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

PRECEDENT GRANT will take up his
summer residence ut Long Branch
next week,
TnE supreme court has dismissed tie
appeal In the case of Peak vs.. Lynch,
from Dallas county.
MIR. IRELAND seems to be quietly
dropping from the notice of an admir-
ing and appreciative public.
THE Mason county (reXas) silver
mines yield about three hundred dol
lars per ton of ore at depth OF forty
two feet.
THE New Orleans postoillce has an
additional attraction now for the dan
dies of that city, and the number who
inquire of the female clerks for letters
is alarming.
A REPORT comes from London that
King George, of Greece, is tired OF
quarreling with his parliament, and
will abdicate his throne and so to ST.
Petersburgh to live.
To TIE already long list of suicides
in New Orleans, q. NJ. Looming sub
scribed his name, on Wednesday, de-
liberately using morphine for SEAL
The marriage and removal of his di-
vorced wife to Texas was the cause.
ATTENTION is called to notice in
to-day's paper of II convention ofTeXas
mill proprietors, to be held i'm this city
on the 18th of Juno next. Matters OF
vital importance to the Texas millers
will be discussed and it is to be hoped
that every mill in Texas will be repre-
scented.
The fact now being definitely settled
that Alexander, of Russia, saved Eu-
rope from bloody war by his repre-
sensations to Emperor William and
Bismarck, it is in order to say that OF
all sovereigns across the water he is
the wisest, most statesmanlike and
most humane.
THE New York Herald, in its review
of General Sherman's memoirs, re-
opens the question as to who was the
hero of the war, and it leaves it unde-
cided between Lincoln and Lee, Nc
Pherson and Jackson, and Sherman
and Johnson.
IT is said that Lord Lytton has de-
clined an offer of the governorship OF
Madras, made vacant by the death OF!
Lord Hobart, preferring to remain as
British minister at Lisbon, wherein he
shows the good taste that might be eX-
pected of him.
The Baltimore American stands
sponsor for the story that Mr.. Murat
Halstead, of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, is seriously contemplating paper
in New York city, and that he is only
hesitating between the ACCESSIBILITY Of
starting new one or buying out an
old one.
THE action of the United States CEN
tcnnial commission in selecting Il. q.
G. Lamar, of Mississippi, ms one of the
two orators of the day on July 4, 1876,
and General Joseph Il. Johnston, of
Georgia, Us master of ceremonies, com
mends itself to all having fratcrniza-
ton at heart.
ATa full caucus of the custom house
wing of the republican party of Louis
lana last week, Tom Anderson, n seal
awag, was definitely settled upon us
the subcrnatorial candidate for 1876.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, it is said, was
present and participated in the delibe-
rations of the caucus.
THE fact is now recalled that Colo
mel Anthony, the Kansas City editor
shot by Embry, shot and killed II. &.
Satterlre, Leavenworth editor, five
years ago. Like Anthony himself, this
time, his victim was then unarmed.
They do all these things strangely in
Kansas.
AN absurd story to the effect that the
presidents persistent silence on the
subject of third term is due to threat
nning letter received by him two years
ago this summer, in which he was Of
Tered his choice between disvowal and
death, is going the rounds of the adj
ADMINISTRATION organs.
IN transpires that Joseph Shannon
having died on May 9Th, his will, by
which the residue of his estate is be-
queathed to the Roman Catholic or
phan asylum and to st. Joseph's Roman
Catholic church, is imperative, it hav-
ing been made within thirty days of
the testator's death.
The San Domingo and Sandwich
projects having both failed, General
Grant, believing doubtless in the luck
of odd numbers, is engaged in third
attempt to add territory to that already
possessed by the United States, the
Semona islands and her naked saw
ages being now the coveted prize.
WHILE in Memphis Vice President
Wilson met Mrs. Jefferson Davis, an
old friend, on the street, and the two
are said to have clasped hands with
cordial and friendly ardor, repairing
Immediately to a neighboring ice-cream
saloon, where they discussed straw
berries and ice and the memories of
tie past"
Isis stated that France, Belgium and
Holland are manufacturing such i'm
mense quantities of beet sugar that
they are underselling the sugar reiiners
of England in their own markets. In
northern Texas this matter of raising |
the sugar beet has never received the
attention IL deserves, If any at all. I'll
could be made source of great in
come.
THERE is a horrible pio.uresqueness
in the reported discovery of the body |
of John Blackboard, the American &C.
tor, who lost his life three years ago in
attempting the ascent of Mount Blanc.
Il was found ia a.huge block of ice
which lately fell from the mountain,
perfectly preserved, like afly in amber.
TIE New York Sun counts Tilden,
Thurman, Bayard, Hendricks, Allen,
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