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IVOk SALE ChEAP-A Lot or UNKE-
4 deemed pledges, consisting OF gold and
silver watches, guns pistols, etc a. / ara
closing ont bushes aud notice Is hereby
given that all outstanding / ans cue d
| railing due must be paid or the goods and
| pledges Will be positively sold. RICHARB
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II1EARE AuTH0RiZEDTo 4NNdrfNCE
w the name of. 7. Downs as a candl-
date for County Treasurer Of Dallas county
AT the ensuing election, N0yember4, lsA.
WE ARE AUTHORIZED 70 AN
~ nDunce Mr.. +. n. LANGLEY rs can
ldate for County Treasurer Of Dallas county.
election In November.
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TEXAS EXPRESS COMPANY'S
SALE OF
UNCLAIMED EXPRESS

p OK AGES.
A large number OF IN claimed Express
Packages will he sold at public auction ON
Thursday, November Is, nj the warehouse OF
Rlokeney & Free, AuctionCcrs, No. $40 Elm
street Dallas, Tcx0S. sale to commence at 10
o'clock n, m. u, r. FAwCETr, Agent
DALLAS, TEXAS, October IL, 1881.
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And they will tell you unhesitatingly
"SOme form Of Hons 80
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PERSONAL--W Weak and Undovelopod

y LLoNL. NJ y. rAnNN. M, VI 0
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T. OR SALE-ONE BAKERY, WITH ALI
L fixtures necessary for baking, In uwlde.
awake town; everything new aud csmnlete.
at 4 price TO suit the hard times. Address
c. T., In care Dallas HERALD. Oct E-tf
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! " single gentlrmHn; must b. reI,tranII.
ocated; references exchanged Addrs
furnished Room, care Postoilice. oc5a, !:
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EOk SALE-FARM IN DALLAS 90
i or 10 rent for money. Two hun
dred and eighteen acres, one and half
miles west OF Richardson; rich, black land.
well improved, In fine state OF cultivation:
large dwelling, rooms; barn, outbuildipas
and tenant houses: splendid orchard lpeachj:
good wells and "A acres timber This [,
one OF the best places in Dallas county
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WANTEp-MAS AND WIFE no wOpIs
W on farm; good wages will b. gaid. A.
ply at Intelligence Office, COO Main IS scs1Ib5,
~ ANIHD = EnR A r,InI 49, -
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FOB SALE

LOR SALE-FINE ~ SHARES EACH
L in series A and u Dallas Homestead and
Loan association. a good lttnce for any
this office. ortaGtI
The bee., 1884-06-28
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

LONDON has now about forty regular thea
tres.
SARAH BERSHARDT is playing Lady Mac
beth in Scotland and England this month
Mrs. LANGTRY and Dion Boucicault are
said to be about to enter a business partner
ship.
LITTLE LOTrA will wing her flight from the
cold shores of England to America in Sep
tember.
MAGGIE MITCHELL is shortly to produce an
adaptation by Clifton W. TayleiTe of the
Luck of Roaring Camp"
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN has been asked to
rompose original music for Twelfth Night"
which Mr.. Irving is to revive.
LECoCQs opera. "LOiseau Bleu,n is to be
brought out at New York early the coming
season under the confusing title of 'Blue
Bird
BILLY EMERSON, Haverly's 500 a week
burnt cork artist, is reported as having Grip
pied himself financially on the English race
track
ONE of the theatrical shows of next season
will include professional beauty to repre-
sent the typical loneliness Of each State in
the Union.
ACTORS have dispiriting outlook for next
season. Managers anticipate bad business in
consequence of the distractions of the presi-
Dental canvass.
A SEASON of German opera under Hans
Richter'S direction is now in progress at Co
vent Garden in London. The opening opera
was ''Die Meister-singer'
THERE will be quite deluge of English
opera next season. Nine. Minnie Hauk,
Zelda Sequin, Abbie Darlington and Emma
Abbott will have their own companies.
The bee., 1884-06-28
WaNIliHlplnn,

