The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-12
srArErREss.


Mrs. Daniel Slower, formerly Miss Mary
Johnston, daughter Of the late President
Johnston, is living near Albany, Shackel
ford county. She has one son and twI
daughters. She owns and manages farm
and rancho and is said to be prospering.--
[Austin Statesman.
Prohibition is what we need. There are
some very pertinent objections TO local OPP
ton, bat there can be no plausible opposi
ton to prohibition. 1t places every town
in the state on the same footing. Ii viii
carry the state by large majority if we
can get the proposition put TO the PEG
pie. Let us devote more time and interest
to prohibition rather than local option
Local option beats nothing, but prohibi
ton beats local option. franklin Herald
Governor Roberts Tooth parallel line ad
mits Taylor county in the agricultural dis
trict; but the Journals line has not YET
been definitely marked out, but we think
it will about strike Tarrant county's ives
tern boundry, rs we see it places Erath
one of the best agricultural counties in the
state, out in the desert with the other COW
counties. In the meanwhile wheat, oats
millet and grass are growing finely and
farmers are blindly going ahead with their
preparations for corn and cotton.-( abilene
Reporter.
The Dallas Herald was represented with
energy and ability at the stock convention
in the person of s. II. Walker, who was
present to canvass in its behalf and also to
furnish Geographic reports of the conven'
TONS proceedings. The Herald is n live
paper, and will spare no effort to take a
front rank and be the representative news
paper of Texas. 1t grasps the interests oil
the masses and its influence is being rap.
Idly extended and felt Its reports of the
convention proceedings were liberal
Gainesville Hesperian.
Some people think it strange that the
editor should charge for printing obituary
notices. They evidently fail to consider
that it costs money to print paper. The
merchant charges for the shrouding, the
undertaken for the coffin, the doctor for the
medicine and the livery man for the hearse
and all their bills IRE paid without muir
muir, yet they expect an editor to buy pa
per and type and presses and hire printers
and print obituaries free of charge = Pari.
North Texan.
Efforts are being made by sportsmen o.
western Massachusetts, TO increase and null
tiply feathered game in that section. A
year ago wild rice was planted with success,
and small stock of quails was imported
anu lcb louoe. luiS year lne sportstieH vi
Springfield are planting wild celery on the
rivers and ponds for the quails to feed upon
and it is intended to re-stock the neighbor.
hood of Springfield further by the addition
OF 500 quail, the first lot of 50 having al.
ready been received for that purpose. The
time was when feathered game was abun.
dant in Massachusetts, but the birds were
not protected from continued trapping and
slaughter and were as consequence killed
OIL, Where game is so abundant us il has
been in Western Texas, the thoughtless
sportsmen have not been, during such
abundance, brought to realize its value
aud the same sort of means by which the
old countries have been deprived of theii
game are operating here even now. The
game laws are not respected by sportsmen
nor do the authoritiestak any interest in OBJ
tanning the punishment of those who violate
them. The result will be that in few year,
the young men who are lust now beginning
to learn how to pot.shoot, will be doing the
same thing that the Massachusetts sports
men are doing-that is, be stocking tn,
country with birds-unless they can il
some way be forced to respect the gamt
laws and not destroy birds out of season.
[San Antonio Express,