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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30

May 23@5; June llOgl2; July OSSD; Au-
Night-Cotton is quiet. Uplands lOAc;
| Orleans lU1a. sales 49j bales.
Consolidated net receipts G,jS7 bales ex-
| ports to Great Britain 1853! bales; france
| 5000 bales; continent lO,iS9 halesi chahnei
Net receipts 1000 bales; gross 1903 bales:f ~
Futures closed barely steady. sales loVOO
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30

Middling Orleans. B1sc n5sd
sales inclined, 5d,OdG American 1ulures'
unl1nds. low middling April and May de-
livery l3-lGd; July and August delivery,
p9.',2d; October and Novemb delivery,
Z Sl.3ld. Shipped March by sail 2s-S2Ii
new crop shipped November and December
by sail l5-ldd.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30
Honey.

Pitchers CnetOrin IN n conn loto subgti-
tuto FOR Castor Oh, and isNs pleasant TO take
N Honey. IL IN particularly adapted 10
1eething ana irritable children. II destroya
worms, uaslmulntes the food regulates the
stomach, ana cures wind Colo, Few rom.
odloR are ns oilicnolous for Feverishnoas,
Group, Worms and Whooping Cough. Cas-
toria is u scientific and purely vegetable
preparation, more effective than Castor OH,
and neither gags or grlpeH.
COLUMBIA, Conn, May 3, 1875.
Mossrs. j. n, Rose n Co.. N. ",
uonts have n family Of eight children,
ana have uaod rs much Cnstorln M any inln'
Inv In the United States, ! Nink, ! have
never found anything equal TO IL. My chill,
dren have been saved from fever several
times by the use OF Castoria. recommend
lts uso for children, for many diaoses they
nro Hubloct To, In preference 10 any medicine
/ know of. feel IL my duty to give this GER
tinoate on account OF the benefits have do'
rived by the use of Castorin,
Very truly yours,
NORMAN =. LITTLE
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30

GALVESTON April 9.-Cotton-Receipts
62j bales. Exports, Great Britain .9t3 bales
France - bales; continent - bales; c. an
mel - bales; coastwlse $50 bales. Sales
40 bales, Stock 1888 bales. Market nomi-
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30
NEW uRLKASs, April 29.-Nignt-Ooptoi
steudy. Sales3OOO bales.

Reoeipts, net, age bales; gross $500 bales
ETnorts 1914, Stock l5,45l bales,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30

NEW YORK, April 2G.-Money easy Mt los
per cent Sterling quiet at Gh. God
steady ats OO5s Government bonds firm;
new fives, 81; state bonds quiet and steady
NEW ORLEANS, April 27.-Gold 81 0Esal OO3s
Sight "a premium. Sterling bank u e0R.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-30
ITO ALL POINTS.

And offers the Best Routes, on Quick Time
with more Comforts, Better Acc0mm0da'
tons and Greater Security than any otnei
Line. Passing through the richest and most
beautiful portions OF the Great Empire a,ss...
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19

Church's friends. He states that none
of his relatives ever made any lengthy
visit at his house. In 1874 the par
ties agreed to live apart. Edith was
given TO the father and the youngest
girl to the mother. Last spring Mrs.
Church brought a suit for divorce, and
for the custody of Edith, the other child
having died in the meantime. Her hus-
band never filed petition for divorce
but simply defended the suit, and in de-
| Tense set up the agreement made when
they separated. Dec. 10 Mr. Church
was informed that his wife was danger
ously i'll and he himself telegraphed
for Edith to come to the city. Afterward
Mrs. Church's physician stated to him
that she was not so i'll as at first report
ed, but the order for the child's visit
was not countermanded, and the mother
and child were temporarily united, I'M
der written agreement drawn up by
the counsel of the husband and Endorsed
by the wife, which was, in substance,
that while here the child should be kept
at the house of any of the friends of
Mr.. Church whom he might choose.
Edith arrived Christmas morning, and
after breakfast was taken to the Corwin
residence. Church, having made ar
rangements to pass the latter part of the
day with friends in Clifton, notified the
! COrwins that he would return for Edith
at one O'Clock that same afternoon. At
the time named he drove to the house
and was received at the door by Edith,
who placed in her fathers hand letter
from Mrs. Church's attorney, in which
it was stated that the keeping of the
child with any friends, or at any place
except at Corwin's S, would be considered
a violation of the agreement. Mr..
Church was surprised at this, and felt
that as everything in the premises had
been done by him in good faith, and
this, his actions being received in this
spirit, was equivalent to a notice that
an attempt would be made to prejudice
him and his custody of the child in the
proceedings which had been brought
against him, and inasmuch as he was
informed by Mrs. Church's physician
that the condition of the wife was i'm
proving, he took the child away and
that same night went with her to Bos-
ton. The carefully-worded letter of
Mrs. Church's attorney is what precipi-
tated the taking away of the child. Mr..
Church says that before the suit was
brought, and in the endeavor to avoid
it, he offered Mrs. Church the custody
of Edith for eight months in every year
under conditions not derogatory to Mrs.
Church, but with which she could not
persuade herself to comply.-Cjncjn-
1aati enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
The Dead Of 1877.

