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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-07
W. l.. CABELL, Mayor.
Attest: w. y PARRY. CITY secretaiy.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED-AN ORDIe
"a nance to provide for Volunteer Fir
Police company.
SECTION i. Be it ordained by the Council
of the City of Dallas, That there shall be or
ganized under the superintendent OF the
Mayor volunteer company to be styled the
Fire Police, to consist of not less than THU
teen nor more than tlfy-two men, over the
age OF eighteen wears. said company, when
on duty, shall oe commanded by the Mayor,
assisted by sergeant iJl each squad OF
Twelve privates, the sergeants to be elected
by majority vote of the company, and to
serve for one year-all vacancies 10 be filed
bS company election for the unexpired term
Sergeants chosen for new squads after the
first elect fon shall serve only for the remain
der OF the year, so that the annual election
for all shall be at the same time. In case OF
the absence OF any sergeant mt a fire the
Mayor may appoint from the members OF
his squad substitute for the time being. At
fires the sergeants shall be distinguished by
the words, Sergeant No. -" and the privates
by the words "Fire Police" worn In black
letters on white hat or cap bands.
Sec. 2. That the duties OF said company shall
extend 10 everything connected with fires not
pertaining to the regular fire department. A
nortion may be detailed by the Mayor, un-
uer the command OF n sergeant or sergeants
as the case may be, TO serve rs q police for
the protection of property, to prevent the
lnlermeddling or intrusion of persons not
belonging to the fire department nor to the
premises on fire or endangered by the fire. to
arrest suspected persons at fires or persons
meddlins with movable property; TO carry
out goods or other movable property and
secure them, and generally to do all that
may be deemed by the Mayor OF officer in
command, necessary for the protection and
saletv of persons and property at fires.
sec. 3. That whenever thirteen or more
volunteers shall he enrolled, the Mayor shall
organize them into one ar more SQUADS.
Mhep SO organized they may make such
rules and regulations for their government,
not consistent with this ordinance, as they
may deem proper, The squads and sargeants
shall he numbered one, two, three and four,
and the sergeauts shall take rank I'm the
same order OF seniority Al company meet.
lnSs the Mayor If present, shall preside: OH
erWise the senior sergeant present.
sec. l. That said company may adopt any
Uniform they may prefer, to be worn on other
occasions than fires, and may hold their
meetings in the City Hall at any time when
neither the Mayors court nor Council is In
session.
Sec. .. That this ordnance shall take effect
and be In force from and after its passage.
Approved October Is, 1884.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-07

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ there will he n meeting of the share
holders of the Dallas National Bauk of BAL
las, lex s, at It's bankiu office, January ID,
1859, for the purpose of elecing officers and
directors for the ensuing year, and to tran
sact what other business may come before
them. r. NJ REARDON, Cashier de2S-SOt
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-07

.Ic.-l. =. W hrAhbONI Na-hltr de2S-3Ol
\ OIlCE-HORSE SriLEN-ON WE'D
~ nesdny morning, December 18th, n man
ABOUT - u years OF age, 5 feet7 or inches
Nigh quare shoulders, but rather i'm build,
dark complexion, Inclined G be sandy, small
mouslache and ewes, dressed in dark sack
cutaway coat; pan of light color, rlack
sim hat. hired of us IA reddish bay morse
lighter color in TANKS, about lj24 hands high
raw boned in build, and years ODD; black
name and tai, ehod all round, uar er crack
In ear OF runt houfS; an old Texas saddle G,
fair leather bride, dirty looking blanket,
and has not returned. A suitable reward will
be pait for man and horse delivered in Dallas
or or such In iormatIon as leads 20 recovery
of the horse. y HEAT a. WHEAT
DALLAS, December %, 1881,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-07

