The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-05-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

lire ednesday.
CrSciSsArr voted down proposition
to give two million dollars more to the
Southern railroad.
lT is said that the defunct New
Orleans Rspa5hcaa is to be revived for
campaign purposes in Louisiana.
Waco now has water>works. gran
ger organ with Downs at the cranky,
and military battalion.
JuDGISG from that "ooy maiden" edi-
torial in the Fort Worth Dsma-ra
Paddock must be such an awful, horrid
mani
A RECENT hail>storm in Franklin
county completely ruined all crops in
strip of country from four to six miles
wide
THE man from the rooral deestrix
with a cotton bloom in his hand, and
smile on his face, has begun his visits to
the newspaper offices.
TBE executive committee Of Harrison
county has selected Saturday, June
10Th, for the county convention, which
will be held at Marshall.
The San Antonio Heru}i is informed
that when this paper gets news from "a
reliable gentleman it does not con.
slider him reliable if he is drunk,
The next on the programme who will
toel the halter draw is Houillion, the
murderer, who dances on the air at Co.
iumbus on the 3lst of this month
THE shipment of new wheat from
this city to st. Louis last week graded
No (, and sold for one dollar and TWEEN
ty.fve cents on change in st. Louis,
HAYES and Hubbard develop a re-
marksble fondness for school exhibi-
tons and Maifests After all, there is
something in personal popularity, it
seems.
1HE cane, cotton, corn and rice crops
OF Louisiana are large and promising,
and the farmers of that state are reioio>
/ ing over the prospects of an abundant
| harvest
GoyERSoE Anthony, of Kansas, and
other prominent state officials of tina,
state, all of whom are accompanied by
their wives, are in Texas at present, on
a pleasure excursion
! A CALIFORNIAN is OF the opinion that
/ his state will not be pleasant place &c
live in until Kearney and his commun.
istic friends kill all the Chinese and are
then executed for the massacre.
THEKE were only twenty-five applica
tons for divorce made in cultured
Boston in one day last week Nor,
beans. however, will be needed nov, a
these family separations require extri
food.
The great American office seeker
Genera" George A Sheridan, of Lou,
isiana, has been provided for, and TIA,
country is now safe for term. He i
recorder of deeds Cor the district o
Columbia
EsGLASD has decided to have an agri
cultural exhibition in 1879, but il Rnssi
springs its bear upon them it is believe,
England will be found about that tim
trying to hoe her own row, which viii
be exhibition enough for the time being
! tbs Nslos of the DIST instant, gives u
: al 81
ington as to the sentiments of Coke an,
Maxey on the Potter resolution. Al
that, was published ten days since
such enterprise is to be commended.
CONGRESS- could do nothing bette
for the business interests of the coun
try than to pass the Texas and Pacifi
bill. The good effect would even be Eel
in Wall street, New York, and permt
ate every avenue of business in Amer
lea.
OUR former estimates of the whea
crop in north Texas were probably lie.
than will actually be harvested. Ii
thought by many who have trayele'
over the grain growing district that th
yield will be nearer SIX million tina
five million bushels.
liz Pennsylvania, as of yore, the Cam
, erous rule the roast. To one they sa,
Go" and he goeth; to another, Come.
and he cometh And now that the
are united by marriage with the SheI
, mans, the Chicago Times believes thei
dominance will last forever and ia,
GRAND MASTER HARcouRr, OF the Cd,
Fellows, has written a hattering lette
,, to Rutherford B. Hayes, president {
the United States inviting him, hi
family, and cabinet, to be present i
Austin On the third Monday in SEP
TENDER next, when the grand lodge {
, america will convene.
The presence Of Russian ships far u
!, | on our northeastern coast, togethe
with the Fenian demonstrations on th
border. is an indication that shout
war occur between England and this
. power, we will have nearer intere.
In it than we had in the war with TUT
. key.
Muir WHITE, hanged recently b
{ lynchers at Huntsville, Alabama, had o
{ bis life an insurance of ten thousan
1 dollars Now comes the insursnt
g company and sues the county in whic
e Huntsville is located for the amount
. the policy 1t wenid not be n bad ide
: to make every county in which Lynch
e ing occurs pay for the same. By tbs
n means it may be stopped.
VIZ thought the Adams would /
q heard from officially before the ne,
& national campaign was inaugurate'
i and here it is. Somebody has nomin,
r ted Charles Francis Adams for pres
: dent, and John Gordon, of Georgia, +,
: vice-president. Not bad ticket whe
e you come To think about it, especial
. the latter clause.
= THE railway interests Of this counti
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