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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26

The Old Gusrd artillery dred a salute O
several guns Al tle depot. They wtr,
bapque'ed NJ tho IIntchlns House by tb,
proprietor. a largo number Of citizens
turned out 10 meet Them. w. ID. Cleveland
was with them during their tnlirc trip and
made them his guests Mt the st. Charles
hotel, Now Orleans.
II
COrsicaun.
Special 10 the Herald.
Corsicaus, May A.-The Texas Sc ST..
Louis railroad paid off Monday and since
then there has been constant flow of beer
and money, both going in opposite direc-
tons. Several fights occurred yesterday, but
no one was seriously hurt.
Nearly four inches of rain fell this afternoon
In one hour. Several stores were flooded
and the streets were flowing over.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26
Tyler.
special to the Herald.

special to the Herald.
Tyler, May 2l.-Heavy and continued
rains for the past week greatly discoursgei
plsnters ia this section, as their crops sr'
badly ia tbs grass, and We have
heard Of several who have ploved NJ
their cotton with a view Of rebedding and
replsnting. Labor Is scarce, IS thsre is @
much railrosd work going on that the CON
mon Geld bands seek the new work.
Federal court has s5j1urned snd our citJ
is quiet now, with the exception OF the Fres
building boom that our capitalists bsve OF
hsnd. About fifteen new <O-stOry BRICK
are now contracted for, with more told OF
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26
Tribute of Respect Of Grape vine
sundey-sehool.

Where's, Dssth has called from our midst
one Of our most esteemed and respected
msmbers, Mr.. John Ray West, who departed
hi. life on the morning q Msy7sh;
Resolved, That while we would bow In
humble and entire submission 70 the
vii Of our Hssvsnly Rabsr, We lament
Uith human love and heartfelt grief The loss
ofops summoned svsy % suddenly m the
vsrv brightness and bloom Of youth one
ubo. BY Bis msny virtues and eTsslsnciss OF
chs-seier. hsd % bound 70 him the affection
"a corhasncs Of his associates, spd
bs3 depressed, BIZ bis msnly snd honorable
b.srinz re hope that . hsp ~ snd useful
c,-.-r susits1 hin. Oh hoe blightinRly
8oss 5es,h-Iiks Al untimslT frost sssn 70
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26

Mexican Matters.

City of Mexico, May, "a. - The chan 81
of deputies have passed al amendment to he
constitution, making only native Mexicans
eligible to either house of congsess.
The prospects are that Grant and Eads'
measures will pass the SENATE to-day. Con-
gress yesterday gave the president full power
to contract with states nd private parties, for
the construction of rai W, for eight months.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26
A Now Entarnrise.

Among the railroad men who visited the
city yesterday was Mr.. George B. Hopkins,
general agent of the Missouri car refrigerator
he is making a general tour OF
tho state, for the purpose of perfecting ar
with the different lines TO carry
his company's refrigerstipg cars, which will
take from this state beef, fruits, and other
products that are likely to perish in ordina,
ry conveyance. Dallas is spoken of as the
headquarters for large slaughtering house.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26

London, May 24.-In the house of lords To-
day Earl Granville, foreign secretary, an
noun, cd that the Turko Greek frontier
convention was signed to-day.
Rumor has il current in the house OF
commons that Forester, chief secretary for
Ireland, ia about to resign.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26

London, May 24.-At a meeting OF the
laudlcague at Dublin to-day the arrest of
Thomas Brennan, secretary OF tue league, was
denounced as an outrage on the Irish race.
Tho speakers declared a national protest
should be made in the shape Of general
strike against tho payment of rents.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26
Improving East Elm street.

Elm Street in East Dallas has been graded
and now neat, substantial wooden cutters
are being constructed. The street will be
guttered on the west as far as Preston street,
where connection will be had with the large
sewer that crosses that street. The gutteriDg
will be extended as far IS tho corporate
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26
Death over Cards .

Nashville. Tenn, May, 2I-Bill McEwen
shot and killed George Bowen in Brays sa-
loon On Dedrick street in this city shortly at
ter midnight. The shooting was occssioned
by dispute over y game Of cards.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26
THE GHEAE
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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26

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rssurnsd this m5-ning from Nss Dress.
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Hoe steyens, NECK stre,ched.

Charleston, SC, May 2l.-Joe Stevens,
colored, was hanged in Elgefisld yesterday.
for the murder of Awdry Rich2- dsopl colored,
took his. place on the : p witt pess,
-! ls l5yg 4!I coifag seemed to forsake
him, and waving his ha,kerchief he became
deadly and ex cited, exclaiming in loud tones:
~ claim protection; give me protection. /
command the peace, peace, peace" and
while supplicating for aid and assistance,
Sheriff Quiet sprang tho trigger, and in ten
minutes the murderer was dead.
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ENLARGE AND DEVELOP THE FoRR.

