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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

We will find buyers for Lands, Farms aud
City Property. We will find renters for
Farms, Dwellings and Stores. Furnish alb
stracts, perfect titles, pay taxes, etc. Neeoti.
ate loans on real estate security. Make sur
Buy, sell and locate LAM certificates,
Farms and city property In the North to
exchange for Texas property.
having an extensive acquaintance with
capitalists OF the older states, whose atten-
ton is turned In this direction, parties de-
siri ng to sell property will do well TO place
IL In our hands. oc3,6m
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

tTiif DESIRABLE SMALL cOlIAlh,
v furnished, in lenaR, tlnn nflghbnfr
mood Terms reasonable, iialf blgek lrnW
hfyay street railway. Apply ~ herinnl
lieTeigId, Corner Main and Lamar Streets
mpiiB "
hWkLLlhG-AlFORp a hOHLEf, W.
Elm street, want W rent q nrsl-nlAss
dwelling Win ola ~ eighl T0omH plslerl
water, static, etG mnhl-H
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29
Ayers
Hair Vlg~
For restoring Gray Hair 70
lis natural Vitality and Color'

A dressing
which is at once
healthy and ei'
fectual for pre-
$ serving th'
hair, Faded Or
rqyha,i'rbI''..,a'
= restored 10 lis
original color y
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

AJAhlilRuTOA HOuht-fhia house II
w situated on corner NJ Wood aud Market
slTels rafips seeking u house WIN ~ me
CON OTih NJ u hOmp can npl 40 hrllef lhhl
give lhb Washington house u cal, Ihn lAblp
IL supplied with ihe best me market can "
~ Il, psthrn water Furnished 90 unluTn'
ihnHd rooms ~ lpl Hoard and lodgings pei
week ~ 90 QUO dollar pef day uhphuh
MUAHU. febll.lm,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

"HAT ~ IT? II is the cneapest and
w most delightful .purgaive known 10
the public. II acts upon the bowels and
liver speedily and etfectually, ana does moi
slcken the stomach. Held in high repute for
constipation, biliousuess, torpidity, sick
headache, sour stomach, heartburn, loss OF
appetite, collie, fiatulency, dyspepsia, etc.,
ana as cooling, beverage in feveTs IL is de-
lightful and is as pleasant az a glass of SODA
water. Lauies and Others leading seden.
tary or closely confined life are delighted
with Its effects. IL cleanses the stomach,
tones the bowels, cools the brain, outlets tn,
nervous; is put up In large bottles and sold
AT % cts. No family, no mother, no one
travelling, no close student should fall to use
+. GEORGE, Galveston.
j. y. DROMGOOLE d co.
Proprietors, Louisville, XIV.
SOLD wholessleand retail in Dallas, Texas. nv
MOB 1 WALKER and v. 4, HOWELL
ep
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Ml.ssll.asou, W.ai,

klTAATED- Wanted % rent q furnished
w ~ unfiITnihhed house hlH or eight
rooms, WO-atOfy preferred, LlhrThl rent pald'
Address, pnHl0iilnn hpA ihlli pllY' hlliN l2l
DlKEh FURNITURE ruLlhH WIN 70
i hnW YuuT piAuOt organ ul lulnlluln W
~ original lnsllp lnl ghle ~ T. hllllhg'
toms furniture 6lre, 0lI Fila street,
muligilW
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

IITANTED-rhree firsl'Oass BARRIERS, Az
w ply ~ I0nya halberhh0p on Lamar
gtT0Ht Inphah II
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

~ E,TuRNER 4 CO.'S Agency, over post
". OiiiOe, feUt, fpll ~ exchange farms
houses, land, merchandise, aud other prop
HIiy, lns'llh
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

DIAM \ AND ORuA NS-Tho largest stock,
l the host assortment, lowcel pricea aud
most reasonable terms A SUNNI ER n CO,
lOl Commerce street, near tie bridge,
muhA,lm
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-29

DlANOS-1wO hrst'claA pianos, nearly
1 new, lull l'3 octave, for rOnt' Also ilrAt'
oiaAa piano. rosewood case, iull'slle, inlly
guar nlOed, iOrHnlciOhly $500, A, SUMNER
n co., lW Commerce street. mch2l.lw
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04
Numbering the Plants

