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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14
GALVESTON a WHEAT MARlxEr.

I We print at length from the NcWS
the correspondence between Colonel
Hobby and Mr.. Hurford in the hope
that Galveston may become com.
Ipetitor with st. Louis for our wheat.
But In order to become that COMPETE
tor and thus open to us rival market,
Galveston must do infinitely better
than she did in the year that is gone
Dallas has tried Galveston to her
detrjment. While our oats We're class
inferior in that city and realized only
forty cents, the identical. grade was
selling for us in New Orleans at sixty.
five and seventy cents. 1t is the same
case with wheat. Galveston knows or
cares very little about it, being absorb
ed with her capital and brains on cot
ton. She does not even make known
her wants in the wheat line through
the press of the wheat countries. She is
welded to the staple SO closely that we
fear the most admirable sugges-
ions of the President of her
Board of Commerce and
his very interesting correspondent
will fail to arouse her merchants to the
great Importance of a partial invest
ment at least, in mills and machinery.
1t seems strange to us up here that
Galveston fails even to grind the two
hundred barrels of flour daily consum-
ed in that city.
There is no doubt but that Texas
wheat in the necessary qualities of
lryness and weight, having less starch
and more gluten, will be found equal,
If not superior to the best Blue Ridge
Or South Mountain wheat which has
made the fortunes of Richmond and
Richmond, until the war
came on, ground wheat from that re-
ylon lying along the Blue Ridge from
The Roanoake to the Potomac, and
shipped this flour, Astounding in its
constituents, to tropical and
equatorial America. The war wrecked
he business, and Baltimore seized the
prize. Galveston has far better advan-
ages than either Baltimore, st. Louis
II Richmond, and if she fails to recog-
iize these advantages 1t can be only
attributable to her own lack of sagac-
ty and enterprise.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

TwEED's attorneys have succeeded
In quashing the venire issued for the
jury in the great six million dollar
suit, and another opportunity will be
presented to ring in the desired
material for the defense. The Boss in
the meantime can only watch the very
interesting proceedings through the
columns Of any stray American papers
happening in his way. The legal fight
Is interesting the best of New York
talent for the defense, and the struggle
goes bravely on while the old hero of
the prosecution is graphing with u
greater adversary than any roll of at.
torneys can present. O'Conor would
doubtless like to live, if but long
enough to see the finale of these in.
tensely dramatic suits.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

The lawyers of Europe are discuss
ing the punishment that could have
been meted out to Thomas, or Thorn
Assem-, had he been arraigned for the
Bremerhaven explosion. 1t seems that
English law covers the case, and that
there he could have been tried
and hung. since offenses of this char
acter are specifically provided for. In
Germany and France it is conceded
that Thomas could not have been pun
ished for murder. German lawyers
seem to think that the utmost punish
menJ that could have been adminis-
tered there would have been d few
months imprisonment in Jail. Sup
pose the offense had been committed
upon the wharf at Galveston what
legal punishment could have been ad-
ADMINISTERED?
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14
WALTON AND ROONE.

In our opinion William M. Walton,
while doing the highest justice to him
self has in his almost unprecedented
act Of self-abenegation, done infinite
injustice to Texas. IL WAS the wish OF
the people of this State, as evidenced
by the press, and the large majority
vote cast for him in the Galveston
Convention, that lie should represent
them as their Attorney-General, and
we fear that he has overlooked the
sacrifice he has made of their interest
in his heroic sacrifice Of himself. On
the other baud Hamilton il. Boone
has done great injustice to himself
in accepting this position. If we are
correctly informed, he has wife and
six children, with one arm gone and
only two fingers on the other hand re-
naming, Thus crippled he must
necessarily employ II competent clerk
and amanuensls at u salary of not
less than one hundred dollars
per month. This would leave
him but eight hundred dollars out of
his salary OF $4,000 wherewith To sup
port his family, to which might be
added the uncertain perguisltes of the
office.
When we consider that he has to
abandon a lucrative practice which
comfortably supports him, for an office
only to be held twenty-four months
practice that 1t will require years to
reinstate him in, should he unfortu-
nately abandon 1t; and that he must re-
move to Austin and either purchase
property at high rates, or board large
family at yet greater expensive can
well perceive that in accepting this Of
lice he has not counted upon the sacri-
flee he is called upon to make. Wal
ton is differently situated He has
home ut Austin, and is as itwere to the
manor born, and it would interrupt
the routine of his business but little to
assume control of this office. We can
not but think that had these sugges-
lions occurred to Mr.. Boone when he
received the enthusiastic nomination
so generously accorded him, that he
would have crowned his brow with I'M
perishable laurels by then and there
gracefully though positively declining
the honors presented to his acceptance.
Js it too late to do 1t now
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

