The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-11-06
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The acreage spwn IN wheat in HE
central counties NJ Illinois u larger
this year than ever before
Hon, Joseph Medlll, one ~ the orig
lnal founders, has bought controlling
interest Ia tho Chicago Tribune
l'llsburg Il said 10 be threatened
with disaster through the existence .pl
fire IN u vein Of coal underlying The
city
The newly discovered lead deposits
la Criilenden county, Kentucky
promise " he The richest In tho United
States,
IlIchmond Enquirer "Murrell and
hln gang used 10 DO the terror ~ norlh
Louisiana, but Low u 10 Merrlll alll
his gang"
Ten thousand people In Nebraska are
| In danger Of rVailOn-'lhplr crops
having heen entirely destroyed NY The
grasshopperH'
Aeyeuly.liye ladies Of llpehesler are
ont In u card denying that They sleep
IN their cOreels IN order 10 Keep lhelI
forms graceful
The Protestant Episcopal oonyen'
| tl0n which Inns been IN session lil New
York for some weeks past adjourned
on the ri Instant
Mrs James Knox Polk, widow Of
the tenth president ~ the United
Slpler, lives in IN old fashioned man
sion IN Nashville. Tenn.
The Cincinnati Enquirer suys that
the present indications nfo TINT the
pnwlihrokcrs' business VIII be unusu-
ally llourlshlng this winter
Governor LeslIe,of Kentucky, Inns Of
fcrod nine thousand dollars reward for
the parties who shot the young negro
girl near Shclbyyllle, n fortnight ago.
Rev q. Lansing Burrows has re-
signed the pnsl0rutc Of the first baptist
church of Richmond, Virginia. ana ne
copied u call to Louisville, Kentucky
The Supreme court Of indiana has
decided the ninth section Of the Baxter
law, the section TINT makes drunk
enness punishable offence, lineonstl-
tuil0nnl.
AT tho last term OF Washington, IN,
O. court, damages la the sum Of SlO,-
OOl were recovered from IknOch Baxter
for injuries inflicted on boy whom he
had beaten.
Cardinal Cullcn aud the entire Cath.
ollie llpIHcopnto have issued pastoral
letters denOlncing the address Of Pro.
iessor Tyndnll, NJ Belfast w u revival
of P0ganism.
The New York World says that there
are ninety thousand people In that
city now out of employment, and with
very little lilkeli hood Of getting any
Till next spring.
The old iron mine at Salisbury, Con-
ncclicut, that has been worked for one
hundred and fifty years, recently de-
clared dividend Of one hundred aud
fifteen per cent.
New York Is great state. In his
recent speech, in Brooklyn, Senator
COnkling claimed that she had one
eleventh OF the population of the Uni
ted States, and paid one-third OF the
entire taxes of the government.
A new fashionable hotel, capable of
accommodating five hundred guests,
Is being built at ST. Augustine, Florida,
one Of the most frequented of southern
winter resorts William B. Astor, of
New York, is largely interested in II.
A massive Scotch granite monument
is to be placed over the grave Of the
Rev. DR., Robert G. Breckenridge, Mt
Lexington, Kentucky. The purchase
was made by his son, Colonel w. &. =,
Breckenridge, aud his son-in.law, w.
War6old.
A census lately completed by the lo-
cal authorities in Minnesota gives S52-
600 rs the present population Of the
state, and rates the taxable value of all
property within its borders ut S2l7 ,0O0,-
600, an average of "a fraction over 1898
to each nhabilant.
George ii. KingsbeIry, assistant re-
ceiving teller of the National bank of
redemption, of Boston, has been ar
rested, charged with embezzling thir-
ty-one thousand dollars of the banks
funds In the last two years. He has
returned twenty thousand dollars.
Cattle drovers tried to drive a drove
of cattle across the Macon and Bruins
wick railroad, the other day, as the
down train was approaching. Result
fifty feet of road torn up, thirty-eight
head of cattle killed, five ears smash
ed, and the engineer and fireman
slightly bruised.
A Salt Lake City journal relates that
u citizen of that place, while digging
his turnip5, had his attention directed
to one m0nstrous turnip by reason of II
slight motion, observable while the
turnip was lying on the ground. On
cutting it open u good sized frog
jumped out and hoped off.
Macon (Miss.) Beacon 'In the cir
cult court, for making II few remarks
to the Esliridge jury, calculated to in
iluence them in their decision, II. j.
Reed was fined two hundred dollars
and imprisoned ten days in the county
Jail. Reed is magistrate, and Judge
Orr presumed he should have known
better.n
The railroad conductors convention
was in session in st. Louis last week.
What was known as the disability
clause of the constitution was adopted
in such form rs to allow members to
insure against death, disability, or
both, as they may select, but insurance
against one does not cover the other.
J. W. Seymour was elected president
for the ensuing year.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer "One
cotton buyer offered countryman 1873
cents for his cotton, which was refused.
Another came along and offered 1871
cents, and IL was accepted. A friend
whispered to the owner of the cotton