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A Little Queer.
the Editor Of the Herald.

To the Editor OF the Herald.
As you know, perhaps, l love retired
quiet life, rarely ever get out to political DO
bates or to hear attorneys in district or lower
courts, but Thursday asst business called me
to the city hsll, and about l p. m. the cases
of the city vs.. dairymen, charged with water
ing the milk offered for sale 10 customers,
was called. MIR. Myers was put on trial; lit
tie trouble 10 get a jury, but finally got to
work The city's inspector was placed on
the witness stand; the table near by was al
most covered with glass bowls, tubes, etc. 1
became interested and inquired what it meant,
and was told they were for the purpose of
testing the true grade of sweet milk, and
without regard to what the animal had eaten
TO produce this milk, and belonged TOTO
che--yes, chemistry, that's the word. / knew
nothing about chemistry, and therefore moth
ing in regard to the use of all those glass
fixtures, and to be candid with you, dear
reader, don't believe the mayor, counsel or
Jury know much more than myself about it;
and as to the witness he has good use of lam
euage, but has some little TO learn yet before
he becomes mas or of the science. Now and
then the mayor and counsel for the defense
would seem greatly oppressed and would
worm and squirm, just like they wanted to
tear the seat of their breeches, but relief
would coma by quotation from
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish. or some
other foreign language. could but notice
the apparent ease and comfort Of the men
after these quotations. The cross'examina-
ton of this scientific witness WAS rigid,
pointed, courteous, critical and ridiculous,
which often called TO the floor the city coun-
sci with an appeal to the mayor for bis rul-
ing, who would stammer out something
which could not hear because of the quar-
reling of the attorneys and the witness,
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]. 5. DAUGHE RTY,
Llni lgDit u! Stry lplst9E.
DALLAS, TEXAS.


FOR SALE-Forty 'eJtlons OF fine prairie
land In Crosby, Floyd, Hale and Lubbock
counties, IN ana adjoining 10 @ growing
colony; very cheap
FOR "a JE--A farm of $50 acres halfa mile
southeast 81 FOrnoy, on the 4. & 2 railroad;
50 acres In cultivation, 100 In meadow: two
tenant houses, good water, etc
FNIt SALE fam half mile south west
from FOrneyi 81 acres IN the tract, IS nCrps
under fence and In cultivation; good n
ant house and good well Of water
FOR SALE $50 pieces Of property az East
land, the county-tite OF Eastland count =, and
on the line OF tleT q T.. railroad, consisting
OF choice business and residence l1ts and
tracts of from Ave /, twenty acres each, for
fruit growing ana gardening purpose.
FOR KEN - farm of 81 acres, so acres In
cultivation, 10 acres In meadow. Mesquite,
on the L +. Railroad. Good house, stables,
water, etc.
FOR RENr-Twenty-three acres Of land.
out OF the sears homestead, 2A miles north,
east f'Om Dallas.
] have county maps of Eastland, Callahan.
Taylor, Jones and Stephens counties, free to
those who wish to visit those counties with a
view of investing In lands. And desire tNat
all parties who have lands in those counties
that they wish to sell to aend me n list of
them, Having had surveying corps on Inc
frontier locating lands for the last seven years
am well acquainted with the lands Of north
ern, western and northwestern Texas and So
llcit cOrrespondeuce with alt parties who wish
t0bny lands, either for farming or stock
rsiaiog purposes, or whn hHvs money they
wish To invest where they can be satisfied that
the investment Will returna n 4ndsome profit
The recent report If the commissioner of
the general land office gives the vacant lands
l. tec0s ana Presldi0 counties at between six
and seven million acres. A. 10 Sou'hain
Paciuc railway CImpguYHre ,u.Veyt % tn line
of their road from El Pgr, 10 AN Antonio
through these counties, an 40 H.. y can't
lands there are sui jeCt to lOcauun with rei-
road scrip, and can be obtained Ht a coEl of a
few CENTS per acre, aud, In my Judgment, Of
iers an excellent opportunity for ,nves lneut.
j. 5. DAUgHERrY,
Dullna. TewEs
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A Precions Present.
Add-Ran (Hood county SUDDEN

