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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-10-20

THE Houston Telegraph CLOSES M
article Oh our present inefficient public
school system with the following SIg'
gestions;
We favor the cooperation of NE
state authorities aud the people let
the state furnish the plans aud speclll
cations, the community where the
school Ia to be buildt the house, and
provide for oncAali the cost by taxa
lion, and then let the state, on Inc
proper returns being made Tint the
plan and Specifications had beencom.
piled with, aud that onc-half the cost
of reconstruction had been paid, provide
for the payment of the other hail.
This being done, the state can then
make IN appropriation for = teacher
with some assurance that the cduca-
tonal fund VIII be expended III n IA
tional aud profitable manner i.
The present method Is. an IMPROVE
dent waste of money, almost totally
barren of results, and roproach to
the fair fame of this great state.
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AND now comes Judge Nat. NJ. Bur
ford to the front again. This time
with basket of large radlshes, grown
at his home In the southern part Of the
city, These vegetables vary from six
to ten inches in length, and from -four
to six inches In circumference. The
seed was sown on the 18th of Septem-
Der. The Judge has u remark also to
make about the grasshoppers. He
says they are extremely delicate and
dainty in their diet. This he learned
by observing the systematic manner
in which they went through his turnip
patch. There being several varieties
of turnips growing together, they con
fined their attention to n particular
kind, leaving all the Others untouched
until they had exhausted their first
love. They were not too nice, though,
to clean them all up before they car
petbagged to other fields.
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WE copied u statement from the
State Gazette, few weeks ago, to the
effect that ColonelJ. d, Elliott, the ed.
itor of that paper, had made arrange
ments in st. Louis to supply the de-
mdnd for doniesticservants about Aus
tin. The success of his arrangement
has induced Colonel Elliott to enlarge
Telescope of his plans, and to under
take to supply servants In any part of
the state they may be wanted. The
following, from the Gazette of the 10th,
shows what he proposes to do: q
During the past week we have ship
ped from st. llonis about one hundred
farm hborers ami fionse sefvants. Out
of this number we brought twenty to
Austin. We propose 10 advertise
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No MAN can vote In the approaching
election for members ofcongress unless
he ~ n registered voter The clerk OF
the court " the official registrar lorlhe
county. Persona who were registered
last year are not required to register
again. All persons not heretofore
registered, who are qualified to vote ut
the election to be held on the ID OF Mo-
vcmber, must register their names
with Captain A. HARDWOOD, county
clerk, on or before the Slsl day OF oc'o
Der, otherwise they viii not be all owed
40 vote, |I
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trouble, hut the exact nature ~ II IL
mol known, bat supposed W be ilnan'
pial,- Denison Times,
finpe The last rain falners have had
q lige Hpel of weather for gathering
corn ana picking puilpn, They nli
seem "a have been wide awake "a lhelr
Interests, and have lpktu advantage ~
the opportunity, Most Of the corn 10
now safely garliered, and The cotton -
heing rapidly picked, Bath crops are
turning out better Than Was nnlirlpu-
ted, Cumberland Presbyterian,
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nAnnllNE.
nALLAe, October ", 1871

nAILAe, October ", 1871
The chaInmen ~ the committees ~
tho different precincts on eoIllrlpu'
tions viii please report tho result "
their laborr, the amount aud klnd III
their contributions on Monday, the
e0th Instant II Is desirable that There
reports be made In order that we may
know what h contributed, aud what
may he necessary 10 be supplied
~ W., h. CAMILLA
Chairman Executive Committee
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To The Ladies.

The undersigned respectfully calls the at
tention OF the ladies Of New Orleans and vi
cinity, to the superior facilities of her factory
kinds in hair, such as Ladies' Curls, Braids,
Waterfalls, Uhignons and Wigs, and every.
thing belonging to a ladies' toilet. Orders
promptly and faithfully executed ON the
'o"e'' '' MRS. ANNIE sARoN,
Lock Box $50, "A Baronne st., New Orleans,
3fdly
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chaIrman IsxouulIy0 commIlIog

TnE Houston Age comes To w WIN
n new aud ornate heading We 0re
pleased 10 note II ~ On Indication OF
the prosperity Of that eSceIlenIly well
conducted paper
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FOB wORK-Letter Heads, Cards, Circulars,
y Bill Heads, Posters, Lawyers Briefs, Pam
phlets and every kind of Job PRINTING
promptly executed at the Herald office.
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MiRGEfs Dy TELEGRAPH


