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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-10

Importuht.
When you visit or leave New York
City save baggage, expresses or carriage
hire and stop at the Grand Union hotel,
opposite the Grand Central Depot. Six
hundred elegant rooms, fitted up at II
cost of Sl,O0O,O0o, reduced 81 and up
wards per day. European plan; E!e-
vator. Restaurant supplied with the
best. Horse-cars, stages and elevated
railroads to all depots. Families can
live better tor less money ut the Grand
Union Hotel than in any other tirst-class
hotel in the city.
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In Limestone County.

GR,EsnEEcR, July Especial Sew
eral refreshing showers have fallen with
in the past few days, and crop prospects
are tiattering. The bridges on the creeks,
which were carried away in the floods,
are rebuilt,
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THE NATIONAL IRON FENCE COMPANY
- Cortlandt Street, New York.

Iron Posts and Anchors and Wire, com
prising an entire Iron Fence. The latest, best
and cheapest fence now in use. 1ndeStructa-
BILE by fire or rot, and ten times as durable ms
any wooden fence. Any kind OF post can he
used. Certificate Of highest medal award
ed for this fence nj New York state Fair, lSSi.
For circulars giving full particulars, write to
the Office of the company.
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lndulgonces or Exposures.

1t Is self-evident that 4 physician paymk
particular attent on toa class Of cases alta IN,
great skill, aud physicians IN regular practice
all over the country knowing this, freVucntl,
recommend cases TO the oidSs; ,3ice in Ameri
TO, and the p rovcd good re inedies of al.
ages and countries are used, A whole house T.
used for eiice purposes, and all are treated with
skill in respectful manner: and. knowing
what to do, no experiments are made. On ac-
count of the great number applying, tho
charges are kept low, often lower than Is de-
manded by others, II yon secure the SKIN and
get speedy and perfect life cure. that Is the
Important matter Pamphlet, ~ pages. Sent
IN any address free.
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,afE, |MARRIAGE GUIDE p22ssegs

Elegant cloth and gilt binding. Sealed for 20
cents In postage or currency. over hIty wong
derful pen pictures, true to life, articles on the
following subjects: W no may marry whonot;
whyY Proper age TO marry. Who marry first,
Manhood, Wonianhood. Physical decay. Who
should marry: How life and happiness may be
Increased. Those married or contemplating
marrying should read 1t. 1t ought to be read
by all adult persons, then kept under lock and
key, Popular edition, same as above. but paper
cover and 200 pages, % cents by mail, In moheJ
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Ladies' approve of your smoking
Little Joker"
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T WAS AFFLICTED WITH EQUITY AM
1 Ca,lk Il pn>iS around NV Joints, cnlirgr'
and inHiincd: could not walk: 0ain wns IN
tense. pNrticui rly ut the change in the
We Gather: was confined To my bed; gave up Il,
hopes oi living: used GILES lo'liir Amit,nnii
Iinimcut aud Pills, which remedies ust"re,
my h alth, dispersed the cna"grmcnts AN.
-rinovcd the pnin. MRS. VIRGINIA l.. DIR AID
su.w stafford Store. Va. S"'I ~ d-''.- ''S'
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her of their Presidential elect us i, AS
follows:
Alabama .,.......... ~ missouri .,..':.. ~
Arkansas .... 7INorth Carolina II
Delaware .... 3South Carolina .
Florida .....s&... Ienues~ce ,,.r.'.s' II
K ;tsk " i8Iyirginia i:
,E.uisiann .,...,>% West Virginia.
MurylNnti...t-..; :, ~ . ~. O., -
J ON the other, hand, certain States are
set down as surely Republican,:
Colorado ....... g 3ISew Hampshire..., 4
Illiuos y: i,:s220hiof -, .'. q, >.
Iowa ...,... -, ", ..sf,iI oregon : -. ..'.. =.
Kansas .... .. 81 Pennsylvania 81
Maine. Decentralization. 81 Rhode Island. ....
M Mi.sisam x s Wisconsin, ii
Minnesota ...........
Nebraska ....: u TOTAL. ...'.. .'... ii'
Nevada .....,. .,,,... 81
There is third category of States
that arc believed to be doubtful, and the
electoral votes of these States are VIVA.
the parties most strenuously contend
for:
California COCOON. SNcw Jersey .....'... .
Conr Q 'ticut ICON. 81 New York ........ .B
Inlialla ....... ....l5i =,
T tal ..........., '.:..,.'.. -
Thms we see that there are l53 electo-
raj votes which are ordinarily regarded
as sure to be Democratic, ia electoral
votes which are set down as surely Re-
publican and "a electoral votes that
are doubtful. There are in all 4Ol cleo
tors, and the votes OF 20l of them are
necessary to choose a President. Now,
the Democrats, having LIS sure, need ~
more to give them the majority; and the
Republicans, having ia sure, need q
to give them the majority.
Thus ii the Republicans hold all the
States which are set down az theirs, and
get New York in addition, they will
elect Mr.. Blaine, even though Cali
fornia, Connecticut, Indiana, and New
Jersey should go to the Democrats:
On the other hand, if the Democrats hold
all the States that are conceded 10 then"
and i'm addition carry California, Con-
necticut, Indiana and New Jersey, but
not New York, they will Still be some
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Some Political Figures.