Auu-htn NtlO1u county, SluuehV'
Sitting in our office, on Saturday evening
last, messenger came in bearing a package
which had been expressed to the editor Of
the Student" from Dallas. Our curiosity
was considerably excited. We knew Of
nothing that should be expressed 10 u
from Dallas Was it an inferna'
machine? We did not know of any
one owing us sufficient spite to want to blow
us into fragments. Yet we thought there
was no harm in being careful. The pack
ago was about four inches long, eight wide,
and four and half deep; nicely done up in
paper-evideptly box Of some kind. II
had the label Of "W. II. Patterson s. Co,
druggists, No. Ill Lsmsr street, near Main,
Dallas, Texas" Seeing this, settled our
nerves, us we thought firm of their stand
ing could not send an internal mschine. So
we made bold to take off the wrapper, and
found that we had very nice "Pench Stone
Liniment" cigar box. But what Was III
Was it full of cigars' Why should we be
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which was kept up so long the audience be-
came worried and went to discussing the
merits OF the case, aud proposing to bet, some
Tor and some against the acQuittd OF the
prisoner.
During all this work the attorneys, city
marshal, witness, some Of the jurors aud at
least one-half the audience we're smoking
cigars. The cloud of smoke was heavy, but
plainly to be seen wss u six-shooler hanging
from the waist of one Of the Jurors.
"Oh, shamel where is thy blushP The at.
teention of the mayor, city attorney and mar
thal was directed TO this case, but Judging
from the expressions worn by them they
thought the informant fool, or one who was
meddling where he hid no business.
The jury failed to agree. and Che cases are
yet to come, and will try to attend. X X
DALLAS, TEXAS, Feb. Z, 1881.
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Hero Arc Ynnr Shirts.

@. II. Clancy, the shirt manufsct urer 7O9
Main street, has just received his stock OF
goods purchased in person few weeks since,
while east. The stock consists of cheviots,
percsles and linen Of all colors and figures,
of the very latest styles. Those wishing
shirts of the latest styles of pattern and
make and ones that will wear, should call on
him. He mikes cuffs collars, etc, and still
manufactures those celebrated drawers
double.ined in the seat
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Ilieh

Mr.. II. @. Stevenson, commercial editor of
the HERALD, received yesterday tho sad in,
ialligence of the death of his father, Colonel
VIM. Il. Stevenson. He died at Hopkins
vile, Kentucky, on tho 23lh ultimo, at the
ripe age Of SO, after useful and well.spent
life. The HERALD tenders condole nce.
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LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL.

