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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
ROCK WALL

Correspondence 0f the Herald,
RocKwALL, April !, 1870,
Yesterday morning, about 3 O'Clock, u
very heavy rain commenced falling, which
oontlHued lnoesAntly for nearly M hour
with thick shower Of small hail, which con-
tnued for about ten minutes, covering tho
ground, Afterwards light showers fell NJ H.
toryals through the night, --Most Of tho
corn and vegetables that were planted, pro-
ylous to tho late cold snap, had 10 be re-
planted but the farmers ara now about done
planting. Trut Is now boring an
arterlan well In his yard, about two miles
north of town, and It Il nj the depth Of l2O
feet with tho runner hung NJ 90 feet, hey
now have about 90 feet Of water which Il
snIl to be strongly impregnaled with cop
eTas. There Is some probability Of tho
County court having new roof put on the
courthouse, which 10 alraost M absolute
noce,sIty,-Ths being "All Fools day.
the boys arc haying u lively limo perpelrat'
ing their Jokes and sells on the unsuspecting
cOuntrymen.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03

Fifteen miles of the grading of the Texas
Trunk line are under way, two miles each on
the divisions, respectively, Of Robert John
son and Scarry Bros.
A committee goes out to-day to secure the
right of way through the remaining part OF
tn and Kaufman counties. Mr. Henderson
has returned from Jacksonville and reports
that the prospects are in every way Hat
iarinn
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03

The members of Engine Company No.
will give a grand ball and theatrical exhi-
ton at Turner hall tonight. The entertain
ment will be preceded by the farce, entitled
How Dallas Laughs and Cries. or, Inc
Hose Cart Horse" The name |; certainly
fall Of meaning, and it means a Jolly per
fnrmnnon.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
Third ward Election

Woare requested by the presiding officer
to saw that the election in the Third ward, on
Tuesday next, will be held in the new office
Of Harways marble-yard, on Elm street, OPP
nosite the Buck Horn corner, and that the
Dolls will be opened at precisely 8 o'clock
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
DIR ROSE

srecialist; 30 wears experience In treating all
firms of PRIVATE DISEASES, possessing
avery facility known to medical science, has
adopted the most successful method. Cure,
's,,aranteod; fees moderate Advice free. Gail
AZ write in strict confidence, No. Az North
seventh ST., st. Louis, No. apis
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03

Dallas & Wichita.
LEAVE, ARRIvK.


Honey order Office open from q. M, to / p m.
and Up. m. to 4 p. m.
Windows for thesale of postage stamps, reg
stored letter business, ETC., open from a. m /.
70 p. m. Stamp window open on Sundays
rom TO o q. m.
The general delivery window open from G
son be obtained at this window. Open Sun
day ffomS 20 Gam. A. NJ. COCHRAN, Pm.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
Mill Partnership Wanted.

A PARTNER with q cash capital Of four or
n Ave thousand dollars for the coming sea-
son, to run the mill at this place, on the Dallas
& Wichita II. r., 10 miles from pallasj about
to be the great ,thoroughfare from Dallas north;
or, would sell mill and farm on good terms.
Call on S. d. Scott, 5O4 Elm St. Dallas, or adj
dress Roy d. Scott, Trinity Mills, Dallas Coz
Texas. marD
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
MATTERS BY NAIL.
JEWS FROM OUR HEAR NEIGHBoRs.

A Marriage ny Telegraph from Deni'
son Convictions la the district
Court ~ Denton hiscei.
IAneOus Matters, 49,.
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NEW YORK.

NEW York, April 9. Stocks strong; money,
56s: exchange long, 4Si1l; do short, iST)i; state
bonds dull Governments strong.
Cotton 1uipt; sales, 81 bales.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-03
r. X. Time Table.


Houston d Texas Central.
GOING NORTH.
Arrive st5:soa. m, Leave At a5o a. m
GOING SOUTH.
s Arrive At sisS p Leave a. ssop. m.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
A California Dog Story.

