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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-08-19

Commercial.

Nrw ORLEANS, Augns ls.-Flour dull;
Ky Is q. xxx g. 1Uab 81, choice " aW' %
Corn dull, weak and iuwer' mixed ooc'whle
GOa62. Oals quiet SsgiDc. Conee easier;
sugar uuiet. Jobbing common 10 good c0iu-
m9, SaSisc. fair TO fully fair $500 prime
Ia choice y as tc; centrifugal yssTc; yellow
cIarlfi d lnaIOlgc. Molasses nothing doing.
Rice firm, good TO prime t'49Pa'
NEW YORK. August ls.-fl0ut-dull aud
heavy. Wheat dun and declining Cofh
dull and q shade lower. ..,,.
Night-Fiour generally about steady I,
though In instances a shade lower demand
moderate, mainly ( r home use; supeIhhe
western and state s. 9Oat 51 southern houf'
heavy, IN some cases 40 10 A5c l'Wefi COM
mo- 10 fair extra IS 75gG -; good TO choice
Al 81 e1aT on. Wheat 2aj lover CLOSING
heavy. moderate demand nj tUgsl -. red
and an, her western l5c; amber s-u .hern .
nc lower, moderate business AZ oz9..,,5g.
osts less active, new scarcely 50 hfm. Oonee
rio duil, &c lower, cafgJes l65fgO15 goldi JoD
lots l61sqih gold.
u.trtuoRE. August is.--FlOur dun aud
,ncnanged. Wheatu sothern uull, weak
90 Iovger: western active; western ed luiiy
N sOfi 2j. amber 81 3jal . No western
,rtntsr red spOt 81 81 southern corn nuii'
western active ana iOwei; southern While
Glc; yellow t5''
ar IotrIg. August Is --Fiour unsettled aad
t,,,i.r ID soil Wheat inactive. No. z rel iill
n "a No.8dnsl 49,. Corn Inactive No.
mixed ole Oats innotige' 40. -; myHh
10 he. hye scarce, wanted, roc biI. " nis
,.4o,ti ID porK. dull, i1bbing tl8 Lard
nsminally unehang. q, al q g. BnlE M .. aus
I,,iI a. offer. no bids. bacon dull At Y.
$3.50. AID q. gsc for Shoulders, eiehf rios
and {. ear sides. ,...-,.... a, 80, Ia
c.,tls tnrbanged, demand siill only LOT
butchers, stock aud Texans
Hides aud wool.
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FOR tho week ending Aug. IL 1877,
Furnished Tue HERALD by u. W. Barnett,
Reporter IN this CITY for the National Cot
ton Exchange.
stock on hand September lst.. va
Received this weeB..".....,,,.,
new bale..,.,.,,,-"..,.."-
Received previously ,,-.,,,.,,,,,. $3.50
Received since september LIST. 1881
-----
Iblhl tiiuVf
Shipped this week...,,,..,...,....,.
shipped previously ...,.o,.....,,,.. 1890
shipped since september LIST. 1870
stock on hand .......,............... l2l
COTTON MARk RT.
Mlddling Dc, Low Middling ~. Good Or
mary Sc.
METEOROLOGICAL.
Highest mperhture-..,.,..,....- ~
Lowest tCmperat Te",..-.,.,...,o,u"",".. 70
Average temperature al Il n.,..m....r." "
Rainfall IN inChSs..,,.',,,,.. ,.,,,..,..l lu.lbO
u. W. BARNETT,
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Book hout a simpson, Attorneys at Law
No. 6W Main street, opposite Tho Herald
fiice, up-staira. lIil iun s0.d@wtf.
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uihe. and wool.

a.tvSsroS, August ia Hides-the market
.i,anred L.. DIy selected, i55sc, light salt
p az. stses saltsd lZl4c; damaged nsIi
nrice. kip l7Jse; wet salted sc; selected vac;
Wool-auiet and weak; no quotations.
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Celebrated Arrow Tie,

recognized M the iayorlte tie o.
planters, cotton pressern, and shippers OF
cotton generally, the
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In view Of the constantly increasing popu
larity and demand for the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
A Sensible Mother.

