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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

as in tho supreme court, there
should bo separate civil and Grim,
inal courts. Ono evil in having the
courts limited, IL, that liti.
gants and witnesses on the civil
side frequently have to wait
days and weeks for the court 10
get through with the State docket
and the same results happen with
those having business on the State
docket; all of which could bc avoided
by separating the courts in all the
districts. The result would be about
the same TO jurors, for if the courts
were divided the length ofthe terms
would, Of course, be very much di.
minished. We think under such
system fifteen judicial districts
would bo enough in the State. This
however, would require thirty
judges, and putting their pay at
three thousand dollars year would
foot up the expense to ninety thou
sand, n saving Of fifty thousand
over the present system. With such
II division of the judiciary, the civil
courts should hold their terms
twice n year, and the criminal
courts three times. The criminal
business of the State, generally,
would not require as much time as
he civil. The length of the Grim,
nal terms for each county might be
made shorter, and the result would
DC n more speedy trial Of persons ac- {
used of crime. Prisoners in Jail,
waiting trial, ought to have as
speedy hearing as possible.
With this system appeals should
'e made directly to the Civil Su-
'reme Court, as suggested by is {
ONE days ago, and from the Grim s
nal Courts directly to the Criminal I
supreme Courts. There would be =,
10 complication in such II system, {
nd it could be operated with much S
ess expense than the present sys q
EN- of the State. =
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

wiHy iS entered, lee So 5Oi aud Gael
conviction after II plea oi H0t guilty
s5.OO. II IL true these sums do moi
come out Of the city treasury, but
we propose to show that they con
stituto ample compensation to the
city attorney, without any salary
whatever. AS an illustration, let
us take the 3O,h Of June, LIST and
ID of July and see what business
was performed during those days,
in the Mayors Court.
On the first of July, ten pleas OF
guilty were entered, upon which
the city attorney was allowed to.
tai Of S25. On July lat, four pleas
of guilty were entered; attorneys
fees $40, and n conviction on plea
of not guilty, fee So; total sl5. On
July 2nd one plea of guilty So 90;
two convictions onpleas Of not gull
ty, SO, appeals taken m each, en-
tit!ng the city attorney OSLO more
in each case; total for that day
So 80. On the business of these
three days his fees amounted to
S72.50; and counting twcnty.six
days in the month, ut this rate his
salary would be SG2S. 33,
or 81 ,539.9G per annum for fees
a!one, and yet our city fathers have
patcrnalIy increased his. salary by
sGOOl
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
VOL. XXI, NO. I3

Facility to those requiring bank ia,
ciitics.
cannot dismiss this subject with.
out extending thanks to Colonel
Knox, tho worthy President. for
courtcsies extended and for sump.
tuous hospita,itcs Dispensed.
Dealers inform me that thcrc j. II
continual improvement in the ouali.
ty of stock received at this market.
This spring some fine specimens OF
granted bcevcs have been sent
from Texas. The people of that
state are paying attention to the bet.
ter raising and improving Of their
herds. Some have imported blood. |
ed bulls, fenced in their pastures,
etc, and they have found that II lit.
tie extra care pays II handsome divi.
dend, for good bccves are never Il
drug on the market, etc. There is
m extreme dullness at the present
time in the cattle market, and
would advise all shippers to hold
back for u time for better prices.
In my next will give yonr read.
ms an account OF my visit to the
Union stock yards and what | saw
here.
| have no very late dates from
rexas. | trust you are having some
# the seasonable rains we are con-
family having here.
"CURTIuS ,
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

FROM a gentleman just returned
from tour through more than for
ty counties of this State, we learn
that everywhere cotton is looking
we'll, and as yet has not suffered
from the drought. In Fort Bend
Brazoria, Waller, Washington,
Grimes, Brazos, Robertson md
Limestone, it is unusually fine. AS
for corn, in the counties just named,
it is much better than the average.
In the country west of the Colorado
it is suffering greatly for the want of
rain, and will not make more than
half a crop. On Tuesday and
Wednesday last there were fine
rains in the country between the
Guadalupe and Colorado, which will
be of great benefit to the cotton.
Upon the whole, our informant
thinks there will be an abundance
of corn raised, and, unless the
drought should be greatly prolong-
ed, the cotton crop will be much
larger than last year.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

