The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

Prince Bismarck has of late taken to
wearing spectacles, a habit by which his
looks are by no means improved.
The publication of Thackeray's sup
pressed preface TO his Irish Sketch Book'
has been indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Anthony Trollope is varying the tolls
OF the novelist by the preparation OF BIZ
ography Of Lord Palmerston.
Mr.. Tennyson spends the summer in
Hampshire in secluded place, chiefly, it
is said, to escape American tourists.
Marquis Rays, who organized the unfor-
tunate colony in the South seas, has been
arres ed at Barcelona, and will be extra.
dted to France.
Mr.. Turtle, once an intimate friend and
co'ndjutor Of Spohr and Mendlessohn, and
Tor nifty years organist of Westminster
Abbey, is dead, in his Slst year.
palace.car, is being built in Sacrament
10, California, for Mrs. Leland ,Stanford's
use. 1t is to be finished entirely according
to her suggestions and taste, and is to cost
SO 900 to $4,000.
"A bachelor of fifty years, residing in
GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, is about TO marry a lady
he has not seen since he was boy. This
should prove valuable pointer to other
girlc.
Swain, the judge advocate general, in a
report to the secretary of war on the petit
ton for the release ofSergeant Mason, holds
that the proceedings of the court-martial
were irregular and illegal.
ode Cute Sache Seight"-"The Good
Cause Triumphs"--is the heading the
Volksblatt gives to report of the acQuita
OF an alleged violator of the Sunday law in
CINCINNATI, where the evidence of the de-
iendant's guilt was overwhelming.
New Orleans editors are carefully reading
a bill just reported to the Louisiana legis-
lature which imposes fine and imprison-
ment on people who send challenges and
tgth duels, and make it the duty of courts
TO specially charge grand juries in the mat
F ter.
In Montana, on day fixed for we'd
ding, the bridegroom did not come to time.
lie was sued for breach of promise, and
showed that all the hours of the day speci-
ned he was freed by hear. Some men
couldn't be unlucky if they wanted to.
The corn exchange of Little Rock passed
resolutions declaring that state quarantine
regulations against yellow fever cannot be
a proper safeguard to life or to business in
terests, and asking Senator Garland to do
his utmost for Federal regulations and in
spection.
The Modern Argo mentions a Quincy
blonde who entertains four beaux at once
when she is riding in her hammock. The
man who marries woman who can talk
at that rate will soon be wishing that she
had fallen from her hammock with dull
thud.
Two Indiana farmers quarrelled about
the ownership of a wrench and went to law
The cost of court and counsel fees have
reached $l,7OO, both litigants have mort.
gagged their property to raise the money
and the case is continued. The betting is
now entirely as to which lawyer in the
case will eventually get the wrench
recent visitor to the grave of s. s.
, prentiss, near Natchez, Mississippi, found
1t bearing evident marks of neglect. Ii was
overgrown with wild briars and weeds, and
the little marble headstone was hardly Wis
ible, while all around were magnificent and
carefully kept tombs of men whose names
were blanks IN comparison with the fame
: of Prentiss.
The Washington correspondent of til,
Providence Journal writes; "Mrs Kat,
Chase is at Edgewood with her daughters
1t is announced that they will soon b,
| joined by her son, Willie, who has hereto
fore remained with his father, and g,
abroad. They have planned fall excur
!, sion, on Shetland ponies, through the high
/ Some time ago William II. Vanderbilt
r presented the old Vanderbilt homestead a
: New Dorp, Staten Island, to his son George
I The old club grounds and race course which
n are part OF the estate, have for years bser
t held under a lease by Mr.. Burbank. It il
o said that when the lease expires Georg
! Vanderbilt will cause the property to b.
used for other purposes.
Alfred II. Pease, the pianist and com
poser, fell dead last Thursday in st. Loui
y and thus revealed his whereabouts. IL
b had been missing for some time. A post
norton examination showed that dealt
s. was the result of congestion of the brain
d lsuperinduced by intoxication. Mr.. Peas
was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and abou
y forty years of age. He was the compose
~ ola number popular songsand a brillian
7 and attractive pianist.