Some States are habituaIly act down
as sure to be Democratic, an the mum
her of their Presidential elect us ) AS
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all day, and there was an unusually
large gathering of people on the streets
10 see them. The crowded hotels have
been the scenes of incessaut clectionecr
ing, and while many cxtravagant claims
are being made as to the strength of the
various candidates, the truth is that
pending the caucuso of the New York del
cga.ion there is no change In the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
A Curious Burial Custom.

A Jewish chronicler, writing in 1746
of English burial customs, says: "The
English have several customs which, in
my opinion, are as fanatical as any that
are observed among other nations. In
this country the breath is no sooner out
of the body than they fall a-stripping
the body of everything made of linen.
A Mohammedan is not more careful in
washing dead body, Jew is not more
exact in purifying, or Papist in NUT
tering over it some superstitious
prayers, than the English are in wrap
ping 1t up in flannel shrouG. There
are great numbers of these grave-cloths
ready made, and many get their living
by selling them. There is an express
law prohibiting the use of anything
about dead body that is not woollen.
If so much as thread of flax or hemp
is employed in sewing shroud, it is a
crime against the state. However. at
first. l was exceedingly surprised at this
odd custom. When l came to under
stand the reason, 1 was far from con-
demning the English. The intention of
their law which forbiGs burying in linen
is to increase the consumption of
wooden goods, and so to encourage
that kind of manufacture Monceca
has the fOllowin reflection on this law
Nothing. sure, can show greater
concern for trade than TO make the
yery dead interest themselves in it,
N I: Eren;Hg (bss,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
The Louisiana Sugar Growers.

The sugar planters have done that
which lay nearest to them in the way
of reducing the cost Of production and
saving themselves from bankruptcy this
fall. viz: have curtailed expenses in
every way and cut down wages. The
position of affairs certainly demanded
such steps, and has demanded them for
some time past. The depressed con.
dition of the sugar trade is of itself sui
ficient to render commission merchants
very cautious about advancing on sugar
crops. even if money were plentiful,
but when to the low price of sugar is
added the scarcity of money at all the
financial centers, it is out of the ques-
ton to expect sugar estates to be run
on any exlravagant basis. The causes
for the present collapsed state of the
market for all sweets are worldwide,
and it therefore will take some time to
bring about correction and restore
values to basis that will afford some
compensation to the producers. In the
meantime, the planter must sail
close to the shore and economic
at every point. A reduction
must come, for it is impossible for any
commodity SO universally consumed to
remain below the cost of production.
1t is evident that prices have touched
bod rock, and that another season will
find the markets recuperating. The
laborers have an interest in the main
tenance of the industry in Louisiana,
and should cheerfully submit to the re-
duction that the gloomy surroundings
have compelled the planters to make.
They have q common cause with the
planter, and will share in returning
prosperity when the time turns. While
it may be true that there are MANY i'm
provements in the way of manufacture
that if introduced would advance the
sugar industry in this State, yet We are
not of the school of pessimists who con-
slider the sugar culture of louisiana as
doomed. 1t is too firmly established to
ever be abandoned, and when the great
desideratun, protection against over
flow, shall have been secured. will
progress. o. Rcayune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
His Advice.

