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

Haven WAS edltOr, both mingled picty
and politics In about equal proportions
lmpressarlo Maplenon says he thinks
America viii be famous for its singers
In ten years. lie HASN'T heard OF the
Singer will case.
Don't marry until You can support q
husband, That's the advice the Barns
table Patriot gives the Cape girls,
There's nothing like n steady diet oil
fish.
The New York Times IL alarmed by
the facility with which murderers are
acquitted on the plea of insanity, and
suggests struck jures ofphyslcians aud
phys biologists TO try cases In which this
plea Is set up.
a Hartford man wants 10 sell u farm
In which "meandering streams aud
rlvulets permeate luxuriant pastures,
while majestic oaks and stately ma
pies attracts the eye OF the beholder."
Who bids?
About once a month a New Castle
woman has her husband sent TO Jail
for beating her She pays his flDe aud
gets him out of prison just M regularly
as she puts him In. Last week she
had TO rattle of the family Bible 10
raise the funds necessary for his re-
lease.
"Who's your lavorite for the Pres.
dency?" inquired Spikins OF youth
who fattered himself he knew a good
deal about American politics. "Oh,
well, replied, Juventus, twirling an in-
cipient mustache, "Hamilton Conkling
or Roscoe Fish; either one OF them
would suit me very well.p
They are doing very well in Massa-
clusetts, with half-million defalca-
ton and MISREPRESENTATION bank
robbery, besides numerous failures, oil
In one week. The bank robbery up.
pears TO have been most artistic and
complete, and the burglars have prob
ably gone to meet with Winslow.
Mr. Schenck will have to iorego the
delights Of poker long enough to ex-
plain in a British court his connection
with the Emma Mine swindle. The
cable informs us that in common with
Albert Grant aud other Emma finan-
cers, he has been served with q writ.
Whether he is summoned as a Witness
or defendant does not appear.
Miss Genevieve Ward, Oh the 4th Of
February, will give In London morn
ing performance as Lady Macbeth In
aid of the United States Centennial
fund. The cast will be: Miss Ward,
Lady Macbeth Berman Vein, Mac
beth; George Clark, McDutl. Jeiier-
son promises to take part In the witch
scene. Chatterton loans Drury Lane
gratis.
There are patriotic parents who love
to enlighten and inspire their children
by recalling the wisdom and virtue of
the illustrious men who stood around
the cradle OF the American Republic,
and it is TO such that we earnestly APP
peal at the present moment, begging
them to impress upon their boys the
truth that George Washing
ton never spat on his hands before
jumping.
Representative Samuel j. Randall,
Of Pennsylvania, enlisted as a private
in the LIST Philadelphia City Cavalry at
the outbreak of the war, aud WAS elect
ed to Congress while serving In that
position. He went Immediately to the
front, where his company was placed
in regiment commanded by Colonel
George III. Thomas. A letter written
b., NJ, DnnIaIl ,p 1871 m A aaotnut
Secretary of War Il. A. Scott, Is on file,
in which he earnestly recommends
that Thomas be made Brigadier
General.
DIR. w. M. Clark, of Tennessee, has
made report to the Smithsonian H.
stitute of the exploration of several
mounds and an examination Of the rel
les of an apparently prehistoric people.
The mounds examined were near
in Williamson county, Ten
nessee. 1t appears there is range Of
these mounds extending from Florence
Alabama, on the Tennessee river, to
the Upper Cumberland river, near
Kentucky, and those ex-
amined were In this range. The largest
Is an isolated point, which commands
a view of the level country for many
miles, and the mound proper, four
feet in circumference is twen-
ty feet higher than terrace on which 1t
stands. This might originally have
been at once q lookout, stronghold
and an altar for human or other sacri-
fees. The utensils and idols taken out
appertain either to people different
from the Indian race known to us, or
10 that race at time when 1t possessed
some conceptions that were lost ere
The earliest navigators from Europe
reached these shores.