The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-30
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BRYAS, Aprll q, 1850,
IA. Patterson died here on Monday He
was "A member Of the Masonic lodge aud was
buried by is members with the appropriate
ceremonies OF the order, on Tuesday 1890
We have had glorious rain. Farmers, mer'
chants, mechani y md everybody have been
reioi ing Everybody seemed willing TO wet
themselves, even TO infants IN swHddlng
clothes, In order that we might have good
rain. 1t WAS worth thousands Of dollars TO
this county, and came exactly nj the right
timc. We are willing for dry weather to
reign now for short time II It wants TO- -----
A base ball nine have been practicing in the
north evd OF town for several days past and
concluded Yesterday evening to walk up
md see what they we're doing, saw Mt
A glance, that the thing was lie on The face
of II. They called it nine" and |
united eighteen of them, without including
small boys and negroes, who were evident y
members of the congregation. The ball they
use Is piece Of solid round iron, disguised
with n leather cover. They called II a ball,
and | reckon it was, for II hit n small boy,
who commenced tumbing somersaults, and
he bawled around there for ten minutes nj
terward ms though he was member OF a
travelling operate troupe. One man would
throw his ball At anothor man who stood up
with big club in his hand, and try and hit
him with it. They would jump out of the
way at first, then they would get mad and hit
AT the ball.with the club. II they happened
to hit il 80 as to send it spinning upward
through the yiewless air, everybody would
commence to yell, and the man with the club
would get scared and commenced to run, but
it was no use, for they had lot of men stand
inp around at different points who would stop
HIM until some other fellow got mad and
commenced to run, then they would let
him 20 and stop the other fellow. Some.
times fellow would get right mad and II
these men did not get cut of the way that
were standing at different points, he would
run right over them, and then everybody
would shout and say he made home run.
can't see what object they had in lieing
about little thing like that. One man whom
thew said made home run, know lived a
half mile from town, and he didn't run any
where near home, but Just made circle
around where we we could SEQ him all the
time. don't like to hear such reckless state
ments made while Major Penn is here doing
ali he can to bust up these Annanlas and
Sappnlra uOlHps. noihouhNs ""Sh !,
wasn't real mad and would knock the bal
: lust short distance, some Of them woulc
iump up in the air and try and catch the
ball instead of having step-ladders conven
) lent to go up and pick it off of the current o
:, air. One man standing near me
sid, fellow caught the ball
once on "ny." I'll take Il
2 solemn oath there wasn't fly within hun
dred wards of it,; the man caught 1t on
i. bounce besides, the ball was too biz to b.
: caught on fly, and no fly is fool enough tC
. play base bal when there are such uXuries a
$ ancient eggs to revel among AT the vsriou
!; gro ere.. moved away from that man, 10
i fear the disease WAS getting contagious AM
. | might say something | would regret, an'
i have TO stand up and be prayed for. Oeca
: ,iopally a lank-lo king duck would cry gu
a "foulw | looked NIL around for chicken
o vendors. but could discover nothing but
d lot of unbleached Americans standn
d around. and | suppose he was calling ther
nck-names. If they had. any, fowls the
y we're under their coats. One side waited m
to play with them, and consented proyidin
d thew would let me go down town and get b'
d hind the court house when the man throwe
rs The bali. This was objected to. and | p'
:, ON STYLE and refused to play. The man I'M
Is tbrowed the ball they called pitcher =
d suppose because he could hold so much bee
D. There was SO much said that l consldere
rs prevarication, that | concluded they were
u "base" lot and left.