The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A genuine tiger" has just been slain in
St.. Landry Parish, Louisiana, which meas
ured nine feet from tip TO tip.
The Kansas City Journal says that with
in five terms, covering fifteen months, St
Louis courts have granted 900 divorces.
The seven members of the Barnett gang o.
Kentucky banditti, sent to the penitentiary
| tor life, have forty-three living children.
1t is reported that the effort to discover
who poisoned six insane inmates of the asy
lum in Staunton, Virginia, has been aband
oned as hopeless.
DR.. E. ]. Sweeney, of gainesville, Ohio
aged 60, while drunk fell against some OBJ
struction, causing hemorrhage from the
nose, of which he died.
A bust of the late General w. F. Bart
| lett has been completed and will be placed
in Memorial hall at Cambridge, Massachu.
sets, on commencement day.
An alligator caught 6-year-old daughter
of Mr.. Strange, of Calhoun county, Florida
A 9-year-old sister beat the reptile off, He
was afterward killed. and measured eight
feet.
A priest in Montreal, Canada, the Rev.
Mr.. Sentenne, advises that the money now
spent in public professions be used in erect
ing statutes of celebrated Canadians in the
squares of that city.
Down near st. Louis. the other day, So
600 tons of rock was blown to smithereeDs
by 900 pounds If powder. There has not
been such a commotion 10 that neighbor-
hood for many day.
The first results OF Fourth Of July fire.
works are reported from Jacksonville, IL
linois-one man killed, one man seriously
wounded, and 81, 500 worth OF property
destroyed by an explosion.
A mother only thirteen years old, living
in Rose, Wayne county, New York, re-
Gently gave birth 10 female child weigh
ing qeven pounds. At last reports mother
and child were doing well.
Captain Larnard Powers, of Cornish,
New Hampshire, recently found in a yard
near his house a meteoric stone weighing
~ pounds. The top is oval, iull Of inden-
tations, and very dark colored, nearly black.
There never was blonde woman yet
who was true and loved but one man." was
the sweeping assertion written by Moran.
who committed suicide at BROOKLYN the
other day, in q letter TO his faithless sweet.
heart.
EN-. Clifford and @. w. Peckham have
been making investigations Of the temper
ature Of Wisconsin lakes. They found q
bottom temperature at eighty feet Of AZ
degrees Fahrenheit through the summer,
and 30 degrees, or lower, during the win
ter.
The contract for the entire construction
Of Pindlay college OF the Church Of God in
America, at FiDdlsy, Ohio, has been let for
$40 $40, and work IL 10 begin at once.
Trustees for Ohio. Illinois, Iowa, Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana were elected last week
by the general eldership Of the church.
A Pittsburg girl, who had refused q good
looking telegraph reDsir man three times
within six months, gives as . reason that
be was too much Of q wanderer; that he
roamed from pole 10 pole, one climb 70 an
other, and that II be old come home, he'd
be 30 insulated that the ueighbors would
be sure 10 talk.
Bishop Keane R7man Catholic, Of Rich
mond, Va, who has been visiting Palestine,
has shipped from that country a corner
stone for the new cathedral thst IL 10 be
built in Richmond. ThestOn istwenty By
fiheen inches in size, and was cut from the
rock Of the garden Of Gethssmane, on the
Mount ofOlives.
Miss Georgia Moody. q vell-knOvn and
highly respectable young lady Of George
town Kentucky. brings suit against John
T. Moore, q vell-to-do young farmer Of the
vicinity, laying damages At $1,000, tor
breach Of promise. Moore has pursued the
object Of his dev0tiOns with unreleutirR
ardor for 10 yesrs, mOnJpOlizing her 80
ciety 20 the utter exclusion of al others,
and nov seeks 20 break the engagement Of
% long stsnding.