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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-08
Hotels i'm Washington,

Although Washington has not had new
hotel for twelve years, it is so well provided
for that the scheme to build some monster
hotel, like the Grand Union at Saratoga,
has never been carried into effect. The
hotels on Pennsylvania avenue at the time
of the war, extended from Third street to
Fourteenth, and were named Gadsby's, the
Union States, the Verandah, Coleman's,
Browns and Fullers. Fullcr's is now
Wizards hotel An old build -, between
it and the treasury was called the European
hotel. Browns is now the Metropolitan
and Coleman's, afterward Gadsby's, is the
National hotel. The first house of
Washington for the general public
was the National Hotel. Then Browns
was rebuilt and was the first to have a
bridal chamber distinctiyely in it. At the
National Hotel died Henry Clay, and
James Buchanan was seized with his mys-
terious sickness there. Some time in Pierce's
Administration the brothers Willard added
to Fuller's hotel the very large rear build
ings, constituting the better part of block,
now known as Willard's. The Willards
were Vermont mon, who came TO Troy, the
outlet of Vermont on the Hudson river, and
are said to have been steamboat clerks.
Embracing in various scheme. Of travel
and development, they found their way TO
Washington City. There were originally
four Of the brothers. One is dead (; the sur
viving three, Joseph, Henry and Caleb,
are all among the wealthy men of
Washington. Joseph Willard Is a recluse
and pays little attention to anybody. II
is said that he and his more affable brother,
Henry, never exchange words, though they
are Joint owners Of Wizards Hotel. They
do not have.anything to do with its manage.
ment, however, and have leased il 10 Jo-
seph Cook, long Of the Congress hotel, Sar-
atoga. Caleb Willard, starting with n
small house not far from Willard has buit
a large block for hotel purposes. Some time
before the civil war the late George Riggs
put up building for hotel opposite the
treasury department.. But the government
yerted il from its hotel functions until about
1873, when II became the Riggs House.
About 1859 the banker Corcoran took q
block Of houses on Vermont avenue,
and transformed them into the
Arlington hotel. Several years lstor
a caterer in Washington by the
name Of wormley built a hotel on Fifteenth
sachusetts. Willard's IL still the largest
and most profitable hotel estsblishment at
the capital. II has situation for view,
which never can be equaled in Washington.
During the present recess IL has been COM
pletely remodeled and dscorsted In the rich
current style. Here IL the news center OF
Washington and residence Of the principal
senators, Judges and Representatives. The
coming winter in Washington will be enus
ually busy and brilliant. Many OF the
grand new houses will be thrown open for
the first time, with their new furniture and
decorations. The president, being = widow
er, IL expected 10 sdd 90 the vivacity and
Of the place, and Il viii be the
principal resort for widows, heiresses and
taautfos -rNew Work Commercial
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TEE COLD wrrrkR Is COMING.

The cold winter IL coming, says the poor
man, and it is q sad fact that he knows he
must realize. The past summer was an eI-
tremely warm one. From one end Of the
country TO the other complaints arose about
the excessive heat. The fall has set in now,
and we are near the middle Of the second
autumn month, and still the weather is
warm, barring the cool, deliciously cool,
mornings we have now and then. Nowhere
IN Texas has there been frost yet, 80 far a.
we know, andit is hardly time that there
should be frost, but for all that we are in
clined TO the opinion that we are going to
have a hard, severe winter. We cannot
give any satisfactory reason for % suppos-
ing; still we think 20. A hard, cold win
ter is always a trial 10 poor people, and in
Dallas there are many poor people, many
people living from hand 10 mouth, as il
were. Provisions Of every kind-HOur,
bacon, lard, hams, and all
produoe-are higher in price than
this time last year but wages are the same;
consequently, with the scarcity Of fuel with
which We are threatened, owing 70 the de-
mands on the coal mines BY the various
railroad companies. from which Dallas has
heretofore drawn her supplies. the probs-
pflifiss are that fuel VIII Be scarce and
Therefore high Of price To the company
supplying the Dallas msrkst. the same
COMPANY having done 30 for some yeas
pssf. ne would respectfully suggsa all
fhs.s f.cfsvs hsvs mentioned considered,
n -,uld Be generous, . stroke Of bushes
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-08
The Future of the Negro in the United
States

