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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-10

TRUsTEES sALE.-By virtue of GER
i tain deed of trust to me executed, on the
30fh day OF August, 1873, By A. ID. Ellis and
wife. TO seoufe the payment OF certain
clairhs against them described in said deed },
win. on saturday. the 18th day Of January,
1874. sell to the highest bidder for cash. at
the courthouse door In the city of Dallas, the
household and kitchen furniture and fur-
nishing goods therein conveyed.
CHAS. FRED. TUCKER,
.27eiitvlt Trustee,
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Young men qualified as telegraph opera
tors, and permanent employment at liberal
salaries guaranteed.
Address ED. T. BASYE, Secretary,
Dallas Telegraph Institute,
l5w6w Dallas, Texas.
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UNDERTAKING
A. w. MORTON

Respectfully informs the citizens of Dallas
and the surrounding counties that he has
lifted UP his establishment on Cochran street,
make Collins at the shortest notice, to order,
and trim them in all styles. He also keeps
on hand, at all times, collins of all sizes,
ready made, with the exception of trimming,
which he can deliver at an hours notice, day
or night, He has also made arrangements to
keep on hand a full assortment of Metallic
Burial Cases, which he can deliver ON call.
He has the exclusive agency for these Burial
Cases, for Dallas and surrounding counties,
and can supply them ut the lowest prices.
Having provided himself with fine oval
Glass Hearse, and necessary APPENDICES, nc
will undertake all the necessary arrange
ments for burials with dispatch. He has de-
termined to make this his exclusive business,
and respectfully asks the patronage of the
public. A. W. MORTON,
39wtf Cochran date slid street.
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o. B. NANCE, ESQ, offers his valuable
farm, on ten Mile Creek, for sale. See
advertisement.
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YESTERDAY was as bright as bridal
wreath.
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From sundays Daily Herald,

lfrom Sundays Daily Heraid-I
THE wind, yesterday, tore of the tin
Gaping to a window cornice Of the
second story Of Hoskin's drug store.
A HORSE bearing q vacant saddle
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AGENTS

We are Offering the most taking and money
making combination thai has ever been pre-
scented. As IL is the best thing out, we want
the best Agents. A circular will cost you
nothing. and will convince you that here Is
a chance to make large profits at honest
"0' TTRNBULL BROS. Baltimore, Nd.
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mystery hanging over Tie departure Of
this family, the penetration Of when
may never bc made, but 10 which Is NJ
tacbed many interesting points.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-10

THE Crutchfield House is offered for
sale. See advertisement at head of
local column.
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WOIsfOn. Wells Il VfdOr
wffM FACTORS AND xNHISSIos MERCHANT
Ls,gu, Buidirg % Strand. Gsl'uin. fusl

Represented by George B. Campbell, Tuy-
cling Agent. We viii make liberal cash adj
vances on all cotton consigned 70 the above
house 9ABION a THOMAs.
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Just received per steamer San Antonio, the
largest stock OF Landrefh & sons garden
seeds ever brought 10 Texas All fresh. all
genuine, and all a. Philadelphia prices:
Goodrich. Peerless ete, 80 Rotet2Fs s
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Notice to Advertisers !

NOClC0 TO AuV0rCIS0rS
After the LIST day of Jan
nary, 1874, all bills for adj
vertisements in this paper
will be collected monthly,
unless otherwise specified
in contracts.
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JORDAN, GAY 81 CO.,
ENERAL
INSURANCE AGENTS
Are prepared to write insurance in Dallas
and surrounding counties in the following
first class companies NJ fair rates;
HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO., OF
HARTFORD, CONN.
Assets................."...-.. 90
NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO., OF
HANNIBAL, MO.
MANHATTAN FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
OF NEW YORK.
Assets
STATE INSURANCE CO., OF HANNl-
BAL, MO.
Assets %
MERCHA NTS' MUTUAL INSURANCECO.,
OF GALVESTON, TEXAS:
Assets .............. $3.50, 900 90
TEXAS BANKING AND INSURANC CO.,
OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.
.SSOO,OOO %
PLANTERS INSURANCE CO., OF HOUS-
TON, TEXAS.
oO
OLD DOMINION FIRE INLURANCE co.,
OF RICHMOND, VA.
Assets...-, .......,... ..........-............S
VIRGINIA FIRE AND MARINE INSUR-
ANCE CO., OF RICHMOND, VA.
%
FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE CO., OF
PHILADELPHIA.
Assets. ,5OosoIl Io
OFFICE--CITY BANK BUILDING,
Corner Of Commerce and Market sts.,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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Sale of Baggage.

