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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-27

NornNG ike variety Besides grass
hopp"rs, Hardin county Iowa, has an
immense snake, that kills horses and
cattle, and the people are armed and
searching for the "varmint" One party
saw it, and says it is thirty feet long
At least so the story roes,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-27

The New York State fair will be held
near Albany September | toll
Beechcr is said to be worth 81 900 n
week to the White Mountain hotels.
Disrcali, in one of his novels, called n
peemge "a refuge for incompetency. or
II step towards the grave
In lIarpcrs for September, George
William Curtis discusses "shyster states.
men." No names mentioned,
A Pittsburgh editor is in India hunt
ingwild elephants, That's better than
sweltering around home and being
hunted by a wild jailor.
Charles Francis Adams once edited a
daily paper is Boston, and on his retire
mont was succeeded by Henry Wilson.
The fact has probably slipped most PEG.
pies memories,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-27
Augusta Female Seminary.
STANTON, VA

ane academic term of this institution be.
gins o on the first Wednesday In september,
Sn In SIoses on NE corresponding day in June
institution IN, Viso,,t me largest tirst-class
ms corps OF twenty-five officers and leach =
W. vLs. The English course IL eytensivo amd
thorough. Advantages for music, lanvno anu
Having ns ana painting cannot be surpassed
apply dt Nv SohIsining full particulars,
"pPg, I" MISS MARY J. BALDWIN,
Principal.
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Fob CONGRESS-, srd CONGRESSIONAL DIsrRIcT
JAMES W. THROCKMORTON,
OF COLLIN COUNTY.

Subject 10 the action OF the Third Congress
giOnnl Deu ocrntic nominating convention
To bo holden. IN Dallas, August Both, 1870.
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CHEAP ADVERTISING COL UMN.
Attorneys AT Law,

j. NJ. Hayes, Attorney NJ Law, 2Oi Com
mercc street (south of Courthouse), Dallas,
Texas. Special attention paid TO land
cuims.s aprlti
W. y. Oldham, office in Mitchie's building,
opposite the LeGrand hotel Main street.
JanlIdtf
John NJ. Stemmons, Attorney at Law, No.
2O5 North Side Public Square, upstairs.
OCt2l-dtf
PLY sicians Rnd Surgeons.
q. Beaumont, NJ. D., Office at Dallas In hr-
mary, No. 1881 Main street, where he can be
found ut NIL hours of day and night. Calls
to the country promptly attended.
julyl2-lm
Jno. H. Morton, NJ. d., Office over First Ma
tional Bank. Residence corner San Jaclnto
and HARDWOOD streets, Dallas, Texas,
mChl5dlm
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Wanted


ID UGGY-Tu buy II good secondhand
ID buggy, or light spring wagon running
~
EARM HAND-To hilr II goon steaHS.
i stout farm hand, for three mon one
who cnn pillow, pick cotton, etc. Apply Two
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tn. a..
IONSE-l want 10 rent ll"ua' ri,iI -,
orslN rooms, go0d wafer near ouN !, ~,
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l0ur aug2b-2t
CONDENSATION LOCK SAFE-lInll' s put,
| rat, cheap. Apply to {. b., Herald
Onirr mRylO-ti
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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-27

NAY BOARDING. or three gentlemen
~ can ind good day board, southeast
corner sycamore and pnclho avenue. q u
lob WORk-Tho Hernld office IL now
u receiving large COnSl9nmentS OF job
papers OF all descriptions, ana asks an
examination OF prices and quality. Bill
Heads, white and cOlored) Letter
lloads, Note ilOads, Statements, Cards.
Circulars, Etc, printed as cheap IN the
cheapest, and neatcr than the neateSt Bring
IN your orders and get the benefit of our
"NuINmpr Prices "
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l'ARM-A highly cultivated farm with
L good house, barn, orchards, etc, in III.
uuiS, Ton Texas land, or Dallas property
Address Editor Herald jyl3-tf
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EDUCATIONAL
Medical College
Oh
Alabama,
AT
MI O B L l. f..

