The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-27

The Marshall Herald has correspondent
who cannot stand and gaze upon the We're
mandi house in San Antonio without re-
peating to himself just thirty-sx lines of
poetry on the fall of the Alamo. The worst
OF 1t is he has to repeat the same poetry
every time he INDUCES in a gaze, always
commencing:
Arise, man Che wall, our clarion blast" etc
And ending,
o. 8 their expiring breath
Was freedom breath of life"
Il Palestine Advocate.
A PARADOX,
The current of Senator Tabor's domestic
felicity does not run smoothly along the
channel OF life. He is worth several million
dollars, and can surround his new wife with
all the pride, pomp and circumstance OF re.
dundant wealth. He can build her pala-
tial mansion, and hang its walls with PANT
ings by Raphael and Titan, lie can clothe
her in fabrics OF imperial splendor, decorate
her with Jewels have servants in livery TO
do her bidding give entertainments royal
in magniliCence and hold up before her adj
hiring gaze a night-shirt that cost $3.50, but
he cannot get her into good society,"
Houston Age.
a, n NJ. COLLEGE.
1t is the policy and practice OF many to
criticise aud condemn everybody and every
thing They do not except even their own
households How Texan, possessing any
thing like state pride, can make of the A.
IL NJ. college an object of ridicule, Islander
and abuse, We are unable TO conceive. Ger
toinly the success OF the institution has
been very great. Considering the amount
of money donated to it by the state, its
prosperity is remarkable. If the college
were located Mt FL Paso, or in any other
portion OF Texas, the Pilot would say rs
many kind words for it as possible. 1t is a
state institution, and does not belong TO any
particular communicate razos Pilot.
TOO LUXURIOUS.
Mayor Palmer has reused "a great deal OF
anger and delight in Boston by his re-
iusal to audit the bills of the aldermen for
refreshments. They had become accus-
tomedSto elaborate suppers after every even
ing meeting, and some of them not satisfied
with what they could consume at tine table,
carried home large quantities OF wine and
cigars. An attempt was made TO com
promise with the mayor, bat he has refused
to allow dollar of the claims to be paid.
The accounts at two leading hotels amount
to over So 600 for the first two months of
this year. The Boston Herald has taken
pains to get reports from the principal cities
OF the country on the subject, and II APP
pears that official junketing has almost en-.
tirely gone out of fashion, Texarkana In
| tcr-State.
THE JURY SYSTEM.
There is no disputing the fact that think
ing people have become disguised with the
manner in which criminal trials are con.
Quoted, aud have, to n great measure, lost
confidence in the present jury system as u
means OF justice. The greater the crime,
| the less likely is the criminal to meet the
meritcd punishment. The cases of
| RothsChild and Curry were of such agra
waited character-so intensely diabolical as
to startle the whole country at their enor-
mity-ytt these demons, after the form OF II
trial, were acquitted and turned loose, as
wild beasts, to prey on society and commit
other crimes as abhorrent rs those which
gained them an unenviable notoriety. But
the evil complained of is not confined to
this state, nor TO any other individually,
but to every part OF this country and Eng.
land as well II Wayqhachie Mirror.
I ROAD LAW.
\ The present road law, which the legisla-
ture seems bent on perpetuatinE, is un.
doubleday unconstitutional, aud IL is
strange no one has ever tested it. The
clause making the non-payment of the road
tax u misdemeanor is in direct conflict with
the Federal constitution, which says \ man
cannot be imprisoned for debt. In case
WnlCu went w w Nut supltiht Nuuib Va shi
souri few years ago, under pretty much
exactly the same road law that disgraces
the statutes of Texas, hat court held that
the sum required tn lieu OF personal ser.
vices on the roads was to all intents and
purposes, Il pnil.tax ot that amount that
being pol.tax II is simply u debt due the
state, aud consequently that the statute
prescribing fine aud imprisonment for fail.
ure IN pay the Tux is IN conflict with the
constitution, which prohibits imprisonment
for debt.-rMarli Ball
HELr YE ONE ANOTHER.
When the late Hon. Gustave Schleicher
died he being at the time member o.
congress aud member elect OF the neon.
ing congress, tho house, out OF personal
sympathy, In view Of the fact that he was .
poor man with u large family, voted his
heirs s6,00O-nominaily as nay fy his ser
vices in congress which III
never lived to- see. Contrary e
The general expectations of the
press and people. this case, which was tn,
irsi of tho kind, aud which was considered
at the tine an excusable exception, hal
passed into precedent and the forty
seventh congress has even gone to the ex
tent Of voting the full salary to the heirs o
persons who had never served day o
even been sworn In ms memhrs This ga
done in the cases OF Colonel Heron ani Dt
updegraiI, memberselect to the Forty
eighth congress, who died months befor,
that body organized.-[Bonham Advocate
vic.'s KNEE.
The slight accident that happened tw,
days ago to Queen Victoria, and which vii
confine her majesty TO her room for a shor
time, convulsed England to her centre an'