Notice Is hereby given that the under
signed have in their possession the following
list of personal property left at the Crutch-
field hotel, of which they are the proprietors,
said property having been left by transient
persons as guests ut said hotel. Now, unless
said properly is claimed and charges paid,
on or by the I'D day of January, 1874, said
property will be sold at the front door of said
hotel, and said sale by a duly authorized
officer, between the hours of 10 q. IN. and
D. m. of said day. To-wit, left by one
w s. Thompson, two valises and contents.
Charles Dixon, one trunk and contents.
@. NJ. Douglass, one valisc and contents.
W. Hayse, one trunk and contents.
Gibson, one valise and contents.
8. M. Brown, one valise and contents.
w. II. ArnOtt. one trunk
s. +. Hearne, one trunk and contents.
b. A. MoHenry, one valise and contents.
- cameron, one trunk and contents.
Charles Hadley, one overcoat.
JOHNSON 4 McILHENNY,
TWIST Projectors.
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THE City Council capitulated to the
Establishments of the Silsby engine.
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p.a4t,. Astral OIL.

Woman's Medical Adviser, SO much needed
by all females, only twenty-five cents. Al
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l0d9&6nw

CURIOUS FAcT.-It appears that Amer
pride of nations, adds fresh graces and
new laurels to her charms every year.
Her dazzling beauty, her winning features,
her sweeter smiles. are causing poor ugly
Improvement It's being whispered around
that the change is being effected by the use
of that great female wonder, English Female
Bitters.
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WANTED,

Young men 10 learn the art of Telegraphy.
A permanent position is secured each pupil
when through. Salaries will average from
$50 to SIS per month. For particulars address
I'd. T. Basye, Secretary d alas Telegraph In
stitute, west side Public Square, Dallas,
Texas 4wsm
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nOSTERs, Dodgers, Circulars, and every
il kind OF Printing executed in the neatest
styles aud at the shortest notice at THE HEB
ain OrFICE
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USE HERALD joe oFfleE

Has been thoroughly recognized and Is
fulIv prepared TO do all kinds OF JOB
PRINTING In the latest styles and at the
very lowest prices, with dispatch,
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The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-23
Mysterious Demonstration.

A RATHER tough story, and one to be
taken with many grains of allowance,
comes from Oakland, Cal. A few
nights ago the residence of Mr.. Clark, the
paying teller of the Bank of California,
was the scene Of an extraordinary ghostlY
denomination. The family, consisting of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark and three young
gentlemen boarders, retired about II
O'Clock. For time everything was quiet
about the house, and its inmates had all
fallen asleep. Suddenly from the lower
part of the house came long, loud wall
OF anguish, as of some one in terror or
pain. Louder and louder grew the noise,
until the internal clatter had awakened
every one in the house. A desire for
companionship seized the boarders, and
they all gathered together in one room,
and were soon joined by Mr. and Mrs.
Clark. The noises still continued, but
changed in character very frequently.
An exploration was at length decided on,
and, leaving Mrs. Clark in charge:.of one
of the boarders, the party carefully de-
scended the stairs. Each had a revolver
in one hand, and with the other nervously
clutched the bannister The hall was
dark as Erebus, though when their
eyes became acc lstomed to the dim light
they could perceive any object that ght
be in the rooms below. The noise CON
tinued, and now and then note would be
struck on the piano. Just as they reached
the foot of the stairs chair came glid-
ing out of the parlor and took up its po-
sition in the doorway, bowling and pod
ding as if to reassure their fears. Rush.
ing past the chair one of the party en-
tered the parlor and lit the gas. Here
they saw strange sight. Every article
of furniture in the room was in motion.
The chairs and tables moved about like
animate things, and appeared to take no
notice whatever Of the intruders. Grad
ually the noises ceased and the furniture
became stationary. After waiting while
the party returned to their respective
rooms. In short time the noises began
again, and again the boarders descended
the stairs. To their inexpressible surprise
they found the parlor door taken from its
hinges and deposited on the floor. After
that there was no sleep in the house. In
the morning the furniture was found to
be disarranged ami much strained. The
outside bars and bolts were perfectly Sc
cure and there was no trace to show that
any one had entered the house. An ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomena is awaited
CHICAGO Inter. Ocean,
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A Sane Man Confined in a LunatiC
Asylum for Twelve Years.