MEETING to ratify the nominations Of
Blaine and Logan, held in front of the court
house at the capital, was addressed by Sena-
tors Sherman, Hawley, Frye AMI Malone,
Representatives Phelps, Bayne and Horr, and
Governor Dingley, of Maine.
The Joint commission to arrange for the
ceremonies upon the completion Of the Wash
lngton monument organized b electing
Senator Sherman chairman. a committee
consisting of Senator Morrill,. CalgresSman
Tucker, DR. Toner. Professor v elling and
Colonel Casey was appointed to le charge
of the preliminary work of the commission.
The committee viii report 60 the commission
in December. 1t is proposed to inNi5e the gov
ernoTs of all States. military and civic organi-
cations and the public at large to take a part
IN the ceremonies.
1T is expected that the balance sheet of the
government viii show total relU ton of the
debt for the fiscal year of S100C0 90 and a
decrease i'm revenue from ali sources of about
$40,0000G0 This decrease of dctt Is 3d.
O00, 900 less than last years. The commercial
balance in favor of the United States for the
current year will be $50, 100. = ainSt S9J.-
000, 900 in the preceding year 1h legislation
which was designed TO reduce tlr revenues
caused reduction of Sl5,0010Ja from Gus
toms S2a.a00000 from internal revenue
sources, and about S5,0O0,0O0 fro.l miscelIa.
neous receipts.
THE House passed the sundry civil apprc
priation bill
The bee., 1884-06-28
Anecdote of Washington Irving.

Many years ago-in fact, back in the
thirties-Dr. Grant, of Enfield, whose
reputation as physician in Connections
is still in memory of the first rank after
years of retirement from practice, was
travelling in South Carolina, his native
state, going by stage from Savannah to
Augusta. At certain stopping place 1t
was found that there were more passen-
gers than the stage could carry, and an
extra was ordered for the accommodation
of five passengers. These passengers
we're John Forsyth, of Georgia, John
Branch, Postmaster General, George Nc
Duffie, of South Carolina, DR.. Grant and
an unknown gentleman. The party soon
became talkatiye, and by degrees all
knew who each one was, with the excep-
ton of the one silent stranger. As the
stage creaked along, the attention of DIR.
Grant who was a lad at that date, was
attracted by a little dog following the
stage, which reminded him of one de-
scribed by Washington Irving in astoria,
which he had just been reading. He was
laughing quietly to himself, when one of
the gentlemen insisted that he should
tell them the cause of his amusement,
that they might join in the fun. DIR.
Grant said, THAT little dog reminds nc
of Washington Irving's dog, whose 81 in
was so tight that it drew up his hind legs. :"
This led to talk about Irving, in
which all joined except the. unknt wn
man. One of the gentlemen then ap-
pealed to him, and asked if he diu not
think Irving one of our wittiest and most
delightful writers. The person appealed
to replied that he could not say that he
did. The gentlemen all expressed their
astonishment, and one Of them persisted
in demanding why he did not agree with
the others in their admiration of the
favOritc author
Have you ever read any of his works."
they asked.
eyes" was the reply.
"Well, don't you think the Sketch
Book one of the most beautiful specimens
of English which. our country has pro-
duced!"
"Well, no" the unknoNn replied; 81
cannot say that see anything remarka-
BILE in it."
''WelI," said the othe,, ''then you must
be Washington Irving himself, for no one
else could resist the humor and pathos of
his pen"
The unknown coIored to the roots of
his hair, but made no reply, and his tor
mentor continued:
Come, tell us the truth; are y0u not
Washington Irving himself"
The poor man at last blushingly con-
fessed that he was, and then followed a
general introducing and hand-shaking,
and delightful and o-be- forgot
ten stagr-ride.-HaPer's 1Aagasiae.
The bee., 1884-06-28
BLAINE NOTIFIED.
His Acceptance OF the Rcpublicaa n
Presidential Nomination..

