The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-05-12

city.
MAIN street on Sunday suggested for
that avenue Especial river cores
rondent."
They made the first dirt scratch yes
terday, for the benefit of what Is To be
the San Jacinto hotel.
WE would propose TO all the grange
editors that they cultivate beards-due
TO the "bearded grain" you know.
AN advertisement announcing the
loss of gold locket and gold masonic
keystone appears in another column.
SHERIFF BARKLEy publishes "fair
warming in another column. There
are few parties but whom are interested,
and attention to the same Is directed.
Boys and cattle IRE destroying the
fruit OH trees and the trees themselves,
in this city, to the amount of hundreds
of dollars. The boys should epounded
and the cattle impounded.
A SwEBE girl was taken up by her
father In this city on Sunday morning
and returned to Houston, which
city she had left in order to escape the
vexations of an unsavory admirer.
A LITTLE boy on Sunday, in going to
church, stopped on Lamar street. at
tracted by colt, and while fondling 1t
about the head, was so severely bitten
by the animal that 1t is likely the boy
may lose his hand.
A MEETING Of the vestry of the Epis-
copal church was held last evening on
the portico of the parsonage. We fiat
ter ourself that the temper of the dis
cushions partook of the GOODNESS Of the
spot upon which they were held.
A MANUSCRIPT in the hand writing of
the elder Booth, viz: Junis Brutus
Booth, is among the jealousy pre-
served relics belonging to a Mr.. Bow.
man of this city. 1t is a critique
upon one of the earliest presentations
of Miss Cushman.
THE cabin of old Aunty Smith, an
aged negress, well known for her ac-
complishments as nurse, was entered
on Saturday afternoon, while she was
Down street, and everything portable
carried of. Thus pro-rogued has its
antipodal in aunty-rogued.
"SOME friends" desire us to pun a
little at the expense of Sells, of the
Cosmopolitan, who received, on Sum-
day morning, vivacious little parcel
in the shape Of bran new baby. Our
friends will pardon us if we think
their coun-sels are too babyish.
The sidewalk near Messrs. Steagall
& Co.'s was boisterous late yesterday
afternoon with the clamOrous casting
down of the gauntlet, by an individual
who plainly "meant business" to the
feet of al indisposed party who as
plainly preferred to wait to fight an
other day.
WHILE present yesterday during the
process of a synneurosis of a fractured
leg of negro man, the patient in
formed his physician that the same
limb had been broken eight times be-
fore. And the physician told his pa
tient that 1t was only because of his alb
solute temperance that the leg had
stood all the breaks. Another one for
the teetotaler.
Bob the barber, and his landlord
Onslaugned on each other yesterday,
during which there was some active
changing of position on the part of
Both in order to obtain the vantage
ground. A maneuver on the part of
Bob's antagonist placed him in possess
sion of the toilet bottles and-Bob was
painfully bottled, after which from
dressing other peoples faces, Bobwent
up street to have his dressed.
THE mslapert department of some
school boys is complained of by a
stranger, who says that in examining
some lots near Mr.. PutS's garden yes
terday, several pupils, who he learned
We're members of school near by, sus-
pended o game Of ball in which they
were engaged, and aggravated the
offense of throwing stones at him by
haunting mockery and jeers.
The Mexican who was sentenced on
Saturday last to two years in the peni-
tentiary for house breaking, and who
is now In Jail In this city until the final
adjournment Of the criminal court,
when he, with other hardened sinners,
will go to Huntsville, was painting on
Sunday last to get knife In his hands
to xiii the jailer and open way for
his escape over Carson's dead body.
HARRY G. HOBBY, ESQ, whose hobby
Is the dissemination OF news, az Is dis
tinctly shown In the entire satisfaction
he has given as general news agent Of
the Texas Pacific railroad, is tempo
rarily sojournipg in the city. A broader
and more lucative. field is open for
Harry as news agent Of the western d.
vision Of the Union Pacific railroad, I'm
to which he will spring In few weeks
fuil-armed, like Minerva from the brain
of Jupiter.
DO YOU suffer from wakefulness at