The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-01
MATTERS BY MAIL,
EASTLAND,
: Correspondence OF the Herald
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EAsTLAND, Nsy. so, 1850.
Notwithstanding the continued severe
spell of weather the Texas and Pacific extern
sion is progressing satisfactorily. One nils
of iron per day is the shortest allowance that
will satisfy Boss Murphy, and he now has
itlaid to within ten miles % Baird, in Callshan
next be moved. Tho grading is being car
ried on beyond Big Springs, 1926 miles west
of Dallas.-Sam Finlay, the genial agent
of the Texas extension company, with his
terminal car, arrived yesterday. Henceforth
Sam will be founnd at the front until III
Paso is reached. Always courteous and at
tentive, he makes hosts of friends, aud the
company should congratulate itself upon
having the right man in the right place
Ifyou wish to view the Eastland elephant
be sure and deposit your valuables with the
gentleman of diamond pin notoriety, before
leaving the hotel, or you may be relieved of
them, as was Isham q. Harris, jr, of Gala
han county, night before last, OF valuable
watch and some eighty-odd dollars in
chaDge.-The keynote of the. incoming
administration, so far as the federal patronage
in Texas is concerned, seems already to have
been sounded. From private letter received
in this town from reliable republican sources,
we learn that all democratic postmssters are
to step down and out, beginning with East
lands postmaster, and continuing until re.
publicans fill all the offices. This is in part
payment to the Hon. (?). A. B. Norton, Of
your city, for his valuable services in tho re-
cent campaign in Indiana, to whom this
patronage has been delivered Cotton,
hides, pecans etc, continue to roll in, and
the commercial reports of the HERALD are
regarded as authority on these markets.
Weather continues cold and drizzly. -The
Occidental" Is headquarters at the depot
grounds.--The town has been unusually
quiet during the past few weeks with the
exception OF what few rough and nble
fights and dirty cases in the Justices court
that have been furnished by the dance hall
and gaming houses in the fat. This cla,s Of
news has become so frequent and monotonou'
as to not be worthy Of notice in oul Loading
journals. Yet it is even enough TO shame
humanity that they exist, and they certainly
ought not to be paraded before the eye
of respectable public, when thero arr
others more worthy of publication. -
Three stores have been erected on the public
square during this week, besides many othel
residences and a countless number Of tents
depot town, or the "tleldoi the Ol0tt
Of Cotton" is calculated to bring to min
the picture of the camp of the Isreelites il
the wilderness. No man has ever made al
accurate count of the number Of tents IL
that portion of town. They cover seyera
acres about the depot, and on every hand
seems that countless numbers rise TO view
1t is now considered as q settled fac
that the Texas Central road will cross tn
Pacific six miles west of town. The scctio
Of land on which the roads form the junction
is of doubtful title and will be
litigation by the time the CENTS
is completed to it. The land about tn
junction is very poor, and there is no waite
of any kind in five miles of it in Any direC
ton. Eastland now thinks of building
tap from this place to the center Of tn
county, distance of six miles, where it wi
intorscct the Central, and BY that means Sc
cure both roads.--We are in need of q
increase of officers here to keep down Il
disorderly portions Of town. At night glide
palaces Of corruption are thrown open, an
the most disgrsceful carousals are carried {
in open defiance of law and respectabilit
An attorney from Belle Plaino was trie
last night for carrying concealed weapon
The jury could not agree, and this morniI
when the case was called the attorney "
non est. ASK of the softly blowing winds
etc ntp