AIRY consideration connected with
the hest general eligibility" we have
better chance 10 secure IL than any
other city in tho State. Every dol.
lar contributed 10 tho building fund
and secured ~ endowment, swells
the 'pecuniary consideration" TO be
offered for tho location of the Uni.
versity ut Dallas TO secure to our
institution two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in addition to our
own building and endowment fund,
is II matter of small Importance but
to secure the patronage Of the whole
State, and from five hundred to a
thousand students II year from
abroad, at an income Of halt II mil
lion dollars annually to our city, is
Il boon worthy Of our aspirations.
We are determined to make every
honorable effort to secure it.
ADRIAN WEAVER,
Secretary Executive Board.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

The Secretary, having announced
the vote-ayes 40g, nays 24l, the chair
declared the resolution adopted.
On motion, the Convention ad-
journed sine die.
After the adjournment of the Con-
vention, loud calls were made for the
various candidates present. Major
John Henry Brown, General Darnell,
Independent candidate from Tarrant
county, Captain w. G. Veal and Colo
mel John G. Mccoy, in obedience to
the calls, each made brief addresses,
which were attentively listened to by
the large audience present. Lack of
space prevents even a synopsis of their
remarks, which were well received,
and which were highly complimentary
to the Convention in refusing to at
tempt to bride the people of Dallas
county by making a nomination.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

The United States Economist COM
plains of the combination between the
Union Parific Railroad and Pacific
Mail Steamship company, which has
resulted in the advance of freights,
amounting, in the case of the latter
company, to sixty per cent. Tie EcoH-
omist is not willing to see the trade
between the Pacific and the Atlantic
this monopoly, which, at best, is doing
the carrying trade by the longest and
most expensive routes known since
the necessity of doubling Cape Horn
was obviated. To counteract htese
damaging effects upon the business of
the whole country, the Economist
urges the construction of the Texas
and Pacific, and speaks of it in COM
parison with the Northern Pacific as
being more popular esteem, and imme-
diately available:
"The Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany, on the othsr hand, is full of vi
tality and resources. A considerable
portion of 1t is already completed, and
all that is required from congress is
guarantee of interest-not grant of
land or money-in order to complete
the work. This Journal has always
been opposed to government subsidies
on principle. But this is case in
which an exception may tie reasonably
made. Something in due by the
Federal goverpment TO the Southern
and Southwestern States, to assist them
in the process of industrial recovery.
and nothing could be better or more
effective than the construction of the
new railroad. 1t would open up a
new and vast territory to civilization,
and prove source of prosperity both
to the North and the South. These
and other obvious considerations are
likely to produce their due effect on the
new Congress, and induce ii to sane
ton the Southern or rather Texas and
Pacific Railroad scheme. 1t is national
in the best sense of the word. The
route VIII be the most delightful in the
world. 1t traverses a region of perpe-
tual springs, equally free from the op-
posite extremes of heat and cold. Ii
would form new and important link
for the trade of Mexico"
The st. Louis Republican says:
st. Louis, the West and the South
west are deeply interested in the con-
struction of this road, and it behooves
their people and national representa-
tives to give this subject more than q
passing consideration.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

SOME three or four weeks ago an
article appeared in the Jefferson
Leader, copied from the New Or.
leans Bulletin, characterizing Sam,
Houston as a "debauched old dra.
goon." The editor promptly apollo.
gized, and explained that the article
was admitted during his absence,
by mere oversight, and expressing
himself q great admirer of Sam.
Houston This apology and ex-
plsnation ought to have been suffi-
cient, and we regret that CORES.
pondent of The HERALD, in cor
recting history, should have after
wards brought forward the unin-
territorial offence of the Leader.
That part of our correspondents n
statement was admitted to our
columns in the same way that the
Leaders, except from the Bulletin
was, by the oversight of our assis-
tant during our absence. The
Leaders explanation was satisfac-
tory and should have been accepted
as such.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
THE AGAIN-CIVIL AND
CRIMINAL COURT.

There are about one hundred and
sixty organized counties in the
State, and averaging the Judicial
districts at eight counties, would
give the number of the districts of
of the State at twenty. This aver
age could be very safely made with
two terms of the court per annum,
and a sufficient number of criminal
courts in the most populous dis
tricts. Some of the districts might
very properly comprise not more
than four counties, but a
much larger number might very
well have more than eight.
This would give twenty civil judges,
most of them with criminal juris-
diction, and with salaries at three
thousand u year, would amount to
sixty thousand dollars per annum.
Suppose you add to this five Grim
inal districts at the same salaries.
This would add fifteen thousand
dollars per annum, making the
whole annual expense seventy-five
thousand dollars, saving of sixty
five thousand dollars n year in
the item of salaries alone, and
at the same time we think would
give to the judges sufficient remu-
neration for their services. Judges
should not be paid such high sal
aries as that the position would be
sought for the salary alone-nor yet
such meagrc pay as would preclude
the best, most active and energetic
from accepting the place. The dan
ger we think, in the coming Con-
veHtioD, is rush in the excited
temper of the politicians for econ
omy, to the opposite extreme, re-
sulting in such a cutting down of
salaries that men of ability and re-
spectability will hesitate to leave
lucrative business for such adequate
compensation. Two hundred and
fifty dollars a month is not too
much to offer a first-class man when
you ask him to take the place of
District Judge, however honorable,
for limited period, and to abandon
for the term business OF his profess
sion, in most cases much more lu-
crative. The idea was suggested
some months ago through some Of
the newspapers, that there ought
10 be an entire change in the sys-
tenn of cOurts-in this-that in
every district in the State, as well
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
THE PENITENTIARY.

