The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-26
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monds.
Smallpox has broken out in Boston, but
she trusts to her intellect, as in other emer'
gencies.
II is now believed that Cashier Baldwin
was getting ready to attend the patu
concerts.
Patti has inaugurated in New Iorl,
the Partisan fashion of wearing Il bright red
gau2e veil,
The Baltimore Packing Company will
pack fish, oysters and turtle at Appalachi'
cola, Florida
Aleck Stephens has returned to Washing
ton and occupies the very room that Henry
Clay died in.
Nine Benoit Champy is dashing French
horsewoman who follows a boar hu mt from
the start to the finish.
Marvin, the great forger and swindler, is
working i'm the shoe department at the
Richmond Va, penitentiary.
Mrs. Sue Burke, wife of Major Il. A
Burke, State Treasurer of Louisiana, is the
principal owner of the New Orleans Demo
Crat
Three or four years ago the Marquis o.
Butte started daily paper in Wales. Last
month he closed the concern 100000 out
ofpocket.
Two live oak trees are now growing
within seven miles of Pal aka, Fla, which
measure respectively thirty-six feet in cir
cumierence,
Boston is spending much money for
church music. The salaries of the musicians
in single choir, says Boston man of the
old-tashioned kind, would pay half dozen
country clergymen.
The coach drivers of New York are on a
strike They want 80 II day, The demand
is not unreasonable, considering the fact
that III other cities hackmen want 81 for
the work OF twenty minutes.
-.Scnator Beck, OF Kentucky, Senator Far
ley, OF California, and Senator Malone, OF
Virginia, arc with their families, occupying
apartments in a new French-fat building
in Washington, called the Portland.
The proprietors of the Boston Herald,
who are said to have easily $1,000 n week
income each, are large owners Of tho Ma
retta North Georgia Railroad, and are
building road with important land grants
in Florida.
Kasson, the ardent aspirant for the Speak
ership is the man who wrote the Republic
can platform of 1860, and put in the little
paragraph about polygamy. Kasson, how
ever, has been mum on the subject of poyg-
amy ever since.
Trelawney wished that his body
should be burned 1t was accordingly
taken to Gotha, where, after cremation the
ashes were put into an urn. They were
transported to Rome, and are now placed
beside those of Keats and Shelley.
The Sioux have fashion Of naming
children in the order to which they were
born, So the roll has many such names
as Winona, llapan, Hepi Wanoke, Hake,
ctc, which means tirst-born, second born,
third-born, iourth-born, hfth-born, and
so ON.
Seventeen million and five hundred thou
sand dollars have been divided between the
widow Of the late Mark Hopkins, OF San
Francisco, and his two brothers. Little
boys should remember this, and always en-
courage their Older brother to save money
and die
There seems to be growing disposition
to employ women in clerical work. A
leading hotel in Chicago has just substi-
tuted them for men in charge of its registry
and books and it is urged that all county OF.
fees might be benefited by the like change
and substitution.
England's blind Postmaster General, who
wins golden opinions even from Tories, has
scored another success You can now write
atelegram on ordinary note paper, stick on
postage stamps sufficient TO pay il, and put
1t in street post box, and it will be sent as
soon as the box is emptied
Paris has market for cigar stumps. In
the wine saloons in the Maubert are a half
dozen Wholesale dealers who buy the
stumps from gamins and poor old people,
The length of the stumps counts something
in the price Much of this tobacco is sold
to workmen, and much is also exported.
The record of juvenile crime receives an
addition in the exploit ofan Indiana lad OF
ten who has fatally stabbed playmate
aged four in u quarrel about n game of
marbles. A 'comrade obligingly prevented
the little victim from running away TILL his
murderer could whip out his knife to stab
him.
Kalloch, of San Francisco, is now rcpu-
dated by most of the respectable Baptists
on the Pacific coast. Recently he went all
the way to Portland, Oregon, to deliver a
lecture, and was severely snubbcd. He
wants to 90 to Congress, but his popularity
appears to have run out to such an extent
VI he stands poor chance of being
,iectod. His former friend, Denis kcarncy,
Is no longer intimate with him.
Tuesday morning during the street pa
radc of Coup's circus in Montgomery, the
nur-abrcast horses of Mile. Lewis ran
away with the chariot. The lady displayed
much courage, evaded every collision, and
brought the horses to halt by driving
them violently against house, nearly at
the banks of the river. The chariot and
horses were injured, but the lady escaped
unhurt.
report was current Tuesday In Wash
mgton that Secretary Lincoln will shortly
rcsire voluntarily from the Cabinet that
Hon. Emory Storrs will be the new Attor-
ney.General, and Ex-senator Chsilce, OF
Colorado, will succeed Mr. Kirkwood as
Secretary of the Interior. MIR. Chaunccy
|. Filley is mentioned as PostNraster-Gen.
eral, Gen. Longstreet rs Secretary of the
Navy, and Gen. Bealc, of this city, as Sec
rerary of War.
At meeting of the South Boston Iron
Company, yesterday, the proposed sale OF
the property to the Old Colony Railroad
was discussed, and the President OF tho
company was authorized to make sale,
provided such action is ratified by the stock.
holders, Tho investigating committee sub
mitted statement Of the company 5
finances, showing Il surplus of assets over
liabilities of about S350,000
The Governor of New York on Tuesday
made the following designations Of Supreme
Court Justices for the Fourth Department I;
Hon John l.. TaIcotir as Presiding Justice
of the General Term, in place OF
Hon. Joseph Mullen, whose OFF.
cial term will expire january |,
next; Hon George A. Harden us Associate
Justice of the General Term, In place of
Hon. John i. Talcott, designated Presiding
Justice of the General Term. All Of tho
above designations are to take effect Janu-
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The announcement of the wedding of