NEW YoRR, August ~, 10 A. NJ
Gold opened Ut W.
lO.OjA. M.--totton stcndy aud In fair
demand. Middling Orleans l7lc; midi
ding Alabama, l7lc; mlddling up
lands, ~; low mlddling, l6ic; strict
good ordinary, l5lc; good ordinary,
l5Ic; ordidinary, 1899.
1920 4. M.-tiold %.
1850 p.M.-GOld o..
Exchange Irregular and duh at
iS03GGlDOl sixty days, SG!mS7l; COM
mercinl sixty days simi5
3 Tor. M.---Gold closed ut %.
LIVERPOOL, August -, 1890 p.M.-C0t-
ton steady. uplands SlCgStci Orleans
SaGeSlc. Sales II, 900 bales; for specula-
ton and export, 1000 bales; American,
5000 bales.
GALVESTON, August 10, IL a. Moot
ton quiet. Good ordinary, liic; mid
ding uplands, l6sc.
Gold 0GG0l.
Hides firm and in fair demand.
Dry selected, l9Ic; wet salted, SIC.
LONDON, August IL, 1880 =. NJ
Bonds, new, 5s lO4.
New ORLEANS, August Is, II a. NJ
Cotton firm. Middling, uplands, l6sc;
low middling, lGsc; good ordinary
lac; ordinary, He. Sales 2jO bales;
last evonine, 200 bales.
Exchange, 3O4GI32; bank, 36!; sight
lGl5-lG; commercial l premium.
Gold, 9I@9s.
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In the advertisement in the issue OF
Saturday last, informing the people
who the trustees of the different school
districts for the current year are, n
good many mistakes in the spelling OF
names occurred. Some ofthese errors,
n small part of them, are due to our
compositors. The most of the mis-
takes were i'm the copy. We have been
requested to correct the errors that oc-
cured in the list for precinct No. 2,
and take pleasure in doing so.
District No. ] Trustees - Joseph
Crouch, Noah Lovett and 5. G. Wealth
erfOrd.
District No. 2-Thomas J. Weather
ford, j. 2. Apperson and William Orr.
District No. 5---Maior p. Everts.
Francis NJ. White and II. j. Mottett.
District No. William j. Baker,
Samuel Phelps and J. l.. Lawhorn.
District No. lO-R. A. Roberts, j. IL.
Stewart and Jackson Rape.
District No. l3--.John Wilson, Rob-
ert Penn and ---- Triesse.
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DEa1GCRkTlG USAGE.

The discussion of the question OF the
two-thirds rule or of the majority rule
is now interesting the democrats OF
Texas. The two-thirds rule has, we
believe, always prevail ed in this state,
that rule having been adopted for the
government of national conventions
of the party in 1874, just before the an
neXation of Texas to Che United
States. If we are not in error, the ma
jority rule still prevails in nearly all the
states in state and district conventions.
Such we know to be the case in South
Carolina. A friend of ours, interested
in this question, wrote to Colonel ID.
II. Armstrong, chairman of the DEM
ocratie state central committee of Mis-
souri,, to ascertain what tbs rule IN that
state is. The subjoiHed letter is the
reply of Colonel Armstrong:
DEAR SR--1n response TO your favor
OF the 4th instant, inquiring whether
ithe majority or twO-thirds rule pre-
walls ia democratic conventions in
Missouri" ! beg to state that the ma
iority rule prevails universally with us
In all conventions, state, congressional,
senatorial, etc. do not remember an
instance to the contrary. The rule has
passed into tradition. Very truly,
YOUR friend, %. II. ARMSTRONG.
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TEE HEATED TERM.

