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


+ our state councils.
OUR tOwnsman, John Henry Brown,
4 has been invited by the trustees and
l faculty of Marshall university to dcliv'
[ or the annual lIernry address before
the students of that institution on The
day of their commencement, about the
last Of June, and has consented TO dc
so.
INFORMATION has beenreceivcd from
Philadelphia that II United States shir
of war, called the Antictam, now In
stocks in an unfinished condition, was
sold ut n public sale for $500. The
government has expended hundreds o
thousands on the vessel. The copper
on her alone is estimated Mt ovel
$4,000.
The invention called "Tube We'll
Fire Hydrantn has been tested at Min.
neapolis and proved successful. 1t is
made by sinking number of drive
wells near each other, and connecting
with II common hydrant, to which the
hose of fire engine may be attached,
and an incXhaustible supply Of water
thereby procured.
JUSTICE BRADLEY, Of the United
States supreme court, submitteda com
; municaton to the National Academy
of Science, during its recent session
: in Washington, on Il project fOrchang-
ing the civil year, in which it is pro-
posed to make the civil year cores
pond with the solar year. For the
present century the first day of the
year would fall on December 81, and
the sun would arrive at the cardinal
points on the first days of January,
April, July and October, respectively.
THE largest run ever made by the
Nashville cotton factory was on the
2lstc urrent, when twenty thousand
and seventy yards of sheeting ana drill
ling were woven. Fourteen thousand
spindles are in operation there now,
and seven hundred looms. -Four hun
dred operatives are employed, and they
receive, at the end of every six days,
two thousand and fifty dollars. All
this, Notwithstanding the fact that
trade in fabrics is at present extremely
dull.
NOTWITHSTANDING the cry of de-
preston and hard times, the following
reports from widely differing localities
indicate a sure if slow approach to an
era of business prosperity: The bank
commissioners of the Nutmeg state re-
! port an increase in the savings bank
deposits of Connecticut from so, ,7G0, 600
to S73, 900 in the past year, gain of
nearly four per cent. The May quar-
terly statement of the national banks
of Chicago shows that since January /,
1871, there has been gain of IS, 100000
in the loans, of more than $1,000, 900 in
legal tenders and cash, and of Sl3, ,000,
0OO- more than sixty per cent-in de-
posits.
The supreme court of Indiana re-
Gently gave some interesting decisions
in relation to the use of the streets of
cities by railroad companies. In one
case the court held that the occupancy
of the street by steam railroad COM
pany with its track constitutes an ap-
preparation at variance with the design
contemplated in the dedication of
streets to the use of the public as to
authorize the owners of adjoining lots
the principal was enunciated that run
ming street cars ty horse power, not
steam, is not such variance from the
proper use of the streets, in view of
their dedication, as entitle owners to
damages.
ELSEWHERE in our paper to-day will
be found correspondence between
Major Barkley and the young gentle
men who compose his corps of depu-
ties. There is a frankness and fairness
in the position taken by the young
gentlemen that is only surpassed by
the warmth and depth of good feeling
expressed toward them by their chief.
Major b. has been fortunate in the
selection of his assistants, and is bold
enough and brave enough to give to
each of his Caesars the just things to
which they are entitled. In securing
the services of able and capable en-
ployes, Major b. has shown his good
judgment in high degree, and TO this
fact may be attributed much of the sue
cess that renders him one of the very
best sherifls in the state.
CAPTAIN JAMES b. EADs, the jetty
king, in explaining the formation of
the mud Jumps Mt the mouth of the
Mississippi river states, that the SUBJ
stance of which they were formed is
much softer than putty, and not MS
some supposed of the sediment which
was carried in the current of the river,
but eXtraneolls matter, such as decay
ed twigs, logs ETC., collecting and de-
composing, they formed gases which
forced the mass upwards, but seldom,
if ever, had these Jumps been known |
to rise i'm the channel of the river, al
most invariably at the sides. They |
could in no way interfere with the jet
ties nor the objects for which they are
to be constructed.
THE Chicago Tribune thus closes an
article upon the late John G. Breckin-
ridge: Over the grave of John c.
Breckenridge there will be 10 words
uttered save those of respect. He was
mortal, and human charity will per-
NIT no reproaches upon human weak
ness. At his grave it will be remem-
bered that he was a man of pure and
spotless personal integrity; that he was
a brave and accon plished soldier,
man of large ability, and equal TO the
duties of his high office; that he had
borne the consequences of his error in
judgment uncomplainingly; that he
had accepted his humiliation and OBJ
scurity, and that within his broken
heart there was to the last a love of
country and grateful memory of the
people who had once honored and re-
spacted him.
The Denison News says that the
government contract for transporting