The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-29
NOTES land OPINION.

NOIIIS land OPlNlON.
IL 'th the Both TIL tweed at latht.
This is another Centennial quarter
day.
Executions In Texas will be prIvate
hereafter.
Oregon potatoes weigh pound
apiece this year
Tax levy in New York Is So so, in
stead ofS2 "a, as 1t was last year.
The favorite air In Massachusetts
now, says the Boston Post, is "Bolt
Benz
There are ten thousand school build.
ings In Indiana, erected at cost of
$l0,00O,OOO.
Boston Methodist ministers, "by u
large majority" disapprove of holding
camp meetings on the Sabbath.
Mr.. Blaine shouldn't work so hard
and run the risk OF getting sick again
just before Congress meets.
A new element has been introduced
In Massachusetts politics. A number
of naturalized Chinaman will vote this
year.
Apropos of Tweed, David Dudley
Field, Jr., presented the bill Of excep-
lions In tho six million dollar suit on
Thursday.
The examination of candidates for
admission to the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore, will continue until
October
The cost of running the reform
campaign In San Francisco Is high,
and ten per cent. is the rate of assess.
ment.
Colonel John Forsyth, the veteran
editor of the Mobile Register, Is said to
be hopelessly III. He has performed no
editorial work for months.
All OF the late Republican leaders In
Maine "thank God" for their victory
saveone, that's "Bob" Ingersoll-he
doesn't; he thanks Blaine.
The New York Tribune knows
"many excellent reasons why General
Butler should be defeated and none
why he should be elected"
The Williamsport (Pa.) Gazette saws
there are logs enough in the Susque.
hanna boom aud above 1t In the river
to make twenty million feet of lumb er
The German empire has now nine
military schools, five schools OF subal
terms, and nine Of cadets. -Four add.
tional schools for subalterns are soon
to be opened.
lf"the widow" Butler IL TO be elect.
cd, from present appearances It will
require each voter to vote nearly AZ Of.
ten for him as he voted for Jeff Davis
ut Charleston.
Judge Henry b. Payne, of Cleveland,
accepts his congressional nomination,
"spbject to the condition of vigorous
campaign for reform and for better
times"
Nineteen nationalities were repre.
scented at the funeral of the late Sir
Philip Francis, British Consul General
and Judge OF the Consular Court At
Constantinople.
Hsrper's Weekly gave n list of Gov. |
ernor Tilden's pardons the other day
Now, lift will do the same thing by |
Morgan 1t will show that he issued |
more In each Of his four years service
than Tilden.
The Cuban nationa al loan is not look.
cd upon as q good investment. Tn.
customs, revenues have already been
mortgaged by the Spanish govern.
ment, and while loyalty Is fine senti.
ment, people are not fond of partin,
with hard cash on a double security
The Detroit Free Press notices that
this 10 the time to lay In $40 worth ofI
feed for that pig which the family GOT
last spring to eat up the crumbs and
yield one hundred and fifty pounds OF
pork without cost.
Ex-Sultan Murad, 1t Is said, lis sim. :,
ply suffering from alooholis.a, having
been druggist all his life. After his
election to tho Sultan he was almost
constantly Intoxicated with arrack.
and could not transact business.
The office OF chaplain In the French
army has been abolished by the M.
sembly. Complaint was made that
chaplaiucies were filed by men who
were OF no particular account, and who
did the soldiers little or no good. ,
Watterson Is trying to ''hold the
fort' on the Ohio river to prevent the
importation Of colored voters from
Kentucky Into Indiana and Ohio. And }
IN his trying position exhibits marvel, .
GUS tact and courage. "Let no guiIay !
man escape" !