The Occupation Taxa Spicy Debate
"A state UDiversity-The Bin
a gre; on he New Judiciary
system-Wnl naIIas Secure
the PEize-Prompt AC-
tiOu Needad, Etc, Ete.
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President Arthur made this beautiful
allusion to the lamented Garfield, in his
Annual Message:
An appalling calamity has bcfalen the
American people since their chosen rep
resentatiyes last met in the hall where
you are now assembled. We might else
recall with unalloyed content the rare
prosperity with which throughout the
wear the nation has been blessed It's
harvests have been plcnteous its varied
industries have thrived, the health Of its
people has been preserved, and it has
maintained with foreign governments un
disturbed relations of amity and peace.
For these manifestations Of His favor we
owe to Him who holds our destinies in
His hands the tribute of our grateful de-
votionS. TO that mysterious exercise of
His will which has taken from us the
loved and illuStriOuS citizen who was but
lately the heart of the nation, we bow in
sorrow and submission. The memory of
his exalted character, of his noble
achievements, and Of his patriotic life,
will be treasured for ever as Il sacred pos
session of the whole people. The am
nOunccment Of his death drew from for
eign' governments and people trib-
utes Of sympathy and sorrow which his
tory will record as signal tokens Of the
kinship of nations and the federation of
mankind.
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The unexpected news Of the death Of
Gen. Fitzpatrick, Minister to Chill, has
been received He made himself famous
as a Union cavalry commander. When
the rebels under "Jeb' Stewart were
handling cavalry in their own way, by
repeated raids through the Union lines,
Fitzpatrick met them half way and pluck
ed many a victory. Some of his daring
exploits, by way OF invading the enemy's
country were the most brilliant feats of
Union arms. At the close of the war he
settled down on his ancestral acres, Civ
ing mnch time to lecturing on the strik-
ing events Of the war in which he took
part and i'll campaign political speaking.
A year ago this summer he organized a
large military rendezvous, with mock
battles and manmuvers near his residence
in New Jersey. These were intended to
revive experiences in the actual field lie
was sent out as minister to Chill by
President Garfield. He had previously
married Chlian wife, and his Sympa-
GHleS were very SlIlhlnSly III lnanlleSCed
toward that country and gave rise to the
recent differences between himself and
Minister Hurlbut to Peru. His death
will leave the case, either less or more
difficult for adjustment. Gen. Fitzpatrick
was a very electrical sort OF speaker
and was quite a popular favorte. His
old comrades in arms al lWaVS haStnDpd + n
rally about him.
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Brilliant
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Mrs. Garfield appointed President. B.
A. Hinsdale, of Hirm, O., to edit General
Garfield's works, with instructions to
collect, edit and carry them through the
press as speedily as is consistent with
completeness hnd thorouehness. He has
accepted the trust, aud will Immediately
set aboot preparing the material.
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special from Somerset to the Pitts
burg Dispatch says: John Cessna, the dis
tingushed statesman Of Bedford, is here,
with headquarters at Scull's Herald office,
engaged in important business. He is
arranging plans to contest the election of
Judge Baer, who, it will be remembered,
defeated Uncle John at the last election
for Judge of the district by thirteen votes.
The ground ofcOntest is somewhat novel.
The claim will be made that ,es for
Baer were received at certain polling
places in this county without the asking
Of the questions prescribed by the law.
It is proposed to take the position that in
such cases proof at Il subsequent hearing
that the questions could all be answered
satisfactorily will not be sufficient TO per-
nit the counting of the votes.
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The Republican caucus in Washington
on Saturday recognized the just claims
of those Congressional employees who are
MANNED Union soldiers, without reg ard
TO politics; three of them being Demo-
Gratis and three Republicans. The coun-
try willappreciate this action.
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WHAT ENGLAND SAYS OF |

LONDON DAILY NEWS: "We wish we conId
point out its equal in our own periodical tela-
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THE SPECTATOR: at is the best of all chill
drcn's magazines"
LITERARY WORE ID "There is no magazine for
the young that can be said to equal it etc
Smyrna times., 1881-07-20
Codes of Morals.

In referring to the lessons taught by the
assault on the President, Henry Ward
Beecher holds that most persons have two
codes of mOrals-One for public and the
other for private life. The one is binding
and honorable, the other treats all that is
dealt with as gambling operation. He
claims that politicians regard politics as
sportsman does game, and all arts are
justifiable as Il means of success. Such
statements are to be seriously doubted.
That there are those in politics who are
not governed by moral scruples is admit
ted; but if their private life is closely
scanned it will be found that the same
standard of morals applies there. 1t is
because men are not fully known that it
is supposed they wear double characters.
There are honorable men in politics and
there are dishOnOrable men in the minis
try. All sorts of characters get into all
professions. But a class is not to be
judged by one or dozen miserable ex-
amples. No doubt a bad class get into
politics; it would be strange if they did
not. There are so many opportunities to
gain preferment, or office, or money; and
there is excitement and much that is at
tractive to a wide range of persons. But
where a person is vicious and wrong in
politics he only needs an equal chance to
be as vicious in private life. Take the
man Guiteau. The record of his life, as
now disclosed, shows that he was a vicious,
worthless character in every position in
which he was placed. His attempt to
murder the President was not exceptional
as to the moral texture of the act, from
his whole life career 1t was greater
crime than he had before attempted, but
all his life was criminal.
Smyrna times., 1881-07-20
Driving a Hen.

