The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-01-30
WEEKLY HERALD
u. W. BAYLOR, Editor


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PrMnINA h the name Of the new
territory To 10 formed out NJ the north
half Of Dakota, and lIsmarcR II to he
lts capitol.
TnE smallpox has abatcd In lircn.
liam, and the patiolis are doing well
At one time there was good deal OF
alarm.
THE Little tariff bill Is before the
president for signature. The money II
will bring In will not increase our rev.
enue alarmngly.
A MAJORITY of the house commit
tee have agreed to report back favora-
bly, the senate resolution calling u
state constitutional convention.
CHICAGO, you will observe, gave the
king of the Sandwich islands very
shabby reception. He was not worth
plucking, and 80 was snubbed.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean is roaring
for the trial and punishment of the
men who scared Kellogg out of his
boots on the l4th Of September.
GRANTS creatures in congress have
no idea of reducing his salary. They
have prevented action on the bill to
put it back to twenty-five thousand
dollars.
ON account of the absence of his
royal highness, King Prosperity, the
various mystic societies of New Or
leans have decided not to celebrate
Mardi Gras.
ALL engineers who drink intoxicat-
ing liquors while on duty, the brother
hood of locomotive engineers have de-
termined to expel. This is move in
tho right direction.
Hon. a. Fl. WILLIE has strong hopes
of getting the four hundred thousand
dollars estimated by Major Howell,
United States army, as necessary to do
the work on the harbor of Galveston
required to make it what it should be.
THE next regular monthly meeting
of the Board of Trade will take place
on the first of February. There are
important matters to be considered
and it is to be hoped that every men,
Der will make it point to be present.
Mr.. c. p. HUNTINGTON, q Central
Pacific man, is in Washington, moving
heaven and earth to defeat Tom Scott's
Texas and Pacific proposition. Hunt
ingtOn wants to mash Scott, but he
has overcropped himself this time.
THE residence of General M. G. But
Ter of South Carolina, was burned not
long since, and his wife and children
barely escaped. Negro incendiarism
is the last phase of "colored" crime in
that part of Grants San Domingo.
THE communication of J. e. S., on
the subject of the usury law and freight
charges on railroads, was crowded out
of our yesterdays issue by the extreme
length of the district court docket.
The communication appears this morn
ing.
THE New York Herald accuses Grant
of reserving his trump card in
Cuban policy. Having failed in his
third term enterprise by southern out
RACES, he is now going to try and bully
Spain about the Virginius outrage and
try for Cuba.
A SPECIAL to the Galveston News,
from Austin, says that two prominent
citizens Of San Antonio one of them
General John r. Baylor, have purchas-
ed the Journal office, intending to
move it over and issue new paper
at San Antonio.
No ATTENTION has been paid by con-
gress to the presidents message want
ing the Notifications Oh our sea coast
put in better state. The civil rights
bill has been kept back by Randall,
Beck and others, and the resolution of
the radical caucus to stop dilatory mo-
lions has been defeated
The contest for the United States
senatorship in Tennessee is one of the
hottest of the day. 1t is possible that
as neither the friends of Andy john
son nor Governor Brown will give
away, compromise will be made by
electing Ex-Governor Harris, battle
barometer of the army of Tennessee,
for whenever Governor Harris appear
Ell ut the front, there was always
fight.
SAM WARD, "the lobby king" is
Just now the lion of the national capt.
tai. His dinners, his wit, his finesse
in getting any bill through are won
derful. There never was such feeder
and dresser. As for talk and plausi-
bility he is immense. Nobody does
anything there without Sam; he
knows every body and calls Grant by
his first name, SO familiar is he with
that potentate.
THE Waco Examiner is catching II
from the Galveston News for copying
its kilograms without credit. Consid-
cred AS a matter of professional ethics,
strict construction of the code ofjour-
nalism would decide that the News is
right aud the Examiner, wrong. NO
paper has the moral right to copy any
thing from another, original or tele-
graphic, without crediting it, and to do
80, is IA custom more honored in the
breach than the observance" 1t does
not comport with the dignity of the
press, and is a species of sharp practice
greatly to be deprecated.
HANDY candy"