Presidential Nomination.
James G. Blaine received at his honle
in Augusta Me-, formal and official notifica-
tion that he is the nominee of the Republican
party for the presidency. The committee APP
pointed by the national convention of one
from each State and Territory waited upon
him at his house about IL o'clock M. After
the committee had been introduced to Mr.
Blaine and his family, the entire party pro-
cceded to the lawn in front of the
house, where Chairman Henderson, of
Missouri, late presiding officer at the
national convention, i'll u laudatory speech
officially notified Mr.. Blaine of his nomina-
ton. Mr.. Blaine read speech i'll reply as
follows:
az receive. not without deep sensibility
your official notice of the action of the ma
tional convention already brought to my
knowledge through the public press. appre-
ciate more profoundly than can express the
honor which is implied in the nomination for
the presidency 10y the Republican party of
the nation, speaking through the au-
thoritativo voice of duly accredited
delegates. To be selected as candidate
by such an assemblage, from the list of
eminent statesmen whose names were pre-
sented, fills me with embarrassment. l can
only express my gratitude for so signal an
honor, and my desire to prove worthy of the
great trust reposed III me. In accepting the
nomination as ] now do, | am impressed-l
am also oppreSsed-with a sense of the labor
and responsibility which attach to my posi-
ton. The burden Is lightened, however, by
the host of earnest men who support
my candidacy, many of whom add,
as does your honorable committee, the cheer
of personal friendship to the pledge of political
fealty. A more formal acceptance will nat
urally be expected, and will in due season bo
communicated 1t may, however, not be in
appropriate at this time to say that l hava
already made careful study of the priEci.
pies announced by the national convention,
and that in whole and in detail they have
my heartIest sympathy and meet my un-
qualified approval. Apart from your official
errand, gentlemen, | am extremely happy to
welcome you to my house. With many OF
you l have already shared the duties of pv,>
lie service, and have enjoyed most cordial
friendship. l trust your journey from al
parts of the great republic has been agreea-
ble, and that during your stay in Maine you
will feel that You are not among strangers,
but with friends Invoking the blessings of
God upon the great cause which we jointly
represent. let us turn to the future withous
fear and with manly hearts"
The bee., 1884-06-28
SURROUNDED BY WHALES.
What Was Seen i'm a Voyage From
Savannah TO New York.

The schooner II. B. Millen, laden with
since from Savannah. Her master, Captain
Young, makes the following report of an in
cident of the voyage:
'While in a dead calm and smooth sea, was
surrounded by school of whales, as far as
the eye could reach; they were seen
coming to the surface and blowing;
they came In such close proximity
to the vessel that they could be reached from
the deck with a common harpoon, and i'm
several instances within two feet of the YES
sells side, squirting the water against the SIDE
and living perfectly still for several minutes
at time; they then rolled leisurely over and
sank down tail foremost, until they would
stand perpendicular in the water, so that their
full length and size could be as nearly esti-
mated as though they had been on dry land;
they swan around the vessel for about three
hours, and seemed to be holding complete
survey of her, and did not seem to be in the
least shy as we threw several pieces of wood
at them, and in one instance heavy chunk
of oak was thrown at one and struck him on
the end of his nose; he threw his flukes high in
the air, and made grand display of foaming
water as he went under, but came up imme-
diately after and swan clear to the side and
lay for some minutes, then rolling over sew
eTal times sculled leisurely away to the east
ward: it was magnificent sight, the ocean
being as clear as a mirror and not ripple to
obstruct the view.
1.-The whales were in size about thirty-five
to forty feet in length; square blunt head,
eyes small, about three feet below the top of
the head, and well back from the end of the
nose, near the jaw. Their blow was low and
somewhat reSembled water thrown from
sprinkler: small round fin on the back, and
square fluke; the heads were about five or six
feet in depth, and the after parts much
smaller in proportion We could have
easily harpooned a dozen or more of these
monsters, but after our experience with the
piece of oak, we feared to wound any of them,
as am satisfied that one clip of their flukes
against the side of the vessel would have
shaken us up considerably. After watching
their movements for about three hours a
light breeze sprang up, and we sailed away
home from the school, which did not seem to
be making any headway to either point of the
comDass.n
The bee., 1884-06-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

