The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-03-13

The tide begins to turn. The force
bill is dead, Pinchback shelved, and
the attempt of Grant to Nelloggize Ar
kansas failed.
Hon. ID. B. CULBERsoN has resigned
his seat in the state senate, to take eff
feet March the Sd, in consequence of
his election as member OF congress.
THERE seems to be but one opinion
among our southern exchanges about
the civil rights bill, that it is an out
rage, perpetrated for purely political
purposes and that it will prove imprac-
ticable and hurtful to the negroes.
THE civil rights bill, now law, pro-
vides for equal privileges in all public
places of amusement, hotels and pub
lie conveyanoes, and requires the en-
ployment of negro jurors in all state
courts.
MORTON continues to try to cram
Pinchback, the negro would-be senator
from Louisiana, down the throats of
the senate, but that body does not
manifest much of disposition to swal-
low him.
THE presence of body of hostile
Mexicans on our Rio Grande border
looks as if it will he necessary to ex-
tend our boundary lines and take the
Mexicans in under our wing and keep
them quiet.
THE adoption by the United States
house of representatives of Judge Po-
lands report in regard to Arkansas, by
vote of one hundred and forty.nine
to eighty, makes Governor Garland
safe, and puts quietus upon Clayton,
Dorsey, Mcclure, etc. L
GENERAL SCHENCK, the United
States minister to England, is looked
upon there as gentleman gambler
who fleeces gentlemen, as Il minister,
out Of their pounds, shillings and
pence. He is, in short, spoken of as
diplomatic blackleg.
The forty-fourth congress expired
Thursday. 1t was one of the most cor
rupt, malignant and cowardly bodies,
as far as the radical element in it was
concerned, that ever disgraced the
country by its pusillanimous toady'sm
of all usurping president.
In DeSoto Parish, La, a few miles
from Spring Ridge, last Friday, John
Sanford cOolly shot his father, sam
uel Sanford, an old man seventy-seven
years of age. They were on their way
to Shelby county, in this state. The
murderer escaped. The father was
alive at last accounts, but was not eX-
pected to live.
The nomination of John Mitchell
again for seat IN the British parlia-
ment, will result in u still more decided
refusal of the government to back
down from its position in regard to him
that he is a convicted felon, and is.
therefore, ineligible to seat.
THE legislature isyfedeeming itself.
The International question has been
acted upon, the constitutional conven-
ton is in fair way to be provided for.
Nothing remains to be done now but
to pass usury law and provide for the
protection of the frontier before adj
journment.
The New Orleans Bulletin calls A.
H. Stephens "the Georgia Benedict
Arnold OH account of his actiop III
congress about the resolution recogniz-
ing Kellogg, and says lie is IA dough-
face and snake in the graas, talented,
but thoroughly crotcliety and unrelia-
BILE individual, who has pandered to
Grants aspirations for third term,
.curried favor with the carpetbaggers,
"a constitutional grumbler and fault
finder, when not allowed to lead"
In the event of the house bill to
authorize the cities of Texas to main-
tain public schools becoming law, II
is of the first importance that Dallas
should take steps to organize boys
high school and girls high school, t'
be supported by, a proper system o
taxation. Every child old enough t'
be at school must have the opportu
nity throughout the year, exclusive o
the customary vacations.
ANOTHER eleven league claim ha
been set up, in McI.ennan county, thi
time. The land lies between the II
Vega eleven league on the southeast
and the Morinas eleven league on th
northwest, following the river ami run
ming ba,k far enough to make u
eleven leagues This land Is nea
Waco, the nearest point Of 1t helm
within two miles of the town. j. W
Sedberry, Louis Moore, Lem Jones
Mr.. Hunter, u. WortIIam and other
large planters, are uu H. IL iS''laini'
by lady IN Jamair.i, "lni~c Au>ii
agents ere moving in the matter f
possession.
SENATOR IREIAED, on Tie secor
instant, introduced very importai
bill, which, under a suspension Of Il
rules, was passed unanimously.
has to go 10 the house and be signs
by the governor before it becoInes
law. 1t simply check mates the civ
rights bill, as far as hotels and eatir
and boarding houses are concerned,
repeating the act requiring them