The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-10-07

EAST DALLAS N haunted ny tue
house numborer
A NOEriEn, with rain, camo down
on "thls foldn last night,
The COMPRESS yard h receiving q
large amount Of cotton daily
THr PRofEaIoNALsIgn ofDr Mollett
ornaments the front Of hlastore.
East DALLAS wants the iron 10 on
tor her--stroels, Tho street railroad
Iron.
ONE hundred Berkshire ahoats were
sold 10 planter near Dallas, yesterday,
for eight hundred dollars,
COLONEL DENT, Of the street car
railroad company, haa removed his
family 10 his dairy farm.
our streets, yesterday, were crowded
with wagons. Many Of thom were
loaded with cotton from the neighbour
hood OF Waco.
A LiTTLE boy mutIlated hlu foot yes.
terdny with an ax, on east elm street,
In cutting piece of board, Two Of his
toes were cut OIL.
SHIRT studs are going out Of fashion
In this city. The susplclously long
strands OF hair found In many of them
may account for II.
A WIFE In this city, finding that the
chllls arc shaking her husband 40
much better than she can, she has
stopped until the chills depart.
AN individual, welding an OK whip,
halted street CIR the other day, and
asked the driver II he could haul n
wagon bed down town for him.
WE understand that there IL u pro-
jeot now under consideration TO build
two blocks Of brick store houses on
Commerce street, east of Lamar.
THERE Is an impecunious Fort
Worthite In Dallas studying for the
stage. He's studying how TO get home
In the lei Paso stage without paying for
Il.
PARTIES residing on Mckinney
street have petitioned the city council
to open that street from Polk street to
the south line of the Central railroad
reservation.
OUR wagon yards are full of emigrant
wagons bound for western and SOUTH
western Texas. Many of them pur-
chase large bills Of clothing and sup
plies before starting out.
A STAMPEDE of mules took place on
Market street. near Comerce yesterday
afternoon, causing one of the drivers
pitch from his horse to the ground as
though he was practicing to be pile
driver.
Two loaded wagons collided on east
Main street, yesterday. One of them,
loaded with furniture, had all extern
sion table smashed equal to the best
executions of the modern baggage
smasher.
THIS afternoon, at half-past three
o'clock, the Ladies' Aid and Benevolent
society of St. Matthew's church, will
meet at the residence of Mr.. Rogers, on
Mastin street, between San Jacinto
and Bryan streets.
A MIR. House, who kept store on
the wagon road leading north from
this city, and who was broken up by
the rascality of his partner, has Just
returned after six months chase after
him. Another house-breaker still
loose,
WE notice that several of our prop
erty owners before whose doors the
streets are being gravelled, are having
that material sifted, which is an i'm
provement over putting it down in the
crude state, even if the process of sift-
ing does waken babies and cause the
headache martyr to discourse violent
ly upon the things of this world.
Mr.. DAY, a very bright Day, too, was
caught, not an Atlantic cable length
from Dallas, the other day, watching
the problem Of several young ladies
getting themselves up for dance. The
neighborhood, learning of Mr.. DPS
enjoyable diversion, ordered him to at
once become invisible This is not the
first peep Of day that has been looked
upon with displeasure.
THE house murderer In this city has
his miseries like the rest Of us. The
other day he found himself at the top
Of his ladder with bull dog at the
bottom of 1t very anxious for him to
come down, and an old lady just above
him at the second story window, with
an exasperated shot gun pointed at
him, and the holder wanting to know
"what he was trying to get into her
house In that way for and stes