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Strength Of Crooks Command

Cor. of N. Y. Herald, with Crook July o.
The Snake Indians indulged in a pictur-
esque parade the day before yesterday,
showing admirable order and displaying
white badges, which they are to wear
henceforth in battle to distinguish them
from the enemy.
Should the Utes join us the column will
number 1000 men.
A courier was despatched from this COM
mand to 60 to Fort Fetterman ON July 12.
Another is to start to-day to endeayor to
reach Terry's camp.
THE SIOUX "KEEPINa DARK
For two days and nights no Sioux have
been seen or heard of.
Lieutenant E. q. Steven. of the Third
cavalry, is expected to bring recruits to fill
up the cavalry troops in this command.
DIVISIONS OF crooks FORCE.
The force of the different corps will be-
Fifth cavalry, 400 men.
Third cavalry, 500 men.
Second cavalry, 200 men.
Fifty-ninth, Fourteenth and Fourth in
fantry, 400 men.
Snake scouts, gig.
Civilian scouts, 20.
Packers, IS.
Teamsters, 100.
There is room for the use OF light artil-
lery against the Sioux. General Crook il
not inclined TO employ it, but it would
have aided greatly in the Rosebud fight,
and the regiments lounging about the tor
tiiications in the different States might
well be used as infantry III the field. The
country is as suitable for rnanmuvring of
Calling guns and howitzers as ii was ii
any portion Of the Southern States.
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WHAT THE WIS SAY.

If Terry kills half the Sioux and routs the
other half, the burying ground might be
Sioux-tably called a semi Terry.
Bulletin.
An American statesman began the new
century last Thursday evening by scramb-
ling over the fence Of a Georgetown orchard
without pausing to make any explanations
to the dog.-Brooklyn Argus.
Cherries are green enough now to pick,
and the small boy will soon be going around
with his hands clasped across his equator,
looking as if he didn't care how soon the
republic went % pieces. Greensboro (Ky,)
Monitor.
The editor of the Shelby (Ky.) Repu5a-
can sends forth this pean: Hurrah for the
Centennial Fourth "Wrap us up in the
American flag, tuck us under the eagle,
tickle our ear with barley straw, pop
goes tno mcaS0a.
Forty centuries looked down from the
pyramids upon the army of Egypt, without
winking. One solitary century looks down
from the summit of Capital Hill upon
Washington and feels sick enough over it
to 60 to bed.-Brook1ym argus.
The Aiken Is. c. Journal, in noticing
a speech made by prominent Republican,
says" The only time he brought down
the house and made the crowd open wide
their eyes, was when he told them that
Tilden had sent $4,000,OOO to South Caro-
lima to buy up negro votes. Then every
eager ear listened, every eye opened wide
and every hand went down into pocket,
and the crowd howled, 'Hooroi for Tilda !"
The Burlington Qowa) Hawkeye says !:
The following affecting lines were wrung
from the tempest-tossed heart of a Bur-
lington boarder. There are one or two
egg-shellent ideas covered up in the poetic
verbiage. The effusion is built up to the
ancient Sunday-school air, "There is
Happy Land, :" to which it may be sung with
or without notes. Dedicated to boarding
house keepers by the author:
There is q boarding-house,
Not far away,
Where they have ham and eggs
Three times day.
Oh, how the boarders yell
When they hear the dinner bell
oh, how the eggs do smell!
Three times day."
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The Day You Were Born.

Here is an infallible method Of discover
ing the day of the week ON which given
day of the month any number of years
previous occurred. To the number repre-
senting your age at your next birthday,
add one-fourth for leap years: this amout
divide by sever, and the remainder counted
back from the day of the week on which
you were born. For instance. on your
next birthday you viii be "a years old.
This divided by A, and the quotient, 9,
added to "a, gives 80, the amount, which
divided by I, the number Of days in a
week, gives four weeks and the remainder
Of two days. Now, if your birthday in
1876 comes on Monday, count back two
days and you have the day on which you
were born, Saturday.
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Custer and Jack Sturgis.

