The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-20
HERE AND THERE.

An 8-year-old lad is under arrest in
Louisville, KY, on the charge of wreck
ing q train.
California fruits have taken the place
Of southern fruits in the markets OF
Richmond, Va.
Baltimore. Nd, Masons will try to
raise $1,000 for the benefit OF the
Charleston, $. c., sufferers.
A party of fat men living at ROTOR
Point Conn, will next week hold their
twentieth annual clam-bake
There are three thousand mill opera
tives out Of employment in Amsterdam,
N. Y. All the mills are closed.s
In Charleston, S. c., the scene of the
recent earthquake. there live 32, $50
colorcd persons ard 27,605 whites.
A Portland, Me-, farmer found
SO note stuck to the tire of n wheel on
his buggy after he had returned from a
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-sx
and half pounds is ON exhibition at
Visalia, CAL, and competition is chal-
lenged 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
$50, 900. Last year it was 1876, 600.
Youngstown, o., is without an official
organ published in the English Ian
guagc. Inability to pay the price dc.
manded by the printers is the caus..
Preparations are rapidly being made
for the humiliation of Stone mountain,
Georg a. Huge wells have been bored,
and carloads of powder emptied into
them.
A woman near Cascyviilc, KY. while
walking about in her garden Tuesday,
stepped on n humble bees nest. and the
bees stung her SO badly that she died
the next day.
1t is now the fashion in Louisville,
KY, for young ladies TO make visits in
company of II chaperonc instead of a
gentleman, rs has heretofore been the
custom in that city.
A Prcsby terrain church butt from
petrifed wood in Aliens creek y one
of the curiostcs OF Mumford, y. Y.
Leaf and moss fossils are to b. pl@iUly
seen in the stone.
The prize of gold-hcadcd cane for
the winner of fat mans race in Pitts
burgh last week was carried of by a
butcher who tips the beam at 800
pounds. No person weighing less than
205 pounds was allowed TO contest.
The following terse note was recently
left behind by an clipping couple in one
of Hampshire's hill towns: We've
eloped. Forgive us if you can, and il
you can't, what will you do about itP"
A fire broke out Sept. 10 in Bristol,
New. and consumed the best portion of
the town before the flames could be got
under control. One man named j. N.
Gregory was killed. and loss of $l35.-
900 was occasioned.
The hackmen- of Buffalo, n. T.. are
bowling mad because n lveryman, G.
w. Miller, pays license on four car.
riages when he has forty-nine, while
every mothers son OF us must pay n
big tax for everything we own or do. y
When Captain Lawton and his COM
mand arrived at Fort Bowie with the
Apaches they looked like party OF
trumps. Capt. Lawton had the rim OF
his hat left and an undershirt and q
pair of overalls on. his feet beng en-.
cased in rawhdc.
A young married lady of fashion at a
champagne party recently & ven at
White Sulphur Springs, Va, is said &c
have pulled off her slipper, which she
flied with wine and gave to a young
lawyer in the party, who eagerly quaft'
ed its contents.
The principal land Office in Vancou-
YER, British Columbia, il situated in =
hollow tree forty-fOur feet in circum.
ference. In one section there il q ia
BILE twenty-scven feet long and iour
feet wide, made out of solid board
taken from the tree.
A prominent Catholic priest Of Gin
cinnati in an interview with reporter
of The Times Star says that an effort
will be made to pay oil the archbishop's
debt within the next five years. The
pope is said to have issued an order re.
curing that tho debt shall be liquidated
in that time.
A Morden, Manitoba, dog is said &c
have escaped from his collar one day last
week, after which. fearing a whipping.
he refused to return home when called
by his owner. The next night, howev.
er, he went back to his kennel, and by
some means inserted his neck into the
collar and in the morning was found
securely fastened.
The Schumacher boys of Conestoga.
Canada. leaned their fish-poles against