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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-11-14

OUR dispatches of yesterday stated
that there had been q collision at Eu-
faula, Alabama. The following is the
fullest information we have been able
to gather about it;
The disturbance was quite sanguin-
ary; six whites wounded, one of them
(William Keith mortally; three ne
groes killed outright, and as far as
heard from seventy-four were wounded,
ten or fifteen of the number mOrtally.
Since the fight five have died, and
three or four more will die during the
night. The difficulty arose out of the
abuse of a negro who had voted the
democratic ticket by several radical ne
groes, among whom was one very bad
negro, named Miles Long.
Several whites rushed up when they
saw abuse being heaped on the demo-
cratic negro, and when he received
several blows they rushed in and Or
dered the mob to desist. Miles Long
offered to draw a pistol on one of the
whites, when he was told not to draw
a weapon there, or he would be killed.
With an oath against the whites, and
daring them to come on, he drew his
pistol and fired.
In an instant general fire from
whites and blacks commenced. The
latter stood for second or two, and
then gave way in one of the widest
stampedes ever witnessed on our
streets.
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WINTER weather and heavy roads
will soon have to be contended with.
The HERALD would urge upon the
county authorities to organize means
of having the principal roads leading
into Dallas turnpiked. There is plenty
of hard rock to be mad, and if all of our
main roads in the county were turn
piked it would be of immense benefit
to the county, and greatly aid trans
portation and travel. Suppose all of
the main roads leading out of Dallas
were turnpiked to the county line, it
would give our farmers the advantage
over those of any county in this section
in getting their produce to market.
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our population as will be surprising
even to the most sanguine Of those
who have lately put their shoulders to
the wheel. The roads are already lined
with immigrants coming to Texas.
A gentleman informs us to-day that,
OIL his way from Missouri to this state,
he saw very large number of movers
with substantial outfits, and unmistaka-
BILE evidences of being thrifty, who
were bound to different portions of our
territory. The tidal wave of immigra-
tion sets toward ous more than to any
other state of the union.
Every section of Texas has awaken
ed to the subject of obtaining popula-
tion for our fertile lands, and all pro-
per and liberal inducements are being
offered to those who are looking for
homes in country where none need
want, and all can be independent.
Our future is to be a glorious one.
Already is our state pointed to as one
that is to shine more brilliantly than
all the Others in this great constella-
tion of states, and 1t will not be long
before, to its fullest extent, we shall
see what Houston fancied he saw just
twenty years ago.
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HERE it is again. The Houston Tel
egraph values the good weather at
100000 per diem. Some of our ex-
changes say it isn't worth II cent so far
as the cotton crop is concerned. Where
so many doctors differ, how is a true
diagnosis to be reached? The Jimple-
cute will note the following, and let us
hear from it again. We are an earn
est seeker after light on this subject:
A great many who have been enjoy
ing the magnificent weather with
which we have been blessed since tue
1st of October, little dreamed what a
source of wealth it was to our state.
Every day of fine weather during the
month of October was worth 100000
to Texas, and every day of fine weather
up to the Goth of the present month
will average the same. Thirty days of
fine weather last month added sixty
thousand bales to our crop of cotton,
worth $3,0O0,000 to our planters, and in
the same proportion will it be up to
the oath of November. Good weather
is quite an item with us Mt this season
of the year.
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The HERALD has labored for twenty
five years to advance the welfare Of
Dallas. 1t has seen our thriving and
prosperous city grow up from a little
village. The HERALD therefore, has
some right to claim for Dallas what
she is entitled to rs railway and COM
mercial poiut. The railways have
made rates from Dallas to New York,
Boston, st. Louis, Memphis and Gal
weston, but what the HERALD will
now insist upon is fair local rates to
Dallas. We hear good deal of rates
to Houston and Galveston let us hear
now of rates of such characterize Dallas
as will foster and build up our cotton,
grain and produce trades. We have no
idea of permitting Dallas, which isnow
acknowledged to be the most impor-
tant business place in north Texas, to be
inundated upon the altar of Galveston
and Houston's progress. We earnestly
wish to cooperate with our chief sea-
port and our principal railway center
in their efforts TO build up, but our CO.
operation must be based upon liberal
spirit on the part of those cities which
will not ask Dallas to play poor rela-
ton and take what they choose to give.
We demand that hereafter in making
rates to Galveston or Houston that the
On fa1 chnxur than, shall ha
shown Dallas. We are on the line of
the Central, our cotton business is in
creasing and we cannot permit 1t to
be strangled by exorbitant local rates
to Dallas through more moderate local
rates to Galveston and Houston.
The HERALD has given years of work
to encourage railways and in pointing
out tthe advantages to the country ofgood
roads, with rates just to all; and if the
Central and Missouri Kansas and Tex
as roads are to he run in the interest
of st. Louis, Galveston and Houston,
though they have to mangle and crush
us, we will see what can be done by
the business men of Dallas, acting as
a unit, in the matter of ffeights, to-
ward lessening the evil. There are
other routes north besides by the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas, and other
than Galveston and Houston.
alive and let live" is the HERALD's
Motto. Dallas will certainly not per-
nit herself to be run over by couple
of railways and two Jealous cities.
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HOUSTON has been conceded by Gal
weston to be far ahead of her in mu-
steal taste and culture. This is rather
mortifying admission for the Venice
of Texas to make. She may console
herself with the reflection that San
Antonio and Dallas can compete with
the Bayou City for the laurel wreath.
Miss Lacoste, the accomplished daugh-
ter of J. b. Lacoste, Esq, of San An
tonic, is the most highly cultivated
and brilliant pianist in the state. Her
musical culture is of the highest and
most classic order. She is an artist, If
remarkable facilityin overcoming pro-
digious difficulties in the way of execu.
ton, thorough knowledge of and ap-
titude in reading, and exquisite taste
in rendering, can entitle her to the
palm.
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MAILGRAMS.