Another face which has haunted me by
day and night, ever since the fearful news
was promulgated, is that Of young boy,
hardly in his twenties, a good student,
thorough gentleman, and brave and consci-
entious. All Jack Sturgis, with your
honest, homely face, and your soft, appeal
ing, large brown eyes, your pleasant smile
and your gentle, touching manners, I can
not endure to think your bright, young life
has been extinguished by the murderous
knife Of a painted savage. Is this the re-
suit of West Point education j? To be
reared and carefully tended in order to
sacrifice life on an Indian battle field9 The
gods forbid. Gen. Sturgis commanded the
unfortunate Seventh Cavalry, and he, and
his sweet-faced wife, from whom Jack in
herited his lovable qualities, have to weep
over the untimely death of their first born,
whose remains have not been found, and
whose bullet-pierced clothing, discovered
inside the Indian village, suggests the fear
full thought that the poor lad was captured
and then put to death by slow torture.
Only two short weeks ago he wrote to a
young lady friend in this city long letter,
in which he graphically described Sitting
Bull and his daughter, the acknowledged
belle and beauty of the tribe, "a great fat
creature, hideous with tattoos and bedecked
with beads and cheap jewelry, but, not
withstanding, the acme of feminine attract
ions in the eyes of the young Indian braves
all of whom are eager to win the maiden's
heart and hand" His letter closes with
the portentous words, Goodbye. Per-
haps I am bidding you my last farewell, as
I am ordered out a couple of days hence to
be scalped by the red men, Washington
Cor. Cin Gazette.
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THE LARGEST
First Class Hotel in the Territory.

Having secured lease for long term Of
years Of this large and commodious house,
l have renovated. refurnished and embel-
lshed it's roomy parlors and elegant suits
of rooms, and no expense or pains will be
spared to continue to improve and keep it
on first class principles. The tables are
supplied with the very best the markets
afford and the delicacies of the season. At
tendance unexceptionable. Terms, reason
able. 322.
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The Laramie Sentinel says We are in
formed that orders have been issued 10
stop all persons aud freight, headed 70. the
Black Hills, at Fort Laramie, and that
nothing win Be allowed TO pass that yoins.
II ii said The military had aayices which
induced them 10 believe it's not safe for
Immigrants. and this action is adopted as
precautionary measure.
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Don't Hanker After It.

We have eaten crow, and, not to conceal
any part OF the truth, We have also drank
old crow fold s. T. 1860 x), but we didn't
consume ii Id either form because we liked
ii, but because we we're hungry and athlrst,
and the Tilden boys took US in.-E Esans-
rilie lind. fourier.
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uoio, aiiu nO assertions TO the contrary
could make her believe but that he sent it.
She is stubborn little woman, and will
die before she will be under obligation to
him. The old scandal is very likely to be
opened again. By the way, Mr.. Beecher
ought to take her to the White Mountains.
She is the only sufferer from the great
| scandal.
PAY FOR LITERATURE.
Occasionally an Uncle Toms Cabin
makes for it's author $4,000 or $40, 600,
and Immediately every scribbler in the
country seizes pen and paper, and expects
to do likewise. They discover that this
happens only once in century. Geo. W.
Curtis never made $1,000 year with his
pen. Bret Harte isn't worth dollar, and
never had one ahead Grant White has a
place in the Custom House, or he would
starve, and Parton makes about So, 900 a
year out of fugitive writing, and he nnus
it hard to get on. Gail Hamilton never
received $4,000 in her life for her work.
In short, literature is the worst paid of all
the professions, and whoever expects to
live by it may expect to live ON short
rations. l know of hundreds of gifted
men and women who have walked the
streets for years with their manuscripts,
and who have not averaged $40 week for
their work. The market is overstocked
with merely good work, and it is only the
strongest who even live. Keep out of it,
unless you are sure you are one of the
elect.
BUSINESS
is still dead, with no signs of resurrection.
The weather keeps everybody out of New
York, and the demoralized condition of
trade everywhere keeps merchants from
buying. The city is dead. Failures are
less frequent, but it is only because there
have been SO many of them heretofore.
The weak ones are all weeded out.
IN POLITICS
| have to report that Tilden is losing every
day, and Hayes and Wheeler are gaining
The "Reform" Democracy. headed by
Morrissey and Tweed's old friends, have
shown their hands too soon. The mer-
chants and solid men have too painful
remembrance Of Tweed times, to put power
in their hands again. New York will give
the Republican ticket a majority as certain
as fate. Make no mistake about it, the
Empire State is sure for Hayes.
THE MENONITES.
Five hundred Menonites arrived last
week and are now on their way to Nebras-
ka. These emigrants are the best that
come to the country. They are an intelli-
gent, hardy people, and are rich. In this
party there was an average Of $1,000 in
gold per head. They are excellent farmers
and make first-class citizens. Over 5000
more are preparing to come. The more
the better. PIETRo.
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Two ELECTIONS. --Lerdo do Tejada and
Boisrond Canal have been elected Presi-
dents of Mexico and Hayti respectively.
The former has, doubtless, been aided in
his canvass by the rebellion at present on
its last legs; the latter had to knock his
predecessor on the head before he could get
4 Presidential vacancy. Lerdo is not sure
that the Mexican Congress win confirm the
vote which prolongs the power he gained
by the death of Juarez, and Gen. Canals
position may be chronically regarded as
7 mighty onsartin. =
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Henry Ward Beecher.

ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y, July 90.
Henry Ward Beecher preached at the
thousand Island House to-day. The large
dining hall and parlors were packed with
people, and many were unable TO hear the
discourse. An extra train was run from
Watertown to accommodate those wishing
to attend. Steamboats, loaded with people
arrived from Ogdensburg, Clayton and
Cape Vincent, and from Kingston, Cana
noque and Brockyille in. Canada. Twenty
steamers loaded with passengers have ar
rived at the wharf to-day
MIR. Beecher preached at the Thousand
Island Park on Friday. He is expected to
remain here for several days.
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Our New York Letter.
The Fast Nail-7neumatics -Menonites Heat
and Eealth-lce- The T,ltons Literary Pay
Business
Correspondence New Northwest
NEW YORK, July 25, 1876.

NEW YORK, July 25, 1876.
THE FAST MAIL.
The discontinuance of the fast mail
which some papers are making SO much
fuss about, excites no feeling here. It was
humbug and blunder from the first,
and never was of any use to any class but
the morning papers of New York. Busi-
ness closes here at 6 p. m., and all the
mail for the day is put into the office at
that hour. 1t leaves by the regular ex-
press at $50, arriving at Cleveland the
next night at Z, at Toledo at 11:35, and at
Chicago the next morning at 8. Now the
fast mail leaves New York at in the
morning, and gets into Toledo, Cleveland
and Chicago, at practically the same hour
as the regular train. There was in it no
earthly use to the business men either of
the east or west, and the expense of the
extra train was an entirely useless expendi-
ture. New York sends out each week
over 10000 sacks of mail matter that
originates in the city, besides the vast
amount of matter that comes here for dis
tribution. But the government ought not
to pay for special trains just to give the
New York papers an advantage over other
cities, and that was all the good effected
by the fast mail train. 1t is well if it is
dead
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-08-11

The Causeway Giant, the fossil human
figure recently discovered, is twelve feet
long, and weighs two tons.
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l. Any who takes paper regularly from the Post
of.ce-whether directed to his name or another's or
whether he has subscribed nois responsible fer the
payment
2. II person orders his paper discontinued he must
pay all arrearages the publisher will continue to sond
it until payment made and collect the whole amount
whether the paper is taken from the office or not.
s. The courts have decided that refuring tc take the
newspapers periodicals from the Postoce or remov
ing and leaving them uncalied for pra aca evidence
of Intentional fraud
Papers ordered to any address be changed anoth
er address at the option Of the subscriber.
Remitances by draft check money order or registered
letter, may be sent at risk. Ali Posmasters
Guired to register letters application.
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TERMS : Payable invariably in advance.
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS,

One Year....-.. 90
Six Months....... ......... ....,,,, 90
Three Months. so
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Regular advertising payable quarterly, as due.
Special Notices are so per cent more than reg
ular advertisements.
Local advertising, Is cents for the first insertion
10 cents per line for each succeeding insertion;
lines counted in Nonparel measure
Job Work payable on delivery.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-07
STATE UNIVERSITY,
= 4 TX O N T. " "A ID A
Preparatory Department.

