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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
A BRAWL.
INsoLENT NEGROES TURBULENT.
Attempt TO Drive White Boys From the
Base Ball Ground-They Fail
ana are Beaten OT-Dis-
graceful Affair. Etc.

A serious difficulty occurred yester-
day IN the rear of the engine house, in
East Dallas, between gang of negroes
on one side and several white men and
boys, which caused a good deal of en-
element on the streets, as it was the
outcome of bitter feelings engendered
between the whites and blacks at Longs
lake during the reunion. 1t seems that
the immediate cause Of the fray was a
contention for which party should oc-
cupy the grounds for game of base
ball, both parties having assembled
about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. John
Kelly and VIII Crawford championed
me cause OF the whites and Houston
Mitchell and another negro, whose
name the reporter failed to obtain, were
the leaders of the coiOred party. A
negro made an assault by drawing a
pistol, but was OyerpOwered and the
weapon taken away from him. At this
Juhcture the pUlicep put in an appearance
ana The negroes dispersed, but only to
arm themselves and rcroV the DIM
Guilty Some thirty minutes later.
eight or ten OF them appeared
ON The ground, armed with re-
volvers, ana were loud in their
threats against the whites. one Of them
snapped Il pistol at Kelly, when firing
commenced on both sides, Kelly empty
ing his revolver into the crowd. 1t was
llrsJ reported that two OF the negroes
were shot, each in the leg but this
proved n mistake after more thorough
investigation, the balls only passing
through their pants without touching
Inc Hash &hapfn -
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be locked up over night in Nine. TINS
saud's Chamber of Horrors, in which
were displayed the heads of all the more
celebrated recent murderers of Great
Britain, and the knives and pistols and
bludgeons and poison bottles with
which they had wrought their baleful
work. None OF them were courageous
enough to try this, though it seems as if
IL might nave been made the basis of an
entirely unique magazine paper, that is
II the writer had been able to preserve
his reason through the ordeal. .Julietn
or eglimpse of the horrors which would
meet her awakening in the Veronese
toinD OF her ancestors was quite tam,
IN comparison with those which wCuld
nave confronted him during his long
night vigil. ! remember to have been
ShpWn through the appalling chamber
ny Mons. Tussand, himself, who expa-
Lated blandly upon the celebrity of the
various murderers and certified TO the
SURPRISING accuracy with which their
lineaments were reproduced. 1t is pos
sible that they might, under certain
clrcumst lces, inspire literary fruitful
ness klndle artistically available Wis
IONS IN the imagination, but they would
ne more likely to incit9 homicidal, so
that when morning brought release, the
maudened scribe would rush forth and
Stay the harmless, necessary doorkeoper.
himself for niche in that
evil Valhalla, the images whereof had
upset MS reason.- Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
THE CONCENTRATION OF CAPl-
TAI

If the people are sincere in their anti
monopoly crusade, and really fear that
capital is about to onslave the masses, il
Is TIME they were taking steps to stop
the rapidly growing disposition through
out the country to concentrate capital in
corporate hands. We do not say that
the formation Of corporations should not
be permitted, but some checks might be
most advantageously placed upon the
chartering power in all tho States.
Our dispatches, the other morning, in
formed us that in one week, then end
lnS' some ninety-tive companies, repre-
senting some $35,O0O,OOO in capital, had
been formed and incorporated in
New York alone. In our own
state the great army of corpora
tons receives about ten or twelve
additions weekly, or five to six hun
dred annually, and the same is true in
other sections. The corporate power of
tho country, the concentration and or
ganiaation of capital is growing annu-
ally by the addition fiat least $1,000 to
1000 companies, representing on the
low average of $4,000 capital to each, a
grand aggregate of wealth Of from $780,
100000 to $jOO,OOO,OOO!
What can disorganized, poverty
stricken labor do against such concen-
tration ogpower rs this? And when the
whole wealth of the nation shall havo
been organized into corporate fran
chisos and power and great and
small companies shall have become
us numerous as the scashore's sands,
what will the poor do then? Who will be
the slaves when purso-pround, spe-
ctally privileged Plutocracy shall have
grown up ON American soil? And who
would not Il thousand times rather see
an aristocracy, a titled order, founded
upon blood and lineage, than one built
up of the creatures of luck and circum-
stance upon the coarse basis of little
money?
The growing evil can be checked if
taken in time. The way to cheek il is
to place checks and limitationsupou the
cnaatering power wherever lodged, and
this is the business of the legislator
How it can bo best done is matter of
detail for practical Statesmen, but If not
soon done, the great corporate power of
the land will laugh at legislative as
saultS, and if aroused, crush legislatures,
or ut least legislators, at will, who dare
to stand up Tor the masses as against the
few.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

