The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-09-07

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railway.
, A Kansas Joker has had TO pay s5.0g>
destroying mans eye with an exp'oslv'
cigar.
The great.grandson OF The author o
Robinson Crusoe" is in INDECENT circunI
stances, and a penny subscription is TO b.
started for his relief.
"The Natal Twin association Of Nash
vile, Tennessee, pays $1,000 TO each mem
Der producing q certificate of the paternity
off pair of twin babies.
The liquor dealers of Topeka Kansas,
shaved the tail and name of horse owned
| by prosecuting attorney, and made kind
ling wood of his carriage.
The first iron-smelting III Utah was done
at Ogden on Wednesday. The ore was
was taken from the hills north of Ogden
where there is limitless supply.
| A book that was q copy of the report ol
the Society for the prevention OF cruelty
| TO children poisoned child in Tryo.
1t had put the colored covers in its
| mouth
Morrison Heady, Kentucky blind man,
is fond of chess. He has chessmen with
projecting points, so that he may distin-
guish by the tough between them. He is
hard to beat.
A hyena which escaped two months ago
from a menagerie at Tula, in Russia, has
been doing immense havoc in the neighbor-
hood of that city. 1t tore to pieces shep-
herd and several children.
General Gordon, of Georgia; the Hon.
Emery A. Storrs of Chicago; the Rev. Dr.
S. ii. Tying, jr., Vice Consul Hooper, and
Mr.. Crulatour were recently entertained at
dinner in Paris by DR.. Warren Bey.
For eighteen years q clock in the house
NJ n nj in NJ T)aI fu
has not run or made sound, when OH
Tuesday it struck one as the family sat
down at supper, and then struck eight, and
has since been silent
The Rev. Thomas Motley recently wrote
of Herbert Spencer's system of philosophy
as filling several yards of shelf in most pub
lie libraries" The author, apparently
shocked by the inaccuracy of the statement,
wrote note declaring that less than two
feet was the actual space covered by his
thirty years of philosophical work.
into an office building that landmark of
Broadway, the Stewart store, at the corner
of Chambers street, New York, really de-
sires to sell it for So, ,250, 600, and has been
offered $2,OO0000. Mr.. Potter will not re-
build on the old World site, but offers the
property for SS0O,000.
The gas we'll developed on Saturday at
Bloomington, Illinois, attracted hundreds
of visitors. Experts say that 100000 feet
of illuminating material escapes daily,
two-inch pipe, showing pressure of
eighty.fiye pounds In the basement of
David Davis block is a gas well, which in
winter, is used in heating the furnace. .-.rs.s
The family Of the late Deacon Within, of
Whitinsville, Massachusetts, who left an
unsigned will. are carrying out its provi-
sions as if it had legal force. The Massa-
chusetts Home Missionary society has re-
ceived $4,000, the permanent fund Of the
American Board, $25,000 the Church Erec..
ton society, $S0S0' ] and the University OF
A suit Of interest to people OF prayer is
threatened at Morris, Connecticut. A good
widow, who noted for her faith in prayer,
was offered $40 by an unregenerate man if
she would only fetch rain in three days.
The next evening it sprinkled lightly, and
the widow presented her bill. But the man
claimed that the rain wasn't of contract
amount, and refused to pay. The widow
has brought suit.
- An excursion train was run Sunday from
Toledo to Grand Rapids, Ohio, on the mar
row guage road. On the return trip a half
dozen desperadoes went through the coaches
with cooked revolvers and stripped every
body OF valuabes. One citizen OF Toledo
gave up SO, ana another was relieved of
his money on the platform and thrown oil
the car. The conductor was badly injured.
Only one ofthe robbers was captured.
A recent visit to the Hermitage planta-.
tion. Andrew Jackson's home, found 1t at
tractive, the house "a substantial brick
building) in fair condition, and the general
aspect of the place far from poverty
stricken. The tomb is in a secluded corner
of the garden, but there were mo marks of
footprints to show that any pilgrim had
shrine" 1t was intended TO make the place
the site of a military academy, and the pro-
iect failed. - -. @ -. -
The water drunk in Haverhill now is
drawn from Lake Kenoza, of which Whit
tier wrote:.-.------