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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-13

Judge Reagan ANA SKIS Defense Of Mr..
Werndon's Vote for the " Rack Saia.
nv Grab"
The Rusk Observer contains u letter
from Mr.. Thomas b. Greenwood, in
eXtenuation Of Judge Reagm's defense
of Mr.. lIerndon's back salary vote,
from which we extract the following ;
When Judge Reagan was writing
said letter ] was sitting in chair on
the opposite side Of The table upon
which 1t was being written, reading
Mr. Herndon's circular letter in defense
of himself for having voted for what
is commonly called the "back salary
grab Judge Reagan having read the
Judge Regain diverted my attention to
hear him read his letter to Mr.. Hern-
| don.
After he had read it, objected to it,
contents, and insisted that it would be
construed as an Endorsement by him
of Mr.. Herndon's vote on the salary
hill, and said to him that he certainly
did not mean to indorse Herndon's
vote ON that measure, and that If he
had been in congress he certainly
would have voted against it. He said
was right that had he been in con-
grcss he would have voted against ii,
and then proceeded 10 tell me how he
had managed whilst in congress to de-
feat certain obnoxious features in an
omnibus bill which came up before
congress- for action just at the close of
the session.
persisted in advising him not tosend
the letter to Mr. Herndon, and stated
AS u reason why it should not be sent,
that 1t would be published as an EN-
dorsement OF Mr.. Herndon's vote for
the back pay bill, and whilst it could
do Mr., Herndon no good, it might re-
suit in serious damage to him. He
said it was ~ private letter to Mr..
Herndon, and certainly would not be
published by Mr.. Herndon, and that
he had known Mr.. Herndon from his
boyhood, and regarded him rs his
friend and Il young man of most bril-
liant talent and fine promise, and
thought the denunciation of the press
was too severe, and wanted Mr.. Hern-
don to know that he still esteemed
him rs an honest man, and to cheer
him up in the midst of so much de-
nunciation.
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FALSE RUMOR.

A private letter. written from Pales'
tine, on the ID Instant, which We have
been permitted 10 see, contains the
followingI at Is rumorod here that
some Of your best merchants In Dallas
Nrc broke and that property Is rapidly
declining IN II so"'
1t Is not 30. Everything IN Dallas IL
looking up, Nobody has broke that
we have heard Of. Dallas Is going
straight ahead IN her wonderful march
of improvement. The lntcs have
written that she Is 10 be the great city
of the southwest, aud she h marching
steadily on 10 her destiny.
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Democratic Convention.

lHlbll WV ilNIhnNlll' 'lNnNNlN'l
In accordance with the call hereto
fore made, the democracy of Red River
county met NJ the court house In
Clarksvllle on Saturday, August 8,
1874, aud the following proceedings
were had;
The convention was called to order
by Captain H. Il. t'alurs, chairman or
the democratic executive committee of
Red River county, and on motion of
W. II. Wootten, he was unanimously
elected president of the convention.
On motion, Charles :, Todd was elected
secretary.
Hon. II. Il. Latimcr offered the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That the basis Of repre-
scntntion In this convention, shall he
one vote for every llfty votes cast in
the last general election for Richard
Coke, aud one additional vote for
every fraction over twenty-five.
Hon, X. II. liatlmer moved that the
delegates from each precinct retire and
choose their delegates to the Sulphur
Springs convention, 10 he submitted to
the convention. Carried.
Ommotlon, the choice Of the precincts
was ratified by the convention
George #, Comfy moved that the del
gates from this county be sent TO the
sulphur Springs convention unln-
slructcd.
W, T.. Wootcn moved the following
substitute:
Whereas, Having confidence in his
integrity as u man, his purity as II pa
triot, his devotion ns a partisan and
his ability rs n statesman, be 1t there
fore
Resolved, That we, the people Of
Red river county, IN convention, by
our delegates assembled, do hereby in
struct our delegates to the convention
to meet at Sulphur Springs, in Hop
kin- county, on the first of September,
proX., to nominate "A candidate for
congress, that they east their votes sol
idly for Colonel Charles DcMorse, Of
this county, for such candidate, and
that that they continue 80 to do unless
his name be be withdrawn from before
said convention by himself or some
one fully authorized to do so.
The substitute was adopted by the
convention, by an overwhelming ma
jority, no division beng called for.
=. B. Clark offered the following
Resolved, That in all deliberatve
bodies II bolt is always in order. Lost
lis yeas TO t. nays.
II. Il. LatImer, offered the following:
Resolved, That the democracy Of
Red River county, heartily approves
and endorses the administration Of
Governor Coke. Adopted mani-
mously.
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non. .. W. FERRIS SPEECH.

