The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-03-18
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The size Of the lockcts Worn by In.
dies steadily increases,
Chicago claims II population Of
49, 00O-belore strangers,
Sumner says that Schur2's late speech
was the speech Of his life,
More than 100000 votes were cast
In the late election in Great Britain.
In Utah, u 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 Il 2oologl-
cal garden.
Iceland celebrates this year, the
thousandth anniversary Of her settle
ment by the Norsemen.
That indefatlgable 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
$4,000.
The Hon. Fernando Wood never
plays poker; 1t 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 as to become hopelessly
i'll,
Madame MacMahon 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 n young man of five years.
The recent high-life wedding at
Keokuk, was January and June af-
fnir-thc groom, Henry Clews Of New
York, being fifty-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 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 a young lady who person.
ated Nicotine. Her dress was made of
tobacco leaves, her necklace was cigars,
and she carried 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-
AIRY, when justice required that rope
should have been his portion.
1t has been ascertained that Will
den, 50 mysteriously murdered near IN
dependence a 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.
The Ohio campaign provokes some
grand exhibitions of ''sacred fire." The
Immortal Lewis telegraphs to WOr-
cester, Massachusetts, from the scene
of strife: "Fifty times day l thank
God that l have lived to see this grand
uprising of my countrywomen." And
it may be doubted whether theIe is
another man i'm this broad christian
land who delivers himself at the rate
of eighteen Thousand two hundred
and fifty thanks per annum.-[Brook-
Ign Argus.
The appointment of Sam Bard to the
postmastership of Atlanta was the
cause of administrative joy in Chatta-
nooga. The Times says: "Chatta-
nooga has held more genuine, unde-
filed happiness during the past thirty
hours than any town of equal size on
the continent, The occasion for this
rejoicing was aptly and pointedly ex-
planned by Wilkinson thus: Gentle
men, we are just happy because Sam
bard is no longer slashing round. He's
been confirmed postmaster of Atlanta,
and we're all safe.'n