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ESTABLISHED, 1849.
DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 11,1874.
.. XXI, NO. 43
WEEKLY HERALD
• * tem arnar a
JINDELLS & SIMMONS.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
but yielded to his request to continue
these labors until he could makesome
The undersigned having associated
with himself in business Mr. L R. other arrangement.
StMOxs, of Shreveport, Louisiana,
the publication of the daily and week-
ly HERALD will hereafter be carried on
by the firm of SWIDEuts & BTdNs.
siomberanntam, inadvanee —E. Mr. BINNONs is the senior member of
-HIiko"one funre cen lnesor the well known job printing and book
PT si * for the first, and i cents binding establishment of L. R. BI-
^2b£'SS5*sMB“e-!»'- a Co, of Shreveport, and will
devote his large experience to the per-
TERMS:
“Ess, payable invariably when
M.coremeai Finterted.
It has been impracticable for me to
revise the proof sheets of my articles
La THs HERALD, and in some In-
stances errors have crept in affecting
the meaning. But before the audience
of this old and honorable journal, I
may be permitted to say that in no
sentence have I sought to utter a
thought contrary to sound morals or
ated by t he foul breath of the oppressor.
It is to the Lone Star State, with her
almost boundless domain, that the op-
pressed of our sister southern states are
wistfully looking as a refuge from the
unnumbered woes that environ them.
To preserve intact this glorious herit-
age of freedom; to make Texas what
it was once, the prond boast of the
United States to be—“the land of the
free”—will be the animating principle
free‘—will be the animating principle
that shall ever guide our pen. +,
AGENTS:1
_ michard H. urime. Advertising
N * couth street. Baltimore, Md.
En a Co., st Park Row, New
• T:Coe, Wetherini aco. No.
anPre Pinadelphis, are duly
. 1 42-1 to contract for advertig
T aertion in the DALLAS HER-
urlowestrates.
A Dashiell a Waters, Bankers,
T ar authorized agents for THE
. Kaufman county.
3 Jai Fa. as Lewisville, Denton
4aord agent for the DAL
Ark: L.D. and money paid to hint on
SM w it be duly acknowledged by UN. 1
THE esbsnoos MOUNE
By s. s. naarnorow.
sonal management of the mechanical
department of Twit HERALD office.
His reputation where heis well known
for business capacity and integrity of
character entitles him to the fullest
confidence of the people in his new
home. Itako pleasure in coinmend-
ing him to their favorable regard.
As is well known to the readers of
Tus HERALD, its editorial columns for
nine months past have been under the
i control of Major Jonx Hukay Knows,
who consented to perform the duties of
editor until other arrangements could
be made. How well, and how faith-
On the con-
the good of the country.
trary, regardless of public or private
criticism, I havelabored to rehabilitate
truth, justice, peace and publie virtue
in our state. Such, in my judgment
are essential attributes of honorable
journalism at this time.
in writing for a small daily news-
paper, no editor can elaborate. He
must condense and rely on the intelli-
K. C. N’LURF.
rus GREAT Dav.
1 is now, in the valley aweet.
Garish 1 hear the patter of feet
worriund rhyme down the *"**
i. meh and through its rafters would ang
otdl -______
an t hich its roof with a hymn
a
a wouw wrap it in a raiment of
: the old master, with spectacled
wichiet ne bore ao one knows,-
always there through blossom and
- ___L
ng through elover and periwinkle,
at of bird- at tbs bell’s aliver
fully, he has discharged the onerous
duty, it is not necessary for me to re-
mind the readers of Tun HERALD.
With a heart all aglow with the love
of Texas, and with the love of liberty,
he has stood forward valiantly at all
times as the unrelenting foe of all who
would wrong the one or assail the
other. To Major Brown the proprie-
tar of THE HERALD is proud te ae-
knowledge a debt of gratitude which it
may probably never be within his
must condense and rely
goner of the reader to supply connect-
ing thought—always real izing that the
casual or accidental reader may misun-
derstand and wrongly interpret the
I have had many illustrations of this
fact in my brief connection with THE
HERALD. 1
The greatest obstacle in the propsga-
tion of truth and just ideas of liberty
power to pay.
JOHN w. SWINDELLS.
among men h the readiness with
which too many men swallow the art- |
ful decoction of demagogues and in- viveth —
triguers. Loring enlightened liberty breasts of a".
and worshiping at the shrine of justice, 1 At the mil
scorning preferment union the willing
gift ofa free people, I have sought, to
the best of an humble oh ility, to incul-
cate into these columns among the
youth of our enuntry * love of truth
! The Fourth of July was very goner-
ally, though diversely, observed to this
town and county.
