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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-03
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fom wonfif, June, ~
Va the Edltor NJ the pnllns Herald
AZ fOr news, We have none, Moth
Ing NJ special Importance has hap
pensd llnt would br NJ much Interest
10 your readers. However, We VIII
chronicle u few items IA they have Oc.
cured, which, " no more, viii remind
you that we, your nelglIb0rs, are still
In the land Of the living, aud doing
moderately well.
For the past few weeks, our citizens,
and especially the young people, have
been dlssipating to "A considerable cx-
tent, and TO the visitor who had never
before beheld the beauty and chiyalry
of the
CITY or HEIGHTS
II would appcar-as 1t really is-that,
railroad or 10 railroad, we will have
our occasions of enjoyment.
Parties, clubs, preaching, speaking
spelling matches, and the like, have
been the order of the day. Who cares?
Crops ARE good, money will be plenty,
and the railroad is cOming-by and
byl?)
That spelling match came of at last
and proved quite interesting. Many
participated in the spelling, and the
way lawyers tagged when put to the
test of Webster was jollilication. At
ter out-spelling all Of her competitors,
Mrs. Walden was awarded the prize.
Our class Is continued one, and
should any of the legal fraternity of
your city contemplate participating
therein when they come up to attend
court we would advise them to bring
along their spelling book.
THE BAR
of this city met last week ut the re-
quest of Judge Barksdale to apportion
! the docket. Court begins on the fifth
proXimo, and there not having been II
session of this body held here for the
past two terms, there will be great
deal of business OH hand.
MANSFIELD COLLEGE.
Many of our citizens are in attend
ance at the Mansfield college to witness
| the commencement exercises OF that
institution. We regret that we could
not attend, for we know we have miss
ed u treat.
THE CROPS.
AS all have been anxiously awaiting
harvest returns, perhaps it would be
quite relief to know that the golden
grain has at last been garnered, and is
now ready to be transformed into
breadstufis. 1t is encouraging, too, to
know that we have an excellent mill
in operation here, which enables us to
get flour much cheaper than hereto
fore.
Corn is thriving as well rs could be
expected under the circumstances, al
though rain is much needed, yet there
will be large crops raised without any
more rain. We have talked with sew
eral farmers who are confident that
they have corn which yield fifty BUSH
els per acre without another rain. May
we not rejoice? PAN.
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nv MlLLlr nLaarllr nnnlrans

Git un ihari ~ ~ pobulol stretch your
llan Ionn0i1o fond fortnight by Tie fyor
win The Wind 10 plutn' % tune on The
leaves,
An slttln' Inc trees n.pniyor
The hui l.iroHs hollof Ia tlni thW rOnd
As mo thpy would bust tHplT thuntH!
NY golly they sounds ike my Ynngoo bfud'
That's nflor the dnrkoy votes
linl Nin'l : lonosomo lornlghty good lsordy
tdit ~, thar XII up, DobblnD
The lences was rOttod, the chimblcys was
down,
The Jasmi Inc vines was ragged an trnilIn',
An brleIs an thlstlrs was all a. uun''
The wild suniiowers WIS thick IN lho mead
Where Onot growcd the cotton IN mighty tall,
The spring was choked with mud M mall
An rabbits was under the gnrden wall,
The trees was sobbin an BLOWN an bendin'.
(Git up, thar git up, Dobbin y
went down whar the Niger cabins
| Stood all along In II Lonesome row,
Tho gimpsun weeds growed round the chin
The shoky doors went to an fro.
There wasn't no sound of slngin' or splnnln' ,
! No little darkCys sat ut the doors,
The wasps iiew In M outen the windcrs,
An grass growed up through the crack In
An seeln' all that set me thinkln an
thinkln;
(Git up, thar git up, DobbinN
! 1 thought how we used ter fight an iuSslc,
An wrnstle an hunt, me an young Mas
Wayne.
| An almost thought could see ole maSsa,
! At the house door, leanin' on his cane.
Mas Wayne, he was killed In spme-er the
battles,
some whar the grass grows over his head;
] Ia his broken
| hearted
How curis Ia think that they botn am dead:
| But no Use grievin' bout them, good Lordy
| (Git up, thar git up, Dobbin ,
l orter be thankful, know oTtcr,
An love the Yankees, an vote fur Grant,
| They ut fur my freedom, an love me mighty,
| / orter be thankful, but sometimes can't. =,
An ternight, us watch the moon a-shininr
! An hear the wind BLOWN uuten an IN
The trees, I'd give ey'ry bit of my freedom,
10 be with young Mus Wayne ngin.
But must be gittin' quite tins bottom,
(Git up, thar! git up, DobbinO
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Proceedings of Meeting Of the VAN
Zandt County Bar.

