The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-15
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Where are You going my pretty maid p
TO sing in the opera sir - khe Eaid

NnVic utt YOU gong, my preUy maid z"
10 sing in the opera, sir, " she said.
What ~ your talent, my pretty maidG"
:, Adivorcc and two runaways, sir, " she said
T. s'--she was success first night
A law enforcing surnames on Mussul
inen has just been promulgated in Algiers-
The supreme court of New York has
ordered the arrest of General Clinton b.
Fisk on the charge of deirauding Francis A.
Fogg of $4,000.
A goat disturbed worship in n 81. Louis
church by trotting up the main aisle,
mounting the platform steps and trying to
eat the green fringe OF the pulpit drapery,
Col Clifton h. Breckenridge is on aspi.
rant for the democratic nomination for
congressman at large in Arkansas. Heis "a
son OF the late John G. Breckinridge and is
mentioned as man of considerable ability.
Charles Ross, a son Of the Mrs. Ross who
made the first United States flag as adopted
by the committee of the continental con-
gress, is an inmate OF the San Francisco
poor-honse.
Horace Greeley, before his death, said
that there were 5000 college-bred men
walking the streets Of New York city with.
out knowledge of where their next meal
would come FROM
Jumbo, the mammoth elephant, ate one
Bouuus VI OnlOuS Ou tUt NONuEo
across the Atlantic, and consumed consid.
cradle whisky. The freight bill was 81, 800.
IL took eighteen horses TO dray the animal
up Broadway on trucks.
Telephone communication has been es.
tablished between Covington, Tennessee,
and Plum Point, where the government
boats are at work improving the channel
of the river. The distance between the two
| places Is fourteen miles.
BosroS, April l0.-A Chinese lodge OF
Free Masons was instituted in this city last
night, large proportion of the four hun.
dred Celestials in town being initiated. The
affair leaked out through enquiries at hard
ware stores for knives three feet long to be
used In the ceremonial. These could not
be furnished, and the heathen were sup.
piled with sword bayonets.
NEw YoRk, April I0.-Chang Chi Lang. n
giant from China, eight feet six inches high,
arrived to-day from Europe The giant
was accompanied by his wife, u little person
less than five feet in height with a pretty
face and feet scarcely four inches long. The
par were driven to n boarding.hou In
Ninth street, where the giant reposed wear.
lily In two chairs, He will be exhibited
soon.
Mrs. Wilcox, u daughter of Andrew Jack.
son Donaldson, and widow of General viii.
cox, OF Tennessee, has been removed from
The money-order Office of the post. office de.
pattment 1.-THE instance OF Representative
Hauk and Moore. She was appointed 10
the position by Judge Key, when postmas.
ter general, Mrs. Wilcox is grand.niece
OF Andrew Jackson, and was the only child
ever born In the White House.
John Tests, of Harrison, near Mount
clemens, led colt TO the wa,er.trough,
holding one end of the halter tightly in his
rignt hanu., The colt suddenly Jumped,
giving violent JERK TO TO the halter, and
giving such snap TO the Young mans
body that his neck was dislocatcd. Tho
iamlly saw 1t, and ran to him, but he was
dead by the time they reached him, IL
was very singular accident.
Mr. Saunders introduced bill for the rc.
Net OF the Wichita, Caddes, and affiliated
bands OF Indians II appropriates so 900
oOO, The same TO be invested In United States
bonds and held in trust for the Indians
named, and the interest TO be paid them
seml-annually, in consideration OF the rc.
linqnishment by the Wichtas of their !
right to about forty million acres of land |
in the tract within Indian terri. |
tory and Kansas, and conceded 10 have |
been their original home.
A Maine justice of the peace used this
OV'emohN "tu Hiock Wcuulng;
Beneath this roof In pleasant weather
join this man and maid together
Let none but Hin who rules the thunder
Tut this man and maid asunder
The courts held the marriage was LEGAL
anu the town had to support the wife, who
was abandoned by her husband, althongb |
! set up the claim that the marriage was a
bogus one. ""'
>, Great Paul, the new monster bell for NJ
Penl's cathedral In London, was success.
MY rung two weeks ago nt the foundry In
'onghborouRh. II was swung at the time
~ its own head.stock, being supported two
eel from the ground ON temporary timber.
ng u was lifted by fifty.ton iron craze
'nu nineteen men were required to ring A.
properly, though four could make Il spcnk
While shut In by walls and houses the hell
vas heard seven miles away. n is
aid that this Is the first case of n hall
u any thing like the weight OF Great Paul
'eing swung; All the large bells of Russia
re struck.-they are never swuns-wbiie
he great bell OF No,rc Dame al Paris h
worked by trcadle or some other mcchan.