ton. No speech uttered for yours has
done so much 10 quicken into lie the
dying embers of sectional hate, aud
arouse the bitlerest feelings Of resent
ment and revenge, II Is the heaviest
blow that has been administered to
that good feeling which all loyal and
true hearts had hoped had been finally
established upon this Centennial year,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

BLA1NE's denunciation of Jefferson
Davis as common murderer, caused
the. Confederate members of Congress
to flush with Indignation, and his ex.
Observation-Disclosures has been the means
of defeating the Centennial appropria.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

The Texas and New Orleans road, in
Southeastern Texas, under Colonel
Crosby's most efficient management,
is being fast completed from Houston
to the Louisiana line. The iron is al
ready down, and the most durable and
costly of iron bridges are EN- route by
sea for spanning the Trinity and
Neches rivers. Rolling stock is rapid
ly being placed on this road.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
LINDSLEY & BENNERS
l. A w O r. FICE,

No. SOB Elm street, near corner Of Elm and
Austin streets,
r., o, Box 2i5, DALLAS, TEXAS.
WIN practice In the Courts of Dallas coun-
ty, and In the Supreme and Federal Courts,
give special attention to investigation of
Land Titles management and settlement of
Estates; partnership settlements; the draft
Ing OF Deeds, Mortgages and Agreements OF
all kinds.
Business References;
First National Bunk, CITY Bank, Dallas;
Waco National Bank; Merchants National
Bank, 81. Louis; VIM. A, Bell q Co., New Or
leans James Todd n Co, Louisville; Taylor
& Brother Cincinnati; Thos. EalSln Il Co..
Bankers, New York city. declsdly
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

ON Tuesday last there were fifty
four car loads of iron at Sherman, and
forty more due this week for the COM
pletion of the track from Broockston
to Paris. In ten days the track will
have been laid, and cars running into
farls--a contamination long wished
for by all Parisians.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

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nEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET
80
man mn ,,nL,L n ,t.r
y
For LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR;
RICHARD b. HUBBARD, Of Smith,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

FOR CHIEF JUSTICE:
DRAM H. ROBERTS, Of Smith,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
The Result of Drinking Water Poisoned
by Dead T0ads.

Some days ago Mr.. Alexander Higbie,
a prominent resident of Springfield,
Town OF Jamaica, Long Island, noticed
a pimple coming upon his upper lip,
near the entrance to the right nostril.
It grew rapidly in size and the adjacent
parts soon began to swell. Some one
who pretended To medical knowledge
assured him that it was only the effects
Of a cold, and there was no danger,
and treated it accordingly. Atlast 1t was
determined that the affection was cry
sipelas, and the family, becoming alarm
ed, sent for DIR. Beldin, of Jamaica,
their regular family physician, who at
once determined it to be a case of ma
lignant pustule The patients head
was in frightful condition, and the
brain was already affected so that he
was delirious. Under the circum-
stances it was impossible to save him, and
he died on Friday. In making inquiry
as to the probable cause of the attack,
DR.. Beldin found that for some time
past the water of the well had had a
peculiar taste, and investigation proved
that it was polluted by number Of
dead toads in various stages of decompo-
sition. Mr. Higbie was in the habit
daily of drinking large quantities ot
water, and he continued to do so after
the taint was discovered. and even dur
ing his illness. DIR. Beldin has nc
doubt that this was the cause of his
death.-Nes0 York World.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12