In accordance with previous notice,
the members of the VanIandt county
bar met at the office of J. p. Groome,
Esq, in the town of Canton, when
Hon. J. S. Murphy was called to the
chair, and J. p. Groome was requested
to act as secretary, when the following
preamble and resolutions were mani
mously adopted:
Whereas, Our fellow-tOwnsman, and
brother of the bar, Captain j. G. Kear-
by, has moved from our midst and has
located at the city of Dallas; there
fore, be it
Resolved, by the members Of the bar
of NanZandt county, That 1t ID with
the deepest regret that we extend to
our brother the parting hand, and that
we are conscious of his intellectual
greatness and legal learning, of his
great moral worth and active, untiring
energy, his stern resolution, of his
usefulness as II citizen and great alice
tive power.
Resolved, That to the members of
the bar with whom he may be associ-
ated, and to the people among whom
he may be thrown, we commend him
to the most favorable consideration,
and that they will ever find him a
rigid bearer Of the truth, an active, in
telectual and powerful member of the
bar, and in every way worthy Of their
utmost confidence and esteem, and
may his path he strewn with rarest
flowers.
Resolved, That the secretary Of this
meeting furnish the Kaufman Star,
Emory Star, and Dallas papers, with
u copy of the proceeding of this meet
ing, with request that they publish
the same,
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The Ruins of an Ancient City In Ken
tucky.

Mr.. Green Bolts is the owner of a
farm at Peeled Oak, on Slate Creek, a
noted section of Bath county, and this
spring, IN piowing up about sixty acres
of level land, he discovered the ruins OF
IL city-a city with regular streets
curbed with stone, and eyincing a
higher order of architectural know
ledge aud a greater civilization than
and other prehistoric remains yet
found in this country. Many years
ago Il faint trace Of similar city was
noticed in Montgomery county, near
Mount Sterling; but the owners of the
land, having little taste for backward
researches, almost or entirely obliter-
ated the evidencee to make room for
corn growing. This being fresh dis
covery, we have no doubt it will be
visited by Professor SchaIler and other
Acknowledgements and prehlstorians of
the country at large. The land adjoins
n large tract belon ing to General VIII
liam Preston, of Lexington.-I Frank
fort Yeoman.
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moods IA the hamos NJ The fosns fir
mofa and tho number NJ lnnds tho1
require ~ act the project into flI
operation. llois daily In fotoipl N
lott,4s on tio subject, and The mum.
ber of working men whp already
propose to accept thcso liberal
forms, would oScood five thousand,
aud II Is beloved would reach Il
hundred thousand before fall.
havo cSnmincd many or those
letters, and they seem to bo written
by intelligent, earnest men, who
mean what they say. They are
from every section Of the country,
and some rs FAR M New York and
Virginia.
One writes, III can be sure Of
getting II farm on these terms, eight
or ten other families from this
neighhnrhood will make ready for
goins, DuI we shall have to sell ov.
erything on years credit and
would not have tho money to buy
an DIS or teams the first year, Most
of them, however, will be
able to support themselves with.
out aid from tho farmer" !
pronounce this II Legitimate
work for tho Bureau Of lmmi-
grafton. 1t is making known one
of the greatest inducements, ever
offered by any state, to IL people to
move to it, and thousands can come
under these circumstances, that
could not otherwise think Of it. |
trust all the farmer readers Of The
HERALD, who arc needing such Ia.
Dor, will send their names TO our
agent at st. Louis, and secure good
class OF renters for next year.
| have made visit to the manu-
featuring establishment Of the cclc-
bratod "lIughcs' Riding Plow," and
shall send you full description in
my next. cuRTlus.
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The most of the Indians who ac-
cOinpanied Colonel Meacham in his
leoturng tour through theconntry have
been sent back to their homes, and the
Yreka, California, Journal says that
they report that the troupe met with
success, though in some places the re-
ligious people considered their war and
other dances sinful, and therefore
failed to patronize them. 1t will be re-
membered that one of the Indians
mysteriously disappeared while in this
city, He was called Dave Hill, and
was the head chief OF the Klamaths,
now quartered near Fort klamath.
The Journal says it is believed that he
was either kidnapped in the hope of
obtaining a reward or else to be taken
to Europe for exhibition. and the sup
position is hazarded that he was on
board the Schiller, which was wrecked,
though no reason is given for believing
this to he true. Hill was well-in-
formed Indian and fluent orator, and
it is expected his people will be much
excited over his disappearance New
York Sun.
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The s.CIoriOus Fourth.