At Mesquite station, twelve miles
given, at which about two thousand
people from Dallas and Kaufman par-
took of erflowing refreshments, and
the young people heartily enjoyed mu-
sie and dancing. Mevre. John J.
Good an J E G. Bower made addresses
which were appropriate to the occasion,
and very happily received by the peo-
ple. Judge Good’s speech, from are-
pert we have heard of it, was such as to
command the respect of all thoughtful
men. B was his first participation on
such as occasion, and his utterances
were such as to wound none, but re
spirit of true patriotism to the
THE NEW cunRENOY BILLTEXAS ITEMS.
During the session of congress that Deputy United States commission- Inalet Put-ee
adjourned week before last, the finan-’ers, Millner and Mason, arrived at
elat question absorbed more attention Austin on last Friday, with sixty lor, D. D., who was one of the recent
than all other matters that were thousand shad from the Smithsonian, excursionists to, Texas, We And the
brought forward for consideration, institutue to be placed in the Colorado following:
After a hard struggle between the river. They placed twenty five 4 "
money lenders of the
money borrowers of the west, between
the plethorie money mags of the puri-
ton and the mortgaged-to-death lands
of the hoosier, the latter came off vie-
torious, and a bill was passed that
promised speedy relief to the impecu-
mious west through a large inflation of
the circulation of United States treas-
ury notes. General Grant, with a
stickling regard for the platform of his
party which would do him honor if he
would apply it to the constitution of
his country, vetoed the bill. The com-
mingled howl of rage and shout of joy
Bapust, or Peindelphia, by E G. Tay-
E TAP
e 6 A
Forty Thousand Dollars from one Firm;
meed an producing
belt of northern Texas. Hundreds of
octween urer, .....---------Texas is the Illinois of the southwest.
E EL A or the It is not as yet determined which of its ..___,-----_
east and the and in Clear kAHEN S sprightly towns shall be its Chicago, - thousand. Ieousheis of w neat
Brazos, one mile east of Hempstead, among the many aspirants for thato-h. d which be-
Oneineeroithot and insootr 52 har ^ unty Canaan nan ’ long, oyresorontion/to her. We
another at Plane, on, the L already claiming 35,000 inhabitants, iron arms stretch out into the opulent
The “green eyed monster” caused Ifo will be the successful rival. While New domains of. the husbandman and from
Judge William Smith died at Orange orl-eus en niyeetsseer xikat-a.f. their inexorable demand there is no
on last Friday. He was formerly rep- | vuon ring up M a young Riant, appeal. ^ h beaming keld of her mil-
resentative to the legislature from that with J spirit and power that win the lions of bushels of wheat should coin
counts. --
that followed this action of the execu-
tive told how deeply rooted in the
hearts—or rather in the poekets-of the
people the issues involved were. The
New York Herald actually sounded
the tocsin of war, and proclaimed that
the rights of the west were ruthlessly
heck and brow without wrin-
t .__.___. .... and of public and private virtue, and a
.- We deem it proper to state that the ......--...-- +. -n-muniain in all its
change above announced in the publi- farm- from the pl-hest
cation of the daily and weekly HERALD omee in the land. A
adtrueiyei Janel 1 - -
1121n does not involve any‘change either in
rzXTm ^ m theter of the lane.
repugnance to corruption in all its
forms, from the highest*---4
belt of northern Texas.
confidence and Prate OL eVR Yr tea for the young giant of northern Texas
General Braxton Bragg is on a visit e-e bemae the sinews of a mighty treasury.
We-teen so erect, a in operation But how I 1, Only yesterday we
But how at. Only gesterdar we
to Austin. ’ the northwest so great, is in operation----------
Hr a dozen flats loaded with rail- here under superior circumstances, were-startled by the assertion from
rond iron for the son Antonio track was milder elimersend. uAE one of the sending • ms of this elts
passed Houston last Thureday. nrierine eemru nonn that “we have already rent forty theus
The Eye-Opener is the name of an and south in great abundance. Cotton and dollars north for Hour PW
clocconterhenthe started and wheat grow in fields side by side, thousand dollars from a city like Dal-
owo-P and corn and sugar are produced in las in six moliths! Five dollars from
it is said to * Put- near proximity, while fruits of all kind dollars from
P 1
four." Furty
in Galveston.
