The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-26
THE clouds are taking n summer I

THE new front TO Alessrs. Block,
Jet a. Co.'s store II nearly completed.
1t will make good "lront face"
WE can't understand why shoe pegs
should be 80 high, when our city Is full
OF cast away wooden tooth picks.
TIE author of the piece of poetry
with the caption "Granite," Is Inform
cd that Its the poorest kind of mental
food--hls 'pome'-eranitc.
NEAR this city, yesterday, an enter
prising school teacher consumed the
whole day in whipping his cighty-two
scholars. A prince Of whales.
THEY talk of building quay for the
convenience Of passengers who may
desire to take II trip up the river on
Messrs Champlin& Wharton's steam
boat. Aquatic,
A sAp-EyEp youth in this city,whose
early years were fertlliAed by the bot
tom side Of his mas slipper, never
sings, "rurn backward, turn back
ward, o! time, in thy flight"
Dir. WILDER, Of Lawrence, Kansas,
and one ofthe most accomplished prac-
titioners west Of the Mississippi river
Is visiting our city. lie may be Wilder,
In name, but he's tanner of most amy
ailment you can name.
AN old lady in this city, tied small
vial of mucilage to her letter, yester-
day, so in case tho stamp should show
symptoms of peollng oil, while IN
transitu, the postollce clerks could
stick II on without Inconvenience.
WHEN you pass house and hear n
half smothered effort to declaim,
"pleasew "No, never" 90! Lordy "
you may safely imagine from fifty tc
sixty pounds ofyoung Hannbal's dew.
ilment and grief being made feverish
by an ambitious palm.
Mr.. l.. A. PAYNE, the very energetic
state agent, In this city, Of the Sterling
school furniture company of Illinois,
received an order, yesterday, from the
Patrons institute of Richardson, seven
miles north of this city on the Central
road, for furniture and apparatus for
that school.
A SPICY thing occurred on east ELM
street yesterday afternoon. A dray
loaded with an invoice of groceries
dropped small box containing a lotot
pepper, cloves and other Spices and II
wagon, coming directly behind, ran
over them and ruined the lot.
Mrs. Il. CnEsNUr has just received
an exceedingly handsome stock ofnew
millinery goods. This is one of the
finest invoices of the kind ever intro
duced in this city, and as Mrs., Chestnut
Is known as one of our most stylish
milliners, we are satisfied our la,ly rea-
ders can be suited at her counters.
A FAIR of horses passed away about
twenty minutes, yesterday afternoon,
on Market street, carrying around the
shafts to buggy which they hung up
beside n tree in the upper part of the
city. The shafts seemed very much
confused by the movements of the ami
mails, but remained with them rs they
disappeared down the river bank.
THERE is II young lady in this city
who should have been sister of
George Washington. Her mother
found the pillow case of the young la
dy's bed perforated with small holes,
and asked her the cause of it, III can
not tell a lie, dear mother" she repli-
ed; II did 1t last night with my little
hair pin, while thinking of Charley"
MEssRs. b. f. LUCE Il Co. advertise
per local notices one cur load of white
shell corn in sacks, at one dollar per
bushel. This firm also offers n car load
of choice northern flour, at four dollars
per one hundred pounds. Messrs. b.
II. Luce a Co. is one of the most relia-
BILE houses in this state, and purchasers
OF either of the above articles will find
both No. /.
AS PER notice IN another column, it
will be seen that Mr.. s. Rosenthal has
disposed of his entire stock of house,
hold furniture to Mr.. A. Nj. Friend,
who will continue the business, and
added thereto q superior stock of
queensware. Mr.. Friend is DESTROYS of
disposing of the furniture stock in or
der to make room for his queensware
invoices. Call and get bargains.
A BOOTY passenger, who disem-
barked from the Central train yester-
day morning, in this city, fell into an
unfinished well fifteen feet deep, near
the depot, and was taken out sound as
before he went down. Now any man
who will fall into well fifteen feet
deep and be taken out only to continue
to walk the earth as usual, we de-
nounce with the bitterest execration as
conspirator against the tombstone
maker and the undertaken
AHAsTY servant ola family in thiscity
having been annoyed, yesterday, by
boys rapping at the front door and then
running OIL, determined, at length, to
hide behindthat opening, anda as soon as
the nextone raped to throw open the
door and kick him from the steps. The
master Of the establishment finally ar
rived and finding the door locked, of