Michael Sullivan, employed at South
Vallejo, Cal, to watch the depot and
clean out the passenger coaches, has a
wonderfully intelligent dog which is
called Mickey. The animal became
the property of Sullivan when a puppy,
and he concluded to drown him. It
being very warm day, he called at a
brewery for glass of beer, and put the
pup on the counter while he quenched
his thirst. While he was talking to the
proprietor he left the glass on the coun-
ter, partly filled with beer. The little
dog crawled up to it, and Tapped the
beer with the keenest relish until it was
all gone. Another glass was disposed
of in the same manner. Mike then
changed his mind about drowning the
pup, and has kept him until the present
time. Every day Mickey looks for his
"schooner1 of beer with as much
expectancy as Mike does himself If
the owner can not 90 fox his favorite
beverage he places dime in Mickey's
mouth, and the dog trots off to the
brewery, places it on the counter and
waits patiently for the bartender to fill
the glass.
AS soon as the cars come in Mickey is
always first to 90 through and look for
any thing that may have been left be-
hind by the passengers If he discovers
any thing he stands at the door Of the
car and banks until his master comes TO
him. Once Mickey saw an article lett
in one of the hat-racks, and ran to his
to call his attention lit. While
he was gone an idler standing in the
depot passed through the cars, and
noticing the package, stole it, but it
was afterward recovered; since that
time Mickey never leaves the car until
his master comes in. In cleaning out
he cars Mickey is always on hand to
carry the mops and busters from one
Ear to the other Vallejo Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
A Strange Relic.

Laurence StGrne moves our hearts
with his picture Of the "Captive,' and
his pie of little sticks on which he had
notched the count of his dismal DAYS in
prison, with 3 rusty nail. Here follows
the story of stranger and sadder me-
mortal of sorrow:
A striking instance of the arbitrary
state in which Scotland was held in
former times, both in public and private
affairs, is exhibited in the sad fate of d
wife of a Lord of Session, whose title
was Lord Grange.
1t was suspected that the lady, by
some means OF other, had got at the
knowledge of some State papers of in
finite consequence, and as poor women
are set down in the minds of all arb
trary men to be incapable of keeping
secret, Grange and his son were deter
mined to secure the one contained in
the paper in question by putting it out
of the lady's power to divul ge any thing
she knew of the matter.
To accomplish their design, the hus-
band and son privately convened her to
the island of St. Kilda, there put her on
shore, and left her to shift for herself,
and sailed back again, without living
being having missed them, or suspected
what they had executed; nor could the
lady's place of concealment be discov-
cred by her friends, although they made
every effort in their power to find out
whittier they had conveyed her, but to
no purpose.
The island of St. Kilda afforded no
implements of writing, and the lady's
history would never have been known
had she not aOorked it on her muslsu
apron aOath her hair.
Her family by some means or other,
after her death (Which happened at St.
kllda near 80 years after her Danish
ment), got possession Of this curious
piece of work, and preserved it with
great care, as a memorial of her suffer-
ngs and of the tyranny of the times in
which she, lived,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
The Greatest Danger of Railroad
Travel.

The risk of sudden death is very tri
fling compared with the inevitable in
jury sustained by every individual whe
has to make a long journey by rail. The
traveller really takes his life in his hand
whenever he sets out. The danger is
less from accident than design, less
from misplaced switches than from mis-
placed ventilators, less from bad road
beds than from bad air. We are not
now speaking of the barbaric nuisance
of having ~ smell, breathe and battle
in the smoke, SCOT and cinders pouring
in from the engine, which, until some
other method is found to obviate the
difficulty, ought to be in the rear of the
train, instead of the front. OF all con-
ductors, brakemen, porters and pas
sengers, probably not one in the thou
sand understands the vital Importance
of pure air, nor, indeed, do they know
what pure air is. To the CONDUCTOR
mind, as to that of the Majority of his
passengers, the comfort of the car de-
ponds upon the temperature is a
matter of warmth or cold entirely. A
warm car, or more commonly hot car,
is the one desideratum, albeit the
warmth is the product of animal heat
from fifty bodies, many of them not very
clean, and of exhalation from fifty pair
of lungs, with little chance for the escape
of vitiated air or the ingress of pure air
a condition of things tending to pro-
duce a state of g blue blood" not contem-
plated by the haut ton. When the l:fe
current comes up to the lungs to be
changed from blue to red, to throw off
there the carbonic acid and take in oxy-
gen-and the whole volume of blood
makes this circuit once in every half
or over one hundred times an
hour-if there is a lack of sufficient
ventilation in the car or sitting-room or
sleeping-r room, the blood can not under
60 this vita. transformation. 1t goes
back to the heart, and from thence is
pumped through the arteries from
crown to sole, throughout the compli-
Gated mesh-work of the capillaries, in
state entirely untitled to perform its
functions of supplying oxygen to all
parts of the body, of carrying off the
waste particles resulting from the
'never-ceasing death of the atoms
the body, and of replacing
these with fresh, living atoms, or, as it
S usually put, preparing the waste.'
Journal of Chemistry.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
A Wooden Watch.

