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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

THERE have been several bales of
water-packed cotton brought into this
market this week. Farmers cannot be
too particular in attending to the
proper ginning of their cotton. Where
it is falsely, or water-packed, it is not
in saleable condition. Where fraud
is intened, the parties knowingly
bringing in such cotton may rest as
sured buyers will at once detect the
trick, and sales cannot be made. Our
farmers and ginners owe it to them
selves to pack in good faith, for there
is certainly nothing to be gained by a
clumsy attempt at fraud by water
packing cotton. 1t is too easily dis
covered. Honesty is the best principle.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

From the frontier comes Il. l.. Stan
field, editor of the Advance Guard, and
brings with him cheering accounts Of
the crops in Wise county, and in the
portions of Denton and rarrant trav-
ersed by him between Decatur and
Dallas. The yield of cotton will he
considerably larger than was expected
some time ago; if the frost holds off
until the middle of November the crop
will turn out at least TWENTY-FIVE per
cent more than was hoped for last
month.
We are glad to learn from Mr.. STAN
field that the reported raid of the In
dians at Aurora, Wise county, Oh last
Tuesday night, was without founda-
ton. A nervous individual, becoming
excited at some horses passing rapidly
near his cabin, aroused the neighbor-
hood with the intelligence that the
prairie was thick with Indians. 1t
was only his Imagination. No Indians
nor the trail of any were found.
Mr.. Stanfield will call upon the mer-
chants and other business men of Dal-
las to-day for the purpose Of soliciting
them to make themselves known to
the people of Wise county through the
columns of the Advance Guard. 1t is
the only paper published in that
county, and as the people OF Wise do
the most Of their trading in Dallas, the
OBVIOUS prOpriety of using it as an adj
vertising medium can not fail to be APP
preciated by the enterprising men of
the city.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

AT called meeting of the Good Tenn
plars at Thomas Chapel lodge. on
Tuesday night, the 29th day Of Septem-
ber, A. ID. 1874, for the purpose of
making suitable arrangements to inter
the remains of our departed brother,
Edward NJ. Crabtree, and to draft reso-
lutions expressive of the feelings of
the lodge in this their irreparable loss
and bereavement. the following COM
mite was appointed by w. 9. T., r. B.
Howe, viz: j. G. Woodsides, III. b.
Johnston and Sim. S. Record.
Whereas, 1t has pleased the Supreme
Architect to remove from our midst our
worthy and much beloved brother,
Edward M. Crabtree therefore be it
Resolved, That in the death of our
brother, E. M. Crabtree, the lodge has
lost one of its most efficient officers
and members, the church one of its
highest jewels and society Il cherished
ornament that glowed brighter and
brighter as from youth to manhood he
ripened into maturer years.
Resolved, That while this visitation
to us is seemingly unkind, yet we none
the less recognize the truth that 1t was
an edict from Heaven, and though the
blow must necessarily fall hard upon
his numberless friends and acquaint-
ances, we truly realize the fact that the
Omnipotent hand, that doeth all things
well, alone can heal the sad would thus
so sorely inflicted.
Resolved, That we so emulate the
life and character of our departed
brother, that when we come to die we
can eXclaim as did he that we know
that our redeemer liveth. We tender
our heartfelt sympathies to his be-
reaved father and brother, which con-
stitutes the remainder of his family.
May they appreciate this chastisement
in such manner as to feel that their
'great loss is his great gain"
Resolved, That the lodge wear Il
badge of mourning for twenty days,
and that copy of these resolutions be
sent to the Dallas HERALD for publi-
cation; also copy of them to the fam
lily of rou dead brother.
j. G. WOODSIDES,
II. b. JOHNSTON,
SIM. S. RECORD.
Committee.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

