The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-03-21

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rms owOmmfs movement in INT
las proposes to pan ont Their prayers
with their kncc-pans.
DALLAS takes no inic,oi Ia thcPhll
adclphia centennial; all her hopc' ond
thoughts are enlisted in her own
sccui-ennial-that'1 her cutters.
In mrcuIYG q trace, which had bee
come undonc, TO u wagon on Coch"oh
street, Sunday, the driver had ms arm
broken from the kick Of his horse.
A DOG, supposed to be rabid, bit a
COW on Bryan street yesterday ana
well-known sportsman fired e'Sh-
teen shots at the dog, at distance OF
twenty feet, and didn't hit him once
THE baggage ear of the $3.50 express
on the Central road was reported 10 us
as having reached the city on Sunday
morning, on fire. The fire communica-
ted from shot box" and had spread
over portion of the end of the car
next to the engine.
Two women were thrown out OF an
emigrant wagon OF Ross avenue, sun
day evening by the horses being fright
ened by dog. They were not injured,
and the dog didn't seem to care whether
they were or not.
A RAT jumped from kitchen shelf,
i'm a house on Swiss avenue, on Sunday,
on box of matches lying on table,
and the matches igniting, his ratship
went to his hole with the fur on his
back in blaze.
THE frame store house occupied by
Mr.. Irwin some few months ago, as n
grocery and feed store,and located on
ElE street east Of the Central railroad
track, was entirely consumed by fire
early yesterday morning. The loss is
but slight as the building and stock
were mostly insured. The origin OF
the fire is unknown.
TIE sheriff of Mcclellan county tele-
graph Sheriff Barley, yesterday, from
Denison that he was returning with
"the outlaw posse" didn't say what
outlaw posse) and requested Sheriff
Barkley to furnish him assistance in
this city, SO as to prevent friends of
thecaptives from rescuins them. Sher-
if Ross probably having received no.
tice that some such effort would be
made. The telegram was very "smo-
ky" and although no time was men
toned when they would be in, the
sheriff, with his usual promptness, had
the "defenscs' ready and armed cap-a-
pie.
THE Houston and Texas Central rail
way is now giving through tickets
from Houston to New York and inter-
mediate points, via the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas railway, at greatly re-
duced rates of fare. Tickets can be
procured al the general ticket Office Oh
Elm street, or ut the office at the depot.
Persons in Ellis and Tarrant counties
are informed that they can procure
through tickets of Captain Il. b Eas-
tin, ticket agent, at the Dallas depot.
WHEREVER there is a hay stack in
this city, there is buried in it every
night from two to dozen destitute
wretches, who, if discovered by the OWN
ers of the hay, offer the most piteous
protestations of "no money and no
place to sleep" and an unwise SYM
pathy often turns away softened and
touched, to risk hundreds of dollars to
the carelessness and roguery Of these
Migrants.
DEPUTY SHERIFF FLOYD went up to
Dcnison Saturday after the somewhat
distingue Colonel Lewis. on arriving,
he learned that United States m az
shall had given Lewis the cue to the
happy land of Canaan, by letting him
loose in the Indian territory. Among
the valuables left with the marshal,
and which he brought back to Denison
was Mrs. Lewis.
OFFICER PHARBs, discOveringa light
in the Methodist church yesterday
morning about o'clock, Investigated
that sanctuary internally, and found
man lying on one of the benches, who
represented himself as sick and out of
money, and finding the church open,
sought shelter under its roof After
satisfying himself that the mans state
ments were true, the officer left him to
his paucity of comfort.