In another column will be found
an article from the st. Louis Globe
on the subject of the Texas peniten-
tiary. The article is rather lengthy,
but it treats the subject in such an
able, comprehensive and impartial
manner thai THE HERALD offers no
apology in reproducing it. Great
and inhuman abuses have no doubt
been practiced, and still exist in the
management of our prison, and Our
officials owe it to the people and TO
the fair name of our State that they
be probed TO the quick, and an eff
cacious and permanent remedy be
applied.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
ESTABLISHED, tS49.

cndcavoring to keep back tho tide
of progress with his little broom.
The nominee for Bcxar county
Jacob Waelder Of San Antonio, is
II sound Democrat and one Of the
ablest lawyers in the State, and will
make an enlightened and useful
member of tho Convention.
Thus everywhere, we see Conven'
tions bringing out their best and
ablest men, except in Tarrant,
where they pass over such men as
Evans, Van Zandt, and many other
good and able men to dig up Il fossil
ferrous specimen of the salurian age,
in the person of that very worthy,
but wholly incompetent old gentle.
man-Mr. b. Rush Wallace, and
gravely ask us to support him!
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

ing out well, aud am told that The
aggregate amount of money re-
ceiycd from the Oat crop, in north.
orn Texas, will exceed that gained
from wheat, Irish potatoes have
done well, and all indications are
favorable for an abundance of food.
ut reasonable prices, for the i'm.
mensc immigration anticipated next
fall and winter. Among the South,
ern States, is not Texas this year,
one Of the most iavored2 win not
this fact greatly increase the mum.
bcr who are disposed to cast in
their lots with us2 Tho best sea.
son for emigration is between the
lst of October and the lst of Do.
cembcr. Later in the season the
wagon roads become bad and the
travelling unpleasant, particularly |
for women and children. Persons |
intending emigration should pro
Darc TO start early. BY coming in
groups Of several families, many ad.
'antages wonld be secured. large
bodies of land for the settlement of
colonies can be secured on favora-
'lc terms. sCRlBENDI.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

The HERALD is indebted to the
Rev. w. II. Harris, President, for a
pamphlet copy of the annual an
nouncement of the Wesleyan Female
institute, Staunton, Virginia, 1874
1875. The book, which comprises
forty-odd pages, is superbly gotten
up, printed on fine tinted paper, with
dark blue glazed cover, printed in
gold. The list of pupils during the
past scholastic year numbers one
hundred and two. twenty-seven of
whom are from Texas. An interest.
ing letter, giving a list of those
from Texas who won honors at the
recent commencement, will be found
in another column.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

THE Fort Worth Standard is in {;
bad humor with The HERALD, and
seems particularly aggrleved be.
cause we designated certain nn.
named parties as small potato indi.
viduals. There was nothing in our
article TO show that we had refer.
ence to our contrerc of the Stand
ard but as he is better authority
on the subject Of his dimensions and
personality than we are, we will not
overstep the bounds of Journalistic
courtesy" "a strong point with him,
as is evident from his articlc) by
contradicting him.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10
TER ELL.
Courts of the State Under The Present
fonstitution-COuris In Kaufman
County Particularly.