Gov. THR0ClM0RTON and DIR. VAL
entine addressed the people of Sher-
man on Saturday, the Goth ultimo, on
the political issues of the day. The
Sherman Courier thus epitomizes DR..
Valentines speech:
When we entered the hall, Dr. Val
entine was speaking, giving his views
Oh the subject of railroads. IL was
very evident from his remarks that he
did not belong to the progressive"
democracy. And while we have con-
demned the charge of the Houston
Telegraph, in its conception of "back-
woods" democracy, and have believed
that the name as intended to apply by
the Telegraph was misnomer, we are
bound to admit that the doctor repre-
sented a genuine case of the "back-
woods" Yes, it was a real case of
Zone gallOws, copperas britches," fatty
and "saft" soap gourd sort, "wrap and
filltn', "dimecraiic" speech. 1t carried
us back to the good old days, we meier
shall see no more, of log rOlliDgs,
corn-shuckings, puncheon floor dane
es, with the ga'hals, in mocasins
aud not unfrequently bare feet,
go to church, with shoes and
stockings in hand, to the last
tranch before getting to meetin
Yet, the doctor made some good
points, and showed that his head was
tolerably level on some essential
points. He made an indiscriminate
war on all railroads and monopolies !;
said they were riveting chains of OPP
preston on the farmer and laboring
class generally, and they were central
izing the government, and unless
checked would own the country and
the people. That before the introduc-
tion of railroads, and in the days of OK
wagons and mule teams, money was
plenty in the country, and every one
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

rested In peace "under his own vine
and fix tree, with none to molest or
make afraid" He was willing that
those who wanted railroads should
have them, provided they built them
with their own money, and did not in
terfere with vested rights of the citi-
zen, but he would not give them one
foot of land or one dollars government
aid. Said they had retarded the set
tlement of the country, rather than ad-
vanced it, and instanced the case of
his own county, where he said thous-
ands of acres Of land were locked up
from settlement, by the railroad reser-
vations. He said he was no speaker,
but twenty eight hundred voters had
petitioned him to run, and as he was
now on the track, he intended to run
the race through.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10
OUR board of trade will shortly re-

OUR board of trade will shortly re-
ceive an ordinary thermometer, a reg
istering thermometer and a rain guage
to be used in recording the condition
of the weather and the fall of rain
from time to time. The weekly re-
ports to be sent to the National Cotton
Exchange every Friday, will show ::
First--The receipts of cotton at Dali
las for the week.
Second-Shipments.
Third-Stock on hand of cotton.
Fourth h---Price of middling.
FifJh-..Price of low middling.
SiXth---Price of good ordinary NEW
American standard classification.
Seventh---Highest range of ther-
mometer.
Eighth---Lowest range of thermom-
eter.
Ninth---Average of thermometer for
the week.
Tenth---Amount of rain fall in inches.
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Sherman n.

The Cour!er-JournaPs Washington
letter of the 18th ult. says:
The Chronicle Of this place contains
leader especially eulogstic of the
character and services of General Will
lam r. Sherman, which excited much
attention. The memorable Johnston
Sherman compact, of April, 1860, is
commended as an act of liberal and
enlightened craftsmanship, which was
drawn in accordance with the deliber-
ate instruction of Mr.. Lincoln, but
stupidity and unpnrdonably disap-
proved and set aside by his successor in
office. The article goes on to state that
General Sherman has never since The
war been heard to utter one unkind or
illiberal sentiment toward those of his
w-citizens who had been overcome
in arms, and has never hesitated to eX-
press his ardent desire for general
amnesty. The writer then proceeds to
praise General Sherman for his ability
and facility in public speaking, and
while il does not condemn Grant, 1t
compliments General Sherman for all
of those qualities in which Grant is
notably deficient. There las of late
been considerable talk among Sher-
mans friends of bringing him forward
as IL presidential candidate for 1876, and
il would seem from this elaborate arti-
Gle that it is their programme TO run
him as the peoples candidate. on the
basis of amnesty, reconciliation and
peace, as opposed to the Gran: idea of
military subjugation, and enduring
sectional hatred. The Chronicle is not
regarded here as working very well in
the administration traces, or as willing
to go the third term scheme.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

