The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-02-15
LOCAL JOTTINGS.


M. II. Monday night.
Letter list on third pnge.
Forty days Of fasting and prayer,
Lent.
The race for mayor is getting
warm.
Several young Vlrgnans are here
with view of locating.
Business Well the mud has set.
tied that for some days,
The ball of the Turnveren takes
place on Saturday night.
Any effort to move the postoillce
into more central location will te
heartily approved.
The Dallas and Clehurne Railway,
it is reported, Ia about to assume more
decided and tangible form.
1t is rumored that the reception Of
Rex on the fourth of April, here, will
eclipse Galveston's side show.
The hotels and boarding houses
are crowded with prospectors, most Of
them seem to be from the West.
"A strong pull, long pull, and
pull altogether, by the Episcopal con
gregation, could soon finish the
cathedral
Farmers report the wheat crop
doing well, and the prospects tor
pitching more cotton than last year
excellent.
Cotton! fla wagon with bale
had ventured on Elm street esterday,
few buyers would have been bold
enough to wade TO it.
1t is about time for Marshal Nor.
ton to make another haul of Migrants.
If there Ia one there are five hundred
prowling around,
The district court was occupied
with the criminal docket, the case of
Jim Crutch6eld, charged with murder,
Uelub unueT CUHSlueTutlOu.
The hop which was to have been
given on Monday night at the San
Jacinto, did not take place, owing to
the inclemency of the night.
The general health of the city con-
tinues good, with the exception of
some cases of cold and pneumonia, at.
tributable to the present beastly
weather.
The firemen have had no ball this
winter. st. Josephs' day, mid lent,
would be good day for the boys in
red TO "trip the light fantastic toe.n
We hear the name of Charley
Meisterhans mentioned as good
material for an alderman, whom the
Germans would probably support.
IPdltse i'm herVori JtngenS!
To say, "Another good woman
gone-into the Kitchen" is not very
cheerful way of announcing fashion.
able marriage, but 1t describes the To-
cal situation often with realistic ac
curacy,
THE HERALD's sanctum is now
adorned with q fine likeness of Genera
Wade Hampton, Governor of SDutl
Carolina, the "noblest Roman of then
all, and the foremost man in thC
South to day.
The grand annual ball OF the La
mar Rifles takes place on Thursday
February odd, upon which occasion
The prize sword, awarded to the hes
drilled military company, will be pre-
sented by the North Texas Fair AS
ISOLATION.
Judge Hord, for many years one o
The HERALD's staunchest supporters
was in town yesterday, looking hale
and hearty rs an oak. The Judge hal
one of the best farms in the county
across the river.
Doctor Craig's card will be founC
in another column of to-day's issue
lie tells us he has been very successful
in this special practice. Thos
afflicted with rheumatics, neuralgi
scrofula or chills and fever shout,
give the doctor trial.
Sam Spencer has been lookln,
puny and low-spirlted ever since h
allowed his pet panther to go up t
Panthervillc and give tone to it. TIL
prodigal beast has returned, and tn
fatted calf should now be killed.
In the military convention, hel,
at Galveston, Captain Il. G. Bower, o
the Stonewall Grays, was elected lieu
tenant colonel of the First regimen
Texas State militia, and Captain j. G
Eblen lieutenant colonel of tie Secon,
regiment thereof.
If you desire rosy cheeks and
complexion fair and free from pimples
blotches, and eruptions, purify you
blood by taking Doctor Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery. 1t has no equa
for this purpose. Doctor Pierce
memorandum books given away by nj
druggists.
joy and gladness to all suffernI
from lung and throat complaints
This new principle of Doctor j. II
McLean's cough and lung healin,
globules cures coughs, colds, asthma
and consumption. Trial boxes by mai
twenty-five cents Doctor j. III