The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-08
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children.
David A. Wells, the ftee-trader, is men,
toned asa spry, wirylooking old gentle
man, with a high, clear voice and pleasant
manner.
Lady Baliour, one of Lord Lorne's Eng
lish visitors, wore $4,000 worth of dia-
.m0ndS at his reception at Rideau Hall one
evening last week.
The cotton factories of Columbus,
Georgia, have capital Of Si,95S,0OO, give
employment to 2,oS9 hands, and consume
Il, $50 bales OF cotton annually.
San Francisco has had street car cable
roads, such as Chicago is now trying, for
several years, and finds them great inn
proyement on horse car roads,
In Palatka, Florida, within the last three
months, vacant lots have advanced 80 per
cent, aud improved property ut least 80
per cent. on the last years rates.
Sic Leonard Tilley, the Canadian Minister
of Finance, has estimated the cost of run
ming the Dominion government next year
at 100000 which is $4,000 900 more than
last year.
Considering the common habit of wife
beating in England, the Pail Mall Gazette
wonders whether there are not too many
compliments paid to English bravery and
gallantry.
The Episcopal bishop of Honolulu
preached in New York last Sunday, and
said that the Hawaiian people number 49,
900 aud are all Christians. Twenty thou
sand foreigners also reside on the island.
Mr.. John N. A. Grswold, whose daugh-
ter was married few days since to Mr..
Forbes, gave the bride as his gift 100000
in government bonds. Mr.: Vanderbilt gave
to his daughter, Mrs. Webb, married last
November, similar sum.
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont has returned
from his trip to Canada, where, it is under
stood, he went i'll the interest ola railroad
company. While in Montreal Mr.. Pierre
pont enjoyed some fine seighing after the
sensible style of the Canadians.
Hon. John Kelly, who is now in Magno-
liza land, writes that his health has been
much improved by his southern trip thus
far, and that he is having very pleasant
experience. No reference is made to Flor
ida oranges, green peas, or politics.
Ex-Secretary Blaine is busily engaged in
furnishing his new house in Washington,
which fact sets at rest the silly report that
he is going abroad. A correspondent says
that last week he attended u picture sale
and bought largely, if not iudiciously.
MIS- i4liStly utilltS tliuI Sllt uOcS IUL
live with her husband, but says that her in
come is not sufficient for her requirements,
and that is why she has gone on the
stage" She is paid $500 week at the
Haymarket, London, with $50 additional
for one matinee,
British Guiana, which is now without
governor, would like Sir Anthony Mus
grave, present governor OF Jamaica, who
married an American wife. The salary is
less than he now receives, but the people
would be ready to pay considerably more
TO secure a really able man.
There is still living in Prussia lady who,
in her youth, was on terms of friendly and
intimate relationship with Goethe. She is
now the Baroness Ulrike Won Lewitzoff, her
age is nearly ninety, and her home is at the
castle Of Teziblitr, in Lobositz, where she
lives in great retirement.
Admirers of George Eliot" will be
grieved to hear that the publication of her
lite and letters will be inevitably post
poned by the illness of Mr.. Cross, her
widower and literary executor, whose
soiourn in the south of France hasnot re-
suited in health.
Baron de Schaetler, the newly-apponced
Austro-H Hungarian minister to Washing
ton, arrived the other day on the steamer
Servia. He said that there were two or
three places to choose from and he had re-
queSted to DC cont TO tho United States
He is specially charged to look after the
commercial relations between his country
and America, Baron de Schaeffer visited
the United States in 1874, but his stay was
limited to two weeks, and most of the time
he spent in the west, visiting Chicago, Salt
Lake City and Niagara.
The late Sir Robert Chrstison was the
discoverer, by an experiment on himself
which nearly proved fatal, of the proper
ties of the Calabar bean, and was one of
the last pupils OF Oritila, the great texicolo-
gist AT the Palmer trial, after testifying
that he knew a,veaetable alkaloid the min
utest dose of which was fatal, but which no
test could detect in the body, he was adj
lured by the Judge not to mention it,
though he received hundreds of letters
afterwards begging him "for the sake of
science" to make the secret known. The
poison in question was dig!taline.
A man was once before the late Judge
Kent, OF Maine, on the charge of having
burglarlously entered a lumberman's camp
and stolen clothing and money. The wit.
ness for the government testified that he
saw the prisoners head, right arm and
shoulder thrust through an opening he had
made In the cabin, and that the stolen arti.
Giles disappeared with them. Here the
prosecution rested. Whereupon the
prisoners counsel went to the
Jury gravely protesting that there was
no case, that to make out case of burglary
the prosecution must show an en- trance Of
the whole man-at least the larger part of
nun, the feet as well as the head must
have been within the cabin. Judge Kent
instructed the jury to return verdict OF
guilty to the extent which the evidence
would warrant After brief absence the
Jury returned verdict of guilty against
the prisoner as to his right arm, right
shoulder and head, and the Judge sem
fenced the arm, shoulder and head to the
state prison for two years. The prisoner
might do with the remainder of his body as
he pleased.