oilts latest flaming cartoons is a great
edltorialin itself, and exposes most glar-
ingly the silly cry of labor against
CLEVELAND that he is a "monopolist."
Perhaps more accurately we should
have said the silly crv of the BLAINE
managers that CLEVELAND is the mo-
nopolist candidate.
PUCK is true to the facts when he rep
rents BLAINE, GOULD, ROACH, ROBE
SON, SAGE, REID and others, who are the
open and typical foes of labor, pursuing
CLEVELAND with the cry of "stop thief"
Here are the real thieves, the III en- who
have stolen, not hundreds or thousands
but millions from the people, gathering
to the support of BLAINE and attempting
to direct attention from his ugly record
by bounding down an innocent man.
This is the old ruse of thieves. 1t has
passed into proverb, and the people are
not likely to he deceived thereby, not
likely to desert friend upon the unjust
accusation of the peoples admitted bit
terest enemies
Is capital blind? Are GOULD and SAGE
and RoAcH fools, and do they not know
who is their real friend, and where their
interests are safest? Are they support
ing BLAINE in response to sentiment?
Not thoy!
If Mr.. BLAINE was not himself a
mOnOpolist and hard task master, if he
did not stand in with the millionaire
and monopolis, ou,iit as against labor,
no men in America would stand further
aloof from him than JOIN Roach, JAY
GOULD and RUSSELL SAGE.
Their very support is chapter and a
comment within itself. 1t is the strong
est fact in favor of CLEVELAND that the
campaign has yet presented.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
Boy Wounded,

Dave McAvoy, boy Ii years old, was
shot and severely wounded at 4 o'clock
yesterday evening by farmer living
some two miles south of the city on the
Gulf, Colorado IL Santa Fe railroad.
Dave and two other boys had zone into
the farmers melon "patCh" for the pur-
pose Of "purloining" water melons and
the farmer came upon them with a doub-
le-barrelod gun and ordered them to
halt, and at the same time firing, the
contents of the first barrel taking effect
IN his face and hands. When the boy
started to run the other barrel was dis
charged at him, taking effect in the back
Of the right leg. The gun was only loaded
with bird shot and the wounds are there
fore not at all dangerous. A HERALD re-
porter called at the residence of Mr..
Pickett, step-father of the boy,and found
MIN very much excited ami Justly indip-
nant at such uncalled-fOr treatment. He
does not know the name of the assault
ing party and was Indifferent as to
whether he should be arrested. The
matter should be investigated and the
guilty party punished. While it is not
at all right for boys TO steal melons, il is
Il practice that has become to be lightly
looked upon by most people. We can
all remember when we used to punish
our neighbours melon patches, not
through any righteousness, but as n
mere matter of amusement, and often
when other melons were mt our DISMISSAL
free.
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Died.

After fourteen days illness of slow few
cr,yeStorday morning the 10th inst. TWEEN.
tylivc minutes after II o'clock, nj tbe
residence of his maternal grnndr,tl q ,
Mr.. George :. Fuqua, little Thomas In.
qua Bishop, infant son of Mr., ], 4. and
Mrs. Davie Anna Bishop, aged lOmonth,
and ~ days. $50 fades the lovely flow
ers.' Little Tommic was a brirht and
beautiful hoy and had many Kind friends
who showed how much they loved him
by the unremitting and uuwcaried M.
tention shown him through his entire
illness and then laid the drnpery a
death over his remains, while Ne rn2r
on his beautifully chilelcd features A,
they lay In ropose before us until laid In
the caskct 10 be borne to his last resting
place.
Then take courage young and sorrow.
Ing parents, this dark dispensation has
not happened by chance. Ii Is God VIII,
has bereIt YOU and lie can all your sor.
rows heal. but they may ask. ,,,yby
given uS TO withorS" We answer. 4,
fulfill some high behcst of heaven, "
Little Tommie's funeral will TAX,
place ut 10 o'clock n. IN. ON the nth inst
at the residence of Mr.. George \. ruoun
No. 1888 San Jacinto street, on corner nj
SAN Jacinto and Gormania streets
Dallas.
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FONT WORTH.
Base Observation-Disclosures.

