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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17
For Sale.

~ UN-D1uLle harreled-for the west
" one ritled, the o5Eer shot, made by Il
tlrst-class London maker. Price $50. Cost
In england last June S75. Brass bullet
mould complete. Only been hret once, the
party selling has no use for IL, having set
tleu in Dallas. To be seen at back n Hares
store, w Elm street, Dallas, OctA-lw
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17

nAlRN FARM,-My 70 acre dairy farm
~ nthr Ihe fair grounds, as n whole or in
lO.acre lots.
HOO acres well improved stock and grain
larm III Denton county, plenty otguud water
good grass, and 100 head OF Texas cattle
crosse to shOrt-huTn bulls.
25dO acres rich bottom land On Peas ri err,
Floyd county.
House and lot ON Ross avenue. VIII sell
Tor part cash and balance ON time to suit, or
Will take part In amy good city property
For Particulars apply to I. W. ABNEN
street sent9i-lm
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17

We will find buyers for Lands, Farms and
City Property. We will find renters for
Farms, Dwellings and stores. Furnish alb
stracts, perfect titles. pay tax $, etc. Negoti
ate loans on real estate security. Mako sur.
veys and partitions OF land in city or county,
Buy, sell and locate lani certificates.
Farms and city property In the North TO
exchange for Texas property.
Having an extensive acquaintance with
capitalists OF The older states, whose atten-
ton Is turned In this direction, parties de
string TO sell property will do well 10 pl zee
I n our hands. oc3 SIN
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17
wuoiod Malo Holp,

M ANIED,-'A good hlncltsmitn, 10 shoe
w h9Iheannd repair WORK, Apply by let
ter 10 THOMAS BALL, Terrell, Texas, l7-lw
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17

~ EIAlL SAMPLE kUOM--Well ostn b.
Ia lsheu and IN good location. Stock
ana fixtures will be sold cheap for cash. Ono
land ," or present occupant VIII sell one
ha!f Interest low, AddrG "G," Herald Of
ice. octbtiIlnny,l
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17

4 WELL ESTABLISHED BUSINESS
Win daily income Of 81 to 80, for $3.50
tor particulars inquire at j, 4. MURPHY "
CO.'S, l0N Lamar street. sep9I-lm
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17

Texans arc ncqulintrd-orDtil D li-witt tIs
wonderful merits OF that great American Remedy,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
Edgar Allan POe's Sister.

baltimore Correspondence Boston journal.
A report gained publication in several
New England and other newspapers quite
recently that the only sister of the poet
Edgar Allan Poe had died in charitable
institution at Washington.
Your correspondent is acquainted with
the facts in the case, Rosalie Mackenzie
Poe, the only sister of the poet, having
resided in my family for some years. At
the breaking out of the war she was with
her foster-mother, Mrs. Mackenzie, near
Richmond, Virginia, one of the wealthiest
and prominent families of Virginia.
When the war closed Rosalie M. Poe
came to Baltimore in deplorable circum-
stances. The war, with all its horrors
and privations, had reduced the circum-
stances of the Mackenzie family so as to
prevent them from further providing for
her, she having relatives here with
whom she could stay. She was comforta-
bly, provided for by these relatives. She
remained some years, and becoming dis
satisfied returned to Richmond, Virginia.
Her stay was very brief. She returned
again to Baltimore and was welcomed
among the relatives, and was for long
time a member of the writer's family.
Her health failing, she being about fifty
seven years of age, she was prevailed
upon by friends and relatives to accept a
lifetime home in the Epiphany Church
Home at Washington City. She con-
sented, and the necessary money was
paid to the Home and she became an in
mate. There she resided until her death,
which occurred in August, 1874, at the
age of sixty, and is buried at Washing
ton in the graveyard of the Home.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
Narrow Escape from being Swallowed
Alive In a Quicksand.
Baltimore Sun.

