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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

Ileye. which, IA imitation Of some OF
the periodicals IN the cHiedl assumes
The distinguished llLle oi " lerRll,'
HTho Dallas lIrmld' Inc above has
reached IN by rumor and II Is vouched
for by certain parties whose Yepolly,
we believe, X above suspiGl0ni and
whose curiosity has led them, IN their
travels from this city nOrthWard and
eastward, 10 90 out Of their way ana
take some pains TO ascertain the facts.
We learn also thpt the editor Of this
pnper is crazy; that he lahors under y
strange deluslou that Dallas Is u city
Of mnny thousand inhabitants, nnd
that 10 maintain iIs position ana
dignity, lac IL called upon TO perform
the QulXotlc task of publishing ana
sustaining II daily paper, or course he
gels no subscribers for hls daily, but
lhen his friends knowing that he has
plenty OF money 10 throw away, bes des
pilyng his condition and fearing lest
II they contradict him II might become
worse, kindly take charge Of the pa
pers, ,aaking him believe they have
distributed them to his subscribers,
hut throwing most of them In the
wnste bnskGL TO be Issued again with
slight changes the next day,
The above ~ from the MoHtidrd, n
weekly sheet published AT Fort Worth.
II iB dated March the I'd, aud contains
In that one issue eight different edito'
rial articles plaglariaed from the col
umns OF our issue Of THE DAILY HER
AID of February eth. We don't
know that we object to this wholesale
reprint OF THE HERALD by this Fort
Worth paper in fact, we are rather
pleased to have our ideas thus dlssemin'
ated even 10y newspaper Of inlinltes
imal circulation, but we are sorry to sec
such extreme want of ability displayed
such an utter incapacIty, rs Is displayed
by the Standard when IL fails to origin
ate n single Idea after weeks effort,
and must needs copy so extensively anc
without credit from The HERALD, q
paper published in an "obscure vii
lage" whose topography" this bril-
liant and original writer has discover.
ed with 50 much difficulty. We bel
pardon for saying that there was no
an original idea in the StdRlard. w,
turn to the local column and find the
following elegant and impressive sen
tence:
And Dallas has had "Mardi Gras p
Boo! hoo! hoo we'll Fort Worth
celebrated Washington's birthday
An idea has been originated, and the
weeks labor was not in vain.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

1t IN useless for gentlemen TO cheat
around the bushes" let them come out
and speak like men. II the TdcNoph
wants Lieutenant Governor Hubbard
in Governor Coke's place, let ii say so,
and then we "Can account for the milk
in the cocoanutp 1t is remarkably
strange that the Iciegrdph and DALLAS
HERALD should be the only papers
laboring in this interest. We shall be
able to call up some very UNPLEASANT
"reminiscences, we think, in connection
with their championship. - Ncrid
Ledger.
If we. understand the above some
what obscure paragraph 1t means that
THE HERALD is now, and has Ueen
laboring to elevate Governor Coke to
II United States Senatorship, and thus
place Lieutenant Governor Hubbard
in the gubernatorial chair. The Ledger,
with its usual obtuseness, has not read
US Alright. 1t will not find one single
line, not the faintest intimation in
The HERALD, that it was desirable to
alter the present relationship Of either
Coke or Hubbard TO the people of this
State. The Ledger Ia welcome to the
task rs calling up "some very unpleas-
ant reminiscences,n which it gushes
80 ehusively about.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05


THE legends tell us that when the
Mayllower, onl n stormy December
day in the year 1920, anchored OIL Ply
mouth Rock, freighted with the first
Pilgrims to New England, the first
person to step on shore was the youn y
est man on board, by name John
Alden--W blooming youth, fair-slsin-
ned, light-haired, blue-eyed, pleasant.
countenanced, n ready penman, and
fair to look upon. Longfellow, in his
"Courtship of Miles Standish," has i'm
mortalized John Alden in narrating
his marriage, two years later, to his
fellow-passenger, the bonnie lassie
Priscilla, the winsome daughter of Mr..
William Mullins. From that union
have sprung u multitude who are scat
tered to and fro over this broad land,
The fact Is brought to our remem-
brance by the presence in Dallas of a
lady from New York on visit to her
kith and kin. She is lineal descend
ant OF the ninth generation from John
Alden and his wife Priscilla, as well
as from old Christopher Avery, the
first of his name in America, who was
born I'M, Salisbury, England, in 1880,
and came to ye Colony of Plymouth in
1880, and thence. became the progenitor
of a posterity now mum bered by thou.
sands, dispersed over the territory of
this vast country. Though not allowed
to mention the lady by name, we bid
her thrice welcome to Dallas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