The neurology of the year Just ended
includes large number of eminent
names, of which we may instance the
following: Cornelius Vanderbilt; Gen.
j. j. Abercrombie, U. S. A; ex-Presi-
dent Alexis Caswell, of Brown Uni
versity; Congressman w. P. Barksdale,
of Mississippi; eX-Chief-Justice Ether
Shipley, of Maine; Signor Blitz, the
magician; Ferdinand, the aged Danish.
poet; Hermann Brockhaus, of Leipsic,
the publisher and Oriental scholar; Rear
Admirals Smith, Alden, Wilkes, Bailey,
Davis and Goldsborough, U. S. N;
Prof. Henry b. Smith, OF Union Theo-
logical Seminary, New York; Hector
Buloz, of the ReUUe deS Deur MOndeS;
Sir William Ferguson, President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of London;
Rev. DR.. Muhlenberg, author of q
Would Not Live Away" aged eighty
three; Lorenzo Sabine, the historian of
American Loyalists; Gen. Changarnier,
of France; Nine. lie Vert, the Southern
leader of society; Charles Conden
Clarke, the English author, aged ninety;
eX-Gov. Emery Washburn, of Massa-
chusetts; Rev. Selah B. Trent, of the
American Board of Missions; Ross
Winans, of Baltimore, engineer and &C.
centric theologian; Senator Brownlow,
of Tennessee; eX-Gov. Edward Kent, of
Maine; Ernest Picard, the French states
man; Fletcher Harper, last survivor of
the brothers John Lothrop Motley,
the historians; the Hon Mrs. Norton,
poetess and granddaughter of Richard
Brinsley Sheridan; Rev. John S. G. Alb
bolt, the historian; Commodore John
r. Goldsborough, U. S. N. Robert
Dale Owen; Peter Harvey, the friend
and biographer of Daniel Webster;
Capt. James Warner, of Warwick, X. l.,
the Oldest Mason in the United States
aged ninety-eight; ex-President Asa ID.
Smith and Prof. A. B. Crosby, of Dart
mouth College; Brigham Young, the Nor
mon Prophet; Admiral Semmes,
of Alabama notoriety; Alvin Adams,
the pioneer eXpressman; Edward l..
Davenport, Ben De Bar and Edwin
Adams, actors; Therese Titiens, the
operate singer; l.. A. Theirs, eX-Pres-
dent of the French Republic; Senator
Bogy, of Missouri; Leverrier, the dis
coverer of the planet Neptune; Walter
Bagehot, the English economist; Julia
Kavanagh, Mrs. Warfeld and Mrs. Ell
let, novelists; Rear-Admiral Belcher,
of the British navy, a distinguished ex-
plOrer; Henry Rogers, author of the
" Eclipse of Faith; Prof Anthony, of
Harvard College, conchologist; Gen. N.
B. Forrest, of the rebel army; Senator
o. P. Morton; Rev. K. Turnbull, d. d.,
of Hartford, Baptist clergyman and
author; DR.. E. H. Clarke, prominent
physician and medical author, of Bos-
ton; Commodore Caldwell, U. S. N,
and Field-Marshal Won Wrangel, the
Nestor of the German army, aged
ninety-three.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19

in vigor. Here, too, at our doors
Henry G. Carey, capable of doing the
work of any of the men named, at
eighty-fve. And Mr. Cameron is in
his eightieth year, and by no means
ready to fall asleep while this Admins
tration lasts. We recently buried Hor-
ace Binney, wanting but three years of
being a century; and recalling other
prominent men whose lives were active
and laborious, there was Webster, who
lived to seventy years; Clay to seventy
five; Benton an additional year; Chief
Justice Marshall, eighty; j. Q. Adams,
eighty-one; Thomas Jefferson, eighty
three; Lewis Cass, eighty-four, and
Chief-Justice fancy, eighty-seven. The
list can be easily extended, and the more
it is examined the more fully it will be
proved that American life is no more
deadly than European, and that profess
sional life has as good chances of con-
tinuance here as there.-P hiladelphtG
North american.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
What Is an Explosive Bullet!

