The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-17
LOCAL NEWS.
Proceedings in the United States
District Court Yesterday.
Capture Of a Bold
Watch Thief.
Dallas TO be the State Distributing
Point for Carp Fish.
Recovery of Stolen Jcwelry--.COl'
Ored Immigrants.
Railroad News..-The MinStrelS-.
Busy Thieves.
How to Cure Chicken Cholera.

"Do YOU know how to cure chicken
cholera?'
The man who asked the foregoing
question was rather old and seedy looking
and he addressed a crowd setting around 4
hot stove in the Apollo Hall a few night,
ago. His interrogatory was a general one
addressed to no one in particular, and as he
met with no response he went on with the
conversation he had opened.
~ can tell you, gentlemen, soereigi
remedy for this dire scourgc ON the poultry
yards Of the country. We all love broiled
chicken as cooked at the restaurants and
fried chicken MS served up ut the farm
houses of the land, and not one of us but
is fond of eggs in some shape
even if they are raw, on the
half shell and sucked q Ia hound.
This being true then, and taking this truth
as a basis, / say that everybody is interest
ed in cure for chicken cholera and ! have
a panacca for it. a friend Of mine discov-
cred il. lis chickens were afflicted that is
some of them were, and he gave every
fowl on his place pellet of nitroglicerine,
which they swallowed readily. In a little
while they were scratching and eating
around the yard, taking down gravel to
keep the mills in their giz2lrds grinding,
when all of sudden quite noise was
heard in the yard and then came shower
ofieathcrs. To make the story short every
chicken on the place blew up, the gravel in
their gi2zardS exploding the nitro-glycerine
pellets and for q week it rained feathers and
chicken flesh fine enough to make Il sau-
sage grinders heart glad, on that place.
tell you nitro-glicerine pellets will cure
chicken cholera cverytime.
Did hear any gentleman wink? for
l am powerful dry" q,
The old man sighed, as no one took the
hint. and settled back in his chair,
Talk about panaceas and cure-alls, !
dunno nothing about them" said lank,
lean. cadayerous specimen of the genus
hungry, "but can tell you they're got the
peartest fish in the Warloop river that ever
swum. used to live nigh Sagene, in War.
loop county. That's the county that's got
the outtalkinest man in Texas in 1t, Bill
Burgess. belonged to n company !!
Furrinny with him, and he talked the regi
ment into fightin' trim in fifteen minutes
but MS war sayin, used to live nigl
TO Segene and / worked a right smar
chance of niggers on my plantation, though
doesn't look like II now. My house wa
close 10 the river and | had several littl,
children and like all children they woult
cry sometimes. Ny little.gal was powerful
erwin child and she seemed TO disturb
the catfish in the river, so they held meet
inc one day, and after that, every day, two
or three catfish would come up to the house
when the brat began to squall and they,(
sinp TO her and keep her quiet, and they't
bring purity little rocks from the bottom o
the river, and acktilly, they learnt that chic
how TO play checkers. Vas, the fish in thu
Warloop are all branded 9 on the left jaw
and used TO pearch on limbs and cat-erwau
around, herd buffalo and establish erl
emosynary institutions"
A general groan followed this effort, ant
the nitro.glycerine man snored in self-dc
Tense.
"Well, You tell pretty good stories, gen
tlemen, but | can tell you u little inciden
| witnessed that ought to harrow up thu
feelings of every one who hears II. ! wa
boarding in neighboring. town will
kind, motherly old lady,.
few months ago and / didn,
give her any stapd-off, either, for VI
/ look now kinder like on eI.president OF
national bank that had smart cashier
One night, Just before left the house 70
this city, where hope yet to make a for
tune saving the wrecks of paper collar
from the CUTTERS this old lady, kind ole
soul, mny she always have leavings enough
nj supper for hash In the morning this OIL
lady who had been complaining oil day Q
feeling mighty poorly, as. she expressed