my son." said old Stephen, ''be
mighty kereful whit sorter oman yer
marries in dis heah worl'.''
lt.Mus' be: kereful dat she's frum er
good family an dat she's got er good
character?'
"Yas, dat is er pint. but it aim de
main one. Look at her disserposition.
A oman wild one o. desc heah sudden
tempers is wus den de rheumatic in bot
laigs. De fust time l married, l WIZ
nightly tuck up wild de idee O. charac-
ter. Oh, dat 'oman wuz full O. char
acter. She was SO proud dat she had
ter put on spectacles fore she coul'
look down an see de top O. my head.
But temper, oh, Lawd. No matter wild
whut 'siderations woul' treat her, she
woul fly inter q tanterum dat wouls
make de wool rise on my head. Couldn
do nothin' ter suit her: so, airter got
rid o her, l paid ez much 'tention ter
gen'leness ez did ter character, an
airter dis. I done tolerable well. -
Arkansa,0 TrGreter.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
THE SUMMER TWILIGHT.

In golden splendor died the sweet June day,
Twilight came on with all its witching pow
er;
The West still held the sunsets latest ray,
From grove, and bush, and every leafy
bower
Came the faint chirp Of birds seeking their
rest.
And while the light yet fingered in the West,
Above the elm trees tops of darkest green
The new moon with her silver bow was seen;
Her forehead held jewel passing fair.
For the bright ''star of evening" glitterd
there.
The gentle evening dew began to fall,
Came a faint wind which bore upon its
wings
The breath Of flowers. But. sweeter than
them all
Was scent of new-cut hay-and spicy things
Which grow i'm woods Nor was the perfume
rare
OF the sweet grapevine wanting there.
Slow faded from the west the last pale light,
And the soft twilight depend into night;
The silver moon sank low behind the hill,
And darkness was upon US, calm and still.
sat out on the porch with ''cousin WIZ
Till mammals voice did call, in accents shrill:
"Come in, Mirandy, dear-youll get chill!'
". /. Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
Personal AND LITERARY.

The State of Louisiana has imposed
license fee of five dollars on al news
paper men.
Oscar Wilde has written . poem
beginning Beautiful star With the
crimson mouth"
William H. Vanderbilt is not the
richest man in the world. Lord
Rupertswood, of Melbourne, Australia
is said to be worth goo, 0OO, 00O.-CAs
sdgo Inter Ocean.
-"Uncle Henry Logan. the colored
messenger of the Registers Office in
Washington, who handles more money
than any other man living. earns $3.50
3 year and lives in o SlO-a-month cot
tage.- Washington Star.
Edwin C. Burt. the widely-known
shoe man, is dead. He was sixty-six
years old and enjoyed the reputation OF
having furnished more ladies and chill
dren with shoes than any other manu-
facturer in this country.-Boston Post.
Little Miss Susie Robinson, Of Fort
Edward, Washington County. has late
ly been visiting her grandmother .
grandmother's sister, and wants to
know if any other little girl in the State
is able to enjoy similar felicity. And
the old lady is proud of the distinction,
too. Times.
Mr.. Spurgeon's househoM is hap
py one. He told his friends assembled
to celebrate his fiftieth birthday that Ii
and his wife had never differed except
upon one question. He did not think II
worth while to 90 across the road tn
hear himself preach. while Mrs. S. wa
Of the contrary opinion.
MIR. and Mrs. Rolla Floyd are the
only remaining members of the famous
colony of one hundred and fifty three
persons who left America in 1866 to
bbring about the restoration of Jaffa and
Palestine. Mr.. Floyd says that the
experiment failed on account OF the
rascality of the leaders, who swindled
the people out of their money. Chicago
Herald.
The author of a new Boston novel
seems fond of red. One of the young
men in the book has "a reclaimed face
and amber hair" another character il
q college professor who Ibid his celeb
ritv under reddish beard:" third has
complexion naturally crimson, and q
fourth in ''riding by leaves an impress
sion of a long scarlet nustache. "-Bos
tom Journal.
An alphabetical list of the person.
ages in thirty-twO novels of Sir Walter
Scott has Just been compiled, from which
it appears that they comprise six hun
dred and sixty-two distin t characters
The compiler has also arranged thu
stories according to the periods IL
which the scenes are laid. From .'Coun
Robert of Paris,' the date of which Il
1923, down to "St. Romans Well" in
1872 there IS but one century (the thir
teenth) which has not furnished an his
toricsl background for one or another
of this great range of fictions. The gaE
lies between ''lvanhoc," which OPEN
in 1894, and the castle Dangerous
the date of which is 1906.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
HUMOROUS.