A North Carolina paper, the Abing-
don Standard, has the following j:
" Some time ago, Nj E. A. johnson,
of johnson Brothers, jewelers. of this
place, made a plain, open-face wooden
watch that attracted a great deal of at
tention, but was subsequently eclipsed
by MIR. Doriot of Bristol, in watch
somewhat more elaborate in design.
Not to be outdone, Mr.. johnson put to
work on another watch, and has turned
out a handsome double case stem
winder and stem-setter, every piece of
which, save the main and hair springs
and crystal, are of wood, and made
entirely by his own hands. Even the
springs to the eases are made of wood.
It keeps splendid time, and is sufficient
ly strong to be used as a pocket time
keeper. 1t is of ordinary size, and
when ornamented as he expects to do,
will be handsome tribute to his skill
and ingenuity
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
How He'd Do 1t.

Several men were gathered at the
door of blacksmith-shop on Cas-
Avenue the other morning, when a
school boy not over nine years of age
came along with tears in his eyes, and
one Of the group asked:
"What's the matter, boy-fall downp''
"N-no, but I've got hard arithmetic
lesson and expect to get l-licked!''
was the answer.
"Let me see, 1 used to be king-bee
on fractions
The man took the book, turned to the
page, and read:
RULE Find the least common multiple
OF the denominators of the fractions for the
least common denOminator. Divide this
least common denomination by each denom-
inator and multiply both terms of the frac-
tons by the quotient obtained by each de-
nOminator.
He read the rule aloud and asked if
any one could understand it. All shook
their heads, and then he continued:
9 Well, now, think I should 90 to
work and discover the least uncommon
agitator. Iwould then evolve parallel
according to the intrinsic deviator and
punctuate the thermometer.
ESQ would T." answered every man
in chorus, and one of them added
! We worked 'em out that way thou
sand times!''
Not one of the men, all of whom we re
in business and had made money. &C Md
even understand the working of the ule,
much less work examples BY it, and yet
it was expected that a nine-year { Id boy
should 60 to the black board and DO every
sum off-hand. Detroit Free Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
LOUISIANA

-Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., has made
100000 by his pen.
1t is said that Turgenieff has been
forbidden by the authorities from carry
ing out a plan he had formed of spend
ing the winter in Russia for the purpose
of studying up the present situation.
Charles Darwin, the English scien-
fist, has won the prize of 81 400 recent
ly offered at Turin for discoveries in the
physiology of plants. He is receiving
the congratulations of all the scientific
men in Europe.
Mr.. Larkin j. Mead, the American
sculptor, is married to a beautiful Ital-
ian lady with whom he could not at first
acquaintance talk, neither knowing the
others language. They have a charm
ing home in Florence. Mr.. Mead is one
of the kindest of men and most gener-
Gus OF artists, always sympathetic and
helpful to younger artists.
Herbert Spencer, the English phil
osopher, is 60 years old. Having been
privately educated, he was at first a
civil engineer. His forehead is high
and he is quite bald His face is long,
ana, although his features are not small,
he has an impractical and almost eff
terminate appearance. His portraits re-
present him as resting his head against
his hand, in the Washington Irving
style.
Mr.. w. D. Howells's home at Cam
bridge bears the quaint name of Cred
top The lower story is of brick and
the second of wood, entirely sheath ed
IN California redwood shingles. In
architecture it is mixture of Queen
Anne house and a Swiss chalet. Mr.
Howells's study is large and charming
room, with wide fireplace, filled at
this season with blazing logs, with a
pretty winter garden, under glass, open
ing out of it, and ceilin g divided in
ancient fashion by beams.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06

were wasted before that one hit. A
round shot may crush two men as it
plows through a regiment, but it will
take no more. Grape and canister will
do murderous work at short range, but
that range can only be had once in
while. and then preserved for only two
or three rounds
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06

INFLUENTIAL ladies in Cincinnati are
signing the following pledge: "Believ-
ing that the theatrical and operate per
formances on Sunday are prejudicial to
the good order and good morals OF the
community, we hereby abstain from
patronizing an opera-house or public
hall which opens its doors to entertain
ments of this kind on Sunday
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
Foreign Notes.