The Giddings Tribune says that one
of the victims of the foul, bloody and
cowardly assassination, which so re-
Gently took place ut that point, was n
young boy only fifteen years old. The
Tribune remarks, in an editorial
strongly condemning this unholy MUIR
der, that the boy was but child, and
that "hard indeed must have been the
hearts which could, unmoved, listen to
the poor boys cries and prayers, and
consign him to his early ard igno-
minious grave" This terrible murder,
for cold, inhuman brutality, almost
rivals the fendish act of burning the
negro at tho stake In Milan county,
an occurrence which should damn us
in the eyes of the cvilizep world.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

We have now the vote of one hun
dred counties, which foot up as fol-
lows:
For the Const 1872
Against the I600l
Majority for the Constitution. .....,..... 622Ol
Total l5G Isl
Total vote In the whole state in 1873. ljS OOO
SO we have now in one hundred
counties total vote on the Constitu-
ton of 1856, lS3, only l,Sl7 less than the
entire vote of the State two years ago.
That vote, bear in mind, was the
largest ever cast In the State. Coke's
majority then in the whole State was
50,O0l. Now, so far as received ms
above, the majority for the Constitu-
ton is 2,2Ol, or 1920 greater than
Cokes entire majority two years since.
awe have yet forty-eight counties to
hear from. Most of them are small
counties, but few are large, such as
Lamar, Hill, Parker and Henderson.
Assuming the general accuracy of our
figures, we feel justified in slightly in
creasing our estimated majority on
the final result. We now believe the
Constitution has been carried by about
seventy thousand votes, a majority
unanticlpated by the most ardent
friends of the Constitution, excepting
a few who thought they understood
public sentiment better. One gentle.
man, u friend of ours in Dallas, has
persistently contended, even against
Governor Coke's estimate, that the
Constitution would be adopted by over
sixty-iive thousand majority.
The vote for Governor is materially
larger than that on the Constitution,
and we feel very confident that the
whole vote will be nearly sixty thou.
sand greater than ever before cast in
Texas. 1t will be considerably over
two hundred thousand.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

In cost Don Carlos 100000 to stir
up Ills little unpleasantness In Spain,
the majority Of which is due to eng
lish creditors. He has an estate, how
ever, of SiO00O,O90 bequeathed to him
by the Duke OF MAdena, and IL Is pre-
sumed that he can stand n little linan-
clal pressure. He goes from France to
England to settle up.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

FIFTY THOUSAND troops will at once
embark for Cuba, and determined
and vigorous effort will be commenced
to finally crush out the rebellion. The
government Is also shipping to Hav-
ana the largest OF Krupp cannon.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

TUE gift OF ten thousand pounds by
Lord Ripon to the Pope seems to have
been the invention Of some reporter
who was IN strait for an item, since
neither the Pope or Lord Rlpon have
any knowledge of such gift, and they
would be presumed to know.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

THE last spike has been driven In
the Hot Springs narrow gauge rail-
way. Parties from Dallas can now go
the entire distance TO these celebrated
waters without getting OF the rails.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

bYoE, Mcdonald, Mckee, Avery,
Babcock, Boss Shepherd, and now
Belknapl liza man Ia to be Judged by
his associates, Grant would look well
In zebra suit.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

Ar the obscure little village, the
topography of which we eudeavored,
with no little difficulty, to show to our
readers in our last issue, there is also
said to be published small prodigy OF
a newspaper, daily and weekly, we be.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05
NATIONAL LINE ON STEAMERS.

Consisting OF twelve five large steamships
one OF the best and certainly the cheapest
am ana Europe. Steerage and cabin, with
railroads. tickets, either way, from and 10
Dallas, or round trip tickets. good for one
year, Tor sale by the Undersigned. For mar.
ticulars, and TO see plan of the steamers cab
ms, call az our office, No. 100 Lamar street
Jan2Sdtf VIZ. LYTE & CO., Agents,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

A bloated Illinois bondholder bears
this testimony to the failure of Caucas-
sian civilization in that section of the
country: "When | TUX it into my
head to git married l didn't go playin'
clipper an sweet to Mollie; | Jest
antied up the stamps to the old man,
and he snaked her out purity quick"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05
We e LITE Up. MURPHY.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
W. \. LYTE.
FOR SAT,T.