1t is really pitiful to see good, con-
scientious little mother resolutely
shutting herself away from so much
dren's lives for the sake Of tucking
their dresses and rufiling their petit
coats. How surprised and grieved
she will be to find that her boys and
girls, at sixteen, regard mother"
chiefly rs most excellent person to
keep shirts in order and to make new
dresses, and not as one to whom they
care to go for social companisnship.
Yet, before they are snubbed out of it
by repeated rebutfs, such as "Run
away; I'm too busy to listen to your
nonsense" children naturally 60 to
theH mothers with all their sorrows
and pleasures and if "mother' can
only enter into all their little plans,
how pleased they are, Such a shout
of delight as | heard last summer
from Mrs. FGiendlys croquet-ground,
where her two little girls were play
ing. "Oh, goody, goody, mamma is
coming to play with u.s. She was a
busy mother, too, and | know would
have much preferred to use what few
moments of recreation she could
snatch, for something more interesting
than playing croquet with little chill
dIen, not much taller than their NAL
let's She has often said to me, II
cannot let my children grow away
from me; / must keep right along
with them all the time, and whether
it is croquet with the little ONES, or
Latin grammar and baseball with the
boys, or French dictatlon and sash
ribbons with the girls. | must be in
it as far as / can. From "LetterS
10 Yang Nother," IN Scribner for
NQrch.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

WILLIAM d. JOHNSON, OF Appleton, has
been sentenced to hree months in the Coun-
ty Jail, at Milwaukee, for defrauding people
through the Pos'otlice at that place. He adj
yertised that he would furnish valuable
book on milling, for less than publishers
prices, and made no returns for Enclosures
The case was so clearly worked up that no
pleaded guilty.
AT Madison, on the morning OF the 18th,
the dive ling houses of l.. Haveman and
Charles Bernard, Jr,, were destroyed by fire.
The fire caught from a defective chimney.
Total loss, about $500.
THE latest reports from Milwaukee give
the following as the current prices for lead
ing staples: Flour-Choice Winter Extra,
$675(d750; Choice Spring, $6.O0G650;
Wheat-No. l, sLS9Ql S91s; No. 9, Sl.S2
WL32A; Corn-No ,, 42nG42Ac; Oats
No. ,, 334mS3sc; Barley-No. ., -6Q16kc;
Rye-72(0121Sc; Pork $40. 35Ml640
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
MARCH,.

An. surly march, you've come again..
YIN sIeet and snow, and hail and rain;
Gid earth beneath. Gark SKY above YOU.
What have YOU. pray, 10 make Us love you!
M month l. half 40 ron Oh as you,
Member winds less harshly blew:
What churlish ways. what storm tossed tresses
yomr presence every one distresses.
iIaste TASTE away, We longing wait
10 erect fair Apr at our gate.
f0l1 earth beneath, dark sky above you,
surely you've naught TO make us love you'
All see these blossomsh he replied
Tossing his i-torn cloak aside
. Though o her months have howers a-many,
Saw. are not mine as fair as any?
See peeping from each dusky fold,
The crDcus with its cup of gold;
Vic cts, snowdrops white and Silly.
Sweeter than any summer lily;
And underneath the old oak-eaves
Her fr grant wreath the arbutns weayes-
Whatever sky may be above me,
surely for these all hearts will love mei'
II II. II. Conaoay, IN So Nicholas for March.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28

Il shall go, father. Selim knows
only me. and you could not ride him.
| have ridden darker nights. And he
is the only horse in the stable. Don't
you remember? The others were sent
to town yesterday"
Before old Whately could stop her.
she had ordered the hostler to saddle
Selim, and she was already buttoning
on her riding-habit with rapid, nervous
fingers.
The horse came paving to the
dosr. Floss sprang into the saddle,
leaned down and kissed her fathers
forehead.
"Pray Heaven to speed met she
cried, hoarsely, and touching the horse
with her whip. he bounded down the
sharp declivity.
1t was raining steadily now. and the
gloom was intense; but Selim was used
to the road, and he was sure-footed
and his rider courageous. She urged
him on at the top of his speed up hill
and down, through Pine Valley and
over Pulpit Hill, and then she struck
upon the smooth road which stretched
away to Leeds, two miles, as straight
as an arrow.
She could see the headlight on the
pay train far down the valley, dis
tinctly now, and to her excited fancy
it seemed but a stones throw away.
She even thought for a moment that
she heard the grind of the wheels on
the iron track, but. no!it was only the
soughing of the wind in the pines.
On, and still on she went. Selim
seemed to fly. One might have fancied
that he knew his mistress was on an
errand of life and death. The lights
of the station were in view-nav, she
even saw the station-master's white
lantern as he strolled up and down the
platform-the white lantern which
was to signal the approaching train
to tell them to 60 on, for all was well.
On to their doom!
She dashed across the railway track,
flung the reins to an amazed byStander,
and, striking the white lantern from
the hand of the astonished official she
seized the ominouS red lantern from
its hook, and springing upon the track.
waved it in the very teeth Of the com
ing train.
Two sharp, short whistles told her
that her signal was seen, and a mo-
ment later the train came to stop,
and the officers rushed out to learn
what it all meant
Floss told them in few brief words.
and one of the men at the station went
forward to confer with the train from
Golosha, which had not yet been tele-
graphed from the next station be-
yond.
The man waited fifteen minutes be.
fore Kirke's train slid on to the siding,
and it was then known that but for the
decision of one young girl, the two
trains must have collided four miles
beyond behring's Cut.
When told The story kirke looked at
his watch.
The man from the station looked at
his.
Kuhe'S aoaS ten minutes behind
timei
You want to know how it happened.
Certainly you must have guessed.
Halliday did it. A man was found the
next day who confessed to have seen
Jack tampering with the time-pie ces
in the engine house that night, but he
had thought nothing of it. he said.
Jack ? Oh, he left town, and was
last heard of in Australia. His little
game was not a success.
A few months later, kirke was mar
ried to Floss Whately, for being ten
minutes behind time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28

