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whent.Growing Nanxims.

Somebody has been at the trouble OF
condensing great deal of information
about wheat-growing in very small
compass, and somebody else has set ii
ahoat without credit. If we could, we
would gladly give the name of the
author:
The best soil for wheat is rich clay
loan.
Wheat likes a good, deep, soft bed.
Glover turned under makes just such
q bed.
The best seed is plump, heavy, oily
and clean.
About two inches is the best depth
for sowing the seed.
The drill puts in the seed better and
cheaper than broadcasting.
From the middle of September to
the last of October is the best time for
sowing.
If drilled, one bushel of seed to the
acre; if broadcasted, two bushels.
One heavy rolling after sowing does
much good,
For flour, cut when the grain begins
to harden; for seed, not until it has
hardened.
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DALLAS COUNTY.

District Judge-H. Barksdale, Dallas.
Criminal Court Judge-Siias Hare, Sher-
man.
District Attorney-Ed. G. Bower, Dallas;
District and ex.oficio County Clerk
Alexander HARDWOOD.
Deputy Clerks-R. d. lsawlins, Pierre Nj
Brown, William a. HARDWOOD.
Sherih-JaInes II. Barkley.
Tax Clerk-W. l.. Vermillion.
Deputy Sheriffs-J. NJ. Chapman. Thomas
:. Floyd, Thomas p. Scott, Beverly Scott
John Bowen.
Surveyor oberr N. Cook.
Treasurer-Martir V. Cole.
Cattle and Hide lnspectOr-Thomas john
son.
JUSTICES OF TAI PEACE.
Precinct No. l--John d. Kerioot presiding
justice), Dallas.
Precinct No. 2-William A. George. Lam
caster.
Precinct No. s-Charlcs Barker, Cedar
Hill.
Precinct No. 4--Thomas L. Frank, Brock
inridge.
Precinct No. 5-Tho.nas d. Coates, scyene
CONSTABLHS.
Precinct No. IA. II Hardin
Precinct No. IN. NJ. Fondren,
1recinct No. 3-R. L. Barker.
recinct No. Al. $. Floyd.
-Fre,inct No. 81. A. Fisher.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
COKE! COKE!

The undersigned are prepared to supply
the citizens OF Dallas with COKE. IL viii
burn readily in CRATES and stoves, both FOR
tces. stores and dwellings, 1t Is cheaper and
better than coal. Coke is sold at 10 cents per
barrel, and coal is sold at the rate Of 81 % per
barrel. When coal Is used IL hns to he cooked
by burning Off the gas and smoke before you
coke is already prepared, so that when light
ed and burning YOU yet the most intense
heat. II Is universally used in large, cities
for cooking, by puttinga crate IN ordinary
cooking stoves us much cleaner than wood
and less trouble-no wood 10 be sawed or
split. 1t gives an even ana steady heat All
orders promptly attended to by Leaving thcm
at the office of the company, on Lamar treet,
Wv N- j. B SCRUGGS,
231dlm Sec'y Dallns City Gas Light 10.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
CITY or lsAHAAs.

Mayor-W. L. Cabell.
Engineer-W lillian NJ. Johnson.
Attorney-Willi NJ. Edwards.
Treasurer-Robert II. West.
Assessor and Collector--Thomas j. Keeton'
Observation-Disclosures Peak.
Health Onicer:--Dr NJ. A. Cornelius.
Aldermen First ward: II. Il. Burkes, Joe
A. Leonard, Henry Ervay. Second ward; X.
d. Coughanour, John M. Howell. Third
ward: A. I. Hensley, John Owens, los. Q.
Mcconnell. )urth ward: II. b. Mcdonnell,
w. @. Young.
The offices of the various city officers are
at the city market house. The board OF Al
dermen meet in regular session at the couh-
ell room over the market, every Tuesday
night.
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NOTICE.

