The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-06-02
QUIDITIEs.

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Packard no longer wastes his vaiua-
Bile time writing letters TO the presi-
dent. He now presents his grievances
to Blaine.
The horror Of being addressed as
"Mr." ss keeping great many Eng
lish lords" from visiting this coun.
| try, haw.
Ex-Congressman Plat, of Iowa, is
going to leave politics, which, In Iowa,
is enough to disgust any body, and viii
enter the ministry.
The six Music teachers of the Pitts,
burg public schools have been dis
missed. In consequence of hard times
the pupils will hereafter sing small.
Daniel Webster praeticed law while
drawing his salary as secretary of state,
and what Daniel did must, OF course
be the right thing for Mr.. Evarts TO
do.
Several Mississippi papers have put
up the name of Ex-Governor Hum
pbreys as their fsvorite candidate this
year. The canvass is becoming very
earnest.
Texas beef IL sold for fourteen cents
q pound in London, but in Galveston
it is fifteen cents. 1t 10 cheaper for
Texans to go to London to buy their
Texas beef.
Brigham Young says: "My mar
rage with Ann Eliza was a foolish
thing. 1t was a thing that 1 allowed
her parents to persuade me into. |
did it for her good.
Tna n.. ha;,aa
to have it understood that ex- Govern.
or Carpenter resigned his position In
the treasury because he couldn't In
dorse the presidents policy.
The Rochester Democrat imasiues
Field Marshal Halstead crying ex-
citedly to Gail Hamilton: ali there
don't shoot. / never said anything.
1t was Deacon Richard Smith,"
A New York lawyer has sued an AL
bany paper for one million dollars be-
cause of damaged reputation. A New
York iawyefs reputation at the low
price OF million dollars il cheap.
The Boston Journal, which has evi>
IDENTIFY tried both, says that moral
s1asion has done more for the cause Of
temperance than legislation can 40
complish. 1t, therefore, sustains Gov
ernor Rice's veto. tas-s zfss
aThe Rev. Mr.. Gass, q scientific axca-
vator, has just unearthed from the
kmounds near Davenport, Iowa. oowl-
der three feet In diameter, upon which
IL carved q faced an number Of rude
and simple figures.
The New York Times Ii 30 pressed
| for political thunder that it writes up
| . drunken BaltimOrean who pointed o
pistol At the head Of y hotel clerk Of
Gotham, aud presents him as y repre-
sentative southerner.
| A correspondent. writes to ask why
newly married men are called Bene-
diets, The reason, we believe, il that
In entering on their new state OF life
they are supposed to give up all the
bad bachelor habits to which they
have benedicted.
| An exchange inquieres: Where
are they goingTn The office boy looked
out OF the window last night, us they
went by, %and as they were singing
the "Oid Oaken Bucketn Ia seven
keys, he concluded that all the places
were shut up and that they were going
home.
Captain Burton reports the discov-
sea which were "bnilt on the sites of
the gold mines once worked by the
Copts, the Persians and the Romans
Captain Burton intends to begin the
work of mining at these places in No
| vember.
i II General Sherman IL to make any
more army speeches, the sooner the
"Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte" is issued
to the people in convenient tracts the
better. 1t will be remarked that Ma.
i poleon Bonaparte repeatedly saved the
French republic, and that he was wor-
shipped for his valuable services.
i From French paper: "a husband
! and wife, whose conjugal dlssensions
are proverbiRl, were discovered by a
mutual friend the other evening deep
ly plunged In reading. The husband
was absorbed in the Billoir trial, the
cutting up of mistress, aud the wife
was In brown study over that OF Nine.
Lafarge for poisoning her husband
The peach growers on the Delaware
aud Maryland peninsula are ready 10
acknowledge that the prospect at the
present moment for an overwhelming
yield, is appalling. The widest dream
of the most sanguine peach enthusiast
of ten years ago, Is likely to be more
than realized. The crop on the pen.
insuia Is estimated at II 900. 900 bas-
kets, against S,000,000 in IS75-the
, largest crop on record.
I The planters throughout East Mis-.
sissippi are greatly worried over 9
! disease that is now prevailing among
; their horses and mules. Some fifty OF
sixty have died In the last few days
, The disease is a strange one, and un
: known to those acquainted with horse
diseases. They are attacked with
something like collie, and the majority
Of cases have died in four hours aftei
wards.
Il THE Fort Smith (Arkansas) Herald
/ says: The reports we have of croI
! prospects from ail parts of the country
. are cheering and good. The whea
everywhere looks well, and unless in,
jured too much by rain will give
: heavy yield. The farmers, though
I little late, are pressing on and catch
9 ing up with their corn and cottol
. work, and are ia dead earnest tina
!, neither weeds nor grass shall flu,
them mapping. The fruit crop look
b wall a@ F~t