Rev. w. F. Adams, pastor ofSt.
Paul's church, New Orleans, has been
appointed bishop of New Mexico and
Arizona.
Hon. E. Ramsey Wing, of Ken.
lucky, United States minister to Ecua-
dor, died in Onits on the 11th ult.
Lawrence Barrett is doing Richlieu
in Louisville.
Bishop Cummins is rehearsing the
pressure in Canada, where he is doing
a thriving reformation" business.
Grant is laughing out of the wtrong
side of his mouth about the third term
experiment.
Mr.. Hayward, an American, is sing
ing soprano parts in Italy. Hope he
is pretty fellow.
The new cable just picked up was
only two miles down below the surface
ofthe sea.
The postoffice at Maysville was
Tveeded OH the I'd instant Ihe gen.
tlemanly and polite burglars got
mighty little.
There has been considerable dis
charging done ia Norfolk, among rail-
way employees. Cause, something rot
tenin denmark
Tie people of Ohio will thank God
on the 26th instant for the election
news.
Russell, Kentucky, has been threat
ened with burning, by the woods now
OF fife.
Horace Maynard and Judge Porter,
candidates for governor of Tennessee,
locked horns in Memphis this week.
Business made John Kergan, of New
Orleans, powder and lead Billy Burke
last Monday.
Frank Thompson, a passenger on the
shOrt-line from Dayton, Ohio, to Gin
ciDnati, was run over and kilisd by
cars last Monday.
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens
continues to humble about his friend
Grants virtues when the people have
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THERE is great need of a Dallas
county immigration association, If for
nothing but to show people the lands
and answer letters ofinquiry about the
city and county. 1t would take cor
bureau, with a number of
clerks, to answer properly the letters
received in this city, alone from parties
wanting Information, with view to
Cannot some of the
good old pioneers not engaged in ac-
tive business, take hold of this project
and put it through ? The more infor-
nation spread abroad about our city
and section, the more money and pop
ulation we will gain, to say nothing Of
muscle and brains.
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MIR. GRANT must have the m oral cuti-
Gle ofa rhinoceros If ftheresult ofthe late
elections has not convinced him that
the people want him to step "down
and out" The republican party is
now rope of sand that can and will
not permit of his anchoring himself
in the White house for third term.
The Louisiana tragedy has given his
comedy of errors its quietus, and he
will not be able to run it another
night. Even the professional malig-
nifty of MortonN could not save him
this time from that bourne from which
poor Colfax even has found it impossi-
bic to return. These dogs have had
their day, and a sorry day it was for
them, when the people shook them
selves. An earthquake would have been
a boon compared to this last shake.
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Triumphed I'm Spite of All Odds.
[Boston Post

