The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-17

SPADES are now trumps with Dallas
gardeners.
TEN tons of hay were destroyed by
fire, eighteen miles northeast OF this
city, Oh Thursday night.
The amount of confidence some men
will put in others, on short acquain-
lance, is sometimes absolutely mystic
rious if not little stunning. We have
known flesh pampered American to
linger in ways that were visionary, I'M
mediately beneath the devoted eye of
the most cadaverous, and yet, at the
same time, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS anthro-
pophaginian. Again, have we known
one of our countrymen to dine AT
q Chinese refectory and masticate
"celestial' hash without pausingto an
alyze for mice tails, confident of the
astronomical qualms and classic aes-
thetics of Johns cuisine; and again have
we been called upon to speculet" upon
the abandon and beatific frankness
which the bucolic resident will
surrender his confidence and his cash
to some nice young man of the city.
OF the latter there are many variations.
The one which we propose now TO give,
we shall relate solely: On Monday last
"country gentleman" to employ
familiar term, drove up to an enclosure
in this city, containing large rick Of
hay and engaged sufficiency to feed
several teams, which he said would be
i in, in a few hours, under charge OF his
partner, who would also pay for it. In
other words, his partner was the
money-bags of the '1ayout," or "stretch
out' or "drag out" or any scholarly
term by which you may be pleased
TO designate the several wagons
and appliances The advance partner
then unhitched his team hard by, and
sat down to wait for the arrival of the
custodian of bhe dimes. Towards sun
set he was noticed to climb a log and
worry his neck few inches longer, in
the hope, as was quite presumable, OF
catching glimpse of his incoming
teams. The sun set and the night came
and passed; still no teams. Mounting
one of his horses he started in search
of the partner who held the money
bags, and i'm an hour or so came up
with the teams, less the partner. On
inquiry of the wagOners he learned
that they had been directed to camp
n few miles back the night before,
while the money-bags partner came
on ahead to the city, with a wagon
loaded with hides. That was thin asa
cobweb. He saw through it quick as
a flash, and yet as he dashed back, he
checked up his horse once or twice and
began to question if he was not little
too suspicious. True, he hadn't known
his partner very long, but in the
little span of his acquaintance every
thing had worked like a clock
and the cash had always squared. But
his first surmise was right. A visit to
one of the hide dealers disclosed the
sale of his hides, and securing search
.ofthe city failed to disclose his partner.
II was all daylight now. Five hundred
ofstoutly and sweat-earned dollars were
gone. andanother example of the truth
of the scriptural injunction, thrust nc
man, was taught, at no small cost tc
the pupil.
We have known men-we haven'1
enjoyed their acquaintance III tht
smallest particular owever-who could
never ride in a mile ola ranch of cattle
without several head Of these cattle
would, somehow or other, be right
under the lash of these mems whips
before they seemed to know it. We
don't say they didn't know IT, We
don't like to accuse a man Of lgno-
rance; but it looked so. And believing
that il would be healthier for men thus
diseased to place themselves beneath
a tombstone, so as to keep out of the
way of cattle, we have frequently
loudly and fervently prayed to be per-
United to read the name of the last one
of them on a marble an DleHOridDl
But we have been apprized, no lOngel
ago than yesterday, that it has been
ordained otherwise, az the following
will show:
About nine O'Clock yesterday morn.