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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-22

So dreadful was the loss of life by the
burning of the Vienna theater last week
and so terrible was the shock to the whole
civilized world as we'll as unmistakable the
lesson the AFR teaches. that we clip with
ont curtailing the following interesting
comment thereon, nd.comparison of figure
with other notable events destructive +
human, life, from the Chicago Inter-OceSn
"Out of 1900 persons who went into Il
Ring Theater at Vienna on the night oftle
Sth of December, over 1000 were killed
outright in a space of time unmeasured by
minutes. General Grant, in four days
bloody fighting in the Wilderness, had 1921
KILLED out of 1901 900 under marching orders.
In the terrible battles at Spottsylvania he
had :. 1902 men killed. BIT Shiloh Grant lost
in two days fighting LBS men killed. Al
Stone River Rosecrans had 1888 of the 49,
900 men engaged killed outright. All
these were furious conflicts, in which great
armies, trained and equipped to do their
worst, were hurled against each other The
slaughter in each case was terrible, but al
stone River only one man in thirty was
killed, and in the Wilderness only one man
out of every sixty-nine. AT Vienna the
crowd gathered for pleasure. Men, women,
and children were crowded into building,
and of every two people who went in, one
died a terrible death. This is carnage
worse than that Of battle. and calamity
more terrible than that Of earthquake or
shipwreck or hurricane. Little wonder
then, that Austria is in a ferment over o
condition of things that makes such APP
palling calamities possible"
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-22
TOO MANY LAWS.

Tho extraordinary number of bills being
introduced in the present Congress, refer
ence to which we have made in another
column, very foreibly calls up some refec-
tons, often, it is true, limited at editorially
by us, relative to the true nature OF govern
ment and the real objects of legislation. No
Congress of men can sit uninterruptedly
from years end to years end, and yet II
looks as If those chosen by the people as
tLciT representatives ~ gusrd their int,r T.
ests and make laws for the Nation r
the State, and who are popularity sup.
posed to be intelligent men, act as II
they and Congress had life time in which
10 consider and perfect measures. The re
suit is that the curse Of every succeeding
Congress and State Legislature In every
State is the multiplicity Of bills that il
.howered upon the clerks desks as thick
as 'leaves in vallambrosa," proposing te
reach every conceivable object, obstructing
legislation first and most greatly needed,
and IL fortunate enough TO become laws,
remembering the statute books and render
ing still more uncertain, In these days
Of prolific book making, the oft re-
peated inquiry, "what is the lswi"
Every new, and too frequently, old menu
Der feels the necessity resting upon him TO
correct some fancied evil or inaugurate
what he supposcs would be a tremendous
reform, and revolutionize public affairs,
and tbereupon withdraws 10 his lodgings
and consumes the time for which be is
drawing his salary in drafting bills Of NO
general or real importance. and nine time.
out Of ten contradictory in spirit 10 the
true significance Of the Constitution and
opposed 10 y.enlighteDed policy or theory
Of government. Any sane man ought TO-
know, just here, that II is far more proiuc-
tive Of intellectual growth and better calcu-
lated 10 make Of the representative referred
10 q man Of national views, q man
more capable Of sceing the real wants Of
the country at large, to mingle profriscu-
ously and extensively with his fellows and
discover collectively what seemed 70 be the
demands Of the hour. In the Congress Of
the United States ns We understand lie
functions and purposes, a member IL one Of
the representatives Of the whole country
and there 10 enact only such measures a.
the country 1t lares may dsmsnd. without
references 70 the petty preudices and
uhims and desires Of any one
locality. With this reservation that he
r 20 oppor q courss IceIsi1'ion Dis
r-trou- 20 he ON reorI1-r 49,
ton and only invoke TIE ns.istanc. ~ ne
rsns-zI Gore-nne1t IN t.eh1f q 1i- i-r-ns-
date cons,Itnen,s s'hrr 1r orcruz<tc-i1z
neoe--'tg in ins.ic. - hen and the'- m /
'r--~-s e. rItIz<ns Gals ~ snrt intr--
|---n... Ths -.ns rn's cnr h. t'-onett
1o~r ~--T srsIT and frrl'-l y t1s $50. /
n . nl-1rl lsEi<'1i1r' -. nliicr Sri
nd - s.1's |e<I.Irtcr. he s'nie frsI he
-nI- r|-.rt '-..|r hns bss- rsVs-s-1 snl stl,t
NJ r1.ion.'|T CESS iris-.Es n-1 n1rnrr-
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Nrr-rArr. consolidation and absorption