COv1NeTON, our Missouri neigh
Dor, has had a sensation Of metropolitan
proportions. For six years she has num-
bered among her residents man named
Thomas Carter and woman named Mrs.
Dracott, the twain, as it is alleged, bear
ing relations to each other which it is in.
cumbent upon couples in similar circum-
stances to have ratified according to law.
Twelve years ago they were residents of
Oregon, the woman being the wife of a
man by the name of Dracott, who was
worth at that time the very comfortable
sum of $95, 900. BY conspiring with a
couple of the physicians connected with
the Territorial Insane Asylum Carter and
his paramour succeeded in kidnapping
Dracott and having him wrongfully in
carcerated in the institution on charge
of insanity, thereby gaining possession of
his fortune. For twelve long years this
villainous fraud upon Dracott had been
kept up, depriving him of his liberty and
compelling him to associate with luna
tics and madmen. Ry some means he
succeeded in conveying knowledge of his
deplorable situation to persons outside,
and an investigation of the matter was
instituted. So strongly had the job been
put up, however,. that an expense of
$4,000 on the part of the authorities was
required in order to break up
the tolls by which Dracott was
held. The efforts at ferreting out
the iniquity finally led to the dis
covery of the prime actor in the
monstrous imposition. A United States
detective was instructed to proceed to: Gov
ington and procure the arrest of Garter
and Mrs. Dracott. Upon arriving at
Omaha the officer learned that Carter had
started for Salt Lake City. He tele.
graphed to Ogden, and succeeded in Sc
curing the arrest of his man at that place
on last Wednesday. Yesterday he went
to Dakota City to examine the county
records for the purpose of discovering
what property the pair had, in order that
proceedings may be instituted for trans
ferring the title of it to Mr.. Dracott, as q
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partial restitution for what he has been
deprived of by the Vaccinations OF the
guilty parties. Carter has invested some
money in Covington and Dakota County,
and was one of the principal capitalists
who gave that town the impetus it had
three or four years ago.
We hope that whatever wrong has been
committed may bring to its doers a
prompt punishment, but it is out of the
reach OF possibilities for the unfortunate
Dracott to ever realize anything like an
adequate recompense for the misery and
mental anguish he has endured while
suffering as the helpless object of the Gu
pldlty OF talthless wife and unscrupu-
lous knave.-SSioua CITY (lo,oo) Journal.
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A Young Woman Unconscious for Five
Days.

