The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-02-25
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as high as in Russia, Norway, he says, con-
tains only thirty-iour.
Ex-senator Thurman appears to be the
most ioyial and oohtented oil the retired
statesmen. He laughed reporter out oil
his room in New York the other day. saying
that he really knew no more about pelitlcs
than his friend John Smith.
The spectacular play of the Thousand
and One Rights" at the Chatelet theatre,
in Paris, has 400 people on the stage: lhere
are $500 costumes, no Two OF when are
alike, 81 tableauX, and 100000 have been
spent on the scenery alone.
Lieutenant Hayes, who lost his life with
General Custer at. the time OF that fearful
massacre, left two orphan sisters, who are
now in Washington in destitute circum-
stances, They have been making under
clothes for 10 cents apiece IN order 10 puy
bread
On Monday Seniors Morelo and Seyerlto,
editors of rival newspapers in Guadalalara,
Mexico, fought duel, based upon personal
publications in their journals, the men
both fired at the same moment ana poth
fell dead, pierced with each others bull
lots.
The largest sale of real estate ever held IN
Macon, Ga, took place about fortnight
ago. Several building lots for stores anu
residences were sold one bringing Soo,oV0
and two others $7i COD, showing an upward
tendency in real estate in that handsome
southern city.
The United States land Office has issued II
patent to the famous Geyser springs pro-
perty, in Sonoma county, California, to
Mrs. Mary PolIack The tract embraces
so acres, and has been the subject of litiga-
ton in the courts of California for the past
hfteen years,
A Vallejo, California, youngster made
herself some "rock candy" by pounding up
lump of granite, which she cooked after
mixing it with molasses, sugar and salt;
She was preparing to eat the compound
with great gusto when discovered by her
mother.
Little Rock Gazette: This Office owes an
apology to Miss Lovenia Maplewood, in
whose poem q ridiculous mistake occurred
yesterday. The young lady wrote "A
wood thick in its velvet green" but the
compostor made the line read: "A wood
tick in its veveteen."
Some idea of the demand for coral that
exists throughout the world may be formed
from the fact that from the bank near the
little town of Scicca, Sicily, alone, within
the past four years more than S,Si,OW
pounds of coral have been fished.
A conference of the leading republicans
of South Carolina is to be held i'll Columbia
March 3 Two delegates are expected from
each county, who will be chosen by the
central committee. The conference is de-
signed to shape the future course Of the
party, and finally determine upon some
plan OF political action.
The rich people OF Boston are building
some very fine residences just now. Gen
eral G. A. Whittier is having one put up
which is to cost $4,000. 1t will be five
stories high and contain fifty rooms all of
which are to be finished in costly wood.
When completed it will doubtless be the
finest house in the Hub.
In the Shawnee county, Illinois, district
court Albert Wolf received divorce from
his wife, Mary Wolf, upon the grounds that
he wasn't the father of her child. They
were married January LIST, 1882, the child
was born January 10th, 1882, and the divorce
was granted January 3lst, 1882, which is q
pretty good showing for one months work.
A San Francisco paper says that in Yava-
pal county, Arizona territory, north of the
Little Colorado river, there is valley some
ton miles in length where potatoes are
growing wild. The valley is north of the
Moqui villages, and west of the Navajo res
ervation. The Navajo Indians collect large
quantities of the root
,; an1 .msImln .iistoiiEa, society mas peti-
in the congressional library bearing upon
the colonial history of Virginia, and to dis
tribute the books among the historical So
cieties of the several states These societies
~. a,;,; Wy '"o Virginia soo'e'y W JOIN Ill
'n,e pe',''o"'
1t Is the custom in Baltimore for all the
vessels OF the coffee fleet to show their
coiors whenever any vessel OF their number
enters or leaves the harbor.- One day last
week, rs the bark "Campanero" passed
a W, ,h p v aor n,nai' ~ was noucea that
. aa,, 'ne Nus'o'' sa,u.in6 hti snoWeu Ameri,
I Iaro so'G,S, iao' which mas not happened
oo'oio' " 10 s"iu' ior many years
Great Britain paid Portugal Sl5,000.000
for renouncing the Brazilian slave trade,
and yet IL was only the other day that the
Portuguese consul at Rio affixed his official
signature TO document offering for sale
the slave property of deceased Portuguese
resident in Brazil. The little matter will
bear the investigation OF the British poy.
eminent.
A son of the Mrs. Doris who was muir.
dcred in st. Louis recently has been To
Platte City to disinter and remove the re-
mains of his brother, who died twenty.scyon
years ago. The casket was opened. and
many persons looked again upon Tho
features of the dead man. Tho clothinr nj
the body and the drapery of the cosiet
were well preserved. The flesh and oriyi.