The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-14
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For listers rule the roost.
bas- This is coal weather.
"a" Turkeys are ripening.
BRs~Gsrfeld is studying the trade of cabi-
net making.
Bs1" Be.nhsrdt will be in Chicago in Janu-
sry. Comment is unnecessary.
RoS-Colfax smiles when he is reminded
that Hayes will be there, too, in few weeks.
D@n Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
Hsncock's native county, gave Garfield
majority of ten.
sss" They are hooting and jeering the land
lords guards in ireland, just as if green
hacker was addressing them on fiatsm.
py- There was nothing SO very horrible
about the Garfield Chinese letter after all,
except the infection of the testimony on a
generous public.
DSP General SchoReld's report from West
Point indicates that the colored brother has
too much ear to make a successful cadet
vide Whitaker.
va" Texas is proud of her snow storm last
week, but Minnesota takes the cake in that
line of business. A whole family was frozen
to death up there las! month.
BaS~Ii Wales is actually broke and will
colonies himself in Indiana just before
another election occurs, he may succeed in
being saved from embarrassment.
gG" Cruelty to any living creature shows
bad heart. The boy who delights in tor
turing a wasp with u pin will surely come to
some bad end if the wasp has fair show in
its business movements.
DsS@A An exchange says "the influx of gold
from Europe continues unabsted and on
large SCALE" Probably the gold is put in
saddle-bags and hung over the back of fish,
who is told to swim ahead.
pa An Iowa weekly paper has never
once referred to Sara BernhardL and COM
mittee with ''tha interest of the town Az
heart" has gone around and asked the mer-
chants to withdraw their patronage from
that ere sheet.
Rag" Conger, the verbose congressman
from Mchig n, wants to be speaker Of the
next house OF re resentatives. There is no
law against it, b 1t it is shocking oversight
OF the part of tiose whose duty it is TO make
the laws that th re isn't.
GeD@ Denis Kearney has retired from poll
tics. lis support of Weaver for president
brought that individual three votes in San
Francisco, and now Denis says he propose,
to let the people take care of themselves,
while he makes living for his family.
RSg"A Memphis man wanted to kill a
mosquito ca vac back of friends neck, and
without stopping to mention his design, hit
the insect belt, and when his friend got up
and brushed the sand out of his mouth and
eyes, four men had to hold him while the
matter WAS explained.
Ra~ At county court held in the county
of Durham, England, the other day, the
learned Judge denounced the defendant in a
case as id fool and illcondtioned vaga-
bond" This strong description seems fully
justified by the evidence, but such language
is scarcely indicative of mind of judicial
serenity.
Esy" Burglars entered Mr.. Spurgeon's
house, in London, fortnight ago, plundered
the study, removed one or two valusbles, and
broke boxes and cut bags, but that wasn't
half as bad as the wretch who recently stole
bible and hymn book from Evangelist
Penn, and pawned them for money to get to
Fort Worth with.
Bsiyr A correspondent of the Chicago
Times, writing from the Teche country, in
Louisiana, says; "In this region the See
gambisn is absolutely illimitable. He deAes
the alligator, and hourishss on sugar.cane
which he devours with ravenous appetite
until his fat body attains such plethoric pro.
portions that the king of the canniba is.
lands would give his crown TO secure Sambc
for dinner"
BeS@ A real, live, healthy mule was one Of
the attractions recently in the play Of "Iht
Forty Thieves" as produced in Nevada City
The result is described by the Chronicle rs
follows: mo sooner had Ali come out o.
the cave with his bags of wealth and at.
tempted to put them on the back of tn,
beast than he began his part of the perform
ance. He let fly with his heels, kicked tn,
shavings (the supposed riches) out of tn,
bags, kicked down the cavern, kicked dowr
the whole forest, kicked down the wings
kicked the end of the bas-viol Cleaning agains
the. stage) to pieces, smashed the footlights
and finally doubled up Ali by putting boil
feet in the pit of his stomach. A rope wa
fastened around him, and he was dragged of
by the united strength of the company"
pa A Chattanooga, Tennessee, citizen ha
spent his spare time in calculating the mag
nitude of the national debt at the close o
the late war. Here is the result of his labors
four men were to sit down to pay the interest
and count silver dollar a second, and worl
everv sacnnd of the war thav oorlJ not bon,