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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-17

Houston Telegraph.l

Judges Mastcrson and Cook yester-
day delivered an able and elaborate
opinion in the case Of August Blau,
who had, on the day before, been
brought before them on habeas corpus,
sued out to test the uncOnstitutiOnality
of the law providing for the inspec-
tion of hides and animals. The petit
toner had been arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Walker, acting a. Inspector
of Hides aud Animals, and tried on
the first day of July, before Justice
McGower, on n charge of selling hides
without first having them inspected,
and fined two dollars and costs. His
counsel, Messrs. Crank ~ Webb and
Garhett & Garnett, believing the law
tn nbc unconstitutional, sued out the
writ of hdbcdS corpus, and the case
was elahorately argued by these gen.
tlcmcn for the petitioner, and L. p.
Hill, Esq., for ihc sheriff and other
respondents. The Judges in an cx-
hu,istlve opinion held the law to be
unconstitutional, and discharged the
petitioner. They held that the law
was II special law, and that 1t was
passed IN violation OF the amendments
to the Constitution fOrbidding
the Legislature TO pass n special
law in any case where u
general law can apply. That the law,
in exempting ifty-twO of the most
populuus counties of the State from its
operations, was partial, discriminat-
ing, and unjust In imposing burdens
and inllicting penalties upon the peo-
pie of one locality of the State, from
which those of u neighboring locality
were exempted without reason. That
such law was not n rule of action, in
asnuch rs it made something an
offense In one county of the State,
which IL not an OilGnse in neighbOr-
ing county. That 1t violated the bill
of rights In permitting the seizure and
cOniiscati0n of property, and the
arrest OF citizens without due process
of law or probable cause, their
placing the liberty and property
Of citizens In the hands of
irresponsible and unsustained officials.
That II was discriminating against the
trade and commerce of localities, ami
was calculated to destroy the trade Of
one locality, and build up other locali-
ties IN which 1t WINS suspended.
The opinion enters into calculation
taken from the basis of representation,
us fixed by the Constitution, and shows
that the fifty-twO counties In which
the law IL suspended, were, at the time
of the passage Of the law, represented
In the Legislature by sixteen Senators
and forty-eight Representatives,, n
majority Of both Houses, and the
Judges are of the opinion that such n
law could not have been passed by a
majority Of the representatives Of the
people.
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ESTABLISHED, 1919,
COMBINING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

II Is charged, by n cotcmporary,
that n combination has boon formed
by tho Texas Central and tho Inter
national and Great Northern, tho
effect of which IL to keep the freight
on flour, TO points in Southern
Texas, ut no high n figure NJ to
operate very prcjudicially to tho
milling interests Of Northern Texas.
According TO tho published rates
of the Texas Central, the freight on
flour to Houston is SlOl.GO per car
load, while that on wheat is only
SG6 so. Since this tariff was pub
lishcd, we learn that tho charges
on wheat have been still further re.
duccd to $50 per car load to llons-
ton, but VIC have not learned of any
reduction on flour, although some
may have been made.
1t is much TO bo regretted that
there should not be u better under.
standing between tho railroad com.
panics and the millcrs, for il il cvi.
dent that this want of cooperation is
forcing us to import flour, when we
are producing millions of bushels
of wheat, and have mills sufficient
to manufacture it.
There is no suror recipe for tho con-
tinucd financial embarrassment of Il
people, no matter what may be
their natural resources, than the
practice Of sending their money
abroad to buy what they have tho
means of manufacturing at home.
Why should wo import flour from
st. Louis, when VIC have
abundant means of making
it for ourselves? There may be
other causes tending to force our
wheat out Of tho country, and for
oiyn flour into it, such rs the ina
bility of our millcrs to hold the
amount of wheat necessary to supply
the demand for flour throughout the
year; but VIC cannot help thin king
that our millcrs have substantial
grounds of complaint. These rail
way combinations will go far to.
wards strengthening tho feeling,
already strong in some quarters,
that railroad charges, like the fees
of shcrill's and justices of the peace;
should bo regulated by law.
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Lively Passengers I'm n Third Avenue
Car. who Rode ms Deadheads.