NEWSPAPER consolidation and absorption
is quite the fashion nowadays. Only the
other day we had occasion 10 notice the
consolidation OF the New York Mail and
the Express, just subsequently that OF the
New Orleans Times and the Democrat, and
now we hear that the Waco Examiner and
the Telephone are about TO consummate an
rangemests 10 the same end. But the most
recent consolidation is that Of the Fort
Worth Democrat and the Advance, under
the style OF Fort Worth Daily Democrat
Advance Both the Democrat and Adj
vance we're warm and devoted friends 10
their homes and people, and by this union
will be hencerorth more able. not only 10
give them much better. newsier paper than
either singly could present. but one that
will be more potent for the general veal.
We wish the new firm the fullest measure
OF success, and there IL ample room for the
realization thereof in this growing section
and stnie. although statistics. quite famil-
lar 10 newspaper men. in all the cities Of
this Union demonstrate that no one place
OF fever thsn 10000 population can sup
port t~o morning dsilies 10 the extent Of
even LEGAL interest On the investment.
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THE ATLANTA Exposition.
Meeting Of Reconsideration : Tex
Exhibitions--H.M NJ. Home CompIimentet

Meeting Of reconsideration Texas
Erhibitions--H.M HOME compIimented.
The following letter explains why it is
that the -suhjoined resolutions etc, were
not sent TO the HEnsLD as promptly as they
we're 10 the Houston Post. Why Il was
that Mr.. johnson, Of the Post. who was
Secretary Of the meeting in Atlanta, did
not simultaneously transmit them 10 the
HEnsLD. We knQy not. The following let
ter is from one 81 the committee, and 20
him our people are indebted for the data;
Te he EDITOR Of The HrRsLDs
rrr OrLEsrs. La. December 12.-Therc
was a meeting Of the TEXANS on fir ytt
inst. in Atlanta, Ga. and passed resolufiuiis
complimentary 20 our Texas exhibitors -.
the MAGNIFICENT display made by "A. -
Hcrie. Of the l.. a g. n, and T. A =. Raj
WAYS. and Il was resolved that a copy a the
resolutions be sent 10 the Houston iyzt,
Galveston News and Dallas HEEkLD, bIll
10 the Post before there was copy take1. i,
~ one Of The cornnIiffee, write 70 ask fhal
von copy from the Post. 4 y0n consider tine
same worthy Of notice.
t4ttr-.' n-r-s'bsr q lsa--Af an N.
fs-Inn| raIhfrInr of Ieti-ns. assembled 81
Isz.s Bsesags ' (. = ... s,.rs s pc
-sr1ed b. that able nsIstrnt. Er B. r.
To<fnr 81 Palestine. d. T. II. Ioatum
rs called e Ire riInIr. end jude ]. ~.
johnson. ~ Houf.rn. elected rrrrttnrT.
rbersnr0r he otItrt II lie meeting ras
irisI'r srrIninel III he chair. md Re 10
loving rss1Iuti11E u-re unanlf1ousJ
rfs---s rr IT, unss-ie.ed citizens Or
Texas. nrr4IrIntnr de rn1ErIf1te and
|+-.-.~~@.... A." 49, IN. |||r |HNf A.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS,

To the Sheriff or any Constable OF Dallas
CONFERENCE.-The
You are hereby commanded that by making
publication of this citation in some newspaper
published in the county of Dallas for four sue.
cessive weeks previous TO the return day hereof
dence is unknown to be and appear before tho
District Court to be holden in and for the coun-
ty of Dallas, at the court house thereof III the
city OF Dallas, on the second Monday in Deem
Der, 1881, then and there to answer the petition
of John L. Mccullough filed In said courtagains
the said Mary Z. Mccullough. and alleging In
substance as follows, to:wit: That plaintjHand
defendant were married In Upton county Ten
Inessee,. ON the 4th day of January, $50 and
lived together as husband and wife (uDtil the
Sth day of September, 1878; when defendant
lett deserted and abandoned plaintiff with the
intention OF abandonment of him and has ever
since deserted and abandoned him. Plaintiff
also charges that defendant did on or about the
l5th day ofJuly 1880 and on divers times since
that time commit adultery with one Matt
Hodge in Hill county, Texas Plaintiff repre-
sents that there are two children pi said mar
riage Lula, aged years, and Allied aged 4
years That he now has the custody of chill
by publication that he have the
care, custody and education of said chill
uren OF said marriage and that he have judg-
ment dlssolving the marriage between plaintiff
ana defendant and for cost of suit etc
Herein fail not, but have you then and there
same.
Witness H. W. Jones, clerk Of the District
Court Of Dallas county.
Given under my hand and seal of said court,in
the city of Dallas, this the 10th day of Noyem-
Der, A. D., 1881. II W JONES, Clerk,
Dis trict Court, Dallas Co.
BY w. e PARRRY, Deputy,
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-22