The fact that plants yield more
largely when they are furnished with
abundant room, and that the thin seed
ing or crop, up to certain limits,
yield better harvest than any thicker
seeding, Is no new thing. We read OF
1t in the works of the most ancient
writers on agriculture, and early his
torians record facts illustrative Of the
advantages Of sowing thinly and Of
the extraordinary yields of grain from
single seeds. Nevertheless the subject
is as fresh as ever, and we see every
year good farmers wasting large
amounts of seed and sacrificing large
portions of their crops. We have re-
Gently seen Il piece of oats sown with
one bushel per acre which yielded q
better crop than neighboring field
sown with four bushels per acre. A
few years ago we divided n ten acre
field into five portions, and sowed them
with wheat mt the rate of one
bushel, five pecks, six pecks, seven
pecks, and two bushels of seed per
acre. There was no perceptible differ
ence in the soil of the field, nor any
in the manuring, preparing, or sowing.
At harvest time there was very per-
ceptible difference in the yield, the
thinest sowed portion being the best of
the field, and the thickest portion the
worst. Near the edge of the field, up
on the thincst sown part, where the
seed had been thinned out by some
pigeons, there We're some stools with
thirty stalks, each bearing an ear; and
in this part Of the field the difference
was mostly shown in this way, and in
the length of the ears. The other side
of the field, where two bushels had
been sown, produced much shorter ears
than this portion.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

peal all the acts of reconstruction, the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments,
and would even pay us for the slaves
ofwhich we were robbed, rather than
to see the water courses of the south
studded with looms and spindles. The
extent of the manufacturing interest Of
the New England states, us contrasted
with its meagerness in the south, is IL
lustrated by the fact that the whole
south has only one hundred and
eighty-seven cotton mills, which con-
tain four hundred and eighty-seven
thousand six hundred ana twenty-nine
spindles, while Rhode Island, not
much larger than Dallas county, has
one million eighty-two thousand three
hundred and seventy-siX spindles in
one hundred and twenty-siX mills.
These figures ought to awaken the
people ofthe south from theirlethargy,
and show them how it is thatevhile
they have been growing all the while
poorer in producing cotton, those who
have had the manufacturing of it have
grown fat and overbearing.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

At meeting of the Breckinridge
bandry, September 80, 1874, for the
purpose of drafting suitable resolutions
expressive of the loss of this grange in
the death of our worthy brother, II. M.
Crabtree, Worthy Master Il. l.. Frank
appointed brothers ID. r. Becker, w. IL.
Harris and II. b. Howe, as committee
to draft resolutions, who reported the
following, which were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, 1t has pleased our supreme
master to remove from among us our
worthy brother, Edward NJ. Crabtree;
therefore
Resolved, That in the death Of Ed
ward M. Crabtree our grange has lost
one of its worthiest members, the
church one of its brightest ornaments
and the community young man OF
rare promise.
Resolved, That while we feel the loss
of one who was ever faithful in his
labors among us, we bow in humble
submission to the will of Hin who do
eth all things well, and that we are re-
joced to know that he departed with
unwavering faith and in hope of
blisslul immortality.
Resolved, That the members of our
grange wear the usual badge of mourn
ing for thirty days.
Resolved, That copy of these res
olutions be sent to the Dallas HERALD
for publication, and also to the family
of our deceased brother
ID. II. BAKER,
w. ii. HARRIS,
Y. b. HOWE.
Committee.
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WE extract the following from the
commecial column of the Galveston
News of the LIST instant:

WE extract the following from the
commecial column of the Galveston
News, of the lst instant:
Tomorrow the new standard Amer
can classification for cotton goes into
effect through0ut the United States.
The cotton exchange has, however,
this evening, rece we'd telegraphic adj
vices from the New York exchange to
the effect that while the classification
goes into effect at once for "spo" cot
ton, it will not do 50 as to futures"
till September /, 1875, sales having
been made well nigh up to that period
on the basis of the old classification.
The present New York classification
will therefore continue to govern iu-
lures in that market through the cur
rent cotton year. This exception will
not appTeciably impair the good ELECTS
Of the general uniformity SO eminently
desirable as to spot cotton, and the
trade certainly looks for good results
from the move.
There is a good deal of curious sur
mise as to the effect upon pr,ces ofthis
sudden shifting Of the standard, and
reports from the other domestic mar
kcts will be very attcntivcly scanned
as they come in tomorrow at the cot
ton exchange. The eXpe citation is that
there will Ge an apparent decline
though really no decline, unless it comes
from other causes.
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The following letter explains itself :

