The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-22

political career as given me so much gen.
u'ne pleasure the tact that my hound
pup took the N kmium az the doe-show The
other night"
When Uni/l.own. a suburb Of Wash;n,-
ton, ID. e., Vas laid out. twenty-five wears
ago, II Is SID. the owner issued orders thar
no lot shon ID ever te allowed to become the
property OF a negro. That mans own
former hoIhe,in the center of the town from
which the colored rack was to be excluded
ls.now owned and occupied by Frederick
Douglas.
Bishop Lyman, of North Carolina. has ex-
pressed ms modification at the reports that
be gave ms daughter $4,000 for a wedding
present, ana that great deal of tinery was
shown at the ,nuptials. He SAYS that the
wedding was simple in all respects. and
that no presents OF much value were re.
oeived by the bride. He does not under.
stand why such exaggerations were made
Mrs, Sprague, the wife of the noted Rhode
Island man, has been mentioned BY one
paper as the daughter of shoemaker, and
byanother as "a scion of one of the aristo-
cntic Virginia families" Now comes
aong the Providence Journal with the facts
y the matter. She was daughter of Shoe
maker Weed, OF Guyandotte, West Viz
lglnia, Six years ago she married Frank
calvert, a drummer for a Cincinnati gro
Gerry house, and they were divorced the
other day.
Elsie McHenry Train. the youngest son
OF George Francis Train, was married by
Mayor Edison in New York to Miss Eliza
Willing Brown, of Philadelphia. The
bride, who is IA daughter of Mrs. Thorne,
the widow of the actor Charles Thorne,
Aas attired IN brown travelling suit, with
u ieather-trimmed hat. The hridegroom's
father was not present, but he sent TO Mayor
Edison II basket OF flowers, accompanying
which were some rhymes urging the mayor
to wake up the city from her death.
trance"
Or. Il. w, Lands. of Danville, kentucky,
was a lover OF rare books. In October, 1859,
be was rummaging around in second
hand bookstore on Market street, in Phila-
deluhia, when he found copy OF Ansclm's
works, wherein, as he said, was 1.-THE long
lost and much-disputed letter of Paracei-
sus.' The copy, which was printe on
vellum In the year 1880, was examined by
experts and tound to be genuine. Subse-
quenty the British museum offered 50 900
l,r the little book, but DR.. Lands refused
to part with ii. He died tew weeks ago,
and by his will the volume goes to Central
university, n Presbyterian school at Rich.
mond, Kentucky.
a cable dispatch from Algiers announces
the death OF Mr.. Ashton Wentworth Dixie,
who recently resigned his seat in the Brit
ish house OF commons. lie was the son of
the late Sir Charles Wentworth Dixie, and
was born in 1850. He was educated at
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a few years
ago became proprietor of the Weekly Dis
patch, a newspaper which, under his man
agsment, attained large circulation. In
1850 he was elected to parliament from
New'castle-on. Tyne as an advanced liberal.
Ill health compelled his resignation. He
was married in 1876 to Miss Smith, daughter
of Mr.. 7. EustaCe Smith, NJ. p. for Tyne
mouth. He was the brother of Sir Charles
Dixie, member OF the present ministry,
and also heir to the baronetcy,