tIVOIHVIII WHICIphI.
FoNT Worth, Aug lO.~-ISpecial.l r.
me llrSt league game was played here
to-day between Galveston and Fort
Worth. The visiting club outbatted the
home team badly. Besides their battery
Cqrrie and Puiol was almost perfect.
whiIe Galvestons batted Kurtz freely
Hh9 the catcher made several
pau errors, Galveston made four
errors, Fort Worth fourteen. The score
resulted: Galveston Is, Fort Worth 2,
ilennesScy, n contractor, was run over
BY u train on tho Y Of the Missouri Pa
cilic to night, and very seriously hurt.
n lively war is going ON between the
city council and the city attorney, the
council charging dereliction of duty.
which is Strenuously denied by the city
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

ONE year ago the free-grass organs
asserted with great positiveness that the
western counties of this State wore not
susceptible of cultivation, and the cat
tlemen III convention at Austin asked
Legislative action which was thought
would keep out immigrants. The lease
law was passed and it proved to be an
incentive to those seeking homes to
occupy the lands. AS soon as this fact
was fully established the cry was raised
for free-grass and the sale of school
lands, in hopes that actual settlers could
be prevented from going there by line
riders annoying them. These cattle
mems organs all Mt once discovered
that these western lands embraced
some of tho best agricultural districts
IN the state, and in order to deceiye,and
carry their point if possible, began the
cry that the lease law retarded the set
Element of the country. 1t is now being
demonstrated daily that more farmers
are making homes in the West than
ever before in the history of Texas, and
II the lease law is amended, raising the
prices for leased lands, the country will
develop so much the faster. 1t will
take many years to settle up Western
Texas, even if the flow of emmigration
thither be ten times greater than ever
before known.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

Mr.. BLAINE recently said to cores
pendent ofthc st. Louis Chronicle: "In-
deed, there is much greater freedom on
the part of the colonies of Great Britain
to-day in their relation to the home 60.
eminent, than our States enjoy in their
relations with our Federal government
What will Irish citizens think of this re-
mark. Ireland is AS much colony as
any other of tho British possossions,s and
If they enjoy all the freedom Dir. BLAINE
represents, what is tho use of all this ex.
hibition of Irish patriotism. The truth
is, Mn. blaine knew he MAS SEATING
what was untrue.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
STOP THEFT"

Puck is certainly power in the land.
When argument, or invective or oxhaus.
two appeal fails, the masses can always
be reached through the senses. The car.
toon or caricature convinces when all
else falls Hat, and Il Is la this respec,
that Puck turns up NJ the great stumper
oi the campaign. IL gets brighter and
better with each succeeding issue. One
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
MeSican Finances.

CRY or MEXICO, Aug, 10. The Diario
officially announces that the Govern
meet has 5000 in the post. Office depart.
ment to be applied as part payment up.
ON an amount long due newspapers, on
their drafts upon interior subscribers,
tho straitenod condition of the treasury
not allowing the full payments of such
drafts. This announcement inspires hut
little confidence ms 10000 was recently
promised, but nothing has been paid.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11


THE City Attorney Of Fort Worth saws
he can suppress gambling In that city in
ten days IL the City Council aud police
force will render him the assistance
necessary. If the city authorities will
not do this let Tarrant county elect an
efficient County Attorney, and the
knights Of the green cloth will be com.
PEELED 10 seek other pursuits In life "to
make an honest living" II was though,
by many good men In Dallas that tie
suppression Of gambling here would be
in measure detrimental 10 the business
Interests and the prosperity of the city.
4 the truth is, the city has never be-
improved so rapidly and grown 80
rulation and wealth as Il has
'sst six months. This pros.
attributed to the suppress.
bling, but II demonstrates
gambling is no factor In the
d business Of any city.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