------7 P PA . PE near proximity, while trusts Mt every citizen in it! To a dollars from
lished by a league of seven. Its mis- grow large and luscious, and abound I every eie M “ = <
tion tshbute ortho city officials everywhere. The unprecedented and every citizen in one yer hink of €
* othe I magnificent offer of the Texas railways itt And we almost the hub of the
to take the southern Baptist convention thousands of wheat flelg whin whiten
—-----—1 lines of thirteen hundred 1 L 1 -
Then the heart of June was in the air;
runJuneon lp. and June in hair,
Ae inboteyer. Juneeverywhere. ,
sits Lathes with more are overgrown,
, F iutlefit cross the threshhold tons;
Fe the grain gathered what the school has
the principles or policy of the paper.
THs HERALD will continue to be, as it
to the lowest
- Jeffersonian,
- sincerely as I
to ct.un thread of the broken years,
on the string what there appear-
adopt to a thousand in tears!
to s. p-uard on, in to praises now.
Fur me aright one—rags, and you wonder
dee
fir a
and spare are saints with crowns on their
PT
ofegnis anamnow-bird, bloom and sheaf:
tor lirvon meo me of that dear belief,
Tithee in other life, but in the school
-
1 THE FIRST CUN —
always heretofore has been, the un-
swerving advocate of democratic and
conservative principles. The para-
mount aim of the proprietors will be
to publish a livenewspaper; to furnish
to their readers in Dallas a brief al
stract of all important matters that
may happen to be agitating the outside
world and to send abroad a full and
faithful representation of the wealth,
resources and development of the eoun-
ty. Realizing fully the rapid and hurried
state rights democrat, as sincerely as I
believe any truth, 1 have never felt
willing to debase my manhood by
covering op or defending wrong or cor-
ruption in men of my own party, either
in or out of office, i
These being principles deeply en-
grafted, as temporary editor of Tax
DALLAS HERALD, I have sought, while
overrun with other business, to im-
prom them on Me readers, andamwiD-
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, I am no longer, in any sense, edi-
tor of THs HERALD. Under the new
arrangement, elsewhere announced to-
day, I trust the paper may continue to
be the advocate of truth, the friend of
, At the fair grounds of Dallas, our
two bare-ball clubs played with their
visiting, brethren from Shreveport and
Denison. Their exercises are-else-
where referred to.
| Various parties and social gatherings
took place in the city and suburbs, of
which we have no special report, but
our community, and one feeling was
manifest very generally: that since
Texas is restored to her rights, Arkan-
sas is on the high road to the same fe-
licity, and a faint ray of light has ap
even over poor Louisiana,
men assert their inherited
The new crop of wheat is selling at__
Pilot Point at eighty-five cents, all over their gurs on *usrvVE uw**
Dr. A. C. Clepton h announced 1m V.-o.e.tcepincte etcaaet ____________
the Jefferson Democrat as a candidate prise in their management. Each us to the vital necessity on nome-ue-gr
for congress from that congressional I delegate was furnished with a free pass duction ? The grand importance-of.es
district. 3 & | he.mtsht."c """ A vitalizing what we woo---------.
Last week was occupied by the dis- train or Ms couches toft Jefer- The suicidal policy of laboring to pro-
triet court of Cook county in the trial son on Tuesday morning after adjourn- duce and then paying others for Mlook-
7 of the Seheu-ell ease, who was charged , ment of the convention and took the
- win being seg/oy to the Burder of PRSZFEC SZHA-RO
= - gu 4 ar Captain Roberta “The jury returned a it was a charming ride, through a
patch-work to hold the republican par- verdict of “guilty,” and the punish- splendid country, on one of the smooth-
ment was assessed at five years impris- est and straightest of roads. One little
1* jtown of thirty or forty houses, ealled
E Hi - Mineola, on the way, furnished din-
assailed and that only powder and
blood could atone.
1 In due course of time a compromise
measure, on which both inflationists
and contractionists could agree, was
brought forward, and was soon invest-
rd with the authority of law by the
president’s approval. This measure l
ng a compromise one—a piece of
ty together for the next presidential
election—does not please either side,
and, as is always the case with such
measures, both sides construe it favora-
ble to their own peculiar views. Knox,
eereiter eree currency, hav-
strue a certain section of the bill, gave
a construction that favored inflation.