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bic OH delivery. and all iran-
slent advertisements ~ llie
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mcnts win the Office uDiens AN order
from the Proprietor IN given.
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Condensed Through Time Gard
10 points North ana East via tho
Houston and Texas Central ny
AND CONNECTIONS

Trains arrive and depart from Houston m
follows
ACCOMMODATION. THROUGH TRAIN.
Lenyes.....,.. 300 A. NJ Lenves..... $50 p. NJ.
Arrlves-.,.. $40 A. NJ, Arrivos.-..,. $50 p. NJ.
Galveston Freight and Ticket ONCE, 70
fremont street.
A. FAULKNER, Agent.
New York City Freight and Ticket onlce,
3ib Broadway.
II. l.. MANOH ESTER, Agent.
Visitors 20 above cities Will ind THESE of
fees pleasant place Of resort their leisure
found.
J. DURAND, GEM Supt.
J. WALDO. Gent Ticket Agent.
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FOR SALE.

One ten horse power upright Buckeye en-
CINE. with Straeb grist mill and gin com.
plete, as good "a new, for sale cheap for
ROSS WILKINSON,
waskoms station, T. and p. R.R
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THE GALVESTON TIMES;

Call at NJ. r. Franklin & Co.'s and sub.
scribe for the Galveston Times. published
by oUGHERY & VAN Hons. 1t Is a straight
out democratic, and the largest and cheap
est paper In the state, 2SS3m
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THE WEEKLY HERALD,

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ihfi evaIV saturday mlrnliiH, hubru l-
XXI i2.B pfrannuni si,W Tor hiH months
Irtiiie 'a1yanrp 10 subscription lHkpN
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Ernel suht Hlu8ul Insertion
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Whill advertisements rates.
MIC, W, Rocket lRs, from lhisdale eeas'
al hls connection with tho Dallas iiEaALp,
andisn1 authorized 10 solicit ior Rd'
yrlliaing descriptions,
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~ this paper wiii be collected monthly,
unIess otherwise specified Ia contracts.
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Leave Galveston NJ $40 m and arrive NJ
Houston al MOO u m,
Leave Galveston NJ 400 n IA ana arrive NJ
Houston al dqO p ~.
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Houston ~ NO y ~,
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Galveston at 300 q N,
Leave Houston 1890 N ana arrive NJ oai-
weston ~ 2lD a m.
Leave Houston NJ $50 u m and arrive At
Galveston nj iliinp m.
On sunday n, passenger train leaves Calves
ton al 1000 a m. Leaves Houston NJ 400 y m.
Tie bilO IA train nom Galveston CONNECTS
~ Harrisburg with tho Galveston, Harris
burg ana Ran Antonlo railway, connein ~
trial railroad
Tho lDO y ~ express nom Galveston con-
meets with the Houston and Texas Central
railway,
The dlOO y m express nom Galveston con.
noctn with tho International and Great
Northern railroad NJ Houston att pm,
Tho 1000 n m train ffom Houston arrives NJ
.inlyoAlon AZ asp y M conneclA with the
Morgan Aicnnefh.
Ticket oiiiccN, 100 fremont street, 0alvoa-
ton, and NJ the dopotr.
Communication ucketh 10 local points, one
thousand and i've hundred mile tickets, can
DO purchased u the ticket oiiioea OF this com.
pany or nom ualyeaton ticket ONCE.
a. ~, NICHOLS, Superintendent.
II. II. ANDREWh, General Ticket Agent.
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LISTING CAFpe sspecisity at tbs HEB,
Ain lob Printing Ones
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PREMIUM roRsisrB.

Every subscriber Tor 1914 win receive a
beautiful portrait, IN oil coloir, OF The SAINT
noble dog whose picture, In n former issue,
attracted NO much attention.
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The DAILY HERALD In published every
morning, except Monday, and delivered 10
city subscribers before breakfast. ana NJ all
pointa North Fast, South and West by the
earliest mails.
II viii contain special Dispatches OF all
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-17
THOUGHTS on SPRING.