The unprecedentedly hot weather
that has been prevailing for four
weeks, together with the accompany
ing drouth, has blighted the hopes of
many a hard working farmer who, on
the first Of July, looked proudly over
his fields and estimated the return he
would get in autumn for his labor of
the spring and summer. Such it has
always been and such il will always
be- Man proposes, but God disposes.
Disappointment is, we suppose, a
healthy discipline, and as such is adj
ministered to us.
But, moralizing aside, the serious
shortening of the crop that is bound to
result from the long continued heated
term is one of the most serious mis-
fortunes that has ever betallen Texas.
In Illinois the corn crop is almost a
total failure. In large part of Kan
sas the grasshopper has been bur-
den," and has swept everything clean
before his ravenous march. In Ken
lucky and portions of Tennessee the
corn and provision crops are utterly
worthless.
In these days of easy and rapid
transportation people in locating,
where provisions are scarce and high
priced, find it to their interest to move
to other places where the necessities of
life are cheap. So that if we should be
in condition here to offer cheap corn to
emigrants they would come in hundreds
and in thousands to avail themselves
of it, and to make IeXas their home,
And that is all we want to make Texas
an empire within herself-to see her
boundless prairies dotted all over with
the homes of a happy and prosperous
people.
1t may be possible, as we have heard
suggested, that the damage to the corn
crop is not as great AS is apprehended
that the corn was so far advanced
before the rains ceased that it went on
maturing, and that, IN fact, the crop
TO be gathered is very near as full as
was at any time expected. We earn
estly hope that this may be so, and
would be glad to hear from practical
planters in Dallas county and in other
colpties rs to the true state of the
case. If the Information can be sent
abroad through the papers of the state
that there will be corn enough and to
spare, and that 1t can be bought at a
reasonable price, 1t will be OF untold
advantage TO the rapid development of
the country.
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rAIsI uiPOnts

Wrurp Informed thnt II Wua rrpuHcd
Iu Marshall Yesterday, ar thr day pre-
yiuusly tint there had been four
deaths IN this city from yellow fever
The report was false il every pnrticll.
lar, Shreveport mover was healthier
at this season Of the year. There has
not been q slnglr cn.' Of yellow fever
this season, nor cU-r Of anything re-
scmhllng II. The report must have
originated IN Il spirit Of mischief, for
there IL absolutely no foundation for II,
though II man were killed on Texas
street by streak of lightning, before
the news got 10 Milan street SOME
id, we mean dashed fool would havclt
that Il was II well authenticated case OF
yellow fever.
We see and converse with the prcsl.
dent of the board of health daily, AMI
IL yellow fever makes its appearance
here we shall promptly state the fact
shreveport Times, 18th.
We clip the above from the Times,
In order that we MAJ. verify its asser-
tions, If such is needed. The writer of
this spent Tuesday last in Shreveport,
and on his return home the same
night, heard, with surprise, the same
rumors atvarious places along the road.
We say with surprise, because ii was
the current remark among the citi-
liens that it was unusually healthy,
there being almost a total absence of
the usual fall sickness. AS further
evidence of the health of our sister
city, we append below, the report OF
the health officer for the week ending
last Saturday, taken from the Times:
The city sexton's report shows seven
deaths, which should contain but six.
A death occurring on the LIST instant
was not accounted for in last weeks
report, owing to II failure OF the attend-
ing physician to furnish the death GER
tilicate: Stillborn, 3; pneumonia du-
pick, !; marasmus, |; remittent fever,
i; burns (expl0sion Of coal oil lamp, /.
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FALSE RUMOR.