V,HE FIRST TERM OF THIS SCHOOL
L will begin September 4th. Male and fe-
further and instructed in tho collegiate
branches. English studies, mathematics
and the ancient and modern languages
thoroughly taught. Lessons in music by
a competent teGcher. No charge for tut
rent. Board, $50 per month, payable in ad-
vance, quarterly. For further particulars,
address, ID. Ii. SESSIONS,
sI1-Sm PRINCIPAL.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-07
Sewing Machines.

w p. HASKELL & co. ARE NOW
w Agents for the Singer and Domes tic
Sewing Machines They have machines for
rent; also u few second hand machines which
chimes on the .installment plan. ii desired.
s2-tf
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-22
THE BANNER UOENTY.

Galveston is certainly behind the
times when she writes down her three
thousand five hundred and twenty-five
Democratic votes and her one thou
sand one hundreds ndtwenty-eight Re.
publican votes and runs up to her mas,
head claim rs the banner county. She
can read our figures and gracefully haul
that banner down again. Dallas county
polled five thousand two hundred ana
ninety-one votes, and out of this mum.
Der returned for Coke four thousand
four hundred and seventy-six votes.
Galveston is nearly one thousand
votes behind us, and while she will be
entitled to only thirty-6ve delegates in
the next Democratic convention, Dial.
las will command forty-fve, just ten
more. Until some other county beats
us we propose to hoist our colors as The
banner county of Texas.
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STATE NEWS.

Honey Grove has organized dra-
matte company.
The wheat crop of Tarrant county
is In a most tlourishing condition.
The Episcopal college for the west
ern diocese has been located at Luz
ling.
Tile Hebrews of Mexia will give n
grand Purim ball on the 10th of next
month.
Il. +. Baxter, of Palef Inc, contem-
plates going into the banking business
at Palestine.
The cattle drive of Texas this sea-
son amounts to about three hundred
thousand head.
-Britton Davis, son Of ex-Gover-
nor Il. j. Davis, has been appointed "A
cadet at West Point by the President.
The City Council has dissolved the
municipal organization of Cleburne,
and the town IL now without corpor-
alton.
Two men, named Lemons and Ad-
ans, were arrested in Erath county,
last week, and lodged in Jail, on suspi.
cion of being cattle thieves.
The farming lands throughout the
state are being rapidly prepared for
the coming crops. In number OF
counties south of us, corn has already
been planted.
Fort Worth Democrat: A Mr.. Cur.
RE living in the cross timbers, not fai
from B0bo's, raised this year eleven
bales of cotton on five acres of ground
Who can beat it.
The Oakville Tribune says man
was found on the Romantic, west o.
Lagarto, who had been hung six OF
eight weeks. There was no clue (,
his identification.
"A pOstoflice has been established or
Hog creek, Eastland county, to b,
called WenOna, the center of one ofth,
most thriving and prosperous neigh
borhoods in the county.
Sherman Register: The new Cath
Ollie church is rapidly approachin.
completion, add when finished will be-
as handsome and convenient churcl
OF its size as can be found in Texas.
Honey Grove independents Con.
siderable quantities OF cotton still re
main In the fields, while others mr.,
just finishing. Present prices of tn,
staple VIII poorly pay for gathering it.
Mr.. Thomas Sublet, of Denton
county, has fallen heir to an estate II
st. Louis worth $4,000, and Mis-,
Alice Aldridge, who lives in anothe,
part OF the county, has inherited sI5,
The gin house of Mrs. Merklns
near Schulenburg, was burned Wed
nesday evening. The press and two
pales OF cotton were also consumed
me loss is estimated at three thousand
dollars, with no Insurance.
-Mexia Ledger last Friday Mrs.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-22
DALLAs. TEXAS.
DALLAs COUNTY - ANALysIS or
THE VOTE.

