The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland has Sc
lected i. Dwyer Gray High Sheriff o
Dublin for 1882.
Lord Colin Campbell, Liberal member o.
Parliament for Argyleshire, has joined the
Irish Property Defense Committee.
A belief exists that there is secret as
well as an open organization disturbing
Ireland, and threatening serious danger
Mrs Flood wife of the Nevada million
aire, paid 81, 400 for special ear to take her
fom New York to San Francisco last week
The subscriber of S62 500 for the relief of
the sufferers by the Vienna theatre fire is
naturalized American citizen named
GOettel
The Emperor of Brazil has sent some toys
to the two grandchildren of Victor Hugo
on the occasion of the approaching New
Year.
DR.. H. G. Glenn, OF California, has thirty
thousand acres of land in wheat, and eX-
poets TO have twenty-five thousand acres
more in that grain.
The point is sent out from Wall Street
that Vanderbilt is about to retire from the
management of his railways, leaving Corne-
lius and Mr.. Butterin practical control.
1t is said that the only professor of politl-
cal economy in any college in America who
is opposed to free trade is Professor Robert
Ellis Thompson, of the University of Penn
sylyania.
Mrs. Garfield has just sent to Queen Vic
toria the photograph of the late President,
which her Majesty wished TO possess. 1t is
of the cabinet size, and is handsomely
framed.
John C. Hurst formerly a wholesale
druggist of Philadelphia, arrested at the in
stance of his son, Samuel, on a charge of
enlightenment OF nearly $4,000, has disap-
peared.
B. p. Shillabor thinks that of all the pic
lures that were ever made of Webster,
Pope S, in the city hall at Charleston, Massa-
chpsctts, is the only one that does justice to
the statesman.
Sail Pasha, of Egypt, an official next to
the Khedive, is having made at Philade-
phia magnificent set of harness trappings
for pet Arabian stallion belonging to the
layorite of his harem.
Lenora Augustine Ramirez, the mother
Of twelve sons, who with their father all
died in arms against the French, has just
been awarded Il pension of $3.50 month by
the Mexican Congress.
Ricciotti Garibaldi, the son of the Italian
patriot, has just been defeated in an cleo
ton for Member of Parliament. His oppo-
nent, Signor Lorenzem, Ministerialist,
was chosen by majority ia.
~Storms and floods of destructive charac-
ter occurred Saturday and Sunday through
out England Hundreds of trees were up
rooted in the vicinity of London, and many
e minor casualties among the shipping are
reported.
Edward S. Stokes, the slayer of jim Fisk,
,,ntx uit
California, is Ii ing i'll very eXtravagant
manner III New York. Josie Mansfield is
in New York, leading a quiet life OH her
own means.
Much gossip has been caused in Massa-
chusetts By the suit of Senator Dawes
against a firm in North Adams to recover
$40 for legal services. The defense is that
he was never employed, and judgment
given was appealed.
Mrs. Brewster, the wife of the Attorney
General, is daughter of the late Robert j.
Walker Secretary of the Treasury under
President Polk. She, before her marriage,
held clerkship in the department OF which
her father was once the head.
Stock. holders in the Republican and
News, of Milwaukee, are said to have Sc
cured $33, 100 of the stock of the Sentinel,
half of which amount was held by Mrs.
Matt. ii. Carpenter, and Will probably
bring about consolidation.
On the 10th 10000 pounds of beef were
shipped from San Antonio, Texas, in the re-
frigerator cars of the American Refrigera'
tor Transit Company for New York, thence
to Paris, France. 1t is the first shipment
of the kind ever made.
The English government has opened ne
gotiations at Washington and with some
Continental powers with view to establish
International courts for dealing with Pacific
Island outrages. 1t Is intended that court
shall sit in Sydney.
The Washington Monument Commission
held its annual meeting yesterday, and il
was decided to make an earnest request Of
Congress for an early appropriation OF
100000 for the continuation OF the work OIL
completing the monument.
In relation to the reported shipment of q
large quantity of rifles to Liverpool as
hardware" the customs officials state
that they were old muskets and properly
classed by the clerk 1t is further stated
that they informed the British Consul.
Mr.. Elisha Allen, the Hawaiian Minister,
Is dean of the diplomatic corps at Washing
ton, which he became by the departure OF
Sir Edward Thornton. Mr.. Alien is slim,
with grey hair and whiskers and wears
spectacles.
Senator Window and Justice Matthews
are building new houses in Washington,
both on u modest scale. The Senator 5
house will cost but $35, 900, and that OF the
Judge $4,000. Both houses are of pressed
and moulded bricks, with brown-stone
trimmings.
Colonel Eugene G. Gordon, President OF
the Georgia Pacific Railroad about amonth
ago bought 100000 acres of Mississippi land,
known us overfovel lands, for 5 cents an
acre, and has since sold them to an English
company for II cents an acre, which gives
him a profit of about $4,000 The English
company intends to reclaim the lands at
once and colonize or cultivate them.
The will of the late Colonel Fomey was
admitted to probate yesterday. Ihere
were no public requests. The executors
were instructed to endeavor to secure re-
payment from the United States for moneys
paid by Colonel Forney to the Secretary o
The Senate on account of the detslcation o
one of his suberdinates. The amount IL
about $4,000.
IlThe cousin of the King Of Siam, wht
b airs the not very euphonious name o
Prince Nom Cho Prisnang is in Berlin fol
tie purpose of examining into the progress
made by the Siamese youths who ARE beinl
educated in Germany at the expense o
their 20, crnment. The young Asiatics are
said 10 be making good progress IN then
studies, special attention being given to th'
acquisition of knowledge concerning tech
nical subjects,
A grand imperialraloce is about to be