One of the most striking incidents o
the war occurred at Mobile, on q
Fourth of July morning. With thu
rising of the sun on the cloud
lesf morning, the guns of con.
fedcrate battery, one by one, opened
the salute in honor OF the national an
nivcrsary. y Federal war vessel lying
off the harbor, before the Confederate
battery had ceased, opened its salute in
honor of the same occasion, aud, one
by one, the Federal and Confederate
vessels and batteries, in ard about the
harbOr, took part, and made the heav.
ems, sea and earth tremulous with the
grand diapasOn. There were no shot
ted guns fired that day, hut ii was held
sacred 10y the warning brethren to the
memory of the common patriotism
which gave liberty to the common
country.
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IN AN ArELIER.

pray you, do not turn your head;
And let your hands lie folded, so.
1t was like u dream this, blOod-red,
That Dante liked SO, long ago.
You don't know Dante? Never mind
He loved n lady wondrous fair
His model? Something of the kind.
wonder II she had your hair
wonder If she looked as meek.
And was not meek at all my dear,
want that side light on your cheeky.
He loved her, IL Is very clear,
And painted her, as paint you,
But rather better, ON the whole.
| (Depress yonr chin; yes, that Will dol;
| He was painter of the soul
(And painted portraits, too, l think,
In the Inferno-devilish good
| I'd make )me certain critics blink
| If I'd his method and his mood).
Her name was denny, let your glance
was hssBf esa a1fie' fh ii met by chance
They met by chance, the usual way.
| (As you and met months ago.
| Do you remember? How your feet
| Went crink e-crinkle on the snow
Adown the long gas-lighted street
| An instant in the drug stores glare
You stood as in golden frame,
And then swore il, then and there,
To hand your sweetness down TO iame).
| They met and loved and never wed
| (All this was long before our time),
| And though they died, they are not dead
!
| Still walks the earth with naughty mien,
Great Dante in his souls distress;
And still the lovely Florentine
Goes lovely in her hload red dress.
You do not understand at all?
He was n poet; on his page
| He drew heii and though kingdoms iall,
| This lady lives from age To age;
| A uoet-that means painter too,
| For wor1s are colOrs, rightly laid;
| And they outlast our brightest hue,
| RriInAnnS
The poets-they are lucky ones!
When we are thrust upon the shelves,
Our works turn into skeletons
Almost as quickly as ourselves;
| For our poor canvass peels Mt length,
AT length is prised-when all is parei
"What rsr r,",,,H, The critics cryi "wha
All, Jenny, am sick at heartI
1t Is so little one can do,
We talk our Jargon, live tor art
| much prefer to live for you.
| How dull and lifeless colors are
You smile, and all my picture lies
wish that could crush a star
To make n pigment for your eyes.
Yea, child, know I'm out of tune
The light is bad-the sky is gray
III work no more this afternoon,
So lay your royal robes away.
Besides, you're dreamy-hand on chin
|, know not what--not in the veini
While would paint Anne BOleyn,
You sit there looking like Elaine.
Not ike the youthful, radiant queen,
Unconscious of the coming woe,
But rather as she might have been,
Preparing for the headman's blow,
1 see I've put you ~ "a m, d.
Sitting bolt upright-wrist on wrist,
How should you look? Why, dear, as If
SomehOw-as If you'd just been kissed
-IAldrich.
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Tag naniLos CONFESS,