ne regular course OF lectures will begin
oh ihesuhy, November Nth, 1870 and
close about the 10th of March following
ine preliminary course will commence
Hoout the middle OF October. at which time
me Dlssecting Rooms win be open
the College Building. In the conrss o TI ~ w !.
year several thousand patients are . Ia,oine
s s ana prescribed for at this Dispensnry. in
the presence of the students. IA
FACULTY.
II. A. ROSS, II. D., Emeritus profossor -,
M aEn Medica and Therapeutics. vi
GEO. A. KETCHUM, NJ. d.. Profesror -,
the Science and Art OF Medicine. ''''' vi
n. Il; FOuRNIER, NJ. d., Professor Of Mn.
'erin Medica and Therapeutics.
,,M M. ii. ANDERSON, NJ. D., Professor n,
j.: J:F HEfGisrIs, M. D., Professor o, s0r.
JAMEs F. HARRISON, Jn., MD. Pro.
JEROME CoCHRoN, NJ. D, Professor q,
fuDllc hygiene and Medical JurisnrnJnnco
Nh H. +; GAlNES. NJ. d.. Professor OF Clinical
., G.o,RoNwY OWEN, NJ. D., Professor Of oh.
sS,sSi iIl,sss snd the Diseases OF Women and
GA CALEB roXEY, M, D.. Professor of Anat.
IRaETr GooDE, MD, and W, Brz.
"rr'Li., NJ. u, Demonstrators OF Anatomy.
lectures Free to Students from ali parts Of
the United States. VA i'' vi
Naturalization Zee. ,........... cog M
i'''0tihB rec ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 10 M
For further particulars and ciroulars nm.
ply 10 W. II. ANDERSON, NJ, b.
JS"-owu Dean OF the Faculty.
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EDUCATIONAL.
SELECT MALE SCHOOL

,, me undersigned Will, on THE FIRST
MMoNpAf IN SEPTEMBER, open a Select
VA school at the residence OF Mrs. Fox, on
lie Square. 'ioii 'ie uV
,,, IEkshMs-SlO, SIS and 80 per session OF i've
months. Incidental lee, 81 ~ Wv
tupils charged from the time OF emf
10 10 T., tne end OF the session. Payments ii
na =" I "uynnee. Refers to Rev. W. H..
Dallas A'G.McCORKLE. angi7
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G,ITUATlON man and vile want II plns
- ApuIy nj the Herald Office j. II. q a.,
INO RENT--N hvc or six room house,
| gOod water near business centre, Au'
dress y \, care Her Id, Nug23-2J
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
The Effect of CarbOlic Acid.
From the Sanitarial

AS a destructive oxidizing agent-in
the strength of not less than SO per
cent. of the pure acid in solution-car-
bolic cid is doubtless an efficient agent
for the destruction of contagia in cloth
ing, carpeting, ETC., and in masses Of de-
composing filth. But as commonly
used in solution or soap bearable to the
hands, for street sprinkling, or vaporized
in hospital wards and other rooms sup
posed to be infected, it is worse than
useless-its effect being to prese,ve, rath-
er than to destroy any contagia that
may be present. AS an efficient an
tiseptic in surgical dressings, for the
prevention of putrefaction of organic
matter carbolic acid is unquestionably
valuable agent, and to this use it
should be more strictly limited. In the
sick room of contagious disease,
"Condy's liquid" IAN aqueous solution
Of permanganate of potash), Bromo-
Chloradum Chloride and bromide Of
aluminium, in solution), are odorless
and more useful agents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
How the Sultan WOrshiDS.

The way the Sultan goes to meet
ing, !" and how it seems to an outsider,
are described by the Rev. DR.. Field, in
the Evangelist. Once week, writes
the doctor, "the Sultan makes public
appearance. Every Friday, which is
the Mohammedan Sabbath, he goes in
great state to the mosque, and then
whatsoever will approach may gaze on
the brightness of his face. This is one
of the spectacles of Constantinople.
1t is indeed brilliant pageant, not to
be overlooked by those who would see
an exhibition Of Oriental pomp and
magnifcence. Sometimes the Sultan
goes to mosque by water in splen-
did barge, covered with gold, and as
soon as he takes his seat under cano-
Ply, all the ships Of war lying in the
Bosphorus fire salutes, making the
shores ring with their repeated thun-
ders. At other times he goes on
horseback attended by 3 large caval-
cade. -:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
A Man Killed by q Mouse.

