The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-06
DALLAS TEX AS =.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER q.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

vehicle travel.
Have your watches and jewelry
repaired and warranted at Webbs, 800
Main street.-Ad.
Medical ethics says ono, boys,
don't - but some OF the lads manage
to work 1t IN fine.
DIR. Storey, dentist, has moved
over Atkinson & Alstead's jewelry
store, sos Main street It'd.
-Numbe . rwheat brought from
seventy to eighty cents yesterday, and
the lower grades from fifty to seventy
cents.
The most delicious candies are
made fresh every day at Greaves Il
Co.'S. 3l3 Main street, opposite Cosmo-
p0litan Hotel. I'D.
"A negro had one Of his dray
wheels smashed by the cOw.catcher %
n locomotive at the junction OF Pacific
avenue and Lamar street yesterday.
Mr.. w. X. Cornish, well known as
the obliging agent of the Texas Ex-
press Company, is ut present absent
on trip to Western Texas which will
detain him some two weeks.
1t should not be forgotten that our
genial Teuton, Commodore Roberts, Of
the Frascati, offers his festa park for
the use of private parties.
--Gireaves ~ Co.'S. candies are made
Of the purest sugar and are perfectly
healthy for children. Send the little
ones to 3l3 Main street. I'D.
The intelligent compositor made
us say yesterday that Colonel Basker-
will had paid out Sll0 the day before,
on account Of the fair, when it should
have been 81 no.
The man who would traduce the
people among whom he lives, who
would villify his section, and thus
pander to the demands fsectionalism,
is no better than the incendiary.
---Twenty-four dollars for ticket to
st. Louis, now IL your time to get II
ticket cheap. For sale by Johnson and
Manget, Office in LeGrand Hotel.
They buy and sell tickets.--Id.
Major James Il. Barkley has been
selected superintendent of the Fair
Ground Association. The extensive
works going on will not lag with the
Major rs the officer at the helm.
Up to the present time the new
compress has received nearly one hun
bred bales of cotton, and the elevator,
notwithstanding the low price there
for, has received nearly one hundred
thousand bushels of wheat.
Mr.. j.. l.. Roussell, denizen of
Sherman, is in town, He says Sher-
man Is the future great OF Texas, but
for oil that he visits Dallas occasion.
ally to see what is going on in the
world.
Wrapping paper, Irvine, paper
bags, croquet sets, wall paper, all
kinds Of stationery, select and fresh
stock of the latest literature, at Reed "
Lathrops, sos Main street. Call and
examine their stock. I'D.
We are pleased to learn that that
very gentlemanly and popular func-
tionary, Conductor Keefer, who pre-
sides over the comfort of all travellers
to and from the terminus of the Pa
citic, is convalescing from an acute
bilious attack.
The north side of Elm street is
now q solid brick wall from the Com
mercial hotel to the academy and the
same Is true OF the southside with the
exception Of two shantiesto remind us
Of the olden time.
The best prepared food for mock
ing birds is sold at the New Orleans
fruit store, opposite LeGrand Hotel.
Candies, lemons and all kinds of fruits
at wholesale and retail. Also main
depot for the celebrated Bethesda min
eral spring water. Orders from the
country promptly lilled.--Ad.
Mr.. p. w. Linskie and Il compan-
ion were thrown from an express
wagon on Elm street, this morning
The galivanting horse ran afoul of an
equestrian, and broke loose from the
vehicle. Mr.. Linskie was slightly in
jured; his companion escaped without
being hurt.
The HERALD is now running |
twenty solid columns of paying adver-
tisements, and has daily increasin 2
list of subscribers to its daily and
weekly. We endeavor to make n good
paper, and are pleased to realize the
fact that the community appreciates
our efforts.
The Wards are getting excited
over the political contest. Where
there is so little opposition to the Dem.
ocratic ticket as we find in Dallas, II
seems extraordinary that SO much in.
terest should be manifested. The
Ward meetings are not only well at
but attended by the best class
Of our citizens.
The Mayors court turned the usual
quota Of unforiunates who regard Sat
urday night as the proper time to
their weeks earnings, leav-
ing their wives at home to make what
terms they eau with the butcher, the
baker, and the green grocer; but, uu-
fortunately not leaving with them the