The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-01
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jeff Davis book is u financial failure.
There are q, $50, 033 colored people in the
United States.
Speaker Kciier wI wounded four times
during the war,
Barnum offers 5000 for the handsomcst
woman IN America.
Booths Theater in New York will be-
come dry goods store.
After the first Of January liquor licenses
in Nebraska will cost $1,000.
The Khcdivc opened the Assembly OF
Notable> at,talro on Monday.
1t is reported that Mrs. Langtry receives
| 500 weekly az the liaymarket.
Colonel Ira III. Pierce, a prominent lawyer
of Montana, and Il nephew of cx-Presldent
franklin Pierce, died at Miles City, Sat
urday.
Miss Lconora Horn, of Peru, Nebraska,
has Il head of hair siXty-eight inches in
length. She has refused 5000 for the trea-
sure.
Mrs. Arthur's portrait, that hangs in the
Presidents roomat the White House, is, by
his orders, wreathed in fresh flowers every
morning.
The expenses of the Guteau trial will
nocessitas n S2O0,0OO draft on the Treas
ury. This amount includes all expenses for
the witnesses on both sides.
Captain Howgate, who occupies cell in
the same Jail with Guiteau, was allowed to
70 home, attended by guard, to eat
Christmas dinner with his family
At a country hotel near Reading, Pa,
citizens holding graveyard insurance
representing $4,000, gathered Saturday
evening and made large bonfire OF the
policies and assessment notices.
Ex.Congressman Brontano, of illinois, is
the Washington correspondent of several
European papers. One of them, Der Mems
Pittaval already has ordered full tele-
graphic account of the hanging of Guiteau.
The London Society for the Abolition of
Compulsory Vaccination says that vaccina-
ton, while being Of questionable utility
for preventing smallpox, retards all I'M
provement and discoveries in the treatment
of the disease.
Bishop Clarkson of Ncbraska, has been
making efforts to secure proper Aransp0rta-
ton Tor cattle from the West to the Atlantic
scahoard He insists that the cattle shall
he humanely shipped and sufficiently cared
for on the way
1t is expected that at least 600 feet Of the
Mullan, NJ. r., tunnel will be completed by
early spring, and when work shall have
been begun on both ends it is expected to
drive the tunnel At the rate Of abodt 800
feet per month
Professor $. Wells Williams, of New
Haven, Connecticut, received n dispatch
from the interior Of China, Wednesday
evening, which was put ON the wire the day
YF,N Il I,,,
message was over nineteen thousand miles.
Canary birds and monkeys for Christmas
gifts were in extraordinary demand in New
York last week. The sale of the former
was almost equal to that of all the rest
of the year, and the supply of the latter
gave out early at prices ranging from SIS
to $25.
Ex-Governor Arney, Of New Mexico, who
died suddenly while on his way home from
Europe, left papers in some unknown place
supposed to bc worth 000OO-when he
succeeded in getting the Hyde estate in
England. The heirs think them worth adj
vertising for.
A special to the Scdala Bazoo from Bur
lington, Kansas, SAYS the depot of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway was burglarizcd the
other morning at an early hour. The bur
glars broke open several valscs and trunks
and made an unsuccessful attempt to blow
the safe. They escaped.
There is trouble among the Mormons. A
number of them who claim that Brigham
Young introduced the doctrine of polygamy
and blood atonement contrary to the orig
nal Leliei, have organized new church in
Salt Lake City. They renounce polygamy
and refuse to pay any tithes.
A writer in the Marshaltown, Iowa,
Times Republican says that the song,
John Browns Body" first appeared in the
Chicago Tribune in the summer of 1861. 1t
was written by 7. D. Winship, and the YER
sion now sung differs considerably from tho
original
General Trevino has resigned the Next
can Portfolio Of the War Department and
General Naranzo has been appointed his
successor. Trevino will resume his COM
mand on the frontier, which is extended to
include chihuahua and Sonora. Other
Cabinet changes are rumored.
The latest controversy over exclusion of q
negro from the best part of theater is in
ST. Louis. The man who brings the suit
for damages Is the principal of a negro pub
lie school, and sufficient sum has been
subscribed by his friends to meet the costs
of extensive litigation. The Supreme Court
Of that State has heretofore decided that
the manager ofthc theater may refuse to
admit anybody whom he chooses.
Victoria is good Queen, but she is costly
to the English people. Her annual allow
ance is 81 ,925 900. TO this must he added
s35O00O yearly revenue from the Duchy of
Lancaster, which her Majesty undertook at
the beginning Of her reign to hand over to
the. public treasury, but has perpetuallv
omitted to do. This raises her income
from the state to $2,275, 600 a year. There
are annually $4,000 additional paid to the
royal family; so that tho cost of royalty in
England is $3,075,000 yearly, with use of
palaces, parks, etc., wholly rent free, and
''pickings."
The flood Of immigration into New York
promises to be greater next year than ever
before. The business was found extremely
profitable last year, paying the various
steamship companies something like Sl2,-
oOO,000 The consequence is that nearly all
the old companies are increasing the num-
her of their immigrant vessels, while now
lines are being established. There will be
1889 vessels engaged in the business next
season, as against 100 two years ago, and
these will find no difficulty in bringing to
this country the 10000 or 100000 people
With 10.