An extraordinary occurrence was
brought to light at an inquest held on
the body of a man in South London.
In the work room where many young
girls were at work. mouse suddenly
made its appearance on q table, causing
considerable commotion and general
stampede. The intruder was seized,
however, by young man who hap
penea to be present, but the mouse
slipped out of his hand, and running
up his sleeve, came out between his
waistcoat and shirt at the neck. The
unfortunate man had his mouth open,
and the mouse, on the lookout for some
convenient place for concealment, en-
tered the mans mouth, and he, in his
fright and surprise, swallowed it. That
mouse can exist for considerable
time without much air has long been a
popular belief, and was unfortunately
proved to be fact in the present in
stance, for the mouse began to tear and
bite inside the mans throat and chest,
and the result was that the unfortunate
fellow died after little time in horri-
BILE agony. Several witnesses corrob-
Grated the above facts and medical tes-
timony as to the cause of death having
been given, verdict of accidental
death was returneda
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
An Old.Time ElOpement.

One May day, between ninety and
one hundred years ago, John, tenth
Earl of Westmoreland, while dining
with Mr.. Child, the banker, said
" Give me your opinion in this case
Suppose you were in. love with girl
and had no hope of getting her fathers
consent to your marrying her, what
would you do?" To which the unsus-
pecting banker replied, "Do! why,
run away with her, to be sure" A
night or two afterwards Lord West
moreland eloped with Miss Sarah Anne
Child in post-chaise and four. The
post-chaise took Miss Sarah Anne on
board somewhere near Berkeley
Square House. An alarm was given
by the watchman, who found the hall
door open. Mr.. Child at once posted
in pursuit, on the North Road, and
managed to gain on the runaways. 1t
was not, however, until Northumber-
land was reached and entered that the
second post-chaise came within sight
of the first, and then Lord Westmore
land, standing up in his carriage, shot
one of the leading horses of Mr.
Child's vehicle, which was capsized in
consequence This bold proceeding
gave the lovers time to cross the Dor
der and get married by the Gretna
Green blacksmith. During the short
interval between this match and the
death of Robert Child, he never for
gave Lord and Lady Westmoreland.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
!Disraeli's Reverence for the Queen.
London Dispatch to the New York Herald

London Dispatch to the New York Herald
Mr.. Disraei has personally always
got on better with the Queen than Mr.
Gladstone has. His constitution and
temperament are such that he is adj
mirably fitted to perform ceremonial
duties which Mr.. Gladstone's great ma
ture and imperial intellect have occa-
sionally found irksome. It is one of the
most delightful things l know of to
hear Mr.. DisraeG, in the House of Com
mons, make any reference to the
Queen. There is no doubt whatever
then when the Right Honorable gen
tleman mouths the phrase Her Ora
cious Majesty" Or, when, as happened
on memorable occasion, he indig-
nantly rebuked Mr. Gladstone, then
Premier, for a fancied slight to the
Queens authority, ne was absolutely
honest and altogether in earnest. There
is something about a crowned queen
that fascinates the wondrous boy
who wrote Alroy" He had an honest
liking for forms and ceremonies and
purple raiment and jeweled crowns, and
is, to whisper the truth, much inclined
to bow down and worship the silk
stockinged calf, the magnificent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
Teaching at Home.
From Scribner for February.

Mrs. Dodd contrived a queer occupa.
ton for the boys when they began Eng.
fish history. For Joe, who has a pas
sion for drawing and daubing in paints
she provided a mammoth blank book
each enormous page labeled century
On these, Joe drew figures, giving his
idea Of the people, houses, and state of
civilization in that century. You may
be sure that druids and oaks, Boadicea
with her spear and yellow hair, wolves,
Alfred and his burned cakes, filed VI.
the first pages with Fmagnif:ce,,i
blotches of color We confess that
his zeal slackened as he came down to
civilized times; there were but two or
three figures in a century, but their
histories were as fixed in his head by
his mothers repetition, as those of Gin
deralla or the great Jack himself. For
Will, who had an odd skill in costume
and dramatic effect, Mrs. Dodd con-
trived paper boxes, with the name of
the century in great gilt letters. There,
by the help of little figures, the Black
Prince played his part, and Richard
was himself again. The plan, with Mrs
Dood's other plans, may seem trivial to
our readers, as they did to the teacher.
Your facts are nails" she used to
say, iron nails; I only silver them
over and drive them in.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
The Fashion of Failing.