Thereupon President Grant and Secre-
tary Bristow were very much incensed,
and, as rumor has it, have notified
Cemerte Mhos that his rIsios
Large and Enthusiastic Conven- IMuend
‘ ton in Cook County,
______on W-Ms
indicntiveof themplmtofitrare’S *
vitalizing what we
grow ourselves? .
ing on." The vagrant emptying the
plate of the toiler ! The basalisk in-
vited to drink our blood! Year 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 a factory on every square to the city?
For if forty thousand dollars are sent
out of this city every six months for ,
flour alone, how much more for an
hundred other necessities? It is really
an appalling question! We haven’t,
a 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
prodaca. We can not long survive
this drain of eighty thousand a year.
It is no figment of the brain! It is a
stern, a thrilling, a burning reality !
onment. . Sasucow, ........ -------
Mr. John Hobbs, of Cook county, ner without charge, anigave us * short
raised one hundred and eighty-six
pounds of Tappahannoe wheat from
four pounds sown. ________________
THE West Texas Free Prees, in reply no-pitalitien and the doorsof itshonset
to a letter from an old friend in Indi-
ana, who thinks of removing to Dallas,
Texas, because the peopleare too “fast"
where he lives, tells him that “he can
hardly had a ’faster’ place in Indiana.
That some of ita old citizens say they
want to get away from it on that ao-
count.” “Besides,” lays he, “our late
advices are that Dallas is very much
overdone, as fast places are apt to be.
and is likely to take at least a tempo-
“isch.of setcone omen me noiet
in the evening, we were taken to the
opera house and welcomed to the city’s
thrown open free of expense to about
three hundred tired and hungry dele-
gates. The large-hearteduers of the
citizens extended even to the boot-
blacks. I called into requisition the
services of one of that fraternity, and
was about to pay for the “shine” when
he asked, “Are you one of the dele-
gates ? if so, I don’t charge anything”
The barbers were moved to the same
spirit, and, indeed, it was impossible
to spend any money there, except that
| did contrive to put a nickel into the
box of a street ear, for my fare, when
the driver was too much engaged, to
see and forbid it. Charming place that
for the impecunious, but he must be a
delegate of the southern Baptist con-
vention. It is not the habit of the
place, for money is exchanged with
peared 1
southern
right fo a foil share of the glories
which encircle the Fourth of July.
But we yet have to chronicle one of
the most pleasant incidents of the day.
Upon the invitation of Messrs. Grove
& Waist, quite a number of ladies and
gentlemen assembled at their new fac-
tory bi examine their splendid ma-
chinery, and witness the ‘‘christening"
of their new engine. Every part of the
machinery was successively put in mo-
tion, and enough work done to illus-
trate the grand benefits to grow out of
such an establishment. This being
made the following speech: Bgc
LADNSAND GENTLENEN—By request
of Mears. Grove & Waitt, proprietors
*
And thereupon, in accordance with
‘a time-honored custom, Miss Mattie
broke the historic bottle of wine over
the ob ect of dedication.
Then followed lemonade, refresh-
manylcompliment. to the worthy pro-
prietors, and the acknowledgments of
Captain Adams for the honor conferred
on his child in the name bestowed,
upon which Captain Grove modestly
referred to the aid they had received
from Mean, Adams * Leonard in y-espuie neuee any-un - p-cuee
starting their enterprise last, fall or the bill has produced a favorable
Mert. Burford, Cabell, Gay, Mellershi, effect upon business circles. The
Obenthain, H.A. McConnell, Dr. Sizer, long prevailing feeling of depression
Brown, and others added their approy-Thms given way to confidence that we
ing. Jolees to the noble enterprise have reached the point for a new de-
which we come together to eeletrateyparture, which will lift the material in-
and the ladies manifested their pleas sterents of the country out of the slough
are Renouncing wo* and apprev- Lof despond in which they have been
ing smiles.floundering ever since the panle of
At i more convenient season wel September. The fixing of the legal
will describe the works and their ca- 11-- - 2
parity for dispatching business. 1
Since writing the above, we learn of
nothi-r o t-ervane of thedey in x ple-jord. ...: Tw the E
nie of several hundred Indies and gen-
themen on the place of Captain James or uncertainty, a freer and more eons-
Horton, six miles west of town, where nt movement must follow. •
everything went off in manner worthy -----------
of the day which gave liberty to. Tun Fovnro IN NEW OnL.nAwn.
