The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-21


An 8-year-old lad Is under arrest In
Louisville. KY. on the charge Of wreck
ing a train.
California fruits have taken the place
OF southern fruits in tho markets OF
Richmond, Va.
Baltimore. Nd, Masons will try to
raise $4,000 for the benefit Of the
Charleston, s. c., sufferers.
A party of fat men living at ROTOR
Point. Conn, will next week hold their
twentieth annual clam-bakc
There are three thousand mill opera
tives out of employment in Amsterdam,
N. Y. All the mills are closed.
In Charleston. s. c., the scene of tho
recent earthquake. there live 32, $50
colored persons ard 27,605 whites.
A Portland, Me-, farmer found a
$40 note stuck TO the tire of wheel on
his buggy after he had returned from u
short trip into the country.
A large meteor fell on the streets of
Portsmouth, Va. Wednesday, and
broke into fragments. The pieces were
too hot to handle comfortably.
A watermelon weighing ninety-six
and half pounds is on exhibition at
Visalia, Cal, and competition is chal-
longed from the rest of the state.
1t is thought that the average attend
ance Mt the New York city public
schools for the coming session will be
10000. Last year it was 1856, 600.
Youngstown, o., is without nm official
organ published in the English IAN
guage. Inability to pay the pr.ce de.
manded by the printers is the caus,.
Preparations are raoi'ly being made
for the annihilation of Stone mountain,
Georg n. Huge wells have been bored,
and carloads Of powder cmpted into
them.
A woman near Cascyvilc, Ky. while
walking about in her garden Tuesday.
stepped on humble bees nest, and the
bees stung her 50 badly that she died
the next day.
1t is now the fashion in Louisville,
KY, for young ladies to make visits in
company of Il chapcrone instead OF a
gentleman, as has heretofore been the
custom in that city.
A Presb, terrain church bui., from
petrilied wood in Aliens creek \, one
of the curiosit'cs OF Mnm!ord. y. Y.
Leaf and moss fossils are TO b. pla.uly
seen in the stone.
The prize of gold-headed cauc iur
the winner Of fat mans race in Pitts
burgh last week was carried OIL By a
butcher who tips the beam at 500
pounds. No person weighing less than
2O5 pounds was allowed to contest.
The following tcrse note was recently
left behind by an clipping couple in one
of Hampshire's hill towns: ''We've
elopcd. Forgive us if you can, and il
you can't, what will you do about itp'
A hre broke out Sept. 10 in Bristol,
New, and consumed tho best port on of
the town before the flames could be got
under control. One man named j. N.
Gregory was killed. and loss OF $780,
900 was occasioned.
The hackmen of Buffalo, n. Y. are
bowling mad because II liveryman, C..
w. Miller pays license on four car.
riages when he has forty-nine. while
every mothers son of us must.pay a
big tax for everything we own or do
When Captain Lawton and his COM
mand arrived at Fort Bowie with the
Apaches they looked like party of
tramps. Capt. Lawton had the rim OF
his hat left and IN undershirt and 5
pair of overalls on, his feet be ne en-
cased in rawnide.
A young married lady of fashion at q
champagne party recently g ven ~
White Sulphur Springs, Va, is said &c
have pulled off her slipper, which she
filed with wine and gave to u young
lawyer in the party. who eagerly qna!f
ed its contents.
The principal land Office in Vancou.
yer, British Columbia, Is situated in =
hollow tree forty-four feet in circum.
ference. In one section there ia n ia
BILE twenty-seven feet long and four
feet wide, made out of solid board
taken from the tree.
A prominent Catholic priest Of Gin
cinnali in an interv .ew with reporter
of The Times Star says that an effort
will be made to pay off the archbishop
debt within the next live years. The
pope is said to have issued an order re.
curing that the debt shall be l.qdida,ed
in that time.
A Morden. Manitoba. dog.is said to
have escaped from his collar one day last
week, alter which. fearing whipping.
he refused to return home when called
by his owner. The rext night, howev'
er, he went back to his kennel, and by
some means inserted his neck into the
collar and in the morning was fount
cacuro1v fasfened