The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-20
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maTDle quarry OF vast extent has been
discovered in Spokane, Oregon
Troy capitalist. are considering the pro
iect OF building $350,0O0 hotel
There have been 2l3 days of Eric canal
navigation during the season just closed.
P:Ssamaquoddy, Maine, Indians are
shooting large numbers OF deer. They re.
port them very plenty.
nnsylum for incurable lunatics is to be
erected at Nillejuif, near Paris. The cost
will be 4, 100000 francs.
Rice, the embezzling internal revenue
collector at New Orleans, was fined ,Sl0,30i
and sent to prison for two years
Since the beginning OF the year the aggrc-
gate sum put ont in San Francisco, on city
mortgage collateral, is S653l ,5iS
A hunter in Marposa county California,
is said TO have shot deer last month which
Ind two pairs of horns on its head.
A thief snatchcd valuable fur can from
the head Of q gentleman in the street in
Quebec on Friday and run off with it.
The French-working electricians. ON
ploycd at the exhibition Of electricity, have
invited their foreign colleagues to a ban
quet
Macleod, of Macleod, is an eccentric
Briton, who recently arrived at Nice with
some remarkable travelling companions
two huge eats, each accompanied by a per-
sonal attendant.
Uncle Jack Hill, of Macon county, Geor-
gin, died last week At the advanced are of
l07, He was the father OF twenty-five
children. He never took dose of medi-
cine in his life, but was always fond of his
toddy.
William Harris, who plead guilty to sell.
ing O'cent lottery ticket to a policeman
in New York, was sentenced to ten DAYS in
the penit;ntisry and fine of 500, or nm
additional day for each dollar if the fine is
not paid.
NJ DalouS fine bas-roief rcpresenting
Mirabeau in the act ofanSwcring the Mar.
quis lie Dreux-Breze at the National Assem-.
bly,, Paris, in l7S0, will be cast in bronze
and placed in the hall of the Chamber of
Deputies.
The Bibliothequc dc l'Academio dc Med.
icinc, which was created in 1923, and which
is one OF the most beautiful aud importnnl
of its class, has been authorized to accent n
legacy of several thousand volumes left ia
il by DR.. Mathel, who recently died in Paris
The materials tor building Count Po-
toclii's mansion Al the corner of the Avenue
de Friedland and the Rue de Balzac. i'm
Paris, cost 100000 francs. and like sum
will be spent on the interior decorations
Thc.stone, has all been brought from the
Jura.
Jacob n. Yoder, a wealthy farmer re.id.
ing few miles from Nillersburg o., went
out on the porch, the other morning, and
while leaning against the railing IL CAV.
way and.he fell distance Of about five feet
His neck was broken, and he died instantly.
Pennsylvania courts do not recognize the
great truth that man who is running far
Office may be libelcd with impunity by the
opposition crowd and one of them In.
given Judgment for $500 damage. against
u newspaper which called recent candidate
for Congress thief,
A surveyor while in Shasta county. Coli.
fornis, lately found fine lot of fossil,
AmsnE them are blemites, othcrltes, and
ammonites OF the cretaceous geological
period. The most interesting specimen is
an ammonite over two feet in diameter,
nearly entire, showing the large corruga.
tons of the outer shell.
DR.. Stroussbcrg the once famous railway
king and bankrupt, has been busy in re.
trieving his shattered fortunes with
street-railways and cheap newspapers in
Berlin, and has regsined the confidence of
capitalists, which he seems never to have
entirely forfeited. His latest enterprise
ned Euphrstes Railway. He has secured
all the necessary contracts and is now rails.
ing the required funds.
from an illness which is attributed TO cau,e
unusual in royal households. Her majesty
has mania for cooking. in which she OK.
rel, pspeciallv IN the nrcnaration nj fr,i,