An instance of GOODNESS is presented by
CURED in the Clifton tunnel, under the
Hartford pike. The work was in quick
sand, about two o'clock in the morning.
Joseph Metheral was caught by the sand
and water. His feet were glued fast,
and the slowly rising mass closed around
his knees, his thighs and body, and it
seemed inevitable that he would have
been overwhelmed, as in the case of the
laborer in Bruce & PattersOn's section,
heretofore mentioned. The seven or
eight comrades of the victim of the
quicksand abandoned him, but some of
them returned. Metheral was then fight
ing the sand and water with his hands,
but he was cool and collected in the face
of imminent death. Being al experienced
miner, he ordered the laborers who had
returned to his aid not to dig into him,
as that would only insure more of the
treacherous quicksand crowding in about
him. He was ready with the only ex-
pedient which could secure his release,
and directed the workmen to drive sheep
piling around him. They procured
boards, with one end sharpeped, and
obeyed his directions, which he gave, all
the while fighting the quicksand with
his hands, to keep it from rising over his
head and smothering him. The result
was that when the sheep piling was COM
pleted it was bulwark from enroach-
ments by the sand and water, and he was
leisurely dug out. That mans coolness
and experience saved hislife. His COM
rades who ran away never came back.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
Tragic End or q Kentucky Lawsuit.
ICincinnati Enauirer,I

One of the most cold -blooded, dastardly
and deliberate murders that has occurred
for some time took place within mile of
Knoxville, PendletOn County, Kentucky.
The murdered man was Martin Brand,
of Covington, and his murderer was
man named John Donald alias Jim Will
liams. The latter lived on tract OF one
hundred acres Of ground which Brand
owned, but could not obtain clear title
to until about week ago. He started
from Covington and met Deputy Sheriff
Yelton at Butler, and the pair started
then for the farm Oh Messy Creek to dis
possess Donald and widow named Tan
ner, who occupied it. The Sheriff had a
wagon with which to remove the widows
household goods, and Brand rode on
horseback. When quite close to the
farm they separated, Yelton taking
back road, and Mr.. Brand riding up the
main road leading directly to the house
of Mrs. Tanner When he had reached
a point directly opposite an old house
used for storing hay, a gun was thrust
out from crack in its side, and an
instant later fash of flame leaped out
of its muzzle and Brand fell from his
horse corpse, the ball from the weapon
having crashed through his brain. Two
men working on building about
five hundred yards from the scene of the
murder, saw Donald and a man whom
they could not recognize, run out of the
house and take down the road toward
Williamson's as soon as the shot was fired. |
Mr.. Brand was picked up in a few mo.
ments, and Deputy-Sherif Yelton
mounted his horse and rode post-haste to |
Williamstown, which he reached about a
half an hour in advance ofDonald. The |
latter was at once arrested, and upon ex-
amining him a large navy revolver was
found in holster attached to the belt,
which was strapped around his waist,
army fashion. He denied killing Brand,
and said he did not know the name of
the man who was seen with him. Mr..
Yelton procured a conveyance and took
his prisoner to Falmouth, where he was
lodged in Jail. Donald, or " Williams"
is an Irishman, and has family. The
weapon with which Mr.. Brand was mur-
dered was an Enfield rife, and was left
in the hay-loft when Donald and his part
ner ran away.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
DIR. Mary Walker Elected from the
Treasury Department.

Baker, principal doorkeeper Mt the
Treasury Department, was before the
Police Court at Washington, on March
%, on the charge of forcibly ejecting DIR.
Mary Walker from the Treasury Build
ing. The Doctor testified that on the
10th she went to the Treasury to attend
to some business with the Secretary.
She walked into the ante-room, and be-
gan writing letter when Baker ordered
her to leave. She replied that she was
a citizen of the United States and had
as much right there az anybody. Baker
said he had been ordered to keep her out,
and IL she did not leave he would have
to put her out. She caught up her writ
ing and walked away from him, when he
followed her up and caught hold of her
wrist with one hand and put his other
arm around her waist and walked her
out through the door and down the steps.
During this time she called loudly to the
Secretary and others to come and see
how an American citizen was being
treated in public place.
The Court said: CDR. Walker ought
to be respected in the department Just
as much as as any one. He would take
the personal recognizance of Baker for
his appearance for judgment whenever
the case was called"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
Lees Execution.