Every citizen of Dallas county has II
perfect right TO feel pride In the re-
suit Of the grand llberating election
last Tuesday, the 18th Of February, In
the year of our Lord 1876. In
1873, the largest vote ever
cast In the county. There were
two thousand three hundred aud
slxty-four votes. II was well known
that an immense number Of the best
men In the county, disguised with the
restrictions Of registration, refused to
vote. The registration books Of the
county, up to the first day Of August
last, showed total number of five
thousand seven hundred and seventy
nine. This included all who had re.
moved or died at any time since July,
1873; but II did not include boys who
have since become twenty-one, or
newcomers who had not been one
year In the State. A fair balance
sheet therefore, would show that there
are In Dallas county to-day six thou
sand men entitled to vote, | all were
at home at one time. With these an
tecedant facts before US, let us look at
the figures OF last 'ruesday's election.
They develop the following gratifying
results:
Whole number OF votes cast.............."5,2Ol
For the new Constitution ""...,.,.,.,,,",,i,2 200
Against the ion ."""...... ",,." GAG
Majority for Constitution ................ GA
Again;
For Richard Coke, Dem for Governor 40
W, Nj, Chambers,( Rep.) 4" GOl
Majority for s75
Thus, we are satisfied that Dallas
county gives materially larger ma
jority for Coke over the Constitution
than any other in the State. While
this Is true, we are proud to say that
many smaller counties of North Texas
have given larger proportionate major
tiles. There are counties in which
Radicalsm has no real abiding place.
Cooke, Montague, Clay, Wise, Parker
Palo Pinto and other counties are in
this happy category.
In our district and county contests
there were no party nominations, all
the candidates, or nearly 80, were
avowed Democrats.
The six hundred Republican vote
was pretty well united on certain local
candidates and may have determined
to II considerable extent the result.
from II careful comparison we feel
warranted in proclaiming Dallas coun-
ty to be the second county in voting
strength and the first in casting u
Democratic majority. This is certain
ly very gratifying to our people and
especially so to The HERALD which
has contributed so much to this yery
desirable contamination.
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A BILL has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature adopting the
Partisan method of dividing the space
occupied by passengers in public vehi-
cles, and fixing II penalty for over
crowding. The seats of street cars by
its provision are to be divided into
compartments sixteen inches wide and
u fine imposed on conductors, who adj
NIT any one after the seats have been
filed. New York has been growing
and devising schemes about over
crowded street cars for years, and we
wUNld suggest that she follow the ex-
ample OF Pennsylvania.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-22
GALVESTON GROwLlNG.

Galveston complains about not car
iyh g her local ticket and utters dire
threl's against bummers and boilers
Inc Galveston Netcs and the bar seem
especially ihcenseo. We would like
to ask wiz 2 set this example OF solting
nominations? When Fulton ran Tor
District Clerk as the secret, if not the
open nominee of the Democratic
party, who put Royal II. Wheeler in
nomination against him and thus
elected the negro preacher Johnson
Reed? When Fulton was nominated
for Mayor who bolted the nomination
and split up the Demooratic party !
10 whom is this decentralization and
consequent defeat to be attributed. we
ask?
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-22

In the proposed plan for rearranging
the compensation Of postmasters they
will be divided into four classes, first,
those whose salaries are $4,000 and up
wards, second, between $1,000 and
50, 900, third, between 81 900 and $4,000,
fourth, less than $1,000. The plan
provides that, in all cities where let
ters are carried the compensation shall
be three thousand dollars and the per-
quisites not moro than 81 500, hut it is
believed the classification will effect u
saving to the department of $4,000
per annum
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A suggestion 20 the Neryous.

Robust people who have, all their ilVes'
eaten, dlgeated and slept well, can scarcely
be expected 10 appreciate tho blessing OF
strong nerves as well AZ those who, having
undergone all the misery entalled 70 weak
ones, have eventually regained their nerve
power, In order % experience the nnSpeak-
ablo relief NJ u change nom an enieepleu
and unreslful TO u vigorous and tranquil
condition Of the nervous system, tho nerV'
GUS invalid should Try u course OF Hostel
tor's Stomach Bltlen, Under the braoing
aud soothing influence Of That benign tonic
ana noryne, appetite returns, digestion be-
comes complete and painless, and sleep re'
visits weary eyes, The causes OF nervous
wealfness arc 20 be found In imperfect d.
gcstion ana assimilation, and tho feeble
performance OF the vital funellons resulting
therefrom, The Bitlers removes NE CAUSES,
as well nv the nervous symptoms whlch lhey
produce,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-22
VIZ direct attention to 0CItlzen's0

WE direct attention to "Cltlzen's"
communication respecting the habit of
hiring all the hacks in the city during
elections. "Citizen" advises that no
"whlte man" who hires or permits to
be hired carriages for the use OF voters
should receive the support of suIfragans
in the coming municipal election. We
do not know but that the idea is good
one. 1t certainly would save aspiring
candidates many shekels.