EhS'oihNI 'DSt'' -'i AO' -
J.P. Lynch, Esq, Hallville, Texas.
DEAR SIR-Your inclosing copy of
request to resign the office of justice of
the peace, delivered by parties repre-
senting the Taxpayers association of
Harrison county, came to hand this
day. You say that similar requests
have been sent to the other county
officials. | have to say in reply, that
any man or set of men has legal right
to request any man to resign his office,
but no man or body of men have right
to compel, either by force or fear, an
officer to resign. Ifany steps are taken
there to compel resignation, the officers
of Harrison county will be protected in
their Offices, regardless of coior or poll
tics, by all proper legal mean3. | have
written to Judge Ector and the district
attorney fully on this subject this morn
ing, and they will see that no rights of
the officers of Harrison county are in
fiinged. / mean to see that the law is
enforced strictly for the protection of
all the personal and official rights of
every citizen and officer in Texas,
black or white, republican or democrat.
Very respectfully,
RICHARD COKE.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10
WE publish the following commune

WE publish the following COMMUNE
cation of the pastor Of the colorcd Free
VIII Baptist church because tho au'
thor of 1t has been engaged for many
years in the ministry of the gospel
among his own race in this city, and
because the complaint that he makes is
Il grievous one and well founded. The
burden of his complaint, as we under
stand it, is that wolves in sleeps
clothing are getting in among his
flock and leading them away after
strange gods, and that the peace and
quiet of his church is being disturbed
and his efforts for good neutralized.
We are sorry that we cannot give him
any light through these columns on
the difficulties of his situation he will
have to look to other sources. If it
would be any comfort to him we might
tell him that the white churches all
over the south are bedeviled in the
same way by parties who are taking
advantage of political feeling to en-
deavor to split the churches asunder,
all for the temporal benefit of those en-
gagged in the work of dissension
To the Editor of the Dallas Herald:
Being pastor of thirty years stand
ing, | have had my eyes opened to the
fact of how ignorant the colored race
is in regard to religion, as we are daily
having fraudulent denominations put
upon us. The first fraud is the Free
Home Mission Baptist claiming to be
Free VIII Baptist, and this by parties
who do not have any more idea of the
origin of church than |, II poor, ignor-
ant man, have of ruling the United
States of America. We are poor, ig-
norant race, and always ready 10 sub
NIT ourselves to the words of wisdom,
but |, as pastor, can not see how
HiccoX's directory can be the guide OF
the Free VIII Baptist church when
they have a treatise embracing all the
leading points of the doctrine and
practice of the Free Will Baptist, and
giving scriptural reasons therefor. This
treatise was ordered to be published by
the general conference ut Dover, n.
H., January /, 1868.
Now, /, as a God-fearing man, cali
not see how ! can follow under any
other work and be Free Will Baptist,
as this treatise has been prepared by
such men as George III. Ball, Esq, and
Hosea Quinby, both Oh the committee
of revision,
Hoping that through your valuable
columns you may be able to show our
poor, ignorant race some light upon
he subject, and that |, as u pastor of
the colored Free VIII Baptist Church
in this city, can come among the col
ored people and show them that such
is "a fraud" and remove the veil of
ignorance that is put upon them by
sweet, oily words of parties that can do
no good, but who only disturb the
peace of long established church, |
am your humble servant,
PASTOR OF CoLORED CHURCH.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

G. NJ. PHILLIPS, captain and pilot of
the lower river, addresses a card TO the
New Orleans Picayune, in which he
Gays that Henry c. Dibble did fire from
the custom house window at man
standing on his (Phillips') left, and Kill
him, and that the man so killed was
J. M. West. He further states that he
knows Dibble well, that he recognized
him when he fired at West, and that
he fired twice at Dibble in reply.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10


