The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-01-20

having judicial as well ministerial
powers over the count .slI>Yotes have
Selected Legislature ergo the people
rnusi submit.
Ptseaeacs, even Pineiibaek now
derounees the wretched RepubIican
thieves and conspira,ors Of Louisi = a
and joins the Democratic Senate. Grant
must order his hayonets fixed
PLASo voted for local option ON the
18th instant. Whislley carried The day
by three votes, the old soais being not
at all DESTROYS of having their rations
eat oil. The vote was ninety -ei ght
against and ninety-tiye FOR the abroga-
ton Of the sshiskey traffic.
THE onsangained undergarInent is no
longer a myth. One was found in South
Carolina, with live Democratic darky
in it,who was aoeged till he was striped
as national flag for voting tor Massa
Hampton. II has been hung up in a
Centennial musuem with Eliza Pink
stons cbemiloon.
a THOUGHTFUL Cincinnati publisher
has issued some cheap pamphlet edi-
tons Of the Constitution of the United
States, and hundred experienced mis-
sionaries size wanted to introduce few
thousand copies at the White House,
ia Congress, and among some of the
prominent politicians OF tbs country.
CAFrMS Fans, having opened the
mouth of the Mississippi the New York
M, suggests to him, while engaged in
that section. to try if he could not
manage to open the mouth of. Madi-
sou Wells and make him tell how much
he and his associates have been paid by
Zach Chandler for counting in Hayes"
Wsutp i; not be well enough in the
coming mayoralty contest. to do away
with familiar demagogues who appear
IN politics as the friends of the work
| ingman The mechanics of the city
are too sensible to be caught by such
chaff, and the dodge too old to catch
the unwary just now.
As old railroad conductor charges the
Ashtsbula disaster to the running of
| two locomotives over the frosty struc.
ture. He says that in all cases where
a train drawn by two engines is to cross
La trestle. one Of the locomotives should
be detached, and sent forward alone,
relieving the structure of half the eighty
Tor ninety tons weight which would
otherwise come upon it
NEXT to the BennettrMay scandal for
the New York gossips is the marriage
OF Horace Stokes (only brother of Jim
Fisk's murderer) and Jenny Foote,
niece and adopted daughter of two
wealthy Madison avenue bachelors
named Valentines both parties are
young. and neither family knew any
thing about the wedding Till it was
over.
| Gov. NIeHotLs says that any tumult
or eneute ON the part of the pretender
Packard siall b gltetleS ~ the seuerssr
,aeassres and at a7,y cost, while Packard
commands said body of persons pre-
I tending to the General Assembly to de-
sist from further prosecution of their
! .awiess aud reasonable conspiracy ard
TO Immediately dispense" The next
thing we shall hear will be the quick,
sharp crack of musketry.
TRE Couriss. des Eats inns learns that
orders have been given to Immediately
arm two steam dispatch boats of the
first class, to hold themselves at the
disposition of the French representatives
in the Black Sea. These dispatch boats
are to leave Cherbourg in short time
Ebut the Instructions given their com
manders are of the most reserved ma
ture in political point of view.
ERADaEDirs like this occur in golden
California; John G, Dawes left two
weeks ago With his flock of two thou
sand sheep for the north While cross
ing the aiksli lands near Tulare Lake
he camped for the night, and in the
morning when he awoke he saw his
| sheep all lying down but one, and on
4 examination found that there was bu,
| one alive. They had all quietly died in
the night---a loss of more than $5000.
| The law of New York makes this
sending or carrying Of challenge tc
fight duel an otfense punishable by
imprisonment IN the penitennary. and
this whether the meeting took place in
the State or not. Now, il the New
Workers have pluck enough to put Mr.
| Bennett and young May in the STATE
| prison they win link dueling with dis
grace, consummate a most salutsry re
form, and save themselves much un
necessary trouble IN the future.
| BRLros does not propose TO lose the
notoriety she acquired some years since
| BY the shooting to death of nine pris
ohefs connned IN her jail, Last Friday
week two men. one named Francis
Dean, the others name Bill FretwelI
were taken from the jail in the nigh,
and hung, by a band of about thirty
unknown men. They are said to have
been horse thieves, one of whom con.
fessed to have stolen many horses from
Bell county, while the other asserted
his Innocence to The last
"FHE assumption of the office of chiel
executive against the constitutionaIiy
expressed win of tbs people would seem
an act of simple ssurpation and to
mark another stage in the history of an
expiring Republic. II is safe to say
that no plan .which.fnds support. in the
letter or spirit of the constitution in the
declared opinions of its trainers. or in
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