The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-11

delegation, your correspondent has heard
denourrld by leading Democrats, as I'M
democl .ic and subversive Of the public
good, aid who predict thatit will react upon
them with terrible force. Regardless of the
action of the fourth ward club Shepard is
not out of the woods by any means, and his
defeat is openly predicted. The regatta was
a surprise to everybody. The Hutching's
crew we're the favorites, and an easy victory
was predicted for them. The same was
believed of Baker, but both
were defeated. William Crotty, who had
entered in the single scull, declined to
row, from the fact that he had pulled in the
barque race. This narrowed the contest
down to Baker and shrimp" Tony Wor'
than, who had the race in hand from the
start, his long, powerful, steady stroke prov
ing too much for Baker, hitherto the cham
pion Junior scull rover OF the state.-Tte
delegates to the state convention met at
Major Humes office and organized yesterday
afternoon. They leave in the sleeper on the
4 o'clock train this afternoon for Dallas
An excursion will leave at 8 a. m. over the
Galveston, Houston & Henderson railroad
for Houston, 81 for the round trip, and will
catch large number.--Benjsmin Thomas
and Martha johnson, j. Keough and Emily
Simons fell victims to Cupid's darts and be-
came one flesh in tho eyes of the law. Six
passed beyond the river and are numbered
with the silent dead. Tais is the matrimo-
nial AMI mortuary report tor the past week.
-Independent of cossting and bay craft,
there is in this port one steamship, two barks,
three briggs and three schooners. A large
L. e -, nYN
loading for this port from New York, Liver
pool and other foreign and domestic ports
The Galveston, Houston & Henderson rail-
way hiss reduced the rate on cotton to fifty
cents on the bale.-Colonel George T. Fin
lay and f.w other prominent gentlemen
will accompany the delegation to Dali g.
Mr.. w. j. Small and wife, of Marshall, are
recresting in the city.-A review and in
spection of the Lincoln guards and Gran
rifles takes place at Schmidt's garden Mon
day. E!gle f!e company No. 9 and the
Davis rifles, O Houston, are expected to par
ticipate. There will be a street pa
rade, and the colored population will be
out in force. &C. E. Gilbert, of the Tablet,
Navasota, is in the city,and reports the crop
prospect as splendid. While our health
board have delegation in New Orleans
looSing for yellow fever germs, it would be
well for the board to look for fever germs
here. The sewers that runs down Twenty
second and Nineteenth give forth such
noisome exhalatons that are fruitful of dis
ease, and pedestrians avoid these streets at
night as they would the air of pestilence.
The alley in the rear and north of the Ire
mont house has terribly foul breath, and
the inhabitants Of rooms on that side of the
hotel must have copper-proof olfactories to
stand the smells that rise on the heavy air of
night. There are many other places that re-
quire the attention of the sanitary suthori-
ties, and would be beneficial to the city if at
tended to. All ofwhich have been reported
to the health board, but who are so busy try
ing to find pretext to establish quarantine
against New Orleans, fever or no fever,
that they have no time for the consideration
of the sanitary condition of this city. If they
would seek to put their house in order before
attempting TO put that Of their neighbors,
it would be more satisfactory, and render
Galveston less liable to contagious disease.
Phenx saloon, and Mike McKenna, had a
difficulty about 1870 this morning in the
saloon of the former, when Davey seized
Ill lCe-plCh anu ueult Mcheunh tWu UT thEeo
heavy blows on the head, cutting the scalp
in two or three places to the bone. McKenna
was brought to the police station with the
blood streaming from his head, and the
worse for the liquor he had aboard. He
would allow no one to examine his head
until he fell down in swoon, end after
repeated applications Office water to his face
and head he was resuscitated and his head
examined, disclosing the wounds above
mentioned. A pallet was prepared for him,
and when your reporter left, McKenna was
sleeping off the effects of his rotations. A
charge was entered against Dsvey by officer
Weber of fighting.-A merchant of Van
Alstyne imbibed too much of the "o-be-
Joyful" and attempted to carve hackman
with his pocket knife, when officer Wsbber
interfered and took the knife away from
him and searched his pockets to see if he had
other deadly weapons. He then put him in
a hack and sent him to his hotel. After his
arrival at the hotel he boosted loudly of
what he would do, but when sober he will
thank the officer for not sending him to jail.
Tanglefoot gets many good man into
trouble.