In u few lines prclocing the speech
Of Judge Ferris, published In last Sat
urduy mornings HERALD, we used an
cxprcssI0n or rather attributed n mo-
tive, which we are satisfied was very
unjust to the distinguished gentleman.
We were little chaled at the time we
wrote, and have since very sincerely
regretted the use Of the expression re-
fern cd to.
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which we were passing, lie pointed
out several battle grounds where the
pioneers commended with the savage,
and among other things of Interest
pointed out the old council grounds
where General Sam Houston made his
first treaty with the indians. The
council grounds nro about a half nile
from IOhnsons station, and the place
IN marked by two large old post oaks,
under the shade of which this treaty
which for many years stayed the
bloody hand Of the Indian was made
aud signed.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-13
CHA NGE OF TIME:
ON AND AFTER
SUNDAY Y, JULY 5, 1874,
CLOSE "a INJECTION


AT MuIneola and mi irrational junction,
with trains on the Int irrational and Great
Northern Railsoad, n Tyler, Palestine,
huntsville, Houston and Galveston. AT
Shreveport, with the Red river boats, for
New Orleans and the Sol 18th, and with the Ell
Paso Mail Company's ;tages for Monroe,
VlclSsburg and the Sout h. At Texafkana,
with the
CAIRO AND FULroN IA uLRoAD, FOR
st. Louis. Memphis, toHisviL c, Cairo, Chicago
AND
ALL POINTS NORTH A Nd EAST.
Inquire for Though tickets md rates to All
important points ut the reu g and Paclnc
nsailway Office, corner Lamar street and Pa
ellie avenue.
GEO NOBLE,
Genersl supa viotendent
W. II. NEWMAN,
General Passene y. Agent
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EDUCATIONAL.
Wesleyan Female Institute,
StnuntOn, Va,
REV, ", h, HARRIS, D. D., President,

VIII begin IT, 18th annual session SepteI,,-
Der l7th, 1874, THIS sonn Of thc, llrhl schools
Tor young ladies IN the south, Faculty CON
sista OF twenty,thlee teachers ana officers,
bull ings elegant, hcenuIy grand, llnhllll un'
surpassed, feeble constitutions here entirely
restored, attended by Young ladies rom NJ.
teen southern states, nnd u large. number ol
pupils attend this school from all sections ~
tho state Of Texas.
For further information consult our pat
rOns-MnlOr l. q. liOuniloe, HnlveslQni Hon,
u, a, MINIS, Corblcunn; Judge y, y. Munger
Houston; Rev. Il, N, ralmferrO, Ausllni Colo
mel Thomas VI Jones, Salado Judge j, ",
Reagan, Pnlc.tine; Colonel George i, Aliordl
Galveston; II. II. llearnc, OF llenrnei Colonel
u, u, Uddlngs, lircnhnm MIS-, NJ. u. Sen'
VeriOn Calvert, and nll our numerous pnl,
r0ns throughout Texas, A gentleman VIII
leave galveston lst Ut september, who VIII
take charge Ofnll young lWiles going To TINS
institute. In regard to escort, write tov, W,
A. Harris, of stanton, Va,
Terms Tor scholastic yenr-bOnld ana tut
tlon IN college course. s2l0OO Extras modeI-
ate. For catalogue Of slXtN-four pages, ads
dress REV, W. A. HARRIS,
lHdlmliwln stanton, Va,
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HISTORICAL.

Friend Martin, of the Sherman Reg
lister, in his account of the Fort Worth
trip, gives the following location to a
place celebrated in the history of Texas:
A part OF the way out from Dallas to
Fort Worth We had Colonel J. L. Du-
mas for a travelling companion, aud
enjoyed very much his account Of the
early settlement Of the country through
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CAUTION.

