The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-05-20


THE Wheeler u Wilson sewing
machine company's new building is
about ready for the "merchines."
WHEN band of Dallas insurance
agents start out on canvass can it be
said that we have lost our brass band?
THE man who makes n spittoon Of
your face by eXpelling saliva out of the
car window ahead of you, we observe
still travels.
COLONEL GEORGE NOBLE, superin-
tendent of the Texas Pacific road, has
been taking little of Dallas in
"hissenn the last few days.
Mrs. AUSTIN, wife of Frank Austin,
Esq, left for a summer jaunt, yester-
day, among the Wlsconsonites, Michi-
ganders and Minnesotians
SIXTEEN head of blooded Kentucky
stock were shipped to Galveston, yes
terday, by the booming house of
Keene d Nichols. One of this sixteen
has busted his mile in 2:42.
STATE AGENT JOHNSON, ofthe Mobile
Life Insurance company, is carrying u
square one hundred and ninety pounds
Of flesh and bones in his boots on the
streets of the state capitol.
WE offer chrome to every gentle
man or lady visiting our sanctum,
who'll leave their perspiration at the
foot of the stairs. We don't mind the
visits, only don't come in showCr.
Mr.. WEST, n matchmaker of this
city, has clock which does its own
winding up" starts itself, and, of
course, does all its running,'alone 1t
is mechanical zany, whose oddities
are sui gene,9s.
ALL the railroad trains passing south
through this city are laden with pas
sengers to Houston. They so to gaze
with delight and awe on the fair in
the day time, and sleep, groaningly,
eight in bed at night.
BRYANT, the father of his southern
country's railroad guide, and AS perse-
vering as Columbus and as energetic as
gunpowder, is supervising the prepare
ton of his second issue in Austin.
When we left, hewas ornamented with
n stiff neck.
A YOUNG man of the blooming age
of twenty, was seen last evening par
ing his toe-nails in republican SIM
plicity and with boarding house
carving knife, by resting his foot and
their five bristling pointers on the
front window ledge.
OUR old friend, Major Morgan, erst
of the mail service of the Texas Cen
trail railroad, and a gentleman as sure
as Ivanhoe was courtly knight, has
fallen heir to twenty thousand dollars.
The town of La Grange, in this state,
is called on to pay it.
a HORSE belonging to Mr.. Knight,
who tied the same to tree opposite
Colonel Payne's residence on Ross ave.
nue., day before yesterday, was stolen
while Mr.. Knight was attending to
some business in the lower part of the
city. No clue of the thief has yet been
discovered.
Boil, the negre who stored those
shoes under Il shanty near the city hall,
about month ago, of which transac-
ton of the secretipg Boil we spoke of
at the time, was released yesterday,
the charge that Boil larcenated the
aforesaid ''hoof kivern not being sub
Stimulated.
A PERSONAL encounter of pieny size
took place ON Market street, near the
corner of Main, yesterday afternoon.
The one who bled tother with his fist,
formerly bossed boarding house in
this city, aid being q man of business
marched up before his honor without
waiting for a policeman, stated his case
and paid his fine.
We noticed a minister on the train
the other night appeal with systematic
frequency and oriental luxuriance to
bottle marked Jamaica ginger.n We
have no doubt ii was "Jamaica gin
ger" but it was the first time in orr
life that we knew that Jamaica
ginger" ever made a man try to trap
ear lamps with his hat, under the inn
preston that they were lightning bugs.
A FERRErING porker on voyage of
discovery to find good point or sur
face to confricate his irritating sides,
found the rugged stones of the court
: house possessing the requisite currying
qualities and after thorough trial,
started of, and by sunset, yesterday,
no less than twenty hogs, of all sorts
and condition, We're bringing repose to
their titillating cuticle by abraiding
themselves against the southwest cor
ner of the aforesaid building.
THE advertisement ofthe Mineola
Advertiser appears in this mornings
HERALD, Charles Martin, editor and
proprietor. The Advertiser is publish
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