"Dick, the Rat,n is one of the feature
Of the Eighth ward. He Is paid to
free hotels and private residences from
rats, and he sells the bodies of his
victims to gardeners at SO per hun
drcd. His tools are pair of tongs, q
dark lantern, and n deep, strong bag.
When the latter is full of rats, 1t must
be shaken diligently, for they will
gnaw their way to freedom. On Mon
day evening Dick caught twenty-five
rats In an east side hotel, clapped them
into his BAG. end boarded Third ave-
nue. car. For a while, he agitated the
bag conscienciously, and then, seeing q
pretty girl on the opposite seat, he al
lowed it to remain still. Just rs the
car reached Twentieth street, the rats
burst out OF the bag, which they had
honeycombed while Dick was admiring
the attractive maiden. They darted
In every direction. Women screamed,
and men used naughty words, and the
car was not overburdened with passen-
gers for the next minute or two. The
rats all escaped, except one, which
run under his cost.-[New York Sun.
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Tho commerce of Dallas has reached
that Importance, that lis pcrmnnencc
rs the distributing city of North Texas,
Is recognized in the co!Grhcrcial world
as n fixed fact, but the writer thinks
the aticntion of its business men, is
not awake to the evils of depending
too much on commercial business, and
the Importance of utilizing the facili-
ties we have for manufactures now
idle. Where there are no manufac-
lures and II city relies on crop money
for its business, there are usually
six busy months in which all kinds of
business pays more or lpsa, and MI vino
wish an lint cnirloymcit, hut this
season is followed by six months of
waiting for another crop, In which
husincss Is dull, and II large percentage
of the InW!atinn nrc unemployed.
Nav, the establishment of munulacto-
rirs would insure the employment of II
part of this population the year round,
at rcm,lncraiivc wages. There would
be an abundance of female labor mere
for II cotton factory, and in no way
could the prosperity of the city he bet
ter promoted than by making valuable
the services OF many who are helpless
or n burden to p.hprsy-tO create u de-
mani far their labor, thereby making
those who have no dependence but
themselves able to earn good living,
is not only Kindness TO them, hut
every dollar paid to them is that much
poured into the channels oftradO here.
A cotton factory here, employing one
hundred operatives, would every Sat-
urday evening put into circulation in
our midst fifteen hundred or two thous-
and dollars. The presence of well-to-
do working people, enhances the value
of real estate; and paying manufacture
ers speedily bring in outside capital.
We have at our doors II steady demand
for heavy cotton goods and cotton
rope, larger than We could supply. AT
least nne third of the cost to the cOn-
sumer of these in Texas is trans
portation of the raw material
one way, and the goods the other and
this third would he our margin of
profit over the Northern mills; build
ing, labor and factory cite would cost
less here than North; from six to eight
per cent on prime cost of law material
could be saved by buying cotton un-
bailed. The advantage to the stock
holders in dividends and to Dallas i'm
increased trade and value Ofproperty
would he constant, depending upon no
uncertainty of crops or weather.
These crude suggestions nrc thrown
out for what they are worth, with the
hope they may help turn the attention
of our business men to an important
subject, that seems to be hut little ap.
prcciated. HALL.
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ave don't call in question at all the
declarations of THE DALI.AsHERALD,
that II has ro desire 10 chOtIse us out
of n candidate, but wearc hy no means
sure that TnE lIERALD speaks the true
sentiments of the people of Dallas
county."-[Fort Worth Standard.
We arc glad that our cotcmporc-
ry, at last acknowledges tho good
faith of The HERALD. 1t might
havc also extended its charity 10
the people of Dallas county, for wc
feel suro that in expressing our
own sentiments, We also expressed
theirs.
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cnsion ! expcrinicnted, In company
with several others, with n gun. The
target was IL four inch plank, placed
against II stenl plate. Tho best gov
crnmcnt powder drove the ball through,
the plank. N" vnpor threw the bnll
with such ir,"irudous force that II
went through PLANK and steel, tearing
the bullet t0 shrcds.
Mr.. Kcclcy claims that this now
motor may be successful applied to
tho propulsion Of steamers, tho
traction of trains upon railways,
the driving of any kind of machin-
cry aud to gunncry. In regard to
tho latter, all that il necessary il to
have attached to the gun II small
receiver, about the size of IN or
angc, and tho mysterious force,
there confined, would lust through
the longest battle.
Mr. Kcclcy proposes to run Il
train Of thirty cars, between New
York and Philadelphia, at the rate
of II mile II minute, all drawn by
one small engine tho engine to
bc run by the vapor of no moro wa
ter than can bc hold in tho palm of
tho hand
Tho lnlcr-O Ocean is certainly war
ranlod in saying "Thcse arc very
largo stores, and seem incredible.
They would be put down ms tho ra'
wings of u madman, were it not for
tho assurance Ofreputablc citizens,
who have seen tho workings of tho
watcr,that they are no moro than the
truth. Notwithstanding this, there
are IL number Of very suspicious cir
cumstances about tho discovery, us
wo said, and tho facts that exhibit
tions which have boon promised,
havo not been given, add to the
doubts on tae subject. If Mr.. Kco-
lcy's discovery is on" halfof what is
claimed, it will revOiutionizc trans.
portation. by land and water, as well
us change tho cntiro motive power,
employed in every department Of
labor. We only hopc it will prove,
in reality, to DO tho astounding dis
cOvcry intimatod."
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a NEW plank in II Republican
platform IL tho following resolution
Of tho Republican State Convention,
held ut Madison, Wisconsin, u fcw
days ago: ,.
"Rcsolrcd, That we favor tariff for
revenue only, so adjusted rs to be the
least burdensOme, and the most favor-
able to the interests Of labor and in
dustry."
After this wo shall not bc sur
priscd to hear of some convention
of rcpcntant Radicals condcmniDg
bayonct rulo in tho South.
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THE HERALD COMPRESS.

