The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Boston's Oldest inhabitant is dead-Mrs
Catharine Branch, aged H..
Justice Hunts mind has failed and he il
incapable Of writing his resignation.
| The Commercial Advertiser thinks (
printer should always marry Il good type o
| girl,
The San Francisco stock board has under
consideration d proposition to put wheat OIL
its call list.
The man who dug Aaron Burrs grave j:
still living at Princeton. His name is
James Wertz.
1t will require $5,0OO,OOO to transport the
Russian Jews to the United States and
Canada.
Pegasus was formerly winged horse
Now he is clipped donkey.--[ New Orleans
| Picayune.
! A Chicago dealer adyertises corsets 6r 10
cents. 1t is wonderful how cheap Jueezing
has become in this -c9ihasy.
The l8s to England by the last three
| Vars bad haryes;s is estimated at from
500 900 to $3.50, 100000 ayear.
Lieutenant 7. S. Plunkett United States
navy, of the steamer Michigan, was
drowned in the bay at Erie, while skating.
There are eleven pastors of Congregational
churches in Connecticut who have averaged
pastorate of over twenty-five years each.
The police department of Philadelphia
made 40, l26 arrests during the year 1881 an
increase, AS compared with the preceding
year, of Sll.
Vancouvers arsenal was closed recently
by an ORDER from the war department. The
supplies which were deposited there have
been removed to Olympia.
One-thrd of the Utah legislative session
has expired and only one bill of any impor-
lance has passed--that amending the char
ter of Salt Lake city.
An lrishman, in drunken stupor lay
down beside the railroad in SteubenvIlc,
Ohio and threw his arm over the rail A
passing train cut Off his hand.
There is financial panic in Dublin
New York Herald. We have often heard
pressing effect OF Irish bears,
1t is said that in Calcutta young lady
will rise at an afternoon visit and say, "ES-
cuse me, but | must 20 home for my 5
O'Clock fever Kenney in India.
The New Hampshire centennial home for
the aged, at Concord, had eleven inmates
last year, expanding SlS6S. II has per-
inanent fund of $4,000 which is constantly
increased.
Lieutenant Hayes, who lost his life with
General Custer ut the time of that fearful
massacre, left two orphan sisters, who are
now IN Washington in.sdestitute crcum-
stances.
a workman was examining hole which
he had just bored in q factory floor ut New
t'pnnpptinnt
destroyed by u red hot iron thrust through
from the other side.
Several rich men in Albany, n. Y, have
offered to assist in buying and fitting up
building for public library. 1t is the de.
sign to concentrate all the local libraries in
this general public one.
Richard Wagner is now living in strict
retirement with his family at Palermo. lie
ls going shortly to Greece in ORDER to make
studies on the spot for new opera drawn
from the Greek mythology.
Anna Dickinson will appear in the drama
at Topeka shortly, but not in Hamlet"
for spirits are prohibited there. Hamlet"
with the ghost left out would not be
thought of-lKansas City Journal.
A Denver reporter asked Alice Oates how
old she was, and she replied, 81 am -.
porter innocently, at which the little kicker
said she dctested newspaper reporters.
Twenty young Indian children from the
Usage agency, in the Indian Territory, will
soon 20 to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and
begin u course of study. All the expenses
of their education will he betrayed by the
Usage tribe.
A bill has been introduced in the Wiscon.
sin Legislature providing that If jury con-
Wet man of n capital crime, they shall at
the same time fix the penalty; but ii the
prisoner pleads guilty, the sentence shall
rest with the judge.
Enoch Pratts proposition for the cstab
lishment of n great free library in Balti
more has been accepted by the councils oi
that city. The acceptance carried with II
the duty of providing for an annual library
appropriation of $4,000.
EN-Treasurer Spinner, who is now eighty
years of age, perfected his famous autograph
when he was u young man, working ut har
ness.making In llerkimcr, n, y. lie prac
ticed writing II hour after hour, and his ole
partner said q year or two ugo that he had
seen rs much us two hundred sheets o
foolscap covered with the attempts.