The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tennessee farmers are. sowing an unusual
amount of wheat.
St''Iouis capitalists will erect waterworks
ut Hot Strings ARK.
Four dollars are offered at Memphis for
Confederate coupon bonds.
Bill Swindell is famous horse snapper
in Monroe county, Georgia.
The Oriole festival at Baltimore lacked
S1,0i0.3S of paying expenses.
EIGHT hundred Russian emigrants are
thinking of settlihg in Georgia.
Mr.. Edison gets MISUNDERSTANDING
poder in the area of a half dime.
Three lessons for 81 is the tuition for at
tending Little Rock cooking school.
An American Protestant Episcopal
church is to be built in Dresden, Sa1ony.
One hundred and fifty colored men have
left Stauntor Va, to work in coal mines In
low;
TIL Moody md Sankey meetings in Eng
Sland arc atiended by immense congrega-
tions
ANN Ynrk firm lately bought 100 tons
of 10 ocs IN Ireland, ut fifteen cents
buSl he'll
Tl ex-Fru ,ress Eugene is now travelling
in Ithlv under the name of the Marchloness
ofMbia
The London Times memoir of President
Garfield has been reprinted and sells Tor an
English penny.
lin Finn took his brother Pat for bur-
glar at Savannah, and shot and severely
wounded him.
Seventeen men graduated At the school
for nurses last week in New 1orK ana re-
ceived their shsepskins
Henry Brewer aged 80, died in New I ork
on Wednesday from blood poisoning, re-
shifting from bullet wound received during
the war.
Admiral Porter has distinctly stated that
"our navy, taken as whole, is worth moth
ing. and the sooner the country understands
the fact the better"
Miss Louise s. Baker, college graduate,
breaches most satisfactorily for the Congre-
gational church in Nantucket. She does
not administer the communion.
The number of Baptist associations in
the United States is 1,O95; churches, A,1y4;
ordained ministers, 10 4ol paPt1ssam'' 'he
past year, 1924; members, 2,l35,o1f'
For the first time in the history OF the
country mules have been taken from Gesr-
ria to Louisiana, and other gulf states to
states bordering on the ONO RIVER
large portion of the corn raised in the
eastern states i. harvested by picking the
ears from the stalks, and taking them to
the barn or other buildings to be husked.
It is reported that Pasteur is to visit Dor
deaux to study yellow fever in the lazs-
retto. in order to find out whether lnocu-
lation will afford protection against the dis
ease.
When wheat and corn are short it gener-
ally happens that scores of minor food pro-
ducts are also deficient Beans, tomatoes
and other kitchen garden products are
woefully short this year,
With population of $500, 900 England
annually consumes 500,000,000 pounds OF
cheese, while the United States, with q pop
ulation of 50,O000 900, consumes only 2Io,-
100000 pounds of cheese annually.
Eight thousand heads of cabbage were
brought by the Leipzig from Bremen TO
Baltimore the other day. Carrying cabbage
heads to Baltimore is tritle more absurd
than carrying Goals to Newcastle.
Mr. David Davis is described as a man OF
such perfect equanimity that he has writ
ten some of his most noted opinions when
his office was filled with tenants whose
questions he answered without ceasing to
write.
The car has ordered that seventeen OF the
imperial palaces and castles including those
of tiyadia in the Crmea, and the Belvedere,
near Warsaw, shall be converted into
educational institutions for the benefit OF
the poor.
New York City manufactures to the eI-
tent of S435, 1000 against Philadelphia,s
SS22, 200, and yet New York isn't howl
ing for tariff bounties to keep up her busi-
ness. But Philadelphia goes around with
the beggars hat for collection, still.
Good sweet milk is very scarce in. New
York city, retail dealers having. paid on
some days last week as high as III
cents per-enart to supply their customers.
Farmer/ however, received less than cents
per qv6rt for their September milk.
Hereafter in Great Britain there will pe.a
certain course of training for veterinary
SURGEONS. After 1888 the farrier and the
cattle doctor will be superseded by. men
who must pass lawful examination in re-
gard 10 the diseases of horses, cows, sheep
and hogs.
The court to try Lieutenant Flipper, the
colored defaulter, will meet at Fort DAVIS,
Texas. this week. The court consists Of
Colonel Switzler, Major Small, chief Of
the commssary department OF Texas;
Captain Fletcher and Captain Grouse,
Judge advocate.
nEHUGVnNG