Am. we would remind The Picayune of Tuesday, the moth
be no deviation. * - *A runlimWadt -H nuult, published a heavy sensational ar-
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its conductors have to occupy sears prior to our removal to Texas in Jeldek A. M.on the day. Next time I12 the day
C. The fit af 1872. we were engaged in 1 they must advertise their intentions,ePPeMn eN
and give their ilendhe notice. Wegthae one ten manou aw an
to the writer -HEE ! right necord-d to the whites Their
* PAPP “scheme was to parade the streetsarmed
changes that are transpiring in northern
Texas, as a consequence of the immense
in from all quarter* of the union and the
almost fabulous improvement that is
witnessed on every hand, it is
our purpose to keep Tax * • ************ 0,277
the van of the march of progress and emorts
to bend ita every energy and influence of WAS * *
to the advancement of the welfare and
prosperity of the state.
JOHN HENRY BROWN.
SALUTATORY.
1J The editorial department will be un-
tor rhroekmorion. " Iler the "IAINRRIRON" of Major EC
“peetni-tlpateh to the Dallas Meraid.1
Meltissay, Texas, July 6.—Cook 1
mounts fires the first gun. At the
county convention, on the Fourth,
delegates to Fort Worth were instruct-
ed to go solid for Thr ockmorton. The
meeting was one of the largest ever
helt to the county. M.
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THE DALLAS TURN VEREEN
This institution, under the laws of
the state, has just received its charter
and in a short time will thoroughly or-
win Ms exporate body. They
.inol.ceulnee temporary
ball. As we shall soon give a full
statement of the origin, rise, progress
and objects of this peculiar institution
of the German people, we will only
my, for the present, that its scope is
wide. I it covers the field of literature,
social improvement, benevolence, gym-
aa-tie development, and the eultiva-
- tion of those graces which go to make
up a well developed man,]physically
" and intellectually.
The society will have on hand a li-
hrary of German literature, and a file
of current standard newspapers in the
“
The law as it now stands legalizes
the issue of $20,000,000 of reserve legal
tenders ordered by President Grant
last September during the panic, and
by thus fixing the volume of legal ten-
ders at $382,000,000, gives stability to
trade and takes away from the treasury
department the power of contracting
or expanding the money market when-:
ever it may be so minded. The bill
further provides for the withdrawal of
$54,000,000 of national bank currency
from those states that have more than
their due share, and for its redistribu-
tion among those states which have
less than their share. Both of these
are most salutary provisions, and un-
der the last one there is no reason why
the west and south should not have
rary backset."
This a forcible illustration of the old
adage that a person must go away from
home to get the news of his own
neighborhood. We there. e.MCt Lin/vonoe rapidity in omen new towns
aware that we were takings k-t” Dulins is one of the Texas mushrooms.
The fact only dwells in the provincial
imagination of our small cotemporary.
as to sudden growth, though there the
comparison ends, for it is to be, so the
mayor told us, the metropolis of Texas.
A growth of from twent y-two hundred
to fifteen thousand inhabitants in two
snake a citizen
A man named Lawrence was ma
over by the mail train, one mile west of
Flatonia, and instantly killed, on the ,„..„— - ---------
evening of the 4th instant. He was of talk of hyperbole, expsrinity it he be
prepossessing appearance and about *---H line merein isle weal eathte so din
seventeen years of age.
years is calculated to
MasE BALL.
Saturday. Sunday. Monday and She’s
all Up.
Custom has rendered it imperative
■ — _ ----------.---that an editor upon taking his seat in
McLURE, formerly a citizen of Souththe editorial ehair should address his
Carolina, from which state he moved readers hi what to called a salutatory,
to Dallas in the year 1873. Mr. MeLare Webster defines salutatory to to
was the editor of the Chester Reporter, “speaking a welcome:" “an address
one of the leading democratic papers of welcome.”.. In this view, there
of his native state, for five years im-would be more in it if the salutatory
mediately preceding his removal to was addressed by the readers of the
Texas. paper to the incoming editor. Asused
The local department of the paper by the editorial fraternity, we under-
will be continued under the editorial stand the word to mean an introdue-
control of Mr. J. N. Bartholow. ton; that is, that the salutatory i to
Our job office to as well bear the same relation to the editor’s
equipped with job type and all ′ future work that the author’s introdue:
other necessary material as any office tion bears to the volume of which it
in the state of Texas, and we can con- forms a part. .... 3_____
ndently assure the public that we are. In this sense #t 4 *MmdPE
prepared to do all manner of job work custom; for it is due to those who are
in as good style, to as short time and expected to be the patrons of = PS”
on as reasonable terms as any office that they should to advised of the
souen or st. Louis. In addidionto this, principles and policy that are expected
we have facilities for book binding in to animate its column.