"The list of commercial failures"
says the Boston Advertiser, is increas-
ing daily, and each week seems to
bring larger number than the last.
There ls no doubt that large majority
of these bankruptcies have been newt
able for long time, and the houses
that now succomb to their sad fate are
acting wisely in declining longer to con-
tinue struggle which could at last
terminate in only one way-by suspen-
sion. But there is a growing impress
sion that not all the recent failures can
be thus accounted for There is room
for more than suspicion that the ex-
penses of legal bankruptcy process
have made creditors too willing to &C
cept less than a fair percentage of the
debts due them by the suspended con-
Germs, and this unusually favorable de-
position on the part of creditors has in
turn led many who might have con-
tinued to meet their obligations, to take
advantage of the times and scale down
their debts. It is becoming common
for houses that have enjoyed fair
credit and that for all anybody has been
able to ascertain are still solvent, to per-
NIT their paper to go to protest, and
call meeting of their creditors. So
far as such bankruptcies are merely
schemes to evade the payments of Just
obligations, which might be met if
there was proper disposition on the
part Of the debtor firms, they are an
evidence Of sad decentralization in the
business community, and a sign of the
hot cIn
Gus alarm on the part of those who
believe that commercial integrity is
quite as important q necessity of the
time as financial soundness. There is
but one way that we know of to prevent
this fashion of failing, if we may so
speak, from becoming still more gen
eral, and still more injurious to the good
name Of American merchants as a
body. That is, by making the penalty
ofunnecessary bankruptcies much more
severe. This remedy is of course, to
be applied only by creditors themselves
for we already have sufficiency of law
on the subject, Creditors must see to
it that they protect their own interests
and the good reputation Of American
merchants, which, fortunately, in this
case concur in indicating the proper
course to be pursued. Bankruptcy
proceedings are no more to the taste of
debtors than of creditors, and commit
tees of the latter should be both more
careful and thorough in examining the
state of the accounts they are sent to
investigate, and more resclute in re-
quiring every firm to pay as large a
Dercentape of its debts as the result of
examination shows to be possible
This, not for the purpose of securing
the pound of flesh" but to destroy the
temptation to fall when it is possible to
avoid the final catastrophe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
BOb-TaiIed Mice.

The Bangor Wing has this report
from the Orono, Me-: "Some four
years ago Mrs. b., living on that part of
Marsh Island known as Webster, Wis
tied her neighbor, Mrs. P, one afternoon
for social chat, and was ushered into
the parlor by the attendant to await the
arrival of Mrs. P, who soon made her
appearance. The ladies conversed very
pleasantly for a few minutes, when sud-
denly a novel sight attracted their at
tention, and on stepping to the mantel
they discovered that eleven mice had,
during the preceding cold day, coiled
themselves up on the warm chimney,
and their tails stuck out upon the
mantel, through a crack in the finish
of the room. AS quick as thought,
Mrs. P left the room, and returning
with carving knife, deliberately cut
off the tails Of every one Of them with
evident satisfaction, and kept them to
show to her husband as proof of the
truth of the story, when he should re-
turn home at night. The next day she
performed the same operation upon
four more, and our informant adds,
that for the next three years the cat
would bring in, occasionally, bob-tailed
mice. "
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
How English Druggists Make Money.