! A correspondent of the New York Com
mercial Adrertiser unbosoms himself of the
following very pretty conceits about the
advent of spring:
| As if to indorse us in our assertion that
spring is here,
THE OLD LADY OPPOSITE,
with the spectacles and the snowy hair, has
come back to her seat in the window, now
draughts and cOunter-currents are beara-
| ble after an absence of nearly eight months
and we positively think she looks smarter
and younger than she did. She seems to us
to belong to that class of old ladies who are
heard to say, Come in" when the last gun
out of hundred is fred opposite as navy
yard salute. She has brought her needle
and her ball of yarn, and gone industriOusly
to work to close the growing, cruel gaps in
the heels, and always in the toes, of grand
fathers long-legged winter stockings.
Just now she has fallen asleep in
the warm sunlight, her cap is awry,
her ball of yarn has playfully rolled
off her lap, and her spectacles are
sliding down her nose. But on her
contentment and peace, we believe she
must be dreaming of a land where wear
and tear and repair are unknown, and the
needle and loom are forgotten. Soon she
will wake with start and drop her scissors
and her thimblc she will search for her
spectacles and hunt for her ball Of yarn.
1t will be quite a while before she settles
again, and all this time grandfather is open
ing new gaps and widening old ones. She
spends some of the morning hours over a
day-before- yesterday newspaper, deeply
interested in the advertisements, but when
she comes to the news of the day she
II ell 4 a.
high backed rocking chair will be vacant
and, after life's winter, our blessed old lady
will receive her promotion, and be g ven
eternal spring. We shall miss her dread
fully.
In the third story, over our dear old sleepy
lady,
GIRLS FACE BLOSSOMS
in a window like rare rose, no longer
afraid to put it's complexion to the test of
wind and weather. It's rich beauty has the
touch of ripe summer. 1t is an undeniable
reminder, though, of spring, to read the
sunny look on the fair, fresh young face.
We suspect the girl has some great joy of
heart, for the sweet smiles that wreathe
her lips, and the color that has dyed her
round cheeks, live there quite royalty. At
her time of life there is no winter. She
has always lived spring. We must find out
something more about her.
We met the old gentleman to-day, on the
sunny side of the street, who is out for the
first time since early frost came and sealed
his fate. His gait is unsteady, and he stoops
more than he used to, and the corners of his
mouth are more drawn down. He has been
so knotted up by rheumatism all winter,
and his body has been SO twisted by contin-
ued bad storage in an easy chair, when we
passed him his joints cracked audibly and
suggestively, as if he might be going to come
to pieces in public in some disgraceful way.
If it We're not really spring he would not
have been out.
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KEEPING A SANE MAN IN A MADHoUsE.-
Covington, our trans Missouri neighbor, has
had a sensation of metropolitan proportions.
For six years she has numbered ar1Ong her
residents man named Thomas Carter and
a woman named Mrs. Dracott, the twain, as
is alleged, bearing relations to which it is
incumbent 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
$4,000.
By consplring with couple of the ply
sicians connected with the Territorial In
sane Asylum, Carter and his paramour
succeeded in kidnapping Dracott and having
him wrongfully incarcerated in the institu-
ton, ON charge of insanity, thereby gain
ing possession of his fortune. For twelve
long years this vlllainous fraud upon Ora
colt had been kept up, depriving him Of his
liberty, and compelling him to associate
with lunatIcs and madmen.
By some means he succeeded in conveying
knowledge of his deplorable condition to
persons outside, and an Investigation OF the
matter was instituted. So strongly had the
job been put up, however, that an expense
of 1000 on the part of the authorities was
required in order to break up the tolls by
which Dracott was held.-Siour City Journal
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Npeci0l Notices.


