The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Watermelons are offered for sale in the
Chattanooga markets.
A national banking company is being
organized at Texarkana.
The pecan crop in Pointe Coupee parish,
Louisiana, is valued at $4,000.
There is wild pigeon rooSt in Benton
county, Tennessee, four miles square.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is to have water
works, q $4,000 opera-houSe and a $4,000
hotel.
Esther NJ. Meyers, of Philadelphia, is
dead at seyenty-eight, leaving two hundred
pet cats.
Two Austrian soldiers tainted while a
member of theirregiment was being hanged
in Vienna recently.
Miss Annie Louise Cary is mentioned as
the possessor of $3.50, 0O0-all earned by her
own charming voice
Hurlbut and Fitzpatrick, those bombastic
and meddlesome diplomats, will probably
be recalled from Chill and Peru.
Six lamp-post letter boxes in Jersey City
were forced open with jimmy one night
last week and robbed of their contents.
Some parties have appeared in Colorado
and New Mexico looking for lands upon
which to settle the negro colonists from the
South.
The people of Genoa, Nebraska, being
out of coal, are burning corn. When the
Illinoisans can't get coal, they use the juice
of their corn.
There are twenty-four journalists in the
French Chamber of Deputies. This is per-
haps why they have so many crisis in
French affairs,
A Western actor claims that, while per-
forming as julius Caesar, he is under the
spirit control of the dead Emperor, and
does nothing of his own volition,
1t is rumored at Nashville that Major
Tom O'Connor, the Baxters and other capt.
talists are to purchase John @. Burch' S
heirs interest in the American, and thus
obtain control of that journal.
She didn't know it until it was all over,
but the menu cards at IA New FORK luncheon
party the other day were painted by the
divorced wife of the hostess' husband, who
now earns her living in this artistic way.
The Republican leaders in Dakota Terri
tory have begun to quarrel already over the
disposition of the future State and Federal
offices. They believe Dakota will be ad-
mitted to the Union next year and they all
want offices.
John A. Cockrill, reporter on the local
staff OF the st. Louis Dispatch, has
written letter of apology to Miss Sarah
Gus use of her name in bogus interview
published in that paper.
Schools have become nuisance in New
England. The local paper at st. Johnsbury
is out with an editorial denouncing the
boys of the school at that place as "a
bother, set OF rogues and curse to the
people of st. Johnsbury."
A wax-work figure of Franklin, OF exhib-
ition in France, is labelled Franklin, in
ventor of electricity. This savant
after having made seven voyages around
the world, died on the Sandwich Islands
and was devoured by savages, of whom not
single fragment was ever discovered"
A Washington photographer says that
there is great demand for photographs o
President Arthur. The sales of Mrs. Hayes
picture used to average $50 a week. The
theatrical fayorites, so far as concerns the
sale of their portraits, at the capital, ar,
Lolita, Mary Anderson and John McCul
Tough,
Two brothers living near New Phladel
phia, Ohio, disputed about the ownership
of an ordinary wagon bed, worth less than
81, and after spending $500 in legal costs
the defendant has just recovered a verdict
of 10 cents damages. The plaintiff is still
dissatisfied and threatens to carry the sui
to a higher court.
JulllcS uOINOl DtllIltll, IIlOT W Ills ut
darture for Europe the other day presented
his sailing master with magnificent golC
watch and chain, and to all his household
servants at Newport he gave a substantial
gift in money. He also provided for tn,
wants of number of deserving people VIII,
have long enjoyed his charity and hospi
tality.
Baron de Rothschild has sent to Mis-
Morgan, who in few days will become
Mrs. August Belmont, Jr., superb jewelet
pendant in the shape of two united heart
pearl-shaped pearl. The diamonds are 0
remarkable size and the gift was brough
to this country by the Barons private sec
rotary.
Kemeys, the Paris sculptor, has designet
for Cornelius Vanderbilt's stable, the from
of the stable boys apartments, something
very unique in the terra Gotta line-th,
huge head of a Siberian bloodhound in tn,
center and on either side The grim counte
nance ola bulldog. The Sun, from whence
this information comes, says the stabl
outshines those of the Roman.emperors,
Kemeys, the Partisan sculptor, has de
signed for Cornelius Vanderbilt stable, tn
front of the stable-boys apartments, some
thing very unique in the terra Gotta line
the huge head of Siberian bloodhound il
the center, and on either side the grin
countenance of a bulldog. The Sun, from
whence this information comes, says tn
stable outshinos these of the Roman En-
perors,
Several interesting relics of Louis XVI.
collected by his faithful servant Clery, anC
at present in the possession of Clery'
grandchildren, are now on view in Paris
Among them is an autograph letter adj
dressed by Marie Antoinette to the Coun
dc observation-disclosures Louis NNll,-anC
enclosing ring confded 10 Clery by thu
"Son of st. Louis on the fatal morning o
the 2lst Of January, l703 for transmission
to Her Majesty.
Alexander H. Stephens recently said il
reply to an inquiry as TO his death "0h
| am not dead yet, and my general healtl
is pretty good, maybe u little better than /
has been for the last three years hay
read my obituary three times, but nov
weigh ninety-four pounds. ! have bcel
down to scventy-three, | am up and dow
by turns, but on the whole have no groun,
for complaint"
An entirely reliable authority states tn
following MS the facts of the several offer
made Nine. Patti by Managers 1layerly
Stetson and Abbey: Manager Haverl.
offered her $1,000 and all expenses, Patti {
furnish the company. Manager Stetson Of
fered 81 900, and was to furnish the compan.
and pay all expenses Manager Abbey sc
cured "La Diva" by guaranteeing her $500
for each concert, he to take the next l,50
andpay all expenses, all over 5000 bein