The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-03-21
News Items.

The size of the lOckets worn by Ia
dies steadily increases.
Chicago claims n population Of
i30, ,00O-beiore strangers.
Sumner says that tSchurz's late speech
was the speech of his life.
More than 100000 votes were cast
in the late election in Great Britain.
In Utah, n criminal condemned to
death may chose whether he will be
shot or hanged.
Mrs. Langdon, widow of Walter
Langdon, and daughter of the late John
Jacob Astor, died at Nice, France.
New England contains upward of
four hundred priests, and nearly
| 100000 of Catholics.
Philadelphia has raised $4,000 to-
wards the establishment of Zoologi-
cal garden.
Iceland celebrates this year, the
thousandth anniversary of her settle
ment by the Norsemen.
That indefatigable writer and tourist,
the Grand Duke Alexis, has got out
his second volume on America.
Marshal MacMahon, president of the
French republic, supports himself and
family upon an annual salary of
$l20,000.
The Hon. Fernando Wood never
plays poker; it is his brother, the Hon.
Ben. Wood, who is the great expert
New York Sun,
Andrew Boyle, the family retainer of
the Tichbornes, and strong witness
for the claimant, has been so affected
by the verdict rs to become hopelessly
iii.
Madame MacNIahon has received
$4,000 from NJ. De Bronsse, the pro-
prietor of Paris journal, for the bene-
fit of the poor of that city.
Aim Jah, prince of Arcot, who suf-
fered great reverses of fortune, and had
long disputes with the once powerful
East India company, is dead.
The youngest living English peer is
Lord Germantown. His lordship is one
year old. Sir Arthur Victor Rumbold,
baronet, is young man of five years.
The recent high-life wedding ut
Keoliuk, was n January and June af-
fair--the groom, Henry Clews of New
York, being fllty-one years old, and
the bride but nineteen.
A Kentucky paper apologies for
having spoken of "the red-headed,
malignant mule who dispenses the
county money! by saying that it
wrote, "Big-hearted, valiant soul"
The coal famine in England is now
almost at an end, as prices are rapidly
attaining their normal level. Sixteen
shillings per ton may be mentioned as
| the price of good coal.
Out of five children which composed
the family of John Jacob Astor only
one remains. This is William b. AS
tor, who is now upwards of eighty.
EX-Deputy Sheriff Conklin, convict
ed of stealing three five thousand gold
certificates from one Croft, of Virginia,
has been sent to the New York state
prison for five years.
The annual income of Trinity church,
New York, is about half q million dol
lars. Its entire property is estimated
by the members to be worth from seven
to eight million dollars. Outsiders set
the amount much higher.
A San Francisco masked ball was
attended by u young lady who person.
ated Nicotine. Her dress was made of
tobacco leaves, her necklace was cigars,
and she carried II fan and parasol con-
structed of the weed.
A special from Springfield, Illinois,
to the Globe says: John Gavin, who
pounded to death one Gillespie, last
fall in drunken fracas, was convicted
yesterday of manslaughter, and given
eleven years in the Illinois penitenti-
ary, when justice required that a rope
should have been his portion.
1t has been ascertained that Will
den, so mysteriously murdered near In
dependence few days ago, was de-
tective on the track of Younger and
the James boys. In conversation with
a banker of Liberty he let out the fact
and lived to get to the neighborhood
where the boys were raised.
In consequence of the unusually
abundent supply ofwater in California,
the production of gold and silver prom
ises to be unusually large. The increase
in the precious metals involves an in
creased demand for quicksilver, the
price of which is now quite oppressive
to the miners, having advanced ten
per cent per pound.