The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS


ing right royalty.
IHE excursionists were rather disap>
pointed with the Young Giant" of the
west
EXCHANGES from over the state bring
the news that the early wheat crop is
looking exceedingly thrifty.
CoxGRrssaAS ScaLglcHrR sat down on
the silver dollar, and the papers through
out the state are unhappy.
ASn now Houston comes to the front.
and wants the proposed Rio Grande
road to start from that place.
NHos the gods would destroy, they
first make mad" By that rule Ed.
muLds Is goner this time sure.
TnE cotton which has been water and
mud bound for so many weary weeks i
now coming in, and the sun seems
brighter.
MEIIA is still clamoring for sober
tailor. Judging from the Ledgey, the
editor OF that paper has certainly torn
his pants
FAnISG to marry Uncle Sammy Til,
den, the papers are now trying to get
Wade Hampton off, the lady being a
Louisville belle
GENERAL N. c. BurLER. the senator
from South Carolina seated last week,
IL nephew of Commodore Perry, the
hero of Lake Erie
THE government is trying TO recover
lost revenue from the whisky ring
swindlers, but it don't seem to meet
with much success.
THE orange~trees in the vicinity OF
Beaumont. are so loaded down by thei,
fruit as to require propping up, to keel
them from breaking
l. j. NJ. HoBBs, former sheriff of Cook
county, is lying in the Montague county
| Jail charged with horse stealing. "Ilow
are the mighty fallen
CoNSERsTILLE, Indians, has hero in
the person Of a young man who cut hi:
throat TO escape marriage. See wha
women will drive man to.
PEoPLE who thought that the race o
Ohio patriots was about run through
with are getting discouraged since on.
has been chosen to succeed Mccormick
Tux state OF Michigan is out OF debt
! Dy,,fs ILL 4
next, owing only trife over four mil
lions. Comment would be superfluoua
The wealth of the south in few
years" says the Richmond Wing, IN,
mortal can estimate, if peace, order an,
good government would but prevail il
the states
The New York Herald says the re
publican party resembles Senator Nor
ton when he was on his death bed
is very low, but has sanguine hope
that it is not doomed.
The excursionists from Iowa, Wiseor
sin and Illinois, express themselye
much pleased with what they have seei
Of our state. They think Dallas
marvel OF growth and enterprise
1HosE republicans who acl1nowledg Z
that their party is waning fatter then,
selves that another essentially akin I
it will be born stronger than the oil
one--not on the steal, we hope.
THE grand juries over the state Al
pear to he doing their duty in the wa
of indicting criminals, lnd if the jurit
who try them will do as much, Texs
will soon be purged OF this class of mel
GRANT is now en- rouee to Egypt l
see the sphinx The interview will /
of rather taciturn mas are, especial
on the part of the Sphinx For ono
Grant will meet ms superior in this r.
spect.
TnE Dallas and Wichita going O
help cut amazingly, and an average G;
izeu puts his boot heels down wit
many evidences of increased vigor an
! confidence since the recent happy 7,
conoiliation.
CHHEs JosEPH, Howard's friend. t.
gether with his fellow oonyicts, has bee
taken to the military prison at Leavel
worth, Kansas, whe they will be ke
; until a reservation in the Indian Ter
tory is provided for them.
I THR Mexicans in San Antonio are i
coming odious to the Americans of tn
place. A Mexii-an brass band murder,
u lot of music near the Presby,eri,
q church in that city. disturbing .worsh
so that the pastor dismissed the cong,
q gation.
o TIE editor of the Fort Worth Dea,oe
e says; III fool and his money are so
: parted, it may be considered being
y fool just to have the money. to p,
= with Alas you are possessed of I
: fool part, but regarding the money
y wot not.
o CnIeAso Times: If these were da
= of witches. spectres and goblins, WI
y CHASTITY faces. with dripping hair, wor
y have glared in upon Robesons winde
!, lanes as the rotten timbers of the II
:" ron creaked and snapped asunder in /
u morning twilight
~ FoRr WoRTh is afflicted with /
rafting fever, and among other thing
:, man has put up his wife's bracelets to
al o.rabtxl <ng Is p.llz~l. 49,