The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-05-15


cotton IN yesterday.
New wheat will be In next week, say
the Dallas county farmers.
YESTERDAY was as glistening rs the
seat of an editors pantaloons.
PARSONS, of Terrell, not the clergy,
was secularizlng IN our city, yesterday
UNCLE SANS soldiers will leave up
wards of $4,000 In this county, for
horses bought.
OUR undertakes say they send
twenty collins away from our city, TO
one they sell in 1t.
A FINELY furnished room, with
board, for man and wife is advertised
in to-day's HERALD.
A BoQUET, tall MS chimney and
sweet as 'lasses, was presented to
Judge Hare yesterday.
To DALLAS hatters. All hats having
the quarter fractions to them, in size,
should be called the "head-quarters.n
VAN HORN, of the Texas Advertiser,
brings tribulation once again upon
Dallas hasheries, and cremates Dallas
cigars.
THE babies of Dallas are opposed, in
q body, to the organization of base
ball club in this city. The 6d,vl, they
assert, belongs to them alone.
Tom FIELD has taken swift wheels
for eastern Texas. The speedy arrival
of lumber for the "San Jacinto" will
explain the riddle of his disappearance.
The stirring Major Joe Leonard of
the stout and staunch firm OF Messrs.
Leonard Bros, has taken the rails for
St Louis, after those grim iron fronts
The Trinity river, at this point, fol-
lowed not in the footsteps, spreading
ones, of its daddy, the Mississippi; but
like dutiful bank clerk kept in its
bank.
Rev. II. f. BORNE, pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, will
preach u sermon upon the late DIR.
Stevenson next Sunday at halfpast ten
a. NJ.
TwENTY-THREE of our exchanges de-
sire to know the mystery connected
Judge Kertoots tin cup. Yeur honor,
take the witness stand, and answer to
the propounded heterogeneous!
THAT estimable lady Mrs. Major
Barkley, wife Of our popular sheriff,
Major James +. Barkley, wishes to ex-
press her thanks to Captain j. d. Floyd
for an elegant cake from the rich bri-
dial banquet of his daughter.
L. j. KEET0N, Esq, city assessor and
collector, gives notice in to-day's HER
AID that city scrip will be received in
payment of ad valorem, poll and occu-
patton taxes, until June /. Also that
the dog tax is now due and will be
RICHLY enforced. a..
Mrs. JUDGE IRA MITCHELL, the tai
ented wife of Judge Ira Mitchell, of
this city, leaves to-day for Richardson,
in which pretty little village she is
called to take charge of the musical,
Latin and French departments of q very
fiourishing institute of learning there
located.
A MAN with load of hides was stop
ped yesterday by q gentleman, on Elm
street east of the railroad, to whom he
owed some money, and as his indebt-
ednessam0unted to just what the hides,
wagon and team were worth, the cred
itor took possession of them, and the
man started out of the city on foot.
THE first one-line local the local
editor of this paper ever wrote, was:
"The masses take the Eagle.n Ia pa
per published in Maryland) 1t APP
peared in the next issue as follows
Them asses take the Eagle" The
proprietor looked as if he would like
TO hear from us in distant land--and
5 We left. sas
Mr.. CHARLES MARTIN, of the Min
cola Advertiser, is in the city soliciting
business for his paper. Our merchants
would do well to patronize him. He
represents paper that has a good cir
culation in section of country the
! trade of which our merchants are seek
ing. We most cordially commend Mr..
M. to our people as arnold time typo OF
the HERALD, near nineteen years ago.
A FAMILY recordp leaf enabled a
man to find, In this city yesterday,
an individual he had been looking for
Tor six months. The leafslipped out of
his pocket as he was walking the street
and the man he was after picked II up, |
and in handing 1t to the loser saw his
(the finder's) name on it. Very nat
urally he inquired what his name had
to do on that paper, and thus the cap.
ture came about.
MEssRs. JOHN HENRY BRowS &
yfNABLE, real estate agents, offer to /
the public some of the prettiest build
ing lots In our city. They lie near Dali
las college and on Live Oak street,
which is nov open to the prairie, and |