The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-11-28

Allen, president of the 81. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railroad COM
pany:
81. LOUIS, November lS.-l'reslden,
Grant, WnshiugtOn--There ls no more
crime and disorder In Arkansas than
in any other equal quantity OF hu'
manity on earth. Our trains, running
daily through the state, three hundred
miles, bring us into immediate contact
with those people. The corruptions o!
few selfish politicians happily are
about ceasing and with an improved
and advanced constitution, the state Is
entering bright career of material
prosperity People exposed to IRE,
frost and grasshoppers in the north
east are seeking safety in the timber oil
Arkansas.
In the supreme district court Of New
Orleans, on the 18th instant, Judge
Hawkins gave Judgment against the
city of New Orleans for $l57,UOO for the
non-payment of l57 bonds Of 81 600
each, issued in aid of the Jackson rail-
road May /, 18Th The court declined
to pass upon the validity or force of the
law of March II, 1874, prohibiting writs
of seizure against the city at this stage
of the case, as that question would
come up when motion was made FOR
writ of execution, and would then be
determined.
The forty-eighth annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad company was held on
the 18th. John b. Morris, the only
surviving member Of the first board of
directors, now in his nineticth year,
presided. The president and directors
submitted their annual statement of
the affairs of the company for the fiscal
year ended September Both, last. The
report shows the earnings of the com
pany to beSl4 ,947 900; expenses, So, 400,
$50; net earnings, S5,670,626.
Mrs. Jane Swisshelm, in recent
lecture in Chicago, on woman's dress,
told her hearers that she wears an un-
bleached cotton chemise, which she
washes in hot water without soap, and
folds up without ironing. Good heav-
ems why, just think of it Positive
ly we wouldn't sleep with woman
with such clothes on for q thousand
dollars night in gold. Courier
Journal.
Another accident occurred on the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad
Tuesday evening, three miles west OF
Brinkley, by which Conductor May
hew received severe cash across the
head. A man named Randle was
badly injured. The train was wrecked,
and the calabOose and baggage car were
turned completely over. A broken
rail is reported as the cause.
WE can hardly believe Mrs. Swiss
helm when she tells us that she wears
chemise made simply of unbleached
cotton. We would have supposed,
from her appearance, that she wore no
underclothes of softer material than
perforated boiler iron.-[Courier-Jour-
nal.
"When Music, heavenly maid, was
young" she would have been startled,
says the London Echo, if not absolute
ly frightened from the world, could she
have foreseen the terrible prices her
votaries would have to pay to hear the
warbling of her delicious strains.
Mr.. Jefferson will actin Philadelphia
after his present engagement in New
York has ended, and subsequently will
appear in Pittsburg and st. Louis be-
fore his departure to his plantation in
Louisiana, where he will pass most of
the winter.
Tie Mobile and Montgomery rail-
road has been sold by order of the
chancery court. 1t was bought by the
first mortgage bondholders for three
million and twenty-five thousand dol.
lars. This saves the state from all
loss