The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-02-13

eral Sherman's daughter, Mrs. Fitch,
by the khedive Of Egypt, has turned
the inmates OF the white house green
with jealousy.
OUR sister city OF Sherman hast lost,
recently, two estimable citizens Colo
mel J. p. Dumas, president Of the Mer-
chants and Planters bank, and young
Mr.. Robert Sherrard, son of J. b Sher-
rard, Esq; while Mckinney has lost
Captain Ben $. Johnson, the city mar
shal, one of "Pap" Prices veterans.
The police of the city of New Or
leans made midnight raid on n den
of negro thieves and bagged one hum
dred and seven male and female light
fingered gentry and popped them into
the calabo0se. For Il wonder, Kellogg
did not appeal for troops, and Sheridan
rcfrained from Issuing another bonn
bastes-furioso- banditti dispatch.
HERE is an important fact worth
considering: The applications for the
establishment of new national banks
and for increased circulation, under the
free-banking clause of the new finance
bill, nearly all come from the middle
states and New England. The west
themselves of the benefit of the new
bill.
Now that the civil rights bill is
passed, the radicals are not satisfied.
Their next move will be to pass Whites
and the judiciary committees bill,
which virtually legalizes and promotes
negro repeating, and suspends the
habeas corpus. The appropriation bills
will have to take their chances for
getting through during the short time
which must now elapse before adj
jOurning.
A. g. BUELL. of the st. Louis Repub-
llcan, has been arrested under the
Poland press gag law on charge Of
libeling Chandler, the Zachariah sena-
tor from Michigan. Buell's libel was
probably mild protest against Chan
dler's habitual cutting of the British
lion, or some irreverent comments
upon the Chandler coat of arms and
the livery of his coachman and foot
man. Buell. is in bad way evidently.
The Dry Tortugas yawns for Buell..
BISHOP WHITTINGHAM, of Mary
land, raised a queer point, and de-
clned to ofiiciate at the consecration
of DR.. Dudley, the new assistant bish-
op of Kentucky, because that gentle
man had been twice married. The
bishop contends that when st. Paul
Il Tim, ILL.,, q declared that bishop
should be the husband of one wife,"
he meant that he should never have
been married but once, and that as DR..
Dudley had been twice married, he
was ineligible to the episcopate, ac-
cording to the apostolic ruling.
BUT twenty working days of this
congress remain. Two months have
been wasted. The past two weeks has
been monopolized by the struggle of
the administration, under the leader
ship of Butler, in revolutionizing par
liamentary rules, through which parti-
san legislation to further enslave and
degrade the souths nd effect the pass
age Of corrupt jobs might be effected.
Meantime, the government is running
desperately short Of the wherewithal
to meet expenses and pay its obliga-
tions. Fifty millions are required to
run the government proper, and thirty
more for the sinking fund, and nobody
knows where good deal of the money
is to come from.
In Musselburg, Scotland, man was
arrested for whistling in the presence
of u Scotch dignitary. The prison er, it
seems, set up loud whistling just as
his worship was passing. He called a
policeman, who cautioned the offender
not To repeat it. Later ia the day, the
incorrigible fellow met his worship
again, and whistled "as if, said the
dignitary, to provoke me to knock him
DOWN. He didn't do it, however, but
caused the arrest of the miserable M.
Watt, the whistler, who told the court
he seldom walked the streets without
whistling. 1t was way he had and
he didn't mean any insult. The mag
istrate was fioored for once, and got out
of his dilemma by dismissing the
whistler with the significant advice,
ito be careful"
THE action of the bar association, ta-
ken with view of securing the prompt
transaction of our legal business, Is a
step in the right direction, and will re-
lieve litigants, the county, the bar,
and the minor officials of much need
less trouble and expense. The exten-
sion of the term Of the court SO as to
permit Of the work on the docket being
gotten through with, is much to be de-
sired. Anything that will tend to
lessen our county expenses is what
is wanted, for 1t must be plain to
every one that it is better for all parties
concerned that Jail cases should be dis
posed of as soon as possible, in justice
to the county and the prisoners. The
action taken as set forth in Colonel
Stemmons' resolution will meet with
general approval, and the Legislature
should take the necessary steps to give
the required relief, or rather reform.
THE sensational, so-called, expose of
the old Memphis and Ell Paso railroad,
which has been published, doubtless,
by interested parties with a view, at
the last moment, of prejudging the
action of committee in congress in
considering Colonel Tom Scotrs propo-
sition relative to the Texas and Pacific
railway, don't amount to row OF
pins. The attempt to implicate, by In
ference, the men who are at present at
the head Of the Texas and Pacific rail-