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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24

To the Editor of The Dallas Herald:
DALLAS, January Is

To the Editor of The Dallas Herald:
AS a profound Democrat I confess
that the position am now occupying
as Sheriff of Dallas county is, under
all the circumstances by which we are
surrounded, as unpleasant to me as to
my friends. am not only willing but
anxious, to surrender to j. E. Barkley
the duties of my Office. simply desire
to say to my friends in this county that l
have given large bond, payable to
the State of Texas, for the faithful per-
formance of my duties, on which sew
eral of my friends have mutually obli-
gated themselves with me that those
duties would all be faithfully filled.
L fully intended to surrender my
office upon the first demand of ]. E.
Barkley, until the case of Rodriguez
was carried to the Supreme Court.
Before that case was decided ! went to
Austin and stated to both the Comp
troller and Governor what intended
to do, and was by them informed that
if the Supreme Court decided the cleo
ton law unconstitutional my liability
to the State would continue, and that
the government at Austin would not
recognize ellleT iuy IlSuV w suIl lShuoi
the Office or j. E. Barkley as Sheriff,
even though he filled that position.
These facts communicated to Major
Barkley some time ago, and requested
him to abide the action of the Four
teenth Legislature before taking any
steps whatever to dispossess me. / am
anxious to see the last election go into
practical effect, and anxious that the
will of the people should prevail all
over the State, but 1 am unwilling to
incur liability upon either myself or
my friends who have signed my official
bond, and particularly so when but a
few weeks will suffice to regulate the
temporary disturbances that are now
agitating our people.
1 beg you to publish this explain alton,
as wish my friends to understand
that nothing could induce me to OPP
pose the expires ed will of the people,
but desire 10 preserve myself and my
friends from any individual conse.
quences that might arise from legal
irregularities. Respectfully,
]. NJ. BROWN.
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ferent gentlemen that he had nothing
to do with the Supreme Court case ana
believed the election had been fairly
conducted. He talked fair, though re-
naming non-committal.
But now comes sequel which, while
life lasts, will prevent Governor DAVIS
from commanding the confidence or
respect of the people of Texas. With
out notice to any one, and while the
chosen representatives of the people
were on the eve of assembling at Aus
tin, he secretly applied to President
Grant, both by letter and telegram,
for United States troops to prevent
what he called "apprehended vio-
lence," but in reality to override the
will of the people and prevent their
Governor and Legislature from being
installed. Many have believed he was
not in the conspiracy, but he has re-
moved all doubt OH that subject. Had
his plans succeeded, to-day Texas
would be under bayonet dictation.
That it is not so, is simply because
President Grant fatty refused to lend
his sanction to the meditated outrage
on the sovereign rights of this State.
TO Graft are we indebted for safety
against this insidious attempt to again
place a whole people under the heels
of men whose past career would be Il
guaranty of nothing but outrage, tyran-
ny and official plunder. Governor Da-
Wis has missed golden opportunity by
utterly refusing to let people forgive
him. He retires under stain of oblo-
ouy which time can never efface.
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hundred dollars. But the authorities
of the church at their late Synod, re-
solved to transfer 1t from Huntsville to
some more accessible point, and APP
pointed a board of nine commissioners
to receive propositions and decide on
new location. A decision Will be
made very soon.
We have the best authority for say
ing that fair inducement on the part
of our people will secure its location in
Dallas. All that we have said recently
in favor of locating another institution
here applies as well in this case, ana
need not be repeated. Dallas has 1t III
her power to become the chief educa-
tional center of the State. Should diff
ferent churches establish colleges here,
instead of injuring each other, they
will tend to build each other up. Each
body of Christians in the State VIII
necessarily have one or more institu-
tions, and will, in the nature of things,
be preferred in the main by the respec-
tive denominations in educating their
own children. But large portion OF
the people will not be so influenced,
but simply patronize institutions which
)please them best.
\ The Presbyterian Church has but the
one College in the State, and, though
not so numerous as several other Chris
tian bodies, it is sufficiently so to fur
nish sufficient number of students for
one institution of high grade. There
are many towns in the United States,
no larger than Dallas, which have two
or more colleges well sustained. Lex
ington, Virginia, Columbia, Missouri
Staunton, Virginia, Charlotte, North
Carolina, are instances in point.
Situated as Dallis is, accessible to
two-thirls of the people of the State by
rail, several institutions may be well
sustained here. A generous emulation
between different institutions would
stimulate all to the highest effort, and
thus result in good to all.
We merely throw out these sugges-
tions, understanding that gentlemen
feeling an interest in the matter will
call upon our business men within the
next few days, to ascertain ifa fair in
ducement can be had, and if so, as
before stated, there is the best reason to
believe Austin college will be fixture
in Dallas.
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from the jefferson Democrat.l