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TIE RACES,
First Day of the Spring: eeting-Exei-
ting Sport and the FavOrites to the
Fore Every Time.

The first days races of the Dallas Jockey
club at the fair grounds course came OF
vosterdsv afternoon ~. 7agia wss good
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-22
Costly I}0Okbinding.

MI. Joseph Sabin, in a conversation
with q New York Ereuing Pot reporter,
gave the following information in regard
to the binding of books, which is to be
classed among the fine arts:
The finest modern binders are IN
Paris. David is at their head. He does
not bind probably more than a thousand
volumes a year. But he charges his
W prices and works only for o certain
set of rich men who put nothing in theil
libraries that is not perfect. Lortic is
is another Frenchman who does exquisite
work. Two years ago I saw two volumes
IF Lafontaine's Tales bound by him at a
cost of one thousand dollars for each
volume, and they were octavos at that.
If the covers had been in solid gold
they would not have costso much. But
each volume represented more than a
years labor by a tirst-class workman,
who used more than ten thousand diff
ferent tools in the work. Zahnsdorf is
an Austrian who has made Paris his
home and who does excellent work.
Some of the unique bindings that may
be found in the great private Libraries
of Europe show how little advance the
world has made in the art of bookbind-
ing in the last two hundred years. One
of the fine t bindings 1 eve saw is in
the library of the Earl Of A%shburnham
a-prayer-book given by Henry VIII.
to Anne Boleyn, the covers being OF
open fretted gold. Some of the volumes
in this collection would cost $500 to
bind to-day, if such work can be done.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-22
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Some of the samples of ice analysed
by A. Rudiger yielded large quantities
of albuminoid ammonia.
NJ. Blondcau gives the following
recipe for purifying and bleaching
sponges: The sponges are first washed
in tepid water and then in a solution OF
h%ydrochloric acid, which frees the pores
from carbonate of lime. To bleach
them they are immersed for twenty-fou1
hours in O solution composed Of five
parts of hydrochloric acid to 100 parts
of water, with the addition of six pints
of hyposulphate Of soda. In this way
sponges may be bleached more et1ectu'
ally and rapidly than with sulphuric
acid.
In the Complies Rendus, No. 70,
Professor S. P. Langley maintains that
the total quantity of heat poured upon
the earth by the sun is much create,
than is generally supposed. Previous
to the atmospheric absorption, this
maximum must be nearer the violet
than the red. If the whole Of the rays
of the sun reached US, the eye would
receive a sensation of blue rather than
white. The atmosphere of the earth,
which we are accustomed to regard as
transparent, acts as a strongly colored
medium.
Dill of q green color, transparent and
flowing freely, has been extracted by
Dr.. G. O. Czech from coffee. He is con-
tinuing his researches on this substance,
and will publish the results by-and-bye'
The coloring matter of the Rubus cham:
pmcrus berries, he says, when boiled
with cotton, wool and silk, impart tc
hem readily an intense and permanent
yellow, and, as the juice of the berries
is altogether inocuous it might we'll be
used as a cheap and useful dye for buff,
amber and orange shades, and for giving
white wines a Tokay or sherry color.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-22
4 Story of Vaccination.

Apropos of vaccination, says the Lon
don Truth, some members of q certain
noble English household were desired
to submit themselves to the ordeal Of
fermentation. The lymph was to be-
extracted from the arm of the infant
son of the house. All to whom the
operation was considered needful un'
derwent the process quietly enough,
until it came to the cooks turn. This
cook, who was a brawny Scotch wo'
man, steadily and positively refused or
the ground that "no English blood
should enter her veins" After much
cxpostulation and delay she was vac
cinated with lymph taken direct from 6
Scotch calf. Her arm alone took among
those revaccinated, and with much tri'
umph she asserts the fact as showing
the unmistakable superiority Of a "wee
Scotch beastie" over q noble English
lord,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-22
What They Want in Colorado.

We want girls-girls who can get
themselves up in good shape to go to q
dance. The boys are getting tired OF
receiving invitations with a request that
they "bring ladies'" They are like
oranges and apples-scarce.
We want girls who will 60 to church
and to Bible class on Sunday, and that
kind who can draw a congregation OF
the other sex. and who will take a
buggy ride after the lesson is over.
This will help the livery business, and
will also hasten the sale of residence
lots, for buggies are the vehicles in
which homes arc first thought of Ky
many.
We want girls hat can wait on the
table, who can smile us into an appe-
tite when stomach bitters are impotent,
and who will make the boarders regular
at meals.
We want girls for sweethearts, SO
that when we get ar arm shot oil, or
are kick by q mule, OF are thrown from
a bucking horse and are laid away fol
repairs, we may hear a gentle voice and
see the glitter of a crystal tear spoken
and dropped in unconscious sympathy.
-DWunDO Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-22
Edwin Booths First Appearance on the
Stage.