The war now raging in the East has
assumed so much the character of a
war of determination that any question
as to the kind and quality of the mis-
siles employed sinks into comparative
insigniiicance; nevertheless, from time
to time each combatant has complained
that the other has used explosive bull
lets These missiles seem to be pecul-
iarly Objectionable to the military au-
thorities, and it is worth while to in
quire what an explosive bullet really is,
for, though the term has been freely
used, the ideas connected with it are
probably somewhat vague. The bullets
in question have been used by sportsmen
for many years, and their effects on an
imals have been thoroughly tested
They are, of course, made of lead, and
are cast in a mold of such a form that
the bullet, instead of being solid
throughout, has a cylindrical hollow
extending from the apex nearly to the
base. The hollow is filled with gun
powder, which is capped with an en-
plosive mixture, consisting of chlorate
of potash, oxide of anthony, and sui
phur. A plug of wax fills up the ORR
flee and forms the apex of the bullet,
and a little spirit varnish over the wax
makes the "shell'' complete. This
bullet is tolerably safe to handle, though
a blow on the apex will, as a matter of
course, produce an explosion. When
projected from a rifle, and meeting
with a resisting substance, the bullet
eXplodes andforms anirregular-shap
more or less Jagged piece of lead, from
which portions may fly off. If it strikes
the soft parts, say of limb, it may
penetrate an inch or two before it
bursts, and in that case the aperture of
entrance differs in no respect from that
of an ordinary bullet; the aperture of
exit, however, will form large, irreg-
ular wound perhaps large as a crown
piece. Such bullet striking the thoraX
or abdomen is likely to lodge and pro-
duce very speedily fatal results, owing
to the 1hock and hemorrhage which
it causes. In sporting parlance, such
a bullet has great g stopping qualities,
but in q military point of view it has
certain disadvantages. 1t will not
ricOchet, for it bursts on striking the
ground; it would very rarely injure
more than one man, as its onward
movement is checked by the explosions
it is not suitable for long range, its
flight not being so steady as that of Il
bullet of uniform compositions; and
lastly, its use involves certain amount
of danger. Why it should be objected
to on grounds of humanity is somewhat
difficult to conceive. The wounds in
tiicted by fragments of shells fired from
guns Of larger caliber are often much
more extensive and horrible than any
that could possibly be caused by eX-
plosive rifle-bullets. If line must be
drawn somewhere, it surely would be
more logical and humane to exclude
the greater missiles, for the smaller one
has disadvantages of its own such as
are likely to prevent it from ever being
brought into common use in warfare
i ~ y Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19

SENTIMENT is not apt to entwine
itself about railroad, though engineers
and tiremen do become attached to
their engines. Vanderbilt once made
a mistake in not recognizing this fact
When he first took control of the New
Y ork Central Railroad he ordered all
the brass-work to be stripped from the
locomotives. 1t was a useless expense,
he said, to put it on at all, as it added
neither to the strength or speed of the
engine. Then, too, it was expensive to
keep polished, consuming time, oil, rot
ten-stene and rags.
The economical manager soon found
out that sentiment played no slight part
in running a railroad. The engineers,
veXed at the disrobing of their hand
some engines, ceased to care for them.
The tiremen also neglected them. They
looked dingy, grew dirty and greasy,
and the number laid up for repairs
greatly increased
Vanderbilt saw his mistake, and the
brass was restored to the locomotives,
which again became as tidy in their APP
pearance as the engineers wives.
On the Great Western Railway of En-
gland there is broad gauge and a mar
row gauge. The broad, being the orig
inal gauge, has the favor of the old en-
ployes, who, like nearly all Englishmen,
are averse to change. An ancient guard
was recently knocked down and run
over by an engine on this line. He
asked to see the company's doctor, who
was sent for, though the injured man
was beyond the remedial skill of ply
stefan.
Il am glad you came to see me start,
doctor, as hope, by the up-train," said
the poor fellow.
II am only sorry | can do nothing
for you, my good fellow" answered the
sympathetic physician.
Il know that; it is all over with me.
But there, I'm glad it was not one of
them narr0W-gduge engines as did itr'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
Eclipses for 1878.

