The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Al s ~ smashed his organ with an AK at
l,;;S-feld. Ohio, and made u bonfire ofthe
k!eces
me Australian cricket. team takes away
-. rncIand al ,00Oin hard cash. BY the
~ match at Remington Oval they netted
ryar t9e0.
The National Dress Society, of Great
Ipsain offers prize of $50 for THE design
W gmae garment combining ease, ele-
,.see comfort and health The divided
ssrt' has been condemned.
Norwegian missionary in Zululaud re-
-, hat ne has baptized twenty adult
gSin. ,ince the war, aud that thirty others
IN hopeful condition. Day and night
'sSools are in full operation,
nj the S235,00 assigned to the National
I mary, in the French budget this year,
sSioi L for binding and 100000 for cata-
iosSlpg The process of isolating the Ii.
Mary from other buildings has cost over
|SlNOcc0
vicor de Lesseps, son of his father, tells
| ofbis performance of his father But my
srsus, father was not wanting to the occa-
ros. He had around his neck u false col
a, al English make. He did not hesitate
nv A moment. He tore it of and danced on
n This was his response to the insolence
. Of the invader. "
The regular passenger train from Nir-
;oia 10 Reno now has an electric signal.
so1j worked by Il small battery. The wire
INNS through the train. When pulled it
brraks connection and causes small whiS-
isto blow loudly. Any number OF signals
| can thus be given by pulling or relaxing
,he wire, and thus the conductor can lele-
graph 10 the engineer.
An Oregon paper has a story of man
who in twenty-five years had accumulated
! through a small business fortune ofmany
,borssnd dollars. His wife concealed the
money in a place only known to herself.
Lad, week she died suddenly, and the
srctest search has failed to reveal the
| place Of deposit. The husband Is distracted
| an account of his double loss.
An envelope marked as containing 5000
was found 10 hold nothing but blank paper
on being delivered byan express messenger
At a Fort Wayne bank. The pu2zling ques-
| ion for Jury to decide is whether the
money was in the package when the COM
| panv received it or fraud was perpetrated
| by the bankers who sent it. Positive proof
| II either theory is not obtainable.
Ira Townsend, long known as "the her
nit Of POwelton," died in the Philadelphia
slmshOusc the other day. For years he
lived in lime box not more than eight feet
Nuare, from which he had to be dislodged
hyiorce when the cxigencies of local I'M
pNyements made his occupancy of the
lace no longer possible, His relatives in
Vermont are in comfortable circumstances
At Sheep Ranch, Calaveras county, Cali.
ania last week, young lady attempted
to take loaded revolver out of the drawer
da sewing machine, when the weapon was
isharged, The bullet struck her fairly and
glarely over the heart. She fell to the
ioOl dead as all supposed, but at once
zane up smiling. The steel ribs of her cor
sthad turned aside the bullet
The London Figaro says that Adellna
hit Is said to have accepted an engage.
nlt for South America during the season
NJ lA at so high a rate that, should she
NHomize her salary during her 1885 sea-
Na in the United States and her South
American fees, her fortune will be large
go1gh to enable her to reject with scorn
Atpaltry few hundred guineas a night she
llkely to be promised elsewhere"
NolOwa ohronicler of the doings OF tor.
,ldOes has equalled the artist In Georgia
rAorcorls that "a gentleman from Dooiey
VGln town last week, and in speaking Of
be storm in that county said that the
langest thing that happened there was
iAsl kettle was overturned and the bot.
ton blown clear through itself, resulting in
10 damage to it but turning the legs on
which it stood on the inside. New legs
Will have to be put on it"
Alter thorough discussion, the congress
u lurists at Cassell has unanimously an
'WeTed the important and much debated
question, Is the state bound to indemnify
condemned persons when acquitted on q
second trial?' IN the affirmative Only sucl
cases, Y is held, should be excepted il
Whlchthe accused has brought about his
own condemnation by pretended confession
or by concealment Of facts the stating OF
"hlch would have led to his acquittal.
Mr. Hammond, engineer and genera
manager OF an important Brazilian rail
Wy. wv pears strong testimony to the value
NeOliee as u preventive against miasmatit
TIe1S' lie instances the case Of Father
,avsnh, who, on q journey through mos
unhealthy country from Panama to tn,
sNgr tiatte, considered that he owed hi
t,atI 10 'he taking strong coffee, and men
WE !nat since the natives in pestilent dis
Mv's N Ecuador have taken to drinking i
vac Uea'h rate has fallen considerably.
n. twas thought that the location OF tn,
WY SsNeSo canal, in the vicinity of Fulton
,Es i9rH, would destroy the eel fisheries
n J. ,Si my years ago, produced an ayerag,
s,n Mu'y barrels daily, But they are still
SSsll there in large numbers. A whil
~ barrel OF them was being put on
"s Oottom gave way and the eel
- ~aNs ou N every direction. All bystand
:ohed IN catching them, and tinallN
IVY Were secured again.
9NI Canter, alias George Ripley. IN,
s.set who was released from Tho Eastern
s' ss, i,y last week, had completed 1
i,o =, vaIs imprisonment for raising tn,
NM .a sIv OF stock Of fire insurance com
nv, ,ol lne purpose of deceiying the com
All HS.f, WIN the show of n sound finan
s,b"sS' W. ID. Mailman, the president
s,nT Vunpany, who was concerned IN tn.
ns,, served shorter term. Canter ha.
- altogether, about thirty.two years IL
3, ,. "lss merchants met in conference
N. WASH Was ago IN London nj place calleC
van Ace Tong, otherwise club. Del
vi saV were present from Manchester, Liver
Y NJ, leeds, Birmingham, California, New
- uuu Bombay. II was decided To ask
My Ie appointment ola Chinese consul ,C
'Ic' Ell, and to send letters tovarious club.
or Ana, recommending emigration tC
~ s ,Ss ana Cyprus. Opium was discussed
rss guy " Trade Trade In it WAS condemned as "thc
s y s enterprise is steadily perseverinS
As S Not6 OF rcdceming the desert Of Sa
INN! means of ar,csan wells. A larr,
,osb oer OF wells have been sunb along Ia,
aevSs5n border, more than $50 in IN,
vW OF Constantine alone, ant
-. WIN Is advancing into tho I'm