AT conference of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Central New
York, in oxford, n. Y. few days
ago, Bishop Hare, who has done good
missionary work among the Indians,
said that he estimated that there are
two hundred and ninety-seven
thousand Indians in the United States,
OF whom seyenty-fYe thousand have
adopted the Christian faith and have
become civilized.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
THE ELECTORAL BILL.


Text of the Bill ~ II Passed the senate.
After an all night session devoted to
debate, the senate on the twenty-tilth
passed the Joint committees electoral
bin by the overwhelming vote of AZ to
l7-more than two-thirds.
On the 26th the house passed the bill
by a vote of 1871 to Sc,
FirSt-lt is temporary measure designed
for the settlement of questions at issue in
the present complication only, and not in
tended as rule to govern future electoral
counts.
Second-The time for beginning the elec-
toral count Is changed from February IA to
February l.
Thrd-'rhe two houses meet in the hall Of
the house Of representatives as heretofore,
and everything pretending to be certificate
is opened by the president Of the senate and
handed to the tellerS,o which there are four
two from each house, the certificates being
opened in alphabetical order of the states
beginning with the letter A.
| Fourth-When certificate has been read
| the president OF the senate calls for oblec
| tonS, which must he in writing and ARGUED
| bv at least one senator and one representa-
tive, whether there be only one or two re
turns from the state, in the case OF which oh
lection is made.
Fifth-lf there is only one return, the sen
ate withdraws and the objections are consid
cred in the following manner:
|. The presiding officers state the objec
tions, and each senator and representativ,
may speak ten minutes and not ottener than
once, but the main question shall be put al
ter two hours' debate
II. A recess may be taken until ten oclocl
next day, pending the consideration of an
objection, and the house may transact les
isative business while waiting the action O
the other on objections.
III. When the two houses have voted the,
Immediately meet again, and the presidin
officers announce Their decisions.
". If both concur in the objection it
sustained, and if they disagree it is ovel
ruled.
SlXth--If there are two returns the objeC
tions are referred to q commission, who's
composition and mode Of action are thu
stated
l. Each of the houses elect five membe,
by a viva voce vote on January 80, and th
associate justices OF the supreme court "a
signed to the following districts, first ju!
tico CIitlordl third Oustice Strong) eight
Justice Miller, and ninth tiustice Field
choose fifth Justice, who with themseiv(
will form part of the commission.
II. The Oldest justice (Clihord) preside
over the commission and administers spel
al oath TO lts memher to impartially eEae
! ine and 10 consider ail questions,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
What Will Surprise an Indian.

