The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-21
THE TEXAS TRIPOD.
A Rambio Among thu Exchanges OF
the inlerlor.
Pithy, PSluied Paragraphs Lifted from
u Large List.
Topics Of the Times in Texas
srArE PRESS.

wAGGIaG homo rEouOH.
Tho Fort Worth HsgtitC leyB the white
rcpubl can tsl mas been gaggiag me black
republican dog long enough.-I Houston
Age.
nE,rs Tux wonLp.
Think 0fit; Texas hogs sold IL A.. Louis
laut week gt $40 = hundred. Lot gfunt
OF triumph swell up from tue pe.c fnl
shades Of the post oak hills and live oais
bottoms of our great state. Texas 10 me
front IN evafythine that wears hoo's!-
San Antonio Times.
rIrIAnLg AND DISGUSTING.
IL ~ pitiable and disgusting 20 note the
vltupcration aud low personalismE that
hsyo recently been INDUCED Ia by tome OF
the daily papers Of the state. II occurs TO
Us that Texas IL big enough Tor all thoss
dailies TO live without cutting each Others
throata.-fMineolRM Monitor.
trArE ENGiSKER', REPORT.
The report OF State Engineer Brltton IL
| worth less than two ana one'halt cents by
! the thousand. He told IN very timid way
about one.half that which The public o.
some sources for having discharged nus
duty robiy,-T Tyler Courier.
wARsIso.
Tho sad ending OF Hon. j. p. DsyiS, rep
raloutltive FROM Lamar county, should ba
a warning 10 those who drink and 1t should
| n
effect Of politics Hero WAS a man hgid q
have been n reformed drunklro, who went
| into the political EDDY, whence he DO cend
"A again into that awful chaTm from which
20 few escape who indulge Ia strong drink'
II Austin Statesman.
TnEr CALL HIM JUDGE"
The Earl Of Aylesford, who st one time
wac the greatest spendthrii, In Europe aud
the intimate friend OF the Prince of Wales,
Ia living near Big Springs, Texas, on
81 900 acre farm. His brother the Hon.
Daniel Finch 10 Nth him. Some time ago
the earl was divorced from his wife, bsn'
ishsd from English society, and limited u
$4,000 year, so he went 10 Texas. They
spend their time riding, hunting. and hav'
ing fun with the cowboys, vii whom they
| are very popular. The cowboys rNl ths
earl Judge" and his brother 1.-The Kid"
| TOBACCO IN TEXAS.
Gov. Ireland has been presented win
box OF cigars made OF tobacco raised 10 thls
state, at Rou d Top, by John II. Sohege'
Jr.. boy who manufactured tho cigars
himself and will probably have some OF
them on exhibition OF the New Orleans ex-
position. The cigars iudlcste that tootnoo
can be raised b advantage IN Teza'' Inc
| Day has seen corn, cotton, wheat ana TO-
bacco growing within the same enclosure in
more than one Texas county. The tob1cco
stalks were few aud IN come cases the crop
was experimental; out the plant was as
thrifty as "a Tennessee, Kentucky or Nn-
rlnia grower would have desireu.-l Waco
Day.
AHEx.D ALLAsiTE WITH HISTORY.
John Kerr, manager OF the bsuk OF Abb
lene, was closed by attschmert late Satnr
day evening" Suits to the amount OF slO'
600 have been brought by depositcra. IL 10
rumoEeG that several depositoFs went u
Kerr's residence Sunday night ard 40 thu
point NJ revolver forced him TO pay over
several thousand dollars. The yfllng
opinion IL that deposits iar up, INTO the
thousands we're secretly removed rom the
bank and hidden away. There Is consider
able excitement resulungin Number OF
fights. IJohn Kerr referred TO in the
above dispatch WAS n member oil thc urn OF
Scott, Kerr Il Co., Bankers NJ Leavenwortb,
Kansas, from 1858 to 1863. The firm was
very successful and made o large amount
of money. Kerr withdrew from the bank
10 1868 ard established the banking house
Of Isctt, Kerr & Co., 10 New YORK. Alter
tvo years they failed fur large amount.
Kerr led a precarious existence FOR n rev
years, until 1879, when he was instru,
mental in organizing the First Nationsi
bank Of Dallas, Texas, with himself as pres
years, this bank failed most disas-
trously. Nothing more has been heard OF
Kerr until 1879. when he turned up IN
Leadyille, Colorado. There he succeeded
In organizing the city bank OF Leadville,
with himself as cashier. After he had man
aged the bank for eight months, the direc'
tors discovered that he had about bank.
rupted the institution and he was removed
rs cashier, and 8. M. Strcsler, now OF IDS I
CITY, was elected as his successor. In 1887
Kerr, with his mania for starting pants'
returned to Texas and succeeded Ia estab-
fishing the bank OF Abilene, with the re-
ault above ststed.-[E Psso Democrat.