The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24
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from saturdays Daily Herald.l

FROM Ddhy ii'ihih'l
DALLAS has no beggars. We're all
wealthy.
PEDEsTRIANIsM is now the melowest
thing out.
BUT few kid slippers were on the
streets yesterday.
The famous race horse Ethan Allen
is en- route to this State.
OUR hotels are not large enough.
Where is Potter Palmer?
THE snow will help the wheat. Civ
ing us snow-white bread.
THIS is gossiping age. Even cot
ton has got to tale-bearing-"dog tail"
THE cupola on the new courthouse
looks like four inch hat on an eight
inch head.
OUR auriculars are again charmed by
the promise of n stupendous flour mill,
soon to be erected.
VAN-DIvER, of the Gatesville Sun,
is diver, who from the vastly deep of
editorial life brings up many pearls.
And in one of his late "dives" caught II
glimpse of THE HERALD whale.
A HORSE driven in a rockaway
slipped OH Elm street near Fosters,
yesterday, and broke two of his legs.
The occupant of the buggy was thrown
over the dashboard, but was not in
jured.
AN exchange wants to know what
Texas lawyers would think if Hon.
Lyman Tremaine, of New York, should
move to this State. Well if our law
yers had their wits about them, know
ing Lyman's frequent rhetorical flights,
they would think that their profession
had gained a distinguished case of de-
liriatm Tremaine(s).
A FARMER informed some parties at
a saloon in East Dallas, yesterday, that
OH going home on Wednesday night,
about eleven o'clock, he saw two men
with crowbars drawing the spikes from
the rails of the Central track, just
north of the Elm street crossing. See
ing him check up his horse, they
dropped the crowbars and ran.
(From Sundays Daily Herald.l
PASSENGERS over the Central road
compliment the managers upon the sharp
time they make.
ca in
this city that desk-room in offices is at an
extravagant premium.
EvIsCERATE the cutters. There was
a day when we could have written disem-
bowel. That is passed.
INSURANCE companies are getting as
thick in this city as ash-piles in u wagon
yard or squads in n pigeon roost.
1T took three engines, and they had
to hustle at that, to keep the trains in order
about the Pacific depot on Friday and yes
terday.
FIFTY dollars for six days occupancy
of store room on one of our business streets,
was exacted and complained of by q gentle
man in this city yesterday.
THE only damage sustained by Mr..
Austin during the few stirring moments at
the fire, yesterday morning, was slight in
jury to one ofhis show cases.
THE fire which broke out in the Sec
ond story of the building occupied by Messrs.
Franklin & Penn, early yesterday morning,
and was discovered in time and extinguished
with but trfling damage. Itoriginated from
some Goals falling out of the stove to the
floor, which it at once ignited.
tFrom Tuesdays Daily Herald.l
AN insurance company for firemen
only, is talked of. None but flremen need
apply.
The DALLAS HERALD isn't afraid of
any job office but the Congress of the United
States.
The work on the Wichita road goes
bravely railroadishly OH. Fifteen miles
have been located.
FoRNEY, of the Philadelphia Press,
Eliminates against "dead heads" Pray what
does q dead duck" know about "dead
heads ?"
ANOTHER male thief: A young lady
ran away with her lover near this city yes
terday. Where are the United States mail
detectiYss?
Governor ThrockmortOn.