$3.50 "" - dtGIu
E'Ok SALE AT y SACRlFlCE-UN AC-
l. count OF the death nj Nj Ho,'r,,s
crawl lrd the elegant stock OF DIV goods,
clothlhg, boots shoes and ats, formerly be,
,ong.ng 'tt!u. wiz he sold. regardless OF
coSl NJ rela. Ntofe ltiN Fin sI:rer.
- ~ ~ sci the anllre toes M whole
hhu ms Il rare chunce. This - no bco.i,uc.
ine Stock must be sSd. BLANRENsHIP X
niA nj Declh
EoR SALE-tl NJ, rURE BRT ID AND
n acellma,ed Jersey helters aud ows; also
io ~ ~ riverside StocS Farm, mterSec
T.9 s7z, ~ SeIgIsoh anu 20 hiram sts de,.lm
IGOR SALE-UORD AND STOVT Woon
4 IN any quantity and beat quality. over
s,OD cordson hand. Also, wanted 10 bly cnt-
ton seed and seed cotton at highest marEs,
price, A. DYsTERBACH. sei5.ts
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-07

\ OIlCt 10 OWNERS OR OCCUPAN rs
~ OF properly In sewer districts between
Nam and Elm st Gets, from Sycamore to
Harwood street and between Main aud Com
mercc streets from jefferson to Murphy street
section Of sewer Ordinance-That private
sewers, water closets, and sink basins, etc ,
shall be constructed In all OF said districts To-
connect with the district sewer, on notice
from the city engineer, and Us directed by
said officer and not otherwise.
sub. Sec 3. II shall be miSdemeanOr for
the owner or occupant ofany building In any
sewer district-any position of witch is used
for any purpose during any portion of the
day-to fail to have at least one water closet
connected with the public sewer Is days az.
ter noii 1cati0n by the city engineer, etc.
The above district sewers are constructed
ana ready for use, and all parties interested
are hereby notified TO comply with the above
sections CT the sewer ordinance.
w. NJ. JOHNSON, City Engineer.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-07
a Grent Problem.

Purker'S Pleasant Worm Syrup Never Fail,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-07

E'Vn I'm i-ShN Ira l. FAbMS; COM
- nllNnle houses, plCnt OF wnter:g miles
rom lhc CITY, o. L. BuwsER, Slg Elm ~ leCtf
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1885-07-22
Winneipta unb Oafpta,

Sn 9ebrUn, 60 Meilen petli9 b.
glsmard, bfies Der Sturm Mittpod
Abeno ein Gmi9rantenbaus UNI.
Sn MOuer gOuntp iinb apei Mor.
mOnen- 9ommiidre an Der Grbeit, @!du.
bige gu seruinnen. Die Serbs ioueu ppr
W~tinneapolis fommen.
Sie 3abl Der in Safota lebenber
Snotaner miro auf $1,000 seIbdbt; Die
+lelben baben Al ,949 Auabratmeiler
eano 5ur 8~erfisuns.
Saseltiirme baben in Der 0edbe Dor
@rano Sorts, Sarge. beionoers- aber il
Sra,a Gountp. srOBen Sdaoeu angeri6
tet; man glaubt, oaB mebr als 10000
Ader @ei5en serIt6rt iuurbeu.
4 Sn @abpeton, finsen slpeibunoer
IaSclteftte Der @alierperfe cine,
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
Good Exercise.

Richard Proctor is telling the young
men Of England how to keep their
health and increase their strength.
He says that work with a hammer
or mallet, especially on a vertical sur-
face, is excellent for the biceps mus
cles, and also for the muscles at the
back of the upper arm" This is true,
doubtless, but when Mr.. Proctor has
lived little longer in America he win
amend his advice, There is another
and better exercise, which develops
every muscle in the body at the same
time.
Take an ordinary sawhorse and
plant it firmly in the middle of the
shed. Then take down from its rusty
peg an old fashioned and sharp saw.
Go to the woodpile. select a knotty log,
one that has eXcrescences all over it,
as though it had suffered from Il chron-
ic i~n1ammatOry rheumatism, and then
lay it tenderly in the jaws Of the saw
horse. Put the teeth of the saw any
where, it makes no difference where,
and draw it toward you and push it
from you in persistent alienation un-
til the log squeaks and at last drops
asunder.
That is the best exercise in the
world. If our youth would engage in
it with more alacrity and enthusiasm
they would be filter to hold public Office
honestly by and by. You may stig-
Matte or even execrate it as mere
w~oodsawing, but it is good exercise,
nevertheless, and will tell with great
effect on the biceps and, for that mat
ter, everywhere else. 1t is a little old
fashioned, perhaps, but time has moi
destroyed its value.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
Scenes ilR Siam.