This news is too good. Call the
roll of states, and Massachusetts
leads them all. Butlerism is down,
trampIed upon, squelched. And
with it goes Grantism and terror
ism, and the pestlent elements that
have so long debased our politics,
state and national. There is no
recovery from such a blow. The
people have fairly the control.
This has been done against the in
timidation and threats Of the state
police, against the whole power Of
the custom house and federal Office
holders, against n navy yard colon
lied at an expense of thousands of
dollars daily, and against the infu-
ence of money and of promises law
ishly scattered. 1t means that the
people are at last in earnest; that
neither the terrors Of the bloody
shirt nor the sacredness of party
obligations, so earnestly pleaded by
Mr.. Dawes and Mr.. Blaine, can
longer hinder them from getting rid
at once and for all of this reproach.
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Our COngressman J. W. ThrOckmOr-
ton.
From the Sherman Register,

From the Sherman Register,I
No congressional district in Texas is
more honored in the selection of its
representative than the third. In the
person of J. w. Throckmorton we
have man who, in point of ability,
in our opinion, has no superior, and
very few equals in Texas. No man in
the state has received such a flattering
testimonial of regard from the people
as did ThrOckmOrton in the unani-
NOUS nomination by the democracy Of
the third district.
The vote polled Tuesday, although a
very small one, is nearly all for him.
No man in the district could have
beaten him for the office. The people
were determined to reward him, by a
seat in congress, for his yerrs of work
in their service.
Governor Throckmorton came to
Texas when quite boy, before Texas
had been admitted to the union. He
was elected to the legislature as repre-
sentative of Collin and Denton coun-
ties in 1857, soon after reaching his
majority. His course in the legisla-
ture was highly satisfactory to his con-
stituency and he was reelected several
times. He held other important posi-
tions of trust previous to the war, and
in 1866, on the reorganization of the
state government, was elected COVER
nor. His career as governor was short
but brilliant. He was removed on the
ground that he was all "impediment
to reconstruction" in Texas. Under
his administration Texas, so lately
nf
began to build up her waste places and
repair her shattered fortunes. The
judiciary was sreorganized; taxes levied;
the public debt largely decreased; I;
Wholesome laws enacted; the ne
gro, fresh from the bonds of
slavery, was invested by law
with all the rights and privi-
leges of the white man, and the state
once more placed OH the road to pros
perity. But this state of affairs was
not to last long. The radicals who had
been defeated for office clamored
loudly for the removal of Throckmor-
ton, and General p. H. Sheridan is
sued his order removing him, and ap-
pointing E. M. Pease in his stead.
Upon retiring from office Governor
Throckmorton issued an address to
the people of Texas, reviewing his ad-
ministration, and stating the causes
leading to his removal. This address
to the people as he gave up the office
to which they had elected him, in obe-
dience to the order of the military
officer commanding the district, will
live in the history of Texas, as the
ablest vindication of her people from
the wrongs of military oppression ever
published. 1t is a scathing rebuke of
the course pursued by General Sheri-
dan, and at the same time breathes the
spirit oftrue patriotism and submission
to the laws of the land.
Besides his eminent service as pub
lie officer, Governor ThrockmortOn
has been an earnest worker in the
cause of internal improvement in our
state, and to his untiring labors we are
indebted for much of the prosperity
we enjoy to-day.
Well may we congratulate ourselves
OH the rejection of man of such un-
doubted honesty and splendid ability
to represent our district in congress.
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SOME TIME ago there was some tall

SOME TIME ago there was some talk
about the Central railway companys
building a passenger depot near where
the compress now is. 1t would GER
tainly be great convenience to the
travelling public and our citizens also.
In view, however, of the possible
building of the proposed new line of
railway from New Orleans to this
place, grand union depot would be
still more desirable. Everything
which facilitates access to our city and
egress from it is to be encouraged. The
railway companies will be the first,
perhaps, to appreciate and profit by a
union depot. This arrangement would
not injure the property of either, but
benefit the city and the companies
also.
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STATE ITEMS.