all styles, which we will undertake to Politically, our affiliation is with the
do as promptly and at as low rates as democratic party. As we are, com,
the same can be done in St. Louis and paratively unknown to the readers of
other large eltien. It is our purpose to Tun HERALD, we trust we may bepar
build up at once, to connection with doned for giving so much of * PEt
Tus noun omee, an extensive and | record: as in contained in theetetement
complete book binding establishment, that, in 1868, we were nominated Jr
m.Ttxnese conalititon the artory ordlin ma crditi ores met
edunh basis. From this rule there willeni ey Meste
be no deviation. Its enforcement is as I ensrenlonal • 1" * 17
A party of men went to the house of
a colored man named Nathaniel Bur-
ger, about twomiles south of Mexia, on
memotioloew,s.mt. wield, kinne
the latter. The assaulting party were
arrested and incarcerated.
speody relief fromtheir dearth of mon-
ey. From the almost fabulous rate of
interest that money in commanding
in north Texas, it h clear that
share of the currency. Now in the op-
portunity for her men of capital to
form banking associations, and make The “glorious Fourth” was enthusi-
provision far relieving the necessities
and assisting the enterprises of their
fellow-citizens. The well informed
I New York correspondent of the Phila-
1 delphia Ledger says that “the passage
astically celebrated to Austin by the
Hibernian association, the Travis rifles
and the German society. Patriotic
speeches were made by General Rob-
ertson. Lieutenant Governor Hubbard,
Hon. G. A. Grow, Hon. John Reagan
tender circulation at an invariable
point, will enable the merchant to say
what his goods will be worth a month
Tun St. Louis Republican proclaims
*ME*
Messnse“euoi
A no Ale eta
The Fourth opened pearly clear and
red-hot for the gentlemen of the ball
and bat. There were but few specta-
tors on the ground, but they didn’t
enthuse any; they left that for the Jolly
boys who stepped up to their work at
about three o’clock in the afternoon.
The first game was played between
one who has seen his real estate go up
six prices in as many months *
I find that the Baptists in Texas are
a prescient people, and are building
meeting houses in the new towns, and
seizing upon their advantage. Dallas
ARL Aer 4" In * the "I-bie-,” or this any, and the
Texas Central, and near the Indian
territory; while in many of the older
towns the eburches have outgrown
their old houses, and are planning for
new ones. Such men as Howard, Zealy,
Link, Weaver, Dodge and others, seem
to be awake to the fact that great re- ewgance w.ss .......---..,---
:3:2020202" ue-iyaes ment * de Tee ™ t;-
in the state, and the Baptists already -* -Th im atand *hite-
have a strong hold upon the vast com-
monwealth.,
Many of the excursionists visited
Waco, Austin and other prominent
points, and all are hearty in praise of
the liberal manner in which they were
received.
The action of the Texas railways is,
so far as we know, without a parallel,
but it is simply in consonance with a
largeness of view and heart which we
find throughout the wholedomain. The
future of Texas must be a magnificent
one. - It offers the grandest induce
ments to every one who wishes to till
tire soil, in cheap, fertile lands, acces:___
sible markets, and every promise of instances, were faulty, if not partial,
prosperity.Of course, sin goes in ad-f---T - -
vance in all these new towns. The
gross vices crop out everywhere, but
the gospel is winning its way also, and
there is, with intensity in wickedness,
also an intense and active type of
piety.
“Blue Stockings,” the latter coming
out ahead by a score of two only.
While the “BlueStoekings” played ad-
mirably and with a smoothness that
was glorious to took at, the nerve and
elegance which marked every move-
with cheers. The score stood thirty-
five for the “Blue Stockings,” to thirty-
three for the “Trinities.".
The play between the Shreveport
club and the Mutuals of this city re-
suited in a score of fifty-one for the
. ± former to five for the latter. The
tourney on Sunday evening was be
tween the Shreveport and Denison
Navasota was made a money order
office on the 6th instant.
Rev. George W. Baines, of Salado, •
young Baptist preacher of much prom-
ise, was awarded the first prize at Bay-
for University for eloquence.