"Everybody smokes in Siam-men,
women, and children" said Mr.. John
A. Halderman, the returned Minister
from Bangkok, Siam, to a reporter.
"They smoke cigarettes made ofstrong
tobacco wrapped in paper made from
the inside of the banana Feelings.
They are very nice when green. I'm
fortunately they don'tkeep green long,
and those / brought with me have be-
come dry. Still they are very good.
Try one" and Mr.. Halderman handed
the reporter a short thick cigarette,
which, when lit, emitted a camphorine
fragrance.
1.-The country l have just left" con
tinued Mr.. Halderman, sis not a very
pleasant place for residence. There is
a mere handful Of foreigners, and it is
like being in lexile. The climate is
9akly and the country is unhealthy for
Europeans or Americans. Bangkok is
a long, struggling place. situated on a
river upon which are rvs Of floating
houses on bamboo platforms which
rise and fall with thee tide. Every
hundred yards or so a cahal leads from
the river up the county,. One can
hardly go anywhere without using a
boat. Indeed | haze often had to take a
boat from my house. The cemetery is
nothing but a bed Of mud. / had to
attend the funeral of an estimable
lady there, the wife of the Dutch Min
lister. The body was placed in the
grave, and before it could be filled up
a severe thunder storm came and filled
the grave two-thirds full of water, and
they had to hold the body down while
they filled the grave with earth.
That's the incest place to choose for a
burial ground, and | don't think Twill
go back, especially as I had bad health
there. The common people wear moth
ing but a breech clout. The King has
an English g%oyerness, who teaches
them English, and he is an intelligent
man, much above mediocrity. He is
about thirty-two years old, and is in
cllned to be progressive.'-W Washing
ton Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
strange Seriss Cusfouss.

The making of cheese is very import
ant occupation in Switzerland, where
the riches of a man are estimated &C.
cording to the number of cheeses he
possesses. A strange custom in the
Valais is to make a cheese when a
childis born, which is left untouched
during his lifetime, and is Otter cut
into for the first time at his funeral
feast. A rich man stores up wine as
we'll as cheese for his w funeral, and
when that event takes place a goblet
of this ssdead wine," as it is called, Is
placed on the coffin, the mourners ap-
proach, take the goblet in their hand,
touch the coffin with it, and drink ths
contents to a future Meeting with
their departed friend.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
An Accomplished caaf,,e,


A New Haven (Ct.} man has a dog
that rivals Stuart Cumberland in find.
ing a hidden penny, when promised
that he can buy meat with it. He has
been tutored in the common jealousies
of the town and when asked how they
pray up in Hartford he jumps on 9
chair, folds his paws ON the back and
assume a devotional attitude, but
keeps his eyes open. looking about the
room. When told Nov show us how
you pray" Rover puts his head be-
tween his paws, and although his mas
ter tries to make him remove il by
striking him On the back with a board,
he will not stir until he hears the word
''amen," when he jumps over the chair
back and walks off on his hind legs.
His owner has several blocks on which
hehas printed the words "police," ..sal.
walton army" reporter" etc. He
places them on the floor and says, "Ro.
yer. who goes to sleep on the street
cornersg Rover picks up the word
"police." who are the best detectives
in the country' The dog trots ur
with the block on which the word "re-
porter is printed. What is it that
makes you want to commit suicid
when you hear it?' salvation army
says Rover. These are but few of the
fifty or more tricks that this intelligent
dog has learned.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
WONDERFUL Increase liz CORP

The carp p~ropagatas at a wonderful
rate. In q small pond ia Ohio, where
! have frequently dropped hook and
line, the owner introduced carp a little
over i've years ago. He made no
provision for drawing off the pond or
for catching and selling the fish. The
carp hugs the bottom at all times, and
at the end Of three years the pond
owner, with no knowledge that the
water vas full Of good carp. was
astonished to find large one dead on
the surface. He made a few inquiries
of dealers in carp, and set to work to
draw the pond. It was literally alive
with big carp, and the deaths were
due to starvation. After the second
years growth had been reached the
sish were too big To cat eacll other.
and had no food for preservation
Nsso York Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
En,.Ev Rgusic Ia America.


