The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-11-22
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were drank In Cincinnati during 1857
Five hundred thousand alligators were
nut to one side" in Florida during the
past year. ,oi5 On be
Thomas Grimes, of Spring HILL fiK'
county, LOG years old. IL
A panthef is engaged at present IN stir
ring mn thn-sluggish blood of the Nimfods
| in Chenango county, New York.
French Canadian children, as class, u
is said excel other pupils In writing ano
drawing at the public schools, r,
Miss Elaine Goodale, the elder OF tie SKY
farm child poets, is now teaching the IN
! dams at the Hampton school, virginia.
Fort Smith, Arkansas, wants the UniteC
! States to erect suitable buildings for a lail
! United States court rooms ana oIhei
offices. oa {,
A woman's exchange is to he opened IL
Washington, and efforts will be mace 10 III
terest several prominent society lauies IL
Newbern, Tennessee. has a law that i'm
noses fine OF not less than $50 nor more
tnan $50 on any person who goes INTO
saloon on Sunday.
Baldwin Cole, aged sc, and Miss Fannie
| Allen aged rs, we're married in Walesboro
,uth Carolina, last week.
The works for building iron ships In Sat
Francisco will be, the Bulletin says, the
A doctor charged with malpractice com
mitted suicide in England. What renders
the matter peculiarly melancholy is tha'
the evidence seems to point to his lnno'
csnce.
Senawa, the splendid seat OF Prince
Czartoryski in Poland, has. been burned
down. Beneath its roof the late prince III
1S4S liberated his surfs. The damage lses-
timated at 100000. u.
rose to the property of her late husband
Mr.. s. Crawford, is disputed by his young
err brother. Mr.. s. Crawford has long been
in very we * plight mentally as well as
ply sicaly.
II was a condition of the foot race, in Car,
son City, Nevada, between Neil CLARK OF
Carson and Downie, the Truckee loot racer
that Downie should lie fiat on his face and
give Clark fifteen feet start IN loo yaros
Nevertheless Downie won. :,
DR., Ladell has discovered that prusslc aciG
is an antihote with strychnine. Medlcai
men will bs cautious in using 1t, however
as the prussc acid, to be of any use, must be
given in doses which would be fatal under
other circumstances. 81,
The average daily movement oil the Wlna
On the top of mount Washington in Octo'
Der last was $40 miles; highest temperature
81 degrees minutes; lowest. u degrees,
The highest velocity of the wind was "
miles an hour, from the west. There was
three inches of snow on the summit al the
close of the month.
A Boston paper relates that an old gem
teman from the country who visited tha'
city the other day, and had never been IN
large town before, remarked atter vlsitihP
the business section: 81 don't Ike THIS
Boston. There isn't enough out-of-doors
| to it,"
/ The tide in the Hudson river is said to be
unprecedentedly low, and at Kingston
| New York recently the oldest inhabitants
saw more of the river bottom than ever be,
fore. Vessels were lying aground at al
points, and very few could move until the
| tide came to their relief.
The first flock of migratory cranes no.
ticed for many years, passed over Perry
Ca, going in a southerly direction, one
night last week. and. as was at once pre-
| dicted, their passage was followed by tue
recent cold snap 1t is said that wi en- these
birds are observed to seek warmer latituues
| severe winter invariably follows.
Moses, the lamented fat woman's nus
band seems to be possessed with mania
| for marrying monstrosities, During his
visit to Baltimore be divided his time be.
tween mourning over his dead vile ana
| coauetting with an armless woman on ex-
hibition in the Monumental City, and the
| TWO are to be welded shortly.
A New York cigar dealer mas lnventeu q
tobacco refrigerator" for keeping, the
sale. 1t is a cigar stand and tobacco box
combined made of polished white metal
and divided in the center by two perforated
partitions, between which is placed wei
sponge.
The keeper of the lighthouse. at Char
lotte. New York, was made prisoner re-
Gently in the house, although the rob
bers| took nothing. The sit" that made
| him prisoner was the formation OF ict
around the door, and he wss compelled e
await the arrival OF friends before he coult
pry himself out.
The chief draw back to the successful be
ginning OF work In the new cotton mill "
| Charleston. South Carolina, was lack
weayers. Those who are working are from
the north, and others are to be drawn tror
the north, as it is cheaper to import skilled
operatives than to teach new hands.