The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-01-30
SATURDAY. JANUARY 80. 1873.

SATURDAY. JANUARY 30, 1879
THE Arkansas case will hardly be
touched, whatever the Polanders may
report.
The ladies and gentlemen of Calves
ton are giving theatrical performances
for the benefit of free public library
Mr.. GLADSTONE is out in another
pamphlet OH the Pope. The utterances
of his holiness form the ex-premier's
text.
TWEED occupies small ill-ventil.
ated room and dresses in prison gar
ment on Blackwelrs Island, and is
trying to wriggle out.
BUTLER says he wants to get at Louis
lana. He should remember Louisiana
wants also to get after him. She has
an old score to pay off.
In fourteen hundred and forty years,
the Transit of Venus man says, the
earth will drop into the sun. It's
pity Phil. Sheridan couldn't be dropped
into the sun right away.
JOHN O'BRIEN, boy nine years of
age, was killed in New Orleans last
week, by piece of iron falling from
the bell-tower while he was ringing
the bella strange death.
Ir would really seem from the ap-
pearance of things in France, that Ma
polean ". will soon mount the throne
of his father and grand-uncle Napoleon
the great.
BoNNER's Touring mill, two miles
from Austin, valued at seventeen hum
dred dollars, was burned on the 10th
instant. 1t was insured for two-thirds
of its value.
THE amount ofrascality being devel-
oped by the Pacific Mail subsidy inves-
tigation is almost incredible, and gives
graphic picture of the rottenness and
corruption of our republican simplicity.
THE accession of Alfonso to the
throne of Spain don't seem to stop the
Cubans in their struggle for inhepend-
ence. They keep "hammering away"
as the late lamented was wont to say.
The new king Of Spain, Alfonso,
heads the army himself, although u
mere boy. The merchants of Madrid
have provided him with crOwn--half
a sovereign would have answered every
purpose.
OLD Wendell Phillips sat up in his
coffin after years of burial and gave
one yell for Grant and loyal shrek
for Sheridan at Fanucil hall, in Boston,
and then pulled down the lid and turn
ed in forever.
THE various departments at Wash
1ngton are to be represented in the CEN
tennial exhibition 10y various artists.
Grants cabinet under glass case, with
Phil. Sheridan to explain how itworks,
would be big card.
GRANT, strange to say, 0pposes the
admission of Pinchback to the United
States Senate. He is such Il likely dar-
key that the president, PERHAPS, wants
to pass him into livery, and make him
state coachmah or chief butler.
Mrs. Rosa VERTNER JEFFREY, who
Is, perhaps, the most beautiful and
gifted woman in Kentucky, is going to
give, at her residence in Lexington, a
series Of private theatrical performan-
ces, and all Lexington is on tip.toe
about them.
THERE will be fight over the usury
law question and the mode 0f selecting
judges, whether by appointment or
election, when the constitutional con-
yention meets. The votes of niembe
on these two matters will be scanned
very closely by the people.
TIE department of Injustice, Lam
daulet Williams, manager, principal
office ia Washington City, has been
turning out SOME fine work in Ala
bama. 1t has come out TINT the Uni
ted States troops there have been doing
equally as dirty work in the interests
ofscalawaggery, ne gro domination and
carpetbaggcry rs in Louisiana.
THE New York Times must mean
business when it says that 'it will not
do to keep file Of soldiers in the state
Legislature to settle local differences or
decide on the qualifications of menl-
bers. There must be an end put To all
that, and at once" For a paper that
was only yesterday the organ Of Grant,
this is not SO bad.
We are glad to sec that the public
school question is receiving attention
in the legislature. 1t is 10y far the
most important matter to be consider
ed by thaC body. A lacking OF ample
educational facilities in this stat any
longer is disgracsful, when the resour-
ces prov led for the support Of educa-
fion are considered.
THE total debt of Texas, according
to Governor Coke's message, only
Si,0l2, 42l. The estimated expenditures
for the present year are Sl,OIS, 295, and
the estimated receipts 81 ,2S9,0Oo. The
estimated cost of the public schools Is
S567 900, and the estimated receipts in
to the scbool-fund S7l5,l29. The tax
able property Of the state is S215, ,OOo0 600
An increase of sss, ,ooo,oO since 1872.