Improved and unimproyed pronert, a.,
every quarter of the city; also. farms and
of Texas. '"''ie'
For rent,Dwellings and business houses in
abstracting and perfecting titles and estab.
fishing land claims; also, to the collecting OF
rents, notes and accounts, by
W. II. LYTE & CO.,
Real Estate Agents, No. 100 Damar street,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

-Rusk county farmers have nearly
finished planting.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05

Bay District Fair Ground, Tuesday
February -, lS76.-Purse and stake
S3O,000 $4,000 to first horse, $4,000 to
second, 5000 to third, anu $1,000 tc
fourth; four miles and repeat.
NJ. A. Little's CHI. h. Foster.
H. j. Baldwin's ch,h. Rutherford. ..........2
NJ. A. Walden's CHI. h. Revenue, Jr.....dis
ii. Welch's CHI. h. Chance .....................dis
j. Q. SIMPSONS CHI. h. Hockhocking.......dis
A. :. Cages b. IN. Katie Pease ...........dis
j. IL. Daniels b. m. Golden Gate. dis
Time-7,3S, 1853.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-05
THE VOTE.

We have now the vote of one hun
dred counties, which foot up as fol-
lows:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17
A Matrimonial Bureau in San
Francisco.

In the ladies' department collection
of the photographs of the male appli-
cants will be kept, and vice versa in the
gentlemen's department. No appf-
cants of doubtful character will be re-
ceived, and any one ambitious of OBJ
tanning admission into the fields of mar
ried bliss must produce unequivocal
testimony of untarnished honor and all
the attributes which make person eli
gible to private society. The institu-
ton being supported by philanthropists,
of course the monetary feature OF the
business is the least conspicuous, but
some attention is paid to it in order that
the "bureau" may be self-supporting.
A schedule of charges has been scien-
tifically arranged for the benefit of the
patrons. The average fee to retain the
services of the agent for one month is
So. At the end of that time, if a con-
genial companion is not found, the
agency refunds the money. If mar
riage is consummated the "bureau is
enriched according to the 1berality of
the bridegroom. No marriage, no
money.
A healthy man, medium sized,
average looks, middle age, is worth
S5 to the "bureau.'' Take off
half score of years from his age,
add few inches to his stature, give
him a graceful moustache and other
items of external grace, and his fee OF
admission depreciates so per cent. for
the chances of marrying him off, and
the ultimate gains are increased by that
amount On the other hand, if he pos
sesses much personal unloveliness, $3.50
is exacted from him before his vanity is
gratified by the exhibition of his picture.
Red hair is assessed 81 EXTRA glass
eve, So; cork leg or arm, So; slight
strabismus, $3.50; a bad squint, $3.50;
badness entails rs cents extra, and false
teeth, of ordinary manufacture, 81. If
the artificial molars are neat and not
easily detected, they are allowed to pass
without extra charge. Deafness costs
81 extra. Blue, gray, and green eyes
are not included in the category of good
looks. Brown, hazel, and black eyes
are worth so cents to the owner, for they
save him that amount on the fee. Hair
that curls without the suspicion of be-
ing s'kinky'' is worth 81. Small ears
are valued at % cents, and little feet
and hands at double that amount.-San
Francisco Post.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17

financial embarrassments on the the part of
the company.
A dispatch from Fort Laramie, 9TH,
says that Spotted Tail, Chief of the Brules,
had arrived there, and reports that his peo-
Pile are all quietly at home and will remain
there. lie reports that over l, 700 lodges of
hostile Indians have collected on Powder
River and are preparing for big fight.
Hunters from the head-waters of the Re-
publican say that the Cheyennes and Aarap-
ahoes are leaving in large numbers, bound
North. 1t supposed that they are going to
join the Sioux.
A duel was fought at River Bend,
Col, on the sth, by Alfred D. Jessup, Jr.,
and a man named Davis, the latter using
Winchester rifle and the former a Colts navy
pistol. Jessup was killed in the second ex-
change of shots.
All the Fenian prisoners confined in
Western Australia have, it is rumored, es-
capped in the American whale-ship Catalpa.
A six weeks armistice has been
agreed upon between the Turks and the in
surgents.
Mary McDaniels, Leavenworth
dress maker, on the 10th, attempted to
kindle a fire with kerosene, with the usual
fatal result.
The number of visitors at the Cen
tennial Exhibition for the first month, end
ing June 10. was l, 0O0, 900 and a few over.
Thomas w. Henley was taken from
the Jail at Santa Rosa, Cal. on the night of
the 9th, by an armed mob, and hanged to a
tree. He was charged with the murder ola
citizen Of the town.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17
A Romance of the Derby.

Many a story could be woven from
the Derby; it has, indeed, figured in
hundreds of novels. One of its latest
romances was very strange one. 1t
happened that great and very wealthy
racing mana certain Mr.. Chaplin, now
a member of the House of Commons
was engaged to one of the most beauti-
full women in England. She was rich
as well as lovely and the daughter of a
peer. The wedding day was rapidly
approaching, and Mr.. Chaplin escorted
her to one of those great fashionable
shops in London which have two en-
frances, one on one street and one on
another. The lady left Mr.. Chaplin at
the door and, rapidly passing through
the shop, passed out at the opposite ex-
it and jumped into the carriage of the
real love of her heart, ran away with
him then and there, married him at
once, and became the Marchioness of
Hastings. From that hour the discard
ed lover brooded over plots for revenge.
He took into his counsels an ex-captain
in the army, and between them, by
tricks too familiar to turfmen, they
planned the ruin of the young Marquis.
With the tricks we are not sufficiently
familiar to know the precise methods
by which their success was achieved,
but achieved it was, and one or two
Derbys after the wedding Hastings was
L ha
hero, by the way, of Disraeli's "Lo-
thair," and Guinness, the rich brewer
of Dublin, come to his assistance he
would have been posted as a defaulter
at Tattersall's, and compelled to fly the
country. His life, however was soon
ended, his estates are still out to nurse,
and his widow is now married again,
but not to Mr.. Chapin.-Cincinnati
En0uSrer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

1t is reported that Black Hills party
$40 200 in gold dust. They report no Indi-
ans on the Fort Pierre route.
The Senate Committee on Finance,
which was instructed by resolution, early
in the session, to examine the books and
accounts Of the Treasury Department, with
a view of ascertaining whether certain dis
crepancies existed therein, reports the sys-
tenn Of Treasury accounts now in use to
be as perfect as human ingenuity could
probably devise, and that the apparent dis
crepancies in some of the financial state
ments at different periods arise from differ
ent systems Of bookkeeping, which have
been satisfactorily explained to the commit
tee.
At Maysville, KY, on the 9th, while
U. S. Marshal Harrington, of Covington,
was endeavoring to seize the steamer Kate
Dickson, owned by Capt. James Taylor, OF
McKeesport, Pa, the latter fired upon the
Marshal with double barreled gun, killing
him instantly. One of the Marshal's part,
then returned the fire, killing Capt. Taylor
Wilhelmina Weick, convicted of the
murder of her step-son, Michael, at Buffa
10, N. Y, has been sentenced to be hanged
on the 21st of July.
Both Houses of Congress have agreed
to the provision in the Legislative, Execu
tive and Judicial Appropriation bill, abol
ishing the Office of Supervisor of Interna
Revenue.
At DE Soto, Miss, on the 9th, Sam
Anderson, colored, who was arrested TO
n Tn linz
and then cutting the throat of her brother
whom he left for dead, was taken from thu
officers by n body Of armed men, and hung
I His father, charged with being accessory t,
the attempted murder, is in Jail.
The Atlantic Cotton Mills, at Law
renee, Mass, have been closed, owing t.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17
A Long Ride on Horseback.

The Minneapolis Tribune says, speak
ing of the New York mustang race:
AS matter of some interest in that
connection, we will say that Mr.. Brown,
foreman of the Tribune composing
room, rode 266 miles in the year 1860,
without stopping, except to get bite
to eat. He changed horses every ten
or fifteen miles. He was carrying the
election returns on section of the over
land mail route from st. Joe west to
California. The news he bore was the
first victory of old Abe, and in st. Joe
to this day it is a matter of interest that
Mr.. Brown made his relays of mustangs,
Indian ponies and mules (not horses
except in figurative sense) bound
away over the Nebraska prairies as no
rider in the United States mail service
ever did before him. He didn't give
out, but his legs were raw.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17

18th. In company with his family he
had walked from his house to church,
and when just at the church door he
placed his hand upon his head and COM
planned of severe pain and dizziness.
He was assisted into the vesti-
bule of the church and soon
after taken to his home,
where he lay unconscious for five
hours, when he gradually recovered con-
seriousness, and at midnight was report
ed sleeping quietly and naturally. MIR.
Blaine's family physician says that the
attack is one of cerebral depression
produced primarily by great mental
strain, and secondarily by the action of
the excessive heat.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17

Hattie: "Well, you see, Judge, Mar
tina has been conjuring us niggers,
bringing us under her spell, and made
up my mind to have it out on her,"
The Terrible: go on with your sto-
ry. What did she DO to yoGP"
Hattie: I" She comes ebry morning to
my house at O'Clock, sweeps the sill Oh
my door and then lays her conjur bag
down on it to put me under a spell and
do what she wants to with me. My
mother has been sittin' up all night
watchin' out for Martha, and losing her
sleep and gettin' sick. Martha said
dar was chile in dat house whose life
she was gwine to take away wild de con-
jur bag, and, Judge, I believe she would
have done it,
Martha: It's no such thing, Judge;
don't you believe any thing that woman
says
The Terrible: "How did you come
to have this fight?''
Hattie: Ell was afraid she might
charm us to death, and then where'd I
OC.-iu uc Col Col grave w CoOi SO-
and 1 meant to whip de conjur' bust
ness out OBJ her. But when was lay
in on her like a man on a gov'ment
mule, she throws de conjur' bag full in
my breast, de bag busts, I smother, 1
faint, Judge, I succumb. Judge, if dis
woman amt made to have herself,
Nashville's gwine to lose some OBJ her
population, dead sure"
The Terrible: "I'll dismiss the case
this time, as it is the first occasion on
which Martha has appeared before me !;
but if you women are ever troubled
with her any more, send her up here
and I'll put her in the bastile for sixty
days. Do you hear that, Martha?''
Martha: eyes, Judge"
The Terrible: "Well, clear your
self them
Martha was for long time the house
girl of the Hon. Harvey Watterson, and
has spent good deal of time in Wash
ington and the Eastern cities, where
she learned to read and to write a good
hand. She is a sharp, shrewd negress,
and knowing the superstitious beliefs
which the more ignorant of her race en-
tertained, she sought, in their vernacu-
lar, to " voodoo" and subdue them to
her own superior will.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-06-17
Great SnaiX.

The Milford (Pa.) correspondent of
the New York Sun vouches for the
truth of this story: John Quick, Da-
vid Angle, George R. Bosler and Frank
Quick, quarrymen,a few days ago start
ed into the woods in search of a new
stone quarry. On reaching Red Ridge,
six miles north from Milford, they were
suddenly startled by loud and contin-
uous noise, caused by rattlesnakes. Be-
ing aware that they were in the vicinity
of den of these reptiles, but not know
ing the exact locality, they concluded to
follow the sound, and if possible find
the den. After walking through the
thicket for a few rods, they found
themselves on the verge of a huge mass
of loose shell rock, at the extreme north
end of which they discovered black
moving mass of rattlesnakes basking in
the sunshine. A stone dropped
among them by one of the
party caused them to rattle
fiercely, and the buzz that followed was
almost deafening. Each quarryman
Cueu pTOCtlIou IL loHSS hOafy SeiShs "nN'
approaching cautiously to within reach
ing distance, began the battle. The
rock upon which the reptiles lay was
surrounded, and rapid blows were
brought to bear upon them. John
Quick, tall, powerful man, by bring
ing his huge club to bear across the top
of the rock, killed ID of the snakes at
one blow. The combat continued for
nearly half an hour, when the snakes
that were not killed managed to escape
by crawling into the surrounding rocks.
The party counted nearly 300 dead rep
tiles, some of them measuring nearly B
feet in length and having from ID to ~
rattles. This den is within six miles OF
the famous Ball Hill den, in Sho-
hola Township, where thousands have
been killed during the past ten years.
THE fire of 1000 cannon at Gibralter
can be concentrated upon any hostile
vessel that attempts the passage OF the
Straits,