Some very disagreeable revelations
as to the manner in which physicians
prescriptions are made up, are con-
tanned in report by Mr.. Allen, the
borough analyst at Sheffield, giving the
result of an experiment lately tried
with the view Of testing the accuracy
and honesty Of druggists. Various
prescriptions, each including full
dose of some costly remedy capable of
ready and accurate estimation in q
mixture, were presented to certain
druggists. A series of three samples
in which 12O grains of iodine Of potas-
SUM were prescribed were found to
contain 122, 12O and rs grains respect
lively. Of these samples, which should
have contained Is grains Of sulphate
of quinine, one contained only nine
and one-half grains. Another sample,
which should have contained forty
grains of sulphate of quinine, had but
thirty grains. Of twelve samples of
glycerine only five were pure and of the
standard strength. Three samples of
citric acid were found to contain
minute trace of lead. In short, the
result of the experiment was such as to
give just ground for apprehension that
druggists are not more troubled with
consciences than grocers; and that the
effect Of the poisons retailed by the
latter is often enhanced instead of re-
moved by the adulterated antidotes
dispensed by the former.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
Mormon COurtShiD.
From the Salt Lake Tribune.

From the Salt Lake Tribune.
On Saturday Mormon by the name
Of Fulmer, who had been chosen
among the faithful to 60 on mission to
Arizona, called upon Brigham Young.
" Married?" queried the Prophet.
"Not any," said Fulmer, DER whose
brow forty odd years had left their i'm
print.
"Must marry, Brother Fulmer, be-
fore you 60 to Arizona to build up the
Kingdom"
"Don't know anybody who will have
me-" was the reply
"I1l find some one. Do you know
Brother Brown in the Seventeenth
Ward? Well, he has several daugh-
tiers; you 60 to Brother Browns and
tell him want you to marry one of
his daughters"
Fulmer left and obeyed counsel to
the letter. Knocking at the door he
was admitted by Brother Brown, who,
upon learning what was wanted, called
in his several daughters to be selected
from Fulmer taking his choice,
Brown told the girl to get ready in
fifteen minutes. "I'Il do as you say,
dad" was her meek reply, as she walk
ed out.
"That's the way I raise my daugh-
tiers; if they disobey, there's war in
camp"
The wedding festivities take place
tO-nipht
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-02-23
The First Robin.
From the Detroit Free Press.

When a gray-haired man living on
the Cass farm came down town yester-
day and reported that he had seen a
robin flying among the trees, land added
that spring must be near, he told the
solemn truth. He wouldn't have lied
about it for ten thousand dollars, and
yet what was his reward as he entered
cigar store he said:
"Well, I'm ahead of you folks. / saw
a robin as I came down."
The four men seated around the
stove smiled fiendish smiles, and stuck
up their noses and turned their heads
away.
"Don't you believe it?' asked the
good man.
You are insane |" they shouted in
chorus. "Do you think we are fools or
infants?'
"But did see one"
And then they felt his head, asked
him to run out his tongue, tried to
count his pulse, and he went away with
heavy heart. He went into a law
yer's office, and the lawyers greeting
was so kind that the honest-hearted
citizen said:
Well, | saw robin this morning"
"The lawyers countenance fell. He
tried to occupy all the chairs in the
Office with his feet, and after long
time he inquired:
"You have never fully recovered
from that fall, have your"
"But I really saw robin persisted
the citizen.
The lawyer sighed, lit his cigar, and
as he took up his pen he said to him.
self:
"Sorry for it-used to be a brilliant
fellow-probably have a guardian ap-
pointed I"
The citizen felt discouraged, and was
on his way to the postoffice when he
met merchant, who slapped him on
the back and exclaimed
"Rah for spring.
cts only a few days away" replied
the citizen.
along
There was a man who had perhaps
seen the same identical bird, and the
truthful citizen was encouraged to say:
"Coming down this morning I saw
my first robin"
|. The merchant took him by the arm,
led him into doorway, and earnestly
said:
"See here, John, we've been friends
for fifteen years."
eyes,"
"And I've lent you money and al
ways spoken well of you, haven't ! ?"
"You have"
"Well, now, for Heavens sake don't
go into lying for regular thing It's
| well enough to lie once in while, but
| don't make practice Of it p
But did see robin p exclaimed
the distressed citizen.
Oh, come now"
"But [ did !"
"Then farewell, john" sighed the
merchant. "Pve got my family to
care for, my store to run, and / can't
be seen talking to any such person"
The citizen saw a robin. It was a
live robin-an early bird. And yet he
didn't dare tell another soul of it. In
fact, when asked if he hadn't seen a
robin around he denied it !!