fonstitution-Couris in Enur,na,
County Particularly.
Correspondence Dallas uerald.l -.'' .
The constitution, as it is, author
ICES the following courts only: "Onc
Supreme Court, District Courts
and such inferior Courts and Magis.
trates as may be created By this Con.
stitUtion, or by the Legislature
under its authority" and Criminal
Courts in the principal cities of the
State" etc.
The Cooperate Courts" provided
for by the Constitution Of lSl5, and
authorized by the act Of 1858 in
pursuance thereof, for tho govern
mont of towns of three hundred in
habitants and upward, are ignored
by the Constitution of 1869.
The Constitution authorizes only
Fre Justices precincts in IL county,
and these were laid off long before
some of the towns in Kaufman were
even thought of; and it is said to
be impossible to make an equitable
distribution Of that limited number
among our population at this day
and Jime.
For the most part the precincts
remain just us they We're u little
more than two years ago, when the
site OF Terrell was in the wilder
ness; the consequence is that Terrell,
at distance of twelve miles from
the shire town, with ten times the
and trade, is yet part
and parcel of that precinct, depend
ent on that Justice alone for the ad-
Of laws under the iuris-
diction of inferior courts.
1t is true the last Legislature at
to relieve us by authorizing
the Justice at Kaufman to hold court
once month in Terrell. The in
sutficicncy Of such an arrangement
IS too apparent to require elucida.
tion.
The tendency of immigrants set
ling in our country is in towns. In
our county we have Forney, Law
'ence, Terrell and Elmo on
.he railroad, and Kaufman,
!ohnson's Point. College Mound,
Turner's Point, &c, off the road. !
Judge Reagan, in his speech at Ter.
ell, said truly: ave want Con. .
having reference to the
character Of those who are to live
inder it," &c. We sincerely hope
he tramors Of our new Constitution,
when they come to consider the or
,anlzation and jurisdiction of "In-
erior Tribunals" will not neglect to
establish such system as will en-
power each and every town or
in u county. to estab-
ish courts for the enforcement of
he laws of the land as found in the
'enal code of the State, as well as
.ivil jurisdiction of all claims not
exceeding one hundred dollars.
Are our courts, under the stat
ties, accessible alike to the rich and /
'oor? Is it right to compel poor
nan to swear to his poverty before
le can enter II court for his rights?
lou may think such questions have
he flavor of demagogueIsm. | beg
'ou to believe me honest and can
lid in making them, as | hope to
onvince you in q few days.
H. A. ID
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

The Fredericksburg District Con-
vention has nominated for the
Constitutional Convention, III. Clay
King, of Boerne,- Kendall county:
Jacob Waelder, of San Antonio, and
- Cooley, of fredericksburg. We
know nothing of Mr.. Cooley, but the
other two nominations are excel
lent ones. Colonel II. Clay King is
0 gentleman Of education and ex-
tensive travel; was the Senator from
his district in the thirteenth Legis-
lature, where he distinguished him.
self by his broad and liberal views,
and was q constant thorn in the
side of such Mrs. Partingtons as
John Ireland, who, like his famous
prototype, has been for years vainly
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

In an analysis of tho vote
in the Convention yesterday, ii
will be seen that of the city delega'
tion, IA favored a nomination, and
IL opposed it. OF the country
votes, l0i were for nomination
and 29I against it. This is II snf'
ficient refutation to the charge that
the chief opposition came from "the
Conrt House ring" whoever that is
composed Of
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PLANO, COLLIN COUNTY,
I..1.w 1919

To the Editor Of The Dallas Herald:
Plano continues TO prosper, and
fresh flour is crowding the market.
Fruit Of every variety is plentiful.
Farmers are jubilant over prospects
of good crops. The yield of wheat
is quite satisfactory, and the season
for saving it exceedingly favorable.
The corn needs rain, but it is
thought a half a crop will be made
without il. The oat crop is turn
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

THE Colorado potato bug, on his
summer tour to Europe, has reach.
cd the neighborhood of New York,
and is getting himself in condition
for his transatlantic voyage by
devastating the potato patches OF
the Knickerbockers. There is II
hope that his career may be cut
short, by the use of the same means
that have been found cflicacious in
Texas with the cotton worm-name.
ly, Paris green.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-10

MAJOR J. A. CARROLL has with
drawn, and W. Il. Bates becomes II
candidate for seat in the Constitu-
tional Convention in tho Denton
District. Tho Monitor approves.
and Mr.. Bates will have no serious
opposition.
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THE following significant resolu

The following significant resolu-
tion, taken from the Philadelphia
Times, was adopted by the Union
League of Philadelphia
Resolved, That the Union League
accepts the issue thus forced upon
itself and all respectable members
of the Republican party, and that it
will, in pursuit of its expressed pur-
pose to endeavor TO obtain good
nominations and to support only
thoroughly unobjectionable men, use
its power and influence against the
election of any candidates nominat-
ed by the conventions about TO he
held, who belong to or are identii-
ed with that dictatorial band Of men,
nominally of both parties, but with
out true allegiance TO either, which
now rules and oppresses our city
and is disgracing and destroying
the Republican organization.
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MEssRs. G. II. SMITH Of Milan
". s. G. Robertson Of Bell, and
James G. Gather of Falls have been
nominated by a Democratic Conven'
ton for the Constitutional Convcn'
tion.