All persons are cautioned against trading
for a certain promissory certificate OF de-
posit, No. 5Sl0, bearing date August 4, 1874. for
eight hundred dollars, and issued by Adams
& Leonard TO M, said certificate having
been lost. The finder will please deliver 10
Messrs Adams 4 Leonard.
l5idlw JOHN III. TAYLOR.
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Condensed Through Time Gard
To points North and East via the
Houston and Texas Central Ry
AND CONNECTIONS.
Trains arrive and depart from Houston as
follows;

ACCOMN NOTATION. THROUGH TRAIN.
Leaves. ...... 800 A. NJ Leaves ...... $3.50 p. NJ.
Arrives..... $40 A. M, Arrives.."... $40 p. M.
Galveston Freight and Ticket Office, 70
fremont street.
A. FAULKNER, Agent.
New York City Freight and Ticket Office,
355 Broadway. -
f. l.. MANCHESTER, Agent.
Visitors to above cities will find THESE of
fees pleasant place of resort their leisure
hours, where the latest Texas papers Will be
found,
j. DURAND, Genl Sup't.
J. WALDO. Gen' Ticket Agent.
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CORNER OF ELM AND LAMAR.

!, Wl,n an extensive and choice stock of every
ming IN their line and where they will Be
PLEASED TO meet their city and country nat
rons. They will still retain their old stand,
corner of Main and jefferson streets, where
their customers, as in the pasf. will he
warmly welcomed. li7dsm
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

Thompson's Vermont says '1t is
universally conceded that the year 1916
was the coldest and perhaps the dryest
during the early part of the summer ev-
er known in Vermont. Snow is said to
have fallen and frosts to have occurred
at some places in this state in every
month of the year. On the 8th of June,
snow fell in all parts of the state and
upon the highlands and mountains to
the depth of five or six inches. 1t was
accompanied by hard frost and the
morning of the 9th ice was half an inch
thick on shallow standing water. The
weather continued 50 cold that several
days elapsed before the snow all disap-
peared. The corn and other vegetables
were killed down to the ground, and up.
on the high lands the leaves Of the
trees, which were two-thirds grown,
were also killed and fell off. The sum,
mer was not only excessively cold, but
very dry. Very little Indian corn came
to maturity and many families suffered
on account of the scarcity of breadstuffs.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

The CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.-The result
of the all-night session of the Q. S. Sen
ate, Friday night, was to pass the Civil
Rights bill, by vote of 20 to l6. The
following is the substance of one of its
leading provisions =
That all citizens and other persons,
within the jurisdiction of the United
States, shall be entitled to the full and
equal enjoyment Of the accommodations.
advantages. facilities and privileges of
inns, public conveyances on land and
water, theatres and other places of pub
lie amusement, and also of common
schools and public institutions of learn.
ing or benevolence, supported in whole
or in part by general taxation, and o.
cemeteries so supported, and also the In
stitutions known as Agricultural Colleg
es, endowed by the United States, sub
ject only to the conditions and limlta
tions established by law, and applicable
alike to citizens of every race and color
regardless of any previous condition 0
servItude.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

THE WAY TO SUCoEED.-There is no
royal road to success any more than to
knowledge. He who would succeed must
work and after all there is more real
enjoyment in work, which has a worthy
object, than in play or pleasure, intend
ed to kill time. We remarked a few
DAYS ago to business man whose pres
ent means are simply sufficient but who
worked really harder than any of his
numerous employees, that he ought to
stake it easy" Said he: 81 am never
50 happy as when | have more than |
can do. | may wear out in working,
but dread to rust out in idling." He
was right His work was part of him
self, part of his life. and it was al
ways faithfully done. To apprentices.
especially, this earnestness and interest
in their work is necessary, if success is
ever to be attained.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

1.-The time is near when many OF the
Western States celebrate ''Arbor day,
or the season of tree planting. In one
or two of the States reward is offered
for the largest number of trees set out
within a given period. AS is well known
timber is scarce over large tracts of coun-
try on both sides of the Mississippi, and
if the Eastern States are not careful it
will gradually disappear from the low
lands, leaving only the mountains as a
last resource. Already in Maine a
Commission of Forestry" is talked of,
and the Fishery Commission has offered
to undertake the duties without charge.
Recently in Vienna, congress of Gland
and Forest Culturists" has been in ses-
sion, and has recommended various i'm
portant measures. France has, In the
Landes and elsewhere, wrought remark
able changes, and in Colorado very val
liable results have been attained by ex-
tensive tree planting"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08
TESTIMONIALS.