The Belgian Horticulturist states that
there are mentioned in the Bible about
fifty clearly distinguished plants, and
some fifty others in more general terms.
The works Of Hippocrates mention 234
vegetable species, and those Of Theo-
phrates about 500. Pliny In his natural
history, gives the names Of 300 plants.
From the Renaissance botany, in COM
mon with so much else, took a avigorous
start. In the sixteenth century one
could find 800 plants in the works Of
Gesner, l l,400 In those Of d'Escluse,
3,73l in Dalechamp's General History Of
Plants, published in 1887, and G 900 in a
work by Bapbin. Further progress
was made In the seventeenth century,
and in the eighteenth Linnaus defined
1894 vegetable species, distributed into
!, ,236 classes. In the nineteenth century
according to Persons Synopsis Pldntarum
from 26 to e, 600 vegetable productions
were known in 1906. In 1852 Lindley,
In his Vegetable Kingdom, estimated
the genera at s,S3l aud the species at
%, 900
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04
An Aristocratic Spendthrift.

An advertisement of the sale by
auction of a magnificent mansion aud
estate in Hertfordshire England affords
me text for a story and sermon.
Some years ago, when / was passing a
few monts at Oxford, two or three Of
the aristocratic under graduates were
making themselves notorious by their
silly freaks, such as smashing the doors
and looking-glasses in the houses In
which they lodged, wrenching of
knockers and bell-pulls from the doors
of the houses in the High street, making
bonfres Of pictures and statues in the
great quadrangle Of Christ Church, etc.
The ringleader Of this party was a
young man named Marjoribanks, COM
monty called Marchbanks, the heir to
Immense wealth, and inheriting, among
other sources Of income, partnership
in the celebrated banking house of
Coutts & Co. He was young man of
considerable ability, but wasted the
period ofhis college career in the amuse-
ments of his set. He and his immediate
comrades carried their horse-play too
far, and were eventually expelled In
disgrace from the university. His es-
capadcs did not, however, materially
affect his position in society, and four
years ago he married daughter of the
Duke of Marlborough. 1t was hoped
that this event would have sobered him
down, and that, with the splendid ad-
vantages he possessed, he would have
become useful member of society. He
purchased the estate have mentioned,
and on the house alone expended no
less than 5000, 900, making 1t one of the
most elegant mansions In the kingdom.
Every ybody, except his most intimate
friends, supposed that lie was going on
all right, when suddenly came collapse,
and he was found to be many hundreds
of thousands of pounds worse of than
nothing. Precisely now he has man
aged, in so short time, not only to run
throL gh his immense Legitimate fortune,
but also to involve himself hopelessly
in debt, is not yet clearly known, but a
continuous system Of gambling and
betting, In which enormous stakes we're
involved, appears to have been at the
bottom of 1t. Efforts were made to save
him, and prevent the exposure, but the
demands against him proved SO serious
that this was found impossible, and 1t
became at last necessary to eject his
forcible withdrawal from the great bank
ing house. Lady Burdett-Coutts her
aelf had an interview with him, aud
generously offered to give him fl0O,0 900,
II that sum would relieve him from his
difficulties. On his replying that 1t
would not, she is said to bave offered
two, three, four and even Hge hundred
thousand pounds (s2 2.5oO,OOO), but he
still affirmed that this sum would be
nothing like sufficient, and she was
sensible enough to give up the attempt.
or course, his ruin is now complete,
and he stands before the world the most
splendi specimen Of his age Of the reck-
less spendthrft. 1 need hardly add
that he gets very little sympathy.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04
Bathing and Burning at Benares.