or if the lovers of the
fair but frail Rhodopis, whom Sappho
calls Doricha, reared this royal sepul-
cher for her unhallowed names; or yet
if that fair virgin who was bathing in
the Nile when an eagle swooped upon
one of her sandals and flew away to
drop it in the lap of the King as he sat
at judgment, was really the first Gin
derella; for the King was so charmed
with the diminutiveness of that sandal
that he caused the country to be scour-
ed in search of its owner, and he shared
his throne with her and built her pyr-
smid forever. In those days
THIS HAGGARD FACE WAS CoMELY,
with rose tints upon the cheeks and
royal helmet upon the head. There was
an altar beneath the heart of it, and the
incense from that altar curled over the
breast that is now buried in sand, and
ascended to the nostrils that have crum-
bled away, and the swarms of slaves
passed to and fro under the grateful
shadow of the dropping wings Pale
in the moOnlight-the proud head
lifted to the stars that shine for ever in
those latitudes, the sad face turned away
from those mountains of stone that have
grown up beside her-if those lips would
only but break their eternal silence and
reveal to us by what almost superhu-
man power those pyramids were piled
up into the skyi But MOI she is wom-
an, and she will never tell.
CHARLES WARREN SToDDARD.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
A Fatal Boiler Explosion.

A special to the Chicago Inter- Ocean
from Rochester, Ind, October l, says:
A most terrible boiler explosion occur
red yesterday morning between the
hours Of IL: 80 and u on the farm of
William johnson, in Green Township,
Marshall County, 13 miles northwest of
here. The engine was made by the
Bucyrus Machine Works, at Bucyrus,
Ohio, and was used to run the thresher
The engine had been stopped to repair
belt, and was about to be started
again when the explosion occurred
without any wa ming whatever. The
following is the list of the killed and
wounded: Thos. Jones, aged II years,
standing by warming himself, was
thrown 100 feet against a rail-fence,
tearing off the upper part of the skull,
tearing off one leg, and scalding him
badly. He was killed instantly. All
his clothing and boots, except his shirt
collar, were blown off. Thos. II. Writ,
band-cutter, was struck on the back by
the wheel of the engine and died soon
after. He was aged "a years, and leaves
wife and three children. William w.
johnson, pitching sheaves, was thrown
100 feet, and had his skull torn off. He
died last night. He was unmarried and
aged % years. William Hayes, stand
ing by the engine, was blown about no
feet against . rail-fence, and had his
right arm and right leg broken. He
was also badly scalded and internally
injured, and was entirely stripped of
his clothing He will probably
die. He was unmarried, and
aged 80 years. David Logan,
feeder, had his arm broken and skull
fractured. Ezra Jones, scalded about
the face and body. w. Johnson, inter-
nal injuries. j. Dudgeon, leg broken.
Peter Ferry, the engineer, had his arm
broken in two places. Clement New
house had his left arm broken twice and
his left forearm mashed. Meroia Low
den was internally injured Four 9TH
ers standing near were uninjured. The
furnace was blown entirely out of the
boiler, and the engine blown over a
wheat stack twenty feet high without
touching it, striking wagon, utterly
demolishing it, and falling 200 feet
away, having made two and half COM
plete revolutions. The smokestack and
steam gauge were torn off and badly
twisted to pieces. The wheels were
scattered all around, the farthest being
! 1870 feet away. The water tank was
blown about 100 feet in an opposite di-
rection from the boiler. The engine
and boiler had run three seasons and
! were badly burned out. The boiler
/ leaked, and the fireman had put in bran
! to stop the cracks. The immediate
cause of the explosion was carelessness
and too much steam, the gauge show
ing, q pressure of $50 pounds. A horse,
/ valued at 5000, was struck by the boiler
and his right hip dislocated, and all the
harness except the collar was torn off.
The burial of the three who died oc-
Cured this afternoon, the funerals of
Mr.. Writ and Mr.. johnson being held
at the saine time and place, and was
one of great solemnity.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
Child Stealing Extraordinary Dime
Novel Proceedings in Boston.

