The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-27
NOTES AND OPINIONS.


October has five Sundays, Friday,
and Saturdays.
Sew York BARRIERS are coming down
five cents on shave,
st. Louis will hang four men within
as many weeks.
The Dodge-Jewell wedding present.
amounted to $4,000.
Col. Dorau, formerly editor Of the
Lexington Caucasian, has become ed.
itor of the Raleigh IN, CO. Sentinel.
Bogardus the demoniac pigeou-mur-
derer, can shoot fifty innocent birds in
eight minutes without rutllmg his con
science.
a mighty cheese is being made in
Ashtabula county, Ohio, for the Cen
tennial exhibition. 1t will weigh nj
teen tons.
A Brooklyn man claims patent on
q new method of curing rheumatism.
Crowd il Into the last two fingers, and
chen cut them off.
Indiana News: Little Johnny SUM
mers, aged III, has just died in Nor
gan county. His father was cut oil in
the flower of his ll9tl summer.
Mrs. Charles Moulton, the vocalist,
was to be married to Danish Minister
Lindercrone, at Mrs. Moulton's Cam
bridge residence, on October list.
Chief Justice Waite appears again
as Il Presidential candidate. The
Washington Star thinks he is the
coming man for the Republican nomi-
nation.
Beecher Endorses Moody and Sank
ey. This is very kind OF him, for
Moody and Sanley, although often
solicited to do SO, have never Endorsed
Beecher,
Mr.. Weaver deserves great credit for
the thought that the Legislature should
be required 80 provide for the cOllec-
ton OF all facts of Texan history, and
the gathering of all relics and for the
preservation OF those of archaeological
value aud interest.-A'StM Statesman.
Boston Post: When Fill Islander
marries, the first thing he does upon
beginning to keep house is TO eat his |
mOther-in-laW. . AS u COnserVatOr of |
peace the process perhaps is eilecual ; |
and 1t is also valuable as measure OF |
economy when marketing is dear.
During speech, the other night,
member Of the Boston Common Cuun- |
ell made the sage remark that a wise |
man changes his mind often, but a fool |
never, and in the next breath eX.
claimed: ~ have not changed my |
mind'-and then wanted to know |
what the other members We're laugh
ing at.
They must vote earlier and oftencr |
in Philadelphia than in any other city |
known to geOgraphers, With pOpu- |
lation OF three quarters of a million it |
has III 900 registered voters whereas |
New York, with a larger population
by aquarter of Il million, only has !
Jag, 900 registered voters. Quakers are |
generally regarded as very slow, Lut
the above figures would indicate that,
on the contrary, they are rather peart
IA voter for every four and n fraction
of the population knocks all statistics
on this point good deal higher than Il
kite. One voter to seven inhabitants
is the usual estimate.
Mr. Tilden, says The Nation, has
achieved his present success simply
owing to his having before anybody
else of his class understood the exact
nature of the situation. He perceived
sooner than his competitors that the
time had come to stop preaching and
begA ,heiaking arrests and drawing up
indictments. He now finds, and his
competitors find, that his acuteness
has rendered him the highest service,
and his enemies actually play into his
hands. ain fact,n adds this level
headed critic, " he is making capital
in a way in which the company desires
capital to be made, and, assuredly,
unless his opponents receive sudden
and great access of wisdom, he will
have his reward