The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-04-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.


against Randall for the speakership.
a Pennsylvania has lately died of
lockjsw, caused, it is asserted, by his
boot chatting his heel.
4 self-styied doctor has been fined
$500 In Sacramento for having prac-
ticed medicine without authority.
The holdrrs of centennial stock will
realize about twenty-five cents on the
dollar for their Investments.
President Bartlett, of Dartmouth, has
just received u farewell dinner at the
hands of the Chicago congl egationai
ministers.
The California millionaires number
10, says the San Francisco Argonaut,
and it publishes a directory touching
them.
They are fencing oil the Yosemite
valley, erecting harricades, building
walls. and preparing to make every
patriot pay cash down for all he sees.
An oil painting of Governor Hamp.
ton has just been sent to Germany To
be Autographed. More than 5000 copies
have already been ordered by his ad-
mirers.
Hon. Caleb Cushing, United States
York in the French steamer Labrador
and started Immediately for Boston.
a Cleveland paper reports that Sec
Rotary Sherman oilers his property in
Mansfield, Ohio, free of rent, to any
one who will keep it In order and pay
the taxes.
This is the cool and candid way in
which the London Court Journal no
| tees "a recent fashionable ball: 1.-THE
dresses were, with few exceptions
very handsome, and nearly all new"
The Southern Law Review strongly
urges William +. Cooper, of Tennes-
| see for the vacant supreme court JUS
| ticeshIp.
| A Chicago girl, fourteen years old,
| has furnished "A com ortable home and
/ bought Il piano with the money OBJ
tanned by selliug papers.
Congressman John Randolph Tucker
of Virginia, and Richard +. Bland of
/ Missouri are both nephews of John
| Randolph of Roanoke.
An Indiana physician spoke slight
ingly ola young lady acquaintance the
other day, and was promptly and Wig
Orousiy cowhided by her.
Iusktli upu-t ftiIl-
mittee has decided to hold its sessions
with closed doors. The New York
press condemn that plan.
Since the gGbernatorial adjustment
in South Carolina the value of real es-
| tate ia Charleston is said TO have ad
yanced very considerably.
Editor Watterson, of the Louisville
| Courier Journal, is to deliver a me.
mortal address over the graves of the
union soldiers buried in the National
cemetery at Nashville, Tennessee, Oh
the 3lst of May.
A man IN Philadelphia, who Is sew
enty-three years of age, mourned the
loss Of his fourth wife one month, ant
last Monday welded Tor the fifth time
The fifth wife Is q sister OF the fourth
and has herself survived three hus
bands.
Insanity, once unknown among th,
negroes, has become great and in
creasiDg affection. To relieve IL Nir
ginia has established au insane asy
. ium for negroes, said to be the onI,
one In the world, where more thar
three hundred of them are cared for.
The Empress Eugene likes to trave
|, quietly. When she left Florence latei,
, she wouldn't allow the aristocrati
DANES Of her acquaintance to accom-
pany her to the station, and she re
fused special car, preferring to TAX
the ordinary carriage.
Seven narrow guage railroads run
ming from Cincinnati in various direc
tions. nre commenced or projected
: The billy nature OF that region, give
y such roads great economical advan
tages, the cost being 5000 u mil
against 500, 600 for the broad guage.
: A fourteen. year-old boy has jus
: died in Waukesha, Visor sin, afte
u weeks struggle against a combine
: attack 81 varioioid, scarlet fsver, hen
: orrhage, typhas fever aud bilious feve
The physicians looked on astonishet
q protesting that there was not such
a case on record.
d During the progress OF the panic
!, the Philadelphia stock market on Sa
l. uriay an agent OF George Franc
p Train stood on the sidewalk opposi
E the entrance to the Stock Exchahg
}. offering that individuals paper, Il
" Greenbsck, for sale, and Justify cryir
sr the downfall of the Pennsylvania IA
IN road. This go incensed some of q
IL brokers that they caused the man
A. be arrested, and he was taken before
r. magistrate at police headquarters al
Of held In bonds of five hundred dolls
e. kssp the peace.