Among the many testimonials that have been given
in favor of the Giant its inventor begs leave
fer TO the following, all of whom known either
personally by reputation, TO the majority OF the
people Listen TO c. c. Drown, lifelong lumberman
and who has had as much experience in water wheels
as most men Of his age.
SOUTH BARTON, VT, Feb ), 1873.
LUKE BUZzELL, ST. JOHNsBUKT, VT:
DEAR SiR-YOu wished me to say what think about
your Wheel. how am suited and what it is doing.
purchased my Wheel in July, 1867, that have had
pretty good opportunity i'll the last five years
ming and lind out all the good and bad points in
its action. Ny water is very limited. much that
my neghbOrs deemed me wild TO think of using your
Wheel, at that time it experiment on all
sides being your first Wheel, and my departure from
a breast wheel Yet when the stream so low that
mills below me shut down was able to saw. l notice
your Wheels creeping into those mills. believe
when the water was lowest sawed and delivered on
the rs 600 feet per month | can and do with
the 40-ineh wheel, easily, 10000 feet day, and by
driving do more. have sawed in an hour 2.O00
feet but 600 is fair average In the month of MAY
1872, sawed in the working days of ten hours each
226 494 feet My head is sixteen feet and have
seen the wheel, since put the Giant in, that
would dare put in the place of it, nor have the
day hour when WAS not satisfied with its work
1t is easily handled, and gives all the power there Is
in the water from partial TO fnll gate. have been
in the lumber business for twenty-five yearsand have
had great many water wheels under observation
aud for driving machinery where power is wanted,
would unhesitatingy say give me one of your Giant
Wheels. Yours &c, C. &. DROWN.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

EMBALMING.-Modern science discov-
ers that the system of embalming. com
mon to the ancient Egyptians, was
sanitary measure necessary to the health
of the inhabitants. Unless the process
of converting the dead bodies mot only
Of men but of animals) into mummies
had been adopted, it would have been
difficult to prevent putrefaetivc exhala-
tons from continually poisoning the air
owing to the impossibility Of securing
permanent burial-places for the dead in
land like that Of Egypt. subject to
continual changes of the surface Of the
soil by the annual overflow Of the Nile.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

MONEY IN Wool RAIsING.-Then wool
is thing not to be overlooked raising
sheep is success and always will be-
This staple is shipped with little expense.
Think of farmer going to town with a
load that two horses can easily handle,
say 5000 pounds of wool worth fifty
cents per pound, nice load of $1,000.
This can be done from 500 sheep and
the profit is not all yet. Take an aver
age in such a lot of sheep and there will
will be from 800 to 400 breeding ewes,
raising some 800 lambs, worth, six
months old, $500 each-S6,00 more,
making, sum total 2,1O0. This is nc
exaggerated figure. 1t has been done
and is done every year by many farmers
These 500 sheep will keep on the samt
amount of feed that 65 or 70 head O.
cattle will and with less trouble. Cat
tie have to be kept two or three year,
before you can turn them, while sheel
are bringing in their income every yea
and paying their way as they 60.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

BEAUTY AND DREss.-A clever writer
says: providence meant women to make
the world beautiful as much as flowers
and butterflies, and there is no sin in
tasteful dress, but only in devotlng too
much money or too much time. This
is most sensible view, and is the true
medium between the one extreme of
straight and rigid simplicity and giving
the energies of lifetime to vanity and
frivolty. But after all, what is this
rage for dress, but an effort to attain the
beautiful The reason why the beauti-
full is not always the result is because
so many women are ignorant or merely
initiative. They have no sense of fitness
The short wears what belongs to the tall
and brunettes sacrifice their natural
beauty to look like blondes, and well
they may, for blondes seem generally pre-
ferable.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

GIRL LoAFERs.-When girls are taught
at the mothers knee, at the home fire.
side, in school, and in society, that it is
disgraceful for them to be loafers as it
is for their brothers, we shall have girls
demanding and getting that thorough
ness of mental and technical training
is needed in the successful pursuit Of
any employment, and not before. We
shall have standard then for scholar
ship. and women win look upon educa-
ton as something better than mental
ruffies and furbelews. or as mere means
of enabling them to support themselves
in genteeI independence until they can
marry, and We shall hear no more lack
of enjoyment for women.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08
A LESSON IN SPELLING.