What will be the direction of colored mi
grafton in the future? This will depend in
part on the policy Of states and of the gen.
.eral government toward the colored people.
Formerly it was current speculation that
the blacks would drift toward certain states
in the south, which would pass under col
ored control in all respects, to the exclusion
of the whites This, however, is not likely
to take place, except by interference of the
general government. If, under the pretext
of free ballot, the bayonet is resorted to
by any party in power at Washington, and
certain states in the south are again brought
under the control ofignorant masses led by
political adventurers, southern society may
be forced into different form from that
which now prevails. Under the continu-
ance of such policy, if it could be main
tanned, certain states might becom exclu-
sively colored, and society therein sink
toward a form sof standardization. The
whites would eventually be driven out by
political corruption, administration and
state bankruptcy. And let no man be de-
ceivsd if the native whites are compelled
TO abandon certain southern localities on
account Of uninstructed colored predomi-
nance in local administration, the Yankee,
or any other who is studious Of. thrift, will
not take their place. Only few sharpers
and vultures in search Of political car
rion, will be found there.
Butt alternative of the "negro prob
lem" is not likely to be adopted. Hardly
any party is ready tn go into history with
such policy, for, If il tripped, as II might
it would be bad for such party. 1t is the
teaching Of all history that those who have
had freedom Of selfrule have proved them
selves competent TO take II and hold it in
spite Of despot.. This selfassertion IL a
necessary condition of freedom and its
maintenance. There is no such thing as
freedom under exotic tutelage. IL people
who are numerically in the majority can
only be secured in their political rights by
national troops, then do such people Illus
trate political serfdom in becoming the
tools OF the party in power, and freedom
becomes an abortion by the method used
to secure il.
The problem, then is to be determined on
the presumption that local selfgovernment
In the south shall be in the hands Of those
who arc competent 10 direct it, and that
existing forces, under which the south has
multiplied % rapidly in population during
the last ten years shall continue 10 operate.
Popular Science Monthly for October.
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policy indeed, 20 sell coal 20 consumers at
the very smallest price possible TO make n
profit A very small profit ought TO be sat
isfactory. There Is n future m well rs u
present, and II the good people who furnish
supplies Of the needful, whatever II may be,
would only remember that poor people
must live and fix their prices accordingly,
how much happier the world would be. In
the great cities where the frosts and SHOWS
of winter come on, when the chilling blasts
from the icy north sweep down,
freezing the blood and making the
poor to suffer untold miseries,
then the rick people and the charitable open
their purse strings and give of their plenty
to alleviate the sufferings of their unfortu-
nate fellow beings. Dallas has few AFFECT
ly poor people of this kind, and the city
government, be it said to its credit and its
honor, cares for them as best it can, aided
by the charity of numerous good people,
who do not wait to be asked. But this is
not the class in whose behalf we indite
this article. We mean, when I'VE say poor
people, that class of our citizens who labor
at their trades for wages in various avoca-
tons, and yet have no surplus money over
their necessary cnrrent expenses. With
wages at the same standpoint as of yore,
and with all the necessities of life in the
shape of provisions advanced in price, it is
going to be hard work for them to make
both ends meet, and therefore we ask those
oil al no ,ri,,o 70 fla oil, Ga,
sale, to make as small profit ION it as
possible. The grocery men, the dry goods
men are doing it and we believe
our coal dealers, will do it. 1t is terri
BILE thing to know that women and
little children are shivering with cold, when
there is fuel within reach, if they only had
money to buy it. We know that if any
woman with numbed hands and halffrozen
body, was to go to any of our fuel merchants
and say to him that she had not the where
with to make fire to keep herself and her
children from freezing that he would give
her, without money and without price, coal
or wood with which to make her fire; but if
the price of fuel, coal and wood, is kept
within reasonable bounds, is sold for no
more than is necessary for a small profit,
when the winters SHOWS and rains and
freezes set in, the poor the men who toll for
wages, will be. able to pay for their fuel
All who can, ought to lay in supply of
wood and coal now, for winter use. 1t will
be economy and it will put them out of the
market when the demand in midwinter is
greatest forfuel, and thus the poorer classes
The men and the women who depend upon
their daily toll for a sustenance, who can
only buy the necessities of life in small
quantities, by retail, will have a better
chance for supplying themselves with fuel,
and at cheaper rates
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ST. LOUIS:
Views of Mr.. Jonas.

