The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-02-17
A JOLLY menial-Hy-menlal.

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The wrong fellow to be roped in by
"A hangman.
THE kind of string Dallas lovers
most lilse--rwine.
The Comique was bought up ycster-
1cy by Major Jerry Brown.
G. G. FUIToN, of the Baltimore
American, is expected In Dallas,
ORNAMENTAL shrubbery is turning
our gardens into miniature Arcadlus.
The periodical stall oppositet the post
o1lceha got the Danbury News, the "Dan-
bury mans" paper
Mr.. HAWKINS, one Of the young
merchant princes of the young lion town of
Terrell, is IN the city.
billy SELLS, of the Cosmopolitan,
with his wife and two children, returned
from Marshall yesterday.
COLONEL GEORGE N. ALDREDGE re-
turned from Waxahachie yesterday with all
his ridges OF fat still intact.
THE unwashed, who havn't four bits
to pay for bath, could look aloft at the
clouds yesterday md bc encouraged
Two dollars and u half and board,
per day, Is what Dallas gardeners call modest,
and they should certainly ask 1t, very mod
estly.
COLONEL CALDER, President Of the
Wichita road, returned nom along the limo
yesterday and looks whole line better for
the trip.
DALLAS hasa painter named Othello,
and being q prompt gentleman, he is no
sooner asked to go and "drive his brush, but
he replies, (a)go.
RESIDENTS of North Houston street
ought to able to 1.-Two TO an indefinite period,
owing to their ability to renew their sands of
life right at theirdoor.
RUNNING rake prong entirely
through his foot and then walking eight
miles to this city TO have IL dressed, was
performed by n man in this county yester-
day. 1874
Two negro women, all the way from
Canada, Candy, as they termed 1t, are look
Ing about the city for ida ole massa," from
whom they ran away in Mississippi during
the war.
OFFICER WADDELI. had his pocket
picked yesterday OF handkerchief. Now IL
Waddeil catches that fellow he should in
stantly take that handkerchief from him
and wipe him out.
a Roy knocked another boy down
on east Commerce street yesterday morning
for striking him with q stone. This should
be sufficient to convince every body that we
have in our city q maidstone"
THE retirement Of John +. Dickson,
Esq, from the General Snperintendency of
the Texas Pacific road and the succession of
Colonei George Noble, late of the Kansas Pa
clfic. to that highly responsible position, is
reported.
A MAN found stray baby out in the
woods yesterday, near Colonel Hughes resi-
idence, and in carrying 1t around to find out
whose 1t was, liked to have been scalped by
the Harmonious mother, who said he stole
10.
AN obstreperous mustang in the en-
CLOSED lOt Dack VI Tue EplscOpai cnufCn,
amused several spectators yesterday after
noon by series of energetic efforts to spill
his rider. The rider either couldn't OF
wouldn't be emptied out Of the saddle. and
the little wrigglcr finally surrendered.
A poa fancier from Boston passed
north on the Central train, yesterday, to
make small remnants ont OF thief who
walked OF with favorite setter OF his. some
three months ago, in the above city. The
party who Is thus to be sent across the "dark |
river" Clipped up, is "settin'r around Sher-
man with the setter.
THE young lady of this city who has
regularly every morning, during the winter,
sacked" her fourteen buckwheat cakes at
one sitting, announces her readiness TO com
mence promptly, ON the opening OF the fruit
season, TO put herself to rest ON the outside OF
abarrel Of peaches and Ave gallons OF per-
simmons every twenty-iour hours.
A NEGRO child, about eight years of
age, carried several armsfull Of shavings to |