The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-02-13
LOCAL JOTTINGS.


M. H. Wednesday night. No thin
excuses received.
--Cornor Is leading, and the boys
say they are going to pull him through.
Oldham is picking his flint and
girding up his loins for the recorders
fight.
The Honorable John Henry Brown
positively declines to run for the office
of recorder.
No suicides yesterday notwith.
standing the superior inducements
offered by the weather.
The young gentlemen who have
already given two very delightful hops
will give another at the San Jacinto to-
night
Judge Burford hopes Judge Ferris
will now come out and see his folks,
that big land decision having been
made.
The business of Dallas Is again at
the mercy OF the weather. This, with
well paved streets and good country
roads could not be.
--Cabell has put out his skirmish
line and is Smelling the woods. 1t is
not known whether he will attempt to
carry Connor's works by direct assault
or flank them.
Mr.. Eugene Levi, captain Of the
Dallas nina, Is negotiating with the
crack indianapolis base ball club to
come here In March and tackle the
innocent Dallasians.
MIR. Maxwell, one of the proprie.
tors of the LeGrand, has received the
painful intelligence Of the death of n
sister In Canada. He had only re.
Gently lost his mother.
MIR. Joe Lahnstein, one Of the tight
hand men Of Sanger Brothers, was one
of the chief originators of the very
pleasant party, on Saturday night,
given at Odd Fellows hall.
Lent begins tomorrow, and we
understand there will be special Lenten
services held by Bishop Garrett In the
church building In rear Of st. Mat
thew's Cathedral during Lent.
The Stonewall Greys will celebrate
,Washington's birthday, February %,
and Herr Yon William Robert has Of
fered them the Inequalities Of his
Frascati chateau.
Sore noses, catarrh, sore throat,
n sure cure Is DIR. j. McLean's Catarrh
fSnuf. 1t Is new antisceptic princi-
pie, never fails. Trial boxes, by mail
6Oc. DR.. ]. II. Mclean, 3l4 Chestnut.
lHt. Louis, Mo.
Time, Sunday night. Name, Mark
Toulouse; weapon, knife; victim,
John Casty; location of wound, In the
body; size of cut three inches; cause,
whisky; grand finale, Toulouse gone,
and Casty on the ragged edge oflife.
Mr.. q. L. Asch languishes In the
clutches Of the law under charge of
robbing the Washington Hotel. Hav-
Ing wisely deposited seven hundred
and fifty dollars with his friends, he
was enabled to give the required two
hundred and fifty dollar bond without
turning hair.
Mr., Whitaker has ON display, at
the corner of Main and Market streets,
a large and varied stock OF trees, shrub
berry and flowers, "native and to the
manor BORN" direct from his Houston
nursery. The advantage Of acclimated
trees and flowers over western and
eastern importations IL self-evident.
An innocent granger walked into
The HERALD counting room yesterday
and said, "Have YOU got any stockin'
thread here mister % The cashier
smiled benignly upon the worthy yeo-
man and intimsted that he sold news
y papers. Whereupon the bone.and-
sinew smiled sickly smile and made
for the door.
The wretched typographical and
mechanical execution OF the delin-
quent tax list, which appeared az a
supplement to the evening CONNER
cial yesterday, was eminently SUCCESS
tive ofa Chinese wash list, and is by
no means brilliant specimen OF the
= Art Conservative Of arts, even for a
country office. Exactly what the do.
\. iinguents on The frat page own and
n oweis past finding out.
v, The great ceptsnnisl exhibition Is
Drought to our attention by the
advertisement ofJ.& r. Coats, 10 our
columns ofto-day. WeArs pleased to
MISUNDERSTANDING. honored house has
been rewarded with the diploma and
= medal ct the centennial. and our peo-
~ pie will DO glad to hear that The old
~. AZ, Coats thread still maintains
IA supremacy. a
--ISlscwhere viii bcsound .thu an
noupcement o. Major Il. II. Burke as a
csndidAte for recorder The major ls
alawyef by profession, OF uncepticna-
bic hrSiIs, familiar with the duties of
she position and the laws knowledge
" which 10 required, and adds to
hAhlegpl courtesy and dignity Of man.
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