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Year: 1874

Here is a picture of the belle of Sara
toga as she looks to-day Hair scol-
loped In front and braided down behind
in one straight braid ten inches long,
which hanging from the hat looks like
the handle of a dipper. Hat on back
of the head, With narrow brimed turned
MP and down an6 sidewise, and skewed
and twisted arotnd as if it had been
run over by a locomotive. Face veiled
well with tulle, which is also. mutfied
around the neck so that the chin rests
on it, and the head looks like a hen on
a nest of down. Dress black or
erenadine, short enough not to touch
the floor, straight down in front, but
long belhed, and pulled back over the
hips. " hoops, and the bottom of the
dress so narrow that the young lady
cannot take long steps.


How does she walk?


She don't walk she wiggles along as
men do in a sack race. This dress shows
the forsl beautiful, and is a great i'm
provement on the old flowing skirt.
Young ladies are now standing perfectly
erect. Their chests are expanded and
shoulders are thrown back. The shoes
worn are the only part of the toilet sub
iect to criticism. These are marrow,
ngn-neeled OuuIOH LhaheIS' 1nOy OauSo
the young lady to limp, and they must
also be the cause of great deal OF pro-
family when the young lady is left alone.
The parasol is big black or blue or
brown umbrella, bordered with lace.
Fans are ordinary, and more for use
than ornament. Hair is worn natural,
and as yet no young ladies here appear
ed with saffron-colored locks. Beauty
is not of the Lydia Thompson school,
and only the denli-Dlonle dye, paint or
powder. Gloves are from three to six
buttoned. No lockets, neck chains or
watch chains are worn; the jewelry be-
ing rings, plain pin and chateline
braid or oxidized silver chain hanging
from the belt, to which is suspended
oxidized smelling bottles, pocketbook,
or anything else which fancy may
Year: 1874




1t is singular fact, says a Partisan
writer, that a man generally requires
very different qualities in a wife from
those he admires in sweetheart
While lover, he expected to see his
| future wife neatly and stylishly dressed
whenever he chose to call, either morn
ing or evening. and the girl busted her
| little brain all day in efforts TO please
| his tas te. If he left town for a few
days, he sent letters full of sweet moth
| ings that filed her soul with Joy. Then
came delightful rambles in the moon
| light, and hours spent in charming
tete-d-tetes after the family had retired,
when the two saw no one but each other
| in their world of love.


Alas that such bliss must ever be dis
| PEELED. Time brought preparations for
the approaching wedding for this de-
voted couple imagined that their happi-
ness could never be complete until the
hymeneal knot.was tied.


So the wedding and honeymoon were
soon over, and the parties Sc tied into
the matter-of-fact part of life. The
Since her schooldays she has spent her
time in studying the tastes of her lover,
which certainly seemed to incline to-
wards dress and sentimentality.


Now, alas she discovers that his
stomach demands food of the best
quality; and because she knows not
how to cater to his palate his love seems
to be waning. While he is vainly try
ing to appease hunger with sour bread
and burned steak, little does he appre-
ciate the sweet nonsense and honeyed
words which used to be so satisfying to
his sentimental nature.


Ah, men are so unreasonable They
expect to find every quality of excel
lence in the women they marry, vet
have not penetration sufficient to choose
the most worthy. To shine in society,
to exhibit every feminine accomplish
ment, both at home and abroad, are
duties which they require in the women
they marry /; and what have they to give
in return? It seems impossible that
these delicate attentions which charac-
terize the lover should be so withdrawn
by the husband


The other day when I heard neigh
Dor demanding his dinner In not The
most pleasant tone, thought, 4" Can il
be possible that he ever played the
ardent lover to that pale, detected wo-
man, whom he calls his wife ?X


The lover who could scar &ely tear
himself away from his sweetheart at
midnight is the same man now who
leaves his wife to spend her evenings as
best she may, while he passes the hours
in doubtful enjoyment.


All how foon men forget the solemn
VOW to love and cherish till death And
how many women regret that the charm
ing delusions of courtship were ever ex-
changed for the unpleasant realities of
marriage.