A Boston dispatch to the New York
Herald gives the details of an extraor-
dfnary crime said to have been perpe-
trated in the modern Athens. Accord
ing to the correspondent, about eight
or nine months since there came to Bos-
ton, from California, a gentleman and
his wife, who were apparently on
pleasure tour. Whether or not there
existed previous acquaintance is not
material, but it is certain that very soon
after their arrival in Boston they be-
came very intimate with DIR. John W.
Fave, one of the city coroners, who, in
turn, became the chief principal in the
abduction of an infant child, and then
hastily fled the city in company with
the gentleman and his wife just alluded
to.
The California couple were childless,
and the full title to an immense proper
ty depended upon the advent of an heir,
and therefore they planned to steal one.
The dispatch states that the coroner IN
question found poor young mother IN
a hospital, and, under the stimulus OF q
large reward, stole her baby when she
refused to sell it. Then, in company
with the CalifOrnians and the stolen
heir, he fed to parts unknown. The
escape of the coroner is ascribed to the
fact that he was the special friend and
defender of the police department. Re
Gently the fact Of the abduction be-
came known to the Mayor. He, it is
said, was indignant when he heard OF
the outrage which had been perpetrat-
ed, and ordered that the most active
measures be adopted for the recovery
of the child and the capture of its ab-
ductors. Judging from the results, how
ever, nothing has been done by the Bos-
tonians except it be to cover up the
matter and allow it to be forgotten as
soon oS DOSSible
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12

A MARYLAND preacher, in order to
draw full house, announced that on q
certain evening he would show his con-
gregation something theV had never
seen before and never would again.
The church was crowded. The minis
ter, taking a peanut from his pocket,
said: 50 That you never saw before, "
and then, breaking up the shell, he
tossed the kernel into his mouth, bland
ly remarking, sand you'll never see it
again By advice of the indignant
people, the preacher then disappeared
himself.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12

A RATHER elderly darky from the
Post Oaks was inquiringof policeman
if he knew any thing of his son Pete.
The policeman replied, there was
young darky in the lookup, that had
mouth like stable-door, and piece bit
out of one of his ears, that was locked
up for breaking up a prayer-meeting
with an ax-handle. "Dat's him." ex-
claimed the overjoyed parent, she told
me he was gwine to muse hisself," and
the policeman conducted the parent to
the bower in the market house, where
Pete was recovering from his amuse-
ment.-San Arltonto Herald.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12

Mrs. TILLOTsoN, the dress-reformer,
says: IS If | was a betting man I'D be
willing to bet $4,000 that these DIV
goods merchants hate us because Ne
are likely to spoil their business by
shortening our skirts"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
MOLLY BY THE GATE.
ny MARr crrrNI

BY MARY CLEMEER.
BY the road two married naples,
Where the robins love 10 mate;
On the grass beneath their shadow, 80 i
Molly's waiting By the gate.
Dark or bright the day that saileth,
Silent, under heavens dome.
X had one sole hour for Molly,
That which brings her father home.
Re within the painting city.
"a Working out mans common fate,
Often secs, before his Ksion,
Little Nolly by the 80
Who bath proved his Ctroag defender
Who doth hold him pure and true,
By the baby face uplifted,
Budding mouth, and eyes Of bluel
Everywhere. some dear temptation
Holds aliurements fair and new;
Safe little child doth lead,
All the perilous pathway through. rtT
Eyermore his spirit secs her,
BE IL eariy. be it late -- 4
still, the little, dear child daughter,
Nelly, waiting by the gate
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
Agricultural Feats.

The Pail Mall Gazette (London) says:
A wonderful feat was the other day per-
formed by Mr.. Charlwood, a farmer
of Padworth, who made a wager that
he would, without assistance, put up on
carts the produce of twenty acres of
wheat and send it to be stacked, the
ume specified being as soon as he could
see to load in the morning and as long
as he could at night. Beginning his
task at a quarter before O'Clock one
morning, Mr.. Charlwood completed it
by 20 minutes past at night, and thus
won his wager. 1t is computed that
during the time this vigorous farmer
was at work he did not cart less guam
tity of wheat than 200 sacks, and 55 or
go tons of raw-calculated to be equal
to what would be considered fair
amount of work for three DAYS for an
ordinary agricultural laborer. There
can be no doubt that the feat performed
by Alr. Charlwood was an extraordi-
nary one, and entities him to great cred
it for his energy and perseverance. But
the British agricultural laborer can
when put on his mettle, get through
hu llhLhSHSC dlhouAI VI NOlh III oil III
credibly short time. A notable instance
of this was afforded in the year 1865 by
William Stanton, a daylaborer to Mr..
Dodield, of BreedOn, near Tewkesbury,
of whom it is recorded that she thresh-
ed upward of 60 bushels of pulse be-
tween 6 in the morning and 6 in the
evening of the same day, besides taking
it down from the NOW himself, and at-
ter 1T was threshed helping to winnow
ii. All this was done, and the pulse
put in bags, before s O'Clock in the
same night" These feats in the har-
vest-feld and barn do not attract so
much attention as the attempts to swim
across the channel, now so fashionable
at this season of the year, but they are
perhaps quite as worthy of record.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
THE ARMY OF WORKERS.

