The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-05-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The st, Louis Republican comes out
against Randall for the speakership.
\ Pennsylvania has lately died Of
lockj jaw, caused, it is asserted, 10y his
boot challng his heel.
A sclf-styled doctor has been fined
$500 in Sacramento for having prac-
ticed medicine without authority,
The holders Of centennial stock will
realize about twenty-five cents on the
dollar for their Investments.
President Bartlett, of Dartmouth, has
just received Il farewell dinner NJ the
hands of the Chicago Congl egatioual
ministers.
The California miliOnaires number
10, says the San Francisco Argonaut,
and it publishes II directory touching
them.
They are fencing Oft the Yosemite
valley, erecting barriCades, 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 10y his ad-
mirers.
Hon. Caleb Cushing, United States
minister to Spain, returned to New
York in the French steamer Labrador
and started Immediately for Boston.
a Cleveland paper reports that Sec
retary Sherman offers his property in
Mansfield, Ohio, free of rent, to any
one who will keep ii In order and pay
the taxes.
This is the cool and candid way in
which the London Court Journal no
tices recent fashionable ball: "The
dresses were, with few exceptions
very handsome, and nearly all new"
The Southern Law Review strongly
urges William f. Cooper, of Tennes-
see for the vacant supreme court JUS
ticeship.
A Chicago girl, fourteen years old,
has furnished comfortable home and
bought piano with the money OBJ
taiued by selling papers.
Congressman John Randolph Tucker
of Virginia, and Richard p. Bland of
Missouri are both nephews of John
Randolph of Roanoke.
An Indiana physician spoke slight
ingly of young lady acquaintance the
other day, and WAS promptly and Wig
orously cowhided by her.
The New York custom house COM
mittec has decided to hold its sessions
with closed doors. The New York
press condemn that plan,
Since the gubernatorlal adjustment
in South Carolina the value of real es-
tate in Charleston is said to have adj
yanced very considerably.
Editor Watterson, OF the Louisville
Courier Journal, Is TO deliver n me-
mortal address over the graves of the
union soldiers buried in the National
cemetery at Nashville, Tennessee, on
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, and |
last Monday welded Tor the fifth time. |
The fifth wife il n sister Of the fourth, |
and has herself survived three hus-
bands.
Insanity, once unknown among the |
negroes, has become great and in- |
creasing afiliction. To relieve it Nir-
piuia has established an insane asy-
lum for negroes, said-tO be the only |
one in the world, where more than |
three hundred Of them are cared for.
The Empress Eugene likes to travel
h. I..F L'tnrnnna lutaiu |
she wouldn't allow the aristocratic
danes of her acquaintance to accom-
pany her to the station, and she re-
fused special car, preferring to take
the ordinary carriage.
Seven narrow guage railroads run
ming from Cincinnati in various direc-
tions. are commenced or projected.
The billy nature of that region, gives
such roads great economical advsn.
tages, the cost being Sl5,OOO a mile
against $50, 900 for the broad guage.
A fourteen. year-old boy has just
died i'm Waukesha, WlscoL sin, after
A weeks struggle against a combined
attack Ct variOloid, scarlet fever, hem
orrhage. typhus fever aud bilious fever.
THE musicians looked on astOnished,
nrotesling that there was not such a
case on record.
During the progress Of the panic in
the Philadelphia stock market on Sat
nrdav mn agent of George Francis
Train stood on the sidewalk opposite |
The entrance to the Stock Exchange,
offering that individuals paper, the
Greenback, for sale, and Justify crying
The downfall oil the Pennsylvania rail-
road. This so ineeDsed some OF the
brokars that they caused the man To |
be arrested, and he was taken before
magistrate at police headquarters and
held in bonds of five hundred dollars