The mortality among newspapers
within the last two years, has been so
great that it does not indicate very
considerable degree of enterprise among
those communities that have allowed
themselves, without an effort, to be de-
prived of their press. This is truth,
that many excellent newspapers have
been forced to suspend just at time,
when, if properly supported, they
would have been most beneficial.
The great trouble in this country is,
that the people fail to justly appreciate
the press. A custom ruinous in its ten
dency, by which the people are led to
look on newspapers as not worthy a
living patronage, yet bound under O
penalty of eternal condemnation to
watch with argus eyes their every
interest seems to prevail. Mer-
chants whose patronage alone con-
tributes to the existence of daily
paper in this country, where the sub.
scription at best is but tithe toward
supporting it, advertise just as if the
comparatively small patronage they
give would yield them neither income
nor profit. Again, vast number Of
business men do not advertise at all
We do not propose to try to convince
this class of our readers of the truth
that the mere matter of advertising in
good paper will pay them, aside from
any other consideration. Some o.
do not believe it, are impossible to con
vince.
The experience of most newspaper
men in Texas Is that few of her citie'
have supported their daily newspapers
Many Of them have eked out a misera
BILE existence for a year or two, anC
then either bankrupted or changed
hands-in the latter case for some cour
ageous man to make a renewed attempt
only to meet with the same fate.
Just as newspapers are supported
they are enterprising, and they go out
from their place of publication, theil
appearance indicating their local sur
rOundings. The business men of the
rising young cities of Texas will sooner
or later learn these facts, and thost
who first discover what their newspa
pers are commercially, politically ant
socially, and who give them a liberia
support, will sooner profit by being
represented by newspapers that will b'
an influence of immense benefit t.
them at home and abroad.
Merchants and all advertisers shoult
think of these things and if the las
few years have proven, with few excep
tions, series of abortive results II
newspaper enterprises, is it not time t.
consider show much they can lay ou
for their press annually, in considera
ton of its Importance" Let this b.
done and deserving journals can liv'
and do good.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24

PRESIDENT GRANT has Withdrawn
the nomination of Caleb Cushing for
Chief Justice. A Senator brought to
light letter written in March, 1861,
by Mr., Cushing to President Jefferson
Davis, recommending friend for
office under the Confederate govern
ment. But this was before the attack
on Fort Sumpter, when he thought
there would be no war. After that
attack he at once took sides with the
North. General Grant told the objec-
tors that many men, now leading Re
publicans, had done as much as Cush-
ing at the same time. Still, to avoid
rupture with the Senate, and indeed
at Cushing's request, he withdrew his
name; but he will still go rs Minister
to Spain. We are sorry for the fact,
because it is doubtful if another as well
qualified will be found. Besides his
acknowledged abilities, Mr.. Cushing's
views of our government are far more
sound than those of most leading
Republicans.
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OLD Virginia has elected one of her
truest and abest sons to the United
States Senate, to take his seat OH the
fourth of March, lS75-Gen. Robert
Withers, the present Democratic Lieu
tenant Governor of the State. Texas
will at this session of the Legislature
elect similar man to take the seat
now disgraced by that ignorant, malig-
nant and impotent old man, }. w,
Flanagan. But we have to bear with
his misrepresentation of our State till
the fourth of March, 1875.
One by one the Southern States are
getting rid of the foul crew who have
so long occupied their seats in Con-
gress. Imagine the contrast in the
Senate of the United States, if Texas
should send James w. Throckmorton
to succeed the pious James w. Flana-
gan? The comparison is only parallel
ed by first viewing n pewter dollar in
mud hole, and then looking upon the
sun in its noon-day splendor. Patience
and perseverance will ere long restore
the whole to legitimate representa-
ton in Congress and send the whole
agglomeration of carpetbag and seal
awag impostors to final rest-in OBJ
scurity and contempt.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24