Wheat il selling in Cleburne at
sixty cents.
"A Baptist church is to be built in
Lampassas.
The Indebtedness of Newton coun-
ty is $4,976.49.
Mrs. J. s. Williams, of Lamar
county, died last week,
Austin Is scattering dlsinfectants
through her streets.
The Central Texan man wants a
temperance society for Calvert.
William Thomas shot and killed
\ negro, near Shiloh, last week.
The Grangrs of Johnson county had
Il grand celebration on the 3rd.
The death, at Galveston, is an
nounced of Colonel Walter l.. Mann.
The fruit crop in Anderson county
has been seriously effected by the
drOuth.
Mr.. Willard Richardson, the Ncs-
tor of the Texas press, Is at the point
of death.
The Israelites of Austin have or
ganized Bnai Birth lodge, called the
Hill City Lodge.
MIR. j. w. McCullOch and Miss
Ellen i, Britain were married in
Palestine last week.
Judge Alexander McGOwen and
Miss Florence Abbey were married In
ITnnotnn Iu.t frhtpru,luu
-Four hundred Georgians have set
tied in BlancO and Llauo counties in
the last twelve months.
"A brute has been arrested in Gal
weston Tor ravishing his little elcvcn-
year old step-daughter.
The first ten miles OF the Houston
Narrow Guage is completed, been In
spected and pronounced .. X.
Fort Worth still has the spelling
mania. The demand for Webster's
elementary is In excess of the supply.
Marshall is enjoying series of
flrst-class burglaries, several having
been committed during the past week.
The Texas oranges are agitating the
idea of establishing Mutual Life In
surance company, for the benefit OF the
order.
The Changers OF Navarro have let
the contract for a brick warehouse, to
he built In Corslcana by the 10Th OF
September.
The commissioners 10 locate site
for penitentiary In Eastern Texas
have decided upon "A point u mile west
Of the town of Rusk, In Cherokee
county.
Austin News: "Some of the col
ored people of this city had meeting
last night for the purpose Of praying
for rain. Prayers were offered suited
TO the occasion."
The towns and villages of Western
Texas are making Up liberal sulscrip-
tions to support McNclly's Texan
scouts. This shows the needs of the
West, and what two governments owe
that horribly wronged district OF Texas.
Paris Press: "Ed. Pearson who
killed McCurley last summer, came In
last "Wednesday and voluntarily gave
himself up. We learn that his bail
was fixed at 81 600"
The Grangers of the western DOR
tion of Grayson and the eastern
portion OF Cooke counties, will hold
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THREE FORKS Or TRINITY, !

July 10, 1875.
To the Editor of the Daily Herald:
! lam sorry to trouble you, but some
of my ncighbOr5 have worried mo To
learn who Rev. MIR. Carhurt is, that
you said had been appointed special
Emigration Agent by the Governor.
have tried luis Of people in town and
can only learn that he had only been
in the State and in Dallas Il short time.
Some arc certain he WAS sort of
preacher; and one man told mo he
travelled over the city on Sunday eve
nings with little boy; that he would
lean over the front, and sometimes the
back gate asking God to cnlightcn and
tring them to II knowledge Of the fact
that there Is u Christ and that he
might come to Dallas If our people
would reform. Then his boy would
drop inside some little tracts, &c.
Does Governor Coke know him or
did he appoint him on tho reuommcn-
dalton of one or more parties In Dal-
las? II the last who were they? How
long had they known him? Has this
minister much knowledge of Texas
or was this especially for Dallas? If
his mission is to bring ministers
enough to cleanse the city of wicked
ness and elevate her morals, we In the
country don't care II cent, but we shall
object to any Tux on us for their sup
port. Any Information you pan give
which win case our neighb0rh0Od will
be thankfully received, and the circu-
latiOn of the Herald increased.
JonN SMITH.
7. s. What we most desire is the
names OF those who recommended
him, II any, In Dallas. J.S.
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Tue n,vroes of philudpluhia.

