The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

The construction of pcnitentiary in
Pueblo is progressing rapidly.
The telegraph line between Saltillo and
Piedras Negras will soon be completed.
A company has been organized to work n
quarry of fine marble near Senguis, Micha.
can.
A West Point, Georgia, negro was bitten
by rat two years ago, and is still suffering
from the wound.
The Ashland TENN New Era has seen a
leaf of tobacco that was raised in Mont
gomcry county in 1872.
Out of iorty-six cases returned by the
Bib county, Georgia, grand jury, thirty.
SIX OF them were against negroes.
The oldest senator is Mr.. Morrill, of Yer.
mont, who Is II; the youngest is Mr.. Aid
rich, of Rhode Island, who is 10 years old.
AT the annual election Of directors of the
Hannibal st. Joseph road, Jay Gould and
Russell Sage retired by their own request,
Wild turkeys are plentiful in the country
adjacent to New Orleans on account
OF the protection accorded them by the game
laws,
A Dr. LIGHT has arrived in Vera Cruz from
New orleans for the purpose of competing
Tor the 100000 offered for a sure remedy
against yellow fever
1t is said that the concession for the rail
road from the Puebla coal mines to the gulf
has been transferred to the Mexican
National railroad company.
Gen. Schcnck, after suffering long from
bright $ disease, began six months since n
mllk diet, and is greatly improved in
health, if not wholly cured.
There are still on the English pension list
the names OF servants of Queen Charlotte,
who draw fl20 Is Id annually, and flO is
paid to those of George III,
The real value of the necklace that the
khediye OF Egypt sent to General Sher-
mans daughter, is $4,000, though the pa
pcrs reported the sum at $4,000
Many of the smaller canals in Venice are
10 DC converted into streets, and the gon-
dolas are threatened with absolute extinc-
ton through concession to the steamers.
Queen Victoria has now reigned longer
than did Queen Elizabeth. On October %
she completed the forty fifth year of her
reign, which was the term of Elizabeths.
"finkeye" has spread with great rapidity
among the horses in Cincinnati. There are
more than one thousand of them down with
it now. The disease is not often fatal but
1t disables the animals for long time,
The st. Louis & San Francisco railroad
company has filed for record in the former
CITY deed of trust to New York institu-
ton for S3O,0O00O0. The Choctaws have
granted the right-ot-way through their
territory.
Both of Queen Isabella youngest daugh.
terS are soon to be married-the Infanto
Eulala TO an Austrian archduke. Queen
Christmas brother, and the lnianta Maria
della Paz to the heir apparent to the crown
of Portugal.
Chicago Is about to open two new schools,
at a cost of 100000 each. There will then
be 10 public school-housos in the city, with
an attendance OF G000O children, and there
are 5000 more pupils who can only be ac-
commodated half day each
a new solution to the growing perplexi-
ties in the question of public libraries how
much and what kind of fiction they should
furnish, is ollered.by an English gentleman,
q member ofparliament, who thinks the
best way is to establish children's libraries
which shall aim to form correct taste,
He oilers 81, 500 toward trial ofhis scheme,
According to jeff Davis statement in his
book on the Rise and Fall of the Confede.
rate government, the total amount of that
governments debt on October /, 1864, was
81, lF,910,OS, of which $5503i0,OOO was
funded debt, bearing interest. This did not
include the foreign debt, or cotton loan, as
1t was called, of 1920, 900, which was pro
yiueu Lor by ZoV.VVo bales OF cotton col
lected by the Confederate government.
The vera Cruz papers are very enthusi-
astic in their praises of the Conveniences
anu 9eautieS OF the exposition building at
orlIepai anu tney state that the exposition
ltseii, which VIII open the 10th of the COM
ing December, VIII be the most successful
eyer heio III the mexican republic. One
,hng Is certain, anu that is, no exposition
mas ever awakened so much interest
through-out the country as the one in
question.
Whne the French guests were at Provi-
dence, IL. l,, George Louis Cook, Jr., exhib-
tied q sword worn by Rochambeau, who
exchanged swords with, Gen. Nathan Miller
while brigadicr general of the militia of