The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-11
LOCAL BREVITIES.


striped stockings yesterday.
The ladies offer u feast of good
things at Fields Theatre to-day.
The billiard tournament ut Free
mans Is approaching climax.
--"Be thou no longer officer of
mine."-[Peak to Lott yesterday.
--Shop.keepers and pedestrians unite
In anathemas against the all-pervadlng
dust.
--Denlson is pea-gre en- with envy
that Dallas has superseded her rs mill
tary headquarters.
Our country cousins should make u
note of the date Of the Carnival, Thurs
day week, oath.
--"Who'll take II? Ten dollars on
the outside ~ The inquiry fails to
meet with any response.
As the campaign draws to u olose
| Sauuiuatcb COlucI hoic CiOseiy VII Z
voter reluctant to commit himself.
Business little slack; farmers all
too busy getting ready Tor planting to
make unnecessary trips TO the city.
Where there's 30 much smoke u
fire is supposable. And Dyer may yet
turn out u first-class Babcock ex-
tlDgulsher.
-" Wonder II they chuw their hash
over there, now their mills out o. fix?"
asked free-luncher, jerking his head
toward the LeGrand.
Don't incur any extra expense in
buying camphor in which to lay away
your winter clothes, because of the
/ Mayness OF yesterday.
Faithful to the last. A loving wife
was round town yesterday trying to
pawn her false teeth to get her hus-
band out of the calaboose.
DR.. Villers is to lecture again, and
1t is hoped that he will meet with the
countenance gentlemen of his tact,
taste and versatility deserves.
The story has possibly become
stale, flat and Improbable, but duty
spurs the itemless scribbler to again
recur to it: Fix up the Courthouse
yard.
The case of Cochran ct al. vs.. Free
man ct al. occupied the entire atten-
ton of the District Civil Court yester-
day, No decision was reached in the
case.
Wesley Jones, the condemned
negro, was In precarious condition
last evening, with only slight hopes
from his attending physician of his
recovery.
During to-day and tonight the
sumptuous banquet offered by the
ladies of the East Dallas Methodist
church will be continued at Fields
Theatre.
Mrs. Levi, at $40 Elm Street, has
presented to our office severa! Of the
largest sweet potatoes that we have
ever seen grown in Dallas county. We
are pleased to hear that her business is
prosperous.
Now, you careless candidate, if
election-day catches you without tick.
cts and the socks are beaten Oft you by
reason of that same, don't come round
here and read the returns and wonder
why your name isn't there.
Some fine evening about shutdown
an active policeman might secure
fast.driver or two on East Elm street.
Draymen and expressmen, when tn ey
leave the streets ut night, generally
take a bit of spin out that thorough
fare, and in pleasant weather always
with danger to ladies and children.
The Tabernacle, the new church
edifice in course of erection for DR..
Carhart and congregation Northern
Methodist) ON Elm street is approach
ing completion. The fathers are at
work now and the plasterers will, with
in day or two, commence operations.
The Austin State Gazette says that
the denial of the truth of the bank rob-
berry story should have appeared sim
ultaneously with 1t. There Is an old |
story Of u Quaker farmer and travel
ling Snowman to which the attention
of the Gazette Is called.
dallas has had fair amusement
season, made up OF travelling troupes
OF good repute and talent above me-
diocre. As fitting close to The most
brilliant representations ever given
here Il is proposed that Mr.. Ellis give
us one OF his powerful renditions of
Cory C'Lanusr" II he would prefer 1t,
let "rhe idiot Witness" be substituted.
"A legal question of some interest
comes up before Acting-Mayor Me-
Lure this morning. One of the men
who have been arrested for vagrancy
lately will appear aud desire to know
ifhecan be tried aud acquitted to-day
and be jerked up for the same ofIense