The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-04-28

Dailns. Nov. 81 lS73. ---, 2i0dtf
A LARGE lot Of Mistress Geese berries
IRE for sale In this city.
TiIE weather yesterday appeared TO
suit the season. II came out In a
duster. iHftf@ lA p itthIih''N !
THE county court Of Dallas county
met yesterday, and VIII probably bcin
session most Of the week. ,..o
COLONEL $. II. SHOOK, southwestern
ngent flhe Memphis and Charleston
railroad, was pleased to call on MS yes
tcrday. ltwould have shoek-ed usif
he didn't. r
A GENTLEMAN who reached this city
last evening, reports n very heavy
shower OF rain east Of tis, yesterday.
afternoon, accompanied by very start
ling electrical display. - Aad
IT will be seen by reference to our
special notice column, that the 20. X"
Restaurant, Main street, between
Market and Austin streets, viii on the
lst day OF May next, reduce the price
Of board to five dollars per week.
PERSONS wishing to purchase resi-
deneel lots in this city. are referred 70
the special notice of Jno. Henry
Brown d Yenable. The lots on Liye
Oak park, to be sold on tomorrow
afternoon, at 3 O'clock, are tho most
desirably located in the city.
COLONEL DEMoRsE, Of the Clarks-
vile Standard, and Captain Hehder-
son, of Paris, two gentlemen who form
not n little Of the backbone and brain
Of northern Texas, passed through this
city last night on their way to Tyler
DIR. s. II. WATSON, of this city, on
Thursday last sold lot of cotton raised
on his farm in Ellis county, at lGIcts.,
being the highest price that has been
paid in northern Texas for anyof the
crop of 1878. We did not learn the
classification, but II must have been
an extra lot, ut "a szg ac ~ SE
CHARLES S. BUSHNELL, agent of the
Houston Telegraph, did us the. honor
ola call. Mr.. Bushnell represents one
OF the best-condncted newspapers in
the state, and we wish every citizen in
Dallas would take the Telegraph on
trial; they will afterwards take it as n
matter of necessity.
THE contract for furnishing the court
room for the district court in The new
court house was awarded, yesterday, to
Messrs. Anderson 4 Payne, for 81 900.
This covers all the furniture for the
east room, including chairs, etc. The
plan for the furniture was furnished by
Mr.. Goodlander the contractor for the
building.
MEssRs. JNo. HENRY Brown &
VENABLE, real estate agents, are max
ing this business q specially, and of
course having calls from every one
wishing to buy, sell, rent or lease lands,
residences, etc. They have every facil-
ity for doing large business, and ask
a share of patronage. See card in our
special notice column. Their office is
on Main street, nearly opposite the
HERALD building. ~. so
BANGS horse was shot and killed
yesterday by Bangs himself. Bangs
says he has lived In several countries
in his life, and be never yet knew a
place that didn't allow man to do
with his own horse as he pleased, and
as his horse pleased to run away from
him yesterday and thus spoil trade,
he pleased to kill him.
A GENTLEMAN by the namc Of High
tower, very high authority, living in
the northwestern part of this county,
told merchant in this city yesterday,
that on his last visit to Dallas he
bought a two bushel sack full of pecans,
and that his family were much SUR
prised, on returning from a visit to
neighbor's one day, to find the house
half full of squirrels who had climbed
the lightning rod and getting down the
chimney had eaten all of the nuts.
THE new court house will be finally
delivered to the county court,to-day.
being now entirely finished, as per con-
tract. We take the occasion to COM
mend the contractor, Mr.. Goodlander,
for the faithfulness with which he has
carried out the spirit and letter of his
contract. In every particular he has
fully complied with II, and in some in-
stancesmore than done SO, and inthe
name Of our, county, we thank him.,
His contract gave him until the first of
July to cemplete Tie work, aud he de.
livers " two months In advance. We
can, we think with truth, say that Dali
las county to-day, has the finest, the
most substantial, the most commodi.
GUS and the best finished court house to
be found IN the state, IL not In the
south. --.--.~--------