Il IL not perhaps the part Of humanity
or Christian charity" 10 rejoice over the
flls Of others, but n may at least se stated ass
simple fact that the greater ID. Discussions
and poverty and mizior;uDes Of Europe,
The better II Il for the United States Prom
causes ssch a. these springs the immirs-
ton 20 this country. which r. steadily on
the increase each yesr. We notice the f0l-
lowing encouraging statement: An on
ri.i -i<tsm>ni gives he number Of inmi
grant. arrived In Tie United sisi-s fsr Ire
f.cnl re.r 1ssl. e. CD ISL This i larger
than daring any rr<~i0n. yt.r. Addinz the
~.I>< a rus''< lands - ts.tIe-s br ne gc--
eminent un1-- on- I1r o. smother. and ti>
<.I>~ q tI.< crest r1I|-Dad corlp1,I'c< q IT,
Wc~+e-n st<t>z M o 1t<1s - ~ 80
~snrs cf rorrI.tIo1 On ne frontier 81 cur
counter. t1t rort q -.II'unsnt has been
~on1s-frI IN tht 30 ts--i -e.r I.s IN
rirr<tiur r.<r1,l ., las IN -qn.l 70 81
-stIIernsr.t o. ft1tt tiIres fn1s the -.
sfEnrsaEtn z- n. an1 ia frirs ne r,oI.1-
Irtor df Fcrunt rni ls-ss- i<ra as 81
Erlns
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-22

The following are The marriage licenses
issued during the p.st week. is. Freas
and salIis Kimmon, L. B. Cooner and
Con- Harris: Thomas Anderson and Pm
&c Saunders. james Pewter and Lirrie Bil-
lincs. Oscar ". Williams nn1 11llle Mhert'
md Nnnnie Nixon. =. =. sc0tt and EIIa
FIrirt- r. 3 Dor1nnn end Lucinda Iofer
Turner Iurn1eT ana 7. EFtrrfi- rnsfnI
Turker and Ella b. SteI.Il-neor. A. "
Iin1sar ard Cen Cars1rl. Ein1f Hurts-
rr|f NJ. n. n-nfs1aw. II a Len and
Minnie HarIer. X T. Iorars.rir rn1
EIir.fsth Goo1mar. =. Hines nni ErrIiu,
Gc1ftT.
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wssss DsefI. nsst.

Preston Williams. a sslorrd. wild. way.
ward youth, who has frequeDtl, figured in
The county and city courts ss culprit,
nov occupicsa eel in the county jail
where be we landed BY Officers Miller and
J~wis. TO answer 20 The chsrF. Of Their.
while pr0mcnssing down Kim street yer
tsr1av morning be spied . silver watch st q
-,end. and ~ IL vas In reach. be could not
resist the tempietiOr. and - be to0k IL.
and putting Il IN his pocket. resumed his
morning ~aIk. The owner saw him bow
ever, and gave the alarm, when Onicsr
Miller and Lewis came upon the scene and
took him in charge. The watch vas re
frrned 20 il. owner.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-22

ducihe q great sweeping roinm In The
true sense u iilc word that has been sug'
gened In many year bat What ~ lie
may be u, Of course, y mystery, even alter
II should pass both Houses aud 20 before
tic States, should u do 50. Both parties
arc likely 10 divide on the question, and II
will In all likelihood call forth much COM
ma o,t md dahato
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-22