The lnsnde value NJ property IN
Collin county IL si,lgOhih
a.. r. Bagty, Esq, . nephew ~ u
former governor NJ Alabama, Il nov
editing tie lionham Enterprise
Tommy stewart, ~ Pilot Point,
went ~ DcnlsOn Friday, aud exhibit
Ing evident signs u insanity was taken
charge Of and conveyed home,
--.lhe Frontier Telegraph Il nm
lshed 10 Fort Clark. Sergeant Brit
left DcnisOn Saturday 10 take charge
Of the Office nj the former place.
The Mckinney Journal says some
of the cotton crops In Collin county
are totally destroyed by the worm.
The patent medicine man II In Me-
Kinney.
Mckinney journal con the
night of the Goth instant n daughter of
our townsman, Mr.. j. i. Hunter,
eloped with u man 10y the name OF
Anderson, Of Dallas county"
Some one set fire to some oats and
barley in field belonging toa Mr..
Burney, near Bonham, on Friday.
Loss about forty bushels Of barley and
two or three hundred bushels of oats.
One hundred and fifty bushels OF
grain and u strong fence were burned
on the farm of Mr.. Harrison, sheriff OF
Collin county, II few days ago, caused
10y sparks from II passing locomotive.
The ceiling of the Sherman Patriot
Office came down on the heads OF the
workmen in the Office few days ago.
Result-a big scare, but 10 damage
further than delay in the issue OF the
paper.
Mckinney Enquirer: "The steam
thresher has been running in the held
of Mrs. Tucker this week, where many
persons went to see it work. 1t did
the work in II thorough manner and
quite rapidly"
The Sherlfis and District Clerks OF
Fannin, Lamar and Red River coun'
ties, have had made II handsome gold
beaded cane, which they intend pre-
senting to Hon. John &. Easton, Judge
of the Eighth District, on the LIST in
slant.
-Denison News, Goth: While al
Irishman was at the bottom OF the
well at the Nelson House, Friday
cleaning it out, his companion, at the
MINDLESS above, dropped roc k weigh
ing about four pounds, which strucR
the man at the bottom in the back
He grunted when 1t landed ON hl'
5 spine, but suffered no serious injuries
, from the accident.
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EX-GovERNoR BIGhER has published
letter, addressed to DIR. Wilson, de-
clining, in unequivocal terms, to be
considered candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for governor OF
Pennsylvania. The letter is but a
formal repetition of his repeatedly ex-
pressed purpose not to enter the pollt-
teal field again, and he very properly
defines his position publicly TO lrelieve
his many friends of all embarrassment
on the subject. No man In his party
is more generally esteemed in Penn
sylvania than Governor Bigler, and he
can justly point with pride TO the in
tegrity aud patriotism which marked
his discharge of public trust when
Pennsylvania conferred her highest
honors upon him. Memphis Appeal.
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A VALENTINE.

heard the song of n starting,
Winging its arrowy Night;
But swccLer by far, my daring,
Was the song in my heart last night
For memory thrilled me, stirred me;
The blood lcuped In each vein,
And long for the hour to cume; love,
When your arms might clasp me again
When your lips shall be pressed to mine
love-
While our eyes grow softly bright,
And we reck not ut future or past love,
While our senses reel with delight.
This song that NY heart is singing,
Hath melody divine;
For 1t tells me, over and oyer,
That your warmest love Is mine
And l shall believe it, my darling
This story too sweet to tell,
Far sweeter tina song OF the starting,
Or chime of the vesper bell
But the bird would die, If its MUSIC
Fouud meyer an answering tome
Ind mn heart UOuld bredk, il lis singing
Meet no echOing strain from your Orh'
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THE agricultural editor of the
Chicago Times, in an essay on grass
hoppers, says: awhile healthy OK
may be fair, staid-gaited digester
there is no comparison between the
slow assimilating process of bis
burly bread basket, and the quick,
electric stomachic machinery Of the
speedy and voracious grasshopper
A sound, valid member of this no
madic family of gluttons can eat, di.
gest and extrude three times his own
weight in green corn {; four times
his bulk in peaches, without sugar
or cream ; six times his stature in
raw turnips; four pounds Of green
tobacco and peck of onions every
twenty-four hours. And radishes,
which are quite trying on tho ordi-
nary human stomach, the grasshop-
per digests as a calf does milk"
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The new direct Atlantic cable will
bring rates down, and give American
journals more foreign news than they
have been getting. 1t won't cost so
much, either, for Forney 10 explain
what service he rendered in return for
that $4,000 steamship bribe.-[N icks-
| burg Herald.
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Marshal llnlal6o Ia said N be
directing the military operations oi
Dnn Allonso'a army, scntod vi tho
ljingH council boufd In Madrid n
numbers were under bis ooutrOl, ho
might got out u second edition Of
his "GmvolOtto "
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A cULLUD GERMAN went up to the
court house last Saturday TO exercise
his rights by casting a vote for the man
of his choice. Inquiring for whom
the votes were being cast, he was told
that II was fioater. Don't know moth
ing about Mr.. Floater," was his an
swer, land amt a-gwine ter vote for
him, nuther. Use a-gwine ter vote for
Mr.. Wilson. ~ Bonham News.
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1t Ia calculated that seventy.
five thousand Americans have gone
oyor 10 Europe 10 see what lhoy can
500 this summer, aud that the bus.
bunds will lay out over there fifty
millions of dollars in new whistles
for their wives aud daughters, A
few thingombobs are necessary, OF
course,
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The Chicago Tribune, Of Satur-
day, says that on the grain market
of that city the day before, fuse was
made Of the grasshoppcrs, and II
new scourage has been dis covered
in the shape of toads, which, accord
ing to dispatches from Kansas, have
appeared in force" What next?
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A FAcr pointed out hy die commits

