The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-16
NEWS ITEMS.

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vasemite Valley Hotel during the summer,
Ut said that the amount OF money
s,,ont nv them was less than IN previous
seasons.
Virginia natural bridge has got into
.hs hands Of company of which Governor
Sn-neu of New York, is President, and
.ojirood is 10 be built to it and other I'M
movements made.
. nersevering dog on the scent Of coon
.o;sad such disturbance around the
p;5gely church in Carolina county, Mary
~ that the Sunday evening services mad
40 he abandoned when half through,
san francisco woman whose husband
,.as shot dead i'm his house by police Off
cer rs Ks the city to pay her S2V,OOO DANA
1es claiming that the shooting was wanton,
Ssrnel. unnecessary, and unprovoked.
New York and Ohio people cloyed with
matrimonial sweets find advantages under
The law of Pennsylvania, and hence IL Is
that in Erie county there. were, last week,
o;,,bteen applicants for divorce filed IN one
day.
Al the old center ofthe town of Newfans,
VI where, forty years ago, there were
several thriving stores, numerous houses,
hotel. the courthouse, jail, church, anu
schooI-houses, there is now not the Vestlse
ola building.
The plans for new hospital in Brooklyn,
n Y to cost $500 900. and TO be IN charge
nf the Methodist Episcopalians, have been
adopted. About halt of the estimated cost
ofthe building has been contributed py one
man, Mr. George |. Seney'
marcel of San Francisco society girls
who we're photographed in carnival cos
Times are troubled because an enterpris-
IN, theatrical agent bought lot OF the PIC
lures and is exhibiting them as Verltasle
representations of his variety company
In Tennessee boys convicted OF petty OIL
anses or mere vegrancy are reloriileu Wy
beiuu worked in the streets III chalil-ganSs
with hardened criminals. a Naslvllle
naper cordially reports one lou OF seven vi
eight boys, white ana coloreu, hono Hi0ie
than II years Old
Eleven hundred thousand dollars Vi the
| 81 500 pOO capital needed to Dullu the new
mill at Lewiston, Maine, is suDscrioeu' an, anu
the balance is likely to come IN soon. my ne
stocGholders want Governor Blasted to call
SoSsinm Of the Legislature this winter so
that they can work under charter
DR.. johnson dead doubtless has hlgher
opinion Of France than he ever Iiau iitllih,
fhe is permitted to know that the military
mthorities have supplied large quantities
of Ten to the soldiers in North Africa. The
experiment is said to be popular, the dle-
agreeable flavor Of the Tumslan wafer nav
ing caused general complaint
Hunger mt an end to the recent strike
ofthe Venetian gondoliers, which hau us
| beginning in encouragement prouuGeu ny
| the new steamboats, on the canals anu theiT
nopularity, The people of Venice, II af-
near. do not feel one-half as badly over the
| dissertation of their romantic waterways as
| do tourists. 10 whom time is no object, ana
anew sensation the principal thlhS 10 I'e
| for.
The men employed in the tunnel now
| heng constructed under the bed OF the
| Hudson River have of late become subject
| toa peculiar and painful ailment that Is
| thoupht TO result from the compressed ar,
| by the aid of which the tunnel is being con-
structed. The complaint is sort OF cur
yature of the spine, and those attacked WIN
it are bent up like a halt-open lAcAKhne,
and suffer circulating pain
A philadelphia court has decided that a
beoucst 10 fit Il young man for the ministry
is gift fora religious purpose ANA 10 Do
valid must be made at least thirty days be-
fore the testator's death. The law requlr-
ing this lapse of time in gifts oil TINS Kind,
wa; intended to prevent persons from dolhS
Injustice 10 those having natural claims
upon them by disposing OF their properly
when at the point OF death III Il manner III
tended to propitiate Deity
Rather strange story comes IRON rus
burg relative to a former Cleyelshu fanny
Thr wife of Rev. Robert McCutcheon, a
Gentleman well known to the sporting fra
ternitv. fell i'll aud died last week ut the ST.
Charles hotel in Pittsburg. Upon an eX'
animation of the property left by deceased,
yalise was discovered containing roll OF
bills amounting to $3.50. As the husband
is very sick, the money will be placed III the
hands of persons who will see that the III
terest of the children, who are at present IN
Cleveland, are not jeopardized.
Cleveland Herald: To give some idea oil
the difficulty under which the East Cieye-
lard Railroad Company has recently Ia
bored by reason of the prevalence oil PINK
eve - IL may he stated that of 100 head OF
sio,k in the barr,s of the Euclid and Pros
pect street lines. on Euclid, near wilson
avenue. all but twelve horses ana elglt
mules have suffered from the disease. VI
these twenty-iour have so lar recovered u
tobe wnrkeJ Ofthe ninety head OF stock
at the Garden street barns, ali nave peti
attacked. and only about half can now be
uSei
Deeds of transfer of about 100 farms il
the towns Of Bethlehem, New Scotland
Cumberland and Wateryliet, n; y, Wer,
filed in the Clerks office at Albany, last
week. The deeds are from the representa-
tiyes of the estate of Stephen Van Rens
salaer to Walter S. Church. The lands II
question constitute part OF the orlglha
mnnomnl grant from the Brtist govern
mcnt TO Killian Van Rensselaer,, which
comprised about 10000 acres; Inc con
yeyance also includes ~ farms III rhe 'oW ,i
of Nassau. Rensselaer, county. ms VII
mote Cnlonel Church one of the largest
landed proprietors III tne ota.e, Us 'h'
farms range from 800 to 2'Uvo acres eaoh'
A band of outlaws raided the town Q
Bullion, in Idaho, some days ago, ana helo
undisputed possession OF the place lol
several hours. One of the hrst places una
Bill Kearne the leader OF the gang, en!eieu
was the office of the Gold and SILVER mlnlllt
Company, where he ordered H. steven
son, the bookkeeper, at the muzlle vi ~
volyer, to draw check for So,Vp ~ M
favor. Stevenson obeyed, but wheh heur
ney put his pistol down and began 70 iol,
up the check Stevenson seized the pistol
quick as n flash, leveled 1t at kearney, am
ordered him to return the cheek; hehIhe,
had no alternative but to comply, anu l.l
the place very cresttallon, nor was o'eNeii
son disturbed again.
Speaking of the continued immigration
from Canada to this country, the m9ntrea
Star saws; There were six thousand NOR
immigrants came to this country IN lSo
than there were in 1880. There were als'
less immigrants from Canada to the uhlle'