The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-05


Ex-senator Sargent, of California, who Is
urged for cabinet position, is native oil
Newburyport, Mass, was once type-setter
in the government printing office at Wash
inpton, and is an advocate Of woman's
rights
The amount of game reaching Paris dur
inc the first fortnight of the season has,
during the past three years, averaged 1885,
$50 head The value of the game consumed
there each season, is estimated at not less
than 100000
A month ago a gentleman of Chattanooga
had stored away in his garnet a trunk con-
tanning several hundred thousand dollars
in Confederate bonds, and he considered
them utterly worthless. Yesterday he sold
5000, 900 worth at Atlanta for 81, 400.
Sergeant Mason, the man who tried to
shoot Guiteau, the assassin, September II.
is to be tried in few days by court-martial.
Ills counsel will put in plea ofinsanity for
him. He has written Guiteau aletter, which
is said to be an attemp to initiate insanity.
HIatton, the new assistant postmaster
general, is said TO have written many of the
funny paragraphs credited to BurdCtte. If
the photographers can't get any higher in
the government than filling the office Of
assistant postm0ster-genoral, they had bet
ter stick to their newspapers,
Late estimates ofthc destruction done by
the fires in the Michigan forests give l,S00
square miles of country burned over, with
a los of 81, $4,000, on which there was
about $62i,00 insurance. Eight churches,
~ school houses, $50 stores, and ,l47 dwell
ing houses were burned.
The result of the recent elections in Ger.
many has been overwhelmingly LIBERAL and
that in spite of the utmost Efforts of the
supporters OF the government. In the new
Reichstag Bismarck will have to adopt
either q liberal policy or else bring about q
complete standstill in domestic legislation
There is upward of 81, 900 deposited in
the treasury at Washington, the result of
accumulatiors from money orders unpaid
since the system was originated. At the
noxt session congress will be asked to
cover the money permanently into the
treasury. About three-eighths, perhaps
onc-half Of the whole amount was accumu-
lated in the New York postollice from or
ders made payable there.
Rumor has II that the new British minis
ter at Washington is "a near relative to the
beautiful Mrs. CORVALLIS West, whose
piquant photographs are familiar to colec-
tors in this country, and that she is to visit
America the coming winter. Mrs. Corn
wallis West has the proud distinction of be-
ing friend of the prince of Wales, pro-
icsSional beauty of lively and engaging
manners, and the best dressed weman in
London.
Jersey Island, the place from which we
obtain the tavOrite Jersey COW, is small
spot of land. If squared it is six and three
quarter miles each way. Yet this little is
land has q population Of 100000 human be-
ings, and has now over 1900 cattle and has
had that number for the last twenty years,
for the census Of 1861 gives 1907. And yet
they export on an average annually 1000
head. A good Jersey will yield half her
own weight in butter in u year-she rarely
exceeds eight hundred pounds, and her
average weight Mt home is about seven hun
bred pounds. What little spot of earth can
make better showingf
Some specimens of cotton raised in Penn
sylvania on exhibition at the Atlanta fair
attract much attention, and the southern
ers are surprised to find that such good
quality of their favorite staple which they
are accustomed to regard MS child of the
semi-tropiCs, should be produced in so cold
and northern a state as Pennsylvania
Theyare still more surprised to learn that
va, oAafiN 'hiA wv NipNh Hi'hNNoil ~ bliNt
state and that next year 300, 900 acres of it
will be planted in the vicinity Of Lancaster
This certainly indicates that the cotton line
may be pushed much further north than
the northern boundary of Mississippi and
Alabama.
There is young man in Belfast who, in
regard to stature and weight, can discount
General Tom Thumb or the late Commo-
dorc Mutt when of the same age. Little
johnny Robbins, son of William Robbins,
who lives in ward five, is seventeen years of
age, stands thirty-ninc inches in height and
weighs but twenty-nine pounds. Johnny
has not grown any since he was eight years
of age. Ho is well proportioned and is q
most wonderful little fellow. A number
five baby shoe easily hts his foot and his
hands and limbs are equally small. Johnny
Is intelligent, and often takes trip to Bel
fast in company with his cousin, Daniel
Dunbar twenty-four yeaIs of age and
about the sike of Tom Thumb.
The gun known as the LYMAN Haskell
accclerating, ormulti-charge cannon, lisa six
inch bore, and along the bore are four ad-
ditional chambers for powder, the latter
being successfully discharged after the
initial charge ofpowder in the chamber has
been fired II is calculated that 1870 pounds
of powder will throw a solid iron projectile
weighing $50 pounds at least ten miles, and
that 1t will go through solid mass of
wrought-iron nearly two feet thick. The
inventor claims that twenty-inch acceler-
ating gun is irresistible, cclipsing the 100
ton Armstrong gun made for the Italian
government, The pockets are loaded in the
same manner as breoch-loader, each
pocket to contain twonty-eight pounds of
powder, The chamber to contain eighteen
pounds. A velocity of 5000 feet per second
is claimed as attainable with the new gun.