The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-20
! VOL. Iy.-NO. 277


~, Tennessee, Is twenty one years OF
age, thirty nine inches Ia height, and
weighs only thirty.four pounds.
The foreign nobility believe that the
explanation OF our present political
difficulty IL the fondness we have
always entertained for bogus counts.
Augustus o. Bacon, speaker Of the
Georgia house, Is lawyer and during
the war was adjutant OF the Eighth
Georgia regiment In Hoods division.
The refugees Of the commune resi-
dent In Paris are arranging to hold
grand entertainment, March Is, for the
benefit of the New Caledonia convicts.
A beverage made from the leaf OF the
cofiee.shrub, instead Of from the berry,
has lately been introduced into Austria.
liza, and is said to be superior to ordi-
nary coffee.
Mr.. j. II. ("Lucky') Baldwin has
bought In San Francisco lot with q
frontage OF 1877 feet on Market street,
for $4,000, on which he proposes to
build u grand market place.
A well-dressed middle-aged man en-
tered Thlre avenue car, announced
himself as John the Baptist and sent
to New York to proclaim the second
coming Of Christ
General Robert Edward Lees monu.
ment seems to be now thing assured.
The treasurer of the monument associa-
ton reports that he has in hand In
cash and estimated assets the sum Of
Sl4, 093 81.
Senator ,Goldthwaite, OF Alabama,
is absent-minded TO an alarming ex-
tent. The other day he took brothers.
overcoat with S., 500 In the pocket. Be-
ing Democrat Mr.. Golthwaite return
ed 1t.
The Boston school committee Is look
ing after ftmale teacher who whips
on an average, two Of her pupils per
day, not exempting little things of six
or seven years.
The New Hampshire politicians are
preparing for fierce struggle next
March, as the three Congressman to DO
elected then may make the next House
OF Representatives closer than II is
now.
Gold is now the currency Of the tea
and coffee trade at New York, and the
Evening Post urges that demand be
created for gold by extending Its mer-
camille use to the cotton and produce
trades.
Baron Won Mandorfi, the editor of
the Austrian journal Vaterland, has
been sent to Jail for four months for
publishing an article abusing the Jews
of Austria.
The United States steamship Enter
prise has been taken out Of the con.
tractors hands ut the Charleston navy
yards, and will be Immediately fitted
for sea under the direction Of the COM
mander of the yard.
Memphis, Natchez and many other
places soRth of Cairo are complaining
Of the scarcity and high price Of coal.
At New Orleans the price per box to
city consumers has advanced to
seventy five cents.
The fashionable shade of hair JUS
now is the red gold tint called Titan
red, and bellies are not wanting who
dye their locks this once unpopular
color which caprice of fashion has
brought to the height lof public favor.
Miss Carrie May is slightly above
medium height, of rather delicate
physique. She appeared much smaller
than she really was as she walked gay
ly along Fifth Avenue by the side Of
her stalwart lover, or sat beside him AZ
he drove his fourth hand through the
park.
The United States commissioner OF
fisheries has lately sCnt to San Fran
cisco 100000 white fish eggs, half Of
which are for shipment to New
Zealand, the remainder to be used In
stocking California waters. The eggs
ame from Worthwhile, Michigan.
"For this terrible muss no woman
is to blame" Even SO, Mrs. Stanton,
but IL must have been bad lot Of
mothers that brought into the world
such fellows as Kellogg u Company,
Wells & Company, and Stearns d
Company.
The Savannah News IL not an adj
mirer of Ben Hill, aud therefore OPP
poses his election to the Senate. 1t
condemns his course as "tortuous and
inconsistent" and says: "The trouble
with Mr.. Hill Is that in matters of
principle and political policy you can't
always find him."
The production of pig iron In France
fell from 726, $50 tons In 1875 to 726, 2OS
last year; wrought iron decreased from
ssl, 1888 tons to 37S.399; sheet iron in
creased from 53,5S4 tons to $3.50 the
production of steel fell from l37,950
tons to IL, 755, and that Of cast steel
rose from 3,4S4 to 4,075.
The pure.minded editors of the Gin
cinnati Commercial and Enquirer are
again exchanging choice epithets over
imaginary wrongs which eacn re-
ceived from the other. The last issue
Of the Commercial received at this
Office locates "the blackguards OF the
I .I.vs. At