The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-11
HERE AND THERE.


One farmer near Yankton has forty
acres Of broom-corn.
A large colony of Missourians are
settling near Corvallis, Oregan.
Geronimo and his band are said to be
the authors Of $500 brutal murders.
William Clark, 70-ycar-old polygs-
mist of Salt.Lake City, is under arrest.
Baby aligators are sold by the hun.
dreds as ladies' pets yearly in New
York city.
The Oldest church in the country IL
situated in Bingham, Mass. where Is al.
SO the oldest sexton.
1t is the fashionable thing at San Die.
go, CAL, for bathers to smoke cigar
cites while bathing in the bay.
Norwood. Ga, negro slept so soundly
that he was not awakened by rats that
were eating of his fingers.
In the town Of Charlottetown. Cam
ada, it is a common sight on the streets
to see women smoking cigars.
The mayor Of Boston refused to close
the city hall IN order that the employees
might attend labor celebration. ,
Virginia newspapers are calling on
northern and western farmers to 60
down there and build up the state.
The communion service used ip the
Unitarian church in North Andover.
Mass, is the oldest one in the state.
Several large stove manufacturing
works are being established at Birming-
ham, Ala, by northern capitalists.
The local option law passed by the
Washington territory legislature last
fall has been declared constitutional.
Two men captured with hooks and
lines 2,400 mackerel, Wednesday, of
Newport, r. l., the greatest catch re-
ported.
Sam Jones' camp-meeting tent at
Nashville, Tenn. is to be sent 10
Charleston, S. g., to afford shelter to
the homeless.
Prof. Dana has been looking over
Massachusetts, and says the state ia
particularly interesting from a geolog-
ical standpoint.
A man killed himself in, New York
last week because his friends failed to
express sympathy for him during re-
cent sick spell.
Out of $500 cans of milk examined in
one day recently in the New York health
department., 20 was found to contain
adulterated milk.
A hornet stung Mrs. May, OF Dahlo-
mega, Ca, one day last week, on the
Inf at, NJ IN md chm
died the next day.
Wong Tie, a Chinese desperate who
for years has been a terror to his
countrymen, has at last been arrested
and is now in Jail at Tucson.
A Mapleton, Mass, lad recently sent
up some lanterns on the staff of his
kite, and the citizens turned out en-
masse to view what they thought was
fine meteoric display.
A police surgeon in Jersey City, who
declined to attend policeman who had
been injured while playing ball, has
been removed for neglect of duty" BY
the police commissioners of that city.
The only piece of land in the United
States that has been kept under Eng
lish entail is Gardeners island, Gar
diners bay, L. j. For two hundred
years it has fallen from father to son.
A New York banker whose personal
beauty is asnegative quality is said to
have won a'large wager by betting that
he was not the ugliest man in the
metropolis and proving it by producing
his son. -
Randolph Kallock, son of ex-May-
or L. S. Kallock, of San Francisco, and
brother of the man who killed Charles
de Young. has been arrested for stab
bing citizen of Fresno in row over
woman. 81.
Boston is pluming herself upon the
fact that the whole valuation of Florida
1850, 900, 00O) is barely more than half
the amount invested in the fashionable
quarter known as the Back Bay within
the past twenty years.
Napa, Cal, is troubled by an over
plus of tramps, attracted thither prob
ably by the large fruit crop. Among
them are such characters as Frisco
Fatty" "Arkansaw Ned" Chicago
Shorty" and "Seldem Seen"
There is in the county clerks Office
at Rochester, N. Y, a bag to receive
contributions for the city hospital. Dur
Ing the five years that it has been
there but two contributions have been
made-one Of cents and one of 8
cents.
A Concord school philosopher makes
II as plain as the MONDAY sun. when he