Edwin Booths first appearance on
the regular stage was made September
10, 1S49, at the Boston museum, in the
little part of Tressil, in Cibber's YER
sion OF Richard III. Junius Brutus
Booth, his father-the rival of Edmund
Kean, and one of the greatest tragedians
that ever lived-was then keeping an
engagement at the museum, and Ed
win was in attendance on him as dresser.
Tressil had been cast to the prompter OF
the theater; but it CHANGED that this
person wished to avoid the duty OF
acting it, and that lie succeeded in
persuading Edwin to undertake it.
This arrangement was made with
out the elder Booths knowledge, and
he only became aware of it by reading
in the play-bill the announcement OF his
sons first appearance, duly underlined:
"Fool !" was all he said when he read
this announcement; and this remark
was not understood to signify enccur-
agement. When the night came, and
Edwin had dressed his father for Clos
ter, and himself for Tressil, the eccel.-
trio parent-who, beneath an outward
aspect of Indifference, loved this son
with the fondest af1ection-took chair,
lit q cigar, and viewing the youth with
a critical eye, made this inquiry: "Do
you know hat you are supposed to have
been riding hare and far"
"Yes, sir"
"Where are your spurs"
II haven't any"
"Take mine"-holding out one
booted leg.
The boy took the spurs, and went on
for his little scene with King Henry VI.
When he returned his father was still
sitting negligently in the chair, and
smoking the cigar. "Give me my
spurs," he said, again holding out his
leg; and this was all the comment that
Edwin Booths first professional appear
ance wei elected from the parent whom
he idolized. He learned subsequently,
though, that his father had been down
at the wing, and had watched this first
effort with evident interest and salts
faction, and then FASTENED back to his
n%onchalant pose in the dressing-room.
There never, surely, could have been a
more singular being than Junius Brutus
Booth. This little trait of character is
but one of thousands that marked him
as a unique person. William Winter,
in Hnpcr'S Magazine.
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Among the Turks.

As the character of the Turks, it has
been said by n ofthe highest consular
authorities that the poorer and humber
he is, the better he is. AS he gets
money and power, he de~teriorates. In
the lowest classes you may and do meet
with honesty; in the middle classes,
seldom; in the highest, never. The
Turk, above all, is a good host. In
deed. hospitality is enjoined by the
Koran. We may we'll take a lesson from
him, too, in politeness, especially in
conversation. If you are privileged to
have m interview with a Turk, you will
find q good listener; he inter
rupts, and never wastes words TO make
talk. When he has finished, he asks
permission to 60, and vanishcs. He is
not given to the odious, because
abused, custom of the "shake-hands."
His salute, the Temenas, is most grace
full. He makes the motion as if to
sweep the ground with his right hand,
bringing it to his heart, lips and fore
head, thus indicating that all he has on
earth is yours, as well as Slowing his
friendliness and constant thoughtful
ness for your welfare.
Listen to O true story illustrating the
Turk in all his dealings, whether COM
mercially, politically or as a diplomist.
A peasant was summoned before the
cadi for stealing a sack OF onions. CHOW
we have thee on the hip, and thou shalt
know what it is to incur our displeasure.
Bismillah Choose, slave: Wilt thou
pay a thousand piasters, receive q hum
dred blows of the bastinudo, or wilt
thou eat the contents of the sack of
onions? Quick, choose" "Gracious
lord, T have no money wherewith to
satisfy thee; I fear the bastinado; and
will choose rather to eat my onions"
He ate, and was fain to stop, and pre-
ferred the bastinado. After some fifty
strokes he repents, and thinks he can
find somewhere in his house five hun
drcd piasters. But this money was not
enough to release him from his troubles;
he ate more onions, then there was a
little more bastinado. Eventually he
received eighty strokes, ate nearly all
the onions, and paid the penalty OF q
thousand piasters in full.
What is to be done with Constanti-
nople? The exchequer is at the lowest
ebb, the power of borrowing reduced
to nil, the civil list nearly ten million
dollars, and an increasing deficit in the
revenue. All officials pay, civil and
military, in arrears for months, and gen
eral restitution not only in the capital,
but in the provinces. Nothing but the
halo surrounding the titles of caliph,
padishah and pontitf of Mussulmans
could have hitherto prevented the
people breaking out; but, tolerant as
they are, the camel's back is well-nlgh
broken.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-06-22
The Hat.

