The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-25
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robbery, was convicted In tho District court
on Monday and sentenced 10 two years IN
the penltentInry, He claims 10 be from 81,
LOus, and robbed one Alfred Moore Of $40
In November last ut tho railroad station,
Another pair Of gents were charged with
assisting HIN, The scriptures say, "By their
fruit ye shall know them so they must DO
Bartlett pearp. John Turner'S sun-burnod
youth, whose iorelathers gamboed on the
| banks of tho Nile, in Africa, Was charged
with npproprlatlng 10 his own use rope
with mare attached " tho distant end OF
same, John did not Turner loose, and tho
Jury on "Wednesday invited him to 20 10
Huntsville for seven years, to examine into
| tho latest improved methods Of handling
ropes with live stock attachment,
- Calvin lngledow, indicted for
stealing II horse, was permitted 10 interview
| twelve men In tho court house. on Tuesday
who elected him to pursue the study Of vet
Urinary surgery for live years m the Statoin
stitulion ut Huntsville, 1.-The case of ed.
Castle, charged with numbering man
named Bell, In this county In December last
| IL sol for to.day---ln Wow Of the iact that
/ lllN tfllhllh w w w lhhtH W lHlh NuNlAy
| shortly, female tramp stepped into the
house of Mr. Hall, near Woodville, on Tues
day and give birth to child II was II haul
he didn't calculate on,---llayerley's Pima
| fore troupe show here on tho 30th inst
Annie, infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
| H. Hartman, died on Monday after n lingering
| ilness----C. l., Kaulsr has commenced the
erection Of the large elevated cistern in front
of the cheap store. This clstern will be
| filled with water and connected with pipes
| Ibid along Min street, jumping matches
are in vogue on Main street,
One gentleman Is reported To
have jumped eleven feet on the level which
was considered hard TO beat; but have the
statistics on one man who jumped the town.
beating boarding house out Of months
board, aud several merchants out Of sundry
accounts (which WAS considered dead beat"
Quo day last week an Ethiopian was on.
gagged TO deliver some articles at the Odd Fell
lows hall. When he assembled tho stairs and
was entering the ante-room, no was met by
two Odd Fellows, one of whom asked him if
he knew he was in an Odd Fellows lodge,
lie said 'no." Tho Odd Fellows told him
that they had gont inside. He wanted 10
know If he could sec il. Tho Odd Fellow
said certainly md turning TO his companion,
remarked, 81, let him loose Ms soon as |
get down stairs" and madea break for the
stairs. Instantly some chairs ratified, and one
blaa-b, as IL wsre, Of a CONT, and that negro
turned four summersSults in descending
those stairs, reaching the bottom in II heap,
Ms oadly mixed up ms man who hid been
working the "l5" puzzle. No amount of
persuasion could get him up the stairs again.
lilo said, "foro God, boss, II had horns like
de debbil" We have got il bad,
all over town. The "l5" puzzle
has prevented huff Of tho town from attend
ing tho Grant reception in Galveston. 1t is
breaking up prayer meetings, disorganizing
families and driving what little business was
left in town cle9r out. Some hend stepped
into Captain Els bank the other Morning
and commenced manipulating one. The cap
tain eyed him suspiciously II moment and
then said, LET me show you how TO do that;
it is easy enough" 1t was the first one he
had tackled. lie worked at it n long time,
becoming red in the face Mr.. b. stepped
in to get q check cashcd. The captain said,
in moment rs soon rs ! make three
moves" b. waited until he moved 943 times
and then insisted on having his check cashed
The captain said, Don't get restless; l. will
attend to you in two moves" The captain
commenced moving AM B. commenced tap
ping his foot. In the meantime the bGnk got
full OF customers, and some one suggested
that bank should be paying drafts instead
of playing draughte, and b. said the thing
shout be checked until he got his check
cashed. The captain, overhearing the re-
marks reluctantly withdrew and said it was
"neither draughts nor checkers, but the game
of fifteen; they didn't know what they were
talking about" Just then gentleman step
ped up and asked to get some paper discount
ed, when the captain, still thinking of the
puzzle, said no man in town could
discount him, for he would have
accomplished in two more moves. People
who are sick, can't get doctors to attend
them, owing to this puzzle. One doctor re-
ceived message to come Immediately, rs
one of his patients was dying tie said TASK
him to hold on until | make three more
moves.' One man who thought he had nc
complshel il, ran frantic up and down Main
low grabbed him and pointed to the third
at it In disgust,and said there is no money in
that thing any way. l would rather play
poker for corr" could cite number of
cases, but this communication is already too
long.--Mr. A. d. McConnico, has estsb-
lshed an agency for the HERALD at the
Postotlice news. stand, where it can be OBJ
tanned daily, and where subscriptions will be
taken for any length of time. Our citizens
should patronize the HERALD, as it spares
no pains in giving the local news of Bryan
fully, as well MS giving commercial news,
dispatches from all parts of the world, indie
pendent Of its State specials, which makes it
trst-class newspaper.