QUEEN VICTORIA has nineteen grand
daughters.
JAMES G.. BLAINE has six children-three
sons and three daughters.
CONGRESSMAN JAMES F. CLAY, lawyer of
Louisville, KY, is a grandson of Henry Clay.'
His father was killed in the Mexican war.
@REv. GEORGE WoRTHINGToN of Detroit
Mich. has declined the bishopric of Nebraska, !,
to which he was elected by the recent Episco-
pal convention.
JAMES RUBENs. a full-blooded Nez Perce
Indian, is in the East making addresses on the!
wrongs of his race. He speaks English well
and is eloquent.
FANNY BRIGHAM WARD known in times
attained a still higher elevation by successful,
" making the Ascent OF Popocatapetl, Mexico,
5000 feet as~,1s the sea level.
ALExANDEN MITCHELL, the rich Milwaukee
banker. was b IN in Scotland, and is worth
from S25. .00Gt0: TO ST., 100000. His hothouse
fruits and his flower gardens are famous
throughout the West. He is about sixty years
of age.
CHARLES FENNo HOFFMAN. who died re-
Gently in the Harrisburg Lunatic asylum,
where he had been confined for thirty-five
wears. was at one time called the American
Tom Moore. Many of his songs contained nu-
merous descriptive and picturesque passages
that deserve to stand by the side of Moore's
best works. One of his sisters, Matilda, was
the affianced of Washington Irving, and her
early death had a most serious and lifelong in
f1uence on the gentle author of the ''Sketch
Book
The bee., 1884-06-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle states,

THE British brig c. p Sherwood. bound
for Halifax, was wrecked off the Capes of
Delaware. and all but one of the ten me-: on
board were drowned The survivor was
picket up in small boat by a passing vessel
and taken TO New York
The Vermont Republicans. at their State
convention in Burlington. nominated a full
ticket, headed 10y Samuel Z. Pngree for gov
Brnor.
AT the New York Democratic State conven-
tlon held I'm Saratoga. Judges Andrews and
Rapallo were renominatedf for the court of APP
peals nearly unanimously and presidential
electors for each of the thirty-four districts
were appointed. with Oswald Ottendor[er and
William Purcell for electors at large at the
head Contesting delegations from New York
city were placated 10y the admission of thirty
one County Democracy delegates thirtv-one
Tammanyites and ten of the Irving Hall fac
tlOn.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR,, was chosen
president of the Union Pacific railroad at a
meeting of directors in New York Sidney
Dillon having resigned the Office.
A STATUE in honor of William A. Buck
ingham Connechcut's "War Governor. was
unveiled at Hartford in presence of a large
assemblage
Bishop MATTHEW SIMPSON, the well known
Methodist divine, died in Philadelphia. aged
13 years He was born in Ohio. and was
elected and ordained bishop al Boston i'm 1852
Bishop Simpson was the author of "A Hun
dred Years of Methodism.n yale Lectures
on Preaching" and was the editor of the
encyclopaedia of Methodismn In 1876 he was
selected TO offer the opening prayer at the
Centennial Exhibition He was the most
noted orator in the Methodist Episcopal
Church
ABRAHAM LEvAN, a noted blind farmer OF
,Berks county, Penn, Is dead at the age OF
eighty years. lie had been blind sixty wears.
but he did all kinds of work on the farm. He
fed the cattle, husked corn. bound sheaves Of
wheat, rye and oats, and even moved grass
by the side OF his brother who directed his
course. His two sisters were also blind, hut
adopts in housework The estate comprises
1,0e0 acres Of fine farming land
COMMODORE C. X. GARRISON, a prominent
New York millionaire and railroad magnate,
has become financially embarrassed and made
AN assignment in favor of his creditors. The
Commodore was at one time estimated to be
worth So, 100000, and his Liabilities are put
at 81, 100000, with assets largely in excess OF
that sum.
Two firemen were killed 10y falling walls,
eight horses burned TO death, and loss Of
$4,000 was inflicted 10y fire in Brooklyn
Ny.
TWENTY dwelling houses at Shenandoah,
Penn, occupied 10y 500 hungarlans and 20.
,landers. were destroyed by fire
AN ocean steamer arrived at New York 9
few days since with 500 men, women and
children, mostly Scandinavians, on board. and
I'll bound for Utah They were i'm charge oi
twenty-five Mormon elders
A PUBLIC meeting of Republicans antagon'
istic 10 Blaine and Logan was held in New
Haven, and resolutions in opposition to the Re
publican national ticket were adopted.
The bee., 1884-06-28
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