When a woman has been to drive into
the coop, she takes hold of her skirts with
both hands, shakes them quickly to the
delinquent and says: "Shoo, there !"
The hen takes one look at the object to
convince herself that it is woman and
then stalks majestically into the coop. A
man doesn't do that way. He goes out
doors and says; 1T is singular nobody
can drive hen but me-" and picking up
stick of wood, hurls it at the offending
biped and observes: "Get in there, you
thief" The hen Immediately loses her
reason and dashes to the other end of the
yard. The man straightway dashes after
her. She comes back with her head
down, her wings out, and followed by an
assortment of stove wood, fruit cans and
elinkeTs, and very mad map in the rear.
Then she skins under the barn, and over
a fence or two, and the house, and back
again to the coop, and all the while talk
ing as only an excited hen can talk, and
all the while followed by things conven-
lent for handling, and man whose coat
is on the saw buck, and whose hat is on
the ground, and whose perspiration has no
limit. BY this time the other hens have
come out to take hand in the debate
and help dodge missiles, and the man
says every hen on the place shall be sold
in the morning, and puts on his things
and goes down the street, and the woman
has every one of those hens housed and
counted in two minutes,
Smyrna times., 1881-07-20
Doing it Well.
HOW THE PUPILS OF COUNTRY SCHOOL,
MASTER FOLLOWED HIS ADVICE.

A country schoolmaster set copy one
day for his pupils as follows: Zone of
the most useful lessons boy can learn is
to do well whatever he undertakes" One
of the wise boys of the school, after cogi-
tating seriously upon the proposition, con-
cluded to have some fun. He took in a
gang of his cOnfederates and the following
was the result: During recess the teacher
wandered out to view the beauties of
nature. In his absence the boy, who had
determined to do it well, fixed the bucket
of water over the door, arranged row of
tacks and bent pins in the sacred chair of
the emperor of the schOolroom, and made
little cuts i'll all the birch rods repOsing i'll
awful array in the imperial desk and then
wrote i'll large print Oh the blackbOards
the quoted moral proposition. The teach
er returned in dreadful mood from his
recess recreation as aforesaid. The bucket
did its duty well; the irate, deluged
teacher rang his hell with vindictive,
wrathful jerks; the scholars entered in
WV SliShCS; bliC l. u bCSlCnCl
with solemn visage to take his seat of
power. He took it with so much power
that each individual tack and pin did its
duty well, and with such startling effect
that the now truly i. and d. teacher, hav-
ing added profanes to his other descrip-
tive adjectives, broke out with "If can
find the d boy who has played these
dirty tricks on me will make a fearful
example of him." This speech elected no
response. So he proceeded to catechise
each individual scholar as to his completely
i'll the fearful outrage OH the principle
above quoted. Each one proclaimed his
ignorance of the author of the mischief,
as, to do it well, lie we'll stuck to is as
good as the truth, and sometimes, as in
the present instance, Il great deal better.
The teacher did not take in the full sig
nificance of the occasion until in his
cavOrtings about the room his eyes rested
upon his text fully elaborated in capitals
on the wall. As it was in capitals-print
he could not detect the writer by his
chirOgraphy. So once more he threatened
the whole school with punishment if the
culprit was not revealed. No answer.
He then went for his rods, and began with
the first boy he came to. Whack, came
down the birch, and flew into twenty
pieces. Another birch, another boy an
other shower of broken rod. Another
birch, another boy; more fragments. The
p. i. d, teacher waxed too wroth for words
suspended the school, and referred the
matter to the school board. The boy was
never found. He did it well,
Smyrna times., 1881-07-20

They attended the same little Episcopal
church, and D-'s pew was directly in
front of that of Judge Kent. Now, Judge
D-had a very slow and impressive way
OF repeating the responses, and sometimes
Jagged a little behind the rest of the con-
gregation. Judge Kent waited one morn
ing quietly till he got at just the right
place in the service, and then as the creed
was being said he leaned forward and
whispered into the ear of his friend, Judge
D, out loud enough to convulse the i'm
mediate circle with unseemly laughter
Judge D, I wish you could manage to
descend into hell little quicker"
Smyrna times., 1881-07-20

A MONOMANIAC.-Ex-Pr President Hayes
says Conkling is a monomaniac on the
subject of his own Importance. No form
of insanity is more common. Every
asylum is full of men who think them
selves the greatest, the strongest and the
best men the world has ever seen. When
q man gets so self-willed that he will re-
ceive no counsel, tolerate no differences,
and brook no opposition, he has become a
lunatic. The fact that he has once been a
great man, crowned with the highest hon
ors, does not in any degree change the
unfortunate fact. ''.'