DIR. J. Friend, of Houston, was burned
out on the Sd instant. Loss $4,000.
Eight hundred coils of telegraph
wire, enough for four hundred miles Of
telegraph, are at Denison. The work
will commence at Denison on Saturday
next.
Jefferson has her back up because
Houston says she has lost some of her
cotton trade.
ID. M. McPhail, near Cypress bayou,
Harrison county, lost his house by fire
this week.
Rev. j. f. Waddell D.. d., ex-chan-
cellor of the University of Mississippi,
preached in Marshall last Sunday.
The Mcclellan county farmers are
going to raise fine stock.
The cotton crop around Austin is
nearly picked.
On the first day of January, 1875, all
Texas land certificates that were in ex-
istence at the framing of the present
constitution, are null and void.
Corsicana is happy over gold mine
discovery.
G. B. Morphis, of company A, state
troops, died at Stephensville, ON the
18TH ultimo.
Major Waelder, of San Antonio, has
been telegraphed that the road from
San Marcos to the Guadalupe twenty
miles) will be Immediately constructed
by Colonel Andrews, of the Columbus
road.
]. S. Whittlesy, who is not wholly
unknown in Houston, wants to dis
gorge and compromise with Harris
county.
Houston wants more water-and less
whisky.
William Miller, of McCulloch coun-
ty, has been wounded twenty-seven
times by Indians.
Tyler was very happy over her i'm
migration pow-wow.
Rev. Robert Elliott, son Of the late
Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, has been
elected missionary bishop of western
Texas.
There is a colony of Louisianians
in Waco.
The ladies of Houston give a bazar
entertainment for the benefit of Shearn
chapel, this week.
One thousand emigants a day is what
Texas gets now.
The vote of Texas was small, but was
large enough to elect clean demo-
cratic congressional delegation.
The cotton crop near Bonham is
nearly picked.
The state has just received $74, 900
from the railroads in cash.
Four hundred dollars in specie is
what burglar got from Mr.. Hamp
Thomas, of Courtney, on Tuesday night
last.
The fair given in Sherman for the
benefit of the Presbyterian church was
q success.
The Galveston wharf company
wrings 81, ,l36,725 out of the commerce
of the state every year.
The Telegraph and Statesman are
over the value of dollar |
which neither has.
Coal has been found near Bremond.
This is an improvement on the fieas
found there.
Barverra, one of the Penescal MUIR
derers, has been sentenced to the pen
itentiary for life.
s. n. Clark, N, HI. Cook and Rev.
Mr.. Mussett, of Cleburn, were robbed |
last week of few trlfles in the way of |
saddles.
The Rusk tramway will be in opera
ton shortly.
Mr.. J. E. Elgln and Miss Ella Hol-
land Were thrown from q buggy in |
Waco, and slightly injured, on Thurs
day last. egg
The International railway company
is going for the emigrants.
The sheep business in western Texas
Is flourishing.
Kaufman county is improving rap
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We had seated ourselves to write
something about the prospective great
ness of Texas, for our Tennessee and
Memphis excursionists to take home
with them, when we were fortunate
enough to find the following in the
Telegraph of the 5th instant AS it
says all that we wanted to say much
better than we could have said it our
self, and as it is much easier labor to
edit with the scissors than with the
pen, we give it entire:
Twenty years ago General Sam
Houston delivered speech from the
old Capitol Hill in Austin, and in pic
turing the future of Texas to the vast
audience that hung upon the old war
rior's words, he raised himself up to
the full measure of his commanding
height, and looking as it were, out in
the time to come, said ~ see a grand
empire stretched out before me, with
its busy cities and towns, its f1eecy
fields, its golden grain, It's herds upon
an hundred hills and plains, its looms
and factories, its countless wealth and
laughing prosperity, and / thank God
that to your children and mine this
heritage shall come, when we who
have borne the heat and burden of the
day In the dark hours of the republic,
shall have passed from this worlds
stage, and are at rest from our labors."
The hero of San Jacinto, and many
more of those who laid the foundation
of our present greatness and prosperity
have fallen asleep, but the magnificent
empire that Houston saw i'm the Wis.,
ion which he had on old Capitol Hill,
is beginning to be realized by the chill
dren, and the thousands who are pour
ing into our state are rapidly develop
ing its resources until we can almost
see the fulfillment Of his prophesy.
From New England, from the middle
states, from the west and from our al
most ruined sister states Of the south,
we are daily receiving new citizens,
and the better class Of immigrants
from abroad are being attracted to our
borders. We have been at work in
the right way hitherto, but now we are
at work In earnest, and the prospects
are we shall have such an accession 70
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THE weather for the past month has