New YORK C0mmercial Advertissf.l
The execution of Lee on the Noun
tain Meadows was Westernish in every
detail, and it is no wonder that the per-
sons who were present declared it " sue
cess in every particular. The man was
brought out to the scene of the great
massacre, and sat facing the cross that
had been erected over the slain, bearing
the inscription, vengeance is mine; l
will repay, saith the Lord" No element
was lacking; the condemned mans
nerve did not desert him, and he fell
square on his coffin, stone dead. The
photographer was present, pursuing his
occupation, with no ole to interfere with
him and Lee, the Herald reporter tells
us, "involuntarily posed" " for his last
picture. It was miserable business
throughout, but comported precisely
with Western opinions of the proprie-
ties. The confession this man leaves be-
hind him is a curious document. He
reiterates his adherence of the whole
affair on the Mountain Meadows, and
asks us to believe that he took no active
part in the bloody work ct that day.
We have only his undisputed wcrd for
that. Therefore, when he directly
charges that Brigham Young approved
the work, ought reliance be placed upon
what he saYa2
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
ODDS AND ENDS.

"MEAT doesn't spoil in this climate"
said a Californian, who took the last
forkful of steak.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Observation-Disclosures rdsandsentenceswere
strungalltogether.
MRS. PARTINGToN truthfully remarks
that very few people suffer from sug-
gestions of the brain nowadays"
MIND may act upon mind, though
bodies be far divided; for the life is
in the blood, but souls communicate un-
seen.
BOSTON men find comfort in the fact
that no man with small hands and feet
ever amounted to anything in the way of
brains.
WHEN you pull your finger out of the
water there is no hole in the fluid. So it
is with a great many people; when they
die they leave no vacancy in the world.
THE man who first mentioned Gov
ernor Hayes's name in connection with
the Presidency is growing alarmingly
considering the few vacancies
that there are to be filled.
SOMEBODY asserts that "blue glass
chimney on parlor lamp will bring a
young man up to the point of proposing
to a cross-eyed maiden with store teeth
in three Sunday evenings"
AN individual who was sent from one
end of the Quincy Market to the other
to see some egg.hatching machines, only
to find a coop of hens, is "laying 70
the man who put up the fowl job on him.
AYoUNG man called at a Fourth-street
jewelry store and wanted to get blue
glass crystal put in his watch. 1t never
kept time, he explained, and may be
blue glass would bring it around, as ii
were,
CIvILITY is to man what beauty l
to woman. 1t creates an instantaneous
impression in his behalf, while the OPP
pOsite quality excites as quick preju-
dice against him. 1t is real ornament,
the most beautiful dress that man or
woman can wear, and worth more as
means of winning favor than the fines
clothes and jewels ever worn.
THE WESTERN WINDS.
Yet on my cheek feel the western wind,
And hear II telling TO the orchard trees,
And to the faint and flower. forsaAen bees,
Tales OF fair meadows, green with constap
streams
And mountains rising blue and cool behind
Where In moist dells the purple orchis CLEANS,
And starred with white the virgins bower Is twined
SO the oer-wearied pilgrim, as he fares
Along life's summer waste, a, times is famed,
Even at noontide, by the cool, sweet airs
{ ( serener and hoer land,
Fresh as the morn aud as the dew all bland.
Breath OF the blessed heaven for which we piay,
Blow from the eternal hills make glad
Our earthly way
John @. Whittier.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
The Diplomatic Costume.

A Washington correspondent writes:
The diplomatic corps were in full court
dress, which, for the enlightment of those
whose eyes have never been gladdened
by a glimpse of court dress, / will state
consists of dress coat usually in blue or
bottle green, embroidered with gold or
silver lace, laid on in transverse bars or
shaped into vines, which lead up and
down promiscuously, now up the back
and down front, around collar and over
pockets and sleeve cuffs.
The pantaloons are of either color
corresponding with the coat or light
gray, except in the case Of Baron Shish-
kin, who wears white (buckskin, / be-
lieve), n broad gold band or a narrow
wire mark the side seams. A cooked hat,
also resplendant with bullion and gray
with plumes, completes the court cos
tune, which is in many instances given
additional effectiveness by the decora-
tions in the shape Of stars aud crosses,
brilliant with lustrous stones, fastened on
the left breast, or suspended by a scarlet
ribbon about the neck.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
Paper for Houses.