A private letter, written from Pales-
tine, on the Sd instant, which we have
been permitted TO STE, contains the
following: ait is rumored here that
some Of your best merchants in Dallas
are broke and that property is rapidly
declining. Is It so%'
1T is rot so. Everything in Dallas is
looking up. nobody has broke that
we have heard Of Dallas Is going
straight aheadfH her wonderful march
of improvement. The iates have
written that she Is 20 be the great city
ofthe southwest, and she is marching
steadily on 10 her destiny.
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Thousands of travellers by land and sea
have vouched for the efficiency of Hostetter's
stomach Bitters as a preventive of the phys
ical disturbances which ordinarily arlss
from change Of climate and the changes OF
diet, water, ETC., incident 70 o wandering
life. Upon systems toned, invigorated and
regulated by this genial vegetable antidote
the ertcinal causes OF debility and disease
seem 10 produce little or no effect. Fore
armed with Hostetters Bitters, the voyagef
may bid defiance TO sea-siekness and en-.
counter the chilling fogs Of the British Isles,
the coast winds Of the Antilles, the icy tenn
psrature OF northern Alaska, or the burning
heat OF the tropics, with equal impunity.
The effect of this admirable medicated stinl-
ulant is greatly 10 increase the vital energy
ofthe system, thereby enabling tito resist
and repel the exciting causes Of disease,
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LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Reported for the Dallas Herald by Mat
theWs, Kingsbery & Co., st. Louis National
Stock yard, and Kansas stock Yard, Kansas
City. Mo.
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL, August 1.-THE mar
ket to-day shows a little more animation
than previous days, though prices have not
altered. Good grades Of cattle are in strong
request We note that . large number OF
prime natives are being shipped east yard in
first hands. Half fat cattle are n little
stronger than last week, though they are not
desirable stock here. Hogs were selling YES
terday at s. IS per 100 fair good butcher lots
The range IN price is from - 10 81 70 Tor
stockers, 10 s. 30 for good fat butcher lots.
We quote cattle:
Choice naive shippers, s. 3 10 ) %; good "a
prime, - % 70 S * choice corn FED Texans
- Is 70 Is; common 70 good, - 50 70 %
choice green Texan. 50 50 toa 7S medium V
good, q 50 70 81 cofnmon Texans, u % %
ia
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FUNHE STATE OF gENAS-To the sheriff or
4 any constablsof Dallas county, greeting
Whereas oath was made before me on the
18th day ofJply A. ID. 1874, by J. F. Witt. the
piaintif in this cause, that +. NJ. Hanks is a
transient person SO that the ordinary pro-
cess OF Law cannot be served on him, you are
hereby commanded that you, by making
publication of this writ in some newspaper
printed in Dallas county for three 81 success
sive weeks before the return day hereof, sum-
mon the said v. NJ. Hanks to be and appear
before me at my office, at the court house, in
the city and county OF Dallas, on the Tth day
Of September "a. ID. 1874, to answer the COM
plant Of the said j. +. Witt for the sum of
seventy-five dollars, due the said J. +. Witt
for damage for failure of title 10 two houses
sold by the said F. NJ Hanks to J. +. Witt
on --day Of, 1873
Herein fail not, but due return make Of this
writ as the Law directs.
Given under nv hand at ONCE on the 9Th
day Of August, A. d. 1874.
\. d. EERFOOT,
justice Of the Peace, Dallas county, TEXAS,
f7w2v
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Texas and Pacific Railroad.

The affairs of the Texas and Pacific
railroad company are being thoroughly
reorganized by the changing Of the
mortgages of the company, and pro-
viding means for the probable settle
rhent, at no distant day, of its in
debtedness.
Major Frank Bond, vice president of
the company, says he expects that con-
gress will endorse the eompany's five
per cent bonds during its session next
fall. and then the lines Of the road can
be successfully pushed to completion.
As a set-off to the endorsement, the
company, he says, are willing to mort
gage the road to the goyernnlenf as Sc
curity, aud will also give w theiF land
grant to the extent OF upwards Of thirty
millions of acres. 1t Is stated that the
company have, within the past few
weeks, constructed upwards of ten
miles of railroad across the Trinity
river bottom and west OF Dallas, in the
direction OF Fort Worth. Ii is some
what gratifying 10 note the fact that
the receipts of the line are Increasing
daily, and that already n considerable
amount Of freight passes over the road.
Philadelphia Press.
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in few lines prefacing the speech
Of Judge Ferris, published in last Sat
urday mornings HERALD, we used an
expression, or rather attributed mo-
five. which We are satisfied was very
unjust to the distinguished gentleman.
Ave were a little ehafed at the time We
wrote. and have since very sincerely
regretted The use Of the expression re-
ferTed 70.
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DURING the fever seazOB of last
month the stock OF Ayers AEue Curf
in the Old North state became exhaust
ed, and before a supply could be re-
eeived from Lowell, the suffering from
chiIIs and fever became fearful. A few
parties we're so fortunate as to have il
on hand, snd in Iredell county the
druggists eked out their slender stocks
by selling doses-a spoonful eaoil-f0r
a dollar. Many paid ten dollars a Doc
tie, when the regular price is but one,
and thought themselves favored &C
that, so valuable are tire curative prop
critics Of this preparation, which not
only eKPsls the poison from the system,
but leaves the patient with unimpair-
ed health and vigor.-{ Raleigh N, CD
Standard.
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II ladies wants 20 look beautiful,
hers is Q sure recipe hat meat once
q day, pickles once week, and sweet
meats once q year, cold bath every
day, walk five miles every day, and
then you'll have no need OF paint o.
powder,
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. LIST OF LETTERS.

