The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Atlanta had 100000 fire Saturday.
Gonzales, President Of Mexico, is danger
ously ill.
The Canadian Farmers Insurance Com
pany has suspended
The Marquis of Lorne and suite have ar.
rived at Halifax.
Two hundred destitute Russian Jews have
arrived at llamburEand ask aid to proceed
to New York.
Senator Hoar's dinner to Judge Gray,
which was attended by thirty guests, cost
$1,000. This is official.
&. L. Blanchard, of Buffalo, Assistant
Teller in the Farmers National Bank, EN-.
bezzled 81 200 and fled.
The richest man in Ireland is dead. His
name was Francis Wise; he was a distiller.
and left Sl50C0,0O0.
Harvard has received gift of 500, 600 to
cndow new proiessorship, which will be
filled by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
President Pond, of Bangor Theolorical
Seminary, is dead. He had been connected
with that institution for sixty years.
The Pittsburg Dispatch, in view of Anna
Dicklnson's Hamlet, suggests John McCul-
Tough IN the character OF Ophelia.
Faro is played in New Albany, Indiana.
by club whose members take an oath
never to give testimony about it.
The New York Tribune would like to see
Senator Joseph Il. Hawley candidate for
PRESIDENT in ISL So would lawlcy.
Henry i, Rockwell, Secretary of the
Imted states Fish Commission, dropped
dead Mt his residence in Washington.
The men who engaged in u prlze-iight
near Ashtabula last tall, have been LYING i'm
JAM at that town ever since, and have iust
been indicted.
An imprisoned girl at Burr Oak, Mich.
gan, cut every button from her clothing
and swallowed them, in an ellectual al
tempt at suicide.
the armadillo is in danger of being at
lacked, and happens to be near precipice.
II VIII contract itself into ball and roll it,
self over.
The New York reporters are slow set.
They have been noSlng around for n month
TO mud the $4,000 Grant fund, and have
not got clcw TO il.
Amherst College will receive $500 600 for
us library from the estate of the late loci
Giles, a Boston lawyer, who was a member
ofthe class of 1925.
The tlat-head hussar, u fish found in rs.
seqwbo, will march in droyes over dry
land, as fast MS a man ordinarily walks
using It's serratcd fins Tor legs.
John w. Logan, porter at Carter 4,
onlihS grocery store, IN Memphis, was
crushed ny an elevator recently and re-
celved injuries which may prove fatal.
Gamoetta recently said that the mortality
among the French troops in Tunis was only
900 a confidential report OF the Red
cross Society states that the losses are
nearer $1,000.
The North Australian natives dctcst tho
'hlheSe, except rs food, and have lately
eaten several members of Chinese colony
which was engaged in collecting biche do
mere for the Pekin market.
In Yorkshire, England, lately, a BURGLAR
was found IN u very tight place indeed
HIS legs were hanging down chimney in
winch nc had stuck, and it was necessary to
axe uown the mantclpiecc and part of the
chimney to release him.
The Swiss Legislature has had an cxccn.
uonally active session this wear. espccinliv
IN regard to sanitary legislation, and Tho
vehement protests OF four medical members
Notwithstanding, has decided in favor of
compulsory vaccination by So TO %.
~ providence woman went no further 10.
ward numbering an enemy than to ,,ct y
raise advertisement of her death into the
papers, with the age set down AT ~ wears
anu the Miss inserted to remind Inc
rcauer that she was still unmarried.
MRS Rchccca Rankin of Ncwcomerstown,
ONO, wealthy widow, killed herself Sat,
urday, because she was afraid that sLc
might become poor. There is man an
,hc West side who has contemplated killnr
himself iearlhg that he may become rich.
ms friends have assured him that there is
luu1nger ana ne is rcconcilcd. But he IL
watching The markets anxiously.
nonIy 7, Caldwell, Judge of the United
Kansas, was badly burned Wednos,lnv
morning by the explosion of a package Of
gnlorinS OF potash, which he throw into the
ire Inc accident occurred at his house.
y,orner OF scott and Eighth s,cccts. Little
hock. Inc doctors say his eyes are not
permanently injured, and that his sight
a iavoritc theme for debating societies IN
olu tunes used to be, "Why does God allow
churches to burn DOWN" aud Il was never
SATISFACTORILY settled. Another, and new
.uup'c III the same line, can be dcduced from
the fact that Deacon Ellis, of tho Conrrc,a.
tional church, of Rumford, Rhode Island
while opcninga bottle OF unfcrm ented wine
peiore the communion service, cut his
hand and died OF lock law, MS
ne jewish population Of the world IL
estimated by Professor Bruniati M TO0o.
w persons, Of whom more thnn ,oO Coo
are IN Europe. OF these, Russia contains
aoout 2,,W,VO; Austria. Hungary. LOO.
~ Germany, 6c0,0c0, and Roumania
iWVw. Thus, these four States contain
apou, osWWo Jews while Turkey con.
.ai MS only 10000 England and Holland
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