The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-12-25
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STATE PRESS.

| 1t Is suggested that State Press will
have Dan McGary in the Dallas HER
AIDS refUrmalory for bad boys as soon
as the first apartment has been finished.
-[Greenville Herald.
| The penitentiary lease system will
meet with great opposition. All the
e nvcts should be kept within the walls
| of the peiIileutiaries as soon AS 1T Is
practicable to do so i BRENNAN Banner.
1t is said that Dick Nelson. the colored
! orator, writer and eX-candidate Tor con-
gress, OF weston, wants to get into
the Democratic patty. He will he adj
nitted us u voter Meridian Blade.
| Our representative, Col. Lanham, re-
ceived majority of 2j,52S. This is the
largest majority given to any congress-
man in the state, but then he had some
advantage in territory.-l Cisco ROud-Up.
The newspapers of Texas are credit
to the state. Their editors should not
enter the scramble for Office. They
have higher and nobler uuission--re-
criptng Tor coon skins and turnlps on
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Southwest Texas at this season affords
the best hunting fields in the worl', as
iany quantities of deer, duck, geese,
tui KEY, and some "bar" abouud: and
the local shotgun is being rubbed up i'll
The proposed course OF State Engineer
Brltton looks as though it might indi-
cate legislation in the direction of
railway commission. There is an ele-
ment which will persis emily labor in
behalf of railway supervision.--l States
man.
Stock in the vicinity of Albany are
suffering for want of pasturage. The
grass, in many places, l. Insufficient TO
afford pasturage all winter, and stock
men ear that they will lose their cattle
il the winter is severe.- Young County
News.
The city of Galveston appropriated
$l00, 200 to aid the government in the
Improvement of the harbor. 1t Is now
apparent that the harbor has not been
improved and that the 500, 900 has gone
g,iinmering il the dim distance and can
never be recovered.
The Dallas HERALD is urging boys
reformatory for those that are really not
accountable for their acts, which are
often sent to the penitentiary. This is
good move on the part Ut the HERALD,
and we hope that our coming legsla-
ture will establish one.-lSherman
Democrat.
We see that the wool-growers OF Run
uels and Tom Green counties are rails
ing funds to place the inheritance of
offering rewards for the Sc dips of wolves
and other wild beats before the legis'
iature. This can be accomplished ii per-
sisted inby the ool-growers.-l Baird
Clarendon.
1t is all well enough for Barnett Gibbs
to exercise the great American priv ege
of depressing his views freely and f0rci-
oily, BUTT would probably be well for
him to keep in remembrance the fact
that Irelan has bsen elected "boss of
the ranche' for tho next two years.
Bolton Journal.
From the Fort Worth Gazette we are
led to infer that crime is fearfully on the
increase in that plague-stricken city. In
every Issue some daring r,bberies are
portrayed. The Fort should petition
Major Penn to pour oat his converting
eloquence upon its wicked population
Tor rrief season. "While the lamp
holds out" stc.-[ Midlothian News.