TnE negroes Of Philadelphia, ns
well as of Washington, are bogin-
ming to kick out Of tho Republican
traces. They accuse tho Radicals
of not "toting fair" in the distribu-
tion of offices. Sambo begins to
find out what tho rcst of mankind
have known from tho beginning,
that tho Republican party really
cares nothing for him, further than
he can be utilized at the polls. TO
this end he was made a voter, and
to keep him in good humor, at as
small expense as possible, tho Civil
Rights sop was thrown TO him. But
hc begins to see through the trick,
and is evidently growing rcstive.
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Orleans ria Shreveport and Rcd
river, wont to Galveston, ria tho
Texas Central, and the Texas and
Pacific and Great Northern, in
about equal proportions, that il,
about four thousand By each route
We got tho above information
from Mr.. Il. j. Hays, agent OF the
Missouri, Kansas snd Texas Rail
road, in this city, who has kept an
accurate account Of tho cotton ship.
mcnts from this point,
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EVERY sensible man, who knows
anything about the rcd man,'wilI
agree with Governor Osborn, OF
Kansas, that it is about timo to be
done with tho absurdily of making
treaties with II handful Of vagabond
Indians. There is no doubt that TO
this tomfoolery, which the Federal
Government has boon cnactlng for
so many years, we owc our frequent
Indian wnrs, which has cost tho
American people 30 much blood and
trrnsurc
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

There are 100000 acres of soil in
India under jute cultivation.
-MacMahon has thirty-seven deco
rations, Brazil having sent the last re-
Gently.
The Iowa State University has
turned out seventy-one young lawyers
this year.
The population of Duluth is lit
tie over 2,WO-being shrinkage of
1000 since 1872.
You can cure the appetite for in-
toxicating drinks by eating an orange
every morning before breakfast.
1t is n healthy sign that so many
Of our colleges are graduating Bache-
lOrs of Science as well rs Bachelors Of
Art.
"A mistake of the types caused an
announcement to read: ''Thirteen
illinois railroads are in the hands of
dcceivers."
The State prison at Philadelphia
has stopped cigar making, being una
bic to compete with the Connecticut
institution.
1t is reported that brigham Young
is ready to marry all the Vassar girls
at once, but the girls insist on separate
ceremonies.
Hail stones, eleven and n quarter
inches in circumference, are said to
have recently fallen in Davie county,
North Carolina.
Three Gypsy children were bap-
nf ..,l, nf
H., one Sunday lately. Their parents
are travelling fortune tellers.
The Worcester Women's Temper
ance Prayer Band provides coffee for
liremen at fires, and counsels them not
to drink anything stronger.
Another aggrieved individual has
brought libel suit for 100000, and
been invited by the jury to pay the
cost of the action. 1t was the Denver
Tribune that was sued.
-"Jump-up-and-run then
sit-down-again" is the name of n Red
Cloud Indian who has just taken the
war-path. He must have sat down on
a pin.
Deposits of silver of extraordinary
richness are said to have been discOv-
cred on Rifle river, Michigan, and the
people propose u riiie INC ear'h vi i's
'ie"s"ie''
The Paris Figaro asserts that there
are many American women i'm that
city living freely in the mud and miro
of the demi-niOnde, and acting rs spies
ior "eii'"'S'
Lately they had tremendous thun-
der storms in France, and it was no.
tccd that the wild animals on exhibi-
tion were uncommonly intractable and
dangerous.
,u ;,,,o auo -, ro,oru A ,od,,
in England has incorporated in her
Of about Sl1 800 for the reduction of
the English debt.
xy;soo,o;, hos n us,,o,, slonao-
r;rI }, VIZ Nil, sLoor no meany si,oan
in n day as the best man in that State,
and all the young fellows wits are 60
ing wool-gathering concerning her.
Iyh., mn, 4, Syria hos ,ho hy-
dronhahia thnw haa4 hin, in = Ja.,y
roop, awhile and tbe,, drnn hin, from,
on on,;nanca into tha GOO rba a,,hnr-
tiles are silent as to what becomes Of
Fido.
In Rur,;poton. Vermopt throe
cbprhes recently were str,ick Nv light
ming and n nnn,her of narsone who
were Mt nrayer meetings were knocked
down. Spare the rod and spoil the
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TWO SUPREME COURTS.

