The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Welcome to Dallas !

Reinecke's cigar store, 300 Main street
nd.
The obstrucling of the side walks
is getting to be II decided nuisance to
pedestrians.
Have your watches and jcwelry
repaired and warranted at Webb's, 800
Main street,-Ad.
The committees of the North Texas
Fair Association are hard ut work, or
ganizing the fair, October I'D.
The Galveston cxcusionists vii
breakfast at Sherman, dine at Plano
and sleep in Dallas.
w. G. Atkinson, of Dallas, has
been left fifteen thousand dollars by |
John Il. Alexander, of Jacksonville,
Illinois.
Moses Rhodes, an escaped negro
convict, recently at work near Forney,
was arrested yesterday and confined.
The most delicious candies are
made fresh every day at Greaves ~
Co.'S. 3l3 Main street, opposite Cosmo'
politan Hotel. -Ad.
George Taylor, negro, ONE OF the
gang who assaulted Policeman Carter,
has been placed il Jail with the Others.
--Greavps ~ Co.'S. candies are made |
of the purest sugar and are perfectly
healthy for children. Send the little
ones to 3l3 Main street.-Ad.
The ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY meet
at the City Hall tomorrow night Mt
eight o'clock in secret session, for or
ganization and business. None but
those on the roll admitted.
Competition is the life Of trade. The
New Orleans fruit store, opposite lie
Grand Hotel, is selling choice lemons
at forty five cents dozen. Come one
Come all.-ddr.
The wedding of Miss Alice Murray
and Mr.. Sam. Il. Cooper, was not a
runaway match rs stated in The HER
AID OF yesterday, but was puzzle AZ
fair in which all parties were agreed
We were misinformed.
If you want to go toSt Louis or any
other point North, 30 and see Johnson
X Manget, Office ut the Let Grand hotel
They and sell railroad tickets, and al.
30 want to buy county scrip.--Ad.
Might before last one of the at
taches OF THE HERALD, while on his
way home in the Cedars, was stopped
by two men. They wo cup the wrong
passenger, and he went on his way un-
mOlested.
Wrapping paper, Irvine, paper
bags, cr0quet sets, wall paper, all
kinds of stationery, aselect and fresh
stock of the latest literature, at Reed ~
Lathrops sos Main street. Call and
examine their stock.-Ad.
The next great enterprise Dallas
should undertake is the establishment
OF public schools, where the poor mans
children, rs well as the rich mans
can have free, the advantages of II
good common school education.
The County Convention of kauf.
man has instructed their delegates to
vote for Governor Throckm0rton.
This will be very sad tidings to those
30 recently laid on n board and put I'M
der the daisies.
Yesterday morning in the Mayor S
Court JAS Stafford and Jas. Martin,
were each fined three dollars and costs
for creating disturbance. Another
individual was disposed of for being
drunk and down.
AT last the sewer on Main street
above the CITY hall is being covered.
This long needed work will be wei
coined ~ one Of the great improve
ments OF the day and may prevent
many poor devil from getting broken
bones.
Last evening Mr.. John Carter, the
policeman whose skull was fractured
by the negro Blake, was somewhat
better, and spoke for the first time.
There is now reasonable hope OF his
recovery, if nothing occurs to set him
back.
The excursion OF merchants ant
business men from Galveston are eX
pected to-day. We understand prope
steps have been taken to receive ant
entertain them. Galveston has enter
tanned every one so royalty who visited
her, that u special effort is in order oi
this occasion. 1t will never do to lie
Galveston outdo Dallas In generou
hospitality.
The Texas and Pacific and Hous
ton and Texas Central Railroad Com
NAMES have established joint tele
graph office at the union depot, wit
our young Mobile friend, Mr.. Fran
Moffett, in charge. This will be quit
convenient to the citizens OF East Da
las. and we can vouch for Frank.
There have been several case {
thievery and rowdyism lately, not put
lished, which indicate that the elemer
guilty OF these practices are learnin
nothing from the experience of SUI
day night. This community is not /
the mood to be tempered with an
more, and burglars ard desperate,
generally are standing on very ticklis
ground.