GOVERNOR CoKE's inaugural address,
at his installation on the 18th instant,
is a calm, mastery review of the situ-
ton of the country, and clear enun-
citation of the principles upon which
the government was founded, and by
the perpetuation of which only can
our free institutions be preserved in
their purity. Its spirit is broad and
catholic, and will be accepted in the
North as a complete refutatiOn of the
false charges so often made by the
Radicals of this State, that the Demo-
cratic party OF Texas was revolution
ary in its ulterior designs. We regret
that it's length precludes its publication
In THE HERALD,
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WHATEVER LIES BEFORE ME.

Wi.hin the past the dead year lies
SlIrouded away forever;
Filled, like the years that went peiore'
with failure and endeavor.
The days were not all sunny bright,
Oycr the blue clouds drifted;
And many a night was starless, 100;
Life was not sorrow-sifted.
Nv feet have slipped, my strength has iailee
NY hands havegrow SO weary,
That sometimes well nigh iorget
That though my path was dreary'
'Twolld sometimes turn; that farther on,
al ON might be lost in beauty;
For rosy pleasure, now and then,
Goes hand in hand with duty
J know not what this year will bring,
But this know for certain:
NBnteyer's hidden now for me,
Behind Times shadowy curtain,
The gtrength will come to bear it all,
Though much of it be sorrow,
Aud God will give us good enough,
And more, in every morrow.
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from Jne JeHeTSOI DclHOcTdt.l
Among the Judges who have graced
the Supreme bench of the State, with
honor and credit, none of them have
won brighter laurels nor more sub
stantial reputation for probity and
ability than the gentleman whose
name heads this column. Judge
Reeves lived in this city for several
years, but our acquaintance with him
began i'm Anderson county, years ago,
where he had the confidence and es-
TEEN of the people, and was respected
by such lawyers as Douley, Booth An.
derson and Bonner as a profound jurist
and a just Judge.
He was elected to the position OF
District Judge for several consecutive
terms, and that district was 10th to
give him up when he determined to
enter the Confederate service. While
in the army the people elected him to
the Supreme bench, and he was thus
called home to take his seat as mem
ber of that high tribunal. 1t was GER
tainly high honor, but yet it was an
earnest of what he was worth to his
State as a jurist. His whole record is
one of which, in this day, he may well
feel p-oud.
Numberless chances have presented
themselves for him to have occupied
high positions under the Radical ad-
ministration of the State, but he pre-
ferred to preserve his reputation pure
and unsullied, by declining to affiliate
with a party that has drawn down
odium upon itself from the enlightened
people of the whole country, But
now, when an administration elected
by the people is about to go
into power, when q government sci
up by the proper authority Is about to
be inaugurated, we mention Reuben
A. Reeves name i'm connection with O
high appointive office, knowing that
he would esteem it an honor to accept
it. Whose claims are superior TO his !
We believe that his appointment by
the newly elected administration would
meet with universal approval, for he
is competent, honest, and has proven
himself faithful.
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WITH good educational facilities S e.
curely established, with public spirit
in founding our factories, with unity
of action in all matters affecting tho
development of Dallas, the growth of
this town will be upward and onward
Sell property at reasonable prices, keep
taxation down to the lowest reasonable
rates, continue to invite trade by low
prices, fairtransactions and the urbanity
for which our business men are already
we'll known, and, Notwithstanding the
stringency of the times, Dallas will
continue to extend her limits and daily
become more and more the seat of
trade,
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WE invite special attention to the
communication Of DR.. James Il. Scott.
His views are sound and practicable.
The land and water proposed to be
donated as the seat of n factory are es-
timated at two thousand dollars in
value. The water is abundant and in
exhaustable, and is, perhaps, the only
water in the whole country which has
not the effect of encrusting on the
boilers, so near is it to being freestone.
The site is eligible and convenient, and
the ground would doubtless be enlarged
by the liberality of adjoining pro-
prietors.
We earnestly invite our men of
means to give this subject its merited
consideration. We are greatly cheered
by the growing spirit of our people in
favor of all such enterprises.
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rom the Decatur wise Coz Advance
Guard

