The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-22
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

Stanley. the African explorer. has
to dye.
The "pew and only greatest demo,
cratic sheet in wastiinssorl is out and
says The name of this journal of civ.
ilizetlon Is The Post. Il IS an sppros
priate title, In all the newspaper no
melolature OF the land no name stands
eisaFe7--no name Is less identified with
failure
Rome Sentinel: Maa may labor all
his life to achieve some dream of am
oition, and may tread legislative halls
or occupy executive chanlbe but
when he is notified lhft bis friends are
coming with brass band To serenat;e
bin, tie realizes thai he male mis-
take in not choosing the humb bic lot
tin peddler.
Since the cold weather has set In sud
the price of fuel has gone up, love
seems To have turned to phrenzy. Ia
Norfoik, Virginia, Oh Sunday last,
lover Killed the lacy to whom he was
engaged and then shot himself. In
Montgomery, Alabama. the bodies of
another engaged couple were found in
the cemetery, with pistol ball in the
head of each.
Gale. the English pedestrian. who has
lately completed the task of walking
four thousand quarter-miies in faur
Thousand consecutive periods OF ten
minutes each, has obtained such ccra~
plete mastery over his physical powers
that he sleeps occasionally while walk
ing. Medical evidence has baen taken
90 this point, and the tact is beyond
doubt.
This item has been started White.
law Reds connection with the New
York Tribune will cease with the cl,r-
rent year. OF COURSE somebody will
deny 1T; then it will be reaffirmed. and
Mr. Reid viii be interviewed, and a
worry will be kept up which will either
kill Mr.. Reid or cause him to get
bounced This reminds us that it i
stated that Mr. Reds connection with
ais paper will not cease with the curs
rent year.
Forty laborers were put to work in
Washington City to MI portion OF
the old canal. They work for fifty
cents her day. The National Union.
from which we quote, says. "rhe
TACT that so many men are willing to
work at this almost starving figure
proves more eonelGsiysly than any.
thing that has yet advanced the terri
bic state of poverty and restitution
prevailing among the iaboring classes
OF the GtstFist' Aud hard-pan hot
vet reached,
The New Orleans Democrat says
The returning board, which created
tbe Pack ard usiirla.iup, wsa organ.
lzed u 2on the peroiei6us principles our
Industrious author herein dennuners AS
so dangerous to t6e freedom of the
people. ] Z Wa4 designed to violate the
Figat Of election, ''flle esse nss. of she
constitution ana To strike deeply at
the liberty, the laws and the property
of the psopie of Louisiana. nad 1t was
toe revolving principles of that board
which. the republican, senators recoe.
aized aud infior ed in sealing Kellogg,
At GiesseH, Germany, remarkable
law salt has Just gone on record The
plaintiff was hotel keeper of that
town and he sued the government tole.
graph company for fiYe cents oyer
charge in the matter of message thet
coutainnd the word Z@eithrzug 1.-TWO
o'clock train. The sender of he dis
patch claimed IL was one word sad the
telegraph managers insisted that il vas
Two or three. All the legal ability of
the piace and the testimony OF nunle
of experts III grammar were brought
into re9uisition, and after several
months the company were compelled
to retaRd the five cents. We shuGder
to think what complications might
have arisen had the plaintiff teie>
araphed TO have the pferdestr@sseisen-
bahnwagen Kept waiting for hih..
Daniel Webster once went to Mon
ticeilo to visit Jefferson, and after-
garis, in Describing the great Virgin
Ian 10 his friend Harvey, be said that
Jeifrrson was tail, gannt, light
haired, light-eemplezioueh mar, and
not a psrsnil of impressive aspect. AIR.
We bster said that very much of the
early PR JUDGE which ne had Untitled
with Iii. political opinions Ia youth.
when be considered Jefferson q great
heretie, @as dispeliea wbea n came
into personal contact with the aged.
statesman. aud saw BIN ia his hume,
Iefferseil's great simplicity i'm pressed
him. sir Webster believes; him 10 De
2 sincere man, very true 60 his con-
vi ssiors, and vas Convinced that much
Of the abuse hefped upon him by the
oppasjte party. which had aco,Is ed him
Of heii.g a tsraasogue and an snarch-
Vs. Was unjust MIR Webster said
aree, % speakieg OF Jefferson, that he
hsti more deeply impressed his opin-
ions and theories, as well as his prac-
iiesl itiaas of RoeeTnme nt, upon the
legislation aud destinies of the coun-
try, than any man that lived.