The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-27
MlsCELLAN EOUS.

A son Of Hugh S.cCulloch hes been pros
pec,ipg for mineral iSnds in Bucking ham,
Va.
Cedar Keys and Ocals Flofids,srs said 10
be outstrippirg any towns in the state in
growth and enterprise.
Chalmers, who has been making Aes-on,
the.dog' shack fight against Lamar, received
a severe set back at Vcksburg.
Down in Dixie they are praisipg Kentucky
tor fasting and praying. The Ken,ucksn
who tasted and prayed is yet to be heard
from.
Quite number of southern exchanges
have published Jere Blacks reply to Ipger.
soil. They have failed entirely to publish
what b b ssys.
During a recent entertainment at Norfolk,
W, The boy orator, j. Harry Shannon, Of
Manchester, made decided hit by reciting
Senasor Mahone's ben Hill speech" in tbs
senate.
The colored people of Nashville have
formed cic,y for the suppression of mis-
| cegenation. 1t is said that the society has 80
far caused the arrest of eight persons charged
with this offcnse
Hon. E mel Barksdale, candidate for gov.
ernor of Mississippi, says he is not in sym.
pathy with little "Bunne" Chslmers in his
feeble q d futile efforts 10 defame and de.
preciate Senator Lamar.
The improvement Of the president 90
alarmed hi. ply sicisns that they determined
to turn a barber loose upon him., The bar
Der did the business, and at last accounts the
doctors were correspondingly happy.-Atlan-
t. Constitution.
Alderman Dug%er visited the Chattanooga
, SS;Gspitul and found one man there, who was
fl cted only with the itch; another man
had been there two weeks simply with the
/ .'nm.ch ache. He also found a woman
there whom he learned was visited nightly
by men,. t
Ch,ttsnoooa Times: The gentleman who
st,emn,ed 10 dish up for the louisville
Commercial the C. 'le banquet Mt the Stanton
rouse, given Thursds, \. July Is, in honor oil
Governor Brown and h. party, must have
attended and partsken eA, husively OF the
seductive liquids. The accom- Is msudlin
al incohe. ent.
While the president was lying, in his bed
suffering from q W, uld- be sssassin's wound,
and Unaware Of what was going on outside
| OF mis- sick.room, he became the owner of
quite large farm in Aexandrls county,
Virginia, within view of the white house,
which was bought in by his agent TO save a
mortgage held by General Garfield and Jere
Black.
A little girl named Mslcomb. living in the
neighborhood Of Doe Hill, Virginia. went
out to the woods 10 play, accompanied BY
| her dog, one day last week, when she sud :.
denly came upon a number of wild turkeys.
The dog gave chase, and, in the alright, u
very large gobber perched upon fence.
The litilo heroine seizei 1t from below,
dragged IL to the ground and bore it home In
triumph. The turkey weighed about twenty
pounds.
| Little interest and sympathy were aroused
among the negroes of Orangeburg county,
the Charleston News and Courier says, and
there is even disappointment 1T the prospect
of his recovery. The very fact that the
white people were so prompt in their ex-
pressiOns Of regret and indignation seems to
have aroused the suspicious of the freedmen,
This is supposed TO indicate the alteration of
the negroes for General Grant.
There was an old man living in Alexar.
dris whose personal history would make an
interesting volume, he is highly educated
and most pleasant aud interesting CONVEX
tionalst. He is living the life or hermit,
but none but himself knows why. Ha is the
son of former attorney general Of Mary>
land, and member of a democratic presi-
dents cabinet, and was himself AZ one time
commonwealth Attorney for one of the
richest counties in the state.