The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A number Of gold mines have recent,
heen found in New York State.
Smallpox is raging in Louisville. Il
other respects the town is large.
A Republican has been elected Mayor o
i Austin, Texas. The solid south is legend
i The Produce Exchange Of New York ha
4 decided TO erect building to cost 81,
0gQ 900.
Broadway, New York, is now sweep
| every night at the expense Of its mer
chants.
Mushrooms are more plentiful this veal
than ever before. Nevertheless they are ex
pensive diet
An Ohio girl gave birth to fine baby
while she was waiting for train at a
county station.
Separation from Great Britain is becom-
ing a topic of common discussion in the
Canadian juornals.
Josiah Henson, the original Uncle
Tom died in Canada lately, There are
but few of them left now.
Contractors on the Canadian Pacific road
in British Columbia are about to import
one thousand Chinese laborers
It's prophesed that the waters of the
Yellowstone will have 100000 people resi-
de on them inside of five years.
Professor King is building another large
balloon ON novel principle with which
further to test the easterly current.
The sanitary authorities of New York
have commenced vigorous raid on the
cheap lodging-houses, which are simply
nests of disease
Willard Fillmore is declared by some
ladies who have seen all the presidents for
NTQP hi ~ TO laW.s
soonest of the number.
Senator Anthony has served longer con-
tinuously in Congress than any other meth-
Der of either house. He has been in the
Senate for twenty-five years.
The famous cedar forest of Lebanon hav-
ing dwindled to mere thicket numbering
about 400 trees, stringent measures for its
protection against relic hunters have been
taken.
The London journals credit yarn that
the King Of Ashantee had two hundred
young girls killed in order to use their
blood i'll mixing mortar to repair'one OF the
state buildings.
Patti is sweet and powerful singer, but
she. couldn't charm $40 notes from the
pockets of the thrifty and sensible New
Workers. The scale Of prices hereafter will
be diminishing one.
John Axtell was fatally cut in saloon at
Bellefontains, Ohio, the other day, by an
old hunter whose jug Of whisky he had
found hidden in the woods and appropri-
ated to himself. After having twitted the
old man on his loss, Axtell Knocked him
down and was then stabbed
The recent strike of the iron-workers in
CINCINNATI lasted five months, at cost to
the men OF $l,5OOOOO in wages. 1t may
seem TO be very heroic thing to work
lngmen to strike, but the process rarely
brings higher wages, and is almost certain
to bring suffering to the men and their
families
A convict hired to labor in the Dale
mines, Georgia, recently escaped, and an
other convict was sent after him, msunted
on mule. The pursuer had been given
up for loss, when he returned with his
captive, whom he had followed into
Alabama, and taken without recourse to
requisition papers.
A man had curious race for life near
heriden, Connecticut. He swallowed a
large dose of morphine, intending suicide,
but quickly changed his mind, and started
Tor the nearest physician, who was two
miles away. He felt the dangerous drowsi-
ness stealing over him, and ran with all his
might, but his mouth became parched, his
eyes iilmy, and his strength less. He stop
ped to pray, but an instant of delay warned
him that, unless he depended on miracu-
lous help, there was no time to be lost on
his knees. He at at length stumbled into
the doctors office, and fell senSeless on the
hoor, but was saved by energetic treat
ment.