GUSTAV bas found gold in abundance.
and the Black Hills connf,,u - :, go -
Year: 1874

Last Sunday morning family living
in the suburbs of the city went to a
suburban church, leaving little gill
about seven years of age and boy
about twelve years of age in charge OF
the house. The church was situated
but short distance from the house.
The family were to have beans for dim
ner. and these were left in a vessel Oh
the stove to cook. The little girl while
PLAYING, suddenly began to smell the
odor of burnt beans, upon which she
rushed out of the house over into the
church where the pastor was gravely
and earnestly preaching the profount 4
word of God. The first person of the
family the little girl espied was young
lady cousin, and to her in loud voice
which startled the assemblage consider
>ably, she cried, "Come home, coms
home, the beans are burning" and inn
mediately rushed out again. The as
tonishment was great, and all the solem-
nity of the preacher as we'll as of the
congregation disappeared beneath q
broad smile at the Righteousness of the
matter. Louisville Co,,.ier-,Iou'7aot
Year: 1874

A FEW days since, at the Royal italian
opera, Covent Garden, London, at the
end of the opera, when amid hurricane
of applause, Mile. Albani, the Albany
prima donna, was called before the cur
tain, gentleman in the grand tier
threw bouquet and box at the prima
donna, the latter of which unluckily
struck her with considerable force in
the centre of the forehead. The author
of this calamity was observed to throw
up his arms with a gesture of despair
when he saw the lady place her hands
on her forehead and instantly retire to
her private room, where some simple
remedies were applied with good effects
Perhaps it should be added that the
restoration was little assisted by the
discovery that the guilty box, when
opened, contained a tiara of splendid
diamonds.
Year: 1874

THE two hundred and fifty sulphur
mines in Sicily are fast being exhausted,
and it is estimated by the italian gov
ernment officers that in from fifty to
sixty years there will be no available
sulphur left on the island. The meth
DDS of working the ore are so defective
that although it contains from fifteen to
forty per cent. of pure sulphur, only
fourteen per cent. is actually obtained.
The prediction that iron pyrite will ul-
timately replace sulphur for many pur-
poses is likely to be verified.
Year: 1874

Delegate Mccormick appeared before the House Committee on military affairs to- day, and urged an appropriation of S40,000. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in erecting breakwater for the protection of the military or store house on the Colorado river Ot Fort Yuma. It is understood that the committee will recon mend the appropriation, as the com manding General Of the Department of Arizona has represented the necessity for it.
Year: 1874

WE learn from a gentleman who Is a good authority, that a com bination is under consideration between the high con- tractng parties, to throw New Mexico and Arizona together as State, to make the State movement more certain.

 The Borderer at Las Cruces printed the above on the 5th instant It would oblige many people by stating who compose the " high contracting parties."
Year: 1874

second indictment. Under our law when a jury brings in q verdict of acqulttal the judge cannot send the jury back, no mat ter how much, in his opinion, they may have mistaken the law.
Year: 1874

any horses have really been stolen. But even when one is justified in making an arrest he Is not justified in killing, unless previous 10 such killing he shall have used all reasonable efforts to take the ac- cused without success, and that from all probability there was no prospect of being able to prevent injury from such resist ance and the consequent escape of such person,
Year: 1874

THE New York Times, the rampant
organ Of the Administration, would like
to rally to the support of the Washington
Ring, but it can't do it. This is the best
that it can do.


The investigation into the improve
menls carried out at Washington does not
prove anything against Mr.. Henry Cooke,
in our opinion, but it shows that under
his successor there has been q great deal
Of robbery going on in reference to con-
tracts. In these days, wherever large
contracts are to be given out, there seems
to be more or less of fraud as an jneVita-
bic part of the transa@sion. 1t is unfortu-
nate for the Administration that q news
paper proprietor who boasts of 'confden-
tlal relations with the White House should
have been a conspicuous party to some of
the worst of these frauds. We cannot see
in what way Murtagh's contract business
differed from simple swindiing. 1t is 80
regarded everywhere, and We should think
that the Committee in its report cannot
afford to overlook the fact"
Year: 1874