THE Montague Northwest says IL. A
lewis, of Wichita Falls, is candidate
for Congress. Whether he is running as
Greenbacker, Republican or Demo
crat, is not stated, nor does it concern
any one. The man whose sell-csteem
would induce him to run against GOV.
THRocHMoRToN for Congress in the dis
trict he now represents, must wear Il
No. o hat and tote feet too large for II
Chicago girls shoes. lie ought to pull
down his vest.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

THE following editorial paragraph is
clipped from the Weekly Mesquiter
which has been controlled by Mr.. II. F..
NASH for some time: eve understand
that many parties have believed that
this paper has been edited jointly by
MIR. KIMBRoUGH and ourself. Mr.. X.
is in nowise responsible for anything
that appears in the columns of the Mes
gutter. Mr.. KIMBRoUGH has no con-
nection editorially whatever with this
paper, nor has he had since we have
been connected with it,"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
Sparrows Court.

Judge Maguire's courtroom is gaining
the name of the "City Hall Aviary," not
because the handsome Young men who
occupy the Clerks and Court Reporters
desks are sometimes addressed i'm soft
tones rs "Birdic," hut for the reason
that several live archaeological speci
mems have visited its cheerful limit a..
Last spring an owl haunted this temple
OF Justice, only to be caught and kent as
u trophy. Yesterday two sparrows flew
IN Trough the open window as u dry
as-dust ease was receiving the finishing
touches of argument. One of the spar.
rows was a male and the other was OF the
opposite gcnder. They were i'm love
zach with ench, aud ilew around the
heavy white walls, ono in pursuit of the
other Their chattcring filled the room.
Judge pouthitt was making his argu-
ment, and Mr., Bergiu, who was on the
opposite side, remarked, ave can
hardly hear the gentleman, because his
associates are talking too loud" lie
had scarcely uttered the lest, when the
sparrows perchcd by Judge Douthitt's
side and ceased their noise. The bailin.
after much delicate coaNing and driy.
ing, made them leave the room. San
Francisco Examiner.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

Ir would be just as honest and fair to
give the poor farmer the privilege to
cultivate the school lands in tho West
without purchasing them, as it is to per-
NIT the rich cattlemen to occupy them
free of cost. ifany class is given special
Inducements, it should be the toiling
farmar
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

THE Laredo Times wants to know
why railroad tickets from Galveston ia
Dallas are 10 cents less than to Fort
worth. Because man who comes to
Dallas gets the worth of his money, and
the man who goes to the Fort feels that
he Is out Of pocket just what he paid fol
his ticket, and gets nothing in return for
IT. Towns can't compete with cities no
how.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

AFTRR all the faniaronade and cclat
which attend the arrival OF LIEUT..
GREELRY and the surviving members OF
the Arctic expedition have passed, the
fact that ho was entirely ignored and
left for years to perish by the Govern
ment officials now parading themselves
so conspicuously at his receptions, will
not be forgotten and condoned by the
friends and relatives OF those who died
of hunger and neglect in the frigid re-.
eions of the North.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

During . years travel In Bolivia, Sig.
nor L. l.. Moreno, Of Buunos Ayres, has
found many relies Of the early inhabit.
ants, has made plans and photographs of
the remains Of ancient Villages, and has
secured, ~ he believes, abundant ma
terlal Tor study of the people who
lived IN that part of South America be-
fore thcSpanfsh conquest.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

In the Queen Esther criticism our
Fort Worth friend gets slightly mixed.
VIII a. Watkin, of Messrs. w, A. Wat.
kin \ Co., this city, was the director
ana II Is due to his skill that the chorus
was brought to such standard of excel.
iencc. Mrs. Henry Bryan, and NOT
Mrs. Byrne, presided with excollen,
skill at the piano, and Mr.. Henry Gar.
rett was the accomplished orvanist, II
Is due TO the lady to whom the chorus
ioel so much indebted, as well as these
gentlemen, that this correction should
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

Dr. Pelll, OF IT, Petersburg, has dlscov.
cred that bacttyie are much less nuner.
GUS In running water than In still water
having apparently the same chemical
composition. lie believes that germs
are destroyed by rapid motion. and that
water may be rendered comparatively
pure BY passing Il through centrifugal
machine.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

TIE Vernon Guard, in two column
editorial, asserts that it yields a great
influence in the politics ofthe State. The
only thing strikingly observed in that
journal is that every time cow-man
brands calf it bawls for free grass.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

IT would DO as difficult to convince
the public that cattlemen want farmers
to settle on their ranges as it would be
for two persons whose eyes are crossed
different ways, while taking long, long
Kiss OF affection, to look down into the
depths of each Others souls through
their optics.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
Ilnriinn =, 40.

