The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-01
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

The saloon license in Northwood,
Iowa, has been fixed at $4,000.
John Kelly is now said to be big-
ger man in New York than "old Tils
den"
Cattle thieves are making it very
warm for the stock men OF Utah aud
Idaho.
The late President Orion held insur~
ances on his life to the amount of
$50 900.
The population of Mant oba is increas.
ing NJ the rate Of about one thousand
per week
General Fremont is to take position
in railroad company, but the name of
the company is not stated.
1t takes but trifle to make woman
happy. Shoemakers discovered this
when they marked No. shoes %
There is great deal said against the
Chinese, but nobody ever accused them
Of writing spring poetry to the newspa-
pers.
Those of the Ohio republicans who
are not off at foreign consulates will
hold state convention ut Cincinnati,
June 18th.
Mr.. Moth has made his appearance
in his drab spring overcoat He cams
phor for the season, and is much sought
after by the ladies.
1t is said that President Hayes had
his belief in the bible shaken q little,
when he was informed that it was not
written by an Ohio man.
Mrs. Martha L. Hopkins of Henrico
county, Virginia, has been married. six
times in nineteen years. Several of
her husbands fell during the war.
Don Cameron's bride is buying her
wedding clothes in New York. Penn>
sylvania will shortly be calling for ad-
ditional legislation to protect home in.
dustry.
1t has been discovered that Montgom-
cry Blair has recognized Hayes by re-
commencing the appointment OF
young man as second lieutenant in tho
army.
An organ of the tobacco trade asserts
that if the tobacco consumed annually,
about four billion pounds, could be
made into roll two inches in danes
ter it would encircle the world sixty
times.
A north Mississippi man, Mr., A. II.
McAllister, has patented gun which
he claims can be fred one thousand
times minute A bill has been intro,
duced in congress appropriating $1,000
to test the gun, with view to adopting
it in the army.
Rewards amounting to 81 500 have
been offered, at Columbus, Georgia, for
the arrest of DR.. II. U. Palmer, who
murdered Colonel l.. W. Salisbury, edi,
tor of the Columbus Enquirer Sun, at
Scale, Russell county, Alabama, on the
night OF April Goth.
A certain member of congress, whose
name, for obvious reasons" is with
held from publication, was asked at q
late hour the other evening what his
views were on the tariff He replied,
with somewhat thickened utterance:
"Mydearsir, go off on tare it me u
mind to n its nobodysbizness; thems-
mysentiments."
Bishop McCoskney in person is slightly
above the medium height and rather
slender in build. He wears an ordina.
ry gentleman's street suit, and might
he taken for member of the medium
profession. His face is covered with a
tawnysh brown beard, so that the only
expression it wears is in the eyes, which
are dark, quicksmoying and expressive.
Jefferson's monument at Monticello
is in sadly dilapidsted condition.
The inscription is effaced, and the
brick wall around the grave has been
blown down. The house Of Monticello
is said to be wreck, and It is soon
to be sold under a judicial decree
Jeflerson's granddaughter is now living
in Washington, supported by the in
dustry of her daughter, who Is employ
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