From Church's Musical Visitor for ociober.l
Oh, haunting dreams Of sweet summcrd-ad!
Ye bring me heart-nches In your whispers
Echoes OF song may not hear again,
Voices whose tones were silent long llBoi
Visions of orchards crowned WIN DIluni
Where apple-plossoms scent the air Of May
Aud from the sopins hillside comes the
or sweet-voiced children at their happy
play.
There is n low, sad rustic in the. air,
Among the yellow banners Of the corn
The faded sunilowcr drops her henNy henui
The garden border of It's wealth Is shorh'
A subtle stiffness broods DER all the scene,
The benediction OF the ysar mas Hc3ihr
The sheaves are gaTncred rom the iadihS
fields, ,
The husbandmon has sung the "Ha vest
Home.'
In faded meadows where the partridge trills
His clear, loud song to cull his wandering
The sire ans are shallow and the grasses
Where Scarlet poppes Gecked the field but
late,
A sigh thre' all the aisics of forest trees
a tremulous vibration in the songs
The wild birds pour upon the evening
breeze.
The sweet, dead days will come to us no
more;
New summers may bring.harvests of de-
light, ,,,
Fair days may dawn with eyes of splendid
hue
They cannot shine so infinitely bright,
AS the sweet vanished hours that we have
lost;
Or are they only garnered safe and sure,
To wait for us in some far, future world,
Where summers shall eternally endure?
The rustling leaves drop softly at my feet,
Warm airs careSs my cheeks with loving
kiss,
No chill of autumn shivcrs In the air,
Yet something indttinable miss,
Oh! summer sweet, If never more on earth
may rejoice in all your beauty rare,
/ cannot say farewell, for we shall meet
Where you may bloom more iuiinitely ialr.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

WE hear it rumored in certain pri-
yate circles that the cause of the re-
tirement of Hon. Galusha A. Grow
from the presidency of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern railway
company, was the dissatisfaction dis
played 10y some of the directory over
his refusal of the settlement proposed
by the state, viz: to take 5000, 900
and "call it square, If this be true 1t
only shows how well some people be-
lieve i'm the saw "when you can get a
good thing and safe thing, snatch
It ln-I Houston Age.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10
Home Industry.

A great deal of talk is expended on
"home industry" but sometimes a
test will develope some curious facts.
As an instance, the lowest bid the
Houston mills could get in this city
upon an order for ten thousand flour
sacks was thirteen cents each. This
bid, even, was for work to be executed
with "convict cheap labor" The or
der was sent into another southern
state and the bid was ten and a half
cents each sack. Now, why is it that,
with cotton mill at our very doors
and numbers of women begging for
work to do, these sacks cannot be made
as cheaply here as in Georgia or Ala
bama Who will answer?-[ Houston
Age.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

ArAN evidence of the ignorance of
the people abroad in regard To Texas,
we instance the fact that during our
recent visit to Norfolk, Va, one of the
editors or the Richmond Wing, vino
Joined us there, and participated in the
festivities rendered the party, proposed
"a health to General Sam Houston"
His proposition falling "still born,n
and it being limited that the great
Houston was not appreciated Ivy Tex
ans, one of the eXcursionists took oc-
casion to inform the uniformed that,
TO the deep lament of the Texan people,
the patriot Houston had long since
"been gathered to his fathers" but to
the memory of the great hero and
statesman Texas wonld freely drink.
10 his memory the toast was drauk.-
fisherman Courier.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10
INSOLvENT LISTS.

Where a defaulting taxpayer is
charged on the assessment roll with a
poll aud personal property tax only,
and the party failed or refused to make
voluntary payment, and the property
perished before the taxes could he col
lected by distraint, such uncollected
taxes should he entered upon list of
insolvent tax payers, which list, ap--
proved by the county court as required
by the act of May 81, 1873, must be
forwarded to this office by the sheriff
with his delinquent list for his credit
on account. The taxes upon such lists
should be afterwards collected, If prac-
ticable, and return thereof made, as IN
the case of other taxes collected.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

AS BEFORE stated the board of trade
is now receiving the regular telegraph
ic market reports four or five times a
day from Liverpool, New York, New
Orleans and Galveston. Only mem
bers, however, who have paid the ini-
tiation fee $50, and guests with cards
of admission, are privileged to have
the benefit of them.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-10

The public may dismiss all fearof any
further postponemeDt Of the fifth aud
last gift concert of the public library
of Kentucky. The management has
determined that the drawing shall take
place, as advertised, on the Both of No
vemher next. The experience Of the
previous drawings enables those in
charge of this, the last, to calculate
with positive certainty upon the sale
of tickets, and the indications to this
date have been most favorable. No
one wishing to purchase tickets need
delay under any apprehensions that
his chance of a fortune will be post
poned to later date than the Soth Of
November,