1t is expected that the Cologne
Cathedral will be completed next Au.
gust.
The betrothal of the Austrian Grown
Prince Rudolph and the Princess Ma
thilde, daughter of Prince George OF
Saxony, is announced.
.e--Andaman Island widows wear the
skulls of their deceased husbands on
their shoulders. At recent lecture on
cthnology at the Royal College of Sur
gecns in London, Prof Flower showed
the skull of an Andamanese, to which
was attached an elegant webbed sling
by which it had been suspended to the
widows neck.
At Crugawn, Mayo, Ireland, when
process-server, aided by one hundred
police, attempted last month to serve
notice of ejectment, his progress was
arrested by three hundred women,
armed with heavy sticks. The women
were demonstrated with, but all argu-
ments failed. Atlength the police forced
their way through, with fixed bayonets,
several OF the women receiving thrusts,
and reached the house where the process
was to be served. Here again crowd
OF women opposed. and several were
wounded the process, was, however,
served.
The Austrian Empress's whole pas
sion is for dogs and horses. Her
Majesty always rises with the lark.
When the day lengthens she rises at 6 in
the morning and goes to hear mass in
the private chapel near her apartments.
After the devotion of the first moments
OF the day to religion she proceeds to the
stable and to the riding-school. Her
favorite horses know well her elastic
step and sweet, clear voice, and nothing
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06

Cider Cake: Three cupfuls OF Hour
two cunfuls of sugar, one of butter, one
of cider, one of English currants, three
eggs, one teaspoontulot ginger ana one
of soda. Stir thoroughly, and BAKE III
deep dishes, as quick as may be without
scorching.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06

A YOUNG lady who came in last week
to advertise for kitchen help sald' with
a sigh and a wiring of her dainty gloVed
hands: "Oh, do hope we'll get one
soon, for it does almost break my heart
to see mother wash dishes, with her
rheumatism, too. ''-B0ston HeraM.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06

The Ute Chief, Jack, who has figured
in recent troubles in Colorado, is said
to be Mormon, having been educated
by Bishop Heber.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06


We sent last year to Europe 1,50O,-
600 hides. H.
"A toy maker of Montrose, Pa,
uses 100000 feet of Eastwood every
year. ...a.. .... s.E =
Sixteen pudding furnaces at the
Altoona Pa.) Rolling Mill are running
day and night.
y Seven machines in Pittsburgh, Pa,
produced, last year, over 1908, 345 kegs
of nails.
The grape islands of Lake Erie
have 1900 acres of vines, and the
yield in 1879 was 100000 pounds.
The wine production was 1926, 400
gallons.
An order that can not be filed in
less than one year has been received BY
the Marlborough Wooden Company.
The company will turn out 800 yards
day.
1t is said that the adhesiveness and
durability of a solution Of 100parts gum
arabic in $50 parts water may be in
creased by adding two parts of sulphate
OF alumina.
-Crocus, dried and powdered, when
applied with chamois leather to nickel
plated goods, will restore their
brilliancy without injuring their sur
face. ".
-" Ecerlate - is the name of a
new red color derived from coal. 1t is
prophesied that cochineal has had its
day, and that the new color will take its
place. +.5 ne .s
Geese are raised for their feathers
In Texas. One goose ranch in Western
Texas has over 800 geese, whose feathers
are plucked every two months, each one
averaging pound and a half year.
"A species of dwarf cactus, abundant
in Lower California, is rich in fiber,
said TO be excellent for mattresses. It
IS reported that an experimental ma.
chine, costing only S4O0, converts the
raw material into white, elastic fiber
with great rapidity, and promises to
reduce the cost and improve the quality
OF such goods very materially.
"A fact probably but little known is
that the United States nickel fiye-cent
piece furnishes key to metric measures
and weights. This coin is two cent?
merets in diameter, and its weight is
live grammes. Five of them placed in a
row will give the length of the decimetre,
and two of them. will weigh a deca-
gramme. AS kilolitre is cubic meter,
inc key to the measure of length is also
She key to measures of capacity.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06

Chicago packed last year 100000
hogs, being an increase of 10 per cent.
over 1878, end Is per cent. over 1877.
Over 10000 men are employed.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06
Odds and Ends.