The Puritans were our first must
clans. They had in England ransacked
organ galleries, burnt music books and
dissolved choirs, but in this country
they introduced congregational sing
ing, brought owe their psalm tunes,
and for seventy years the settlers OF
Plymouth used the psalter of Henry
Ainsworth, of Amsterdam. The sec
ond book printed in British America
was the boy psalm book, in 1910,
which went through seventy editions.
Rev. John Cotton, therefore, was the
only Cotton that ever was king about
Boston, and the big organ in that city
is n of his posterity.
However, only about ten tunes were
used in New England in the first nine
ty years. The very art of singing ran
so low that the preachers themselves,
who generally led the progress Of their
denominations, became frightened.
In 1928 a preacher named Symmes
published a book %prefaced with the
motto: "Of all beasts there is none
that is not delighted with harmony,
but only the ass" The congregations,
however, long resisted their pastors,
and the pastors often had to lead the
psalm, willie few of them had any
pretensior music.
Down your great civil war the
same anti Rthy to music continued
through ajearge part of the Christian
Church ~ to this day musical in
stfumenthhre forbidden in the houses
.of the DAhkers and some other sects.
The lirsEE evolution was to have sing
ing self Us; as the Puritan period IA
ded awg persons of more cultivation
joined lphe American colonies. Play
ford Wns the first musical writer used
in this country and earliest must
cal cf"npilers stole from him. Rev.
Johaah ufts published the first Ameri-
can lging-book, with thirty tunes in
it. Nthsv. Thomas Walter published
anotC r eleven years later. Two 9TH
er bdlfs were published at Newbury-
portfInd in Philadelphia, the latter
notA g before the Revolutionary war,
with Ff42 subscribers. and the book
him. 1t contained tho first
composition and the Ninety
seventh Psalm by q schoolmaster of
New York City named William Tuck
Pahl Revere, of Boston, engraved.
the music for Josiah Flagg's collection
in 1894 on American-made paper.
Thb Flagg had a band Of music in
in 1878, and had fifty perform
eF in some of his concerts at Faneuil
ALI. For a good while the deac ons
preachers. too, bullied the choirs,
deacons wanting no music at all
q nd the preachers wanting better sing
fg.-Cuncinnati Enquirer.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
A Msmfsfes..s Poor Waaes.

Example 1. Three hundred dollars
per year without parsonage.
2. Five hundred dollars per year by
a church occupying a sanctuary cost
ing over $4,000, and no parsonage.
3. Attending funerals in families
not belonging to the congregation. with
no claim upon the services of the min
lister. who rides six Or seven miles,
perhaps in a storm; then goes to the
cemetery, spending the greater part Of
the day, and with nothing to eat. and
receives not one cent for services, nor
even the thanks of the bereayed who
sent for him.
4. Supplying pulpits for congrega-
tons that pay their pastor $4,000 or
$4,000 per annum, and receiving $40
because n service only is required,
one being dispensed with, when the
supply is at considerable expense in
getting to the church, and spends the
best part Of three days in filing the
engagements, and is prepared for both
services. and knows not what he will
receive until the services have all been
rendered.
5. Travelling over one hundred
miles to reach the pulpit to be supplied;
met by the elder ut the depot, who
takes him to see a sick person. preach
es preparatory m at night, adj
ministers the communion the next
morning, baptizes a child in the after
noon, breaches In the evening. For
which SO is put into his hand as a
remuneration, and by a congregation
having a fine church, a beautiful lee
ture room, and q magnificent parsoa.
age.
These five examples are actual OF.
e%urrenees, and known to 500 ministers
and more.-ChrsstiGas Intezligencer.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
KuEea b.. Mesoa.fe Ssoa,ea

