The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-02-01
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

Work on the Dal!as ana CIeOurUt
road, it il said, will soon begin. The
sooner the better.
Half dozen small offenders went |
through the mayors court yesterday |
morning, and were calmly fined by |
His Worship.
THE herald acknowledges with |
thanks the reception of an invitation to
the mask bali to be given by the Dallas J
Turn Verein in the 18th Of February.
Those indictments 1--WE refer, OF
course, to those bearing on the de-
facing of public buiIdings) will prove
bonanza OF forensic effort and legal
eruditlon when tried.
The District Court is wrestling
with the great land suit still, while the
County Court Is about to wind up the
civil docket and take up the criminal
on the 9TH instant.
1t il reported that the venerable
John Nicely Bryan, the founder of
Dallas, has lost his mind. The people
OF Dallas should see that the old
pioneer may be carefully looked to
and cured Cor.
New, wonderful and true; try
them. DR.. j. IL. McLcan's cough and
lung healingglobules for consumption,
coughs, colds. Trial boxes twenty-five
cents by mail, DR.. j. II. Mclean, 3ll
Chestnut street, st. Louis.
Henry Tackett, the man who
killed Leonard, the cook of the San
Jaointo, on the Fourth Of July last,
returned here yesterday on the mixed
train, when the argus.eycd Spencer
quickly nabhed him. Henry VIII
probably now he tried for murder.
MIR. and Mrs. Rogers entertain
their friends tonight with II dancing
party. 1t will probably he one OF the
most delightful affairs of the season,
AZ they understand the difficult art OF
entertaining TO n nicely, and the
young people are always Gstured OF Il
royal time when they take up their
carpets.
The go effects of tho action OF
Marshal Morton in arrestlng ali Of the
Migrants and putting them to work,
was plainly Visible in the diminished
number OF vDgabOnds md loaiers who
| hang around tho street corners and
grOg shops. a further and continuous
enforcement of the law will have u
wholesome effect.
"A man of mercantile experience,
good recommendations, and 81 $50 In
money, can get half and controlling in
terest in business being established Ia
Dallas for Northern Texas, that viii
net 81, 600 yearly. Same thing is now
clearing $4,000 per year IN Illinois.
One chance in IL thousand, Address
J. n. H., LeGrand Hotel.
This morning MIR. John #. Wilson
will open new barber shop under
the Lamar Hotel. He had always Il
ilrst-class run of custom while vt his
old stand on Elm street, near Market,
and will doubtless continue to do like
wise in his new quarters. He is always
polite and skilliul and his shop clean
and conducive to comfort.
The number of possible applicants
for the Dallas postmastership In tht
event of Mr.. Tilden's inauguration, Ii
on the Increase. The applicant who
combines sobriety with business tact,
whoever he may be, will win, for these
qualities are regarded rs essential by
the great reformer. No other need
apply.
"A grand kangaroo commission will
try them. The talent OF the State vii
be on the bench, In the jury hOX, and
acting. counsel. The damning proofs
of their guilt 1t IS said, cannot be con.
troverted, and nothing but superhu
man efforts of counsel will save them
from the full penalty of the law. The
prisoners are sullen and logged and
wear the hardened air OF old Offenders
but IL won't work.
The mail on the Texas and Pacific
was taken to Fort Worth yesterday
: This Is not the first time. The atten.
ton of the postoillce department i:
: called to this gross direlection of duty
by somebody. Complaints from sub
scribers at Plano reach us that Their
papers often go to sherman and return
by the down train. Remedy this, too
The name Of DIR. j. s. Sizer Is
mentioned In connection with the ap
pointment of United States marshal Of
the western district OF Texas, anG
Colonel Charles Baskerville for col
leotor of internal revenue for this dis
trict, in the event OF MIR. Tilden's
election. Both gentlemen are ex
Mississ.ppians, sound Democrats, an6
thoroughly honest and capable.
Marshall Morton reports the arrest
In accordance with telegraphic in
structions, of Arlington b Carhart and
Henry May, alias Maynard Cole,
charged with EN- be2zlement, and who
are wanted in Tifiin, Ohio. May when
arrested, confessed and gave the adj
dress Of Carhart, who was not here.
but in Macon, Missouri. Carhart was
arrested under telegraphic instruc-
tons.