The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-09
EDITORIAL sOrRs.

A constitutional convention, pure
aud simple, without any red tape OF
contingent gerrymanderlng, II you
please,
Grant Is now igurlng 10 get Brooks
In and Garland out OF the governor
ship Of Arkansas, Also, for authority
10 NEEDLE further IN southern affairs,
An unknown white man WAS run
over last Thursday on the short line
route, three miles from Louisville, by
three different trains, aud cut into my
nine pieces, No trace Of the head OF
face could DO found.
The passage Of the International
compromise bill by the house, VIII
meet with some opposition, but the
people are 50 weary Of being dunned
they will gladly see II 10 through and
the bore settled honorahly'
Nav they are reading Mrs, Tllton'a
love letters IN court, tho Plymouth
church congregation are down on their
marrow homes praying for Beecher, aud
the club men are making up their bet
ting books about the result Of the trial,
The compositions In the Houston
Telegraph are many Of them very
oredtable, What with their verdant
pcrsplculty, the profound persplcaclly
don't pan out M II would ut n COM
mencement, read by "a sweet girl'
graduate,
The suit brought by the helrsof Cen
oral II J. Chambers against Robert A,
Rutherford for four thousand acres OF
land, on Walnut creek, four miles from
Austin, valued at seventy-ilve thousand
dollars, has been decided In the dls'
trlct In favor OF Mr.. Rutherford,
The 81. Louis Republican gives some
significant data about the shrink
ago OF values In this country. The fall
In the price Of iron rails has boon sixty
per cent, and In steel rails ffty per
cent, steel being now cheaper than iron
rails were In 1873. Pig iron has fallen
ono hundred per cent. The same mp
piles TO u greater or less extent TO all
manufactured fabrics.
Thirty Of the business men OF Sher-
man and Paris nre In Galveston by In
vitatlon TO talk business. "CNn such
things be and overcome us like SUM
mer's cloud without our special won
der?" Why, judging from the supreme
isolated severity and sulllcicncy with
herself Of that naughty and supercli-
GUS beauty heretofore, one cannot hut
be surprised ut her c0ndescending Ia
talk business to her country cousins.
st. Louis has model jail, patent
wonder In which bolts, bars and COM
plicated locks play conspicuous part.
II was thought to be as safe ~ the
bank of England, The disgust of ST..
Louis may be imagined when II was
found the other night that the cells had
been opened by skeleton key, the
guards overpowered and that six of the
principal prisoners had escaped. The
work was done In spite of the ingenious
construction OF the cages and the Wig
lance of the guards. a little light,
however, is said to be wanting about
the m0dus operant|i Strange to say,
several Of the prisoners refused to avail
themselves of the opportunity.
THE senate of Texas has passed II
joint resolution to adjourn sine die on
Monday next, February 10Th. The
resolution goes to the house for concur.
renee.
The house Of representatives., on Sat
urday last, by n vote of forty-tive to
thirty-tive, struck out the clause in the
senate bill, submitting the question of
q convention to a vote OF the people.
The vote will be found in to-day's
paper among the legislative proceed
ings. We think this decision of the
house of rather doubtful policy. We
believe the people are emphatically in
favor of a convention, butt would not
be any harm to submit it to vote at
the time Of the election for delegates.
The Galveston News very truthfully
says:
If the advocates of q convention feel
assured that they have the concurrence
Of majority of the people, they must
admit that vote on the proposition
would be harmless superfluity. If
they do not feel so assnred--if they
fear that the proposition would be
voted down-are they prepared to put
themselves, the legislature, the Demo
cratic party, in the attitude of DELHI
erately resolving to force measure of
this fundamental and sovereign ma
ture againt the wishes of tho naopla9