The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


To restrain and punish crime in New
York City costs S5OO,OOO year. The
educational facilities cost but $4,000.
The president to-day nominated to be
nostmasters: Richard IL. Wray, Reidsville,
North Carolina; Dewitt c. Manguin, Dur
ham, North Carolina.
The late Colonel Forney's SON and two
daughters have formed a corporation in
Philadelphia known rs the Forney Pub
fishing company, with capital stock OF
10000,
In the senate executive session to-day
the following nominations We're rejected;
Samuel Seaburn,a as naval constructor; Pay
director James q. Wattmaugh as Pay
master.general of the navy,
A movement is on loot to consolidate the
cities of New York and Brooklyn. This
would make a city of 100000 inhabitants,
and place it second on the list OF the largest
cities in the world.
The superintendent of the mounted re-
cruting service has been ordered to for
ward sixty colored calvary recruits to
TOyah, on the Texas and pacific railroad,
for assignment to the tenth cavalry.
Eleven thousand eight hundred dollars
pay the yearly salaries of the Now
England governors, and the governor OF
Massachusetts, gets S. 900 of it. The gov
ernor of New Hampshire receives only $50 =,
Three men and dos now constitute
the population OF Monmouth City, Califor-
MIA. The three men have a deck of twenty
three cards with which to amuse them
selves, while the dog is LETT to his own re-
flec'ions and devices.
NJ Rouzeaud, the husband OF Madame
Nilsson, died, it is said, intestate. That
part of Madame Missions fortune, there
ore, which was deposited in the bank in
his name will, according to French law, be
divided with her husbands family.
Mr.. Montagu Williams OF the English
bar is versatile man. Before becoming a
barrister he was tutor, an officer in the
army an actor, dramatic critic, and a
dramatic author. He was successful in all
but most in the last capacity.
A hornets nest is said to be the best
polisher in the world for glass lenses. But
you want to do your polishing when the
hornet is not around to help you. For
what shall it profit man if he polish a
thousand lenses in one day and one hornet
catch him at it?
The will of Mr.. John Jones, the London
tailor, has Just been sworn to under per
sonal estate of more than 1859 900. His
bequest of art objects to the south Ken
sington museum provides that the articles
shall be kept in one collection and be not
LEM for exhibition.
The supreme court of the United States
granted this afternoon the prayer of James
NJ. Lydde, of New York, for leave to file 4
petition for writ of habeas corpus and OF
writ of certiorari in the Sergeant Mason
court martial case, and awarded the rule
TO show cause on the 9th of April, when
the court will hear arguments as to its iuris.
diction.
A clergyman writes to q northern jour-
nal and says ave shall keep Easter this
year on the anniversary of the day on
which the resurrection really occurred
The only real doubt now about the year OF
that great event is, whether it was A. y. .
or so. 1.-THE latter, the Paschal lull moon
fell that year on Thursday, April 6; the
crucilixion would be next day-April 7th
and the resurrection April 9th"
JOSEPH PULITZER, the able editor of the ST.
Louis Post.Dispatch, called at the Washing
tn Jail to see Guiteau. The latter rushed
tWdrds Pulitzer and seiZing him by the
hand exclaimed; why, how do you do
MIR. Schurz! | know your brother very wei
have spoken from the same platform witt
him. How much you do look like him.
Pulitzer felt decidedly uncomfortable, bu
stison Hutchins stood by and chuckled.
An lrshman named John killalen. abou
80 years old living in San Francisco, com
mitted most terrible crime last Tuesday
in that city. Through gin and jealousy h
attacked his wife with long knife and Gu
her in half dozen places, either stab beinl
fatal. His wife, when found, was dead an,
lying in u perfect pool Of blood. The hus
band was sitting by her, and when arreste,
confessed the killing, and said he did it be
cause finer intimacy with other men.
Peter Salem was negro who shot dow
Major Pitcrairn at the battle Of Bunke
Hill, and was owned rs slave originsll
by Captain jeremiah Beknap, of Fran
ingham, Massachusetts, and died in tina
town in 1919. His remains lie in the oil
burial, ground" but no stone marks hi
last resting place. A movement will
made at the annual April town meeting t
have the town place memorial stone owe
the grave.