The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-08
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INK around IN AuSsrIll,
Ex-senator Roscoe Conklmg is announ-
ced to speak at the Minnesota state fair in
September.
Mr. Whittier will write a preface to the
forthcoming collection Of letters By the
late Lydia Marie Child.
MillaiS at the age of 10 was receiving
salary Of 81 800 year for preparing designs
for a London silyersmith.
John Bright has brought the writings of
Janet Hamilton, Scotch peasant into
public notice in England.
Robert Browning has promised to sit to
Miss Clara Moutabla for bust, for which
she has u commission from one OF his adj
mirers.
Mario, the great tenor ,inger, has almost
entirely recovered from his recent sickness
and is going to London soon, to visit his
daughters.
Queen Victoria's christening gift to her
reat-grandson, the infant son OF Prince
William, Of Prussia, was massive silver
laving-cup.
ia correspondent states that there.are not
more than fifty American. in Egypt This
is highly creditable TO the intelligence of
the American people.
The Hon. John w. Bookwalter has gone
to Europe. Mr., Bookwalter is the gentle
man who ran the wrong way OF the track
FOR governor of Ohio last tall.
Col. Charles l.. Green the founder and
for long the editor of the Boston Post, cele-
brated the seventy-eighth anniversary of
his birthday on Saturday last
Kate Shelley, the Iowa girl VINO saved a
train from destruction, has invested her
money in land and is going to school for
live years. She is sixteen years old now.
Florida butterfly hunters get an average
OF five cents apiece for their captures. Some
rare specimens bring much more, and
one kind, that is very scarce, brings $40
pair.
MIR. James Russell Lowell and President
Eliot are among the Cambridge gentlemen
mentioned for the republican nomina-
ton for congress in the 5th Massachusetts
district.
ss.N Mr.. William y. Frye, an aged blacksmith
OF Portsmouth, y. IL, has beaten the anvil
and blown the bellows, as apprentice, Jour
neyman and proprietor i'll one shop fifty
two years.
w. w, Corcoran, the Washington philan-
thrOpist, has gone to Deer Park, Maryland,
In much improved health. He was accom-
panied by his family and Senator Davis, of
West Virginia.
terday unhonored. A cheap excursion
from Washington to flarper's Ferry took
thousands OF people to the sCene of the old
hero's historic blow for freedom.
There is Chinaman in San Francisco
with red hair. His Countrymen treat him
with supreme respect At the table he has
the best OF everything, and at all ceremo-
MES he takes precedence.
The custom-house in Portsmouth is said
to be the only building ever erected by the
general government in New Hampshire. 1t
is of granite, was built some twenty-five
years ago, and cost, inclusive of the site,
Sl6i,6l7.
The ]. II. Haverly Amusement company,
capital $500 900, has been organized, with
j. II. Haverly, who is to be president, Hen
ry Mann and l.. 2. Gilmore, Of New York,
and G. ii. Mcconnell, of Chicago, as in.
corporators.
On one of his late birthdays, Isaac Hol.
den, of the British house of commons, who,
since he was 20, has built himself a palace
costing $4,000, gave feast, on which oc-
casion each of his daughters found check
for $4,000 uuder her napkin.
The Kansas City Times says that DIR.
Riches, who has been lecturng on Jesse
James, abandoned his work because Frank
James threatened to kill him if he contin-
ued on the rostrum, Fhere seems to be no
reason now why Frank should not be par
doned.
The celebrated race-horse Luke Black =
burn was sold for breeding purposes last
Saturday, and on Saturday Governor Black
burn, of Kentucky, b man after whom he
is named Joined an Episcopal church in
Louisville. The entire Blackburn family is
now of the turf.
Colorado constoh,. had q warrant sor
the arrest ot circus man tor an ." "i any ioi
snnlt bnt thc circus man hetonh HIM a., 20
the lions care. and safely enscnnred tbar w
in tainted tbai constable and ;nvitad liz bi,,
in. The constable withdrew with lie rr,,.i
rant unseryed Wv" ms war
u : r,,,,o.od that a., ,,.,,, , r.
u Is rumored that the well-knoTn fru-
sge'.iy VI .llt ureyy iailig ~ at the bottom
ol t.e OVERWHELMINGLY enHn % 81 .I tne ceremony OF