The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-18


WE eyed Eikc, of Corsicana in the
city yesterday.
THE next sherlfls convention meets
In Austin In December.
THE Thermometer, yesterday, was on
the "down grade" or brakes!
FALL goods are arriving. a little
fall in their prices would he well, too.
THE old women say IT'S II "wet
m0on.n Would that we were n moon!
OATS fllty-iiv cents per bushel.
Plenty of horse "talSers,' even at
that.
MIR. FRANK MYERS, of the Pacific
road, will accept thanks for bucket of
very fine Texas peaches.
A JEFFERsoNIAN will open n bar
next to Bonmati& Morales, from which
all who want good II drink will not
be debarred.
THAT prince of caterers, Antoine,
will serve up five hundred and sixty
five pound Key West turtle Oh Wednes-
day morning.
SOME of the churches furnished with
ice, Sunday. Nice Sunday in church.
WAGON load of cat fish In the city,
yesterday. Seat.
Ii our photographers are in need of
subjects they might take the "heautilul
dreamers" on the top of awnings, ear
ly in the morning.
SOME washwomen in Dallas wear de-
linquent patrons clothes to balls and
churches, in order to bring their pa
irons up to the paying scratch.
On "Wednesday at half past five
o'clock p. NJ. the Ladies' Aid society of
Saint Matthew's church will meet at
Mrs. Theo. Wallace's, on Wood street.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS
were drawn, yesterday, in the Agricnl-
tural and Mechanics association by
the holder of u one dollar and u half
ticket.
YOUNG MIR. Il. p. BRYAN, JR., ofthe
prosperous dry goods house of Messrs.
h. b. Bryan n Co., left on Saturday for
New York for u heavy stock OF fall
invoices.
AN operation for dropsy was per-
formed at the city hospital, yesterday,
on patient from whom has been ia
ken, in the last thirty days, seven gal
Ions of serum.
A MINNESOTA grasshopperar arrived in
Dallas yesterday. He had an ear of
corn under each wing, was chewing
fodder and wore starved to-death
granger's boots.
A COTTON buyer in this city was
awakened from doze in church, on
Sunday, and he Immediately inquired
aloud: What. has the first bale of
cotton arrived"
MIR. G.. n. ScHoELLKoPF, senior of
the extensive leather house OF Nessrs.
Schoellkopf 4 Doelling, of this city, re-
turned from IA protracted business tour
east, Sunday morning.
\ NEGRO was paid fifty cents, yester-
day, by a super-careful mother to walk
from the depot to n down town hotel
and watch that her daughter didn't
look at man on the way.
SEE advertisement of house and lot
for sale by Wash Hall (colored). The
house is n good box house, sixteen
feet square, situated near the Dallas
compress. The lot has good fence and
good well.
The Dallas Real Estate and Build
Ing association bought yesterday, of
Major r.. V. Tompkins, the house on
the corner of Elm aud Poydras streets,
now occupied by him as commission
house, and the lot on which the same
stands for $500.
THERE is an important notice to the
delinquents of the Dallas Real Estate
aud Building association In our spe.
cial notice column to-day, TO which the
attention Of all interested Is directed.
Thomas p. Barry Is secretary, and will
be glad to see those Interested.
ATTENTION is called 10 the card Of
Eldridge, Baggctt X Co., cotton factors
and general com mission merchants,
Galveston. These gentlemen wi
make liberal cash advances on con-
signments, and the First National
bank, of this city, will advance on all