A FACT pointed out by The c0mmIs'
sIoners, In their report on the peniten-
tiary, as explanatory of the immense
number of our couvicts, is that ofienses
which would be only misdemeanors in
other States are by the laws Of Texas
classed as felonies. A striking exem-
plification of this which we heard
mentioned the other day, is the case OF
Parson Jack Nunnelee, who, for theft
of seventy-five cents, lay in our jail
until his board cost the euunty four
hundred dollars, and was then sent to
the penitentiary for two years.-IBon-
ham News.
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There IL II strong military par
ty in the German empire disposed
to disturb the peace OF Europe, A
lcvorish bcIIigcrcnt agitation results
all over the continent, and big and
little powers are putting new hing
os and locks on their doors, for fear
they will be broken open.
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ov~xo., SuppInAN,s father. wi

GENERAL SHERIDAN's father, who
died at Somerset, Ohio, the other day,
began life as drayman, and supported
his family 10y the earnings of honest
labor. He never dispersed any legis-
latures, nor bore false witness against
his fellow citizens, nor desired to to
cOurt-martial and shoot all anti-Grant
men as handful And SO when death
came, he could truthfully say, "Pm
not afrait. Kansas City Times.
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-Garibaldi is travelling around
at present on the wing, telling his
eountrymen at large not to fight
and bark and bite any more, and
recommending little children to
stick their noses 10 the grindstone
of work as the only way of keeping
out of mud-puddles. At the end OF
May he arrested his march a few
days in a snug villa of Frascat' on
the hills.
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AN extensive printing house, sup
piled with facilities for stereotyping
and printing books upon large scale,
and which is extended to give employ
ment to nearly two hundred workmen,
has been established in the village of
Rouse's Point, on the Canadian line.
The peculiarly of this enterprise con-
sists IN the fact that Rouse's Point is a
very small village, with no trade TO
speak of, and that the owners of the
printing office are Canadians, who
have set up their establishment on
American soil in consequence of pro-
visions of law, in regard to copyrights,
which give American publishers an
advantage over Canadians in the re-
printing of English books for the
Canada market. In Canada no En-
glish book can be reprinted without
the permission of the author, whose
copyright extends to the dominion,
while In the United States publishers
can reprint any English book and send
1t into Canada for sale, on paying a
duty of twelve aud half per cent,
which is collected for the benefit of the
author. The Canadian publishers who
have located in Rouse's Point think 1t
cheaper to print their books in this
country and pay the twelve and half
per cent than to deal directly with the
English authors.
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Ara recent Washington breakfast,
fruit was served us the first course, with
articles of jewelry enclosed In the
stones. The ices were in the form OF
celery stalks and ears Of green corn.
How nice
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A SEw company, under the name
and style of the Houston, Dallas and
Denison Coal company, has been or
ganized, and W III soon commence oPer-
atoms at McAlister.-[OklaLoma Cad
dol Star
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BY the terms Of her settlement with
Edwin Forests executors, his divorced
wife gets 5000 in full of all claims
against his estate,
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NJ. w. MASON, inventor Of the loco
motive head light and other useful
railroad appliances, died at Rochester,
New York, ON Sunday night, aged sew
eutv.
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THE hair from lady's braid should
never be worn on the lapel of gentle
mans coat, unless the parties are en-
gagged.