Senator Jonas. of Louisiana. was at tn
New York hotel. After speaking of til
impressivene.s of the funeral of the laa
president, he said: "There were about fort]
Senators in Cleveland, many of whom corj
versed with about the political situation and
the extra session. The general belief wal
that the session would last only about
week, and that there would be no dead,
lock-"
"Do you think the democrats will elect d
president of the senator
''It is my belief that they will In dom
so,they will only fulfill the requirements d,
the constitution. 1t is very explicit in rd|
gard to such situation as Is now presented
and think the democrats would violatI
their duty if they did otherwise. Senato1
Bayard will be the man."
what will be the next business ?"
THAT is hard to say. Probably til
swearing in of the new senator's. The othe
BUSINESS l expect, will be the confirmatio1
of few appointments"
Have you considered as to the probabl
cabinet changes?''
''Not to any great extent. do not thin]
it unreasonable to expect that President
Arthur will surround himself with his intl
mate friends and advisers"
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-08
big Point For Gas.

The ST. Louis Gaslight Company recent
" received from London dr Of the new
sugg lamps, which are now in use there on
the street In front Of the house Ofparliament.
The Sugg burner Is q recent invention, and
its use in London has been successful, though
il l. as yet not used there except on that
single street, where Il comes IN direct COM
rstifian with the Brusch electric light. Hay-
ing beard very favOrably Of the lamp, MI
socrsfes Newman. Of the 81. Louis Gas
light Company, sent the inventor an Oraer
In answer 10 which the lamps were receiv-
81 Tbev Are the first ever brought 70
Al nerica. and results eiven by trial were
verr SATISFACTORY The lamps are % Two
sizes. 80 and 100 candle power the loIIneI
hei,x about twics the dimensions o. AZ er-
Sir.rr street lamp. Zach contains four
f.----,r-- s-rnnred in q square 81 distance
~ stout fhros inches one rom The otner.
ne HrfIt Il very brilliant, and M NeE-
-, ff7irfs that With them gns came more
fl.sn hold ne ovn ag.inst electncity.-St.
Louis Republicsn-
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Bliss Explains.

