The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-03-03

shiS eerslpns That Is the most BILL
iois State yet heard from.
Midhat thinks he shall go back to
Stamboal some time, but he Is not at
sil sure he will find Hamid there. He
may find mo- Hamid than he wants.
u. 5. Grant, Jr.. is going into the law
firm Of Davies, Work, MeNsmte d
Hilton, New York. 1t is a good thing
TO get into a firm where there is Work.
Al5ani has stepped into that place
in the favor of the Partisan public
which Patti has vacated for the ap-
plause of st. Petersburg and of Lon.
don.
a Cincinnati office holder attended
church the other Sunday and lodged
behind seat when the minister gave
out the hymn, Strike the resounding
Lyre.n
Dr. Todd introduced alcohol in the
treatment of fevers in England twenty
years $50, but the hospital doctors of
London now say no more Toddies will
be allowed.
The Baltimore and New Orleans ed
itors are disputing as to which city has
the most beautiful ladies. Take IL cool.
gentlemen. Call it draw game you
have too good case on each side.
Washington has wooden legged
ghost. A ghost that cannot afford
paraifine leg has no business around
this enlightened country.
Governor Stanford, of California, re-
Gently paid over twenty-six thousand
dollars for the horse Gen. Benton
He is Benton having the best horse in
the State.
An exchange says the entire assets
of u recent bankrupt were nine chill
lfen. The creditors acted magusni- |
mously and let him keep them.
Senator Ingalls, wants commission
appointed to inquire into the best
means OF destroying the locusts. We
do not see how that can be done. The
locusts have made their returns and
the co mmission has no right to go be-
hind them.
The Silk Association of America
shows that the consumption of raw
silk in the United States during the
past year was II, 293 packages, valued
at $, 626, 299.
Statistical returns of the product of
the wines in France for the year 1876,
half from that of 1875. The reduction
was caused by the ravages of the phyl-
loxera insect.
There has been great slaughter of
cattle in Nevada by railroad trains this
winter. The snow has been so deep
that the animals have sought the tracks
for comfortable standing places, and
upon the approach of a train, after
making frantic efforts to scale the
banks of snow lining the track, have
been crushed in large nun. bers.
The Philadelphia Times, indepen-
dent, after commencing the Democrats
in Congress for doing the sensible
thing IN caucus of deciding that the
counting of the electoral vote should
be proceeded with without dilatory
opposition to the orderly execution of
the act creating the electoral commits
sion, also remarks, Hayes is declared
elected, because why? Because the
commission refused to inquire whether
he was elected or not"
Seene-Urited States Supreme Court
room, while Senator Howe was speak
ing on the Louisiana case. Mrs Tyler,
widow of President Tyler, who occu-
pies seat next to Mrs. Howe, says to
a lady friend on her left: 30, my
gracious when will that tiresone old
man get through?v Mrs. Senator
Howe (who is unknown to Mrs. Tyler,
sharpiy-"There is no law to compel
people to remain ifthey don't like it.n
Lady friend of Mrs. Tyler cloud enough
to be heard by Mrs. Howel-"That
lady evidently doesn', know that she
Is cfchhihS W thc WiuoW Vi TtoiutDt
Tyler" Mrs. Eugene Hale (who sat
on the left of the last speaker, and
loud enough to be heard by Mr. Tyler,
to lady friend)-"And Mrs. Tyler
probably is not aware that the lady on
her right is the wife of Senator Howe.n
Here the curtain fell.
Here Is what Mr.. George Francis
Train has to say about the coustita-
ton: Tear it up. Throw 1t in the
gutter. 1t has oGtiived itself. 1t is a
ragged piece of patchwork, any way
A written constitution is always a pc
liticsl snare. Who rides in stage
coaches after the railway is built >
Who takes sailing vessel when the
steainboat IL ut the wharf? Our i'm
maculs.e constitution hos been over
advertised. The much ogerrated, inn
| moral, untruthful, never respecting
his money obligation, Daniel Webster
/ (whose monument those two political
| icebergs, Winthrop and Evarts, who
| have never reached the second round
III their ipordin ATE ambition, have Just
iDaugurafed in Central Park, made
himself New England god In the
cheap thanks be got in defending our
miserable Manga Charta. already /,
was so badly aiap;ed to our wants it
IL badiy pock-marked with fifteen
amendments.