been lovely. Not cloud in the sky;
the thermometer at a genial bracing
figure; the country looking fresh and
the foliage and grass green; the at
mosphere eXhilarating and mild and
with none of the elements of de-
bility in it. Our farmers are making
the most of it, and the roads leading
to the city are throfged with hearty
farmers and their rosy wives and chill
dren coming in with their fine teams,
loaded with cotton and produce, pre-
senting gratifying picture of the pros.
perity, health and manhood of our
people. So much for this being a
white mans country and no reign of
carpet baggery.
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already passed upon his merits very
significantly.
Fechtor, the great German actor, is
making love as "Claude Melnotte" in
New Orleans.
Grant Is the champion acceptor of
dead head railway tickets. He didn't
pay his six hundred dollar hotel bill
in st. Louis the other day.
The Chicago Tribune's tripod has
fallen into the strong hands of Mr.. Jo.
seph Medell.
Napoleon w, now handsome,
manly youth has gone into training for
the imperial throne by fencing with
his papa's physicians son.
A monument, for September l4th
1874, is talked Of in NewOrleans.
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BoNHAM NEWS, 30th: "a very dis
tressing accident occurred last Monday
at the toll bridge on Bois dare. A Mr..
Proctor, of Kaufman county, OH his
way to Arkansas with his family, con-
sisting of his wife and one child, camp
ed at the bridge Sunday night. On the
following morning Mr.. Proctor came
back to town to have some work done
at the blacksmith shop. In his alb
sence his wife led to water wild young
horse which had been tied to the end
of the wagon. While the horse was
drinking it took fright at boy who
rode up on the opposite side, and DASH
ed off through the woods, dragging
Mrs. Proctor, whose foot had become
entangled in the lariat. 1t dragged
her thirty or forty yards, lacerating
and bruising her painfully. The lady's
condition at the time rendered such an
accident peculiarly critical, but on the
following day her infant was born
alive, and at present writing both
mother and child are doing WELL"
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An Awakening OF National Honor.
Nashville Union and Americana.

Radcalism has died Of its rotton-
ness. The northern people deter
mined to cleanse the Washing ton
stables. Such seems to us to be
the supreme issue that overrulod all
others in every section. 1t indicates
an awakening of the national sense
of honesty, and will be followed by
important results in other direc-
tions, Rid of the glamour of rad
icalism, the north will sec many
other subjects in better light.
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AeE NJ TT 81.
G. w. BECKETT, General Travel

@. W. BECKETT, General Travelling Agent.
Merssrs. Richard II. driflin, Advertising
Agent, No. South street. Baltimore, Md.
y. NJ. Pettengill h Co., 81 Park Row, New
York, and Messrs. Coe, Wetherill & Co., No.
auly authorized to contract for ADVERTISE
ments for insertion In the DALLAS HER
AID, at our lowest rates.
p6Messrs. Dashiell & Waters, Bankers,
Kaufman, are authorized agents for THE
HERALD In Kaufman county.
nS-T. NJ. Smith, Esq, at Lewisville, Denton
county, is an authorized agent for the Dali
LAS HERALD, and money paid to him on
our account will be duly acknowledged by us.
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GrnntEnioy. the yeke.

The Man Who Laughs is new char
acter for Ulysses the silent The third
term controversy tickles him, and he
cachinates Cracked and thin, like a
mans laughter heard in hell, far
down." Like Victor Hugo's hero, the
laugh may be on one side Of the face
only-the wrong side.-[New York
Herald,
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THE people have taken the bit in
their mouth, run away, kicked out of
the traces, pitched Grant into the mud
aud smashed his circus band wagon
into smithereens. Consequently there
will 6e no performance of the popular
farce of ";, Third Term or the Drunk
ards fate.u