The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-27

following W soy hVout tue newspapers ara
what they pay for telegraph dispatches:
President Green, of the Western Union,
in his evidence ut the trial now in progress
in New York. puts the yearly receipts from
newspaper telegraping at $1,000 900, about
one twelfth of the entire receipts of the COM
psny. The annual receipts of tho daily
newspapers of the country are put by the
census bureau basiog lis figures on circuls-
tion, at $26 100000. Making all possible
reduction for exchspge lists, discounts, waste
and lost, and laying off round sum for
profits, and the actual outlay of tho daily
press on expenses cannot be less than about
S20,00000 AS the average outlay for tee-
graphing by daily newspapers at the present
rate will probably be found to be shout five
or six per cent Of their total expenditure,
President Green's figures tally pretty closely
in general way with the census returns.
Two, tbree,or four years ago tho average
newspaper expenditure under this hesd was
three or four times Ms large; but low rates,
special contracts ard leased wires have
worked change. In tho light of the fact
that its largest customers furnish only
twelfth Of the receipts ofthe Western Union
it is not surprising that a presidential
election makes 10 serious change in its
business. The wires feel politics as little as
the mails.
The Arkansas Gszetto evidently believes
in temperance and breaches the following
short sermon:
1t was recently asserted by the officer in
charge of the New York morgue that four
iiflhs of the five thousand bodies reaching
the city desdhouse every year are sent there
by drunkenness. If there be sermons in
stones and brooks, surely this fact furnishes
texts for thousand warnings against tho
curse of intemperance. 1. is impossible to
reflect on this startling statement without a
shudder. If such facts will not serve to
arrest tho course Of the man who too often
looks into the wine cup when it is red, the
efficacy OF statutory euactments msy we'll be
questioned. The most potent advocacy Of
temperance is that which appeals to the
moral sense through Illustration. The man
who Is deaf to precept may be reached by
example, coupled with the reflection that the
terrible fate Of Others overlook them be-
cause they Travelled little farther on the
downward road than he has yet gone. If he
cannot see that like causes produce like
results, snd that the difference between
them and himself is but one of degree, he
has only to trace their history to find tie
closing incidents of his own career. If all
this turn not his Grant feet from the paths
wherein destruction Turks, his is q disease
beyond the reach Of human skill.
s.. louis ia becominr uneasy and eating
extremely unhappy on the water supply
system. Tho highest pumping capacity of
the works in that city is $4,000 QUO gallons
nsr dav. tho conservation ia 37OO0 00() osl-
-, oon ooo -, 70 A.. 49,, s
i,u'' 'oVo'oVV '.'f' u 'ha u''iiaaa' anu no
showing 'or the lrewer'es 10 ge' 'ne'f snare
30 Us 10 Keep up the supply Oh peer, ana Ineie
Is ~ner' 'ne suoe p'acnes' Inc roN-
DispA'cn has 'ne io'io"'ng 70 Fay "pou' IL
Inc NOT summer IS coming On and the
quesuon OF WAFER supply ssain cohlroh's !he
CITY; me h,gnes. capacity OF our pumping
WORKS Is Sz,oVo ooo gallons per gay, ana Inc
average demand Is ABOUT ShoooVoo gallons;
Inis SHOWS 'haI tho hsiufsl consumption OF
wafer In inc Guy Wouid % ABOUT ooooVoU
gallons more IMAM lhe cspaci,y OF tae WORKS.
tae valves were opened ana inc pipes were
Kept properly nileo. us ohiy py suhung
Tue now 'natl ne WORKS can AZ all keep up
WIN 'ne oemane' "A og nre ana an extra
consumption Oh wafer wouio leave us 10
nie,naco?iy oonunon. III many pal:s o' .no
Guy Is lmpos.i9le now 70 get wafer ihto tne
upper s.orles Oh VI, houses, ana yet nouseno'ueis :
are cns nno u, 'he same. us eeumaleo
saa. savv'uvo VIII. DC required 70 9tlng INC
pumping ~orAs up W caPacity' ing Guy ~
cvnssaasT growing, anu we iurther lne
wotks nall oenihu .ne woiseh VIII % wnen
au aMeuPi Is naue W Sa'ch UP. Dus wnh'
gong 70 20 uone! NO more money can "
~. spart lor ws,er WORKS ei.ension, says !ne
comp'rolier' ana 30 tue problem cohiroh's US
The Montgomery Advertiser giving long
account of the habits and characteristics Of
the locusts which have already appeared in
Alabama, says:
This is brief history and description of the
ccsda, and all apprehension about theil
iinlurlns persons OF crops are laie. Inc only
;;n!u'y 'hey w w vese.as'on Is W ool;ns
nv aso anu A'i.aE many VI 'u' ..nSs ~ wniei
stoy aepIs,' ; .ue,r evS ossstu ,h aAah.'u
as.'n VI 'ue lnseos WIN SNOW 'nat 'ney nave
ao nlore o1g"as OF means h OF eauns, III 'n'
R;,Upel seh a,s' 'nsn yu.serhy, anu a,e ~
n ns.,1 eapaoie VI iuyue'hE piah's, .neS
vo.a,h any sus.enance ln slelr Per.ecs s.a'e
Is uoee w SUCTION, III wu.eh ;uey resen u.
s s;m OF M mo 1unah fanny, aha Ia when 'he,
u,nor i''t,1 Hon o'nei lnseNs ia 'ne,r 'as'