There will be four eclipses during the
year 1873, two Of each luminary, as
follows:
An annular eclipse of the sun near
two o'clock in the morning of Feb. ,,
which will, therefore, be invisible to the
people on this part of the earth's sur
face. 1t will be partially visible from
nearly the whole of Australia, but from
neither of the continents, its northern
limit being south of the southernmost
capes of Asia and Africa.
A partial eclipse of the moon in the
morning of Feb. II, visible from the
United States. The moon will enter
the earth's shadow at 3:524 a. M,
and leave it at 6:4S3 a. m. At 5h PIN,
the middle of the eclipse, 0.S4 of the
moon diameter will be obscured. The
time is not favorable for general obser-
walton from this section.
A total eclipse Of the sun, July 80,
visible in all parts of North America.
The line of totality runs through KAN
schatka, Behring's Straits, Alaska,
British America, Western Montana,
Western Wyoming. Western Colorado,
passing about one degree southwest of
Denver City, and across Texas to the
Gulf of Mexico, near Galveston city.
A partial eclipse Of the moon in the
afternoon and evening of Aug. u. The
moon will enter the shadow at 1852
p. M, being then below the horizon,
and will leave it at 7:44 p. m, when
she will be little more than half an
| hOIIr hiUh
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
The Little Shoes Did 1t.

A young man who had been reclaimed
from the vice of intemperance was
called upon to tell how he was led to
give up drinking. He arose, but looked
for a moment very confused All he
could say was: 1.-The little shoes did
itn' With Il thick voice, as if his heart
was in his throat, he kept repeating
this. There was stare of perpleXitv
on every face, and at length some
thoughtless young people began to
twitter. The man, in all his embar-
easements, heard this sound, and raj
lied at once. The light came into his
eyes with u flash, he drew himself up
and addressed the audience; the chOk-
ing went from his throat.
Yes, friends he said, in a voice that
cut its way, clear as deep-toned bell,
whatever you may think of it, I've
told you the truth the little shoes
did itn was brute and fool; strong
drink had made me both, and starved
me into the bargain. | suffered; | de-
served to suffer; but | didn't suffer
alone-no man does who has a wife and
child, for the woman gets the worst
abuse. But | am no speaker to enlarge
on that; I'll stick to the little shoes. 1t
was one night, when was all but done
for, | saw the saloon-keeper' child
holding out her feet for her father to
look at her fine new shoes. 1t was a
simple thing; but, friends, no fist ever
struck me such II blow as those little
new shoes. They kicked reason into
me. What business have / to clothe
others with fineries, and provide not
even coarse clothing for my own, and
let them go bare?' said |; and there out
side was my shivering wife and blue
chilled child, on bitter cold night |
took hold of the little one with a grip
and saw her chilled feet! Men! fathers.
if the little shoes smote me, what must
little feet do? L put them, cold as ice,
to my breast; they pierced me through.
Yes, the little feet walked right into my
heart and away walked my selfshness.
had a trifle of money left; l bought a
loaf of bread and then a pair of little
shoes. | never tasted anything but a
bit of that bread all the Sabbath day,
and went to work like mad on Monday,
and from that day have spent no more
money at the public-house. That's all
I've got to say-it was the little shoes
that did it."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
A COnjugal Dispute.

They tell about man in Maine who
refused to get up and light the fire, and,
as his wife said she wouldn't, they re-
manned in bed thirty-seven hours be-
fore the matter was settled. Our SYM
pathies are, of course, with the woman,
and we may be permitted to entertain
regret that it did not occur to her to
perform great deed of self-sacrilice
upon this occasion. How noble and
beautiful would have been the example
set her husband, how touchingly would
she have shown her wifely devotion,
how keenly would she have made him
feel his meanness if she had risen and
made the fire-if she had risen, we saw,
and made the fire under the bed, in
order to rout him out all of sudden!
A woman who throws away such a
chance as that is false to her duty and
to her sex.-ErchdQge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
Length Of a Minute.

Fewpersons realize how long Il minute
is. The New York World relates this of a
witness who frequently used the express
sion :" several minutes: "Now, Mr..
Small, "said the Judge, 'when you think
aminute is gone say Now | will say
Now when | wish you to begin" Mr..
Small nodded his entire comprehension
of the plan, and looked confident of his
ability to guess well. Now" cried the
Judge, and in dead silence the court
waited. The witness fidgeted about in
his chair, and, with great clock-face
staring at him from the wall, stood the
suspense as long as he was able and
then cried Now" "Just twelve sec
onds!'' said the Judge, amid chorus of
laughter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
Longevity i'm America.