The New Haven Journal of recent
Monday records as follows the case of a
young lady in that city, about nineteen
cataleptic trance since the night of
Wednesday of the previous week: She
retired on that night in full possession Of
health, and in the morning she was found,
body and limbs perfectly rigid, and has
ing no change in her situation. Respira-
tion and pulsation are regular and nat
ural, but she has been unconscious and has
taken but very trifling amount of nour'
ishment The lady had been subject to
catalepsy for eighteen months past, and
has at times, without moments warning,
become perfectly rigid and remained so
for longer or shorter intervals, sometimes
for hours, sometimes for only few mo.
ments. She has been seized when about
reaching her hand for an object, and in a
moment would lose all control of her mus
cles. Another singular circumstance at.
tending this case is that about a year ago
she lost all power of speech for twenty
four hours, but being at the time con-
scious, making known her wants by
signs. When regaining her speech she
could articulate nothing but the German
language, language which she had not
been in the habit of using, and which her
parents were not aware she could speak,
except simple words. Her parents are
both of German birth, but the daughter
has not been in the habit of conversing
in the language, but while in this state
she spoke it with great f1uency, greatly
surprising her parents, who had never
heard her use the language to any extent.
The disease of catalepsy, or trance, it is
we'll known to medical men, is disease
of the nervous system rarely met with
but not necessarily fatal"
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The only way to hold our own IL tC
keep advancing-no one can set still and
do it.
It duz seem that all mankind luv liet
more than they do truth. How menny
people do yu suppoze thare il in the
world who wouldn't rather listen to fiat
terry they knu waz false than to reproo1
they knu was just?
Wize men latf at most things in this life
1t IL only the phoois who gap and
swallo.
Yu kant allwuss tell how mulch a man
IL really tickled bi hearing him laff
Thare oug hit to be a masheen invented to
meazzure the Joy in him, just az thare il
to find out how much water thare IL in
milk.
Honesty IL the basis ov all that il good
or even remarkable in emmy man.
The reazon whi everybody luvs a
child, and pets puppy. IL bekauze they
are 80 natral.
Whenever yu see phellOW who IL for.
ever and amen in red hot hurry, WI kan
make up yure mind that he haint got
mulch to do, and but little kapacity to
do it.
Good breeding il nothing more than
the art ov knowing how to wait pashuntly
till our turn comes. A little child wont
do this, and little pig kant.
Gossip il more ketching than the
meazles il.
The quickest way to take the humility
out of man who IL forever blaming him
self for sumthing il to agree with him.
This amt what he IL looking for.
Book larnin IL all man needs in this
life, provided be spends hiz daze in q
closet.
Next to q bad man l am allWuss the
most afrade Ov cunning one.
Familiarity kan only be prakticed with
safety amung the we'll bred-fools and
puppys will run right over yu with the
least bit Ov encouragement.
Thoze who never laff seem to hav died
before their time cum.
Every human being haz hiz own pri-
vate sorrow, and thoze who whissell are
wizer than thoze who weep over it.
A conceited man il crate fraud, but
he never cheats emmy beddy so much az
he duz himself.
He who don't want what he haint got
haz got all he wants and IL happy,
whether he knows it or not.
The covetous man is like a sponge.
which takes in all the moisture that Gums
near it, and lets out none until it il
squeezed.
A cunning man il seldum wize, and not
allwuss honest.
The man who never deceives himself IL
the hardest kind ov man for others to
deceive.
If mankind had been satisfied with the
bare necessitys ov life, we should to-day
be just about az far advanced in the arts
and sciences az Cain and Abel wuz.
Double SKIES are good throw with the
dice, but thare IL one better throw than
that-throw them into the fire.
Prudence is a most necessary virtew it
aint safe to be HAIRLESS, even with an in
innate friend
No man haz ever lived to be so old, and
so wize, that he couldn't learn sumthing
from experience.
Thare il crate menny ginger. pop peo.
pie; after they hav been unkorked for a
fu minnits, they git to be dredphull fiat
Josh Billings, IN N. Y. Weekly.
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TONY HARDSCRABBLE'S WIFE.
BY VIM. II. BUSBEY.