Considering the number of meteoric
stones which reach the earth's surface
it would not be surprising il many
lives had been destroyed by them. 1t
Is stated that loss of life resulted from
q large fall in Africa; that about the
year 1920 many persons and animals
were killed; that in 1911, about 5
o'clock n evening, a priest was
struck and killed; and that still later,
In 1850. a monk was killed. But
these according to Mr.. James r. Greg
DRY, 9 to be the only instances re-
corded Of death from falling meteors.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The velocity Of sound in ice has been
determined by Trowbridge and McRae
to be about $500 feet per second. or
about nine times the velocity Of sound
in the air.
A committee of the British Medical
Association is collecting information
concerning the experience and habits
of persons who have attained the age
of eighty or over. Interesting results
are expected.
A record Of observations on sixteen
trees and shrubs has shown DR.. n. L.
Britton that the spring Of this year
| was about ten days later in the VEIN
ity Of New York than that of 1884,
and nearly a month later than that Of
1878.
The t~reeless condition of parts of The
the South American pampas-of the
La Plata region, at least-is attribut-
ed to the work of an omnipresent ant,
which feeds upon leaves and quickly
destroys tree seedlings and other ten
der plants as soon as the leaves appear
above ground.
The great sand dunes along the
banks of many rivers, and particularly
along the shores at the southern end of
Lake Michigan, are due to the presence
of the Ammophila Arenaria, or sard-
gathering grass, which possesses a re-
markable power of drawing up moist
ure. Indeed, it may almost be called
a miniature water pump, for it is able
to keep the earth wet for several
inches around it. This wet earth
catches and holds the drifting sand.
The process goes on,the grass growing
and the sand collecting until a great
sand dune is the result.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
NeEnsaan Hiaaa Ont.

Young Featherly (at a late hour)--
Really, Miss Clara, it's very annoying,
but ! had il on the tip of my tongue
but q moment ago. I was about to
say-to say-er-singular. but il
seems to have escaped me.
Miss Clara looming to his assistance
Possibly you were about to say,
Goodnight" Mr.. F~eatherly p-Neu
Jerk Sun,
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
Anea.sr0rR.

The pathway was long, but when she reached
the end
The object Of her quest, a grave, was there
The grave Of one who was her dearest friend,
Whose loving thought had lightened every
care.
The two together had long Iourneyed here,
And borne each others burdens day by day,
Shared every joy, and many a hope and fear,
Nor dreamed they of the parting Of the way.
They came almost unconscious to that hour,
They thought their prayer a loving God must
heat
That, in the f~ullness of His grace and power,
HE would spare each to each for many q
year;
And SO, when the dark shadow fell ut last,
And one went on, God holding by the hand,
And one turned back to live but in the past,
Grieying because she could not understand,
There hung a pail uponher earth and sky,
She was SO desolate5a and Heaven so far.
But afterward, the Comforter drew nigh;
And her worn soul behind its prison-oar
Saw, as in vision, the dear friend she welt
Rested AMI comforted:before the Thrones:
No WEAKNESS again. no vigils kept;
There pain, and death, and sorrow are un-
Was she resigned;to bear this bitter loss,
Sine, he was spared Earth's sorrow and its
pain? -,
Yes; for loves sake she took her heavy cross,
Thinking each day low precious was his
She could not know why thoy must part so
soon,
She must not doubt or question Gods dear
will;
And SO she asked of Him lint one great hoon-
The sweet submission that could trust Him
still.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
Salmon. ID. Enormous 0aa,.tttv.

What will the Londoner who pays
probably more often does not pay. for
he cannot afford it, half a crowa a
pound for his salmon think of a place
where salmon are so numerous that
they crowd each other high and dry on
the seashore, where the rivers are de-
scribed as a mixture OF water and
fish and where in a single haul of a
small seine 5000 salmon are caught?
Prof. Milne, Of earthquake celebrity,
has recently visited the Kurile Islands,
which stretch between Japan and ST.
IBERIA, with the object Of studying the
volcanoes there. He sailed round the
the island of Iturup, which is about
713 miles long by 80 broad, and which
is inhabited here and there along the
coast by Amos. who are engaged in
fishing during the season. Here is his
description of the abundance of fish:
"The fish that are caught are salmon
and salmon trout. These exist in such
numbers during the summer and
autumn seasons that their fins stick
ing out IF the water near the entran-
ces to the river look like tangled mas
ses of kelp; while up the rivers it is
but little exaggeration to say that
some of the pools are mixtures of fish
and water. With a rifle bullet you
may pierce four or five at q single shot.
The single shoals are often covered
with dead fish, which in their struggle
for existence, have become SO weak
that, having once run themselves
ashore, they are unable TO return
to water. A single haul of
a small seine upon the beach
brought to land a huge heap of fish
varying in weight from 4 to 90 pounds.
the number Of which we roughly esti-
mated at 5000" Even the vivid imar-
ination of the late Mr.. George Rollins
could produce nothing to parallel
these statements of a sober scientific
writer On other thoughts intent, -Pesl
Mall Gazette.