The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-03-19
LETTER from MARSHALL


Friday last NJ 2 a. ~, just In time u
don u black coat aud spend m hour or
two before dawn, with Marshall'a beau'
~ aud ohlyalry at Mahone'H opcra
house. The occason was the wedding
Of Miss Eva Knox, daughter Of DR.,
Knox, u we'll known planter, living Ia
this county near The state line, where
the "onnamon seed aud sandy bot
TOM Of tho Pelican state begin 10
march with the upland pralrlea of the
lone star Of Texas The ceremony was
performed nt the residence of the
BRIDES father, Rev, j, NJ, Waskom, of
Waskom's station, officiating, Thurs
dry following the bridal pNrly took
the 1cXns aud Pacific train fJr Mar
shall, aud In the evening opened the
ball at the opcr-h0lsc with u bridal
quadrlllc. The brides maids were eight
In number, and embraced every style
OF beauty from the queenly, superb
brunette to the delicate, spiriluellc
blonde. The bride wore IN elegant
dress of white satin cut IN tram, the
orthodox veil and orange flowers, aud
looked M II she hal just stepped ont
of one of Lely's or Nandyke's pictures
OF n court beauty of that "Merrc
Monarch Charles II, As for the
groom well, Just let the reader 20 aud
do likewise, and he will know how hc
looked, The bridal party left on Fri
day last for wedding tour to Dallas,
Galveston aud New Orleans.
Henry Dickson, another Texas and
Pncillc railway man, surrendered at
discretion last week to the charms Of
Louisiana belle, and was married TO
Miss Durham, Of Shreveport. Mr.
Dickson was formerly agent for the
Houston aud Texas Central railroad Ut
Dallas.
The long agony IL over-the Texas
and Pacific subsidy bill failed to pass,
and Marshall IL, metnphorically speak
ing, In sack2loth and ashes. Ambi-
tlous Jefferson also raised her wall OF
woe when his excellency put his little
veto on the International railway COM
promise bill MS introduced by Repre-
sentative Cochran, of Dallas, Her an
guish was slightly assuaged, however
by the passage of the substitute grant
Ing twenty sections of land to the mile
and exemption from all taxation for n
quarter OF II century. Longview was
also disappointed by the death of the
L0ngview and TeXarkana Air line bill
in the senate on Friday last.
After meeting Il. q. Mills, Nj. G., on
his way home from Washington, and
J. H. Leonard, of Adams Il Leonard,
just from st. Louis, we left for Shreve-
port, and took up our headquarters ut
the extensive steam job printing rs.
Enlistment of l.. II. Simmons n Co.
The country, after crossing the Lou
isiana line, differs but little in appear
ance from Texas, and (barring the col
or which gives it its nance the
mighty Red looks much like the tur-
bid Trinity. En- route, freedmen and
plows We're moving in the fields, with
snowy piles of cotton seed scattered
through the burrows, and everything
seemed to indicate an early burial of
King cotton preparatory to fleecy res
direction In the autumn. Peach and
apple trees scented the air with their
fragrant bloom, and the weather was
warm enough for an English summer
Rome, SO history and tradition teach,
was built on seven hills, and its found
ers sucked by awolf. Shreveport seems
to have been built on about seventeen,
and the crude forefathers the ham
letn imbibed n very COED knowledge of
poker and other games of chance with
their mothers milk; this knowledge,
by the way, they have transmitted to
their descendants. 1t has almost re.
covered from the effects of the epi-
dcmic Of 1873, and while it has lost
some of its western trade Ivy the COM
pletion of the Texas and Pacific rail-
way to Texarkana, II has gained al
most enough by the same route from
southern Arkansas to compensate for
the loss. Ii Is the natural entrepot of
the portion of TexPs from which we
write, and the ties which bind il to
Marshall more especially; are 81 use and
strong. The river was In fair boating
condition, and some half dozen steam
boats IN port. The streets have been
improved since last summer-some
macadamized, Others planked in the
center, and while.all complain ofhard
times, the merchants seem to carry
heavy stocks of goods and cotton con-
tinues 10 come In.
Shreveport can boast of handsome
market house and some very pretty
residences. In the Fairfield addition,
near the place of A. Il. Levlsee, United
States commissioners. and special am
bassad0r Ia represent the radicals of