The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-24
STATE PRESS.

Tho pecan crop, considering the dry
season, is turning out better than eX-
pected. We have seen as fine ones gath
erer this Sc asOn as ever grown. They
sell in this market 1t so cents hucket,
or $3.50 per bushel.- Bastrop Adver-
ser.
Dallas folks are proud, and the HER
AID SAYS they will never be found ON
their knees 10 congress. This is a
turnupo OF the nose al the "islsud world"
of Galvez. Foreign capitalists are es-
tablishmg p brewery at Dallas, and this
Is what makes 'em sassy Laredo
Times.
Austin has new gas works company,
using wafer gas, so-called. A test was
had on Friday and proved satisfactory.
II we are correctly informed, the So
called water gas is made of crude PC
troleum, AID it is said il can be manu-
featured cheaper than coal gas. Parties
interested in works in Bre ham
should Investigate the workings of the
Austin company Brenham Banner.
-Four hundred Thousand pounds Of Pc
cans have already been shipped from
burnett this season, and IL is Thought
the nan has not vet been shipped. as
me pecan crop was never known 10 be
better than that Of this year, Bastrop
Advertiser.
The Importance of q law compe. ling
we punllcatloli in some paper of sher-
ms sales ana othei legal notices, is
meeting with unanimous endorse at the
hands of the press of the state. and If
ne papers exercise the influence i'm this
that they do in other matters, it is safe
TO predict that such an act will be
passed by the next legislature. Jt
should be done. Blossom Prairie Bee
s. r. EubankS says he was robbed Of
!If5 at the Theatre C0mique i'm Fort
Worth last Satu day night A man who
is fool enough 10 go about such place
with that amount Of MONEY ON his per-
son ought 70 he robbed. Wonder if Mr..
u reads the papers? We venture the
assertion he regards newspapers as nuis
aHces'- lFarmersville Mercury.
The number of grass fattaned beeves
are decreasing each year in Texas on
account OF crow ed range. In a short
tiWe Texas beeves will he fattened as i'm
tho east, and our broad pastures will be
cut up with waving fields OF corn and
odts.- Montague Northwest.
Foi the past few years the city of Fort
worth has been making ant strides I'm
the way of improvements; sewers have
been built and several miles of street
nave Deen payHd; TO do those things
oonds we're issued. It seems that ut
AT day of reck0ning has come; the
Guy - IN debt and her paper is barely
SAeable AT discouutO, 20 percent. The
cilN pays . per cent. n month Tor money.
ana the present GARD of aldermen have
got INTO bad repute. It is best for cities.
as wen as individuals, to make haste
slowly; 1t is generally much easier TO
contract debt than ii is TO paw it,
,hrenham Banner.
Every slna man Of observation knows
ny the present law governing forced
sales, That the widows and ornhans of
This state ale d0rraudcd ont OF n,unh
money. At almost every county site
"shnrpers" reside and are noted inr the
mg bargains they make ia purchasing
property no forced sale. They watch
me courthouse doors for forced sale All
VerllsementS, and nj he day Of sale, as
perhaps III; three or four others know
thaJ any psperty is to be sold, they
nave things pretty much their own waV,
ana frequently buy property at about
phe i3urIh IT'S real value, or what would
nave been realized had a proper adver-
usehlehi been published in some news
" y biNnb buI lltAi ltklSIAtlrH
will remedy the existing evil.-INaya-
sofa Tablet.
1t having been developed that OK Gov.
churchill, OF Arkansas, defaulted TO the
amount OF $4,000 while officiating as
sue treasu'er, our esteemed cOAtempo-
raty, the Fort Worth GaZette, avniIs n.
sell OF the occasion to occupy a column
ana malt OF a recent issue With a series
OF ulterances about "wa hosses"
Ewnatever they may be) MS appropriate
me choice Of public servants, and as
Just TO those untortunatcs, who fought
IN the cause OF the late southern con-
ltuefary, ~ would be Il caution to hon
est men 10 look with suspicOu upon all
newspaper enterprises. because, for
sO"tl, one such paper as the Gsz4tte has
hod to pass through the sheriYs hands
anu change owners because o the mis-
management or defalcation of those en-
trusted with its busiue.s Interests.
-lCisco Telegraph.