As long ago as 1857 company in the
West began the manufacture of building
paper, and now it has three large mills
that turn out sixteen tons per day. The
paper thus manufactured is thick, hard
pasteboard, wound in rolls of twenty
five to one hundred pounds each, and
usually thirty.two inches wide. While it
is being made it is subjected to an enor-
nous pressure, which congresses the
fbers into a solid body. The sheet be-
comes absolutely alright, and as the
paper is on-conductor of heat it resists
the action of both heat and cold. A
building lined with it resists the entrance
of heat in Summer and cold in Winter.
In case of fire the paper sheets do not
burn 80 easily as wood on account of
their hardness and solidity. This queer
building material has been tried in cold
and in warm climates, and found to
work admirably in all conditions and cir
o,.u, "a
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
Easter I'm England.


Of Easter Monday rites various curious
relics still lipger. One, called clipping
the church." is performed by children
of the charity schools, amid crowds of
people and shouts of joy. They place
their backs against the outside Of the
church, and join hands till the circle
is complete and the building surrounded,
when the ceremony is over, and they 60
to another church.
Another custom in Durham, is for
men to 60 about the streets and take of
shoe from every woman they meet,
unless she will pay small fee to pre-
vent IL. The next day, as is but fair,
the women retort by doing the same to
men.
In some parts still more ridiculous
custom is found, called chewing" or
" lifting" On Easter Monday the men
Gift" wemen, and on Tuesday the wo-
men are the litters. 1t is done thus:
two strong men cross hand in the way
we used to call making chair" in my
school.days, or they carry chair lined
with white, and decorated with flowers
and ribbons. On meeting a woman in
the street, they invite her to take
seat, aud. in fact, insist upon it. They
then lift her in the air three times, when
she must kiss each of her lifters and give
them money besides. In the time of
Edward ! this custom was 30 general
that even the King was Gifted"
In Kent, the young people OH Easter
Monday ego pudding-pieing." That is,
90 10 public-houses to eat pudding-pie,
idish about the size of saucer, with
raised paste rim, and custard inside.
And everywhere, and all the time,
are eggs, eggs, eggs; boiled and colored
striped and mottled, and gilded orna.
mented with names, or notices, or
pictures. Common ones are variously
adorned with designs drawn with bit
of tallow, which keeps the dye from TAX
ing on those parts. A better kind of
decoration Is to scratch the design with
a sharp knife OH an egg after 1t is dyed I;
landscapes, notices, etc., can be made
very neatly.
A common game-which, perhaps, you
KNOWS played with Easter eggs. The
owner of hard-boiled Easter egg chal-
lenges any one he meets to strike eggs
with him. If his egg break the other,
it is called "the cock of one" and its
owner has the broken one as trophy.
When it has broken two, it is "cock of
two" and 80 on. If an egg which is cock
of one or more is broken, the conqueror
adds the number of trophies won by the
victim to his own score.
The custom of making presents ofeggs
is said to be Persian, and to bearallusion
to the mundane egg" from which the
world was tabled by certain nations to
have been derived. II Is custom
among Jews, Egyptians, and Hindoos,
and was adopted by Christians to symbol
ize the Resurrection.
This feast of eggs, therefore, very prop.
J erly occurs at Easter.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19