American life, its strain and eXpendi-
ture, is once more arraigned because
Gov. Morton died at fifty-four, while
Theirs fell off at eighty, and his con-
temporaries, Bismarck, Won Moltke,
the Emperor William, and other influ-
entail men, are living at the same age.
The arraignment is repetition and not
a discovery, and does not consider i'm
portant facts. One of these is that the
studious, calm and regular life of the
French historian and statesman was a
very different thing from the exciting
career of the Indiana leader, and that
dissimilar vital force is to be calculated
with unequal condition in reckoning
their longevity. Another is that no indi-
vidual is sufficient national representa-
tive in such u case. We have now liv-
ing in our own city, in the person of
Gen. Robert Patterson, one who has
been and done as much and suffered as
great changes of climate, and endured
as much labor, as perhaps any of the
named Europeans, and yet, eclipsing
them all in years, he is quite their equal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
A SWindle.

Superintendent Walling yesterday re-
ceived a copy of swindling circular
signed by ''Rev. A. G.. Stevens pur-
porting to have an Office at No. II Union
Square, in which clergymen are asked
for subscriptions to "Amos' Encyclo-
pedia of the New Testament" which
he claims is worth five dollars, and
which he offers for one dollar. The
circular bears the legend: "He that
giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord"
and is addressed: Dear Christian
Brother and the appeal for subscrip-
tons is made in the name of the RE
lief association to assist the destitute
poor and sick of the Protestant churches
Of New York city" The police de-
nounce the whole thing as a swindle.
N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19
How They Got Their Farm.

The Ottawa Qll.) Times says: "Some
time ago the citizens of Mendoza were
surprised to learn that married couple
who had apparently lived in peace and
harmony in Illinois had been divorced
in Kansas. The mystery is now ex-
planned. The husband had home
steaded 100 acres of fine farming land,
and there was another 100 acres adj
joining not yet taken up. The pair were
divorced, and the widow entered the va
cantquarter-section and established her
claims as the head of a family. When
this was done the pair were remarked,
and now have a fine farm of half a sec
tion.'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19

The benefits of advertising were never
better illustrated than at Hartford the
other day. Aman went into newspa-
per Office to advertise for missing cuff
and cuff-button, and in explaining to the
sympathizing clerk the theory of how
the loss occurred he found that he had
buttoned both cuffs on one wristband.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19

A TEXAS editor has produced beau
tiful smile, which should not be lost.
He says: lin the great cities trade
continues to contract, slowly but stead
lily, like mast-fed pork in the frying
pan"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19

The other day Bohemian, stranger,
stopped at the Boone County Qowa)
poor-farm to get his dinner. A Bohe-
mlan servant girl at work there was
called to talk with him. They talked
half an hour, when the girl gave up her
place and said that she was going to
get married. The two people went to the
Courthouse, got a license, and were
married in less than an hour from the
time they first saw each other.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-19

HE Russians took Kars in 1928,
1884, 1885, and now again in 1877.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-08
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

The directors of the Boston & Albany road
have reelected ihe old officers.
There IS no prospect of the passage of the
bill for special term Of court to try the timber
thieves over the veto.
Albert Shaw, warm friend of Mr.. C0nk.
ling, has been al pointed consul at Toronto.
The demand for government bonds is uu-
usually great. The sales of single bank for
a week were SO, 500,0J0.
Reeds confirmation as postmaster at Toledo
is almost certain.
The Governor of Virginia has approved the
legislative resolution stating that in view OF
the states financial embarrass ments il is i'm
'ssible to appropriate $4,000 to build 40 CO.
servatory for the mammoth telescope offered
the Charlottesville University by Mr.. McCor-
mick of Chicago. 1t is understood that Mr.
McCo mick will present the telescope TO
Princeton College.
Colonel MCCORMICK agent for the Interior
Department 10 the log cases in Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana. while riding through
the woods near Conecuh river, in Alabama, he
was fired upon by h. If a Dozen men aud .reIy
escaped with his life. He was seriously in
jured. Persons in that section have stat
that they would kill anv government officer
who might come among them.
The plague has broken out at Reshad and
others cities ia Asia.
W. s. Gro. beck of Ohio and Nathan Apple
ton OF Boston are me ueoLed as members OF Ihe
proposed international monetary convention.