The Indian has actual and common
Of many articles of civilized
manufacture, the simplest Of which Is as
entirely beyond his comprehension as the
most complicated He would be a SIM
ple exclamation-point did he show sur
prise at everything new TO him, or which
he does not understand He goes to the
other extreme, and rarely shows or feels
surprise at anything. He visits the
states, looks unmoyed at the steamboat
and locomotive. People call it stoicism.
They forget that to his ignorance the
production Of a glass bottle is as inscru-
table as the thunder, 4 reice OF gaudy
calico is a marvel; q common mirror a
miracle lie knows nothing Of the com,
parative difficulties OF invention and
manufacture, and to him the mechanism
Of a locomotive is not in auy way more
matter of surprise than that Of a wheel
barrow. When things in their own daily
experience are performed inwhat to them
is a remarkable way, they do express tne
most profound astonishment. | have
seen several hundreds of Indians, eager
and excited, following from one telegraph
pole 10 another q repaircr, whose legs
We're encased in climbing boots. When
he walked easily, foot over foot, up the
pole, their surprise aud delight found
vent in the most vociferous expressions
of applause and admiration. 4 white white
lady mounted on a side-saddle, in what
to the Indian woman would be almost
an impossible position, would eAciIe i9
more surprise and admiration than would
Hoe printing press in full operatl2}in'-, d,
4" The Hunting Gromts Of the "rS'S
Ugst -
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

understanding is the hill shall retain its
place os unfinished business. Several bills
on the calendar were then called up, and
passed. Adjourned
In the senate, on the ID, Mr.. Hamln
submitted an amendment to the pos.oHice
appropriation bin appropriatmc 100000
ror steamship mail service between San
Francisco, Japan and China for one year
and authorizing a contract with the Pacific
mail steamship company for transporting %
monthly mail between the ports DESIGNATED.
He also submitted Gn amendment appropri.
ating S15O0G0 from the revenues Of the great
trunk lines Tor railway postoihcc service
during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1873.
Referred. 4 bill for the sale OF apart of tie
Fort Dallas military reservation, O.egon,
wa discussed until expiration Of the nom,
ING hour, when q brief executive session was
hel}, followed hyrecess till Mondavmoming.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.

WRITER In Fr9ser's MAGAZINE says
evoglasses ougbt never to magnifv much
but merely show the objects clear and
exactly as stheY are. Every person ought
to be able to read with their spectacles
at 10 saroe distance that he was accps.
TONED when his sight was uninpared.
Pebbles are preferred on accout of their
clearness never becoming dull from
moisture but thew are deafer. To test
true eyeglasses hold them obliquely over
print, when, if the glass is correct, the
letters viii preserve their true character
4 MAN who looked like a countrvman
was lately walking IN the street with
racket in his hand, sealed and addressed,
with memorandum that it contained
thousand dollars in bank notes. As the
baarer appeared TO be at q loss. he was
aaCcsted bv man, who asked him what
he was looking for. The simple country
man placed The packet in his inquirer's
hands. and requested that he would read
the address. as he was unsbled to do 80,
and had forgotten il. The reply was
made AZ withagreeable surprise "Why,
tbig letter is for me, I have been ex.
pectinr it for a long while" The mes
senper. upon this demanded dollar for
the carriage of the package. which was
readily paid. The new possessor of the
PACKET fastened to an obscure corner to
examine his prizc; but. on breaking the
seal he found nothing but few sheets
Of paper on which was written the sim
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
A Monopoly to be Feared.

Under the above heading a cores
pondent of the Scientific American says:
The monopoly to be feared by farmers is
the brains Of other professions, While
the farmersnumber6, 600, ,000in thiscOun-
try, there are only about Al, coo lawyers,
vet one of our best writers on political
economy says that he can select one hun
dred lawyers, who exert more influence
in public affairs, than all the farmers put
together. The same is true to OnS a
slightly less degree of manutacturersand
transportation companies. Yes, they
have a monopoly Of brains, Farmers
ourselves, we are sorry to confess it, but
confess it we must. Who control the
afairsofnine. .tenths ofour country towns?
Usually the second-rate lawyers, other
professions and trades at the center -
Yet, il they but awoke to it, the farmers
too might do little of the public think,
ing. The first step in the uplifting OF
this class TO place of power in society
is to place its men and women on the
same plane, intellectually as the others
In education is the farmers bulWark
against encroachments and usurpatioh o
power by the few over the many.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10
Trains Meeting at Speed of Sixty
Miles an Hour.