C. f. Stephens, chief engineer of the
Texas & st. Louis Narrow Gauge Railroad,
was in the city yesterday and departed last
night for Sulphur Springs, TO superintend
laying out depot grounds at that point
thence he goes to Little Rock and Pine
Bluff to look after the company's interests
in Arkansas. Mr.. Stephens informed a
HERALD representative that the road
bed from Mount Pleasant to Sulphur
Springs, on the Dallas line is all ready for
the ties and rails and that track-laying will
begin in few days. All the forces recently
employed between Waco and Gainesville IN
Coryell county, are to be transferred to Sui
pher Springs to work from that point
toward Dallas. In conversation with a
well-known and thoroughly posted railroad
er was informed that zone of the prettlest
races ever witnessed will soon be seen be-
tween Hubbard and Paramore's Texas
& st. Louis Narrow Gauge, and jay
Goulds East Line and Red River Narrow
Gauge. Each is determined to reach Dali
las first. and when both get down to bust.
ness, the contest will be prettier than any
seems to be the general impression, and II
is now regarded as a certainty that both
roads will be running cars into Dallas with
In SIX months.
THE CHICAGO, TEXAS AsD MEXICAN cBSTKAL.
BY tonight, the management Of this
line assert, the rails will be
laid to point thirty-fve miles
southwest from Dallas, and Cleburne will
certainly be reached-by the LIST of January,
unless the worst kind of weather sets in or
some serious OF unforeseen misfortune occurs.
This company say the HERALD can inform
the citizens OF Dallas who subscribed the
notes for the $4,000 bonus, that they might
as well save up their loose change for a
New Years present TO the Chicago, Texas
4 Mexican Central, as from this time on
they propose going ahead as rapidly IS a
poor mans house afire. They propose lay
ing from mile 10 a mile and a half per DAY
till Cleburne is reached, and on
some days, two miles OF track will be put
down. Five miles of grading from Dallas
toward Paris is already graded, and the
line as far as Farmersville, AZ miles, Is lo-
Gated ana cleared" ready for the graders
Over 200 men are now employed on this
part of the road, and as soon as Cleburne 10
reached. all forces on that end will be trans
ferred 10 the northeast, making over LOO
men that will then be grading between
Dallas and Paris. Raillaying, it is expect
ed will begin in February.
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lVNH lHNV'N VnN' Nf'H HWHI'N i''HN l'hi
until The glowing and fresh member
has finished moturIng and intro.
duclne bills FOR The relief ~ Improve
mcnt Of himself or lls friends or his civil
district or something else, aboat Which
lac is the only man In The body who has any
information, and with. which, IN Justice TO
the masses al large, the House should not
no troubled for five minutes. The source
Of this OWL Ia primarily party, securing the
election Of men by reason Of past partisan
services rather than from considerations of
their broad practical statesmanship and
insight into affairs, and general intellectual
and personal merit. The halls OF legls-
laiion, as iule, are not filed with patriots
and statesmen, but politicians, and the
people and the country suffer therefrom.
But the great and really correct objection
TO this extensive and constantly increasing
disposition to regulate everything from the
growth of corn-stalk to a mans private
opinions by statute, is the fact that such
course is contrary both to the more adj
vanced ideas of the province of government
and nature itself. If we know anything
well, after the intellectual crises through
which modern thought has. passed
in the last half century, we know
that law, unyarying and immutable.
reigns in every department of nature
and society, independent of mans crca-
ton, and superior to his statutes and
any interference with the same only pro-
duces disarrangement and confusion. A
trade and finances and morals, and if some
of our would-be Statesmen of the last de-
cade had allowed these natural laws to
have full play, the country would be bet
ter off to-day Who does not know that
supply and demand regulate the price and
activity in the interchange of commodities,
and that money is but the representative
|. of other values and huctuates with them.
But if either be hampcred or cramped by
mems devices and the attempt be made
to divert them into other channels than
those they would naturally seek, the same
disastrous consequences win ensue that
follow any violation of physical law: OF
course the society of the time and govern
ment policy under the old order of things
are so thoroughly enured to this unwise
management of affairs, that perfect or
even extended reform in this particular
could not be carried out in any one Con-
gress or Legislature or even many of them,
but the movement can be begun. We are
too much governed, we have too many
laws, and it is with the people to stop
this practice of piling from 1000 to 1000
new laws upon the already unwieldy code
of America. Government is but police
establishment, not censor, nor a teacher,
nor preacher and with equal propriety We
may say it is not finsncier nor trades
man nor hospital. The sooner this phil
o.ophy is recognized and put into practical
operation the better will it be for this peo-
pie. One-half the current expenses of the
Government arises from useless legislation,
and two-thirds of the trouble of the citizen
sprins from Governmental attempt to in
terfcre with affairs Of his, over WHICH
human statutes have no authority what
ever.
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. a:,',,

Quito nm sxcileftnl M5l0.
among real estate \ olders In tir vlcI6Ny1l
East Dallas, caused from The ~ animation
by The road engineer Of Che Grounds aud
running lines for thAJnying ofaei tracks
to make room for lso rcJ'large Increase Of
railroad business that is 30 shortly Expect
cd. II has been Whispered among some of
the railroad fraternity that tho gfs8t union
freight depot of the Texas & FqGfr. the
Texas Trunk, the Cllica, Texas q Mexi-
can Central, the East L,uc ard the ilous-
ton y Texas Central Railroads viii Sue %
Gated In that portion Of the city, where III
these roads come so near together The
Houston Il Texas centru 10 use the ..ihck
OF the Chicago, Texas & Mc6icpn Road ft2r
their cars. Any way East Dallas Is on all
immense boom from the prospects. OF
course hundreds of men will have to be
employed by these different roads and they
must be supported in that vicinity.
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T1HE STATE OF TEXAS
MARY Z. Mccullough, whose residence is

