The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Local government in New York costs $50
year for each inhabitant.
The receipts of PATHS matinee in Boston
Saturday amounted to Sll 600.
trout weighing twenty-seven pounds is
en- exhibition at Virginia, Nevada.
John Quincy Adams was in the habit of
reading the Bible through every year.
Vanderbit's stables outshino those of the
Roman Emperors and contain faster
horses.
Colonel Mostly writes from Hong Kong
that American dentists are badly needed in
China,
Secretary Frelinghuysen owns a house in
Washington which Congressman Washbun
has occupied.
The members of the United States Senate
differ widely as to Presidential succession.
The Springfield Ohio, Republic wouldn't
b. surprised if Keifer was our next Pres-
dent.
Many tickets were sold for the Scoville
lecture in Washington, but few went to
hear it,
tramp recently sent to the workhouse
at Davenport had in his pocket certificate
OF admission to the bar Of the Iowa SUI
preme Court.
Bartholdi's colossal Goddess of Liberty
is approaching completion. A public sub
scription will be begun for the cost of the
pedestal,
The charming Princess of Wales has Just
passed her thirty-soventh birthday, and
Maud, her youngest child, has attained her
twelfth,
The New York Chamber of Commerce is
making new effort to get the site of the
old post-othce, in Nassau street, on which
to erect an ediiice to cost Sl,0OO,000,
Mr.. Henry Irving lately received gift of
an interesting dramatic memento in the
shape Of the gold repeater watch OF John
Philip Kemble.
1t is reported that Garibaldi intends visit
ing Paris and Narseilles next summer, with
a. view to improving the relations between
France and Italy.
John Bright, although member of Par
lament tor twenty-five years, has never
mixed in London society or taken house
IA the English metropolis.
A woman of40 starved to death in New
York Thursday. She was i'll and cenld get
no help. Good food for Christmas thought
and resolutions for nearer home.
tile true reason Why Chill wishes to an
mex part OF Peru is to carry out a con-
tract with an English house for fertilizers
and thus secure some indemnity for war ex-
penses,
An Englishmen walking around the mill
tary prison at Malaga, Spain, was shot
dead by sentry for not answering when
challenged. He did not understand Span
sh.
The city of London. the nucleus to which
somany other towns and hamlets have been
joined to make the. great metropolis, has,
according to the late census, 26l ,06l in
habitants. The average number who en-
ter the city each day is 1917 ,563.
Marshal MeMahon's niece, Mile de la
Selle, has entered the order Of the Sister
hood of Benedictines of Solesmes. The GER
emony of taking the veil was witnesses by u
great number of aristucrat0 families of
Anjou and Maine and by noble relatives
from Paris.
News has been received that terrible
typhoon visited the country about Heriorg
and Falley, i'll China, raising the waters of
the sea and driving them inland four miles.
One town was entirely submerged and
swept away with all lis inhabitants, num-
bering 5000.
A boat destined to be propelled solely by
electricity has Just been completed in
France. The owner, NJ. Teller. intends to
launch ii 1T Boulogne, and to cross in it to
Folkestone, in company with friend. The
boat is about Is feet long and Al feet wide.
Mr., Lowell, according to the London
Truth, was so used up by the multitude OF
letters and the general sympathetic and
social business forced upon him during the
late Presidents illness and after his death,
that he was obliged to so to Italy to 10
euperate.
The st. James Gazette says that hence.
torth Europe will have to regard the Unite
States as having foreign policy OF their
own. The Times says the European pow
ers cannot acquiesce in the wide extension
OF the Monroe doctrine proposed by Mr..
Blaine.
Miss Rebecca Bates, who, with her cousin
Abby, played drum and fife in Scituato
during the war of 1872, and made the Off
GERS of a British man-of-war withdraw their
men, uader the impression that the Cont
mental troops were coming, died on Tues
day last, aged SO, Miss Abby is still liv-
ing.
Mr.. Beck introduced on Wednesday last,
a resolution instructing thcJudiciary Com
'mittec to report whether the present laws
providing,for the succession TO the Presi-
dency are constitutional or adequate. This
is substantially the same as that introduced
by Senator Crittenden in 1850. That was
considered with great care and'reported back
to the Senate, but never became a law.
While the Treasurer of the Founding
Hospital of Moscow was on his way to the
Commercial Bank with 100000 roubles, he
was robbed of the whole sum. His story is
that he lost consciousness ON the way, and
when he recovered his senses the money
was gone. AS this explanation was not
deemed altogether satisfactory by the au.
thorities, the man was arrested.
Among the many bills introduced into
the Senate during the week is one by Sen
ator Hoar to provide for the education Of
Indian children. This bill authorizes the
Secretary of the Interior to cause every In
dian child dwelling west of the Mississippi
river, exclusive of those belonging to certain
civilized tribes, to be placed at schools un
der such general regulations as may bs ap
proved by the President, aud provides tha
sum not exceeding $500 shall be expended
for each child.
A correspondent Of the Liverpool MGR
curry writes: II am willing to risk my rep
utation as a public man If the worst casc 0
smallpox cannot be etfectually cured II
three days simply by cream OF tartar
This is the never-failing remedy: ON
ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in pin
of boiling water, TO be drank when cold o
short intervals. 1t can be taken at an!
time, and is a preventative ne well As
curative. 1t 10 known to have cured il
thousands of cases without q failure. |
never leaves mark"
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Take Simmsns Liver Regulator 10 iia
prove the aDpetite 10 strengthen tho sys