The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-31
LOCAL JOTTINGS,
w arm and windy.

The milliners are reaping rich
harvest.
Tho office of the water works Is n
neat and tasty building.
-Evergreens in tubs are being OK.
tensively used to decorate saloons
Everybody is busy decorating
Their places of business for the carnl.
val.
Fort Worth is coming over next
week. eHmdSSe, to see how things are
done in city.
M. RS tonight Every member
Is requested to be present. The time
grows apace.
The ladies are depicting the pock.
etoooks of their better halves, to buy
spring hats and bonnets.
BY all means 90 to see "Ten
Nights in a Bar-Ruom," at Fiells
opera mouse, next Monday night.
There are only thirty prisoners in
inc county jail-the smallest number
IN over year. So says the jailor.
we Were told that one of the
shreveport fire companies were talk
ing OF coming to Dallas next week.
III somebody would bring on some
ierrets and let them out to clear prem.
ises of rats, they would make money.
The war tax is coming ia RAPIDLY
All good loyal subjects are responding
freely. Only two days more-pay up
-- ---Good awnings, door-steps and va.
rahdahs, ought to bring good prices
Tor sleeping places during the car.
nival.
curiosity runs high os to who will
ne chosen queen of the carnival. Her
name is ----. Wen wait till the day
after the ball.
"A strong draft yesterday slammed
the door of Klein's store to, and the
large pane of French plate was shiy.
cred to pieces.
The mayors court did a lively
business, yesterday morning, and
added much, il the fines were all paid,
to the city treasury.
--DeputysSheriif Jones has returned
from his trip to Huntsville, where he
has been to deliver the prisoners sent
up at this term of court.
The police have had their hands
full lately, and are earning their sal
airy, Tho only trouble is that there
are not enough OF them.
The day procession this year, it is
SAID, VIII be finer than last year, and
that was conceded by all to have been
TIE best ever made in the State.
Without doubt there will be
more strangers in Dallas on carnival
day than ever were before. Reports
from neighboring towns are very flat
tering.
Both the Texas and Pacific and the
Houston and Texas Central railroads
have been very liberal in their ar
rangements for transporting visitors To
our carnival.
The police were busy yesterday,
arrestlng parties on commitments
who had been fined In the Mavops
Court, and had not settled them: They
We're kept busy at it.
Deputy United States Marsba,
Dixon,who has been riding through the
county, reports the wheat crop as very
fine and up knee high. He saws grass.
hoppers have not done any damage in
the sections he visited.
The East Dallas Hook and Ind.
der Company turned out last night
and attached their hose to.'a fire plug,
near the market house, sind souirted
for some time. The boys will get their
new uniforms next Monday night
The Merchants Restaurant. IN
Main street, is the place to 90 to when
you want a good meal at any hour of
the day or night. They have on hand
all kinds of vegetables and oil the deli.
cacies that can be procured at this sen.
son of the year,
We call the attention ofour readers
to the card Of DIR. L. Il. Locke an.
nouncing bis removal from the ga,
Jacinto hotel, to his residence, corner
OF Patterson avenue and Oleander
street, where he can be found or Mt
his office, over State Savings Bank.
Mrs. Hoffstadt will take charge of
the Delmonico restaurant at once, and
VIII furnish first-class board by the
day or week as reasonable az anv
house in the city. Mrs. Hoifstadt has i
had long experience In the business
and knows how to conduct first. class
restaurant. ,
We would again call Il q attention
d parents to the propriety of keeping |
heir children off the street. Two lit.
he boys came very near being run
,ver on Main street, yesterday, near I
he Lamar, by trying to catch on the
treat car, and team coming up on !
hem quickly from behind. /
"A discussion took place between a 8
nan nndla boot-black, yesterday morn .
ng, ON the cornerof Main and Lamar !