a few Democratic papers, following In
the wake of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Commercial. and the Republican press
generally of the State, have seemed to
take delight in attacking the session Of
the Legislature just closed. While We
do not claim that during the past session
all was accomplished that should have
been, or erything that was done was
done as well as II might have oeea, vet
the Legislature does not deserve this
treatment at the hands of its friends The
amount of money called for, as contained
in the General Appropriation Bill. is
three hundred and ninety thousand dol
lars less than for last year, and this re-
ducllon justified a reduclio in the State
levy for 1874 Of four hundred aHd seventy
thousand dollars. If the Legislature had
done nothing more than TO make 90 large
a reduction in the appropriations for
State purposes it would deserve the graf
ltude Of the people of the State, but they
accomplished much in addition to thia.
They passed new and stringent laws for
the government of the Penal and Benev0-
lent Institutions of the State, and placed
them In the hands of the Democrats. The
session was the shortest one held in years,
and never was there a more earnest de-
sire displayed to legisiate in the interest
Of the people than was shown by the large
majority Of the Democratic members. We
do not claim infallibility for our Demo
cratic friends, but We con fearlessly chal-
lenge 8 comparison with the Republican
Legislatures Of the past. They-denon-
strated the fact, during the past session,
t?at the Democratic party is, as it claims
to be, the party Of economy and the friend
OF The people, and upon the record, made
during the fifteen weeks of the session, We
are wiling to go before the people.
Year: 1874

The first of the temperance societies


which were to carry on this work IN the


last period of this reform was the Wash
ingtonian, organized by eight dTunkards


in a Baltimore bar room IN 1910. All


mechanics, and they set on foot a wild,


undisclplined, popular agitation. Nobody
but reformed dTuukards were allowed to
speak at their meetings. Loafere and in


ebriates were dragged out Of the streets.
forced on the platform and their signatures
obtained to the pledge, amid the widest
enthusiasm in the audience, and matters
generally were carried on in an energetic
manner, which brooked no opposition and
little interference. The original eight
went from place to,place, and carried their
enthusiasm with them. They werh rough
and ignorant; they told stories from the
platform that were scarcely decent they


were rude and vulgar IN dress and action
and speech but in four years half mil
lion persons had signed the pledge and
$50 900 dTunkards had been reclaimed" {"


The first meeting of the Washingtonians


in this city was held in the Green street


Methodist Church. The opening speech


of one of the Baltimore reformers was in


terrupted by drunKen loafer who totter-


Ell up to the pulpit and sigoed the pledge,


and forty signed before the meeting was


through. Hall after hall was crowded


with the meetings OF these reformers. and


at last there was mass meeting in City
Hall Park, where 2, 500 signed the pledge


In year the local Washingtonian Socie-


ty had Is, 600 members. Out of this or
Year: 1874

The Picayune of Tuesday, the 3Oth
ult., published heavy sensational ar
ticle, giving all the details of the plan
arranged by the black league to turn
out on the fourth of July, ostensibly
for the purpose of celebrating the day,
but really for the purpose of putting to
the test their claim to all the civil
rights accorded to the whites. Their
scheme was to parade the streets armed
aud supplied with forty rounds of am
munition, and along the line of their
march to enter ice cream saloons, res
taurants, soda water stands, etc., etc..
and demand the same treatment that
was given to the white patrons of those
institutions. In case of their refusal
they were to assert their rights with
powder and ball, and when the
slaughter was once begun it was not
to cease until the men were killed and
the women appropriated. 1t is not
difficult to imagine the excitement and
CONSERVATION the publication of such
a scheme produced. Our dispatches
show that the day passed away quietly
and that no celebration of any kind
was had. 1t may be possible that the
timely disclosure of the Picayune saved
that unfortunate community the
crowning horror of the age.
Year: 1874

Custom has rendered it imperative
that an editor upon taking his seat in
the editorial chair should address his
readers in what is called salutatory.
Webster defines salutatory to be
speaking a welcome;" ian address
of welcome." In this view, there
would be more in it if the salutatory
was addressed by the readers of the
paper to the incoming editor. AS used
by the editorial fraternity, we UNDER
stand the word to mean an introduce
ton; that is, that the salutatory is to
bear the same relation to the editors
future work that the authors introduc-
ton bears to the volume of which it
forms part.