Guaru.l
We find in THE DALLAS WEEKLY
HERALD of the Sd instant, lengthy
article, under the above heading, which
meets our views so fully that we are
tempted to adopt it and republish it
without giving credit to that valuable
and ably conducted journal. We un-
hesitatingly endorse that article in
which THE HERALD has come nearer
doing full justice to the character and
past services of Governor Throckmor-
ton than any other paper in the State
that we have read. Quite number of
the newspapers i'm different portions of
the State have spoken very favorabiy
of Governor Throckmorton in connec-
ton with the United States Senator
ship, to fill the approaching vacancy
of Senator Flanagan's seat in the Uni
ted States Senate, whose term, we be-
lieve, expires Oh the 4th of March, 1870,
but none of them have gone fully into
the details of the Governors past SER
vices to the people of Texas as The
HERALD.
In every capacity as public servant
of the people; from a Representative
from his own county in the State Leg
islature, up to the highest position
within the gift of the people of his
State, and in every position of public
trust the people have placed him he
has shown great ability, fidelity ana
unfiinching integrity, added to all his
other qualifications, his long expert
ence as a legislator, eminently qualities
him for the position of United States
Senator; in short, we candidly believe
that Governor Throckmorton, from his
long residence in theState and his inti-
mate relation with the people of Texas,
as a public servant, could and would
render more valuable service to his
State in the Senate of the United
States than any of the distinguished
gentlemen whose names have been
used in connection with that high and
responsible position.
We have not the space, nor do we
feel that we possess the ability to do
full Justice to his worth and ability as
a patriot and statesman; aud will close
by again calling the attention of our
readers to the able and truthful article
before referred to in THE HERALD of
the Sd instant, and hope that every
true friend of Governor ThrockmortOn
will use their influence with their Rep
resentatives i'm the Legislature to give
him their support for that position
whenever the time shall arrive to 60
into the election,
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TOO BLIND TO SEE.

We have said on several recent occa-
sions that Governor Davis had rare
and felicitous opportunity to remove
mighty weight of public prejudice, and,
to some extent, to win the respect of
bitter opponents. All he had to do
was to act as an honest man-repudi-
ate the foul action at Austin-comply
with the election law he had himself
first strecommended and then approved
and to obey the voice of the people by
surrendering the Office to Coke, the
rightful Governor, He informed diff
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24

WE notice that some of the old Off
GERS in this and other counties who
refused to give up the officers, and, so
far, gave aid and comfort to the Radi-
cal conspiracy at Austin, feel rather
bilious siHce the cause of the people
has so signally triumphed, and will,
no doubt, be glad to have the peo-
pie forget the events that have hap
pened since the election. Perhaps the
people will. 1t is their business but
"burnt children dread the fire."
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The aggregate number of books now
in the library of Congress is 25S, ,752
volumes, besides $1,000 pamphlets.
During the year ending with Decem-
Der |, about Il, 400 volumes have been
added to the collection. The rapid
growth of the library renders the
necessity for new building impera-
tive. Congress has authorized the
preparation of plans for q new build
Ing, although the location Of II Is NOT
yet selected,
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felt in all the avenues oflife. All suc'l
investments, in the hands Of practical
business men, in 50 far as they are
adapted to this part of the country,
would not only contribute to the rapid
development of the country, invite
emigration, and especially skilled Ia
bor, but they would prove profitable
to their founders.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24