New York, September %, $751;
DR.. Bliss is here. He says he has made
up his mind not to talk any more about
the late presidents case for the public ear,
and Immediately begins to expatiate with
great volubility on the tabooed topic. 1t
was fortunate for the country that the
character of the wound was obscure, is his
postulate The main effort when the
wounded man was first in state of col
lapse was to preserve his life as long as
possible that the country might be better
prepared for the shock that was imminent
The wound was necessarily fatal from the
was DETECTED at right angle
toward the first lumbar YER
zebra, which it perforated. If its course
had been known and an attempt made to
trace it by turning the probe, the track
could only have been followed by removing
something like an inch and q half out of the
rib, and then it would have been impossible
to go beyond the point Of impact In the
vertebra. Had such an operation been per-
formed the patient would have died long be-
fore he did, and any attempt to extract the
ball must have terminated fatally at once.
There never was a shade OF difference OF
opinion among the attending physicians as
to the course to be pursued in the manage
ment Of the case in any particular. The
president did not at any time suffer from
pynmin, and the autopsy failed to
demonstrate the existence Of a
single metastatic abscess in the
liver, lungs, kidneys or spleen
There was a small abcess on the front sur
face of the left kidney, just in the track of
the ball, which was no doubt due to the
wound. The history Of the parotid gland
Inflammation was not such as accompanies
a metastatic abcess, and all the symptoms
connected with 1t can and will be accounted
inally diagnosed, the chances for recovery
should have been ninety-nine in ahundred,
but IL the nature OF the injuries had been
fully comprehended not the slightest hope
would have been felt. A very singular fact
is that Mr.. Garfield never complained Of
pain in the back. He was not I'M
conscious any considerable por-
iton Of the time, but sometimes
when awake, would appear dased, He
knew that he was o very sick man, and only
expressed desire 10 converse
on national AFFAIR.". Az . pstient he was
heroic 10 q remarkable degree. During the
entire eighty days he never complained and
he never finched under the knife, but was
always Submissive 10 whatever was deemed
necessary and acquiesced In the treatment
without question or argument. As there
wa. no pyemia and the ball was perfectly
encysted, Dr.. Bliss leaves us somewhat in
the dark a. 10 what really caused death at
last. He thinks eminent surgeons at q dis
lance who criticised his mode Of treatment
injured their own repltations more than
hey did his. Perhaps, " the end, he will
be able 10 satisfy everybody that everything
he did was the best that could be DONE
New Orleans Picayune.
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hiu. NJ are mighty and that the full Hood
light Of knowledge shines upon us, but In
reality we have but little moro than reached
the threshold of perfect knowledge.
Who can read the secrets of the milky wayY
Who knows what star speaks unto star and
who can set to music the harmony and the
melody of the spheres? If modern surgery,
with all its advancements and developments
in latter years. could not locate the bullet
in the late presidents body, how can it be
said that the surgery of this day, with all its
superiorities over that of past ages, is more
than in its alphabet? And is it not so in all
tho sciences?
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-08
EIETH & OLIVE SIS
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MI -i..A n. N..-
Inc onan Oh fersia Will Yisit 0ie ozar
next april
Some 200 postmasters will, it is ale ged,
be implicated in the star-route frauds.
George M, Lawton, son Of confederate
general, committed suicide at Las Vegas,
New Mexico.
The meeting ofthe Car and the Emperor
of Austria is expected to take place in War
saw next week.
A New. York paper advocates the name
of the Hon. John Wentworth, of Chicago,
for secretary the treasury.
A re,igions mani, no. bocome en;demio
in Nicaragua. The victims believe that the
Almighty communicates His will to them
personally.
1t seems to be generally understood that
Gambetta is to be the successor of Premier
Ferry, and will have full power to choose
his own cabinet.
Railway lines and news-deaiers in New
York are generally refusing mutilated sill
yer COINS. One news agency found its loss
by clipped money TO be 20 per day.
Lord O'Hagan, Lord Chancellor of Ire
land, in his inaugural address to the Social
Science Congress, spoke of the land bill
as one of tie greatest measures of the
century.
TLo Gala. 1 l:.1 l.. :.,. l.,
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A Batlns watch IN Phn.dsIphI..

John Brady and Edward Wilson, two
youths who had imbibed just enough to
make them foolish. had a dispute IN tav-
ern at American and Jefferson streets, on
Friday night, about their physical powers,
and agreed 10 settle il By chewing match,
each man 10 do his level best u extract the
grestest quantity q raw hesh from the 9th
er's form that teeth could grasp. They
went 81 il like bulldogs. Bradley led on
By biting q large dice from wilson's neck,
bufted him and cheved piece OF 81 his
furefnger. Both we're errested. and hagls-
trnte Becker held Brady under fl.p00 for
mayhem, snd Wilson as q vitness.-l Phils-
deiphia Tines
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The delay in the delivery of our weekly
this week, is due to the heavy task we have
had on our hands in moving from the old
TO our new home. The labor, occurring
too, duringa rainy spell, has been an hercu-
lean one, but in day or two we will be all
right and as prompt as usual For this
week we crave the indulgence OF our pat
rons for the reasons above assigned.
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APATKNT WINDOW.
Doing Avg Win Cisdsr, and Dust. and
Proving . General Bensnt fss Railway
Travellers