In this sense it is fit and proper
custom; for it is due to those who are
expected to be the patrons of paper
that they should be advised OF the
principles and policy that are expected
to animate its columns.


Politically, our affiliation is with the
democratic party. AS we are COM
paratively unknown to the readers of
The HERALD, we trust we may be par
doned for giving so much of our past
record, as is contained in the statement
that, in 1868, we were nominated by
the democratic convention of South
Carolina as a candidate on the presi-
Dental electoral ticket for the fourth
congressional district, and in 1872, by
the same body, we were sent as dele
gate to the national democratic con-
vention that,met at Baltimore. For five
years prior to our removal to Texas, in
the fall of 1873, we were engaged in
editing democratic paper in our ma
tive state.


The issues that demand the attention
of the American people now are of
vaster consequence than any that were
ever presented to them prior to the era
of reconstruction, so-called. Before
that period, parties were aligned on
questions of governmental policy.
Since the work of reconstruction be-
gan, the issues before the country have
involved the very structure and exist
ence of the government itself. The re-
publican party, in order to maintain
its ascendancy, has destroyed, one by
one, the distinctive features that mark
ed this as republican government,
and is now driving on with ever accel-
Grating speed to the gaol of an ire
sponslble government. To stay this
mad and ruinous career, and to restore
to the fabric of our government the
foundation stones that have been torn
away, is the mission of the democratic
party. Radicalism means imperial
ismj democracy means the preserva-
ton, or rather the restoration, of re-
publican form of government.


Though a recent settler upon the soil
of Texas, we claim to be second to
none, even the Oldest of her sons, in
devotion to her prosperity and glory.
The reign of tyranny and oppression
at the hands both of the federal gov
eminent and of the negro majority,
through which we passed in South
Carolina has ttaughtus to appreciate to
the full the freedom that the people of
Texas are blessed with. The air that
circulates over her expansive prairies
is too pure to be ever again contamin-
Year: 1874

Dallas il located almost Immediately
in the heart of the grain producing
belt of northern Texas. Hundreds of
thousands of bushels of wheat are pro-
duced within her reach and which be-
long, by right of location, to her. Her
iron arms stretch out into the opulent
domains of the husbandman and from
their inexorable demand there Is no
appeal. The beaming gold of her mil
lions of bushels of wheat should coin
for the young giant of northern Texas
the sinews of mighty treasury.


But how is it? Only yesterday we
were startled by the assertion from
one of the leading firms of this city
that tive have already sent forty thous-
and dollars north for -four" Forty
thousand dollars from a city like Dali
las in six months! Five dollars from
every citizen in it! Ten dollars from
every citizen in one year! Think of
it! And we almost the hub of the
thousands of wheat fields which whiten
twice year in unprecedented
harvest Should this not awaken
us to the vital necessity of home pro-
duction? The grand importance of
vitalizing what we grow ourselves?
The suicidal policy of lahoring to pro-
duce and then paying others for "look-
ing on" The vagrant emptying the
plate of the toiler! The basalisk in
vited to drink our blood! Yea! with
our own right hand opening our arte-
ries and leaving out the wine of our
life! Forty thousand dollars taken
from the sweat of our brows every six
months! Eighty thousand dollars
scattered to the winds of the
north every year! Is it not
enough to move us to build a mill
or factory on every square in the city?
For if forty thousand dollars are sent
out of this city every six months for
flour alone, low much more for an
hundred other necessities? 1t is really
an appalling question We haven't
very great deal of time to think about
it. Our only answer should be the
looming up of every instrument and
engine for the utilization of what we
produce. We can not long survive
this drain of eighty thousand a year.
1t is no figment of the brain! 1t is
stern, q thrilling, burning reality
Year: 1874

l recall it now, in the valley sweet,
And think hear the patter OF feet
In their locund rhyme down the village


street.
How the wind through its rafters would sing


and scold!
And the rain touch its roof with hymn


of old
And the sun would wrap it in raiment OF


gold!
And then the old master, with specialized


nose!
All the mischief he bore no one Knows
Poor soul always there through blossom and


