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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
POSTPONED.

Owing to the extreme bad weather and the
heavy condition of the track, tho owners of
the Stables here and the managers of the
races, held meeting last night and con-
cluded to postpone the meeting until the
weather is favorable. All the stables will
remsin and just as soon as the weather
moderates so that people can 90 out, aud
the track dries off, the racing will resume.
The purses raised will be deposited in bank,
and the time and character OF races an
nounced in tho HERALD and by programme.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
OVER THE CITY.

Choice butter, % pals, just received. L.
F. Hu hes 100 Elm.
Undoubtedly the finest nickel cigar in the
state. L. f. Hughes, 100 Elm.
Choice dried beef, just out of smoke, ten
der and juicy. L. F. Hughes, 100 Elm.
The ladies of the Commerce street Christian
church will give social at the residence of
Judge Fields this evening. All are invited.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17

Is the product OF a sister state. IL contains %
per cent more Ealine Properties than the LlN-
ERPOoL SALT, and for that reason is more
economical. Its universal consumption VIII
save to QUE State many thousands of dollars
that Will go otherwise to foreigners. Wehave
dealt largely in Salt for manyy eors, and there
fore have good knowledge the same. We
predict that in twelve months the LOUISE ANA
SALT will supercede all other In this market;
orders sol cited for this and also for Liverpool
Salt, of which we have the largest STOCK here
HEIDENHEIMER BROS.
Galveston, Texas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
Time-4:O0 400 400 400.

Betting. Even on Honest John aud Sam,
with considerable odds against the others
say tn against Allen and 8 to 2 against
Lonesome.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

TIME PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing
between the undersigned as Tip'on \
Wood. liz this day dissolved by mutual consent.
Henry II. Wood will sign he firm name In liz
uidaiion. (Signed) u. NJ. Upton,
HENRY IL WOOD.
Dallas, Nov. Is, 1850.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
COMPANIES REPRESENTED

Underwriters Agency, New Yull,
German American, New lClk,
Manhattan, New York,
star, New York
Liverpool n London & Globe,
' Bank Building, Poydras Street IN ~ ce.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17

Birmingham & FELTON, are manuiaetur-
ing hominy grits and graham flour. Mills
No. 226 Paterson avenue.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
PFuSaNAL.

Mr., d. A. Robinson, secretary of the Texas
Trunk railway, who has been absent in the
east during the summer, returned last even
ing with his wife, and is apparently rejuvi-
mated by his trim,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17
NOliec 10 Ladies'

The celebrated florist, j. }, Roe, formerly
superintendent of the public grounds at
Austin. has brought from Europe hrst-
class variety of dubious flowers, consisting OF
tulips, hysciuths, crown imperials, gladiolus,
esc. He can be found at the Singer sewing
machine office, Main street, Dallas. He is
also landscape gardener.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-17

Low prices and new goods at Blankenship
& Blake's
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30

A curious instance of thus installing
tooth trouble for g big head" recently
occurred in New York. The famous
trotter Prospero, valued at $4,000,
was reported by the veterinary sur
geons to be effected with sc big head''
and they recommended that he be
killed as his recovery was impossible.
Another surgeon, hearing of the case,
telegraphed asking that the killing be
delayed. He came, examined the horse
and extracted two liberated teeth.
Prospero resumed eating and is alive to-
day.
In the skull referred to, the tooth OPP
posite the liberated one attained a
growth of one and one-fourth inches
beyond its natural length, and the third
upper right molar is an inch too long,
owing to the destruction of the CORE
spending tooth on the lower jaw, whose
structure was weak, it being a crowded
and irregular tooth. DIR. Cressy states
that tooth troubles with horses are not
uncommon, and they suffer severely.
Toothache is responsible in many cases
for cribbing. An indication is the fail
ure of the horse to feed, or to chew on
one side. DR.. Cressy's practice is,
when horse is - off his feed" to ex-
anime his teeth thoroughly, provided
there are no indications of fever and
collie. The skull is quite a curiosity,
and the suggestions given are worthy
the consideration of owners of horses.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
The Tomato.

