The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-06-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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Of May, 1874,
FIFTY Two thousand pounds to Tho
acre on u twelve-acrc field is the story
they tell Of II sweet potato crop in Kerr
county, California.
OF the o.e hundred thousand Span
ish troops that have been sent to Cubs
in the last six years, seventy thousant
have either died or deserted.
THE name of Benjamin III. Bristow
of Kentucky, has been raised for presi
dent, subject to the decision of the ma
tional republican convention of 1875.
JUDGE PORTER concluded his argu
ment in defense of Beecher. 1t has
Justly been denounced rs absolutely
matchless for violent and repulsivt
abuse.
AMONG the bankers of New Yorl'
there is n well settled opinion that
there is already formed another golo
clique, and that it will soon begin
operations.
THE round sum of forty-three hun
dred dollars was turned into the ICON
science fund.- of the United States last
week. 1t is the largest amount ever
thus surrendered.
GENERAL THOMAS WILLIAMS, OfNe-
vada, announces his intention of be-
coming United States senator before
he dies, if he has to spend two thou
sand and seventy-1ive cents.
TIE New York Tribune thinks, so
far as newspaper sentiment indicates
anything, the Hon. M. G. Kerr, of In
diana, stands the best chance of being
the next speaker of the house of rep
resentatives.
The recent report of the committee
appointed by the Presbyterian conven-
tOn in session in Cleveland, almost
prerludcs all hopes of II reunion be-
tween the opposing elements of the
Presbyterian church.
TIE Rev. DR.. Follows, DID,, is to
sever his connection with the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, attach himself
to the Reformed Episcopal church, and
in July becomes rector of st. Paul's
church, of Chicago.
THERE is to be centennial COM
mcnoration at Cambridge of Washing
toms taking command of the army on
July 3. DR.. Holmes, Of course, will
furnish the poem, and President Ellis
will make the Grafton.
ONE Constant Branceurt, n knife
grinder in New Orleans, insists that he
has discovered perpetual motion, and
and is willing to give the world the
benefit of his invention for the modest
sum of two million dollars.
THE treasury officials at Washington
report that four hundred and twenty
three millions of the five hundred mil
lion six per cent bonds authorized to
be converted into the new five per
cents has been negotiated.
LIEUTENANT JOHN b. GLEN, who
gained national renown during the
late war as ''the little drummer boy of
Chickamauga," was married to the
daughter of General William B.
French, on the oath instant.
A MAINE druggist has valuable
coach dog, whose teeth have lately be.
gun to decay with age, so he has had
them filed by q neighboring dentist.
May be the dog would rather have had
the toothache than Its remedy.
ACCORDING to his nephew, Senator
Thurman, Governor William Allen, of
Ohio, concerning whom majority of
people have inadvertently acquired n
habit of looking upon as sort of sec
ond Methuselah, is only sixty-nine.
MATTRAss, a Chippewa chief, was
put in his little bed in the st. CroiX
valley, Minnesota, last week. He was
one hundred and one years old, ana
might have been older if he had not
smoked tobacco and drank fire-water.
THERE is some talk in republican
circles in Louisiana of placing the
name of Michael Hahn ut the head of
an Independent ticket for the next |
gubernatorial race in opposition to
General Tom Anderson, the custom
house candidate.
A DISPATCH to the London News
from Vienna says person has been |
arrested in that city who was the |
bearer of an anonymous letter con-
an offer to assassinate Bis |
marck for q million flOrins. The writer |
of the letter has not been discovered.
THE export of coin from the United
States in the first week of May were
s., $40, 1852, and since January first $780,
500, 227, the largest amount for the same
length of time on record. This heavy
drain is owing to the calling in by the
of the five-twenty bonds.
The British government having
never been able to procure a fog-horn
for the Scilly islands that could be
heard far enough to be of any use to
the Chicago Times says here
Is chance to utilize John A. Logan at
last.
THE town of Howland, Me-, is free
rom debt, and has five hundred dol
ars in the town treasury has no doc
or, no lawyer, no minister and no
pauper, and has not paid one dollar for
he support of the poor for the past ten
years.
THE gubernatorial contest among
he democratic candidates i'm Pennsyl-
vania has narrowed down, il is said,
Colonel Noyes, of Clinton; r..
E. Monaghan, Esq, of Chester; Judge
of Venango, and Hon. A. H.
Dill, of Union.
THE presidents appointment of Mr..
Louis Richmond, of Rhode Island, as
,Onsul to Cork, draws the following
-emark from the Pittsburg Post: ave
ire not aware that Mr.. Richmond is an
of congress who voted for
he force BILL"
THE Detriot Free Press asks If Grant
eaIIv cannot get rid of his secretary