The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ine value VI ~ ~, ~,
in 1870 was $S,ld,75S in 1880, Sl2,3o2,
-375.
More grain has been soSn in South Caro-
lima this season than any other since the
war
Texas has some good-sized counties
the largest, Preside, being l25O square
miles.
Bishop Wightman, OF the Methodist
Church South. is dangerously Ill AT Char-
lottc, n. G.
More than 100 saloons OF Omaha nave
been closed. Illinois men no longer stop
over at Omaha.
Six hundred and one conyicts in the Ar
kansas penitentiary. over ln OF inc mum
Der are murderers.
Judge Munson and Mr.. Pierpointt,,' OF
Wa erbury, Connecticut, have bought all
English mastiif for 500.
The Vicksburg police are not permitted
to hold over five minutes conversation WIN
any person while on duty.
Pensacola, Florida, has voted against re-
pudiating her ante-bellum debt, and re-
Gently paid $780, 600 oft.
Wisconsin has been cutting ice ten inches
thick, is out of debt, and her timothy
Howe is Postmaster-Gcncral
Little Nellie Arthur doesn't like the
White House, but her pa is too much OF II
patriot to go back to New York.
Mr.. Kennedy, of Blount county, Ten
nesse, is 50 years old, has been
married twice and has twenty-six child
rem.
A. factory will be established at New
Orleans to prepare COTTON seeu OH iof
cooking, Illuminating and lubricating pur-
poses.
The largest Territory is Dakota--il7 700
square miles. The largest county in the
Territories is Custer, in Montana; 1t has
, SO 500.
The smallest county in the States has the
largest population; it is the county OF New
York, State of New York. 1t has twenty
square miles,
A Macon, Georgia, wife-beater entered
the novel plea that when he thrashcd his
better half he was in somnambulstic
state and not responsible He got 500 or
three months in Jail.
Mr.. James williamson, aged 20, was
married at Ilawknsville, Georgia, u
few days ago, to Mrs. Polly Burnham, aged
g. The groOm's son, who is % years
old, performed the ceremony.
Jerry Black is going to talk before Bal
timore Land League club. upon the Irish
question. He may be little cooler than
some ofthc rest OF EN-, he says, but, gem
orally, his mind is made up, and hes
against the British government.
The statement that Texas has 100000
sheep is claimed to be reliably made. Then
this will probably be increased 20
per cent. during the coming Landing sea-
son, bringing the number up to 5,5OO,OOO.
Naluing these at $3.50 each would make
Al t.t al nj, tt..,, Iul, IN
$4,000"
Mr. Scovllc says that drafts for sums
amounting to over $1,000, received by Gui-
teau on Saturday, were worthless, and were
sent by some practical joker. 1t is not the
first time during the trial that such thing
has occurred. Mr. Scoville himself has
had worthless checks sent to him, one for
$4,000
A great deal that Oscar Wilde says is I'M
doubleday apdoodle, and the remark is
frequently heard in literary circles that
MIR. Wilde cannot lay claim to the original
ity which he asserts is the distinguishing
merits OF great artists, because all that he
says that is good, and true, and worth
"holding fast has been said as well, and
better, by Ruskin, Goethe, Emerson, Swim.
burne, Rosetti, and others. from the careful
study of whom he has derived his ideas.
William Winans, the Baltimore Crmsus.
VINO lives in London, has yacht that cost
a fortune, but is MORALLY afraid of the sea;
has English, American and Russian race
horses, and rides an old cob which fright
ems him by backing its ears; pays seven
thousand poundsa year tor the most cXpcn-
sive deer park in Scotland, and cannot sit in
a room with gun; has Patti and Albini TO
sing ut his drawing.room concerts, and does
not know Rule Britannia" from Yankee
Doodle.
HerSter isa tall woman, and sturdy OF
'ngufe-a reliable woman TO look atm.
pressing one with the idea of her honesty Of
purpose and strong integrity of character.
Her face, no more like those pictures of her
that hang in the cigar stores and elsewhere,
Nan 1t is to the man in the moon, is very
strongly marked with her nationality. She
has "A good complexion, u lovely mouth in.
Sclligent, kind eyes, and across her forehead
lay that little delicious brown "bang." or
fringe of hair that makes her face so won.
deriully wlnesomc when one looks at IL
across the iootlightS.
Germany is becoming what Douglas de,
Scribed Vermont u good place to emigrat,
from, The good Rex, whose thrcshing OF
France made him Kaiser OF all Deutschland
anu whose success was hailed with lively
demonstrations of Joy in America, is no les,
an autocrat than the Car, and his Chancel
Tor is as reactionary as was Metternch, VIII,
ruled the Austrian policy through so many
years. Wilhclms success of 1870 wa!
classed as liberal triumph, and France
humiliation as u dcath.hlow. Contrast the
countries to-day, Which is the ircer
the more prosperous the more hapryc Tn,
emigration from Germany to America tell
its own story, Germany under the llohcn
yollern, who in turn is under Bismarck ha
become the prey oIgross tyranny.
The total area of the United States n
now revised is about eight hundred souar
miles less than heretofore fixed. Ii wa
gwen IN the census of 1870, 3,O1i. lgi suuar
miles, exclusive OF the 577, $50 square mile
of Alaska,and II is now found to be 3 Oo5 IA,
In fourteen States and five Territories IN,
REVISED area is less than the old, In tho rrs
tits greater, The difference is considerable
IN most cases and Is great in some. IN
number fsquare miles in California is r,
duced from lSSnSi to i6s 800 in T,Nn, frot
Hl,36 to @i,7SO. In Tennessee lror
t5,tO tn 1850, In South Cnrolin
from ii,OO TO 5000, in pcnnsylyania fro,
1900 to 1925, In Maine from 5000 to IA
olo and in New Jersey from $3.50 to /, 81
The area OF Massachusetts has been il
creased nom $500 to S,3l5 square mile
New York from 1900 to isl5O Virgin
nom Js,3iS TO 1850, Kentucky from \, n
10 aoiOo, Missouri from $3.50 to Cd N
Louisiana from II ,3iD to iS72O, Nevada iOl
~, IN lin -pl .ul n -.