1T is popular fallacy that the luscious
and health-preserving tomato has s
origin as an article of food in tbis
country. But while there. is some
reason to believe it was first found IN
South America it was evidently cult
waited centuries ago in Mexico and
Peru. Dodoens, the netherlands
herbalist, mentions the tomato as early
as 1888 as a vegetable to be eaten viii
pepper, salt and oil. It belongs to The
nightshade family, and was used IN
cooking by the Malays more than /
century and a half since. 1t is exten.
sively raised in Southern Italy and On.
ployed there as an accompaniment to
nearly every dish, particularly macsroni
But neither there nor anywhere else N
Europe is it commonly eaten as i il
here separately and in quantities ID
England it is sparingly produced, re
quiring a hotbed in the spring. and Is
in consequence high-priced. The
Italians formerly called it golden apple
and now call it love apple, as II wu
once designated in this country. The
of the tomato on the abb
has greatly increased in Europe within
a few years, but in no land Is 1 )
regular dish-much as it is used for .
sauce abroad-as in the United States
where it is also picked, preserved and
confected. WASHINGTON Repu6lic.
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Calling Himself q Crab.

1t is said that when under the in
fuence of opium person sees everything
in a magnifed shape and imagines
himself Croesus or bloated bondhold-
er. Beer, also, has queer effects on
some people, and man who was seen
on Chestnut Street to-day exemplifed
this to an extraordinary degree. He
was young man and good-looking, and
occupies a position in public institu-
ton. His strange antics and ludicrous
maneuvers while walking attracted the
attention of every passer-by, not one of
whom failed to smile. He was unmis.
takably drunk, as he took up the entire
sidewalk, and occasionally his legs
would tangle up in the most fantastic
manner. His chosen mode of locomo.
ton was sideways, and as he shuffied
along his hands would beat the air "a
if he imagined himself in the sea and
professor of swimming. His behavior
was so strange, and yet so funny, re-
porter approached him and inquired the
cause of the exhibition. "S-sh! I'm
a crabr' answered the man. Thinking
that possibly he was suffering from 3
arrangement of the brain, the reporter
asked several gentlemen who knew him
intimately if they thought the matter
serious. 90, no." said several. "He
always gets that idea when he's drunk.
and implicitly believes himself to be
crab. st Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Fifty years ago the Quakers at Nam
tucket numbered $500, but now the
meeting in their largest house has but
dozen or so.
Mrs. Harriet S. Brooks, associate
been. appointed Chairman of the De-
partment of Botany and Vegetable Phys
iology in the Nebraska Academy of Sci
ences.
Germany has one in seven of its
population in school, Great Britain one
IN eleven, Austria one in eleven, France
one in nine, Spain one in eleven, Italy
one in fifteen, Russia one in sixty-seven.
The School Board of Charleston,
S. c.. has accepted the proposition OF
Bishop Lynch, supporting from the
public treasury separate Catholic
school, the tea cheers of which are sup
ported by Cath Ole authorities.
"A colored man in Tennessee, a Mr..
Anderson Taylor, has given ST., ZOO
toward building church, an instance
of liberality that ought to have a wide
currency. There are four colored
clergymen in the diocese of Tennessee,
all zealously at work. 1t is by minis
try Of their own people that the Ethio-
plans will learn to stretch out their
hands unto God.
-Agassiz used to say that he hoped
the time would come when every pri-
mary school would have its little mu-
scum of natural history. So every COM
mon school ought to have its little
chronological museum, which might
easily be begun with collection of
metals in various forms, and of woods
in various stages of manufacture.
An Episcopal church recently built
at Tacoma, the western terminus of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, is said to
have the oldest tower on this continent.
The building is of rude logs and was
put up in less than three week. The
tower is an immense fir tree. which
was seventy feet high, but which has
been cut off forty feet above the ground
and su amounted with bell and cross.
least 275 years old. The church looks
out on Puget Sound. In the rear Mount
Baker rises to the height of II, 900 feet
A little rectory has been built close by
the church.
The report of the Indian Presby-
terry of the Southern Presbyterian
Church mentions twenty-six churches
as being on the roll of the Presbytery.
Sixteen churches (Choctaw) are served
at regular intervals Casually every
monthly by regular ministers, most of
whom are native. There are six vacant
churches. These, however, are visited
and served ACCORDING tn nrasbvtaria1
appointment, at least twice every year,
by the ministers living nearest to them.
Nearly all the churches show steady
progress notwithstanding the infre-
quency of regular ministers of the Word.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
How to Preserve a Carriage.