frosnB - ocnss De"~ns ~ h".s
Travellers.
New Yorf Mail
Il seems that at last the mighty travelling
public, who have suffered nom the dust and
cinders incident 10 journeying on our
American railways, are 10 be relieved
from such an annoyance. A rep
resentstive Of the Evening Mail
has hsd the pleasure Of sitting b. q
newly patented window, on car No. 1s Of
the northern rsilroed Of New jersey, the
merits on which the ofacers Of the road are
anxious 70 test. The .pstentee and appar-
entity public benefsctOr u Mr.. Isaac N. Van
Wagner. Of Nynck, New YORK, and the prin-
ciple Of his invention IL AZ follows
Between the window and the blinds i
movable wire screen composed Of very fne
meshes, 20 fine in fact a. 70 most effectually
prevent admission q dust OF cinders. ID
the circulation Of sir.
The blinds. also. differ from those nov In
use in that instead q being stationary they
have q motion which enables the passenger
70 fix them 81 any angle as may be desired
They thus form reflector for the light, an
advantage which ATTRACTS cgnsiderehle aften-
ton and admirntion- The blinds, screen
and window can eli be used for their par
ticular once. or al three conjOintly The
construction Il simple bun effective.
The test window has proven
the utility u Mr.. Van Wagners
Invention, and TIE dirsotors Of the northern
road. Il IL undsrstood, are nov, o. soon VII
be fitting out an entire car In order - give
TIE plan the foil bsnsft Which II Gems. 70
de<erv.
rs saving 70 the rrilruads would soon
amount 10 more thar ths go - iutr0cuc-
ton. ancs The entrsncs % cinders and duEt
vhich 20 son destroy The upholstsry q ths
c.rs \ efsctunly prsTsnssd
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Railroad men and TIE t-nveling public
are al sincere in their expressions q s.tis-
faction ~ 20 The value q the window, and
he universal Introduction On Our grsut lines
IL nmursd ~ the stafernerts 81 otanls
Who s--rn 70 spprscists re nsris ers -
BE believed
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Taken up by Tell Darby and estrayed b
w. N. Price J. p, September 9TH, 1881.
black mare mule, about IAN hands high. ?
IA years old brand indescnbable on The
shoulder; value, 80.
From the undersigned one brown horse
about years old, branded A. p; about -
high; has a crooked tail A reward OF I'VE
lars win be paid for his delivery 70 me-
'''-' J o. CRUTCHFIEII
J.R- Umphries estrays before Justice
one dark-brown mare mule, II or "a years oil 4
hands high, branded on the len sh0ulderY
valued at SIS.
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THE DALLAS NEENLY HERALD
peours. ELLIOTT & NALL.
APOLOGETIC.

Entered ut the Postofflce nj Dallas, as Second
Class mail matter
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Estrays.

FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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strsyed.

GTRAYFD from camp Of Beichsr stran
- near DALLAS one gray mare about year,
AZ hands branded on on left shoulder A
ersi reward win be paid for her recovery or
H,-s.,v 70 W ID. WYLIE, |
Dallas TeresI
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TTTTTTTN UULINTl- NJ y = y =
L or dapple gray horse l6k hands high,
s years old no brands but q scar on her b
caused BIZ barb wire. Anybody knowing
this horse and VIII bring him - the Inn
Brick Yard below the toll bridge. ] VIII II
him SIS The horse len home on or about |
SIN OF IN Of August. Lafayette Carnes. Dali
Texas.
IITANTED-50o B0is d Arc posts Al my "A
w miles east o. city on kaufrnsn and T.
Railroad. near fair ground WI pay cash
J. NJ BROWDEH
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Infallible Cure for Sterili1

II stimulates, tnvigorates and regulates.
Female eystem surely, positively and |
ulously.
The Rock Island Argus., 1881-08-03

laying out avenues. Mr. Saunders, who
was deputed to make the examination.
says it would be waste of money
to attempt to cultivate tea there, be-
because of the poverty of the soil, and also
because it is too far north for successful
tea culture, for which. he thinks, Florida
offers the most favorable conditions. AT
present, he says, $500 month is spentfor
the supervision Of $50 worth of labor,
which to the judicious Saunders seems ex-
travagance 1t is said that this is the only
place where experiments in the cultivation
of tea are made by the department; but
that can scarcely be true, for Mr.. LIE DIc's
reports speak of an extensive tea planta-
tion managed by an Englishman, who has
had long experience in India, and whose
letters to the department describe exten-
sive plantations of tea in Georgia, from
which crops have been taken and submitted
to experts ia New York and London for
their Judgment. That plantation, how
ever, was not directly under the depart
ment of agriculture, though patronized by
Mr.. lie Due and making a considerable
figure in his reports, where it was repre-
sented as a very promising industry, al
ready established on safe pecuniary basis.