RALPH KEELER, in his last letter
from Cuba, hits it very neatly when he
SAYS: "Surely tho universe holds no
richer cup, and no cup can hold mud
dier or more distateful liquor, than
GENES of this dissolving Pearl Of the
Antilles,u
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AUSTIN COLLEGE-IMPORT TO
DALLAS.

For near twenty years the Presbyte-
rian Church of Texas has had in sue
cessful operation at Huntsville an insti-
tuition of learning Of high character,
known as Austin College. 1t owns
large buildings, has large land en-
dowment, an average of one hundred
students, and owes in all but twelve
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24

IT appears that twenty-six Senators
were sworn in the first day, among
them Messrs. Flanagan, Randle and
Ledbetter, Radicals. Absent-Burton
and Davidson, Radicals, and Russell
(of Brownsville) Democrat-29 in all,
the Galveston district being vacant.
Mr.. Davidson, we understand, also va
Gates his seat in order to retain the
office of District Attorney.
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AGE MI 9:

Merssrs. Richard II. Griflin, AdyertisHiang
A1r,t. No. 4 south street, Baltimore, Nd;
PetteHgil CO. Co., Wethariil Y herh @0T CO., so No.
az g ,eStnut street, Philadelphia, are duly
auly authorized to contract for adveTtlnSys- ,ny
mur.,s for Insertion in the DALLAS HEN
~. Msssrs Dnshiell II Waters, Bankers,
EIgsman, are authorized agents for THE
UEEALD in Kaufman county. r,,,
BB-r. NJ. Smith, Esq, nt Lewisyiiet, oJi'.9il sI
egulI ". is an authorized agent for the DALI
LAS HERALD, and money paid TO MN on
ou.raecount will be duly acknowledged by us.
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THE people of Mckinney are NOV
ing, says the Enquirer; for the erection
of first-class Touring mil in that
town. That is right. Build up home
institutions in that as well as other
branches, and rest assured you will be
on the right track to prosperity and in
deDendence
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THE question of the better protection
of emigraBts will come up in Congress
soon after the recess. 1t will be treated
in two separate measures, One bill
will provide for the safety of transit
ON the ocean, and the other after
LANDING
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A Horse Thief Lynched and Another
One in Tow.

AS we 20 to press we learn Of the
Iynching of a horse thief, on the night
of the 18th instant. He was found
suspended to Q tree about three quar-
ters of mile west of the slaughter
house, near the city. The supposition
is that he was hanged by the same par
ties who had the man Bishop In
charge, Monday, and who is yet to
hear from. We are unable to learn
the name of the lynched man, but
are informed that he has relatives liv-
ing near the city, who went early the
next morning and cut him down and
buried him.
Within the past few nights several
horses have been stolen from parties
within the city, and there is no doubt
of the existence of well organized
band of thieves in this vicinity. We
regret very much that our people re-
sort to lynch-law for protection, and
sincerely hope the laws of our land
may, In the future, be respected In ad-
ministering punishment t. such depre-
dators.-[Denison News, l4th.
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THE Michigan salt inspector inspect
ed s23, ,s55 barrels of salt during the
year ending on the 18th, which is
9S, ,S65 barrels in excess of last years
product, and the largest amount ever
inspected in one year In that State.
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JOHN G. BRECKINRIpoE is spQken OF
a. 2 candidate for governor OF Ken
tueky,
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The Galveston News publishes the
following interesting letter, written by
Judge Baylor nearly five years ago. II
explains itself: