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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-13

Fine Llama and silk Shawls, Over
skirts and Basques Accrue silk Shawls,
Lawn Jackets, White Shetland Shawls.
Lawn Jackets, We are offering big
bargains in the above. They constitute
the most fashionable and tasty wraps
worn, and will be sold at extremely low
prices, BLAKE, JENKINS 4 no,Irs
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Turbans! Turbans!.i Turbans!!!

ny request OF the ladies of Dallas, Mr..
5 lralson, of the Nam street Millinery
and Importing House, has ordered, re-
ceived and now has on exhibition a lot
OF black, white and brown Turbans, at
reasonable prices. maylS.dtf
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-13

Ladies' call and see the beautiful
styles daily arriving, and being sold
lower than at any other house in the
olty, at 5l4 Main street mayl l-d3m
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PREFERRED SPECIALS.
For Exchange.

A beautiful and highly improved In
diana farm, with dwelling, barn, out
houses, orchards, etc; will be exchanged
for Dallas city property or Texas lands
Address. Editor lIerNIh.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-13

We are closing out Boots and Shoes
ut any price to make room for tall con,
tracts, Come and get bargain.
blake, JENKINS 4 ROALES
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j. q, liOOtll a IN

Auctioneers, 4O6 Elm street Auction
sales every day, Buys and sells second
hand furniture, horses, ponies etc.
may l6-dtf
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Chip hats at SljOcac in every style
and color, at s lralson's, 5l4 Main
street. movlI'jgm
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
For Exchange,

A highly cultivated farm with good house,
barn, orchards, etc, In Illinois, for Texas
lands, or Dallas property. Address Editor
Herald. Jyl3-t
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under the weather. A bird that can
whistle "Dixie," "Captain links"
"shoo Fly" and perhaps "rhe
Maiden's Prayer" has heap to con-
tend with.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

they have not time to do so, or have
nothing to say, in order to extract the
postage from them. Is this the bust
ness of the peoples government 1t is
for the interest of the people not only,
but for the interest of the postoffice de-
partment to have the name of the sender
of a paper on the outsider wrapper. The
transient paper is not forwarded unless
fully paid. If the postmaster knew the
sender, he could advise him of the def
cheney and the postage would in many
cases then be fully paid. Thus, the
amount received by the postoffice would
be increased and the papers would not
be destroyed. The price paid for third
class mail matter ever that of the regular
issues sent from the Office of publica-
ton, certainly entities the package to
bear on the wrapper the name of the
sender, especially since we have the
pos:al-card system. which practically
permits quite lengthy open letter to
be sent for only one cent.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

The New York Tribune thus speaks of
the revival of the minuet in that city on
Washington's birthday:
For the first time in this city since
Washington's day, as it is believed, the
genuine minuet de la cour was danced
Tuesday night at the academy of music
in the cause of charity. 1t opened the
ball, as it did in the days of the grand
monarch in France. 1t was simply an
illustration of the minuet by twenty or
more young people, who have been prac-
ticing it's intricacies diligently for the last
month What passes current by the
name of the minuet in the dancing acade-
mics of this and other cities is only a
quadrille with the flavor of the stately
old-time war dance, whose name it has
appropriated. Properly, the minuet Is
danced only in couples, as are the galop
and waltz and other round dances of the
present day, the cheaper currency which
has driven out of use the better sterling
coin of former period. 1t was SO
danced in colonial days. There lives in
Germantown, Pennsylvania, silver
haired old lady, born over one hundred
wears ago, named Mrs. Margaret Boggs,
who, at one of the courtly private assem-
blages of that era, led the minuet with
Washington, and from her it is possible
to learn the manner of the genuine min
net de la cour without resorting to the
libraries The occasion was tea party
of about twenty guests, of which Mrs.
Boggs, then eighteen, was one. She
wore that evening a satin dress with
very long train-so long, in fact, that in
entering the house it was necessary for
her maids to come behind and lift it as
she walked. Her hair was arranged in
front like cushion, and fell in natural
curls down her shoulders, and was all
powdered, after the pretty colonial FASH
ion. Washington led her by the hand to
the floor The music was slow and dig
nifed, almost choral in its character.
After profound salutation to the COM
pany, three slow steps forward were
taken, followed by an equally grave salu-
tation to each other. At this point
modern society girl would have laughed,
but there was no laughing with the dig
uifed Washington. After the rever-
ence the young lady WAS led to her place
by the hand There then began series
of slow, graceful cvolutions by which the
imaginative old French masters who per
fcctcd this dance intended to represent
the varying rclationso of two newly formed
ac1iIaintauceS to each other in good so
ciety. At times the partners were ten
PAGES apart. They would pass each other
gracefully but gravcly two or three times,
as though reluctant to meet; then adj
vance slowly with Il smile, and join
hands; then coquettishly retire still fac
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
VOLUME XII.
HfLF-T4Y DOIN'S.

Belubbed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hoiin' forth to-day
dOesn't quote no special verse for what has to
De sermon will be berry short, and dis here am dc
Dat halfway dons amt count for dis ~orl' or
de mex
Dis worI dat ives a-libbin' in is like cotton
whar cherry cullud gentleman has got ms line 10
And ebery time lazy Niger stops to take nap,
De grass Keeps on a-growin' for TO smudder up his
crap
When Moses led de Jews aeros de waters oh de sea,
Dey had 10 keen a-goin' les fas fas' could lie
Do you s'pose dat dey could eler hab succeeded in
And reached de Promised Land at last-if dey had
stopped TO fish?
NV fren's dar was n garden once whar Adam
libbed wild Eve,
Tid no-one round to bodder dem, no reighbors for
And cherry day was Christmas, and dcy got der
ratons tree,
And eberyting belonged to dem except an apple
snoopin' 'roun',-
A stump-tail rusty moccasn, a-crawlin' on de
How Eve and Adam ate de fruit, and went and hid
DER face,
ill dc angel oberseer he come and drove 'em of de
place
Now, s'pose dat man and CONAN hadn't tempted
But had gone about DER gardenin, and tended to
DER work.
Dey wouldn't hab been loafn' whar dey had no
business TO,
And de debbil ncbbcr'd got chance to tell 'em
what to do.
10 halfway loin's, bredren! 1t I'll nebber do, l
say
Go at your task and finish it, and denis de time to
play
For chen if de crap is good de rain III spilc de bolls
Unless you keeps a-pickin' in de garden OBJ your
souls.
Keep a-plowin', and a hoein, and a-scrapin' OBJ de
rows,
And when de ginnin's ober you pay up what
you owes;
But if you quits a-wokin' cherry time lie is hot,
De sheriff's gwine to Lobby upon eberyting you's
got.
Whateber tits you's dribin at be shore und drive it
through,
And don't let muffin stop you, but do what you's
gwine to do;
For when you sees Niger fooliR', den, shores
you're born,
Yous gwine to see him comm out de small eend oh
de horn.
thanks you for de 'tenton you has glib dis after
Sister Williams will obligc us by a-raisin OBJ a
see dat Brudder Johnson's bout to pass aroun' de
hat,
And don let's hab no halfway doins when it
comes to dat!
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-fBOUT GHOSTS.

Ghosts-and this is very important
may be divided into three distinct
classes, which must not be COMPOUNDED.
There is the vulgar and detestahle Claes
typified by the Cocklane- men con-
demned to be perpetually repeating the
Bible backward, cattle without heads,
and aimless noises. The second class
consists of wcll-defned apparitions, gen.
orally men or animals, which appear ten
or twelve times in Il lifetime, usually
after supper, whose Ariel takes the shape
of salmon with cucumber or Welsh
rarebit, and whose Prospero is the doctor.
The third case comprises the real thing
the hereditary ghost, constantly as
ISOLATED by skeptics with its inferior and
spurious brethren, but utterly distinct in
it's origin, its appearances and its habits.
Its origin is invasiably lost in the twi-
light of fable. These ghosts are essen
TALLY aristocratic; they seem to wax
and wane, as certain trees are said to do,
with the fortunes of house to which
they are attached; they never pass from
one family to another. You may come
into the mansion, but you cannot come
into the ghost of an old family. In the
grave of the last hereditary posses
sor are buried also the hereditary ghosts.
These ghosts, like good servants, are
seen and not heard No objectless clank
ing of chains, rattling of bones, rumbling
of barrels, and the like, ever accompany
them; they are much too respectable for
that. They rarely make their appear
ance, and when they do, it is only
glimpse that can be caught of them.
The breath of life is tradition. Gray
haired buffers and superannuated nurses
are their chroniclers, and over the win
ter's fire you may hear their story told.
Generation after generation their legend
is handed down with weird accuracy
and strange uniformity of detail
nothing is exaggerated, nothing is lost
whatever form the legend takes, SO it re-
mains, the same to-day as three hundred
wears ago.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
4 GREAT AUTHORS BELIEF.

Victor Hugo, at a recent dinner party
in Paris, gave free expression in the
presence of atheists to his belief in the
infinite and in the souls immortality.
Hugo's face was bright with heavenly
halo, and his eyes shone like burning
Goals. "There are no occult forces" he
said, there are only luminous forces.
Occult force is chaos, the luminous force
is God. Man is an infinitely little copy
of God. This is glory enough for man.
l am man, an invisible atom, drop in
the ocean, grain of sand on the shore.
Little as l am, l feel the God in me, be-
cause 1 can also bring form out of my
chaos. l make books which are crea-
tions. I feel in myself the future life.
am like forest which has been more
than once cut down. The new shoots
are stronger and Hvelier than ever. | am
rising, 1 know, toward the sky. The
sunshine is on my head. The earth
gives me it's generous sap, but heaven
lights me with the reflection of unknown
worlds. You say the soul isnothing but
the resultant of boldly powers. Why,
then, is my soul the more luminous
when my bodily powers begin to fail :?
Winter is on my head, and eternal spring
is in my heart. There l breathe at this
hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the VIC
lets and the roses, as at twenty years.
The nearer l approach the end the
palmer hear around me the immortal
symphonies of the worlds which invite
me. 1t is marvellous, yet simple. 1t is
q fairy tale and it is history. For half
a century I have been writing my
thoughts lin prose and verse, history,
philosophy, drama, romance, tradition,
satire, ode and song. I have tried all.
But feel l have not said the thousandth
part of what is in me. When | go down
to the grave can say, like so many 9th
ers, 4 have finished my days work.
but cannot say, 1 have finished my
life.' My days work will begin again
the next morning. The tomb is not a
blind alley; it is thoroughfare. 1t
closes on the twilight to open with thG
dawn"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

AN EXAsPERATED BRIDE.-The Jour-
nal de Paris tells very droll story of an
interrupted marriage ceremony in a vii
lage near Metz. 1t appears that the
bridegroom had announced his age at
thirty-six years, but on having to pro-
duce a certificate of birth before the
MARIE of the place he was found to be
six years older. This SO exasperated
the young bride that when her turn
came to pronounce her consent to the
union she said "no," very distinctly.
The bridegroom, amid the excitement of
the assembled guests, entreated her to
pardon this subterfuge, which he laid to
his ardent passion for the bride. The
guests, afraid of losing the opportunity
of a genial feast at the cost of the BRIDE
groom, also endeavored to persuade the
bride to say yes. but of no avail.
Greatly offended at having her dignity
lowered, and being sighted in this man.
ner, the bride would not give way, and
the guests, to their great regret, had to
depart from the scene disappointed. The
same afternoon, however, the bride, hav-
ing had time for reflection, let herself be
persuaded to grant pardon to the bride
groom for sighting her by his false state
ment, and, arm in arm, they went to the
magistrate again, by whom they were
united i'll the bonds of matrimony
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
NUMBER 81.
M4FCHING.

A London journal has this to say upon
the subject: In comparing the principal
armies Of Europe we find the German
with a stride of 81! inches and cadence
of 112 per minute; the Austrian with
one of 30 inches, and cadence of lis to
100; the italian with one of % inches,
and cadence of 1920; and the English
with pace Of 80 inches, and cadence
of / 6 per minute. Hence the German
infantry would gain 48 inches in every
minute on the British, or at the rate of
$40 feet per hour. In like manner the
Austrian and Italian gain 65 inches
every minute, or at the rate of 345 feet
per hour, on our troops, and 105 feet
per hour on German infantry. Taking
an eight hours march as fair sample of
what may be expected from trained sol
diers on active service, IL therefore re-
veals that British infantry regiments
would at the termination be | 1920 feet, or
more than the third of mile, behind
Germans, and 2,76O feet, or more than
half a mile, in rear of Austrians and Ital-
ians. The gain or loss of distance being,
however, of less importance than the
fatigue caused by its accomplishment,
it Is to this point that we should d.
rect the attention of the military au-
thorities. According to our own expe-
rience, gained during marches in India,
aggregating several thousand miles,
short, jerky pace is infinitely more tir-
ing than long, measured stride. In
the first regiment in which the writer
had the honor to serve stepping out"
was the order of the day, and the men
made nothing of rattling off their
twelve or fifteen miles. But i'm his sec
Dnd corps cramped, dancing sort of
gait had come into vogue, to the great
distress of every individual, officer or
private, who possessed the ordinary
length of leg. OF course this is the
main factor to be considered when deal
ing with the question, the same length
Of pace being clearly impossible for a
regiment of ducks and a battalion of
storks. But it having been just proved
that French soldiers, who are notori-
ously short-legged, can step twenty-nine
inches at cadence of rs to the min
ute, there seem valid grounds for be-
ieving that something better than a
pace of thirty inches and cadence of
l16 might be expected of the compare
lively long limbed British soldier.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
POSTfL FOLLIES.

The recent discussion i'm congress of
the postal law, in regard to third-class
mail matter, discloses the fact that the
doubling of the charges of this class of
mail matter, a year ago, was surrepti-
tiously effected in the interests of the ex-
press companies, who have made out of
the fraud not less than half million of
dollars. Struggled through congress by
fraud, and thrust upon the people
through carelessness on the part of the
members not in the secret, this act, be-
sides robbing the people of half million
end transferring it to the treasures of
the great express companies, has sub
jected them to other losses and to an
noyances innumerable. A large portion
of the mail matter of the third-class,
which has been confiscated for INSULT
cient postage, has been sacrificed to this
law. The people, as a rule, have no
scales TO weigh their papers, and they
put on stamps, which they think suffi-
cient, which, under the former law, they
would be, but the strict orders of the
postoffice department require every par
Gel to be weighed, and many of them are
shown to be deficient in stamps. The
| postmaster is forbidden to forward them
in such a case, and hence they are confis-
Gated, and sold as waste paper. Many
bushels of such papers are received every
day, and, under the rule of the depart
| ment, are thrown into the receptacle for
waste.
There is another modification of tie
| existing law which needs to be made.
At present, to put the name or the I'M
tials Of the person sending paper or
| periodical, subjects it to letter postage,
according to its weight. This law is a
relic of the old narrow gauge stupidity
which adhered so long to high rates OF
| postage, and which, if submitted to the
people en- masse at the present time,
| would he almost unanimously rcpudi-
| atcd. The reaSonin" is, the person
would write Il letter, if he could not
send his name on a paper. Thus the
government undertakes to compel the
! people to write letters when, perhaps
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

A WIFE's PowEE.-A good wife is to
a man, wisdom strength and courage; a
bad one is confusion, weakness and des-
pair. No condition is hopeless to Il man
where the wife possesses firmness, de-
csion and economy. There is no out
ward propriety which can counteract
Incidence, extravaganza and folly at
home. No spirit can long endure bad
influence. Man is strong, but his heart
is not adamant. He needs tranquil
mind, and especially if he is an intelli-
gent man, with noble head, he needs
its moral force in the conflict of life. To
recover his composure home must be a
place of peace and comfort. There his
soul rcnews its strength and goes forth
with renewed vigor To encounter the
labor aud troubles of life But fat home
he finds no rest, and there is met with
bad temper, jealousy and gloom, or as
sailed with complaints and censure, hope
vani4hcs and he sinks into despair.
. 1t is said that figures won't lie; but
the figures of some women are very de-
ceptive, to say the least.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