What a singular spot Is sacred city
of the Hindoos! From all parts Of In
dia pious Hindoos come to spend their
last days and die there, sure of thus OBJ
tanning their peculiar form of salvation
All day long, from earliest dawn till
sunset, thousands Of people bathe on
the steps Of the CHATS, which run along
the rivers banks for nearly two miles,
ia the sure and certain hope that by
such abhtion their sins are washed
clear away. 1t is an extraordinary
sight to sit in boat and quietly drift
with the stream alongside the whole
length Of this great city, and watch the
bathers who fill up almost the entire
line. Men and women are thus piously
engaged, and the usual plan is to bring
down plain robe, which they deposit
on the stone steps, whilst they descend
in the water IN their other robe, and
there perform the necessary amount of
ablutions. On ascending from the
river they dexterously unwind the wet
robe and wind on the dry one, so that
there is no possible objection to the
performance being in public. Many Of
the bathers bring with them large brass
vessels for the manufacture Of which
Benares is famed; and these they fill
with water from the sacred but muddy
stream and walk of with the urn bal
anced on their heads. This water is for
domestic purposes and serves to shed an
odor of sanctity at home. Whilst the
bathers stand up to their waists in
water, devoutly folding their hands in
prayer, or shedding offerings of leaves
into the running stream from larger
baskets, the priests are squatting on the
shore by scores, each under an enOr-
nous umbrella Of plated bamboos some
ten or twelve feetin diameter, and each
with continually increasing heap of
small coin presented by the bathers-
for what purpose 1 do not know. One
of the CHATS is called "the burning
CHAT" where are stacked great piles of
wood, and where the boats that you see
coming down the river with great
stacks Of wood upon them unload their
burden. Here, In the midst of the
bathers, the dead are burnt by their
sorrowing friends. The body is brought
down, lashed upon small hand-bier.
If man it is wound tightly in white
robes so that every part is covered; If
1t is a woman the robes are red. The
body is then plunged overhead in the
stream, and then left lying in the water
half-submerged, while the friends build
the funeral pyre. When the pile is half
built the body is laid on, and then more
wood and the torch is applied, and the
smoke of the burning soon pours forth
in thick murky volumes. When the
wood is burned all the parts Of the 0ody
that are left unconsumed are thrown
into the Ganges, down which they float
till the birds and fishes what the fire
leaves undOne. This cremation goes on
daily, and during one short visit before
breakfast saw six funeral fires lighted,
but | did not feel called npon to watch
the entire destruction of the several
Dyres
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04

mained unchanged. Its weight is 25.s
grains and its fineness 900. Its total
coinage up to the close of the last fiscal
year wassl9, ,345, ,43s.
G. Three dollar piece. An act of
February 81, 1853, established this ir-
regular coin. Its weight, ia grains,
and its 1neness, 900, are Of the normal
standard, and have not been changed
by subsequent acts. Its total coinage
up to June 80, 1877, was 81 ,3O0,032.
1t is hardly necessary to state that all
these gold coins are legal tender TO an
unlimited amount. The federal statute,
however, requires that the weight
should not be materially reduced by at
triton.
Thus it will be seen that there are
six pieces of gold coinage in the United
States. The double-eagle, the three
dollar piece, the dollar piece-all Of
later coinage-have not been changed
in weight or fneness. One of the ear
liest acts Of Congress authorized the
coinage of the eagle, the half-eagle.
and the quarter-eagle. They remained
of the same weight and fineness during
more than forty years. BY the act Of
June 2s, 1884, the weight and flneness
were both materially reduced.
Two years and half subsequently,
by the act of January Is, 1873, the fine
ness was increased by less than one
part in thousand. The standard of
weight and flneness has remained the
same as ever since for all gold coin.
The fineness is nine parts of pure gold
and one part of alloy; or 900 parts in
900, as it is generally expressed. The
standard of Notwithstanding alloy
with the gold--is 25,S grains to the dol
lar; the double eagle is twenty times
that (5l6 grains); the eagle ten times;
(25S grains); the half eagle five times;
(l29 grains); the three-dollar piece
three tines; GA grains); the quarter
eagle 2H times that; (64.5 grains).
The question is sometimes asked, OF
what is the alloy made? In gold coin it
was at first compound of silver and
copper. 1t was forbidd n by statute
that the alloy should be more than half
silver. 1t is now nearly all copper,
owing to the advances made in the art
of assaying and improved methods in
coinage.
The total amount Of gold coinage up
to June 30, 1877, was 1898, l59, ,695.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04
American Gold.

