The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
DALLAS, TEXAS.
SATURDAY MORNING :;:::J JULY TO-.
EDITORIAL NOTES AND COMMENTS

THE American Rifle Team is tc
have grand military and civic re-
ception upon their return TO New
York.
A MEETING was held in Marshal
Saturday night to consult together
concerning the proposed railroad t
New Orleans,
WILLOW collins are now the rage
in England. They are moro com
Portable in hot weather, it is claim
ed.
LAST year the arrivals Of immi
grants in Canada, were 1000 il
round numbers, of which 10000 re
manned, the other 10000 coming
across the border.
BEN. HILL, of Georgia, says tho
negro will soon 'voto just AZ his
employer asks him." while Fred
Douglas says they will "votc with
their old masters"
Mr.. CARL SCHURz has been the re-
cipient of distinguished social cour-
tesics in England, from the nobiIi
ty and gentry, as well as some Of
tho leading public men.
THE death of Lexington, the
great racer, is the most important
topic in turf circles. He was roy.
al old vctran, and leaves q goody
number of descendants.
AND when Minnie Shcrman-F Fitch
snuggles that little bit of red and
white up to her heart, she declares
to goodness that diamond neck less
don't seem worth anything now.
The story of Loader and Price,
in regard to Beecher and Mrs. Til.
ton, is now confessed by these men
to be false, and they have been in
dicted for conspiracy and perjury.
If something is not done by the
city authorities to relieve the desti-
tuition of our police force, a gift con
cert or n supper for their benefit,
0ickets not purchasable in scrip
will have to be rcsorted to.
Count GLEICHEN,. n cousin Of
Queen Victoria, has displayed SO
much merit as q soul ptor that he is
now engaged upon Il statue of Alfred
the Great, which is TO be erected at
Vantage, the hero's birthplace.
JUDGE KELLEY will aii4his views
on-the highly original question of
our finances on the 10th instant, at
Youngstown, Ohio, in response to
the Invitation Of certain Buckeyes
of both political parties.
Mr.. COLFAx, having wearied Of
exhibiting himself as great moral
example to his fellow creatures, is
now,learning TO smoke. The effects
oc his lesson are said to be II caution
to friends TO give him plenty of sea.
room.
The largo amount Of sixty-thrce
million dollars worth of property
belonging TO churchs and bcnevo-
lent institutions is exempt from tax.
alton in New York city. The au-
thorities mournfully contemL late
the fact.
WHAT with the loud young man
who parts his hair in the middle,
wears u tic of barbaric splendor;
and the young woman with inordi-
nately cited back" clothes, modern
society has much TO account for to
posterity.
On the 18th of June there was
ono of the most beautiful snow
storms of the season" at Calumet,
ON Lake Superior. Tho thcmomc
ter fell from ninety degrees in the
shade to forty degrees, in less than
half an hour. Refreshing
AN English medical journal has
accomplished what has always been
thought an impossible task-num-
bering the hairs ofthe head. 1t an
ncunces that there are from one
hundred and sixty TO two hundred
thousand hairs in lady's head.
Mr.. SHEPHERD LEFFLER, the Dem
ocratic and Liberal nominee for
Governor of Iowa, is called the
william Allen of that State. lie
entered political life in 1898, and il
ia said that the man does not live
who can tell how old he is.
THE London. Times makes bold
to say that if Grants successor is to
do as he has been doing. there
would be a very small satisfaction
in his retirement. "Change of per-
sons is nothing; it is publication
Of administration that is wanted"
Well Numbered.
Ex-LIEUT. GovERSSR WASH.
JONES, Major Joe. Sayers, and n Mr..
Powell were nominated for the Con-
,titutional Convention in the Bas-
rop District, but declined TO serve;
Colonel Lyt. W. Moore,
Major Joel W. Robinson and Cation
srhard were nominated.
THE Travis Rifles having receiv-
d the silver serial awarded the best
IriiIcd volunteer military company
n the State, by The State Fair As
ociation, Austin put on friIls that ,
Grape the skies. Dallas will have
to say about the next set
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