The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-03-20
LETTER FROM MARSHALL.
The Religious Editor again on His
Ram6lGS.
MARSHALL. Texas, March II, 1875

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DEAR HERALD - We arrived here
Friday last at = A. NJ, just in time to
don II black coat and spend an hour or
two before dawn, with Marshall's beau
ty and chivalry at Mahone's opera
house. The occasion was the wedding
Of Miss Eva Knox, daughter of DR..
Knox, u well known planter, living in
this county near the state line, where
the "cinnamon seed and sandy bot
march with the upland prairies of the
lone star of Texas. The ceremony was
performed at the residence of the
brides father, Rev. J. Nj. Wasllom, of
Waskom's station, officiating. Thurs
day following the bridal party took
the Texas and Pacific train for Mar
shall, and in the evening opened the
ball at the operahouse with bridal
quadrile. The brides maids were eight
in number, and embraced every style
of beauty from the queenly, superb
brunette TO the delicate, spirituellc
blonde. The bride wore an elegant
dress of white satin cut en- train, the
orthodox veil and orange flowers, and
looked as if she hal just stepped out
of one of LeIy's or Nandyke's pictures
of court beauty Of that Merrie
Monarch" Charles IL. AS for the
CROMWELL, just let the reader go and
do likewise, and he will know how he
looked. The bridal party left on Fri
day last for wedding tour TO Dallas,
Galveston and New Orleans.
Henry Dickson, another Texas and
Pacific railway man, surrendered ut
louisiana belle, and was married to
Miss Durham, of Shreveport. Mr..
Dickson was formerly agent for the
Houston and Texas Central railroad ut
Dallas.
The long agony is Over-the Texas
and Pacific subsidy bill failed to pass,
and Marshall is, metophorically speak,
ing, in sackcloth and ashes. Ambi-
tious Jefferson also raised her wall of
woe when his excellency put his little
veto on the International railway COM
promise bill as introduced by Repre-
sentative Cochran, of Dallas. Her an
guish was slightly assuaged, however.
by the passage of the substitute grant
Ing twenty sections of land to the mile
and exemption from all taxation for
quarter of century. Longview was
also disappointed by the death of the
Longview and TeXarkana Air line bill
in the senate on Friday last.
After meeting II. q. Mills, NJ. c., on
his way home from Washington, and
J. l.. Leonard, of Adams & Leonard,
just from st. Louis, we left for Shreve-
port, and took up our headquarters at
the extensive steam job printing es-
adjustment of l.. II. Simmons & Co.
The country, after crossing the Lou
isiana line, differs but little in appear
ance from Texas, and Daring the col |
or which gives it its name) the |
mighty Red looks much like the tur- |
bid Trinity. En- route, freedmen and |
plows were moving in the fields, with |
snowy piles of cotton seed scattered |
the burrows, and everything
seemed to indicate all early burial of
king cotton preparatory to n fleecy res
urrrrtion i'm the autumn. Peach and !
apllc tree, scented the air with their /
fragrant bloom, and the weather was
warm enough for an English summer.
Rome, so history and tradition teach,
was built on seven hills, and its found
Frs sucked 10y awolf Shreveport seems
10 have been built on about seventeen,
and the crude forefathers of ham,
let" imbibed a very good knowledge of
poker and other games of chance with
heir mothers milk; this knowledge,
~ the way, they have transmitted to
heir descendants. 1t has almost re-
covered from the effects of the cpl
lemic of 1873, and while il has lost
iome Of IFS western trade by the COM