In mince-pie there is meat for re-
pentance.
High heals-The charges of fash
ionable physicians. ....
We desire to be moderated only by
the tax-collector.
Fashionable women are often very
brave; they do not fear to face pow
der.
The farmer who doesn't take a
newspaper, says the Detroit Free Press,
should not be privileged to take his
children into graveyard to learn their
A B C's off the headstones.
The small boy who can ride three
wheeled volocipede in the hall and beat
a drum at the same time has qualities
calculated to make home happy when
he is not well.
"A bees sting is only one-fourth of
an inch long, but when man has just
had one stuck in him. all the argument
in the world won't make him believe
that it isn't over two feet long and hotter
than chain lightning.
"A small boy, boasting of his fathers
accomplishments, said: "My father
can 40 almost any thing; he's a notary
public and he's an apothecary, and can
mend teeth, and he is doctor, and can
mend wagons and things, and play the
fiddle; he's jackass at all trades
The Queens Of the world are in
deplorable condition. The Queens of
Italy and Sweden are dangerously ill;
'he Empress of Russia is very low; the
new Queen of Spain has fallen into
epileptic fits on account of the attempt
. assassinate her husband Z and poor
queen Victoria, she is sicksty-too.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-03-06

gives her such pleasure as when the
poor animals greet her presence with 8
sort Of affectionate neighing.
Although to-day there are as many
boards in the House of Commons as ir
any assembly in the world, twenty-five
years ago there was but one. It be.
longed to Mr.. Muntz, member for Biz.
mingham, who did a service by persuad.
ing the Government to adopt the
perforating machine in the manufacture
of postage stamps. Mr.. Muntz shaved
until he was 40 when his brother re.
turned from Germany with fine beard,
which the NJ. P. determined to emulate
"H. b. the famous caricaturist, was
soons at "the man with the beard" as
every one called Muntz, and represented
him in acartoon as ga Brummagem M
P.' In this portrait he carries stout
stick, which has special prominence, the
reason being that an ilrepressible prac-
teal joker, the Marquis of Waterford,
was supposed to have laid a wager that
he would shave Muntz, hence the cudgel
to defend himself from DISARMAMENT.
Mr.. Muntz died very wealthy, in 1857.
School and Church.
The Free Baptists in North Caro-
lima number about $4,000, of whom T.
600 are colored.
The Congregationalists of Massa-
chusettS have 52S churches, 655 minis
tiers, and a church membership of o.
1877.
By the will of Jacob Persinger of
Roanoke County, Va, recently admitted
to probate, Roanoke College will receive
about $4,000.
The Baltimore Methodists contem-
plate the establishment of a Centenary
Biblical Institute for the education of
the colored people.
"A lady writes to know what she
shall do with empty cans. There are
several solutions of the problem, but
the simplest one is to buy a goat.
The name of the new Irish Univer-
sity is to be the "Royal University of
Ireland" The charter is now ready,
only awaiting the filling up of the
names of certain Senators. The first
Chancellor will be the Duke of Leinster.
The University of Michigan con-
ferred last year 1873 degrees ON examin-
alton and four honorary degrees. The
whole number of students was 1876, of
whom 445 were in the Department of
Literature, Science, and Arts.
The University of Cincinnati has in
troduced the study of Arabic, with the
intention of making of it three or four
years course. The present class num-
bers from ten to fourteen. The deter
is to make the instruction as
thorough and, at the same time, as ex-
ended as possible.
One Of the difficulties which college |
encounter is to prevent the
students from looking into their books /
Turing recitation where they have to re-
peat verbatim, or from writing transla-
ions and other aids in the books from
which they recite. The faculty of Yale
College, where this practice is known as
{ skinning," have undertaken to put a ,
top to it by making every man recite
rom book with clean text furnished
~ the faculty, a few copies only of
which are placed in the recitation-rOom
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THE GREAT ENGLISH. REMEDY

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Exhausted Vitality
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the tsfysble edeo9D of
sell. Abuse. youthful
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