The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-14
LOCAL BREyITIES.

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races will soon be run on the track OF
the Dallas Blood Horse Association.
"A cold wind from the south sprung
up yesterday evening and made the
average citizen hustle into his over
coat
There still continues to be n dimu-
milton of arrivals in the city, and the
hotel keepers are correspondingly un-
happy.
Yesterday was cold and gloomy.
A few flakes of snow fell in the morn
Ing, avant couriers we presume Of an
approaching cold snap.
CT, Lambdin, agent for the Gle
burne Chronicle and Granbury Vi
dette, is in the city in the interest Of
those enterprising journals.
The Commonwealth Silver Cornet
Band are holding nightly meetings for
practice, and are much encouraged by
the progress they are making,
We neglected to state in our yes
terday's issue, that b. j. Starr, accused
of arson by Mr.. Martin, had been hon
orably acquitted by Judge Burford af-
ter thorough aud searching investi-
CATION.
The ladies and gentlemen COM
prsing the classes under the instruc-
ton of Professor George, will have n
sociable dance at his hall in the Odd
Fellows building, on next Saturday
evening.
The different saloons are making
active preparations for the cold wealth
or. Freeman, the handsome proprie-
tor of the Senate, has purchased mag
nilicent china punch bowl, beautifully
finished, which is very suggestive of
egg.nog and other delightful mys-
ferrous compounds.
Colonel Mcclure will act rs Mayor
during the absence of General Cabell,
who goes to GAINESVILLE, ARKANSAS, to
attend reunion of his old brigade.
The Colonel will preside gracefully
and is II fit representative of the official
dignity of the city of Dallas.
The members of the First Presby-
terrain Church and all persons in any
way connected with it, are requested
to meet this evening, Mt seven o'clock,
ut the church, on ELM street. A Sc
lection for pews will be made, and
full and punctual representa- tion is
desired
Large and interested audiences
nightly greet the Rev. Mr.. Cornell at
the Baptist church. His subjects are
full of interest and are becoming eX-
ceedingly popular with the more cult
waited class OF our citizens. This even
ing he will lecture on the "Nature and
Destiny of Man."
The HERALD Office was presented
yesterday with the champion sweet
potato, not only of Dallas county but
of the State of Texas. 1t was grown
upon black land upon the farm of Mr..
b. +. Brandenburg, situated two and
one-half miles north of the city and
weighed six and half pounds. Who
can beat it?
Mr.. Mcintyre, the husband of Lolita
Montford, the actress who committed
suicide Tuesday afternoon, received a
dispatch yesterday from Mr.. Brady, of
New York, the father Of the unfortu-
nate girl which stated that he would
at one start for Dallas and on his ar
rival here would take charge of the re-
mains Of his daughter. Mr. Brady is
well known hotel keeper in New
York city, and is reported to de man
of considerable means.l
--Siler, the transfer man, has sue
ceeded in making arrangements with
the different railroad companies
whereby vast amount of trouble will
be saved the travelling public. He is
now prepared to check baggage to all
points, either from the different hotels
or private residences, thereby saving
the disagreeable rush and crowding
that every one is subjected to at the de-
pot. His Office is ut Common Il Walk
er's drug store, southeast corner of
Main and Aastin streets. Any orders
left for him will he promptly attended
to.
We have heard persons remark on
various occasions that they did not
think the party that went in pursuit of
the express robbers, had followed them
far enough or had used sufficient oner-
gy to insure their capture. We have
inquired into the matter and find that
from the time, Tuesday evening, that
Captain Peak and his deputies left
Dallas, until they returned, period of
just one week, they travelled altogeth-
er three hundred and eighty-four miles.
Their horses were utterly tagged out
ana they found 1t impossible under the
circumstances to procure others.
In local notice which appeared
In yesterdays issue we mentioned that
the life of Lolita Montford, the unfor-
tunate girl who committed suicide the
lay before, might in all probability
have been saved had stomach pump