The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-31


A damned good Licking TO us,
i cincinnati Price Current.
A new steamship line, to run between
Trieste, New York and Rio Janeiro, will be
started next month.
Half million emigrants are said to be
already booked by the steamship agents
for passage to this country next year.
Little Corinne is to be permitted to sing
in opera, but net to dance, which is just
about the difference between Tweedledum
and Tweedledee.
English sparrows have thriven so well in
South Australia that now Government
Commission recommends a reward for their
heads or eggs.
Mrs. Burnett, the novelist, was born in
Manchester, England, November "a, lSi9
She did not come to America until after
our civil war.
At Carson, Nevada, Saturday, Ieen Lok
Ohinawoman, was divorced from LOk
Lok. This was the first Chinese suit ever
brought in Nevada.
Red Bank, n. j.. has been visited by an
other disastrous fire at loss of nearly
100000. The frequency of these fires
strongly suggests incendiarism.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, the widow of the late
Commodore, has issued nearly one thou
sand invitations to her reception on Thurs
day next.
Acknowledgement Brewster has accepted
from the members of the Philadelphia bar
an invitation to dinner, which will be given
on January 18th.
Col. J. s. Barlow, managing editor OF the
Leadville Democrat has been discharged
for publishing defamatory articles regard
ing John Atkins, one of the proprietors Of
the Rocky Mountain News, of Denver.s
A Christmas eve smoke in New York
burnt up $4,000 worth of Cuban leaf tobac.
co, thousands of imported cigars, and 8
large quantity of TEA, wine, raw silk, India
shawls, etc. The whole loss is estimated al
$3,000,000.
The dramatic critics of London, at q
meeting, condemned the unsafe condition
of the theatres, and passed resolutions
urging the appointment of government
official who shall be held responsible fol
their safety.
Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, wife of the toll
gate keeper OF the Columbus pike road,
died on Tuesday. She weighed 425 pounds
and has had to sleep i'll chair for years on
account of the asthma, from which she SUI
fered. Her deathwas caused by erysipelas
She was IS years old.
SDain is not so effete as has been
claimed 1t has just been developed that
the postoffice at Madrid has been robbed Of
five thousand letters, the contents of which
have been used to procure money by
forging acceptances This shows that the
gentle Spaniard is fully up to the times.
Mrs Mahones name is 0telia. Some
years ago, when General Mahone gobbled
up the Great Atlantic, Mississippi d
Ohio Railroad, gentleman in Norfolk dis
c0nsolately remarked that the cars went by
"a, NJ 90. That used to stand for At
lantic, Mississippi Ohio. Now is means
All Mahone's and Otelia's."
Superstition is still alive in England. A
woman in Lower 6ornal recently went to
the Vicar of the locality and asked to be al
lowed to cut bit Of turf from certain
grave, to be placed under the communion
table for four days, that she might lay the
ghost of the man buried in the grave. The
ghost, she said continually haunted her.
Ono of the latest proofs that the fever OF
speculation in France has now reached its
acute stage is furnished by the formation
Of the Grand Insurance Company" with
a capital of 100000 francs This organi-
cation undertakes to insure against fire,
strikes, accidents to merchandise in trans
portation and to travellers. 1t was hoated
without difficulty.
Not one in 100 of the pioneers of Nevada,
the Carson Appeal asserts, has $500 that h.
can can call his own. The wealthy men Of
the State to-day are those who went there
after 1865. The bonanza mines are eI'
hausted. Those who made the great
fortunes have carried off their money to
New York to speculate upon, or to Paris to
spend and enjoy.
American horses carried OF nearly all the
honors of the European turf during the
pas, year. Two American horses stand at
the head of the winning list, lroqnis having
"bagged' sS4,025 and FoXhall SOL $50, iar
more than the earnings Of any English
horses, At the head Of the list Of winning
owners is w. S. Crawford, but Mr., Pierre
Lorllard is a good second, having won the
large sum of $4,000.
The Chinese have established q great ar
senal at Kao Chang Mialo six miles from
Shanghai, were 800 natives are at work
making arms and ammunition. The rifles
are said to bear comparison with the bes'
English and American make. Nearly q
dozen steam frigates, each carrying twenty
six guns, ndprovided with iO0horss-powel
engines, have been built and launched
from the works.
Mscaulay's description of smallpox in
tn seventeenth century, when three hun
dred persons in every one million died an
nually, was as follows: "The smallpox was
always present, filling the church-yards
with cCrpses, leaving on those whose live;
it spared the hfleous traces of its power,
turning the babe int a chanseing at
which the mother shuddered, and making
the eyes and cheeks Of the betrothed
maiden objects OF horror to the lover"
The complete isolation of the town o.
Dayton. Washington Territory, during tho
prevalence of smallpox, is thus
told by a Dayton paper; Bus
mess hours, with the exception o!
hotels and drug stores, open at s q. m. and
close at p. m. Men patrol the, town
hourly in order that quarantine regulations
may be observed, and we are enjoying one
perpetual Sunday so far as business is con-
cerned. We have had no school, church.
or public meeting Of any kind for nearly
two months.
Cheng Tsao Ju. the new Chinese Minis
ter, hi. family and suite are qdnrtered at
the Arlington, in Washington, lie is Min
lister to Spain and to Peru as well rs to the
United States. At the Arlington he occu.
PIES the suite of rooms used by the Grand
Duke Alexis. About 50 or co years of age
rather portly, and with an intelligent
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