Tony HARDSCRADBLE was carpenter,
blacksmith, mender of tubs and barrels,
and Jack -of-all-trades for the rural neigh
borhood in which he lived. His little
shop in which he made horse shoes, shod
the farmers horses, sharpened plowshares,
made tables, doors, desks, cupboards,
bureaus, and occasionally cotf1ns; in
which he pounded away at wonderful
pork and vinegar barrels, and frightened
up dilapidated old tubs and casks-this
little shop was situated at point in the
woods where an old road crossed a new
one, and was in itself queer, patchcd.up,
new and old building. Tony owned no
corner lots, but no one intruded upon
him. His little house, the gray, hewn
logs divided by seams of white plaster
ing, seemed cosy and comfortable; and
while the shop opened on the road the
house stood back among the trees. North,
south, east and west were neighbors with
in a quarter or half mile range, and the
neighborhood was thiCkly settled. But
no one saw the advantage of corner lots
near TOny's shop, not even the spectators
and wise men Of the village three miles
distant, and Tony was sole resilient at the
Corners, where he had garden patch
that did not flourish and family that in
creased rapidly. Tony had fair skin
where it showed above his elbows and be-
low the collar band of his shirt (collar he
disdained to weary, but his face had q
dark, grimy look. He was strong with
out being stout, and was fond of display.
ing his strength and prowess. His face
was that Of daring, resolute man, and
his neighbors never took much comfort
in looking at it. Tony was handy man
and, as the country people said, was moi
afraid of work. He never received much
ready money, but he got his pay in shape
of corn or flour or pork, or money in good
time. The people who patronized him
did not neighbor with him, however
They knew little about the family, but
they inferred that Mrs. Hardscrabble had
hard time of it. She was a good
natured, 1ound-faced woman, who was
always busy indoors, and who seemed to
take great comfort with her children, all
OF which was mercy, the good old
women of the neighborhood thought, as
she had little comfort in her husband.
Tony's wife in those DAYS did moi
make much of an impression. People
caught only glimpses Of her, but they
knew she was comely woman. While
other women of her age in the neighbor
hood were sallow and broken down, Mrs.
Hardscrabble was fresh, plump and
strong. The face was attractive, but had
little character; and Tony's wife wa
classed among the hesimple-minded drudgea
and was frequently referred to as
woman who thought the world and all o
her children, but who had not an atom o
spirit And Tony was good to her. Tha
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NUMBER 81.

Committees Of Congress before the close
Of the present session, if possible. The
Secretary says: "1n this way only can a
reliable estimate be arrived at for an
appropriation; and it is confidently
hoped, if our case is to be fairly consid-
cred and public sentiment regarded, that
Congress will promptly vote an amount
sufficient to cover the applications thus
preSentedn
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"A little four-year-old girl went run
ming into the house the other day, ex-
claiming, Mamma, mamma, I've seen
Jack Frost ! I've seen Jack Frost!"
where did you see him, my darling ?"
queried the mother. "Oh, l saw the tip
of his tail hanging over the caves" She
had seen an icicle.
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| The best absorbing substance for
easing the pain of bee.stings is fresh lean
meat. This will relieve the pain of
wasp sting almost instantly, and has been
recommended for the cure of rattlesnake
bites. It is also used with marked effect
| in ervsipelas.
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"A lady in the country was unwise
enough to fit out her boy of five with fish.
ing tackle. Soon she heard shout from
the barn.yard, and found one of her very
best hens had swallowed the hook and
was fast winding up the line in her crop.
Of course she was greatly troubled, but
all the comfort she got from the young
fisherman was this: "Don't worry,
mother, guess she'll stop when she gets
to the pole"
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-23

The production of wool in the United
States during the last four years is thus
set down by the Commercial Bulletin: In
1870, 125, 900 900 pounds; 1871, III, ,500,0 900
pounds; 1872, 135,O00,000 pounds; 1873,
148,jOO. 600 pounds,
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-23

VIRGINIA boasts Of blue horse, the
only one ever heard of.
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The production of lumber last year
on the upper Mississippi and its tribu-
| taries is estimated at 1852, ,163, 1928 feet,
both logs and lumber being included.
The supply Of logs on hand for the season
of 1874 is estimated at 315 ,50O, 900 feet.