The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-28

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The Wao0 Esmninef and Patron Inv.
again been named ~ the Official
jurnHl ~ the Stnit Orange fOf term
closing IN January, 1911
Illglwnynfon continue tO iefrlfy
peaceful travellers In tie vicinity ~
sherman. a vigilance committee IN
. lllnt community viii be next In order.
Corke aud Sprndley, arrested IN
Shreveport fof The murder W One Mo
Nully, IN Pamela Gdinly, we're c0ln-
inittcd 10 h1r-lall Jail Ihursday night.
The Democrat recommends the peO-
pie on the Texas side Uf TexarkalIn to
have u white man appointed United
States commissioner. What has be-
come Of l3reuSing?
The recall of the commission Of w.
| A.. Parsons, named by Davis as one Of
the representatives Of Texas at the
Ccntcnninl is urged by nearly all the
State papers.
The Marshall News says that Leader
calls its editor IN hipOcrit and cusOrer."
II these terms have any reference to
careless proof-reading, Leader is more
than half right.
More fruit is offered in the McKin-
ney market than finds purchasers.
The people thcrcahouts must think
that railroads were put down to hold
the earth together.
A couple of vagrant Chinese renova-
tors of soiled linen, protesting to hail
from Dallas, report business dull here.
Well, there wasn't 50 many joss-sticks
burned last week ~ usual in the same
time.
Judge Bancroft, of the Texarkana
Democrat, has just returned home from
n two weeks juunt to st. Louis, and
talks of putting in this week killing
skunks. Bet two to one that old John
son loses that plug-hat.
On the first of September the Super
intendent of Public instruction will
the school money to the
counties of the State. The census re-
turns of last year will he made the ba-
sis of apportionment.
Commercial travellers had better"hide
out" their shOoting-irOn5 before enter
ing Bonham. Neglect of this precau-
tiOn in regard to u small pistol cost
one of the members of this worthy
class twenty-five dollars the other day.
Mr.. Allen billiard, Texan veteran
who came to the State in 1875, forty
years ago, and who fought under Sam.
Houston, died few days ago in Uval-
de county, aged eighty-iive years four
and nineteen days.
In an affray which took place We'd
nesday night, eight miles east of Plano,
Jud. Rich was filled with goose-shot
from the fowling-piece of William
Rich. james Rich then caved in the
skull of the mortally wounded man
with a wagon-hammer.
James Dill is accused of having at
tempted to outrage Mrs. Pense, and
his brother, Il. w. Dill, had to furnish
seven hundred dollars bail the other
day for attempting to bribe the lady to
iisobey Il summons TO attend court at
Bonham.
The contract for grading of the fif-
teen miles of the New Orleans and Pa
cific railroad between Alexandria and
Cotille has been let to s. l.. James. The
people of Eastern Texas expect great
to result from the building
Of this road.
The Minneola Citizen complains that
IN immigrant from Indiana was not
offered inducements to remain in
Wood county. The newcomer prOba-
Il ~ IL, . Ii, la
,er invested somewhere else-Dallas
county, for instance.
A committee of crop inspection APP
pointed by Oakland Grange report, uI-
Ter date of August IA, that the corn
crop in Lamar county is much better
han expected, u yield of thirty bushels
% the acre being predicted, and that
cotton prospects are very tlattering.
Houston Telegraph, Goth: Yester-
lay in the District Court, an old Texan
veteran, John Ijams by name, testified
II an important land suit He carried
he chain for the SURVIVOR who sur
yeyed the tract of land in question in
S24. He is still resident of Harris
county.
Any red-mustached school teacher
,ut of berth may hear of Il situation
~ addressing Uncle Jack Harvey, care
If the editcr of the Sherman Courier.
The sanguinary hue of he adornment
If the upper lip is an Indispensable
condition, though.
Robert Simmons, a saddler, was ar
ested in BOnham last Monday,
charged with having murdered man
named w. j. Pritchard in Homer, Lou
siana, in February last, and is now in
all awaiting the necessary papers for
iis extraditiOn to Louisiana.
Sweet potatoes u yard and a quarter
ong, pumpkins more than an hundred
pounds in weight, egg-plants too large
o be thrown through a window, and
cucumber long enough for bean
,Ole, cucumber the editorial room Of
he Houston Telegraph. Remarkable
vegetables, or very seYere attack of
im-jams. -
The Mayor of Waco advises his city
athers to cut down the city attorneys
alary to fifty dollars per month, and
hat Of the recorder to Sl25, aud Them
would compel all officers after sccur-
ng their fixed stipends, to pay over to
he city treasurer all fines, fees and
1t is capital idea and
will be adopted here at once. 1t will
,opularize those in office and save
ax-payers vast sums. The excellent
Mayor of Waco further says that these
requisites belong to the people and
lot to the place-men and that officers
lave no right to retain fees, fines and
orfeitures while the people must pay
he costs of maintaining these munic-
pal governments Statesman.
'he English Cooperative Societies
and the Patrons of Husbandry.