Below is the list of unclaimed letters re-
naming in Dallas postofllce August II, 1874
Parties calling for the same will please say
"advertised," and give date of list. Such of
them as remain in the office uncaled for at
the end of four weeks will he sent TO the
dead letter office.
WILLIAM JONES, Postmaster
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PUBLIC NOTICE.

For the lack promptness on the part of
great many of my customers, can no longer
grant any credit From this dare forward, |
Shall adopt the cash system. I have no de-
sire 10 give offenSe, but fO.f self-protection 1
am compelled tous what | consider the hest
means to that end, Very respectfully.
l5Id2t2Swlt JOS. &. MCCONNELL.
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THE TERRELL INSTITUTE,
REV. I0HN FORTRESS, Principal,

Assisted by able teachers, Will commence It's
first regular session September I, 1874, to con-
time ten month. Tuition Y 50, 50 80 and
81 80 per month, according to grade. A few
boarders accommodated in private families
at moderate rates, i51dlm Swim
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NOTICE TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

II is hereby ordered by the Board OF School
directors of Dallas county, that the trustees
elected and appointed, rs per advertisement
heretofore published in the Dallas Herald,
proceed at once TO take the scholastic census
OF their respective districts.
W. l.. CABELL,
l55dltiSwlw President of Beard.
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DR.. W. s. LEE,
Rational homeopathic
DALLAS, TEXAS

ofice on Main street, over Pierce & Lyle's
bookstore. l7daw6m.
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John A. Carter. Jas. q. Carter. Ios- {, Bethel
GARTER BROTHERS & CO..

Successors to Carter, Fisher n Co., GarctD-
Bell 4 Co.. Importer and wholesale dealers
I'm staple and fancy
Dry Goods and Notions.
262 South, Side Main ST. below Seventh.
Louisville, Kentucky.
s6yGm
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LATEST NEWS,
Special dispatch to the Dallas Herald:

Special dispatch to the Dallas Herald:
MEMPHIS, August ia special
the Appeal from Helena, Arkansas,
received at eight o'clock this morning,
says that at eleven o'clock last night
three ladies and gentlemen arrived
here from Austin, in a skif and report
considerable flghting late yesterday
evening. The commander of the post,
whose name we do not learn, dis
patched a scout of twenty-five men on
the road 10 Coldwatsr station, ON the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad and
captured picket of negroes who were
stationed about two miles from town
and brought them in as prisoners and
disarmed them
One Of them, as they were being
put into the court house yard, tTied to
make his escape, when he was fired
upon and killed, and in the melee
which followed another negro was
wounded, but not fatally.
LATER.
In the evening a large body Of ne
grOes advanced from the south and at
tackled the town, driving in the white
skirmishers to the court house, whore
the main body Of the whites were sta
toned. A charge was made by the
whites, and the negroes were repalsed
With the loss Of several killed and
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supposed they had gone there at an
early hour.
INDIANAPOLIS, August 13.-The in
dependent mass convention met to-day
to complete the ticket. Seventy-five
delegates were present. The commit
tee appointed to correspond with the
independent organizations in other
states is now forming national organ
izatiop
LONDON, August IA change of
the ministry is imminent at Madrid.
1t is thought that General Dominiquez,
who took Carthagena, will become
minister of war, and General Mariones
will be placed in supreme command of
the army of the north.
DETROIT, August lathe state anti
prohibition convention is in session.
Three hundred delegates are present.
Resolutions were introduced fayoring
licensing and punishment for adulter-
alton,
COLUMBIA, S. c., August ia ne
gro named Henry Glover, who raped
and brutality assaulted respectable
white woman in Lexington on Satur-
day, was caught and lynched to-day.
WOODBURY., Warren county, kys
August 13.-Watkins' tobacco factory
was burned to-day, with thirty thou
sand pounds of tobacco. Loss eight
thousand dollars,
MEMPHIS, August ia late special
from Austin states that the troops have
been disabled and gone home and that
peace is restored.
PITIsBURG, August l3.-Twelve
thousand barrels Of oil was burned to-
day by lightning.