? A prominent carriage manufacturer of
Nottingham, England, Mr.. Starcy, pub
fishes series of useful Hints for the
! Proper Preservation of a Carriage"
from which we quote the following:
A carriage should be kept in an airy,
dry coach-house, with moderate
amount of light, otherwise the colors
will be destroyed. There should be no
communication between the stables and
the coach-house. The manure-heap or
pit should also be kept as far away as
possible. Ammonia cracks varnish and
fades the colors both of painting and
lining.
A carriage should never, under any
circumstances, be put away dirty. In
washing carriage, keep out of the sun
and have the lever end of the "setts''
covered with leather. Use plenty of
water, which apply (where practicable)
with hose or syringe, taxing care that
the water is not driven into the body to
the injury of the lining. When forced
water is not attainable, use for the body
a large, soft sponge. This, when satu-
rated, squeeze over the panels, and by
tn d,w down of the water the dirt viii
sofe and harmlessly run off, then finish
wit>$n soft chamois leather and old silk
han ~herchief. The same remarks apply
to the underworks and wheels, except
thatA when the mud is well soaked,
sofnop, free from any hard substance
in We head, may be used. Never use
"sIAke Drush," which in conjunction
wit'y the grit from the road, acts like
sanfspaper on the varnish, scratching it,
and of course effectually removing ali
gloss. Never allow water to dry itself
on the carriage as it invariably leaves
stains.
Be careful to grease the bearings of
the fore-carriage so as to allow It to
turn freely. If it turns hard, the shafts or
pole will probably strain or break. Ex-
anime carriage occasionally and when
ever a bolt or slip appears to be getting
loose, tighten it up with wrench and
always have little repairs done at once.
Never draw out or back carriage
into coach-house with the horses at
tached, as more accidents occur from
this than from any other cause. Headed
carriages should never stand with the
head down and aporns of every kind
should be frequently unfolded or they
will soon spoil.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
Web-FO0ted Fowls.

The past thirty years have witnessed
many agricultural follies. beginning with
the q morus multicuilis'' fever little
more than three decades ago; the Shang-
hal fever, the sheep fever, the Short
horn fever and more lately the poultry
fever generally. But as it is only by
disease that we are brought to appreci-
ate health, these morbid excitements
may have resulted in some good. With
out desiring to create or put in motion
another " BOOM" I wish to direct. at
tention, as specific branch of general
agriculture, to the raising of ducks and
geese for profit. Many old farmers, and
perhaps some young ones, may give a
sniff of the nose at this, but little ex-
perience has satisfied me that there is
more money in ducks and geese to the
farmer than in hens or turkeys. The
duck is generally esteemed as table
fowl and it only needs testing to make
the goose the peer of the turkey upon
the Christmas board. AS an egg-pro-
Queer there is no fowl that will compare
with ducks. They bring slightly bet
ter price than chickens, cost no more to
raise under fair conditions, and yield a
"
produces about the same number of
eggs as a turkey, can be raised at half
the cost, brings nearly the same price
in market and yields abundantly of fine
feathers.
The goose, like the COW, makes its
living chiefly on grass, while the duck
is the hog of the. poultry yard. 1t will
eat anything, from child's glass mar
BILE to rattlesnake, and what is better,
seems to digest everything it swallows.
The proper conditions for raising these
fowls profitably are low house sur
rounded by corrall sufficient to turn
wolves and foxes, with a pasture pro-
portioned to the size of the flock, one
acre to fifty geese. Clover is the best
forage The pasture should be divided
into four apartments. Four-foot laths
cut in two will make fence tall enough.
Shallow cast-iron bowls surrounded by
pickets SO that they can only get the
head and neck in, make the best recep-
tacles fol: water, or if convenient,
shallow running spring. The younglings
of either geese or ducks must be care
fully fed until three weeks old, and the
best food is light bread, made from
+" shorts or coarse flour and soaked in
cold water. The next two weeks their
range should be blue grass free from
weeds or anything likely to trip them,
as they are easily thrown upon their
back and can rarely get up without
help. Of varieties, any of the large
Toulouse, Bremen or Chinese geese,
and of ducks, the Muscovy, black Ca
yuga, Pekin, or any large breed that
may suit the fancy.-Cor. N. Y Trib-
L3ze,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30

