The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-01-27

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menorslized by the legal fraternity to
increase the salsry of district judges
from s., 500 to $500.
The Iron Age says that paper car
wheels have run over 500, 600 miles and
promise to last one or two thousand
more without a new set of tires.
Lord Teynham, lead er of fashion
in London, recently en- tertained twenty
cabmen at dinner in that city,
presented each with a book.
Nicholas Pearson, of Hawkins couu-
ty, Tennessee, is twenty one years of
age, thirty nine inches in height, and
weighs only thirty-four pounds.
The foreign nobility believe that the
explanation of our present political
difficulty u the fondness we have
always entertained for bogus counts.
Augustus O. Bacon, speaker Of the
Georgia house, is q lawyer and during
the war was adjuiant OF the Eighth
Georgia regiment in Hoods division.
The refugees of the commSne resi-
dent in Paris are arranging to hold a
grand entertainment, March Is. for the
benefit OF the New Caledonia convicts.
y beverage made from the leaf of the
cOiiee.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. +. ('Luckyn) Baldwin has
bought in San Francisco lot with a
frontage OF 1877 feet on Market street,
for S215, 900, on which he proposes to
build Grand market place.
a well-dressed middle-aged man en-
tered Thire avenue car, announced
himself a. John the Baptist and sent
to New York to proclaim the second
coming of Christ.
II is reported, now, that the amount
Of wadding picked up on the Bennett
May duelling ground was so great that
a reasonable doubt arises as To wheth-
er there could have remained room
enough 10 the pistols for bullets.
General Robert Edward Lees monu-
ment seems to be now n thing assured.
The teasurer of the monument associa-
ton reports that he has in hand In
cash and estimated assets the sum of
Sli,993 81.
Senator .Goldthwaite, of Alabama,
is absent-minded TO an alarming ex-
tent. The other day he took brothers
oyereoss with s., 800 In the pocket. Be-
ing Democrat Mr.. Golthwaite return
ed II.
The Boston school committee is look
ing after a Il male 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 a fierce struggle next
March, as the three Congressman to be
elected then may make the next House
OF Representatives closer than 1t lie
now.
Gold is now the currency of the tea
and coffee trade ut New York, aud the
Evening Post urges TINT demand be
created for gold by extending Its mer-
camille use to the cotton aud produce
trades.
Baron Won Mandorff, 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 cut of the con-
tractors hands at the Charleston navy
yards. and viii he Immediately fitted
/ tor sea under the direction of the COM
mander of the yard.
Memphis, Natchez and many other
! places south 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 cents.
I The fashionable shade OF hair lus
now is the red gold tint called Titan
red, and bellies are not wanting who
dye their locks this once unpopular
co.or which caprice of fashion has
brought to the height sof public favor.
Miss Carrie May Is slightly above
medium height, of rather delicate
physique. She appeared much smalie
! than she really was as she walked gay
i Iy along Fifth Avenue by the side OF
her stslwart lover, or sat beside him az
be drove his four-in-hsnd. through the
park
The United States commissioner Of
fisheries has lately sent to San Fran
cisco 250.oo0 white fish eggs, half of
which are for shipment to New
Zealand, the remainder to be used In
stocking California waters. The eggs
came from Worthwhile, Michigan.
For this terrible muss no woman
10 to blame" Even no, Mrs. stanton,
but II must have been . bad lot Of
mothers that brought into the world
such fellows as Kellogg d Company,
Wells q Company, and stearns 4
Company.
The Savannah News is nor an adj.
mirer Of Ben Hill, and therefore op-
poses his election to the Senate. II
condemns hin course as ''tortuous and
Inconsistent and says. THE trouble
with Mr.. Hill h that In matters OF
psinsdple and political policy you can't
"ways Ind him.
ne Ansrican Pullnan sar h CON.
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