The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

TIE democratic press oi MlSsiSsiPl
are so hopeful of success rs to tai
about who the party will send to III
United States senate.
THE continued employment of fou
hundred men on the Union Paclil
railroad to repair winter damages,
the strongest argument that can be AZ
vanced in favor of the Texas and P'
cific.
Wrru n hostile congress disturbin
labor, threatening society and ovel
turning governments with the bayt
net, the south, with one-fourth of TIL
population of the union, furnishe
more than half of the exports of tn
country in 1874.
THE feeling is gaining ground anon
the people of Texas that only the hes
men must be sent to the constitutions
convention, and that there must be
fair, square and open race No corner
grocery or bar-room clique shall dc
tate to them who they shall vote for.
THE st. Paul Pioneer-Press is not ia
wrong when il says that instead o
canvassing the possibility of thir'
term, congress ought to limit the eligi
bility of the president to a single term
Herein lies the strongest possible as
surance of purity in administration
and honesty of government.
WE get our kilograms from TIL
DALLAS DAILY HERALD now. 1t is
real live paper and one of our bes
daily X's.-[Montague News.
And THE HERALD, without tlattery
can truthfully say that the Montague
News is one of the spiciest, live, wide
awake country papers published in the
state.
FROM all the surrounding country
comes the most cheering accounts o1
the crops. Wheat promises, almost
without exception, a splendid yield
Much of it Is now in full head. The
other crops are equally encouraging
The prairies afford as fine pasturage as
has been seen for many years, and it is
q refreshing sight to behold them COW
cred by horses and cattle.
The Washington Chronicle, Grants
organ, is attempting to make little
capital and revive the spirits of its
master and his followers, by nominal
ing Hon. Jefferson Davis for the presi-
dency in 1876. That is most too trans
parent. The people of the south believe
in the one-term principle, and Mr..
Davis is, therefore, ineligible.
THEY still shoot pistols during fires
in Dallas, instead of ringing bells. The
effect is encouraging to the tiremen
and others, and makes them WORK
lively to get within doors again.
[Austin Statesman.
Dallas pleads guilty to the charge,
but THE HERALD is rapidly educating
the people up to dispensing with this
novel system of fire alarm, and the
prospects are that it will soon be su-
perceded by the fire alarm telegraph,
now commonly in use in all metro
politan cities.
DALLAS snubbed the anniversary of
San Jacinto, aud naturally enough. 1t
has bigger battle there every day or
two, and the capture of Santa Anna
isn't circumstance compared with
the arrest of a common Dallas villain.
Il Austin Statesman.
Dallas is live city, and while the
citizens honor and reverence San ia
cinto day and the glorious heroes who
participated in the battle, it is impos-
sible for them to devote their time to
commemorating mere local events like
its smaller sister cities. The popula-
tion is too cosmopolitan and metro
politan to pay special attention to mat
ters Of only provincial interest
GAUNT famine in New Orleans has
prompted the secretary Of the state
grange of Louisiana to issue circular,
informing the patrons generally that,
in consequence of the stagnation of all
improvements in the Crescent City,
large numbers of industrious men and
women have been left without en-
ployment or the means of support.
Not being of the class heretofore fur
nished by labor agents, these worthy
and honest people would prove them
selves extremely useful as farm labor
ers, seamstresses, teachers, governesses
or house servants. Where men with
families are taken, arrangements will
be made for their transportation with
out cost to the farmer.
THE opposition press, considering
the average run of cabinet officers,
congratulates the country upon the
appointment of Judge Pierrepont, but
give awful prominence to his ostenta-
tious contribution Of twenty thousand
dollars to the reelection of General
Grant in 1872. While with any other
administration the fact of such polit-
ical contribution to political cam
paign fund would exclude the giver
from any place of that dignity, still the
appointment is welcome to our section,
inasmuch as Judge Pierrepont is con-
ceded to be a gentleman of respectable
ability and character, and not at all
likely to dishonor hims, in the conn
ellis of the administration Ly pros,itut-
ing law to partisan purposes.
THE returns of the last election in
Louisiana are to be overhauled, not
withstanding the compromise. Attor-
ney General Field (Kelloggite) has
filed i'm the proper court long petition
on behalf of Hon. John c. MOncure,
alleging that Dubuclet, the repnbli-
can candidate, new holds the Office oi
state treasurer under commission Is
sued i'm error and that the democratic
is the duly elected officer ard is en-
titled to perform the functions on quail
flying according to law, and further,
that through the action of the return
ing board in refusing to count Mon
cures majority he was improperly de-
prived of the office. A mandamus
agaist the returning board command
ing them TO canvass the rethrns is
asked for.
AMONG the evils TO be corrected by
the coming constitutional convention