The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-26
and save money. If you have rail-
road ticket, take II TO them, Id.

ana save money, III you nave run
road ticket, take II TO them. Id.
Ed. Hunter, accused of theft, will
have preliminary examination be-
fore Judge Burford this morning at ten
o'clock.
The citizens committee TO take
cognizance OF our dirty streets and
abominable sidewalks and crossings,
will meet the committee Of Aldermen
at the City Hall ut eleven O'Clock this
morning.
Leonard Brothers have removed
their Office from the San .DaointO hotel
to the new Smith block, on Main
street, opposite the Lamar hotel
Judge j. ID. Kerfoot has removed his
office to the same place.
All members and gentlemen In the
cotton trade interested in the organi-
cation OF the Cotton Exchange In this
city, are respectfully invited to attend
Il meeting to be held at four o'clock
this evening ut the Cotton Exchange
room, In the old postoilice building.
The lady members of the Great
Expectation Club will soon give leap
year party. Young gentlemen of the
Club.beware, or they will "take you
inn The above warning Is given for
the benefit of all timid gentlemen, but
M for ourself "Barkis is willin'."
We must apologize to our readers
for the meagreness ofour local columns
this morning, and plead rs an excuse
that the space we would otherwise
have filed up was reserved for the
weekly report Of the proceedings of the
Board of Aldermen, which we failed
to receive.
We have received the "TeXas New
Yorker of January, and are
pleased to notice in its columns a
lengthy communication from Dallas.
The growth and prosperity of our city
is ably portrayed, and the commercial
houses worthy of notice receive an ex-
tended notice.
We notice In q late number of the
indianapolis Sentinel communities
ton, signed Ishmael, which gives q
most flattering account of Dallas and
her growing trade. We discovered the
author in the person Of Mr.. John III.
Young, n young gentleman who has
recently come to Dallas to reside.
In the notice of speaking by the
candidates at the courthouse, on
Saturday last, and published Sunday
morning, we failed to mention the
name OF Captain II. S. Guy, who ad
dressed the audience in his usual hap
by style, MS n candidate for the Senate
The omission was inadvertently mad,
by we local, who takes pleasure in
making the dmende honorable to Cap
tain Guy.
The young ladies who presented
the Stonewall flag acknowledge theil
Indebtedness to Sheriff Barley, Mr.
Linskie, and Mr.. II. III. Foat for servi
ces rendered, and for selection of ma
terial and trimmings to Messrs. Par
son " Co., flag makers, 7l6 Nortl
Fourth street, st. Louis and for val
liable advice in reference to making t
Mr.. William A. Obenchain, Dallas
and to Mrs. Hollenbeck for her kline
assistance, they extend their heartfelt
thanks.
| All newspapers in the State favor
able to the growth and prosperity @
Dallas will not hesitate to publish tn
proclamation Of His Mighty Highnes
Rex Carnival. We will gently hin
to editors that will probably atten
the carnival that invitations to tn
grand ball of Rex will be sought afte
by about ten Thousand people and a
only thousand will in all probabilit
be invited, they had better ingratiat
themselves into royal favor by publish
ing his edicts.
The police force yesterday WEI
the observed of all observers as the
paraded the principal streets of tn
city in their new uniforms. Unlik
our contemporary we think the ne,
uniform Ito use an expression of tn
fair sex) perfectly lovely, and think
one of the neatest we ever saw, bu
perhaps we may be prejudiced on nc
count Of old memories produced by tn
color. The uniforming of the polio
has been a question that has sadl
puzzled the City Council until the mat
ter was finally settled by the energy @
Captain June Peak who made satisfat
tory arrangements with Devlin Il Co
New York.