-"Sweet are the uses of adversely"
but we will exchange a large lot of adj
versity, Just as good as new, for half
the quantity of good luck. ---Middletoso's
Transcript.
How do you like it?' asked q
yachtsman of a young lady as the boat
went up and down in the trough of the
waves. "Oh. Lifts too awfully
swellr' was the distressed reply.
-Stable-keeper: ''By the way, shall
I put in an extra buffalo?" English
Stranger: Couldn't you let me ave an
'orse, you know? Er-er rather not drive
buffalo first time, you know"
A young gentleman who was trying
to play a waltz on the piano, got con-
fused and made mistake. While he
was cropping for the right chord, little
girl in the room exclaimed: mamma.
isn't he just like papa! He's lost hfs
latch-key"' - Burlington ~ Free
Press.
-Admiring cousin-"What are you
going to do, Tom, now you re through
college?" Tom (who wishes TO be con-
sidered cynical)-"Oh! l shall stand
aside and let the world roll on.'' Ad-
miring cousin charmed Why, that 8
very kind of you, Ton" Chicago
Tribune.
What beautiful girl that is!' ex-
claimed Fogg. ''Such a rare complex
ion!" "Y0u may well call it rare, "
muttered Mrs. F., sit certainly is not
well done" Husband and wife may be
one in every other regard; but when
they begin discussing another woman g
good looks you will find two opinions.
Boston IT tnscrTpt.
-" johnny" cried mother to her
boy, who was yelling with the peculiar
intensity OF small boy with the throt-
tie wide open. "Oh, Johnny!' Eyes,
ma'am." "For heavens sake what
are you, yelling at that way'"
yelling at?' I'm yelling at the top
of my voice. thought you knowed. o
Merchant Traveller.
-''Yes. they are excellent boots, ~
said the shOe-dealer to the young lady
purchaser; ''they will wear like iron. "
''DO you think the buttons are sewed on
securely?" she asked. ''They are; the
boots are supplied with the old maids
wedding button, new invention -
"Why is it called the old maids we'd
ding buttOn?'' because it never
comes of. IN. Y. Graphic.
Travellers will be pleased to learn
that at the National Convention of bag.
gage agents it was resolved that If q
trunk didn't burst open after being
bounced emo over end four times, and
tumbled out of the car on to the plat
form, it should be delivered to its own
err in its normal condition. Baggage
agents are not so destructive IS some
persons imagine.-No rristown Herald
-"Children are funny things.
was hunting for the hammer not long
since, and was getting out of patience.
After inquiriDg of the chaps-who, Of
course, knew nothing about Tiny lit
tie Ruth, four years old, looked up into
my face, and beaming with q smile -
bright and soft as Heaven, said: Pa,
know where the hammer is l patted
her on the head. and told her she was
the smartest one of the whole lot, and
then l asked her: Where is it, honey?'
to which she replied: ITS lost That
settled it. ''-Harrisoe (Ga.) Banner.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07

A correspondent asks how to get rid
of iron weeds in pasture which he does
not wish to pillow up
This weed is quite common on bot
tom lands and fertile clay lands. 1t is
rank feeder, has long strong roots,
which 90 deep and vide. 1t was named
Vernonia in honor of William Vernon,
an English botanist. Its h ads have
many purple flowers. Its stems are
from three to eight feet high. strong and
straight. Its leaves come out opposite
and in alienation, and are from four to
eight inches long. 1t blooms in August,
and seed falls in September and Octo-
Der. 1t is q worthless weed, SO far as
yet known. .
The writer came into possession OF an
old pasture and wood lot in 1872 which
was so thickly set with iron weed and
thistles that from July to November the
animals which were pastured there
were not visible to one passing the
meadow. An old farmer said that was
nice place for cattle. as they could
brush the flies of easily. The same
old-timer claimed the land produced ~
much grass, with the weeds growing
then, as it would if they were destroyed.
The writer did not agree with these
views, and set about killing the iron
weeds and thistics. He moved them
with . brier scythe in August. 1872,
then in July and August the next year.
In the fall of 1873 he turned in his first
purchase of six cotswold ewes. They
ate the tender shoots that appeared in
the fall.
In 1874 and 1875 the thistles had dis
appeared, but the iron weeds put in an
appearance. though a little tardy and
looking weakened. They were cut in
June and August, with sharp hoe, and
the sheep kept on this pasture all the
fall.
1t took four years to exterminate the
weeds. by twice cutting them each sum-
mer and keeping sheep there to eat OF
the tender shoots as they appeared
The pasture and wood lot are now en-
tirely clear of both iron weeds and this
ties. It has been proven that these
pests can be exterminated without plow-
ing the sod. and at less cost than once
blowing. :.
A clean, neat meadow and grove GER
tainly tell of good husbandry, and please
the eye of every cultivated beholder. A
neighbOr farmer told the writer the
weeds in thai Enclosure would never be
killed out. and it would not pay to try.
as the pasture was worth just as much
with them rs without them. Farmers,
like doctors, often disagree as to modes
OF treatment. For tho sake of good
husbandry and the encouragement Of
correct taste. we would encourage every
farmer to make war on iron weeds and
thistles, for they cas- b sxterminated.-
Csncs'sHaH Commercial Gozette.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
Burns and Skin. Grating.