At the regular election of Dallas En-.
gino Company No. |, held at the CITY
Hall "Wednesday night, the following
officers were chosen: Lee Cohn, presI,
denu BILLY Potter, vico.presidcnt,
Emile otto, secretary; J. =. 'rhatcher,
treasurer Conrad Meyer, foreman
George Burgher, engineer; Leopold
hohny, assistant engineer.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

THE vile Islander perpetratod against
Gov. CLEVELAND is recoiling against its
authors. The Republican party would
gladly let it drop and be forgotten for
ever, but the Democratic and Independ-
ent press of the country are using it
with affect against BLAINE and his I'M
scrupulous followers. They will learn
that honest, fair criticism is proper, but
misrepresentation and SANDER will not
he endorsed by the people.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

WILL the Fort Worth Mail answer this
question; Are the proprietors of tho
Gazette, who are known to be among
the largest cattle owners in the State, in
favor OF free grass, and are they willing
their ranges in the West shall be cut
up into forty-acre lots for the benefit of
the men with the pillow and the hoe?
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

HAS tho Gazette learned that there is
another anti-iree grass organ in Fort
Worth called the Evening Mail? That
paper and good PETER SMITH will wake
up some morning and learn the fact.
Why don't the Gazette publish in its
columns the lease law articles from the
Mail? 1t is "suppressing news"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

JOHN IRELAND's name will be the only
one, in all probability, that will bo pro-
posed for the office of Governor at the
Houston convention. After all the effort
made by two or three papers in tho State
to induce other gentlemen to offer for
the position, not solitary individual
was found who would permit his name
to go before the convention. GOV. IEE-
LAND will be nominated on the first bal
lot, If not by reclamation.
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Tho Gnmc nt Hnmr Yc.terhnr.

The boS. game of base ball that proba.
bly, has ever occurred between home
mines took place yesterday between the
Brown Stockings and strong picked
team. \ fair crowd was in attendance
ana were perfectly pleased with the game
rs both sides played their best, and at
times he game was close and exciting.
The brown Stockings won by a score of
Is to l. Mansfield pitched a very fine
game for the Browns. and SHELTON, the
new addition TO the team, PLAYED crcdi-
lably ut second and first bases. SHELTON
pitched very effective game for the
picked nine, and had he been well sun.
ported in field work the score of tie
state champions would have been much
less. With practice he will make n splen.
did player, both in the box, at tho bat
ANA running bases, During the game
some elegant fielding work was done On
long-hit llics, which the playcrs"nailcd"
elegantly. The following is the score
by Innings:
Innings .."..... 2S4 565S
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

THE ladies of San Antonio will exhibit
silk curtain at the Worlds Exposition,
the material of which will be the growth
and production of Texas. 1t will be
woven in New Braunfels.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

TIE HERALD returns thanksto Cole
man Lodge No. IS, Knights of Pythias,
for an invitation to u ball and banquet,
to be given in the new courthouse in
Coleman on the evening Of August Nth.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

The Austin Capital says Travis county
is solid for IRELAND. THE HERALD
never editorially said anything to the
contrary, feeling the utmost confidence
IN the patriotism of the people of that
county.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11
A EnnilY Ern,l.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 0.-In difficulty
tonight, Alphonso Leir killed Mike
0hara and dangerously wounded John
Ohara. a family feud is the cause.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-11

Gt which will be distributed as explained below is Low as were gu
prices up 10 now We propose make still better record true We
have done all We could for the benefit Of our customers We have marked our
clothing down until We reached bottom dguea We can no further but
Rdubb our effort make trade NHI We offer a Grand Free