1t is said that the following arrange
ment of words, if dictated with any de-
gree of rapidity, will stump the best
spoilers 1.-The most skillful gauger |
ever knew was maligned cobbler. arm
ed with poniard. who drove peddler's
wagon. using mullenstalk as an instru-
ment of coercion to tyrannize over the
pony, shod with calks. He was Gah-
lean Sadducee, and he had phthisicky
catarrh, diptheria, and the bilious in
termittent erysipelas. A certain sibyl.
with the sobriquet of GYPSY, went into
ecstasies of cachinnation at seeing him
measure a bushel of peas, and separate
saccharine tomatoes from a heap of peel
ed potatoes without dyeing or singing
the ignitable queue which he wore, or
becoming paralyzed with hemOrrhage.
Lifting her eyes to the ceiling of the Gu
pola of the Capitol to conceal her unpar-
alleled embarrassment, making rough
courtesy, and not harassing him with
mystifying, rarifying and supplying in
nuendoes, she gave him couch, bou-
quet of lillies, mignonette, and fuchias,
treatise on mnemonics, a copy of the
Apocrypha in hieroglyphics, daguerreo-
types of Mendelssohn and Kosciusko, a
kaleidoscope, a dram.phial of ipecacuan-
ha, teaspoonful of naphtha, for delible
purposes, ferrule, a clarionet, some lie
orice, surcingle, cornelian of SYM
metrical proportions, a chronometer with
a movable balance wheel, box of dom
inoes, and catechism. The gauger.
who was also traficking rectifer and
parishioner of mine, preferring wool
en- surtout (his choice was referable to n
vacillating. occasionally occurring idio-
syncracy), wofully uttered this apo
thegm Life is checkered, but schism,
apostasy, heresy. and villainy shall be
punished The sibyl apologizingly an
swered, There is notably an allegable
difference between a comfortable ellipsis
and trisyllabic di@resis.' We replied
in terms not impugning her suspicion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08
WEsTFIELD, VI, Sept. 8, 1873.
LUKE BUzZELL, ESQ;

DEAR SIR-In reply TO your enquiry how we liked
our water wheel. will say that fully salts
fed. We have done more business since put in
the Giant Water Wheel in two months than could
in six before. We circular of 48 inches,
a capbOard mill with turning lathe, drag saw, an
edging and slab saw. all at time, with a 30
inch wheel using $50 inches of water under 20 feet
head. We with 60 inches of water LOCO feet
spruce boards in hour and will engage to saw
900 feet in 10 hours with 20 inches OF water for
felt one thousand dollars We now at this time
planning clapbOards, only using p inches of water,
giving plenty OF power. 1t has another advantage
over all other wheels in running steady in saving
In the board mill and clapboard mill We have to stop
one whilst the other mill runs, and we can hardly
notice any alteration in speed, never shutting the
gate from the time start up until noOn unless
something breaks. We believe it is the best wheel
made it certainly is the best that we
Yours very truly, y. c. HOIT 4 co.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

Let the foundation of thy affection be
virtue, then make the building as rich
and as glorious as thou canst ; if the
foundation be beauty or wealth, and the
building virtue. the foundation is too
weak for the building and it will fall !;
happy is be the palace of whose afec-
ton is founded upon virtue, walled with
riches, glazed with beauty, and sealed
with honor.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-08

A SANE MAN IN A MADHoUsE-Cov-
ington, our trans Missouri neighbor, says
Sioux city journal, has had sensa-
tion of metropolitan proportions. For
six years she has numbered among her
residents a man named Thomas Carter
and a woman named Mrs. Dracott.
Twelve years ago they were residents
of Oregon, the woman being the wife of
a man by the name of Dracott, who was
at that time worth the very comfortable
sum of $4,000.
By conspiring with couple of the ply
sicians connected with the Territorial
Insane Asylum, Carter and his para
mour succeeded in kidnapping Dracott
and having him wrongfully incarcerated
in the institution on charge of insanity,
thereby gaining possession of his proper
ty. For twelve long years this villain
Gus fraud upon Dracott had been kept
up, depriving him of his liberty. and
compelling him to associate with luna
tics and madmen.
By some means he succeeded in con-
veying knowledge of his deplOrable sit
uatlon to persons outside, and an inves-
tigation of the matter Vas instituted
So strong had the job been put up, how
ever, that an expense of $4,000 on the
part of the authorities was required il
order to break up the tolls by which
Dracott was held.