Major H. H. Boone, of Navasota, is
a candidate far congress from the
fourth congressional district.
van ROVrauun CEursy arom
For July, is on our table with its ac-
customed promptness. The Cultivator,
as most of our readers know, is publish-
ed by W. L Jones, at Athens, Geor-
gia. It is now in its thirty-second
year, and as an agricultural journal
there is none in the country superior
to it and very few that are equal, its
perience of farmers in all the southern
states, and therefore it is invaluable to
every farmer who has any aspirations
to improve or elevate his calling. Our
farming friends cannot do better than
to send two dollars and get it for a
year. AddresW. L Jones, editor and
proprietor, Athene, Georgia.
nines, “the Shreveport winning by a
score ofone, the score standing
“Southerns,” of Shreveport, seventeen,
Denison sixteen. It is averred that
the rulings in this game, in one or two
but how true, we do not know.
The game played yesterday evening,
was interrupted by the rain, but when
“called,” stood Blue Stockingstwenty-
seven to Trinities nineteen.
The prises were swarded as follows:
Tw o hundred dollars to the “Southerns”
of Bbreveport, and the silver service,
being the second price, to the “ Blue
_ High nah Anrond.
From the Glasgow News.) Lat-En of Denton
In our impression of yesterday we E
chronicled a rumor to the effect that a
certain titled lady has lost £100,000 at
eearte, and that this will necessitate
the sale of a large portion of her hus-
band’s land, and the retirement of both
from the country for a few years.
Apart altogether from the moral re-
flections which naturally suggest them-
selves on the evils of gambling, such a
glaring ease as this leads one to specti
ate why the law should make the pro-
perty of a woman inviolate from her
will necessitate
Neheol Examination.
To the matter of the Dallas Herald :
Will you be so kind as to give me a
small space in your interesting columns
for the following breif mention of the
examination of the students under the •
instreution of Elder M. Carter, at Me-
Adams’academy, Dallascounty, Texas
which came off June 30th, and closed
July 3, 1874 ? n
,----=--========= ,— The school has been prosperous dur-
ausband, while a man is legally and in ing the year, averaging about sixty-
---E—K----^ - Hcoeitl. five pupils. The students were critically
and thoroughly examined in the for-
lewiooctits" Miental, third part, proc-
tical and higher. I never saw better
cures Normal grammar
was scanned interestingly.
Alge orys—Elementary algebra and
higher These exercises wereextremely
interesting. I never have seen any
that excelled them
Geography—Did not reach the other
higher branches; such an chemistry,
rhetoric, ete..
The examination was a success. 1,
regret that 1 was not able to be present
until Friday. __
Erhibition—Tlie compositions were
instructive. Speeches worn Stowe 4
eloquentin. The dialogues were pleas-
ing. Home of the compositions and
speeches pointed to the climes of ulti-
mate glory. Musie was good. Parents
and friends had smiling
seeing boys and girls acquit themselves
.ettedsredforsuch po-ergma
an their thoughts to devising ananeini the fall of, 167%
schemes to keep it afloat. This is the editing s demoouemer Am
predicament in which all those put- Ue-e Lon
lishers soon find themselves who put-eletnioom,
lch spaper on credit. The experience for the American peoile now Amnof
of the press of the United States proves M
this to be the ease. To keep Tax ever presented to them prior to theme
Hanaui in the front rank of the jour-1 rontetion* 1
nais of Texas is our determination. To that period, A
accomplish this it is necessary that we questions EHenIPC
be not embarrassed by Ananeial dineul-Since the work of reconstruction be
then. To prevent being so embarrassed gan, the imues before the country have
it is absolutely necessary that we be involved the very smudsreand st
paid promptly for our labor We hope, ence of the government
therefore, that all our friends and pa. publican party, in o-1 * —tii
trons will understand distinctly that ita ascendancy, has 4
our terms are eash for sut-eriptions, one, the distinctive a
for advertisements and for job work. Led this as a republican government
Asking credit wouldonly subject them- and is now driving on with ever accel-
***** — —— aiverand as to the pain of a refusal, erating speed to the gaol of an ine
* oh " • ***** E**oM 3597t"tLE
so sms neanunn or THE DALLas to the torle of our Government the
HERALD.: foundation stones that have been torn
Nearly nine months ago, by request away, is the mission of the democratic
party. Radicalism means imperial-
Wenerd
"moa a sals ... 2= ton .
of Texas, we claim to be second to
merimor tyranny and opposition
at the hands both of the federal gov-
from such a paper. It is ridiculous to
the extreme. Why our old friend
Famuil A. Maverick, of San Antonio,
now in the land of spirits, owned more
land than Mr. Grantand all the Grant
family, and there are five hundred
person is in Mexico and South America
who own more of the same footstool of
the Creator than any fifty men in Kan
was.