A Hartford, Conn.,, paper says: DIR.
Cressy, veterinary surgeon, has on ex-
hibition in his Office, at Wheaton's
stables, the skull of a horse, which il
Illustrates the sufferings these animals
have at times from their teeth. The skull
was obtained at Pelham, Mass, and
given to DIR. Cressy when he was pro-
lessor in the Massachusetts Agricultural
College at Amhurst. The animal,
which was sixteen years old. died from
starvation, being unable to chew his
food In consequence of an liberated
tooth. This was the first upper grinder
and the liberation had created a dem
tigrous tumor. Over it was spongy
enlargement of the exterior of the SUI
perior maxillary bone, while on the in
terror, within the nostril, is now visible
the remains of an abcess which formed
and nearly filed the nasal cavity. There
was fistulous opening from the root
of the tooth into the nasal sac referred
to. This abscess interfered with respi-
ration and caused discharge resem-
bling that of CHAMBERS, for which it is
often mistaken. The exterior enlarge
ment of the bone is in marked contrast
with the natural shape of the opposite
side, and was mistaken for ssbig head"
or, scientifically, osteo-parosis which
is usually incurable. In reality the
only trouble was an liberated tooth.
which might have been remedied by
dental work. This would have enabled
the horse to eat and preserve his life.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
A Zulu Scare.

AT that moment came vOlley Tar
down the hill where picket had been
posted, its rattle clear and distinct in
the night air. A staff officer gallops
past, and in an instant the rear face is
lit up with fire, taken up all along the
line of wagons. Crash 60 the voleys
everywhere, belching out flame and
smoke, till the front is one thick, white
cloud, pierced only by the sharp and
vivid flashes from the muzzles.
"Whish!' comes bullet overhead.
"Whir!" follows another after. Crash
goes volley close by, and the face in
our front is once more framed with fire.
Then the big guns in the corner give
out an answer, booming their bass notes
high above the rest. The bullets are
flying merrily overhead; and. the SOL
diers, young lads half of them, with a
poor little hearts and funk plainly
written ON their faces, crowd under the
wagons for safety, quickly to be pulled
out again by their officers in every style
of undress, many with their red night
caps still on. Out come the skulkers
in droves. only to vanish again round
the next wagon. The fun grows fu-
rious. Bullets sing and whiz past in
flights. The smoke is sitting, and
hides everything. Half dozen
horses, maddened by the din, are
rushing about. In the narrow pathway
left round the wagons it is impossible to
move freely, so crowded up is it with
oxen and horses. Native soldiers squat
in masses in the middle, and continual
ly let off their guns in the air, keeping
the butts firmly on the ground. Con.
ducrors blaze away into the nearest
wagontilt; tents lie fiat, their ropes
still tied to the pegs, sure traps for the
unwary. Chaos is everywhere, even in
the wagons, where the men lie firing in
cessantly, and paying but scant atten-
ton to the orders shouted at them.
Twenty minutes of this work and a
bugle sounds the "cease fire. and the
flashes die out and leave the lager
dark and silent as the night itself.
Then our General followed and gave his
censure pretty freely on the wretched
scare, and shame sat on many face at
its recollection. Not a Zulu had been
seen, the picket who commenced the
row firing at what he thought was some
"blacks," but might have been cloud.
campaigning IN South africa, Nom
tagne.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
A." Science at Breakfast"