Shakespeare lub, Globe Theatre, New
Orleans, May H. l87A-The complimentary entertain
ment announced for Wednesday evening, 18th inst,
has been postponed to WEDNE>D Y, Goth, when
FAINT HEART Nt'ER WON FAIR LADY and
DREAMS OF LUSION will be substituted for the
play of Rob Roy. FRANK WILSON.
myl2-Tu Wed &Su Secretary.
New eIrlcm ms, Jackson a nd Great Nori b.
Railroad Company, Oie Freight Agent, 3sl Julia
TO SHIPPERS.-Freight will be received for all rail-
road stations and cities NORTH. EAST and WEST,
cept for points asst of Meridian and nth Of Atlanta
SPECI.L CONTRACTS must be made with J. G.
MOREY. CONTRACTING AGENT. No. % Camp street.
for shipment of all THROUGH FREIGHT. Copy of
contract must accompany each shipment
All freight must be PLAINLY MARKED. with name
Of consignee and DES1 NATION in FULL. Powder
and coal oil received on Mondays.
myS E. A. BURKE, Freight Agent
ONCE of the Merchants Mutual Insu.
Coat the annual election of directors held at
the office of this Company on the first Monday in
April last, the following gentlemen were elected:
p Maspero, David McCoard s. z. Relf, L. +. Generes,
M. Puig P FourChy NJ. w. Smith, j. j. Fernandez, D.
A. Chatfraix j. NJ. Allen and Chs LATTE; and at
meeting of tie Board held yesterday, Paul Fourchy,
Esq, was unanimously reelected President.
my6 l5t G. w. MOTT.
The undo rsign begs tO inIOs m the
public that he is with A. PEISER \ co. import
ers of Crockery, Glassware, Cutlery House Furnish
ing Goods etc No. "a Magazine street, between
xavier and Common, where he will be pleased to
wait upon his friends and customers paying special
attention to the retail trade.
Goods sold as cheap as at any other house in the
city. Packages delivered free of charge.
ISID ORE LEVI.
Formerly of the firms of Levi l. Navra, Levi Navra h
Co., and Geo. G. Wolf 4 Levi. ap24-3m
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OYSTERS GROWING ON TREEs.-A CORE
spondent of Hartford paper, writing of
Cuba, says:
"For several years resided on that
island, and travelled there more than the
ordinary run of foreigners, and have sew
eral times come across scenes which many
people would consider great curiosities-
one in particular. No doubt the reader will
open his eyes at oysters growing on trees
Often have l seen the sneer of unbelief on
the face of the ignorant when the fact had
been mentioned but grow they do, and in
immense quantities, especially in the south
ern part of the island. l have seen miles of
trees, the lower stems and branches of
which were literally covered with them,
and many a good meal have enjoyed with
very little trouble of procuring. l simply
placed the branches over the fire, and,
when opened, picked them out with a
fork or pointed stick. These peculiar she'll
fish are indigenous in lagoons and swamps
on the coast, and as far as the tide will rise
aud the spray fly, SO will they cling to the
lower parts of the mangrove trees, some
times four or FIVE deep, the mangrove being
one of the very few trees that flourish in
salt water
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Gov. Baxter is reminded by the New York

Gov. Baxter is reminded by the New York
Commercial advertiser of an adventure of
young Isaac Darlington. Isaac came home
tattered and torn, and told his mother that
colored lad had usurped his fishing pole
and box of bait "And did my son brook
the insult ~ inquired the old lady, looking
at him with energetic interest through her
spectacles. "Don't know anything about
that" said Isaac, pausing to find conven-
lent place on the carpet for handspring ;
"but you bet brooked the negro" Let
the Governor brook Brooks and stop this
nonsense.
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A clerical principal of an English board
ing School for boys called his pupils together
short lectlr upon self-denial and self-sacri
fee, and advised them to select some article
Of food with which they would dispense
during the season of Lent. The boys were
directed to 60 into room by themselves,
and, after deciding what luxury they would
give up, to return to the chapel and report
their decision. The boys retired, and soon
returned and made the following report :
Respected Principal have the honor to
report that your pupils have religiously con-
sidered the subject submitted to them by
your Reverence. and have unanimously
voted to dispense with hash during the
season of Lent"
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A Georgia negro, who bet ten dollars that
Gen. Washington commanded at Bull Run,
handed the money over with the remark !:
"Well, dis yere hist'ry business is all mixed
up anyway"
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The Unity Of the Human Race.

