The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-09-11
aOtES AND OPINIONS.

IL said to hold views on the nor q
q question similar 10 those of Govern,
l Allen and the Hon. George II. Pen
= dleton.
e --Governor Ames, OF Mississippi,
Q of the opinion that government SUI
ported by u negro militia armed wit
Remington rifles II the best In tn
world.
"A girl In Portland, Maine, terrific
by the threat of "A habitually bruti
mother to whip her, ran and jumpe
out of II second story window, receiy
ing fatal injuries.
The twelfth annual fair of ELI
County Agricultural and Mechanical
association will be held ut the fai
grounds above Waxahachie, on til
2lst, 25d, and 23d days of October next
deliver the annual address.
The Cincinnati Commercial say
the administration of President Gran
Is not thought of in the Ohio cam
paign. "Grants Presidential caree
belongs to the past rs entirely as Iii
part in the war of the rebellion"
-Four of the editors of the Vicks
burg Herald have been killed within
as many months; hut the Heral,
says this is nothing compared with the
mortality OH the Vicksburg Sentinel
which lost five editors and then dieC
itself.
We learn from the New Yorl,
World that Lord Houghton has arr iveU
at Quebec, and is OH his way to make
II tour OF the United States. Few En-.
glishmen could come here who deserve
II more kindly greeting. He has al.
ways been an ardent friend of America
and Americans.
Senator Hamliu's faction of the Re.
publican party in Maine is said to be
receiving marks of popular disfavor in
all parts of the State. That postage
bill was hardly necessary to make il
absolutely certain that the Senator Is
serving his last term in the Senate.
First they took his watch and all his
money, and then, to come Il joke on
the night train, they rubbed his head
with phosphorus and tied him down
on the track, with label attached to
his coat, --latest danger signal-patent
applied for."-[Grand Rapids Demo
uat.
Two dollars year tax on every
dog is altogether too high. Take, for
instance, the case of that poor widow
woman in Philadelphia who has twen-
ty-fOur dogs-the members of the
church supply her with eatables, but
she has been compelled to take in
washing to pay the excessive tax Tor
her pets.
Commenting upon the fact that
the Chicago Stats Ieitung has an
nOunced its willingness to support
Grant for n third term on hard
money platform, the New York Her.
aid is convinced that if the President
were rnnning for the first time for the
nomination, and had such an assur-
ance of support as this, his nomination
would be beyond question.
There are thousands of men in the
South who need this sound advice from
the Richmond Whig. "To the hum
dreds of thousands of descendants of
are now bewailing their hard lot, we
say, go to work 10 recruit and re-
store your fortunes and your rank and
prestige, do what your ancestors did to
establish them-go to work. In these
days all honest work is respectable"
One hundred and sixteen years
old! Mr.. Lemar Griffin of Lodi, Ohio,
is said to have been born in 1859. He
has voted for every President except
Washington. He had objections to
the Father of his Country. What these
objections were he now refuses to say.
He has but one arm, but still reads
the newspapers; dislikes to be bothered
with visitors, but consents, like SEN
sible old gentleman, to talk with news
paper men.
Not every tramp is stupid rascal,
Brooktield people are sure. One stop
ped at Widow HIS the other day and
asked her for food. She replied that
she had none. Mr.. Tramp went across
the road to neighbors and asked if
they were aware that the lady on the
other side of the road was starving.
He then requested the loan of fish
ing-pole lying close by, which was
granted. With it he went to a pond u
short distance off, tished for several
hours, catching a good string, returned
to widow H., and made her present
of them.-[Springfield Republican.
The Saratogian's opinion of
nsrtss is not "tter'as asvs to SssvbSSy hSss eSi
knows that Eli Perkins is u fraud.
Next to Mark Twain he is probably
the most insufferable plagiarist-the
most persistent literary pirate that
ever got astride the cylinder of press.
The fact is, all the bright things attri-
buted to Eli Perkins are written by
Mr.. Melville ID. Landon, a newspaper
writer who would to-day occupy high
place in peoples estimation were it not
for this INSCRIPTIONS Perkins, who
makes 1t q practice of snatching up
everything Landon says and putting
his name to II. :"
MIR. William H. McCardle, makes
this suggestion for the securing of a
home for Mr.. Jefferson Davis: al have
authentic information that there are
six hundred and seventy-five subordi-
nate Grangas in the State, with an av-
erage membership of trifle over fifty,
and an aggregate membership of thir-
ty-five thousand. If each of these six
hundred and seventy-fve subordinate
Oranges will contribute six bales of
cotton-which is less than a bale to
eight members-we shall have an ag-
gregate OF over four thousand bales, |
which, at present prices, will realize |
the sum of two hundred thousand dol
lars. This will furnish comfortable |
home for our grand old patriot and his |
family, and leave for Investment sum |
the interest upon which will be ample
for the future support of Mr.. Davis and
his. family, and the proper education
of his children"
Vice President Wilson has been
talking very freely to correspondent
of the Cincinnati Commercial. He is
reported as saying that when he was
elected Vice President he went to Gen.
Grant and told him he ought to re-
move the obscure men who filled his
Cabinet and fill their places, as Lin
coin had done, with the greatest men
in the land. But the President re-
piled: "Yes, but Lincoln's Cabinet
was always fighting, and my Cabinet
officers do not fall out.n Not discour-
aged by this profound rejoinder, the
Vice" President continued his advice,
urging that the ablest man in the coun-
try be made Secretary of the Treasury,
even IL he had to be taken from the
Democratic ranks. "After that talk"
says Mr.. Wilson, "Gen. Grant put In
a man whom / refused to
as one Of the public men
Of Massachusetts. He never had any
influence there, and we lost the key of
the POSITION by such a choice as that.n
governor Ames of Mississippi
should stepto the front without delay.
1t is several weeks since Colonel g. w.
WelIs charged in public speech that
Governor Ames incited the Vicksburg
riot, and that he remarked in the pres
eDce Of living witnesses that the