The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

GENERAL PHIL. SHERIDAN Is re
ported engaged at last. Miss Ruckel
is the name of the coniid!ng young
woman.
THE ex-confederate soldiers of Mem
phis have invited the eX union soldier'
to Join with them in decoration day
services.
]. WILLIAMS THoRNE, who was eN'
pelled from the North Carolina legls-
lature last winter because of alleged
intidel opinions, is going to run again
for his seat.
The Austin Statesman, in II Thought
full article on the presidential succession
suggests the name of Sanford f. Church
chief justice of the state of New YORK
10 the democratic candidate.
JUDGE KELLY is spelling the repuo'
lican "bloody shirt" plans for the COM
ing campaign. His crime, in the estl'
nation of the radicals, consists in tell
ing what he really saw in the south.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS is in Hous'
ton. Can it be possible that Dallas
proposes that 50 distinguished gentle
man shall visit Texas and depart with
out an invitation to visit the chief city
RETURNED Californians, and their
numbers are legion, say that bad as
the chances for employment are in the
eastern and middle states, they are
worse in San Francisco than anywhere
else.
THE firm of Sherman & Grant figures
among the advertisements of the
Washington papers. Time was when
an army officer would have been cash
iered for using his position as stock in
trade.
A PRIVATE letter from New Orleans
to the Memphis Appeal conveys the
intelligence that Santa Anna, the late
president of the Mexican republic,
died a few days ago near Jalapa,
Mexico.
MIR, GLADs'roNE's centennial letter,
which had such a soothing effect upon
the Lexington gathering last month,
is severely criticised 10y the English pa
pers. according to our dispatches this
morning.
FOUR OUNCES of tincture of cam
phoree, instead of aqua camphorea,
costs druggist in New Orleans twen-
ty.five thousand dollars damages, but
fails to bring to life Mrs. McCubbin,
the patient
A MOTION to strike out the so-called
"damnatory clauses" from the Athan-
asian creed has passed the laity and
clergy of the Irish Episcopal synod,
and confirmed by the bishops. So the
clauses are out.
THE New York Commercial believes
that "time softens all things" except
the young man who parts his hair III
the middle and whistles on the street
cars. Nothing can make him aEy
softer than he is.
THE course of the mysterious island
at the mouth of the Mississippi river
is upward and onward. 1t now has an
area of more than thirty acres, and the
elevating force, still at work, gives no
sign of exhaustion.
BENJAMIN s. LEWIS, the champion
runner of north Louisiana, and John
Westley, the wearer of the Texas belt,
are to have foot race for onethousand
dollars, at the Shreveport race course,
on Wednesday next.
THE democratic. conservative victo-
nv in North Carolina has been added
to by substantial victories in Indiana
and Alabama. Thus does the great IT,
dal wave of conservatism mO~e on
with irresistible force.
The North German Gazette gives a
positive denial to the statement in
American papers that company has
been organized there to facilitate the
return to that country of German emf
grants i'm the United States.
On and after May /, 1875, the cotton
brokers of the city of Boston have de-
cided to adopt the rates of brokerage
ON cotton at fifty cents per bale, to he
paid by the seller, in lieu of one-half of
.one per cent, the former charge.
REV. Mr.. LATHRoP, of Amherst,
Massachusetts,, makes the public
declaration that the women of Boston
are largely addicted to the vice of to-
bacco chewing, and that they are more
closely welded to it than are the men.
FIRST and last rather more than six
hundred rvivors of the famous
a.Charge of the Light Brigade" troops
have died in this country, and now an
other of the brave troopers has just
stepped down and out in Trenton, New
Jersey.
JUDGE CYRUS A. BURNHAM, a
wealthy banker of Kentucky, and an
intimate friend of Secretary Bristow,
has been appointed first assistant sec
retary of the treasury. He entered
upon the discharge of his duties imme-
diately upon his appointment.
THE STAR, published by II. e. Mon
roe, Esq, at Emory, Rains county, is
the latest candidate for public favor.
The first number is on our table, and
makes a very creditable appearance.
THE HERALD places it upon its ex-
change list, and wishes it success.
A TERRIFIC thunder storm, which
visited New Orleans on Monday last,
restored the power of speech to a mute
of thirty years standing. The Bulletin
with becoming pride says cases not un-
like this have been known before, but
subjects have generally been children.
The Indian bureau has received in
formation from Special Commissioner
Shanks, and also from unofficial sources,
that the supplies SO greatly needed
for the Indians near Fort Sill and at
the Wichita agency, have all gone for
ward from Caddo within the past few
days.
THE movement for the Baptist col
lege is going forward with successful
strides. Those in charge mean busi-