Are the fair Circasslan and the jet-black
African, the olive Malay and the red Ameri-
can, the dusky New Zealander and the
ford Saxon, all Of one original stock 7
Did the Patagonians, whose average height
is nearly six feet, spring from the same
parents with the pigmy Bosjesmans, whose
usual height is under five feet. and that of
the females barely exceeding four' Are
the fat, blubber-fed, dat-visaged Esquimaux
even most distantly related to the lean,
date-eating, hatchet-faced Arab9
Does the BOsjesman, who lives in holes
and caves, and deyours ants eggs, locusts
and snakes, belong to the same species as
the men who luxuriated in the hanging
gardens of Babylon, or walked the orange
groves of Academic, or sat enthrOned in the
imperial homes of the Caesars, or reposed in
the marble palaces of the Adriatic, or held
sumptuOus festivals in the gay salons of the
Versaillese Can the grovoling Wawa, pros
trate before his fetch, claim a community
of origin with those whose religious senti
ments inspired them to pile the prodigious
the trezes of the ParthenOn, or to raise the
heaven pointed arches of Cologne
That Alfoura woman, with her flattened
face, transverse nOstrils, thick lips, wide
mouth, projecting teeth, eyes half closed by
the loose, swollen upper eyelids, ears circu-
lar, pendulous and Tapping, the hue of her
skin of smoky black, and, by the way, of
ornament the septum of the nose pierced
with round stick some inches long-is
of the same parentage as those whose
transcendent and perilOus beauty brought
unnumbered woes on the people of ancient
story convulsed Kingdoms, enlranced poets,
and made scholars and sages forget their
wisdom?
Did they all spring from one common
mother? Were Helen of Greece, Cleopatra
of Egypt, and Joanna of Aragon, and Rosa
mond of England, and Mary Of Scotland,
and the Eloisas and Lauras, and Ianthese
were all these, and the poor Alfouro,
daughters of her who was fairest of all her
daughters, Eve ?-Uarrley.
Who shall say. Some wandering vaga-
bond can be found to advocate either side of
every question, ergo, possess your soul with
patience, and, mayhap, you will know as
much about this question as the average,
which is simply mean advantage, pos
sessed principally by children who ask
questions and remember answers.
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recovery,

CHICAGO.-The other we learned that ex-
perienced and expert mechanics could not
get 81 so per day in Chicago, and now we
are told of some points in her financial con-
dition which do not go to prove any very
substantial basis of wealth at the bottom of
all her present pretension. The fact is, Chi
cago, since the fire, has lived too fast She
has done in thirty months what should have
occupied her at least FIVE years. The conse-
quence is she is now staggering under a
fearful load of Indebtedness, from Which she
cannot lift even the interest. The last tax
levy in Chicago amounted to $2,283, 8O1, of
which only $5l2 ia have been paid the de-
linquent tax list summing up $l,771 ,627,
held by about three-quarters of the entire
property holding population of the city. In
year ending April l, 1872, the expenditures
Of Chicago were 81, 1876 more than the re-
ceipts. The bonded debt was, on January
l, 1873, $l3, 546,OO0. 1t is a remarkable fact,
that while the wholesale sales alone of Chica-
go for 1873 amounted to $3.50, OOO, 900 and her
manufactures to $165 600, 900 her actual fnan-
cial condition, as shown by her list of delin-
quent taxpayers and her PROSTATE labor
market, was never worse. For Chic ago
" Festina Lente" would be the best motto.
IN. Y Com. Adv.