The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-29
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Out vi stWenty-tWO pIiuttTs III Atnens,
Georgia, not a single one uses intoxicating
liquors.
AT Perry, Georgia, last week, hunter
killed O bird resembling in every respect a
quail, except that its feathers are of pure
white colorr
Alligator stories in the Georgia and
Alabama papers take the place allotted TO
panther sensations in their northern con.
temporaries.
A boy baby recently born in Lancaster
John Franklin Thomas Edman Andrew
Calvin Wesley.
There are now in the three southern pro-
yinces OF. Ireland as many troops as Lord
Raglan had when he landed in the Crimea
to fight the Russians.
One hundred and seventy-ilve ladies' par
took of the Sorosis dinner IN New York the
other day, and no male person was allowed
to be present, Let the Masons put this in
their piI o and smoke IL.
The Mississippi river at Arkansas City,
Arkansas, is eighty miles wide, the water
being up to the second story Of the houses
in several towns. and from six to fourteen
feet deep for the whole eighty miles.
A southern city is said TO boast of
colored lodge, part OF whose title is, "Tbe
grand council OF the ancient orders of the
sons and daughters brothers and sisters
of Moses, of the United States and world
at large" The secret grip lanes n man for
six months.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 22-Elder
Morgan, presiding elder of the Mormon
church for Virginia, North Carolina, Ten.
nessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
left to-day for Utah with one hundred con.
verts, gathered in the above states AT
Nashville he will be joined by fifty or
seventy five more.
Oswego Palladium This morning an
old graybeard rat Of immense size was
caught in the Continental elevator and
placed in an old dry goods-box In the street.
Three cats were thrown In the box with
him, and he whipped them in one, two,
three order. Three terriers were then in,
troduccd, and also retired badly whipped.
The rat was finally dispatched by water
spaniel.
The little ll-year.old darky who went
last week to the Georgia penitcntary for
five years was cut out for sinner. On
one occasion he ruined three fine oxen for
Joseph Hall by cutting their feet to pieces
with hatchet, On another, being told TO
bring n jug Of water, he did so, but Favored
II with u full supply OF earthworms In
order 10 see n chicken hop its livelest, he
put II in the fire and burned its feet of.
A young farmer near Springfield, Mass,
says he was working In n field when man
and a woman came along In carriage.
The man asked him II he would marry the
woman for $500 lie consented, and they
went to the nearest justice, who performed
the ceremony, lie shows the $500 M n
proof, and the justice bears him out In the
strange story. The mysterious bride ana
her companion rode away Immediately af.
ter the marriage, and no more is known of
hem.
In the win,cr of 1851. twenty.eight yenrs
ago, Dr. w. G. Avery, OF Greensboro, Ala.
while hunting, lost gold watch, hunting
case English lever. This watch was re.
turned to him one day last week by n
colored man. who found II on that dny.
about one mile from the house, In the
woods. The watch Is In good condition
and, considering the length oi time Il has
been exposed TO the weather, IL comparn.
lively bright. II was identified by The in.
itials OF the owner engraved on the outside
Of the case.
john Sherman Is United States marshal
for New Mexico, having been appointed by
ex.President Hayes. He Is likewise q
nephew Of Senator Jehn Sherman. To-day
he was requested TO resign. II Is ALLEGED
that Sherman embexzled The public funds.
and he was either indicted. or about 10 be, but
was granted immunity IN consideration Of
his friends making good his deficit. Captain
II. +. Brown, OF New MEXICO. formerly an
Ohio man, 10 an applicant for the vacancy,
having behind him Ohio and Missouri con.
grsssional influence. s.--tCincinnasi Enquirer.