBLE
and General Freight Agent Newman,
of the Texas Pacific road were sharing
some of the comforts derivable from
Dallas sunshine, yesterday.
SOME chap was offering, yesterday,a
set of furs worth twenty-five dollars
for two dollars and II half, at the doors
of the different dwellings in the neigh
borhood Of Cochran and Lamar streets.
AN amateur dramatic club was or
ganized in this city on Thursday night
at the Union ticket Office. Mr.. NJ. Il.
Greenlaw was elected president, aud
our friend w. X. Wheelock, local
agent of the Texas Central, secretary.
Work on the new buildings on Elm
street, east of Poydras, belonging to
the building association, was resumed,
yesterday, by the contractors, Messrs.
Leonard Brothers, and will be actively
pushed forward, by those stirring gen
tlemen, 20 completion.
ONE hundred water melons we're
brought into this city yesterday, and
the lot disposed Of for one dollar and
fifty cents. Another lot was sold In
the upper part of the city for three
hundred dollars--this 1t may be well
enough TO say was II lot Of ground.
"WrAT dreams we have" a man
in this city dreamed on Wednesday
night that he was '.sassinger" aud
was being fried, and woke up TO Hnd
that n match, which In some manner
had gotten In his bed, had ignited and
was reaching for him like thousand
fanged insect.
YESTERDAY II breaksman on train
No. o. on the Central road. slipped
from the top OF a box ear as the train
was running out from the depot, and
although he was pitched head foremost,
he succeeded IN turning his body so as
- enable hin. Ia throw out his arm,
and sec''rc hold u Zone Of The Iron sup