The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-08-04
DALLAS, TEXAS.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.


last night.
The courts were very bare OF Items
yesterday,
The hackmen hardly turned u
wheel last night
--Wagon.yards are doing pretty well
now-a.days.
Battalion drill tonight of both
companies.
Whooping cough Is quite preya.
lent among the children.
-Ohl Ger Clements says he won't
take of his badge any more. Sens.
BILE Roxey.
The average Dallas boys mind IL
entirely occupied with the kite ques.
ton at present.
The gas, after eleven o'clock last
night, was very poor. Probably the
pressure was taken of
We hope our citizens will club to.
gether and raise the purse for n prize
to the best drilled battalion.
We are told by good lawyers that
1t 10 not unconstitutional to separate
the city from the county as q school
district.
The new addition to tho Catholic
church Is nearly completed and will
add great deal to the edihce, as re-.
CARDS room.
The Exchange bank on the square,
has had the interior Of the building
nicely fixed up, and new mating
placed upon the floor.
Rankin, of the North American
Ice company, has big supply ON hand.
If you want small quantities 70 to thu
retail stand opposite the LIE Grand,
Kilkenny, is the name of the ne
piece to be presented next week at
Thompson's. We wonder II the old
traditional cats have been secured for
the occasion.
The old college building, on Elm
street, is undergoing the repairs neces-
sary to fit II for the dry goods business.
The front has been torn out, aud work
commenced.
The bar meeting comes oil tod ay
at four o'clock. We hope the on tire
association, or rather the attorneys of
the district, will make unan imous
choice.
"A telegram was received by the
orderly sergeant, of the Lamar Rifles,
yesterday, from the Waco Greys, re.
questing that he send u uniform by
express to them, for pattern to con-
struot theirs by.
The walls of the Dallas female
college are going up very rapidly. The
location, on Bryan street, is q very de-
sirable one, and the style of architec.
ture is pleasing The building will be
ready for occupancy in September.
ANY one would imagine from the
amount of dirt that is taken out of
Sanger's building, that that enterprise
ing firm intend to dig through to
China. The improvements they con.
template will cost in the neighborhood
OF $1,000.
Will the city engineer he kind
enough to make an examination of
the gully on Sycamore street, corner
of Main street. The hogs have wal.
lowed there and mixed things up till
smell so strong is emitted that
deaf man could hear it for several
blocks.
We call attention to the advertise.
ment Of the Virginia Female Insti-
tute Of Staunton, Virginia. The thirty
third annual session will commence
September 10Th. Catalogues furnished
on application to the rector, Rev, II.
H. Phillips.
Officer Clements, last evening, ar
rested man on Elm street. for wet.
ting boy to the skin with the hose.
Complaints OF the too promiscuous
use Of the hose are OF daily occurrence.
An ordinance should be created gov
erning the case.
From our old friend, Jerry Brown
who was in town yesterday, we learn
that there are twenty.seven paupers at
the poor house, and at the prison,
twelve convicts-two females and ten
males. Jerry reports everything flour
ishing down there. Three guards are
employed; oneat a Salary of SIS per
month, one at SIS and one at $40.
See the programme for Sunday
after-cacsfon After the s,uthly Union
Cincinnati Enquirer. The strike has I,
esulted In defeat for the men. IL d
ms shown them that they hurt them> o
elves. IL has shown them how it fell o.
ndirectly on the poor and innocent all CT
yer the land, and inflicted very little a.
hurry ON those at whom it was aimed d,
lay not some sympathy now DO shown as
, the erring and suffering laborers b.
Must there be EXECUTIONS v,
= wholesale after victory May not r.
re same compassionate forgetiulness 10
3 INDUCED for our workingmen that ii
rs extended TO leaders and all after :
le great rebellion2 Or is this worse te
ian deathl We trust that this reac- 81
on will be stopped at once, and that Re
rye and generous public sentiment co
III seek rather 10 eradicate the causes an
dissatisfaction than TO punish its IN
that the workman may dc
justly paid, and that the past may pc
} forgotten in a happier and more de
'rmonious future las