The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-06-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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sor. Rrcli (J. H. and "Cerro Gordo'
Williams are also aspiranls.
TnE people Of WnXnhachi", th'
other day, had.a grand barbecue to eel
citrate the commencement ot work ol
the Tap railroad, which Is ln connect
the county scat of ElliScounty with th'
Texas Central and "thc rest of man
kind"
COLONEL w. l.. CRAWFORD, an abl'
young lawyer of jefferson, has rccrive'
majority of the Democratic v"trs "a
the precinct primaries o: Marriott
county, and has been declared the reg
ular democratic candidate for the con
stitutional convention, for that county
FROM every quarter of this state the
crop reports are highly favorable lhe
wheat Is now harvested, and the yield
IL far above the average. II will prob
ably reach twenty-seven bushels to the
acre, In the black land counties Oi
northern Texas. The corn Is looking
splendidly, but will want rain in few
DAYS, and even now begins to need II
thorough soaking in order to make a
good yield. Cotton is very backward,
and has been somewhat damaged by
the cold weather, and in some iocali-
ties, by lice.
THE republican convention OF Cal
ifornia, very unliindly took President
Grant at his word, aid slyly drove the
following nail into his third-term
coffin:
Resolved, That the letter addressed
by the president to the chairman OF
the Pen nsylvania republican state con-
yention, upon the subject of his success
sion, is a full refutation OF the ISLANDERS
of those who charged him with intrig-
uing for reflections; that we accept II as
explicit and final settlement OF the
third-term agitation, created by our
enemies solely to arouse jealousies ana
dissensions in the republican party.
Mr.. NoRDHoFF, who is now travel
ing in Alabama and writing his ohser-
vations and impressions to the New
York Herald, gives some remarkahle
information in regard to radical cleo
tion frauds in that state last fall. 1t
appears, from sworn testimony, that
regular bands of negro repeaters were
organized by the radical leadersandsys-
tematically trained to vote early and
often; and that the country was regu-
larly raided by deputy marshals armed
with blank warrants, in order to in
timidate democratic voters, and pre-
vent their attendance ut the polls. 70
the believer in universal suffrage as
the panacea of all political ills, Mr.
Ms letters must be rather discour-
aging.
For several weeks past. the papers
of Philadelphia have been filled with
accounts of an expedition to the Black
Hills, being gotten up in that city. 1t
was to be composed of ten thousand
men, so ran the story; to be thoroughly
armed and equipped, for protection
against the willy savage, or the unlaw-
full interference of the United States
government. In imitation of Jason
and his companions, they were going
in search of the Golden Fleece, and
hence named themselves the largo
nauts of 1875"
Tuesday night, a week ago, was the
time fixed to for these bold voyagers To
set sail, but when the lime came, like
Bob Acres, 1t was found that their
courage had oozed out at their finger
ends, and not more than n corporars
guard made their appearance at the
place of rendezvous. Two or three of
the crowd had not lost their courage,
especially groggy "Argonaut," who
proceeded to harangue the street loaf
ers and gamins around him, until
stern policeman appeared and ordered
the last of the Argonauts to move on.
THERE is n little question that i'll
some respects the postal telegraph, as
established in European countries, is
great improvement over our system OF
private companies. Its adoption in
this country would, no doubt, have the
effect of cheapening and popularizing
the use of the telegraph, which, on ac-
count of its dearness, is now used only
as luxury, on important occasions
But in escaping what at most is but
an inconvenienc ce, the establishment of
the postal telegraph would have tre-
mendous effect in centralizing power
at Washington, and 10y placing
the sacrets, private, political and So
cial, of every man of note jn the coun-
try in the keeping of the government.
enable an INSCRIPTIONS admins
tration to strike the most fatal blows
at the liberties of the country. Any
one who doubts the use that would he
made of the postal tesegraph, hy such
an administration az Grants, has only
TO recall the antics of Beast Butler in
the telegraph offices in Washington, a
few winters ago, in violating the
secrecy OF private correspondence, in
order to punish an enemy of the adj
ministration.
FURTHER reflection only confirms us,
in the opinion We expressed, in yester-
days issue, that the Democrats of Dal-
las county can not afford to make any
nomination that will bind them to
support and elect a wholly incompe-
tent candidate for the constitutional
convention. 1t is all very well to talk
about harmony, but we can moi afford
to secure the appearance of ii 10y fail
ing to rightly perform the highest du-
ties of citizenship.
CENTENNIAIs are the order of the
day, and now even the Washington
Gazette proposes the celebration of the
centennial of the "Battle of Kittle
creek,n which occurred in 1923.
TIE democratic candidates for the
convention (regularly nominated) in
the Marion, Cass and Bowie district,
are w. l.. Crawford of Marion, w. w.
billiard of Bowie, and r. p. Scott of
Cass.
ALoNDoN dispatch announces that
the "Federal Union Of agricultural Ia
borers in England, has commissioned
Odger and Wicks to come to the Uni
ted States and examine the Mississippi