The two trains, propelled with all the
speed possible, met in a cutting fifty feet
high, at few yards from the entrance OF
a tunnel, and in spot where the line
describes curve 50 sharp that II is not
possible to see more than one hundred
feet ahead. The two engines, weighing
some eighty tons each, literally pene-
trated each other about three feet, be-
coming as it were, riyeted together. The
tenders were, on the other hand, 40 upset
that one of the stokers was subsequently,
found buried under the coal. Propelled
by Joint impetus Of upwards OF sixty
miles an hour, the carriages, naturally
much lighter than the engines, continued
their headlong route, mounting over the
locomotives, and forming a huge pile Of
wreck, or shattering into a thousand
splinters, which ! cannot compare to
ANYTHING better than what might be i'm
agined had the whole been hurled down
a deep mountain precipice. | myself
saw half the roof of one of the carriages,
not to speak of fragments, in the adjacent
field, fifty feet above the level OF the
rails while pieces of planks strewcd the
slope of the cutting, Both the engine
drivers. the two stOkers and the two
guards persisted in this collision. Some
travellers who had already suffered in the
collision at Montereau few hours be-
fere, were again wounded or confused.
Mr. MATHEWS, Of London, and his servant
were killed in the most frighttlll manner
possible, and in the other train traveller
residing at Macon. Mr.. Hume and Sir
- Stewart escaped death by true mir
acle. The former had laceration Of the
foot, and the latter had his thigh broken,
A sprightly young American named
Torcey had his thigh in like manner
fractured; and when | left | understood
that the surgeons of AK les-Bains, where
he was conveyed, feared lest it should be
necessary to make an operation. One
poor woman was found with her head
severed clean from her body, and pre-
sented such a gbastly spectacle that the
man who found her was perfectly over
| come. A little girl wandered about AK
alone, her mother having had both hel
legs cut off. The guard at the tail of the
train, sitting in his box, on seeing the
catastrophe in all its details, at once lost
his mind, and on being questioned by {
person at the station of AK, where ht
was taken, began to dance and sing
Poor fellow, he was put into the mac
asylum at CRANBERRY. Numerous pas
sengers were most seriously wounded
and those who had simple contusions re
ceived the most violent nervous shock
besides SORT Of conclusion of the in
testines, predisposing to Inflammation
they also complained greatly Of pains il
the head
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-02-10

not an appointment fl to be made. Any.
body whether gn officer Of the state or an
officer oil the general government, who un-
itrtook 10 set aNiIr such an appointment as
that would be guilty Of usrrpation Of au.
thority, and his act @ou.d be utterly void.
Therefore, il the governor OF Florida, in this
case, when the appointment Of these electors
was made by the people, undertook to GER
tiiy they were not elected and 70 put some
body else IN their place, that act "as utterly
void, false Hud fslriulelh They were not
going hehind the an ~ The sta,e 70 this case.
They were only going behind the iIauaG!ent
act ~ an officer Of the state, whose aH bad
no validity ahr'sver in il. When they were
told that if the preslden! - the senate laid
before the two houses a false Taper. paper
that wes absolutely counterfeit, that vas the
end Oi it and that no eytraneOus evidence
could be produced 'r- the purpose OF show.
ing that the paper was iOrgtrT. The doc
trines went too far II that propo7ition
were carried out to its logical CONCLUSIONS
then it would follow that the two houses Of
congress must Simply receive whatever any
body chooses 70 iabrcate and 10 lay before
them, through the president o. the senate
and that neither the president ot the senate
nor either of tEe houses, nor both Of them
together, could do anything in the matter
but take just what was given Without inGuir.
ing into the genuneness OF it. The work OF
the cOunterfeiter was ss well entitled to be
regarded rs truth as the mere spawn Of
criminal conspiracy got up for the purpose
Of cheating the people Of the state, and the
people OF the union, oyertdrnng and over
throwing the great principle underlying the
institutions OF the country The man who
undertook to say that he certified to the eleG'
ton of these men, while there glared upon
him, from the record which lay before him,
evidence that the fact was the other waywa5
a counterfeiter, and the paper issued by him
was fraudulent. II the paper was fraudulent,
was 1t not "a gOil in law and as corrupt IN
morals as il it was a simple counterfeit made
by somebody else than by the man who pro.
tessed 10 sign? Mr.. Black cited what ne
called the evidence Of the fraud, the various
proceedings to overtuH the Hayes and
Wheeler electors, and added that the state
was determined not 10 be cheated out OF her
vote and had said that she would ascertain
the truth in some undeniable form by pro.
Geedinas the correctness OF which could never
he impeached, She therefore had taken
those usurpers by the throat, had dragged
them into a court Of justice, and there, in
the presence of a competent tribunal, she
had impleaded them, charged them with the
offence, brought other parties who were
claimed to be her agents, and set them face
to face. The proofs had been given on both
sides, and there had been solemn adjudica,
ton by that court Of competent jurisdiction,
that the persons claimed to cast their votes
for HAYES and Wheeler had no right or au-
thoritv or power whatever TO do that thing,
That decision was final,