The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-29


ton Of our readers. The subject treated
Of Il Of vital Importance 10 TeSns, and
particularly to the wheat growing re-
glon, aud should be fully discussed by
our people.
A POSTAL CARD can now be sent for
two cents from any part Of the United
States to Germany, Austria, Hungary,
Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France,
Great Britain, Greece, Luxembourg,
Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal,
ROumania, Russia, Servia, Sweden,
Switzerland, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
MAJOR G. S. WEST and Major VIII
liam NJ. Walton, both Of Austin, have
been called upon by citizens of that
city To allow the use of their names in
the district convention rs candidates
for the constitutional convention.
West consents, but Major Walton de-
clines. We agree with the Statesman
in the remark that "there Is not bet
ter man in the state for the convention
than Major Walton, and the people OF
the whole state will regret his course
in this important matter"
THE Philadelphia Press, from dis.
patches received from different parts
of the state, concludes that the Penn
sylvania wheat crop alone will fall
short nearly ten million bushels of the
average yield.-[New York Post.
Texas will supply the deficiency
Our people will raise not only sullicient
grain this year to meet their owr
wants, but sufficient for all new com
ers. The HERALD would suggest tt
the farmers of Pennsylvania and the
western and northwestern states t.
come to Texas and try their skill il
wheat raising.
THE citizens of the town of Co
manche, on the 18th instant, met to-
gether for the purpose of devising some
method by which to lessen the heavy
burden of taxation now being imposed
upon them by the city authorities, ant
to inaugurate, if possible, a more eco
nomical system of municipal govern
ment. Resolutions were adopted call
ing for mass meeting of the citizens
to be held on the odd, and committee
appointed to draft suitable resolutions
A meeting of that kind might possibly
not he out of place in Dallas. What
think the citizens?
The city of Boston is about to fore
close its mortgage on Chicago, as is
evidenced 10y the Chicago Inter-Ocean
of the 2Ist, which published the delin-
qucnt list that day in the largest daily
paper ever issued. 1t covers Is full
sheets, IA pages and SCI columns. The
manuscript copy of the tax list which
the paper contains weighed 2G5 lbs,
and occupied 1880 pages. Thirty OF
the very best compositors to be found
in Chicago were employed 36 days in
putting it in type, working 1O4 hours
per day. Five proof readers were en-
ployed, one man was was constantly
employed setting captions and making
up forms, and another in proving gal
leys.
DIR. J. S. KANNoN, of Fort Bridger,
the noted scout, guide and Indian in
terpretcr is ut the Southern. lie has
led an eventful life, and his adventures
would fill II bulky volume. AT the at
tack on the Alamo, where Crockett was
killed, lie was captured at seven years
of age by the Comanches, and re-
manned in captivity until grown up
st. Louis Republican.
Some time since THE HERALD cor
rected the Republican in this matter.
There were no Comanches or other
wild Indians at the fall of the Alamo.
There was no one captured there ex-
cepting Mrs. Dickinson, her infant, and
the negro man servant of Colonel
Travis. The story of Ramon is not
only improbable on its face, but ALSO
lutely untrue in fact. Such bosh
should have no currency.
EX-SENATOR JAMES s. NYE, of Ne
vada, is now at the Bloomingdalc,
New York; lunatic asylum. II is said
lis insanity is the result of political
and financial reverses. President Lin
coin appointed him territorial COVER
nor of Nevada in 1864, and when Ne
vada became II state, he was elected to
the United States senate i'm which he
served seven years.
A LONDON dispatch states that the
German am bassador at Brussels had
been instructed to request the Belgian
government to prohibit religious pro-
cessions. If this is true, 1t is the bold
est step Bismarck has yet taken in the
way of interference with the affairs of
Belgium, and it appears in the light of
direct challenge to England, Austria,
France and Russia, who signed the
treaty of April 10, 1899, with Prussia,
guaranteeing the independence and
neutrality of Belgium.
TIE recent murderous attempt on
the life of young Obenchain is another
example of the pernicious effects ofnot
strictly enforcing the law against the
carrying ofdeadly weapons. The evil is
great, and prompt and effective meas
ures must be adopted to suppress it. 1t
is disgrace to our civilization and n
positive drawback to our progress and
prosperity, as it is hardly to be pre-
summed that peaceable and law-abiding
men desire TO locate in community
where their lives are at the mercy of
every drunken rufiian who thirsts for
blood at n trilling or imaginary insult.
The law must be enforced, and protec-
ton and safety guaranteed the citizen
against the assaults of these ruflians.
They are a blight upon the fair name
of our city, and the authorities owe it
to themselves and to the community
TO see that these ruilians are taught a
lesson that will be an example to them
in the future, and guarantee TO law
abiding citizens that life and property |
shall he protected.
Rev. JAMES YouNGE, of Sherman,
reached this city on Monday night |
from Nashville, Tennessee, where he
had been in attendance oil the annual
session Of the supreme council of the |