The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-08
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

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Summer weather.
Paint the street cars.
Pay policemen salaries.
Only seven runaways yesterday.
Judge Thurmond Ia reported to be
quite III.
Matters are little quiet since the
carnival.
Every kind of vegetation Is grow
ing rapidly.
Tomorrow the district Sunday
school begins.
Give us n midnight car gentlemen
OF the street railways.
Take down the flags. Some OF them
look ragged and dirty.
"A cool wind blew up last night
whirling the dust about In disagreea-
BILE manner.
The standing water In the guttor
on the north side OF Main street should
be drained off.
Grand concert at San JacInto Park
to day. The Germania Band will 10
In attendance.
Houston is making big prepsra-
ton for the firemens celebration on
San Jacint0 day.
The State firomen's convention
will meet In this city on the second
"Wednesday in June.
The races In New Orleans came OIL
yesterday. Dallas was represented
there by Jack Hardy and other flyers
The police should pick up every
horse not securely hitched. BY 80
doing many runaways would be pre-
vented.
Elder II. M. Gano will preach at
the Christian Church on Lordsday Mt
III o'clock. Subject--Brotherly Love.
All are invited.
We are informed that manager
John Thompson is going to Weather
ford to see about opening variety
show In that town.
Sam Spencer has more buffalo
hams than we ever saw together at
one time. He received ten thousand
pounds the other day.
Marshal Morton stopped run
away TEEN on Ervay street last night,
they had only the neck yoke attached
to them when stopped.
The quantity of freight shipped
from this city by both roads. and pur-
chased during the carnival, is reported
by railroad mon to he very great.
The number of thieves infesting
the town is very great. Daily COM
plants are made to the police by par
ties who have suffered from their de-
predations.
We would call the attention OF the
council to the gas light which was
ordered at the corner of Ervay and
Main streets. 1t has not made its APP
pearance yet.
NO person should be at allowed to
leave horse unhitched in the street,
and the police should see to 1t, and
arrest oil who endanger the safety of
pedestrians by leaving their teams I'M
fastened.
The wife Of "Lon was on the
streets yesterday selling her bead
work at u profit Of one per cent. The
noble red man soon gets enough
civilization to teach him the art Of
charging.
Dallas Commandery, No. 9, meets
this evening at 2 p. m. for business of
importance. All the =. KS. are or
dered to attend, by order OF,
GEO. MELI.ERsH, Il. c.
u. ?. LouETDA. Recorder.
"A retail depot Of the North Amer
lean Ice Company, will be opened ON
Monday, April 0, 1877. at 1Os Market
street. between Main and Elm streets.
Attendance from 0 toS.
aprs-St AT STEVENS, Agent.
Don't fail to call at A. Il L. Mitten-
that's, GOA Elm street. Under the efil-
cient management Of Messrs. Harry
Marks and Harry Heafl, their dry
goods palace has become the mott at
tractive and best arranged In the city.
Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal
Church-Rev. II. Wallace, an evan.
gelist from Illinois, will assist tho
pastor, morning and night; meeting
for Christian purity. at 8 am; class
meeting, IL M; Sunday School, 2 D. m.
Welcome. Seats free.