The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-03-06

MAINE Is waking up. For the first
time in eighteen years one of hei
towns has gone democratic.
The declaration Of Texas independ
ence was signed in an unfinished
house, without doors or windows.
OUR thirty-fve district judges cost
Sl22,5O0. Two of these judges, Cham
bers and Cooper, are holding courts In
one county each at $1,000, and two dis
trict attorneys at $1,000. This is Ere
formr-so called.
SOUND policy would dictate the pur'
chase by the county of the bridge over
the Trinity at this point. The advan-
tages to the people of the county, as
we'll as the trade of Dallas, of a free
bridge cannot be over-estimated.
The Southern Cultivator for March
is promptly on our table. AS we have
so often had occasion to say it Is the
best agricultural journal that Texan
farmers can take. Terms 81 10 per an
mum, in advance. Address M. l..
Jones, Athens, Georgia.
The Indian ring has not figured In
print much lately, but the members are
quietly making good thing out ofthe
annuities, contracts, etc. The noble
savage is a paying institution when
Grant Il Co. run him through broth
er-in-law by the name of Orville.
GRANT will not have it all his own
way in the new senate, which he has
summoned to meet Friday next. There
are thirty-five GRANTEES, twenty-eight
democrats and eleven independents
and liberals. In the house there is a
majority of seventy against him.
GRANTS cabinet went in body to
the capitol to lobby the tariff bill
through. congress, and used all their
personal influence to accomplish their
purpose. Fancy Washington button-
holing members of congress and hang
ing about the senate door to pounce
upon senators and talk or lobby them
them into voting for this or that
scheme. All dignity and decency have
vanished from the white house. So
much for electing low vulgarians to
high office.
The reports from the southwestern
portion of our frontier show that the
Indians are raiding in that section,
marauding and stealing. The legisla-
ture should see to it that the pledge of
frontier protection, made by the demo-
cratic party, is carried out to the letter,
and SO far from cutting down the bat
TALON of rangers under Major Jones,
and overworlSing them, the battalion
should be increased to regiment of
fifteen hundred men, under the organ
ization first proposed, some two years
ago, and the complete protection of
our frontier settlements thus secured
beyond doubt.
Mr.. COCHRAN, our member of the leg
islature, deserves we'll of his constitu-
ents for his practical and honorable eff
forts to settle the. International rail-
way company's affairs with the state
upon just and equitable basis. AS
the bill now stands, its adjustment
upon basis which will satisfy all par
ties depends upon the governor. That
he will act with his usual sound judg-
ment and fair mindedness, is fore
gone conclusion. His approval of the
bill puts an end to the cry of division,
now raised as a threat in west Texas,
as if division would secure immedi-
ately railway system.
CAPTAIN II. L. FULTON, the new
mayor elect of Galveston, was serenad-
ed at his residence, the Exchange ho-
tel, on the night of his election. Cap
tain Fulton being confined to his bed
and unable to appear, Colonel George
Elournoy addressed The crowd. Gov
ernor Lubbock, who was the opposing
candidate to Captain Fulton, in the
primary election, was called for, and
also responded, congratulating the de-
mocracy of the banner county of the
state on the victory. Subsequently
Major F. M. Spencer addressed them,
after which the band retired and sere-
naded the aldermen elect.
THE following paragraph, SO well
put by the Austin Statesman, will APP
ply TO other places as well as to the capt.
tai city We endorse it in its entirety
1t is very strange that people will
never learn that we cannot and will
not, as matter 0fright, as well as of
business necessity, print personal let
tiers or papers concerning individuals
or Institutions, unless the cost and the
use of the newspapers costly facilities
for giving publicity to facts be paid for.
II signifies nothing to us that the let
ter or paper proposed to be printed
concerns the public. We live, like
other people, to make living, and If
those who would serve Others or them
selves do not pay hire for the vehicle
I'm which they air their vanity or great
ness or humanity, or their fame, the
"old one horse shay" OF which Oliver
Wendell Holmes wrote SO felicitiously,
would never live to green old age, and
finally dissolve, with all its parts at
the same instant, in dust and oblivion.
THE International railway compro-
mise bill, with Mr.. Cochran's amend
ment, which has passed through the
legislature and now awaits the COVER
nor's signature only to become law,
gives the company three million dol
lars in bonds, and requires the compa-
ny TO pay into the state treasury, an
nually, two per cent of its gross earn
ings, until the principal and Interest of
the bonds are paid, and that the COM
pany shall buy eighty thousand dol
lars of any state bonds wbick may be /
Issuedd end placed or tie market, every
six months for two years, or three hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars al
together. Once the governorsigns this
bill, the International railway compa-