Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-14
Items of Interest.

Col. Frederick T. Dent, Third Artil.
lery, will, on his own application, be
placed on the retired list Of the army,
under the forty years service provision.
Lee Crandall, OF the Grsenback party,
says that Gen. Butler has consented to
accept the nomination Of the National
party for President and will make the
campaign.
Russian ladies', whilo staying at their
country residences In the neigbborhood
Of ST. Petersburg, affect the dress Of the
peasant woman Of Lesser Russia--a
small red cap, gaily striped skirt, and
white chemiso and apron elaborately
embroidered and trimmed with lace.
Besides the f30, ,435 already subscribed
to the Parnell fund, there are now in
the hands Of various local treasures in
the United State and Australia about
f8000. II is expected that the total
amount will reach 100000. The sub.
scription of the Irish te26, 500 is very
generous.
One of the survivors Of the Black
Hole of Calcutta was Sir David Baird.
When his mother, a canny, undemon-
strative old Scotch lady, was told OF the
horrors in the Black Hole on that awful
night by the survivors, she merely re-
marked. Lord help the mau that was
chained TO ma Davie!'
Fifty surgeons probed Intellectually
Tor the bullet that entered the hip of
George II. Hendricks, of Fort Wayne
in the battle OF Okolona, Miss, twenty.
one years ago. The other day he felt a
sharp paiu just above the knee joint.
He worked the flesh with his finger aud
out came the ball
The new Lord Mayor Of London, fow-
Ter, Is OF good birth aud education, col.
lcge graduate, and much travelled. He Is
partner in Fowler, Dimsdale Il Co., a
London banking house, founded by Baron
Dimsdale, physician, who went to
Russia to inoculate the Empress Cath
crime, and whom she loaded with money
and honors,
Recent Investigations at Hochst.on.
lhc.Main. where no fewer than 672 per
sons are employed in the aniline color
works, go to prove that though aniline
is admitted poisonous, none Of the men
who became i'll died, and those engaged
for eighteen years in the magenta house,
though Redeemed with dye oven to the
inside Of the mouth, suffered no serious
had health.
Tho inauguration of MIR. Leon Albeit
as Governor Of Now Jersey will take
place at Trenton, Jan. 18th. If the
weather is fine the ceremonies will be
held in front of the State House, as at
Gov McClollan's Inauguration six years
ago. Ii stormy they will be held in Tay.
lor's Opera house. In any event there
will be great military display.
1t has been so prosperous = year in
Bengal that the number of cy6lie emf.
grants who left was fewer by 5000 than
those of last year. The northwest pro-
vinces and Dude, where the struggle for
existance Is the hardest in India, supply
the greater portion Of emigrant coolies.
Those who returned last year brought
back on an average 500 apiece,
South America is destined to be the
next great beef producing region OF the
world. 1t is estimated that in two years
from now the number of cattle in the
Argentine Confederation will number
$4,000, 900, against $4,000, 900 in 1877.
The enormous increase in TIE number of
cattle has brought down the price so that
good fat cattle are selling at S6 to IS.
The Forthcoming report of the New
York Chamber of Commerce will show
that the foreign business of the United
States during the fiscal year ending June
80. 1888, amounted to 81 ,607, 800, l40, an
increase over the previous year OF S40,.
25S, S,340. The exports exceeded the i'm
ports sos, 3,9SO,430 The value of the
cotton exported was S247, 32S, 72l; of the
breadstuffs S20S, $50.
William II. Vanderbilt and Jay Gould
are now engaged in a little business out
side of their stock transactions. In the
bu lding OF the two proposed mausole.
ums these giant milionaires are determ-
med, il possible, to outdo each other in
cost. Though Mr.. Vanderbilt's tomb
will occupy some nine acres in all, against
one acre for MIR. Gould, it is known that
the latter will spend close upon 500, 600
in the construction of his tomb. Mr..
Vanderbilt's msusoleum will cost about
$4,000.