The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-27

the extent OF obtaining from him a promise
! TO drop out of Wall Street aud leave New
York, If they pressed him no further. Be
| fore banking hours the next day Gould had
borrowed 100000 from Russell Sage,
This tided him over the crisis, and he made
many thousands by the combination. Sage
and Gould have ever since been fast friends.
Henry Ward Beecher is growing old. A
week ago he complained TO his congregation
that those who wrote to him used very pale
ink, and Sunday he read amisS the number
OF the hymn he was giving out, and had TO
stop the people short after they had sung
one verse of an entirely different compost
ton.
The arrival in the city OF ex-Attorney
General Taft and General Longstreet ha,
revived the rumors which associate their
names with positions in President Arthur's
Cabinet, and il is currently reported that
both gentlemen have come TO Washington
20 consult with the President on this sub
iect.
Mr.. Lawson, editor of the London Tele-
graph, has purchased the Duke of West
minister's estate, paying therefor $1,000
900. Editors will do such things occasion
ally; but unfortunately, the number of
million dollar estates is not large enough to
go around, and some editors are compelled
to live like common folks,
The Siamese nation has recently been
plunged into mourning by the death Of the
court and body elephant of the King. One
morning, after a hearty breakfast, he went
mad quite Unexpectedly, and trampled five
of his attendants TO death. To shoot him
would have been sacrilege. An attempt to
tranquilize his pcrturbed spirit by en-
circlins him with a huge ring Of holy
/ hanh anpniolly blaat ht. Mol, Yri..N
of his own particular temple, proved worse
than Intellectual, for he broke through ths
ring and all but Terminated the high
priests career upon the spot.
Mr.. Henry Clews, the New York banker,
was born in Statiordshire. England His
early years were passed in his native coun-
try, where he was educated with the view
of entering the ministry, having been in
vlted TO become assistant to his cousin who
was Vicar of Wolstanton. His first visit to
America was intended only as a pleasure
trip prior to completing his studies at Cam
bridge. He, however, became so impressed
with this country's immense extent and
boundless resources and the scope offered
for enterprise, that he at sncs resolved to
establish him.elfhere.
"Ssnguina that the intentions of the
French ministry are toward liberal measurs,
Shippers nave made contracts III Chicago Tor
about 1000 boxes, consisting largely of
shoulders at 6ic, and long and short clear
middlings at Sl0G9 C. They are to be ship
ped to France in December on through bills
Of lading at 12c, lower freight than could
have been obtained if shipped from Chicago
to New York, and from New York to
France. This discrimination of railroads
against New York interests has well nigh
driven trade in provisions away from this
market. Small trades in bacon are making
here for shipment to France to go forward
by HaVre steamers ofthe 18th ofDecember."
Fred d. Grant, tho eldest son OF General
Grant, is en- route to Texas for the purpose
of extending the Texas & Western Railroad
still further west from Houston, and to
look after the general interests of the road
in which he maintains the strong
est prospects Mr.. Grant says that his
business now carries him to Texas four
times year, and that on account of his
frequent absence from home his family is
temporarily residing at General Grant $
new house in New York city.
He has not yet determined
whether to locate in New York or Texas,
as all the financial interests of his road are
centered in the former, while the business
management necessitstes his presence in
the latter. His hopes for the future of the
Lone Star State are unbounded, and he
says that the immigration is large and con-
tinuOuS