A CHINESE doctor is practicing with success
m Deadwood. Oak.
TIE net profits of the Suez canal for 1883
cached -. coo .0VU.
LITTLE Rc~E. Ark, is to have seven new
ehu,Iies this year.
THE conquest of Tonquin has already cost
France S20.00o0Ga.
Ten suicides were reported in Vienna inside
Of fortr-eigit hours.
THERE ere 1000 school teachers in Arkan-
sas. 500 of whom are colored.
STATISTICS show that England is drinking
more grog and less coffee annually.
TELEGRAPH wires were recently worked
rom Chicago to Bondon-7 900 miles
THE diamond recently found in the Kin
berly fields, South Africa, is worth $4,000
WISCONSIN now has population of 1.5OO.-
no and q taxable valuation of S456, ,325, III.
a CLAY which can be utilized in the manu-
factuTe of putty has been discovered in Attala,
Miss.
THE taxable valuation of Connecticut is
k34S "a SO, an increase of Sc, 532, ,313 over
last year.
TIE total amount expended by the United
s atcS government in seventeen years is over
$50. 600, ,00l
DR.. G. l.. PARMELEE and wife, OF Hart
ford, Conn, cXyect to travel 1000 miles this
summer ina canoe.
THERE are in the State of Pennsylvania
Sa,000 producing oil wells now, Welding GO, 600
barrels of I'll day,
COLORADO is compelled TO buy $1,000, 900
worth of grain from outside sources every
year 10 feel its cattle.
Six see lSmen in this country paw over
H7j0)0 per year for postage on matter, most
D. which goes to farmers.
THERE have been 2,S72 hotels burned in the
United States in the past eight years, an av-
erage of almost one day
FRANCIS s. KEY. who wrote the ''Star
Spangled Banner. is 10 have a monument in
Patterson square. Baltimore
Our ofJapan's total population of s0.OO0,-
300 there are only l0.050 paupers, and of these
more than 900 are at Toxic, in the work
house
ENGLAND has $50 commercial firms in
China, with 2,2t2 clerks. Germany fifty. and
sos, the United States twenty-one firms, Spain
nine, and France four
ISAAC Y. WILLIAMSON. hardly ever
heard of Philadelphian. is tn ; richest man in
that city and is worth S3O.Oo0,O0) He is a
bachelor, living without ostentation, and hs
gives great deal o money TO worthy chari-
table objects
The bee., 1884-06-28
south and West.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has been honorad bp
Princeton college with the degres of Ii. D.;
the same degree was also 0conterrelupon Gov
.ernor Albeit, of New Jersey, and Justic3
Harlan, of the United States supreme court
A RISE in the Rio Grande has flooded sew,
eral border towns and caused much damage
The National Homeopathic convention met
in annual session at Deer Park. Nd.
A PASSENGER train which--was crossing a
bridge near Hubbel. Kansas, was deraile1, ,anl
the iolting of the ars caused the structure to
give way, carrying down the entire train.
The engine, smoking-car, day coach and
sleeper were completely wrecked. About
thirty persons were injured, several fatally.
Train wreckerS were at the bottom of the ac.
cident
The Indiana Republican State convention
at Indianapolis nominated a ticket headed by
Congressman William H. CaI5ins for COVER
nor Considerable feeling was expressed by
ome of the delegates at the refusal of the con-
vention TO insert a prohibition plank III the
platform.
FROM Sonora Cal. come the particulars
of one of the most complicated tragedies that
probably ever occurred Edmund Gallagher,
twenty-five years old, shot Mrs Otis Green