CARPETS. Carpets were in use, at
least of some kind, as early as the days
of Amos, about 500 b. C.-Amos H., s.
They were spread OH the ground, on
which persons sat who dwelt in tents;
but when first used in houses, even in
the east, we have no record. In the
twelfth century, carpets were articles of
luxury, and in England it is mentioned
as an instance of Becket's splendid style
of living, that his sumptuous apartments
were every day in winter strewn with
clean hay or straw, about A. d. 1850.
The manufacture of wooden carpets was
introduced into France from Persia in
the reign of Henry ~, between 1859
and 1910. Some artisans, who had
quilted France in disgust, care to Eng
land, and established the carpet manu-
facture, about 1850. With us. AS with
NEST nations, Persian and Turkey car
pets, especially the former, arc most
priced. Our famous Administer, Wilton
and Kidderminster manufacture is the
growth of the last one hundred years.
The weaver's, otherwise called the Dutch
loom engine, was brought into Use il
London from Holland in or about the
year 1876, since when the general prin
ciple of the loom has been infinitely
varied by mechanical ingenuity.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

SPRING CosTUMEs.-The earliest hints
of spring styles for dresses found in
French fashion plates point toward long
Juive overdresses, habits, and Margue-
rite polonaises. One model is a plain
black velvet dress, of which only the
sleeves, sides, and the edge of the skirt
are visible, as the remainder is covered
with a Juive overdress of damasEfgured
foulard of a delicate shade, edged with
braid, and worn with moyen age girdle
low around the hips; this girdle is OF
golden links. through which black velvet
ribbon is passed. Another costume has
a myrtle green velvet skirt, almost con-
cealed by Marguerite pelisse of lighter
green .Sicilienne, edged with braid and
fringe.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

ETTA.-A gentleman residing in Hi
nois has four-year daughter named
Eta, who frequently amuses herself by
nIacinp the chairs in a row and calling
them A train of cars. One evening,
while thus engaged, Mr.. b., friend OF
the family, called, and unthinkingly &C.
cupied one of the Gears" Miss Eta,
not wishing to have her play disturbed,
stepped up and said: Mister, dis is
train of tars." "Oh!" said Mr.. b.,
"then I'll be passenger and take
ride" Little Eta was not at all salts
fed. After hesitating a moment she
said: "Where do % want to dit off
Mr. b. replied: "Fll get off at Bloom
ington." "Well," said Eta, demurely,
eds is de place"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

THE Boston..Traveler is responsible for
the statement that curious medal has
been found under the ruins of the old
elm on Boston Commons. 1t is OF large
size, of copper or bronze, and has
medallion head on one side, and on the
other, figures of justice with scales and
sword, and of religion with cross and
circular temple in the background, with
a date that seems to be 1904 or MDCIlll.
The person VINO found it said he had
counted 30 rings in a section of the tree,
indication 30 years growth, and eight
cen rings from the center was a hattened
bullet, which had evidently been shot
into the tree more than two centuries
ago.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

A PROFESSIONAL census of the French
senate gives the following results: One
bishop. two ex-workingmen, three diplo-
matists, three barristers of the council of
state or com de cessation, four medical
men, six engineers, seven superior naval
officers, nine university professors, four
teen judicial dignitarics, seventeen man
ufacturers, twenty members of the insti-
tute. without reckoning the Bishop OF Or
leans, twenty-six officers, four OF them
being colonies, twenty-one generals, and
one A marshal. The remaining 1873 are
mostly barristers, men of letters, fund
holders. or landowners and com mercial
men.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18
THE WEEK PAST.

ArEoros of the proposed revision of
the patent laws, the officials say that
they have 10000 models of rejected APP
plications slowed away in the attic.
The printing of applications, with de-
scriptions of the models, will be coup
led with condition dispensing with
models at the Office. The average num-
Der of models yearly sent to the de-
partment is from $4,000 to 10000.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-18

ing and smiling; then hesitate, and
piroutte, and even absolutely tnrn away
from each other; ultimately, however,
advancing with smile and joining both
hands, and returning to their places. 1t
was in this manner that the minuet was
danced at the academy of music.