Every schoolboy is familiar with the
story Of Gesler's hat, and how it was the
indirect instrument of giving freedom
to Switzerland, and of first developing
the heroic spirit of William Tell-pro-
viding always that William Tell, Walter
Furst, Arnold Won Melchthal, and the
rest ever had an existence out OF the
delusiye library Of legendary lore, and
the busy brains of the romancers. The
Phrygian "cap of liberty" on its pole
stands in direct opposition to Geslers
hat in the market place at Altorf, yet
patriots who would seem to have bowed
10 the Austrian's hat, very reverentlally
acknowledged the supremacy OF the cap
of liberty. The only rule which hu-
mainly will chiefly obey is the Rule OF
Contraries. Christians take off their
hats when they pray, or when they enter
q court of justice, as Jews put theirs
upon their heads. A Turk accounts it
an act at once degrading and ir%religious
TO remove his Observation-Disclosures,
by-the-bye, the Pasha of Egypt took OFT
his "tarboosh' or "fez" the other day to
the Princess of Wales-a fresh symptom
that the Eastern question is rapidly ap-
preaching solution but among Chris
tian people, to lift the hat from the
head is accounted o mark of profound
respect, and even to point the finger
upward toward the hat, or simply touch
it's brim, a work of extreme politeness.
The instinct which makes the hat
either in it's removal or irremoyal aspect
an object of reverence is universal,
and must spring from some psychology
cal law of our nature.
But the hat has not been always a
symptom of honor ; it has sometimes
been made an emblem of degradation.
Abating one marked exception-that of
the white night-cap, which, from mo-
tives of decorum, is drawn over the face
of the unhappy wretch who is about to
be hanged-it has been the universal
practice, in all ages, to conduct crimi-
nails to execution bare-headed, nor do l
know an instance of o soldier or sailor
being logged with his hat on ; although
such punishment is ordinarily inflicted
in the open air. There have always
been, nevertheless, certain hats or caps
of contumely and of infamy, of which
the simplest is the "dunce's cap of our
dame schools, called by dominies be-
You'd the Tweed al "antic cap" A cap
with bells has always been held typical
Of folly, and in the middle ages was
especially affected by court fools. In
some parts OF Italy, Jews We're once
compelled by law to wear high yellow
caps in Lucca the prescribed color for
the hat Of an Israelite was a dark orange.
But perhaps the most peculiar mark of
distinction which the hat eve conferred
on its wearer was in France, when bank
rupt Jews were forced to wear a green
hat, so that people might avoid losses
by trading with them. Iwonderwhether
this strange sumptuary law has any
thing to do with the slang phrase, "Do
you see anything green about me-"
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Fasting and Feasting in Russia.

There is in ordinary times plenty of
cheap bread in Russia, and plenty of
cabbagcs and dwarf cucumbers, which.
with tea and perhaps a little quass,
form the staplefood of the moujiks, who,
naturally abstinent from everything but
strong drink, are artiticially encouraged
to spare living by their long and strictly
observed religious fasts. The Petrol,
or Peters Fast, is Of q duration of two
or five weeks, according to the incidence
Of Easter Sunday; the fast of the Uspen-
ski fast-callcd by the people the Cos
pozinski- lasts from tho first to the
fifteenth of August ; the Philippotf,
or St. Phillips fast, endures during the
six weeks preceding Christmas; and
between the Carnival and Easter there
is another most rigidly observed fast.
Beid es these, Wednesdays and Fridays
in every week throughout the year arc
fasts most scrupulously adhered TOBY
the common people and, as q rule, by
females of all classes. But if the upper
ranks were as religiously abstemious as
their interiors I fancy that the restaur-
ulclI5 VI pV. IClClopulS nouAN wy
speedily exhibit q very remarkable una
nimity in going bankrupt. AS it is,
wcll-to-do Russians are perhaps the
most persistent g%ormandizcrs on the
earth's surface.
I have seen q considerable amount of
eating and drinking in my time, in a
good many countries, wholly or partially
civilized, but never have I witnessed
such determined knife and fork play as
that which goes on in the Muscovite cap
ital. And I have abided there in spring
end in summer, in autumn and in winter.
The great grief felt by the Petersburgers
for the assassination Of the Gar Alex
ander il. failed certainly to have any
perceptiblc effect on their appetites.
They ate and drank like SO many Grand
gosicrs during the whole Of the period
Intervening between the translation of
The imperial remains to the fortress and
the final act of inhumation and the
Pr0p0s ties BeureuS wa continuous, and
SIS Rabelaisian as the gcndarme-infected
atmosphere would pcrmit.-Lon4pn
Telegraph.