Burns are a great source of trouble
to the surgeon in many ways. For in
stance, if burn is very extensive there
may be great difficulty in getting a
cicatrice to form over the whole of it.
Cicatrization only begins in the imme-
date neighborhood Of living epidermis,
and therefore burn or ulcer must heal
from the circumference to the center.
But the further that the cicatricial It's
sue extends from the margin of the
burn the more slowly and the more i'm
perfectly is it formed; and, indeed, it
may fail altogether to reach the center.
This difficulty has often been met by o
small operation called skin-grafting. A
piece of sound skin about the size of a
split pea is pinched up-say, on the out
side of the ARMAND the epidermis
shipped off with pair of curved scis-
sors, the scissors Just going deep enough
to cut slightly into the second layer OF
skin and draw little blood. A special
kind of scissors has been invented for
the purpose that will only take up just
the right amount of skin, 50 that the op-
Grafton is thus made even simpler still
and if it is skillfully performed
it causes only very tritiing
pain. Tie little fragment of skin thus
separated is then placed gently, with its
raw surface downward. on the unhealed
surface OF the burn. The same thing is
repeated again and again till there are
many gratis, if the burn is large one.
Isinglass plaster or some other similar
material is employed to keep the gratis
in position and preserve them from in
Jury. In about four days they should
have taken root, and then the covering
can be removed. There is now num-
Der of fOci from which cicatrization can
start for, as before said, it will begin
from where there is an epidermal cover
ing, and thence alone. After time q
number of little islands or scar tissues
may be seen, which 90 on increasing
until at length they coalesce with one
another, and also Join that extending
from the margin of the burn. This is
what happens if all goes well but, I'M
fortunately, there is a very great ten
dency for cicatrice formed from gratis
to break down and disappear, so that
the result is not by any means always
so satisfactory as it at first promises to
Chambers Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
She Appreciated the Serenade.

Will Haven serenaded his girl last
night, and when he got through singing
the first song female Irish voice was
heard at front upper-story window, Al
to-wit:
lis that ysu. Bill?''
eyes. Where's Maude ~
'tFaith an she hain't got home from
the ice-cream saloon yit wild Mr.. Arch
er. Give US another song, Bill; the
Ould folks are out, too. Give US 'Swate
Violets. "-Kentucky State Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
Hints for Hot Weather.

Don't shake the hornet nest to see II
any of the family are at home.
Don't go near draft. If . draft
comes toward you. run away. A sight
draft is most dangerous.
Don't blow in the gun your grand
father carried in the war of 1915. It is
more dangerous now than it was then.
Don't hold wasp by the other end
while you thaw it out in front of the
stove if it is alive. 1t is generally alive.
FONT try to persuade bulldog to
give up a lari Of whic.. it il In posses
SON. Possession to = bulldog % tan
points Of the lsW.-Al3sntev1 (Hp.)
ur6ttc,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07
The Mormon bill should be extend

The Mormon bill should be extend
ed so as to include Kentucky, or at the
very least to include DR.. Hirschberg, OF
Louisville, in that State. He has mar
ried. successfully, q German, q French
girl, an Irish maiden. mulatress, and
six young American dsmsels. He Il
now, very properly, in the cold embrace
Of 4 jaN,-CAesoo HtrGj6
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-07

AT negro ball. In lieu of mo,
transferable on the ticket, a notice
was posted over the door: mo gentle,
maa admitted unless be comes htsself !"
--& xss1s ybst