The Virginia City (Nevada) Enterprise
tells US how French hunter mistOOk an
old gentleman for fox, and blazed away
at him. Mr.. Hughes, the man shot, is a
we'll known resident of Washoe Valley.
1t appears that the old gentleman, Mr..
Hughes, had good thing on the ducks.
He had found small pond where he
couid bag them by the dozen. This was
place excavated at the time of the
erection of the old Ophir mining works
"a large pit scooped out in the manu-
facture of bricks. At this place he had
killed no less that forty-six ducks at
three shots. The success induced him
to construct regular blind" in which
to lie in wait for his feathered prey. The
blind" was made by digging hole and
planting around IL screen of sage brush,
willows and weeds, leaving a small
opening through which to watch the
pond. While Mr.. Hughes was lying in
his hiding place last Saturday, French.
man from Franktown, who is a great
hunter, and who, it appears, also knew
the "gamey flavor" of the pond, hap
pened along. He saw no ducks on the
water, but soon caught sight of Mr..
Hughes's head at the opening of the
" blind" The old gentleman has long
white beard and wears fur cap. See-
ing this white beard and fur cap wag-
ging about, the Frenchman concluded
that he had before him silver fox. lying
in wait for the ducks freq4entiDg the
place. He therefore, blazed away, and
with excellent aim, filling the old mans
face, his left shoulder and left side with
duck shot. But for Mr.. Hughes's max
q lusty outcry the Frenchman would
have turned loose with his second barrel.
The wounded man was taken to Reno for
surgical treatment. When our inform
ant lett Washoe Valley the probable re-
suit of the shot was not known. but it
was thought that the old gentleman's
wounds would not prove fatal.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
A Phenomenal Animal.

reports the shooting in Little River
County, in that State, recently, of a
phenomenal animal, having the body Of
q well-formed red deer, with head that
resembled baboon, and suit of long,
brown shaggy beard. 1t was killed by
DIR. Collins, who says that when he was
aiming at It, its large eyes seemed to
melt with pity and compassion, as
though IL was aware of its dreadful
danger. He had no sooner fred than
the creature leaped high in the air and
uttered most heart-rendipg scream.
The doctor says it must be species of
the Mexican centaur, as described in
legend as existing In certain porto ms o
Mexico.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
What Women have Done for Newspa.
pers and Magazines.

The Lo,veU Offering was the first maga.
zine in America, if not in the world,
entirely sustained by working women.
The Rev. A. G. Thompson says, " 1t was
the first work written entirely by factory
girls, and the first magazine or journal
written exclusively by women in all the
world" A volume entitled "Mind
Among the Spindles," being compila-
tiOn from this journal, was published in
England. This was in 1S43.
James F. Babbock, ex-editor of the
New Haven Palladium, Mt an editorial
convention held at Middleton, Conn.,, on
the occasion of the centennial anniver-
sary of the appearance of the newspaper
in that State, stated these facts: From
the time of the first American newspa-
per, in 1904, to the appearance of the
first in Connecticut in 1888, there were
seventy-eight newspapers in the colonies
-one.half of which suspended before
1775. OF the whole number printed,
sixteen we've conducted by ladies, four
teen of whom were the firm and un-
daunted champions of liberty and equal
rights. Mrs. Franklin was not only a
printer of laws, newspapers. and alman-
acs, but of calicoes and linens"
The Boston Ne,Ds Letter, the first news
paperin America, was conducted during
some parts of the Revolutionary War by
Mrs. Margaret Draper. Il
DIR. Warren, President of Boston Uni
versity, says officially: I'm no depart
ment of the university has the presence
of young women depressed the standard
of scholarship; in several instance it has
aided in elevating it. In the selection of
electives they have never evinced die
position to pass by the hardest of mathe-
matical branches or the most difficult of
the languages. At all times has their
influence been promotive of order, stu
diousness, and true social culture. Of
the six hundred and twenty-seven stu.
dents one hundred and forty-four are wo-
men," -
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19

The p. ]. man of the New York Herald
must have been disappointed with Texas
when he was there, or he wouldn't have
written this: " Scene in Texas: Hotel
table. Good morning, stranger; 1t
looks like rain.' Stranger-'I think
not A shot is heard, and the stranger
Is rolled out of the back door. Moral
Texas is q fine grazing country"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-04-19
The Last Shot Of the Seminole War.

A man in Boston few nights ago was
so vexed by the music of serenading
cat that he got out of bed, carefully
loaded an old blunderbuss and fred at
the animal. A tremendous explosion
followed, and the shock almost knocked
the man senseless. On recovering his
wits he ascertained that the gun was
loaded when. his grandfather brought It
home from the Seminole war, and had
never been fired since up to the time
when Its latest owner had loaded 1t again
and fred both charges at once. The cat
escaped unharmed.