The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-03
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David Davis has chosen widow Tor SEN
ate observation-disclosures.
Mast, the carlcaturist, has lost $4,000
fooling with gold mines.
Mayor Grace, of New York, has brother
in the New Zealane Parliament.
Senator Jones, of Florida, is to marry
young lady of Nswburyport, Mass.
Cincinnati is in telephone communication
with Aurora, Indiana, College Hill and
Mount Pleasant.
Longfellow, who is constant theater-
goer, says that RoSsi's King Lear is the best
he has ever seen.
Fred Douglass, it is reported, is worth
100000 or more, and receives 5000 year
from the office he holds.
There are now nearly one hundred and
fifty packs of fox hounds in England and
Wales, one hundred of barriers and five of
stag hounds
Colonel John Hay will now resume
work on his Life Of Lincoln INTERRUPTED
by his call to manage the Tribune during
Mr., Reds absence.
Burnand, the editor of Punch, has a
pleasant, handsome face. Though gray
and bearded, he is comparatively young.
He has fourteen children.
Mr.. Whitlaw Reds welcome home was
gladdened by the announcement that Mr.
ID. o. Mills has purchased Mr.. Gould's in
terest i'll the Tribune for him.
We have about 1900 articles on our tariff.
Great Britain has only seventeen on hers and
she collects half as much revenue from Gus,
toms as we do from our lengthy list.
A Kentucky man is to be tried for stealing
the heart of the girl he loved. He was a
medical man. the girl died, and he stole the
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carried il away in his oyercoat pocket.
There is q monster orange tree near Fort
Harley, Florida, that measures nine feet
one inch in circumference. 1t is over 50
years old. and some seasons has borne over
5000 oranges
The town of Freeport, Illinois, is having
quite little boom all by itself 1t fur
nishes twenty-five witnesses for the
Guiteau trial-and would furnish more if
its population were not somewhat Inn
tied.
The Egyptians manufactured perfumes
so perfectly that some of their ancient oint-
ment preserved in an aabaster vase in the
British Museum still retains a powerful
odor, although il is over two thousand
years old.
Cashier Baldwin's brother has also been
put under arrest, and is now hunting fifty
thousand dollars worth of bail. lie was
teller of the Newark bank, and is supposed
to have stood in with the old man in his
populations.
An enthusiastic admirer of Jay Gould
says that as a practical railroad man he has
no peer. lie can state, without referring
to Poor's Manual, the length of every I'M
portant railroad in the United States, its
bonded Indebtedness, amount of capital
stock, and general financial condition.
Mr.. Vennor has cast his wild unpro-
phetic eye upon December, and mutters
out his prediction that it will smack "of
cold, bitter, biting cold, North and South,
East and West, with but sparSely snow
covered ground in northern New York and
Canada, and bare ground West and South.r
The official figures on the legislative
ticket in Wisconsin give the Republicans %
members of the Senate and the Democrats
10. In the House there are 60 Republicans
80 Democrats and five Independents. Re-
publican majority on joint ballot 80. In
the last Legislature the Republicans had "a
members in the Senate and the Democrats
.. In the House the Republicans had 70 and
the Democrats %.
The first bulletin of the census department
relative to railroads shows the condition of
the chief English lines. The permanentin-
vestmentS of these roads amount to S321, :
9l4, 0GS.02. The capital stock is $3.50, 573 SOL
funded debt $l0S996, 2O6; floating debt S143,-
$50, 20; total income Sal ,5i5 III; expenses
$50, ~, 2i6; leaving net income of so, 1872
$50. The total number OF miles operated in
1880 amounted to $3.50.
The Protectionsts have had therown way
for twenty years, and the sum total of
American manufactured products sold
abroad is a little over $7O,00O0OO, while We
httNf Of Nttt,, Ntt To tl,A
amount of $2i7 ,065 1878. The greater part of
our exported manufactures is taken by
Great Britain, who has tariff for revenue
only, and sells between $500, 900, 600 and
SGO0,500,000 worth of manufactures to other
nations.
There are three hundred thousand canary
birds imported to the United States every
year, paying no duty. Most of them come
from Germany. There is a movement now
nong the American breeders Of canary
rds to put protective tariff of ~ apiece
against the foreign article, on the theory of
Emory Storrs that, with sufficient judicous
protection on the American house-hy, he
will draw just as well in a plaster as the
Spanish fly,
The Cincinnati Enquirer is to have new
and very handsome building in that city.
Mr. ]. Il. Mclean, its young proprietor and
manager, has been in this city for some
time examining the Tribune, Post, Herald
and other newspaper offices, and having the
plans made for his new building The new
building will be on the ground where the
old offices now stand, and the estimated
cost is $4,000, as it is Mr.. McLean's in
tcntion to make it the finest and most COM
plete newspaper Office in the world.
The efforts of the Texas authorities to at
tract European immigration to that section
are meeting with considerable success The
steamer koeln, at New Orleans on the 22d,
brought nearly eight hundred Germans and
Italians. Some of the newcomers will be
engaged in farming; Others will work on
the new railroads This is but one of sew
eral shiploads of foreign labor that have
lately been received through the same chan
mel, and others are expected, Louisiana has
likewise been making ondeayors to induce
immigrants to settle there, but, thus far,
for some reason or other, these appear to
have met with only indifferent success.
An Old WOmnn's Advice.