Under this heading the editor OF
Science groups together great deal OF
information on the action Of tea, coffee
and chocolate. The latter, he says,
from its large proportion of albumen. is
the most nutritive beverage, but at the
same time, from its quantity of fat, the
most difficult to digest. Its aromatic
substances, however, strengthen the
digestion. A cup of chocolate is an ex-
cellent restorative and invigorating re-
freshment even for weak persons, pro-
vided their digestive organs are not too
delicate. Cardinal Richelieu attributed
to chocolate his health and hilarity
during his later years.
Tea and coffee do not afford this ad-
vantage. Albumen in tea leaves and
legumin in coffee berries, are repre-
sented in very scanty proportions. The
praise of tea and coffee as nutritive
substances is, therefore, hardly war
ranted. Tea and coffee, though of
themselves not difficult of digestion,
tend to disturb the digestion of albumi-
nous substances by precipitating them
from their dissolved state. Milk, there
fore, if mixed with tea or coffee, is more
difficult of digestion than if taken alone
and coffee alone without cream pro-
notes digestion after dinner by increas-
ing the secretion of the dissolving Juices.
The volatile oil of coffee and the en-
pneumatic and aromatic matter OF
chocolate accelerate the. circulation,
which, on the other hand, is Gained by
tea.
Tea and coffee both excite the activ.
ity of the brain and nerves. Tea, it is
said, increases the power of digestine
the impressions we have received
creates thorough meditation, and, in
spite of the movements of thought
permits the atten ton to be fixed upon q
certain subject. On the other hand, il
tea is taken in excess it causes an in.
creased irritability of the nerves, char.
acterized by sleeplessness and trembling
of the limbs. Coffee, also, if taken in
excess, produces sleeplessness and many
baneful effects very similar to those
arising from tea drinking. Coffee, how
ever, produces greater excitement and
a sensation of restlessness and heat en-
sues. For throwing off this condition
fresh air is the best antidote.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
What forp"

What for?' ~
"The stamp on that letter.a Il
"lsn't this Government oe
eyes, ma'am." ou'cer
And don't they furn;.h
thingsp" pointing to the stama those
But the clerk was busy. and 4. 8,
blue man took her in hand. Ana au = ntts
dues. o'efnneas
1t would break a mothers han.
see the lovely baby clothes. that van .
get beyond the Detroit P Iaas never
They are sent in whole wardro ShssOiace
and in detached pieces, direct ol!sa
friends in Canada or England. srs = .
iect to heavy duty that Is nsv auu ae,
In the printed list they read: = pa'a
Baby's shoes.
B Bab,,s embroidered eIi dress front
Knit shoes for baby.
Cradle spread.
Child's dress.
Baby'S Afghan.
Two infants knit sacks
Infants slippers.
Infants wardrobe,
Baby's Christmas box.
Baby's silver whistle.
And so on, through long c,,.la.,
of baby's property, which ala ~. so \
the King of holland, because Il ; isaea
icient postage, customs duties nn ns',
and other official reasons. uupaa
There is at present in the n.....
Post-office large snake in a ooad ' s...
OF preservation, which was sent z III as =
way from Texas by mail. Ii na, n
frightened the young lady Who ' A..
opened the package into its: ho,r a,s
frogs, toads, dried flowers Soutb bs..
moss, gypsy flower-pots and oceans s', u
nondescript fancy work food the vast, =
boxes. The Sunday papers which r ~
pie in the city send to their frie rs%
frequently go no further than the , -
ceiving-box for want of postage. Amo ~
a host of curious things to send by M;
may be found stuffed birds. tootbaeSa
drops, corn huskers, pulse-warmesrD.
moccasins, meat-pounders, "fascir,s
ors," dancing girls, magic paan Vhs
tie, cow-milker, one green-faced linen
hat-rim, embroidered motto ..No nlsss
like home," toy steam-engine, One esr
boiler, one brown hair switch. ~ ~
These uncalled for and unclaimed good,
are forwarded to Washington ever
season and sold at auction. Last ye,,
7,474 articles were thus disposed d
Stern, indeed, are the laws Of POSTAGE
but quite obliging if the rates are fu]lv
paid and the regulations not over.
stepped.-Detroit Free Press.
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For months Michael Farrell and BIS

For months Michael Farrell and b.
sister Anna, of Hornellsyille, n. !
labored diligently to save money enough
to bring a sister from their former
home in Ireland to this country. 4
short time ago she arrived in hish
spirits, only to find that her brother,
who was brakeman, had been killed
two days before at Clean, by q locouc
tive, and that her sister had bsen taken
to the asylum in Utica, some time slnes'
in q state of violent insanity.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-30
netrnlaI1r

Crude petroleum contains too much
grease to be used in applying paint.
There is nothing better for that pur-
pose than linseed Oil. If shingles are
soaked in crude petroleum before being
put on it will render the roof more du-
rable, but little benefit will accrue if
applied afterwards,