unknown
You are hereby notified that Undergraduates
were filed in the Office of the clerk of the Dis
trict Court of Dallas county on the 16.h day of
November 1881. in a certain suit pending in said
court wherein Jno L. Mccullough is plaintiff and
Mary L. Mccullough is defendant No 434l for
the purpose of taking the dispositions of Char
lotte Ann Gooch and ] u. Gooch, residents of
Hill county, Texas, to said Undergraduates to be
read as coidence in behalf of plaintiff on the
trial of said cause. and that commission will
issue to take the deposition of said witnesses on
or after the Both day from the publication this
notice.
Witness INV hand and seal of said court at
Office in the city of Dallas. this Nov 25 1881.
II W. JONES Clerk
n3O-5t District Court, Dallas County, Texas.
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Notice.

NOCIUC.
All persons having claims against the estate
of William L. White deceased, are hereby
notified TO present the same TO the undersigned
within the time prescribed by law, and all
persons indebted to said estate are hereby no.
tiied to come forward and make Immediate
payment The undersigned were appointed
administrators of said estate on the 4th day of
October 1881, and reside in Dallas county, Texas
and their postoflicei is Lancaster, in said county
and state. WOODIE =. WHITE and
FRANK M. WHITE,
Admrs. of VIM l.. White deceased
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-, 4A' 49, ~,
Ad'mrs. of VIM. l.. White, deceased

W NJ. VIM, Sr. estrays before W II. Price.
one bay horse pony, seven years old; IA nands
high, branded circle on left shoulder: old sore
ut twenty dollars
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ccE a week in your own town Terms and SIS
@Jo outfit free. Address II. Hallett & Co.,
Portland, Maine.
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GIT week. ST. a day at home easily made
v!L Costly outfit free. Address True Co.,
Augusta, Maine.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1881-03-19
ILCNiTIc .IrLIRGE.
How ZEE En!ivcHeI "a Eorlg-Coun;
NillnEe mn III. H,i-nuEr.. O..

How Esa En!ivoHeI "a EOrls-Counsy
village onH was FINALLY S7,ot,
YoEE, March 13.-A man named Car.
sor. Gaia &c be % resident % Baltimore,
Nd, and an agent for Il Patent mortising
machine, %ss shot and wounded on Sal
ur!Ay afternoon last 4 Glen Rock. this
cnohty, srd is now in 4 dangerous condi,
ZION. Carson wss effected with tho
hallucinat!on that 5crle person was FOL-
loving him FOR the purpose of ticking
his fe. lie got Of tbe train on Saturday
evening at Glen Rock, after he had
attracted considerable attention by his
nervous actions, and ~ once disturbed the
quiet Of the little village by shooting and
threatening every one ne met with death.
lie demanded admission 10 the house of a
mau named Oip, who II fused, when he
shot through the lock and admitted him.
self S,vcrai parties ia The house strove
io put bin out, but, being armed with n
large pistol and knife he KEEP. them a.
bay, passed up through the huuse aud ont
on The root, wAc;o nc sat for some time
keeping mp 4 ivIy fire upon every
qu-rter where a paisou ives visabio. A
gun loaded hoayIy with shot was dis
charged 81 CaIsou in his elevated position
which disabled him, rnd be was accord
inply captured, aud HE wounds, it is
feared, sre mortal. The young man is
we'll connected in Baltimore, aud at
times has 'viucad evidences Of insanity
produced, itis though', by excessive use
If drink. N'ae ~ the residents OF Glen
Rock wro sever w burt by Carson.
whose peculiar aaI dangerous actions
produced 'He greatest sensation the little
town has ever bad.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1881-03-19
Mcstcrn VYcnflicr.

The severity of the weather il the
West, 1t is clai ned. is having a
marked effect upon the cattle from
the Rio Grande River all the way
north to the British boundary. In
Oregon, even, where the cattle are
allowed to run all all mlnter in The
valleys without cut fodder, it is re-
ported that large numbers have per
ished. In Montana, Colorado Ia
kota, and other regions where Texan
cattle are wintered the complaints
of losses have assumed serious
character. From the Indian Terri
tory where some 10000 Texas
cattle are being winterered the
accounts OF Losses indicate that some
70 to 30 per cent will perish, un less
relief comes in the shape of an early
spring thswing.-Chicago Ne1Os.