The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

A genuine tiger has Just been slain in
VI. Landry Parish, Louisiana, which mess.
li'ed nine feet from tip " iSi;;d-o- '-'@' ''''
I,na.l,s,,sas City J3,urna, INV. ,bo, with
in five terms "o'e fling fifteen months, St.
Louis courts have granted 900 divorces.
The seven members of the Barnett gang OF
Kentucky banditti, sent to the penitentlary
tor life, have forty.three living children.
1t is reported that the effort to discover
who poisoned six insane INN tes of the asy.
lum in Staunton, Virginia, has been aband.
oned as hopeless.
DR.. E. ]. Sweeney, Of gainesville, Ohio,
aged GO, while drunk fell against some OBJ.
struction, causing hemorrhage from the
nose, Of which he died.
A bust of the late General w. +. 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 smithereens
by 4 600 pounds Gf powder. There has not
been such q c0mmotion in that neighbor-
hood for many a day.
The first results of Fourth of July fire.
works are reported from Jacksonville, II.
linois-one man killed, one man seriously
wounded, and 800 worth Of property
destroyed by an explosion.
A mother only thirteen years old, living
in Rose, Wayne county, New York, re,
| Gently gave birth to female child weigh
ing qeven pounds. AT last reports mother
and child were doing we'll.
Judge Foraker, the republican nominee
| for governor OF Ohio, wears upon his little
finger peculiar ring, which was given him
by a young lady In Tennessee, whose life
he heroically saved during the war.
Captain Larnard Powers, of Cornish
New Hampshire, recently found in yard
near his house meteoric stone weighing
~ pounds. The top is oval, full of linden
tations, and very dark colored, nearly black
There never was a blonde woman We
who was true and loved but one man, wa
/
who committed suicide at BROOKLYN tn,
other day, In letter to his iaithless sweet
heart.
L. NJ. Clifford and G. W. Peckham hay
been making investigations of the temper
ature Of Wisconsin lakes. They found
bottom temperature at eighty feet of 4
degrees Fahrenheit through the summer
and SO degrees, or lower, during the win
ter.
The contract for the entire construction
Of Findlay college OF the Church of God h
America, at Findlay, Ohio, has been let ia
5000, and work is to begin at once
Trustees for Ohio. Illinois, Iowa, Pennsyl
vania and Indiana were elected last wee
BY the general eldership Of the church.
n Pittsburg girl, who had refused a 200
looking telegraph repair man three time
within six months, gives as y reason this
he was too much OF q wanderer; that h
roamed from pole to pole, one climb to Al
other, and that t. he did come home, he
be so insulated that the ueighbors woul
be sure to talk.
Bishop Keane Roman Catholic, of Ricl
mond, Va, who has hem visiting Palestin
, his shipped from that country a corne
stone for the new cathedral that Is to |
huilt In Richmond. The stone istwenty /
fifteen inches In size, and was cut tom Il
), rock Of the garden Of Gethsemane, on Il
Mount ofOlives.
Miss Georgia Moody. q well.known ar
Q highly respectable young lady OF Georg
o town Kentucky, brings suit against JoI
n I. Moore, a well.to.do young farmer Of II
vicinity, laying damages ut $4,000, q
y breach OF promise. Moore has pursued h
}. object VI his devotions with unrelentiI
y ardor or 10 years, monopolizing her 4
/. ciety TO the utter exclusion Of ali othel
y and now seeks to break the engagement
}, 20 long standing.