The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-01

new bIh' NV N'l'HhhHN ph"0"''
his grocer as the champion lightweight
II the country.
AN interesting communication APP
pears elsewhere In The HERALD OF to-
day on "Dnllas Long Ago" IL vividly
portrays the rapid growth and progress
of the live city of the southwest, and
will well repay pcrusal.
Nix. lRELAND's little manifesto, or
dcring conventions 10 he held In the
different districts to nominate delegates
to the constitutional convention, does
not seem to meet with very favorable
consideration from the press OF the
state.
GENERAL BARrLErr'S eloquent
speech mt the centennial festivities Mt
Lexington has aroused II fervor of pa
triotism throughout the country that
promises TO blot out forever the parti-
san animosities between the north and
the south.
TuEQuakers' Indian Aid association,
at their annual meeting in Philadel-
phia last week, resolved that II country
so afflicted with drought and grasshop-
pers as western Kansas, was no lit
place for Indians, and that the govern
ment should assign them a better coun-
try. We suggest Pennsylvania.
TIE New York assembly has enact
ed law which grants liberty to con-
victs sentenced to Imprisonment for
life, Mt the expiration of fifteen years
of penal servitude. The condition of
good behavior is, of course, made II pre-
cedent to the operation of the law.
Two gentlemen of Ellis county yes
terday expressed themselves to be very
warmly in favor of running Mr.. B. f..
Hawkins, of WaXahachie, for the con-
stitutional convention. They, however,
did not know whether or not he would
consent to run. Mr.. III. was long clerk
of the court and is now a merchant.
TIE Louisiana legislature has adj
journed-not, however, before passing
Il joint resolution to suspend the de-
faulting auditor iClintor) from office,
pending his impeachment. The sen-
ate also resolved itself, on resolution,
into high court of impeachment, and
appointed a committee of five to draft
rules.
TIE prospects of the early compile
ton of grain elevator at Galveston is
the source of much rejoicing in our sis
ter city. Mr.. Patterson, the capitalist
who projected the scheme, declares
himself sanguine that Galveston is de-
signed to become the shipping port for
the bulk of the grain grown west of the
Mississippi. The elevatorwill be ready
for business early in the summer.
THE charter of the Louisiana Pacific
railway, connecting Dallas with New
Orleans via Shreveport, passed the
Louisiana legislature Friday last. No
other state aid than exemption from
taxation for period of five years was
asked, and the bill contains no grants
or franchises other than those legiti-
mately and necessarily appertaining
to such an enterprise. Tho project is
to be pushed forward with all possible
vigOr.
If the Fort Worth Standard will
calmly reflect ON the subject, it will
change its views in regard to
annual sessions of the legislature. The
very grounds he urges in favor of
them--the immensely of our territory
is the strongest against them, for the
overwhelming reason, aside from other
cogent ones, that it is impossible, in a
state so large, for the people to learn
what one session has done before an
other is at work changing matters. In
this way even the most intelligent peo-
pie will never be able to know what
the law is at. any given time on any
given subject. Our friend has certain
ly never seriously reflected Oh the sub
ject.
A BANQUET was rendered ex-senator
Carl Schurz by the citizens of New
York, which was to have taken place
at DelmoHico's yesterday, the 9th.
The letter to Mr.. S., rendering the BAN
quet, was signed by many of the most
honored citizens of New York and
and contains the following
significant sentence, especially worthy
the attention of those who still nurse
thoughts of an Independent or third
party: "The work of reform must
consist largely, if not mainly, in the
of party management by
able and honest hands, and the crea-
ton of public sentiment strong
enough to use party machinery for
general interests, instead of being used
by it for selfish ones"
The democracy of Texas are every |
" here moving in response to the adj |
vice of the executive committee of the |
state, i'm the call of district conven-
ions to nominate candidates for the |
convention.-[ Austin
Gazette.
All Since when? TIE HERALD
vas rather under the impression that
Mr.. Irelands manifesto was received |
1y the people and press of the state as
'uch self-conceited and uncalled-for
document should have been-with de-
'ison and contempt. The time has
zone by when such men as Mr.. Ireland
AN dictate to the great democratic
,arty ofTexas. Thepeople know their
luty and will proceed to do IL without
he advice or suggestions of self-styled
eaders or disappointed and broken
lown Office seekers.
ACCORDING to the New York Sun,
Governor Warmoth is preparing to
ONE to the surface in Louisiana pol
lies as. the republican nominee for
overnor in 1876. To obtain this NOM
nation he will doubtless rely upon the
use of the money he accumu-
lted during his administration of the