The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-13
AlDCELLANEO 60.


Fourth Of July orators.
Augustine brother Of General Besuregard,
died at San Antonio, Texas.
Henry Watterson says Senator Beck will
be reelected from Kentucky.
Twenty.seven Thousand human bodies were
buried in Vienns in 1880.
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt begins her farewell
ensremsnt at Booths April Is.
A mail route to Columbia via Pearl river
from Rgolet Station has been established.
Or. VIM. NJ. Baldwin, of Franklin, is dead
Also Mr.. John 4. Wood, of the Vicksburg
Cadets.
The king of Bavaria has become partner in
circus, and now we may look for some
grand Aops.
Greece is warned BY the powers that if she
rejects the proffered compromise they. will
not intervene.
Admiral johnson, of the English navy, has
not seen the ocean or a ship of war for the
past forty years.
David Davis will never surrender his indie
pendence while there is plank on the fence
left for him to cling to.
Mr.. Bruce Moore, son of DR.. J.P. Moore
was recently shot with fatal effect by j.
Walton, negro in YGzoo.
The late rains have caused the Talla.
hatchie river to overflow its banks, and the
bottom lands are under water.
Rents in New York are this year advanc-
ing to such an extent that many people are
seeking homes in the suburbs.
The shearing of wool this season in Han
cock county is to be q considerable loss I'M
less prevented by early shearing.
Thegs laws prevent the killing of deer
doves and field lsrks between the 1st of Feb.
ruary and the. l5.h Of September.
Joseph Haitian and Archibold Forbes, the
London correspondents, are both going to
publish books on America shortly.
An authoritative denial comes from Copen-
hagen that negotiations are pending for the
cession of the Danish West Indies to the
United States.
A lunch given by a New York lady to four
of her friends cost $ll0, or So Il plate.
TIL ose New York ladies must be terrible
folks to feed,
When an old gentleman tod his son that
it is an early bird that catches the worm, the
yOuuB Huu Tcplch. CT, duu " u
apple that catches the worm, too"
The difference between riding horse ard
riding hobby consists in ,his-that one eau
get of horse at any time, but once on u
hobby tbs doubtful ii no can ever get Fl.
Andy Brice, an old aad well-to. doi farmer
near Rogersvile Tenn, committed suicide
last week by shooting himself with II rifle.
He said he had outllved his friends and was
tired of life.
A Texas Judge, who had two tramps be-
fore him, said to tlem: snow, one of you
make tracks for the border, and the other try
to catch him." They caught at the idea and
put in their best ticks.
II haven't work enough for another SER
want" said lady to girl that applied for a
situation. "Oh, yes you have, ms'am, it'll
take precious little 10 keep me busy" WAS
thenaive response.
In store in Broadway, New York, the
cash girls glide between the saeswomen and
the cashier on roller skates. The girls like
it, and 30 do the customers, as the swift loco.
motion saves much waiting.
Vergennes, Vt, where, fifty years ago,
Fred Douglas came near being mobbed for
speaking abolition sentiments, now compls,
Gently elects negro sheriff, French Mayor
and q female town clerk,
Mrs. Sprsgue recently called upon the wife
of Congressman Moore, Of Memphis, to
acknowledge social courtesy at her hands.
Within an hour Mrs. Moore received q
handsome boqaet from CN,kIiug
The conundrumwas, "When is "a cat like a
teapot? Answer: "When you're teasin'
it" "rhen,". said an old lady, II should
like to know when teapot Is like cat ?"
"When you teas in it," was the answer.
The Natchez Democrat, of April Sd, says:
There was report on the street yesterday
evening that Mr.. Benjamin Bullen, a most
respectable citizen Of Jefferson county, had
attempted to commit suicide. The rumor
had it that he shot six pistol balls into his
person without effecting his purpose.
Court Ito prosecutor): "Then you recog.
nize this handkerchief as the one which was
stolen from youf" Prosecutor: eyes, your
Honor Court: "And yet 1t isn't the only
handkerchief Of the sort in the world. See
this one have in nv pocket is exactly like
It," Prosecutor: "Very likely, your Honor,
had two stolen"
A celebrated physician being sent for by a
lady who imagined herself very i'll, she COM
planned to him that she ate too much, slept
too soundly, and had very uncommon flow
ofsp:rits snake your self perfectly easy,
madam" said the doctor, "follow my pre-.
scrip,ions and you shall have none of these
things TO complain Of"
A boy in the country told one of his play
mates that no Was getti ~ ready to run away
to sea. Several months afterwards the boys
met and the playmate wanted to know Il
tho other had been to ses. "Yes," was the
reply; II was found out, and went on whal-
ing expedition with my father to tho wood
she'd"
A young school mss, whose tcachsr had
laugh, her that two negatives We, eQu valent
to an affirmative, on being rsked by II sutton
for her assent to mary him, replied: "No:
no." The swain looked astonshed and DO.
wildsred she referred him TO tho grammar,
when, Cor the first time, he learned that no
meant yes.
A gentleman had five daughters. the Gre,
Of whom married man by the name Of
Poor, the second Mr.. Little, the third a
Mr.. Short, the fourth a Mr.. Brown, the fifth
Mr. uny1 Az tho u,oddtp,, nc thu latta,