The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

attempted in the state. Tally anotht
one for Dallas !
HENDERSON, the radical treasurer {
Warren county, Iowa, only stol
S32, 900 out of the county safe, undc
the impression that his party had abo
ished the eighth commandment.
IT is said that ex-senator Schur
was only prevented from sailing on tn
ill-fated Schiller by the banquet ten
dered him in New York. Winning an,
dining, in this case, saved grea
statesman's life.
The demand for The HERALD con
tanning the account of the proceeding
Wednesday was extraordinary. Orc
q MOuSdg,d crird copies WcrC llrintcC
and sold to parties who desired to sent
them to friends In other states.
DRs. BACON AND BRADFORD decline
to serve as officers of the Couyrega-
tional Union, because of the election
of Bowen as member of the board,
preferring, as they express it, "to have
their contributions dispensed by men
of unquestioned christian character"
His excellency, Governor Coke, has
issued a proclamation for the election
of delegates to the constitutional con-
vention to be held on the first Monday
in August next. The presiding justice
of Dallas county is made the returning
officer for the twenty-second district,
composed of the counties of Dallas,
Tarrant and Ellis.
THE proposition advanced by The
HERALD, in regard to the abolishment
of the present inquisitorial grand jury
system, has been taken up by the press
of the state, aud is being very general
ly discussed, 1t meets with very gen-
eral favor, and will undoubtedly be
one of the evils corrected by the con-
stitutional convention.
The st. Louis GloDe-Democra (re-
pnblican), speaking of the vigorous
war Governor Tilden is making on
fraud and corruption, concludes COM
plimentary notice of him with the fol-
lowing significant sentence: GAS IL
candidate for public appreciation, Til
den is competing with the whole cab
met of Washington, and for our part
we are willing he should.n
The HERALD desires to return its
thanks to the Sherman Register for
most complimentary notice. Such
voluntary evidences of the appreci-
alton of the efforts of the publisher of
THE HERALD, coming from such a
source as the Sherman Register, are
doubly appreciated, and serve to
tighten the labors of weary, embar
RAISING and overburdened task.
JESSIE ID. BRIGHT, ex-United States
senator from Indiana, died in Balti-
more yesterday of rheumatism of the
heart. 1t will be recollected that Mr..
Bright was expelled from the senate
at the commencement of the late war,
owing to the discovery of a letter
written by him to Mr.. Jefferson Davis
in relation to firearms for the south.
A FARMER of large experience from
one of the most extensive tobacco re-
gions in Virginia, informs the Lynch
burg Republican that the prospects for
a future crop are very gloomy, as the
plant beds that escaped the weather
of.April, are now being devasted by
the tobacco fly. The recent dry wealth
er is very disastrous to the plant beds,
and should it continue, the prospects
for crop this year will be greatly les
sencd.
FOURTEEN thousand dollars month
is one hundred and sixty-eight thou
sand dollars year, an independence
for any prudent man. And yet the
Dispatch chronicles and au-
thenticates the fact that Colonel Bur
CESS Hunt, of that city, spurned n
bribe of that amount which was offer
ed him by the whisky ring of thesouth-
ern district of Kentucky, and preferred
to be honest on his regular salary.
Hon. JESSE ID. BRIGHT, whose death
in Baltimore, on Tuesday last, was an
nounced IN our kilograms, was a sena-
tor from Indiana previous to the war
and was compelled to remove from
that state during the existence Of hos
tilities between the two sections, on ac-
count of his out-spoken advocacy of
doctrines and bitter denun-
citation of the Lincoln administration.
He took up his residence in Kentucky,
where he devoted himself to private
pursuits for several years. and more re-
Gently removed to Baltimore. He was
sixty-three.years of age at the time of
his death.
BEN. BUTLER is the defendant in a
twenty thousand dollar suit in Brook
lyn. The plaintiff, Herbert, is a New
York lawyer, who some years ago was
employed by Gazaway B. Lamar to
some claims for large
amount for cotton which had been
seized by the government. Mr.. Her
bert was promised twenty thousand
dollars if he was successful. He en-
ployed Butler to assist him, and the
claim was at once settled in Washing
ton. Mr.. Lamar gave honest old Ben.
the twenty thousand dollars, expecting
him to divide with his associate, who
is now forced to sue for his half of the
fee.
THE London correspondent of the
New York Times chronicles the occur
renee recently of dreadful scandal in
the house of commons, from which the
shaken nerves of society have hardly
vet recovered. The rince of wales
was actually turned out of the house of
along with Prince Chris
ian, the German ambassador, and a
number of distinguished people. In
his, however, no insult was leveled at
mis- royal highness. He was elected,
With the Others, simply as stranger
md in conformity with the old rule of
he house that If member espies any
present, the speaker must
It once order them to be removed.
Mrs. NJ. JENNIE Young, Of Houston,
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