The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-17
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A Virginia postotlice has been named
Malone.
Gounod is said to be writing the music Of
an opera to be called lies lconOclastes."
Mr.. Gladstone's brief holidays are usual
ly spent at one Of Lord Rosebery's seats
near London.
Chrstendom. The government is adopting
the medicines of civilization"
A dramatization of George Sands "Mau-
pratt has failed in Chicago, though hand
somely put on the stage and well acted.
Judge Thurman, of Ohio, believes a
stringent license law to be the only proper
method OF regulating the liquor traffic.
General Grant says he has not invested q
single cent i'll stock speculations, in which
it vas widely reported he had lost his
capital.
Not only arc the houses of the British
cabinet ministers watched, bnt the minis
tiers go to and from parliament guarded by
constablesin plain cloths.
Anna Dickinson, has, as a personator OIL
Hamlet, the cordial Endorsement Of Schuy.
Ter Colfax. lie thinks her Dane better
one than Booths or Barrett's.
! Cetywayo's visit to England is indefi.
nitely postponed by the government. 1t is
unprecedented that he would be turned to
announcement political account in London.
Hazlitt, the famous critic. lived in the
house where Milton dictated Paradise
Lost" and worked in the room where the
great bard played his organ.
John Bright's head seems to grow more
delightfully."- level the older he gets. He
now says that some day the United States
VIII be the greatest nation on the face OF
the globe.
Alexander H. Stephens has so much
work on hand now that he has to employ
constantly two secretaries one to revise the
proof sheets of his history, and one to at
tend to correspondence.
Commenting ON the confirmation of the
reports OF the Conkling conference at Cen
eral Arthur's house last year, the Spring
held Republican says Public men lie
oitener than the newspapers.
An angry young man struck his brother
with stone ut Woodstock, Virginia, and
then, thinking he had killed him, and be.
ing stricken with remorse, committed sui
eide, The brother was only stunned.
| William d. Walcott, of Utica, offers to
give $4,000 to free Whltestuwn seminary
from debt and establish the venerable In.
stitution upon n new basis, provided like
amount Is subscribed by Others within six
months.
A marriage, is to take place in Boston
shortly, in which the BRIDE the bridegroom
ana the officiating clergymaA, though not
related, hear the same name. There is a
chance that the intended groom may be
come mixed in the shuttle aud get away.
Paul III. lIayne has been forced by i'll.
health to decline the delivery of poem or
address at Emory College commencement,
ana also the writing ola poem for the un
Yelling oithe Charleston Confederate monu.
nent.
General Rosecrans has published In the
san francisco papers an address to his CON
stituehts, lie seeks reelection on the
ground that he can make himself more USE
iul IMAM republican in the matter of Chi.
nese legislation.
Miss Camp, who is one of the three steno.
graphic reporters enrHeed to make vcrba.
TIM report OF tie oe'J.se in the s,ar-route
cases Is said To DO Dung lady of remark
able talent. Although recently learning
snort.hand. she has already taken rank
with the leading reporters.
!. A, West, a Cincinnati grandmother,
failed in business, and with 800, all the
money he could raise, went to Chicago To
speculate with IL, in the wild hope OF re.
gaining fortune. one venture wiped ont
his small capital, and then he com mitted
SUICIDE. ''N''
Mr.. John Francis Clark, who at present
sits IN the Judges box at EPSON, and de.
clares each year the winners of the Derby
and Oaks, has occupied that post for thirty
years. Ills father and grandfather held [,
before him. IL has been in the family
seventy'six years, and he will be succeeded
by his son.