The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-11-25
HERE AND THERE.

Divorce cases will hereafter be heard
In open court in Rhode Island.
Agricultural clubs are being formed
in all parts of South Carolina.
Belle A. Donough is the name Of .
drug clerk in New Jersey town.
The erection of a 100000 opera
house is talked of in San Diego, Cal.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc with
turnip patches in Milan county, Texas.
A beggV's house in New York was
broken into the other night and robbed
of so, 900.
An almond tree that bears fruit reg
ularly is one of the curiosities of New
berry, S. c.
There are over 104 men in San Fran
cisco. CAL, who are worth over one
million dollars each.
A new bonded warehouse of large
size is to be constructed in San Jose,
Cal, for the storage of wines.
The chief of police of Sacramento,
Cal, has reported his inability to break
up the opium dens of that city,
A Bangor (Me. } clergyman sends to
the hotels every Sunday an invitation
to strangers to visit his church.
Tobacconists say that there is a
marked falling off in the cigarette hab-
it in New York. The pipe is becoming
the fashion again.
Many people complain that the skins
of apples are very thick and tough
this year 1t is likely that the dry sea-
son was the cause.
Five hundred tons of grapes are esn.
mated to have been spoiled by the Sat
urday night frost in the vicinity Of
Keuka lake, New York.
Eliza Embree, aged ~ years, OF Am
herst. N. S., was recently awarded
$3.50 in breach. of-promise and scduc-
ton case against Valentine Wood, aged
81 years.
A peculiar custum of the California
Indians is the annual burning" The
Indians surround the graves of the dead
with clothing and then set fire to it,
thinking that in this way it goes to the
departed spirits.
A pair of quails flew into Norwich
Conn residence of II recent evening
and took up quarters in the parlor
They were captured, and an attempt
will be made TO domesticate them.
There are hundreds of idle sailors in
San Francisco unable to obtain employ
ment, and the return of the whalCrs
from the north in 4 few weeks Will
throw |, 900 more men on the market.
Coons are plenty this season in Con-
necticut. Sunday night youth near
Bashan killed three coons in one tree.
Monday night G. w. Lester, of Bashan,
killed large coon, and Tuesday night
Mr.. John Rogers killed coon weigh
ing nineteen pounds.
'.Incontaininantis fulget honoribus'
(Which being interpreted means he
shines with untarnished honors) is the
sign of n bootback boys stand in an
alley off Pcmberton square in Boston.
The lad does good business with law.
yers who pass his place.
The friend of miner who died one
day last week at Ger d'Alene placed q
revolver in the folded hands of the dead
man when the funeral procession ar
rived at the cemetery, with the remark:
at was his best friend in life and
should be with him in death.
The geological survey proves that
the Hoosac mountain, Massachusetts,
is as little understood by scientific men
as any other range in the country.
Five different specimens of rock are
found there, and their formation is
complex and intricate, so the survey
Ors say.
An awning on the first building
south of the Delaware and Hudson cut
on Broadway, Albany, N. Y, projects
} across the track of the company, SO
that trains cannot pass without wreck
ing it. The agent of the property re-
fuses to remove it, and the cut must re-
main useless until the matter is settled.
George Gould and his wife will live
at the Windsor hotel, New York, this
winter. They have five rooms on the
second floor of the hotel, on the Fifth
avenue front, just across the street
from the elder Gould's mansion. 1t is
said that Gould pays 5000 week.
This probably includes board for Mrs
Gould's maid and other servants.
A mound containing many curious
Indian relics was recently opened near
Mayoma, New Mexico. Among the
articles taken out were spear-heads,
hatchets, skeletons. beads. earrings
made of stone, and n piece of wood
which bore the following curious in
scription "Srepapswen diuohs tiderc
tahw ycht laets mort EHT sEMIT."
An Italian youth, aged IA years, was
driving yoke of oxen near Hartford,
Conn, few days sgo. when one of the
animals turned his head suddenly and