The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-11
LITTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.

completed. n population ms put down
shows 2l5, $50, being decennial increase oil
1885. This is not as good an exhibit as New
Orleans ought to make The citizens here
ss elsewhere, contend they have large&op'
ulation. Perhaps there are rs many rs ESQ.,
900 souls here in the business season. Peo'
ple are still indsposed to remain in the cres-
cent city in the summer. The health of the
place, thus far, is excellent, and every in
dication points to continued heslthfulness.
The Sanitary association work is an admira-
Bile success, and cutters once repositories Of
filth and stagnant water are cleansedr egularly
BY flushing them with water, whose force
and volume from pipes, lat
terals and mains, carry of
everything like disease breeding matter. On
arriving at the public sanitary building we
see over the doorway this inscriptions Cub
lie Health is Public Wealth" Here is a
truth that other places would do well TO rec
ognize and act upon. The Condensing engine
is a magnificent affair. Each revolution pumps
out 1SS gallons of water or at the rate OF
100000 gallons during the "a hours. BY
these means the association floods daily 1l3
miles of cutters and the work will be kept up
for the next four months. The cost OF the
machinery thus far has been about 100000.
Great preparations are being made tor n
9 l,,ot 10 f,l hn
Houston Il New Orleans railroad will
be completed sometime in Septem-
Der or by the first of October. And
thus another delay is recorded. | become
provoked whenever think of this road with
its delays, and | experience an evaporation
of feeling akin TO that of the old negro dray-
man who remarked, "this darkey will have TO
stop trying to handle this mule or quit the
church, sure" The road is built west from
Vermllionville to point north of Paup-
pauville, being u distance of sixteen miles.
East from Orange it is built to the Mermen-
tau, seventy.seven miles, making the whole
distance ninety. three miles. There is a gap
from Paupauvlle TO Mermentau of nineteen
miles, making the distance from Vermllion-
vile to Orange, III miles. Trains are now
running between Orange, Lake Charles snd
Mernentau about tri.weekly, but the days
are not regular enough to calculate with GER
tainty as 10 making connection by stage over
kthe gap. The laying Of the track progresses
slowly from Vermillionvile " est for want of
ties. When the bridge across the Mermentau
is finished, tracklGying from that point COM
ing east will be rapid, steel and ties for the
purpose being on hand at Lake Charles The
bridge across the Mermentsu will be finished
about the lst of September. by that day
4 the road westward from Vermillionyile will
\ be at Bayou Blanc. 1t will then require
\ about twenty or twenty-five days to close the
h last gap of ten or twelve miles.
The jetty system is SO perfect success
Y that it Is now SAID that the Great Eastern will
n come to this port during the winter to b.
n employed in the collaborating trade
New Orleans is renowned for her places of
amusement, cheap excursions, etc. We have
one between Mobile and this
city, $50 miles, for So round
h trip ticket; one to Chicago and return f r
K SIS 80 etc, while city ear fare is very low,
rides Of six miles costing note i've cents.
ID Spanish Fort is the great popular resort OF
the Cant getaways. In the evenings
from twelve to fifteen thousand people may
be seen on the grounds. 1t is at the Lake
End, seven or eight miles out and round
trip tickets to the number Of twenty-five can
be had tor SO 80. 1t is an elegant, cool and
delightful spot, the ground being superb in
tropical iuxuries, flowers, fruits etc, and is
brilliantly illuminated at nights. 1t was
built to keep strangers out; it is now main
tanned 10 take them in.
The people and the papers are bitter
Il against Galveston for threatening her IAN
nual outrage" of quarantine on the slight
L pretense of certain vessel from a healthy
southern port, having gotten in here al
though without a case of sickness on board
then or at any previous time during tht
summer.
One of the most successful journalistic
ventures | know of is that of the Daily States
an afternoon paper, which started only si1
months ago on small capital and wretcheC
Vmaterials in the way OF an office outfit. Las
kweek it announced thatit could tnke no more
ysubscribers until 1t had secured increased a.
Ecilities, the list having reached 4,200 Yes
tterday it put to work It's new double cvlinde
tpress by which it is enabled to turn Off somt
\ 1900 sheets per hour, and to-day its sub
script list is 5 1856. The propretors an.
nOuuce that their success is entirely due L
their independent course. They say:
There is CONNECTED with the States, n
proprietor or emplcye, no politician, plse
man, contractor or asprant for official tavol
or patronage. Of all these classes it is abso
lutely independent. 1t is conducted on the
policy that the mere placeman or politician
is the natural enemy of ar independent Dem
ocratic newspaper, and that an Independent
Democratic newspaper is the natural enemy
of the mere politician and placement"
To II. j. Hearsey, the vigorous, trenchsnt
writer and editor, staunch Democrat but !
fearless, Independent man, the high credit j:
due of lighting down and exposing all kind:
Of frauds and errors, whether made by Repub.
iCan OF emocratic leaders and office holders.
This living example ofsuccess is worth miles
Of "leadeIs or editorial theories about parti'
san journals The world moves.
Some of the dailies here contain some queer
advertisements; for instance, here is one:
MINORS AN UPRIGHT PIANO, NEAR
Az ly Lew, for tW o hundred dollars less than
lfits cost
w Now, suppose the piano cost $500, one
malt would be 5000, and as it is for sale fol
VS2OO less than this or half its cost it would
seem that it is therefore TO be given away
Here is anothe~:
nor SALt--A MACHINE THAT WILL
4 add up q column of figures a foot long.
hwon't sell. as Figures foot long" mus
oeeasier to add up than the little fellows
only an eighth of an inch in length. Blu
tne weather is too warm for this sort OF thing
Me mean" temperature being very exces
'yeIy mean. E.