The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-07

Then again follows the paragraph
quoted above, closing with the follow,
ing:
Plaintiff further AYERS and charge.
that the republication and circulation
in and of the said DALLAS WEEKLN
HERALD as aforesaid by said company
| aforesaid, she has been damaged in
her said business of Keeping boarders
aforesaid in the sum of one Thousand
dollars and in her good name and rep.
utation as n white woman twenty
thousand dollars.
Wherefore, the premises considered,
plaintiff prays for citation, demanding
the defendants to appear and answer
this her petition and upon final
hearing hereof, she prays for special
damages, fifteen hundred dollars and
for her general damages thirty thou.
sand dollars, and for all costs in this be-
half.
PAYNE Il CANDY and MCCONNELL,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
All what story Who will fail to
weep and sympathize with this lone
and forlorn woman in her heart rend.
ing recital? Who could be so base and
cruel as to even insinuate but that the
best blue blood of the Il. Il. VS. courscd
through her veins? Certainly not the
reporter of THE HERALD. Far be il
from him to cast one single slur upon
the long line of her noble and illustri-
GUS Caucasian ancestors. Mrs. Smith,
characteristic of her blue blood and pa
trician patronymic, is over.sensitive,
and misconstrues the sometimes rude
and loosely connected plcbian scn-
tences of an uneducated reporter Sup
pose the reporter did say Mrs. Smith
was "cOlored." 1t does not naturally
or alphabetically follow that she must
have African blood in her veirs. a
lobster may be colored by being cast
into a pot of boiling water, and
Mrs. Smith may have become
colored by n too frequent use of
cheap gin, habit which her
friends and neighbors say she
is not altogether free from. Then
again, n too frequent use of snuff and
tobacco might color even an alabaster
complexion, and still the individual
would not be tainted, necessarily, with
the hated African blood. There are
many theories, and very plausible ones,
too, that can be advanced that Mrs.
Smith is a colored person, but at the
same time the reporter would not for
an instant, even though he knew it to
be true, intimate that aught but the
purest and bluest blood of the Anglo
Saxon coursed her veins. But surely
Mrs. Smith overestimates the damage
done her by the withdrawal of the visits
and esteem of her friends and the de-
parture of her female guests. Boarding
houses of her description are recogniz-
ed in all metropolitan cities as necessa-
ry evils, and are accordingly tolerated
by the authorities and patronized by
certain classes.
The reporter hardly feels that he
owes Mrs. Smith any further apology.
But to that great world of society from
which she has been cast out by this
foul misconstruction, what reparation
can be made? Surely none; and
henceforth and forever, the great
world of fashion, of art, of literature,
OF intelligence and wealth, will miss
from its rank one of its brightest orna-
ments and most devoted votaries.
But the story will be told in all its
fullness by the learned and able advo-
Gates of the plaintiff. In prose and
verse with burning eloquence, will they
depict the wrongs of their injured client
and hold us up to the withering scorn
of an outraged and indignant public.
Fame and reputation, that bubble
sought at the cannon's mouth, will
rise before them, like Banquo's ghost,
and hand their name down to pos
terity, linked with those of
Burke. Pitt, Webster, Calhoun, and
the master minds whose names are a
synonym for all that is great and elo-
quent. In the office of every justice of
the peace and police court will the
most favored niche be preserved
the poet and painter may re-
count their virtues and eloquence, and
lay their choicest gems at the feet of
inspired genius.
The plaintiffs attorneys have every
hing in readiness. SERGEANT Snubbin
will open the case, while the great
Buzfuz, rising with all the majesty and |
iignity which the grave nature of the
demand, will proceed to
speak about as follows:
"Never in the whole course of his |
professional experience-never from
he very first moment of his applying
himself to the study and practice of
he law-had he approached a case
with feelings of such deep emotion or
With such heavy sense of the re-
possibility imposed upon him, a re-
he would say, which he
'ould never have supported, were he
lot buoyed up and sustained by a con-
'iction 90 strong that it amounted |
o positive certainty that the
'ause of truth and justice, or,
n other words, the cause of his much- /
INJURED and most oppressed client,
must prevail with the high-minded |
md intelligent dozen of men whom he
aw in that box before him.
"The plaintiff, gentlemen" Ser
cant Buzfuz will continue in a soft |
md melancholy voice-''The plaintiff
$ a widow yes, gentlemen, a widow.
The late Mr.. Smith, after enjoying
or many years the esteem and conf
ienee of his fellow-citizens, as one Of
he guardians Of the city, glided al
most impereeptibly from our midst to
eek elsewhere for that repose and I
,eace which his home never afforded. |
But enough Of this, gentlemen" we
hear Mr.. Sergeant Buzfuz say, at is
iifiioult 10 smile with an aeh-
ng heart-it Is Ill jesting when
'ur deepest sympathIes are awak-
snei Ny clients hopes |
md Prospects are rnined, and It Is no