wood, widow of prominent lawyer, in the
face and breast with double-barreled shot
gun. Her son Otis ran after Gallagher and
nre0 twice at nllll NllnOuI tllcCt INoD'
ert Watson then pursued Otis Green
wood The latter turned on Watson and shot
him twice in the neck and back. Watson fell,
whereon WatSons son opened fire on Green
wood. but the latter escaped. Gallagher and
Greenwood were both arrested. Mrs. Green.
wood and Watson died. The tragedy is the
result of a dispute about Watsons running
water across Greenwood's mining claim.
LIEUTENANT-GovERNoR LEWIS. of Nir,
,ginia, was seriously injured by being thrown
from his sulky while driving to his home
near Harrisburg, Va.
Four negroes were killed and another
wounded by the explosion of boiler IN a
brickyard at Albany, Ga
MRS KATHARINE MEssERscHMIDT, aged
seyenty-six. and her daughter Margaret, aged
twenty seven. residing in the house of j.
Cechurd near St Paul, Mimi, paid their
rent to Cechurd's wife, which so angered the
man that he entered their rooms aud stabbed
them both to death. Cechurd wound up his
bloody work by committing suicide
D. L. WING & Co, owners of the Plant
Touring mills at Litchfield, ILL.,. have failed
for about S365. 600 Gardner a Gates, cotton
merchants of Mobile, Ala, have made an
assignment, their liabilities being Sl65,0B.
WAMPTER. the fiend who butchered tie An
derson family. near PiieatsUnUon, Kansas, com
mitted suiri &C IN Arkansas TO escape capture
THE Choctaw militia of the Indian Territory
are hunting down organized bands oi horse
and cattle thieves. Twenty-One arrests are
reported Most of the persons arrested viii
probably be shot.
J. C. KERSHAw & Co, one of the heaviest
grain exporting firms in Chicago, have failed
for about 100000.
DURING game Of baseball at Central City,
Col, a severe thunder storm arose. and the
lightning killed Nicholas Newmayer and IA
tally injured James Lick. The engine house
of a mine near Central City was struck and
five miners were badly stunned
The bee., 1884-06-28
AJudge's Snake Yarn.

Judge M says that many years
ago, when starting out to seek his for
tune for himself, he went to the south
western part of Texas. Riding one
hot August afternoon along cart-road
cut for many miles through the chapa-
raj, his pony stopped with such sud-
denness that he was nearly thrown
forward over the animals head. Said
he, in further description, 81 got off
and looked about to see what the
trouble was, and soon found about
rod ahead huge rattlesnake asleep
across the roadway, his head down
the slope on one side, and his tail in
the gutter on the other. I tried to
make the pony jump the snake, but he
wouldn't bulge. There wasn't stone
or stick big enough in sight, and 1 had
no firearms. l was in a pickle, but l
couldn't 60 back, and didn't like to
stay where l was. However, while
considering the situation, [ saw away
ahead on the further side of the rattler
a sapling-such as is used to bind hay
upon rick. Hitching my pony to
the brush, I stepped back SO as to get
a good start, took running jump and
leaped over the snake, ran to the sap
ling, grabbed it with both hands, ran,
swinging it over my head, back to his
slumbering snakeship, a-ss whacked
him right across the neck, breaking it
at once-when, hang me If l didn't
discover that nv sapling was the
snakes mate, and that the same blow
killed it also.