The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-02-20

ALI. Dallas bankers bank high on
corners
EARLY vegetable sass in the market.
We've sassed IL.
The threnody of the dove is heard
In "leafy bowers" ..E
The almond-optic Chinese of this
city say that last Saturday was their New
Year.
FoRTY-FIvE county hash publishers
look agueishy from tho CRATES of tho county
Jail.
A CAT fancier in this city, owns
thirty eight cats. How fond of paw paws
the fellow must be.
A DRY good and notion store is Of
fered for sale In another column, II is one
of the best bargains ever offered in the city.
The time of the departure of the
lied river steamers are regularly advertised
by illustrated posters throughout the city.
THE man who pitched himself over
cotton bale on Lamar street last night going
home, calls 1t pitch dark night
A NEGRO woman in this city yester
day beat her child and tying n rope around
Its body, held 1t down well to stl1e Its
screams.
AsMART Dallas boy says its all right;
he'll fast through Lent, but Just wait TIL
Easter comes round, If he don't make Easter
eggs fly, dang his buttonsl
So far this week, there have been no
young ladies or gentlemen stepped from the
candy-stlck of courtship to the broomsticl
OF matrimony.
Two hundred barrels of beans were
shipped from this city yesterday to Tanant
county. We don't see the necessity of this,
when March is only week or so OIL.
SMOKERS should call at Gosin's eli
gar stand-in q sew days" he will have
choice new brand of weeds, which he wants
everybody to try. See special notice.
THE skillful treatment of DR.. Ewing
has resulted In the convalessence of the col
ored barber who was accidentally and dan
gerously shot some weeks ago at Fosters. "a
By request of the Good Templars
a sermon on the subject of temperance will
be delivered at the Methodist church on Sum
day morning next, at Ii O'Clock, by the pas
tor, Rev, Mr.. Easily.
A NEW pile driver, of rather novel
construction, Tor pilng the Trinity, for the
Texas aud Pacific road, came in yesterday.
To usit looked like q decent seized ginger
cake on the legs OF a centlpede.
THE name of Il. w. Mitchell, Esq,
Vt present the accomplished local cashier of
that noble highway the Texas Central,
has been mentioned most fatteringly, in con-
nection with the city secretaryshlp.
YESTERDAY afternoon u whimsical
looking "stick" who called himself an asma-
tographer or song writer was Offering,
his impromptu, rhymes TO a promlscu-
THE store of Mr.. Goble, near the
residence Of j. c. Mcconnell, Esq. had its
"tilfp tapped on Wednesday night, and the
covetuous expert left the establishment with |
stamped envelope, and a paper of seeds |
all the drawer contained. Jii lti.-ft
THE Memphis and Little Rock rail
way have opened an Office in this city and |
placed In charge, Colonel Alex. Waddell. |
Colonel Waddell has been identified with |
this road for some time, and as an accession |
to the railroad circles OF our city we welcome
him as eourtly officer and princely gen.
tlemen. sg.sllfl t..
OUR gallant and handsome friend,
Capt. w j. Berdine, color-bearerofth the royal
mandatory OF Kirby reapers, OF st. Louis,
conducted by d. NJ. Osborne & Co., returned
from q business skirmish in Southwest
Texas, yesterday. In O sanitary point it's
Quit plain Berdine ''holds nush."
ONE of our merchants pursued
man Ave miles out Of town yesterday upon
determining that he stole bolt Of bleached
domestic. On coming up with him he found
his mistake and returned to pay livery bill
of three dollars which with the loss of his
domestic, absorbed his days profits.
Two laborers, in going to work yes
terday morning, were run over on turning In
to Live Oak street by pair OF runaway hor-
ses attached to wagon. The horses jumped
entirely over the men, but the wheels OF the
wagon gave them some sound blows In their
rapid whirl across their bodies. l
THAT harlequin of the feathered c
tribe, the knocking bird, is among us with d
It's mosaic Of tunes
"In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow,
Thourt such testy, touchy, pleasant fellow,
Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen :,
rhere is no living with thee or without thee"