!. The double eagle, or $40 piece.
Coinage of the double eagle was author
lied by. the act of March 3, 1919. Its
weight is 5l6 grains. Its fineness is 900.
This technical form of expression
means that 900 parts in l,00G are pure
metal, the other 100 parts are alloy
The total coinage of the $40 gold piece
up to June 80, 1877, the close of the last
fiscal year, was $500, ,59S, ,44O. The
amount is far greater than that Of all
the other coinage of the United States.
1t, in fact, is the imperial coin Of our
country, at once massive, weighty and
regal in appearance.
2. The eagle, or $40 piece. Its coin
age was authorized by the act Of April
2, 1892. The weight was first estab-
lished by law at 270 grains, but was
changed forty;two years afterward, by
the act of June 2s, 1884, to 25S grains,
where it has remained ever since. Its
fineness was in the beginning made
9l612, but was changed by the act of
June rs, 1884, the same act that lower
ed its weight. to s99.225. Two years
and half subsequently its fneness
was increased-less than one part in a
thousand-to 900. Its weight and fine
ness have remained thus fixed to the
present day. The total coinage of this
noble piece Of American money up to
June 30, 1877, was $56, ,7O7. .22O--less than
one fourteenth of the total coinage Of
the imperial double eagle.
3. The half-eagle, or $5 piece.
This elegant coin has undergone the
same vicissitude1 as the eagle. Its COIN
age was authorized by the same act Of
April 2, 1902. Its weight was 1876
grains and its fneness 0l6H. BY the
act of June 2S, 1884, its weight was re-
duced to l29 grains and its finenesS in
creased to S99.225. By the act of Janu-
airy l6, 1857, its fneness was slightly
raised to the uniform standard of 900.
It's weight and fineness have thus re-
mained to our time. Its total coinage,
up to the close Of the last fiscal year,
was 500, ,4l2'sl6.
4. The quarter-eagle, or $3.50 piece.
This fine coin belongs to the same
family with the eagle and half-eagle.
Its coinage was authorized, its weight
and fneness corresponding altered by
the same acts. The statute Of 1902
made its weight Of 67.5 grains and its
fineness 9lG16. Its weight was reduced
to 64.5 grains and Its fineness to 800. .225
by the act Of 1884. The act Of 1887
raised its fineness to 900. Its total coin
age up to June 30, 1877, was $26, ,075, $50.
s. The dollar. This pretty little gold
piece was created by the act Of March 3,
ls49, the same act that authorized the
coinage Of the double eagle. 1t has re-
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04
THE NORTHERN FARMER.

o fsyors every year made new
0gfs rain aud sunshine sent
The oJuntrJ oVtuuns our due,
The fullnsss shames our discontent
We shut our eyes, the flowers bloom ON
We murmur. but the corn-ears fill;
We oh, ose the shadow, but the sun
Tnht asis II shines behind US still,
God gives Us, with our rugged soil,
Tue power to make it Eden-fAir,
And r.cher fruits TO crown our toll
Than summer welded islands bear.
Who mur nurs at his lot today
Who soorns his native fruits and blooml
Or tighs for dsi. ties far away,
Beside the bounteous board OF homer
ThAuk hfAyen. instead, that Freedoms arm
Can change q rocky roll to god,
Thst love and generous lives can warm
cline with Northern ices cold.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04

don't know what think about II my
self, only 1t happened just so.
Poor Herbert was killed In the next
engagement, and the chaplain died Of
slow fever at Demarara In year or
two. And they know what it all meant;
\ dont
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04

q happy people which sleep In Jesus !
They perhaps 20 to their rest with fur
rowed brow and wasted features, but
they wake up In beauty and glory.
The shriveled seed, so destitute Of form
or comellness, arises from the dust a
beauteous flower. The winter of the
grave gives way to the spring Of re-
dsmptlou and to the sumner Of glory.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Regular rates OF advertising. OIL per square
frst insertion. and 30 cents each subsequent
insertion.
Special contracts viii be made for ~ ldvsr-
tsements for four insertions or over
Transient advertisements always psyahls
quarterly in advance.
Marriages and obituary notice. ovsr oas
square, charged for at half regular nisI
All local notices 10 cent. Line for each In
sertion
No notices inserted for less than afg
cents
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04

In all our calamities and Affections 1t
NAV serve as comfort to know that he
who loses anything and gets wisdom 6y
it, gains by the loss.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-04

ceed, and he In turn addressed the boy,
who at once proceeded to business by
spreadinga a rug, which he carried under
his arm, upon the ground, and placing
the old magician carefully upon it.
Having done this, he prostrated himself
at his feet, and lay there, face down.
wards and perfectly motiOnless.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-04-23
Presidents Platform.
Resolutions which Re ieet the Sentiments
OF the Administration.
New YORK, April II.


