The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-06
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

A Spanish chip called the Panzacola,
(Pensacola) still doing good service,
was built at Pensacola and launched in
lSOS-sixty-seven years ago. She wac
built of Florida live oak and red cedar,
aud cost S44 900 in gold. Sheregistered
45O tons. 3
The deepening Of the water In
Charleston harbor is going ON. The
plan of the United States engineer Is
to eKcavate u channel to the sea at
least one hundred and eighty feet wide
and eighteen feet deep at high water.
More than once, during period OF
four years, not now necessary to par
ticularl2e, we paid one hundred or one
hundred and fifty dollars for pair of
boots. You see 'lhe volume OF cur
rency was equal to the necessities OF
the trade, II Lebanon Tenn. Herald,
eX Confederate.
Pshaw! It's easy enough to put up
stove pipe. All you have got to do is
to put on your kid gloves, take up
your cane, and leave word at the tin
ners, and when he gets ready, and
can't think of any other job, mud
doesn't want to go fishing, no viii put
your stove up.
The Postmaster General has removed
from office Jefferson j. Hibbetts, post
master at Cbetopah, Kansas, for GER
tifying to the sufilciency of the sureties
on the bond of the accepted bidder on
the Fort Concho and III Paso mail
route last October, when he knew them
TO be worthless, Suits will be prompt
" commenced against the failing CON
tractor on the Texas route and his
sureties.
Jay Gould owns twenty million dol
lars of the stock of the Union Pacific
railroad, and controls several millions
more, giving him an all-potent voice
in its management, and one Of the
largest sharers in its profits. The to-
tai of stock is litty-six million dollars.
If the case now before the United
States Supreme Court Is decided in
favor OF this road, Gould will be gamer
in an amount double the price of his
stock, as the government will be
mulcted In over three hundred million
dollars. A fat thing.
Chambers, In the Encyclopedia of
English Literature, and Hart, in his
English Literature, say that Andrew
Fletcher, Scottish nobleman of high
character, who lived from 1868 to ZIG,
in letter to the Marquis of Montrose
spoke thus: III knew very wise man
who believed that if man were per-
mitted to make all the ballads Of ma
ton, he need not care who male their
laws" The following from work by
Sir Philip Sydney, who lived in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, l55i-s6,
proves that he was the "wise man"
referred to: 'Let who may make the
laws of people, allow me to write
their ballads, and I'll guide them at
my will.p Et
The sneak who acts as special for the
Cincinnati Commercial at Jackson,
Mississippi, when he telegraphed his
paper that the Democrats aud Con-
servatives had carried Mississippi,
added "Jefi. Davis is spoken of as
next United States senator" Ot course
the dirty fellow telegraphed this lie to
prejudice the Yankee blood-suckers
against the Mississlppians: Mr.. Davis
happens TO pc citizen OF tennessee,
and not of Mississippi, We doubt II
uhuer any c,rc . sI,,i ne WoS S ao
cept seae W. 'he uni'eu ,'h.es oeila ~
rom any o'a.e' ina. oody nus s osconne
such uen OF thieves lnat 'eilers ,,,l
Davis couiu ohly compro'nlse ms uls.
mity oy soins 'here'tonre'epol'
llmes' N8Ft
A dispatch from London announces
that her Royal Highness, the Duchess
of Edinburgh, was safely delivered OF
a daughter on the 10Th. This incident
increases the tally of the Queens
grandchildren to twenty-seven, TWEEN.
ty-four Of whom are still alive, and
that OF her total living progeny to
thirty-three, including three unmar-
ried children and the Princess Louise,
who Is married but without family.
The Duke ana duchess or Euinourgh