- A single estate, that of Al Jaral,
MTnnET
undred miles square, well wa-
e Republican a Texas broad horn
at. a. Missouri short horn that
enel Daniel Daley, of Dallas coun-
on the Cartwright estate of Nacre-
A, own more and better land than
-
On
Ka
2
aid
Can
T
and supplied with forty rounds of am-
owns H. HARRIS, Esq., one of the munition, and along the line of their
t citizens of this county, and a na-march to enter ice cream saloons, res-
olde__,---,---„----.-----==- — -== -1
tive of Allen county, Ky, died at his taurants, soda water stands, ete., ete..
I ”
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X
has
dence, near Lancaster, some weeks and demand the same treatment that
e. Mr. Harris was well known by was given to the white patrons of those
a and leavesa largocirele of friendsIthney were to unert their rights with
nourn his death. Mr. H. had long powder and ball, and when the
1 in failing health, was full of slaughter was once begun it was not
rs and his death was not unlooked to cease until the men were killed and
:*______. the women appropriated. It is not
limcult to imagine theexeltement and
" Pobile mobs state
sumoros, July 1—4
ne
wa-ndeednns
bare, wnthzah
..compared to choutens
bich he learned to skate
of the parties interested, I began tem-
porarily to write the editorials of THs
cit in the paper, and no understand-
ing as to even a nominal compensa-
**"
"wet: Isoal onnusinars
had no connection, that feature of the
paper bstag assy pmperty cedar the
ol show that the day
he and that no cele__..
Cel was bad. It may be possible that the
timely disclosureof the Plcayuine save
I that unfortunate i__
Lerowning horror of the age. .
tomyum
we ans 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
parsed a resolution requesting the Fort
Worth convention not to make a nom-
ination at all, but submit the matter to
the people direct, but if a nomination
was made, the delegation from Cook
wm instructed to vote solidly for Gov-
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honor bound to pay such a heavy stake
for the frivolity of his wife. This soli-
tary instance reveals a sad state of
affairs, and it is painful to think of the
domestic misery, beyond the mere loss,
which it entails. Men of honor would
hardly, under the circumstances, de-
mand or accept the payment of the
debt incurred. On the other hand,
neither could a naan of honor shrink
from meeting such a claim.
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th
Tas Hon 1 Q.
community the Fr i eaid that Judge Holt, judge ad-
ge. vocate general, to whom the president
===-=- referred the findings in the Howard
Lamar, of Miss- court of inquiry for review, has re-
(From the New York
- Yesterday was a scorcher, and the
hottest of the hot days thus far in 1874,
The Central park thermometer at sun-
rise marked 86. At o’clock the ther-
mometer stood at S, and down town
in some places it was two degrees
higher, s At s p. m. it marked 97, and
at 3.50 the instrument at Hudnut’s read
1014. In thirty minutes more beat in-
creased, and the highest point marked
in fifty years—except on the isth of
July, 18 6, was reached, namely 102
Hun, of Tuoslay.]
oil H1
1*
the
a sure
to
Writing for the Himnatp inmoments
labored under great disadvantages.
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11 be atom ===
ned the same fairly riddled and de-lhegrees Fahrentell, Tho sudering in-
kty report fro---— y -----------------
ions, of which ment. The stubborn generals on the
court could not see that the admiule
general has to come to the rescue.
fire endentwes inters "nessme
penenersnaunch. lower foil, which
relieved the suteeet
a brenthscespen.
air of "h.S
relieve
ot from the late war, but from
empt at reconstruction that 1
Antetitis
____________Jeer before I
------------ho ton’s letter there
elvil expropriation biene S’ Preeit,
the publication of Til-
was a brief sketch of
2mO"”,sins the
ose, Tin sundry ----TP---
at- of the last congress appropriates fifteen r - =7=
nd- thousand dollars to enable the seere- 9222. Mne
ith- tary of war to begin the publication of
"Iididerdandeiniederste annien.
An. Erburor in his speech on the
civil rights bill said to the republican
congressmen; “It in the deadest corpse
you ever saw, and you are all glad of
it," 1_
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roordcorudear, Goin or Thoonly crude ofunerty—rhofrm- tones, equal the wi
and confederate armies, er’s cradle. Island or iielaware.
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