Ii is stated that the President read the
following platform from an Ohio paper
to the Cabinet yesterday, saying thHi
nothing yet SO fully met his views:
l. Resumption OF specie payments IN
gold and silver.
2. Resistance 10 all schemes for inial-
ing the present volume OF currency.
3. A fair and moderate tariff that will
afford a reasonable protection to Ameri-
can industries.
1. An amendment TO the constitution
prohibiting the use of money raised by
taxation for the support OF sectarian
schools.
3. The speedy completion of all public
works, such as river aud harbor improve
ments, pubic buildings and Notifications,
now that labor and material are cheap
and working men need employment, and
liberal policy for the Improvement OF
great national channels OF commerce like
the Mississippi river and its tributaries.
Secretary McCrary suggested that
there ought to DO clause added. declar
ing opposition in emphatic terms to the
payment of all claims OF disloyal citizens
for damages and losses growing out Of
the war, and the payment OF pensions 10
persons disloyal during the war.
With this amendment, which the Cab
met present all accepted, the resolutions
were pronounced very proper and com
plete presentation OF the views OF the
administration.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-04-23

The GreenoacN papers are as notor.-
Gus for their misrepresentation as Tor the
fa.lacies and sophis,ries OF their argu-
meuis. There is ChGS>'S Chronicle which
keeps standing week ater week an eX-
tract from the Atlantic Monthly for Feb
ruary 1876, concerning absolute money
The aim Of The Chronicle il 10 convey the
impression that The extract represents the
editorial opinions Of the Monthly. Tno3e
who consult the Atlantic NUMBER quoted
will lind the quotation to be from sn
article contributed by Gen. Garfield. The
quotation is not his opinion, but state
meut Of the opinions Of the soil-money
men, opinions Which be AZ once goes on
20 vigorously refute. IL is - pity that the
entire article could not be read by every
subscriber 10 the Chronicle. The quota
ton as given by the Gfeerhack organ IS
as unfair as II would be to take 40 extract
from The leiter OF soft money man,
printed in the Press, and then represent
j, to be An editorial opinion OF the Press.
The NelC Era IS guilty OF the same fault.
Il keeps in type two items which ii says
are from the New York World and tho
New York Times. Both these journals
have repeatedly denounced these pre-
tended quotations as iabTications. But
the Era keeps on printing them.-P0rt.
Ld1ld Press.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-04-23
The Er-Doork..p.r Striking Back.

The recently decapitated Doorkeeper Of
the House, Mr.. Polk, is making things
lively for the Democratic reformers, by
printing secret history in the newspapers.
Among those who were foremost in de-
nouncing the Doorkceper's Irregularities,
was Hon. CIarkson n. Potter, Of \. Y,
and Polk pays his respects to him in the
following puDgent style:
"Clarkson y. Potter drew 4 soldier in
the distribution of the Doorkeeper pat
ronage to the State of New York, and he
presented the name Of an able-bodied edi-
tor from his district, who had none of the
appearance of disabled soldier, and who
admitted to me he had never been o
soldier This man remained on the floor
about n month, in cverybody's way, doing
nothing but importuning me to place him
on the soldiers roll, and when that failed,
to promise him that | would not oppose
his being paid by resolution, if Mr.. Potter
should offer one TO compensate him for
his loss of time in coming TO Washington
to hunt a place under the DoOrkeeper
The resolution was offered by Hester
Ciymer to pay this man slj9, which he
informed me was done at the written re
quest of Mr. Potter. did oppose the
payment OF 1859 to Mr.. (. |. Horton for
doing no service whatever, and there and
then | made an enemy who refused to
speak to me or give NE the slightest recog-
milton from that time forward, and this
enemy signed the majority report against
me without being present at the examl-
nation Of my case, except for few
minutes on the third and last day Of the
investigation This accounts for the milk
in Mr.. Potter's cocosnut."
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-04-23
Inc pIat!orm Of the .ROnest MOney.

The platform OF the Honest Money
League of the Northwest, Is short, direct,
and comprehensive. to wit :
Opposition 70 all paper imitation, and
consequent depreciation la favor Of q
currency Of coin and paper of equal
value and equal purchasing power-the
paper convertible into coin at the will Of
the holder"
There l. no nonsense about that. 1t
means business" 1t was the god-hke
Daniel Webster, who, speaking Of ire
deemable and deprecated paper currency,
declared:
"Of all the contriyances for cheating
the laboring classes Of mankind, none
has been more etfectual than that which
ie.udes them with paper money. 1t Is
the most efectual Of inventions for fertil-
izipg the rich mans field by the sweat Of
the poor mans brow. Ordinary tyranny,
oppression. excessive taxation, bear light
~ on the masses Of community, compared
with fraudulent curreneies. aud the rob-
berries committed by deprecated paper
money"
And DAME. Webster was a man who
generally knew what he was talking
about We can't say as mu,h of those Of
the present day who are elamoring for
the repeal Of the specie-resumption law,
and for "mOre greenbacks Chicago
Journal