heaved the great stones together, and
at last the vanity of Cheops was salts
fed, and ne died and was embalmed
and laid away in the heart of his pyra-
mid. Cephren followed in the foot
steps of Cheops, and his monument was
a mountain. Then Mycerinus, son OF
Cheops, assembled the throne, and the
third pyramid lowered above the desert.
He was mummy before its completion,
but to-day it is the completest of the
three. The Sphinx could tell US If
it be truly the tomb of Mycerinus,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12

A NUMBER of Cinnamon have been
naturalized and will vote in Massachu-
setts this autumn.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12

"SAMBo, is your master a good
farmer?" ''Oh, yes, massa fussrate
farmer-he makes two, crops in one
year." "How is that, SamboP" ''Why
he sells all his hay in de fall and make
money once; den in de spring he sells
all de hides ob de cattle dat die for
want OBJ de hay, and makes money
twice. ;'-Fl0ridG Slsn.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
GLIMPSE OF THE SANDY SEA,

GLIMPSE OF THE SANDY SEA,
that is all aglow in the fierce sunshine,
and away down at the foot of the pyra-
mid there are multitudes of black OBJ
jects creeping about like ants, and you
know these are men and women, and
then you feel as if you could never get
to the top of Cheops, and, if you did,
you know you could never get to the
bottom again unless you were to tumble
head foremost down all those frightful
stairs, and you grow faint, and call on
the water-boy, and find life good deal
of bore. You don't look down after
that. You hum fragments of that uu-
forgetable song, with its highly moral
refrain, ssExcelsior," and begin to per-
spire profusely and to feel as if you
would probably lay your bones on the
top stair and give up the ghost on the
spot. Resignation or despair, you hard
ny know which, has completely cowed
you. When you rest the third time one
OF the Bedawees kindly chafes your
legs, straightens out the kinks in your
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12
/" ONE LITTLE INDIAN.p

On beach, not a reservation; an
affair of love, not a war; a story, not
song.
The affair began with an aversion on
both sides; they do sometimes. 10
The first time he saw her he thought
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-12

attention where he does not admire.
There he is now. Let's turn off this
Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1876-02-24

Will not allow miserable petty spite
to influence all his actions, official or
othsswise, toward certain sections
For al other officers, it is desired
that men shall be nominated, having
in view onl7 their qualifications
those Jefersonian qualifications, is lac
honest? is he capable?
If when the Convention meets for
the nomination cf State officers, it is
governed by such principles as are
suggested BY wisdom and patriotism,
the result ". | c an over whelming
Democratic victory; but our enemies
are willy and INSCRIPTIONS; they will
hesitate at no measures to divide and
distract the party, and it will require
the most united effort, and the wisest
conduct OF affairs to secure a result
in accordance with the desires of the
party.
Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1876-02-24
THE WA SRINGToN CHRoNI
Gle.

We learn that J. Brisben Walker,
Esq, has become one of the mana
ging editors of the Washington CirOn-
icle. Mr.. Walker has been one OF
the most intelligent, active and ener-
getic advocates cf the improvement
of The Kanawha Valley. If the peo-
pie of Charleston had been in a con-
dition to rightly second his efforts.
he would have, by his enterprise
built up town on the west bank of
the Elk river that would have added
millions of dollars to the capital and
resources of Kanawha County. We
regret to see Mr. Walkers energies
"eribb'd, cabiued and confined" in a
newspaper Office, and hope to see him
soon again at the head of the West
Charleston Extension.