The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-11-14


of art.
Vice President Wilson sees Bood W
the radical party In the late crushing
defeat. This Is cold comfort, never
theless.
The republican majority IN Phli-
odelpbia was only 1898 against 25,4ll
last year.
There were one hundred and ninety
six cases of diptheria In New YORK
last week.
Twenty-four years haveelapsed since
the democracy of Massachusetts elected
a candidate.
Four hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars worth of canaries are annually sold
in New York.
The cutting of the telegraph wires by
Hodgson is to be fully investigated by
General Emory.
Mr.. Bryant, mail rider from Hot
Springs to Fort Smith, was fired upon
lately, hut not hurt.
Brocky Bill, the town desparado of
Little Rock, will not die. He is merely
laid up with wound.
Rev. Theodore Holly, d. d., colored
bishop of Hayti, was consecrated In
Grace church, New York, Oh Sunday.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has donated five
hundred and eighty-siX dollars to the
Church Home for orphans of Mem
phis.
Charles P. Daniel, member of the
st. Louis bar, was consecrated to the
Baptist ministry last Sunday in st.
Louis.
A naval officers daughter has bewil-
dered ]. G. Bennett, the Herald man.
Another marriage in "high life" Of
course.
In Georgia the house stands, white
radicals, four; heroes, three; conserva-
tives, ~; democrats, one hundred and
fifty-nine.
General J. G. Walker, ofTexas, chief
of the emigration Bureau of rhe Texas
and Pacific railway. company, was in
st. Louis on the Sth.
Colonel l.. ]. DuPre has disposed of
his interest in the Memphis Appeal to
Mr.. Felix M. Jones, son of the late
Governor T. c. Jones. of Tennessee.
Marcus Clarke is the new novelist
who is to be the coming novelist.
Australia claims him. Natural Life"
is the first specimen of his work yet
turned out.
The Virginia immigration conven-
ton has decided that the most success
full plan of promoting emigration is by
locating settlers in colonies.
Miss frankie Christie, the ballet
dancer, who married the son of Adj
miral Jenkins, of the United States
navy, is dancing at Deagle's theater
in st. Louis.
The congress of German Hygiene
has just ended, in Breslau. A sad state
of affairs in the factories was revealed.
Seventy-eight hours week is the
average of work.
That party made up to dig gold out
of Custer's Black Hillsare not proceed
ing very far into the bowels of that
new land of gold. The "Red Man of
the Forest" objects.
The New York Times think of it y
is gratified to know the next house of
representatives will be democratic.
All this after being Grant organ so
long.
Charlotte Cushman, the greatest liv-
ing American actress, has, at last,
made her last appearance on the stage
before an immense audience in New
York, as "Lady Macbeth"
A wealthy gentleman of New York
has offered Bishop Quintard to build
a university for the south at Sewanee,
Tennessee, equal to the one at Prince
ton. The offer has been accepted.
She was sixty-sevcn. He was young
She feign would have married him.
The thing was impossible. Bed bug
poison for one. The aged one settled
the dilemma. All this in Santa Rosa,
California.
In Paris the dear creatures carry a
little mirror, some ivory tablets, tur-
nip watch, an umbrella, a pocketbook,
a card case, a fan and an aims bag,
hanging to their belts. Now, where do
they hang the scalps they take?
Thompson, who beat Butler, is all
right. He says, ~ stand now as no
politician. / am rot the servant of
the democratic party. shall advocate
those measures and only those meas
ures which are for the common good"
The committee of seventy of New |
Orleans send strong protest to the
president, deprecating the further pres
ence of United States troops in Louis
lana. They say the conservative party |
will have clear majority in the next
legislature on joint ballot.
The day after the disappearance of
Father Gerderan from Philadelphia,
Bishop Wood received letter from
him saying that he had left the Catho-
lie church because he could not believe
in the infallibility of the Pope, and said
his debts had overwhelmed him.
The New Orleans Picayune of the 9th
says: "The question of selling cotton
by tare, or, in other words, selling
bale of cotton for the raw material it
contains, and making a proper allow
ance for the tagging and ties, which
are of no use to the manufacturer, is
becoming agitated in all the principal
cotton markets of this country"
W.. C.. Watts & Co., of Liverpool, in
their cotton circular of October 23d,
say that the immediate future course