SHOWS.
And we, up through clover and periwinkle,
Like flight of birds at the bells silver


tinkle,
Peach-loom cheek and brow without wrln-


kle.
Brown-haired Willie, and true-eyed Jane
Can l ever forget the nameless pain
AS we parted for aye, at the foot of the lane.
Then the heart ofJune was in the air;
1t was June on lip, and June in hair,
June in our eyes, June everywhere.
But the benches with moss are overgrown,
No little feet cross the Threshold stone,
For the grain is gathered what the school has


sown.
Tie over the thread of the broken years,
And count on the string what there appears
One in splendor to a thousand in tears!
For the dullard then, it is praises notc,
For the bright one-rags, and you wonder


how!
And some are saints with crowns on their


brow.
o robin and snow-bird, bloom and sheaf!
Why do you rob me of that dear belief,
''That there is no other life, but in the school


book leaf?"
Year: 1874

but yielded TO his request 10 continue
these labors until he could make some
other arrangement.


1t has been impracticable for me to
revise the proof sheets of my articles
in The HERALD, and in some in
stances errors have crept in affecting
the meaning. But before the audience
of this old and honorable journal, l
may he permitted to say that in no
sentence have ! sought to utter II
thought contrary to sound morals or
the good of the country. On the con-
trary, regardless of public or private
criticism, havelabored to rehabilitate
truth, justice, peace and public virtue
in our state. Such, in my Judgment
are essential attributes of honorable
journalism at this time.


In writing for small daily news
paper, no editor can elaborate. lie
must condense and rely OH the intelli-
gence of the reader to supply connect
ing thought-always realizing that the
casual or accidental reader may misun-
derstand and wrongly interpret the
grand, moving inspiration of his soul.
have had many illustrations of this
fact in my brief connection with The
HERALD.


The greatest obstacle in the propaga-
ton of truth and just ideas of liberty
among men is the readiness with
which too many men swallow the art
full decoction of demagogues and in
triguers. Loving enlightened liberty
and worshiping at the shrine of justice,
scorning preferment unless the willing
gift ola free people, have sought, to
the best of an humble ability, to incul-
cate into these columns among the
youth of our country a love of truth
and of public and private virtue, and
repugnance to corruption in all its
forms, from the highest to the lowest
office in the land. A Jeffersonian,
state rights democrat, as sincerely as l
believe any truth, l have never felt
willing to debase my manhood by
covering up or defending wrong or cor
ruption in men ofmy own party, either
in or out of office.


These being principles deeply en-
grated, as temporary editor of The
DALLAS HERALD, l have sought, while
overrun with other business, to inn
press them on its readers, and am will
ing to abide the result of such course.


The publishers having made other
arrangements, and relieved me of an
onerous duty, unless allowed full con-
trol, on terms to meet the necessities of
life, am no longer, in any sense, edi-
tor of THE HERALD. Under the new
arrangement, elsewhere announced to-
day, trust the paper may continue to
be the advocate of truth, the friend of
the people, and the unrelenting enemy
of wrong in all its forms.


JOHN HENRY BROWN.
Year: 1874

WE ARE informed by Colonel l.. M.
Martin, who was present at Gainesville
on Saturday last, that the convention
to send delegates to the Fort Worth
convention was one Of the largest ever
held in that place, and was composed
of representative men from all parts of
the county. The convention first
passed resolution requesting the Fort
Worth convention not to make a nom-
ination at all, but submit the matter to
the people direct, but if nomination
was made, the delegation from Cook
was instructed to vote solidly for Gov
ernor Throckmorton, with not a dis
senting vote.
Year: 1874

This institution, under the laws OF
the state, has just received its charter
and in short time will thoroughly Or
ganize as a corporate body. They
have already secured the necessary
ground, and are erecting a temporary
hall. AS we shall soon give full
statement of the origin, rise, progress
and objects of this peculiar institution
of the German people, we will only
say, for the present, that its scope is
wide. 1t covers the field of literature,
social Improvement, benevolence, gym
nastic development, and the cultiva-
ton of those graces which go to make
up well developed man,.iphysically
and Intellectually.


The society will have on hand Ii
brary of German literature, and file
of current standard newspapers in the
German language.