The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-18
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% NEWS NOTES.
With very rare exceptions western farmers
nov prefertwine to wire for binding grain.
Sharks are said to be plentiful In the river
| about Hampton, Va. large one was cauSht
at the Soldiers Home there, on Sunday
At the recent Wesleyan conference in Liver
pool IL was shown that the total number of
church members in Great Britain was $50, 605.
| A deaf mute at Raleigh, N. c., has invented
| hat fan, which turns on the inside OF d nat,
| and Is said TO keep the head as COOL as d
| cucumber.
| market for the sale of toads ls held every
week In Paris Gardeners buy them to put in
| their gardens 10 destroy Insects. They Drlng
about fifteen dollars per hundetd.
| Farmers in many sections of North Carolina
who have heretofore hoped for ut least a
third ofa crop of corn and tobacco now des-
pair of even that, as the drouth continues I'M
relieved.
Charles Kolb and his cousin, Miss Koib,
| were drowned early last week while trying to
| cross the Monocacy river, near Frederick City,
] Md The stream was much swollen by recent
rains.
During the last fifteen years of slavery the
south raised 1856, Sol bales Of cotton. During
the first fifteen years of freedom, that Is from
1875 to 1880, the number OF bales produced was
58,t3s, 1856.
Mississippi county, Missouri. is the great
/
thousand acres are this year devoted to water
melons alone, and the yield Is about car
load an acre.
The patent clay pigeon, which has proved 30
successful since It's introduction as q substitute
for live birds. is beginning to attract the at
tention of sportsInen In England as well as on
the continent.
A Young man of twenty four as married his
aunt, aged thirty-eigbt. In Buffalo, and Judge
Lewis, of the II unicipal court, who performed
the ceremony, tells complainant that there ID
no law of the state forbiddlng 1t.
The screenings ofhard coal are now mixed
with small amount of fine soft coal and coal
to- =, and pressed into pieces about the Size OF
eggs In this form they kindle easier than
ordinary hard coal, and are preferred fortburn-
Ing In an open CRATE.
! william Berry. of Cincinnati. was engaged
to marry the widow, Newkirk, ana the day
| appointed for tho Weddi1g was close at hand. !.
Mrs. Newkirks daughter Clara came nome
from conveut-schOoi to witness the ceremo-
ny. UIara had all of her mothers character
istcs and the additional charm OF youth.
The sclertils American has o cut and des-
eription of nay rick which is also used as
q shelter for stock. Itconsists OF TWO square
inclosureslwith . rNtsagr ay between .theiA'
which is covered by o peaked roof, the hay be-
ing piacsd in tho F""c~s Tins enclosed, and
upon the rafterb. c. r.A-. Up as hlgn US
4 necessary.
-.of6O, 900 acres:deyoted to tfe gIywth of hops
IA, this country, according, 10 tho New York
state census of 1875, Otseg0N county, had 1870
acres, Oneida 5000, ard Madison 555, making
in all 90. ll2 acres. These figures have not ma.
terlally changed since that Time. Ihe aneua'
value OF the crop in these three counties l.
over 100000.
An Iowa farmer gives this meshod oide-
stroyiLg cabbage wormsHJake OF saltpetre
aud common salt each a taolSspo nful, dis
sol We in a llttlo hot water, anoIwelve quar- 8
OF cold water. Apply tothe cabbages In the
heat Of the day when the sup shines. II you
apply with good sprinkler and do your work
thoroughly one application VIII D. So u client
w, W Goodale, of Broohfield, Mo-, cged7
Ia faid to be the oldest locomotive engineer In
the United Sta go. He was steamboat en-
gineer on Lake Erie In 1881, and began run
Ming locomotive engine on The baltimofe
and Ohio railroad In 1884. be afterward
| worked on diff rent roads, intending the Nor
| wich and Worcester, I'm 1916, and was once sent
| to Chill in charge or some engines.
\ A woman exhorter among the negroes of
Georgia wears on her head O halo Of FURNISHED
brass, which shs says was given 10 her by an
angel, VINO appeared 70 hsr as q reward for
superlatiys piety, and ~ the only one ever
Its possession, che claims, gives her miracu-
luus power over diseases, aud enables her 10
intercede efiectually for sinners
william Tyler, a tramp, was arrested Ia
New YorK the other day for stealing Loaf OF
bread from the basement of a house on Sew
eutx -eighth street. The bread was Inside the
grating door, aud the tramp hooked IL with a
long Niece OF wire. He had with him long
reed and an ordinary table knife. With the
reed be is said TO suck milk from pals inside
grated d Sors and the knife he usne 10 cut bread
when he gets 4 as taT s as tne "a aoor. 4,, n,,u-
ioo al RS manufacturer, who died at baltimore
a few DAYS ago, has been admitted into pro-
bate ia tls Baltimore county court ano in IN
bequeathing all his properly, estimated 70 be
worth severL million dollars, TO his ltrge
family about equally, he place, Ine p sun ss.sd Q,
the will In case OF litigation.
TIE cImarron (Kansas) News has found q
4 new ard unexpected peril In the use OF Derped
wire fences, and that is, thst they act ts Ieht,
ming conductors. The News Instances several
I cases or cattle that have been killed BY light
4 ming while sanding near such ieDces In
/ storm and the case Of farmer who received
s,mpiv hooking the wires 70 The posts. The
| remedy eungrsfed ts N use only wooden gates,
/ and 20 MARE frequent ground connections
/ with the uirts.
| 10 practice The black art. she is in tfou5lc
I through conduct hat may Justly be chkracter-
irsd as unpr0fsssiopsl. She took s1c from N -.
Weller u 2sJ@sn&s s & ,os 'ss'ss ~ % ,ss
| be snd bis horse ard COW simuItane ons.y fel
| III. but uhen MI. VIE offered her -, 20 ~
Sys az rsss q be-; s9 sss wssT bed an psa be-
/ for iolrr. he exposure of Der double deal
| inrs 4 likely 20 rum her business.
A ezfsn-.ye grape raiser says: Il is nirly
prgysa tat gapss eF. saea. q ss.s s2oa sn,l Tss
rir,rnirr. aIIsrds fu txreilaDt p-o ectiol
/ e~rIn-f rnfIneu birds ARD 4rs-lts. Personal
/ = s-r-rufi n and expsrlen - have oemonslrated
f--if ~ Irre, rroFIf n rrB11 begz q me seIns
fIrI A. D. fsfiaFe % r. Er1usE - use1- BOT
4 4 ard ain sullF IN rettIng GOD beEt: ~ hot
arrshirs r1d rain f11s m 81 tne oI1mhIy
sbsdss q green that have nssn h1is 70 pro
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even fc1y pos ssinr - 1870 ll-t.nc-.
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