THE DALLAS HERALD wants two
Supreme Courts, ono civil and the
other criminal. The IIERALD's sug-
gcstion is u wise one, and will doubt
less bc carried out-[Gatesvillc
Sun.
With the present organization OF
our Supreme Court it is impossible
for tho Supreme Court to clear the
docket, and year by year the accu-
mutation of business is swelling
swelling mountain high. Each of
tho five judges now have to hear
the plcadings in every case, civil
and criminal, brought to the Su-
promo Court. Consequently, IN
increase in the number of Associate
Justices, which Is favored in some
quarters, would not ligh ton the bur-
den. Each of tho seven, or whatcv-
er number might constitute the
court, would have to hear the plead
ings, or read all tho briefs submit
ted, and form his o,cn opinions upon
tho law of tho case. Ho could not
conscientiously cntrust this to his
brother judges.
On tho other hand, the division
of tho court into civil and criminal
departments, and tho appointment
of ono moro judge, would give the
people tho benefit of t,oo courts of
appeal, Of thrcc judges each. Tho
whole expense attending this change
would bo the salary Of tho sixth
iudyo.
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TuE shipmonts of cotton fror

The shipments of cotton from
Dallas for tho season Of 1874 and
1876, mp 10 this time, have been
nineteen thousand and eighteen
bales. About seven thousand bales
of this went to st. Louis, and the
East, via tho Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad a little more than
three thousand went 10 the same
destination, uia the Texas and Pa
cifc. The remainder, except a few
hundred bales, which won't TO Now
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A HARp-HEARrEp New Jcrsey iul

A AHARD-HEARrED New Jersey jury
has actually sent man to the State
prison for six months, for indulging
in the innocent pastimc Of falsifying
election returns, so as to elect the
man who got the smallest number Of
votes. The Philadelphia Times
thinks that sort Of justice would
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MkxIcAs thicrcs arc ain crossing

MEXICAN thieves are still crossing
cattle into Mexico, Notwithstanding
Cortinas' arrest. Tho truth is the
inhabitants on tho Mexican side Of
the Rio Grandc have bccn so long
accustomed to subsist upon cattle
stolen in Texas, that it will bc i'm
possible 10 put q stop to their dep
rotations, unless our troops arc per-
mittcd to follow the marauders into
Mexico, and punish them wherever
found.
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THE Blind Asylum ut Austin has
boon closed, and tho blind sent
home, without escorts, on free rail
road passes. Cause. State out VI
funds and trying To curtail cxpcns.
~. Shameful
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The New York Herald informs US
that Theodore Triton was ut Plymouth
Church on Sunday, and listened to Mr.
Beecher's sermon. One would scarcely
suppose that Tilton would consider Mr..
Beecher Just the man to give moral
and religious instruction, but, perhaps,
TiltOn docs not want TO be instructed
in that way. The Brooklyn saints and
philosophers are queer lot. We
should not be surprised to learn by and
by that Theodore and Elizabeth had
made up and gone to living together
again, and that both had resolved to
become regular attendants on Beech
er's ministratiens. Nothing occurring
In Brooklyn-especially within the
Plymouth circle-could surprise us now.
philadelphia Times.
The Rev. Henry Morgan, some
wha' notorious sensational preacher,
of Boston, has offered two hundred in
prizes for the best essays on "Why
men don't go TO church-What Is the
remedy ?' An obvious answer to this
double conundrum would be /: Take
the mountebanks and incapables ont
of the pulplts and put In their places
men of Christian meekness and intel
lectual culture, and the pews will soon
I'LL up.n
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The tremendous tumble of gold
in Wall street from III TO 1l13,
in three or four days, has sent many
a gold gambler to financial limbo.
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bring weeping and woiling in ccr-
tain official circles in that city.
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4 week had pasta solemn throng
Moved slow and silently along,
Thro' that drear winter blast
We laid IN old form meath the sod,
And turned away with II sad Thank God
The Old man rests at last!