The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-28
HERE AND THERE.

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many different jaiis in Maine last week.
The yield of rice in Louisiana is said
to be considerably below the average
this season.
Eighty thousand acres of railway
land in Barnes county have not paid
survey fees.
One dealer at Winchester, KY.
handled 2.2000,000 pounds Of tobacco
since before the war;
II is estimated that tho prune crop in
Santa Clara county, California, this
season is worth 81. 100000.
An unusually large quantity of fish
has been caught in the waters off Mo
neghan. Me, this season.
Discoveries of large deposits of
plumbago, or black lead, are reported
in the Verdugo hills. Nevada.
A Montana stockman has Il standing
offer of $3.50, 900 to anyone who will
insure his range cattle tins winter and
make good ali losses
A farmer near New Milford Conn,
recently plowcd up an old field, and
among other things brought up six
hundred snake eggs.
w. S. Heath, of Warrenton, Ga, re-
Gently picked up in the woods, near
that place. hair-brush which he had
left there during the war of the rebel
lion.
The foliage on the mountains in
Massachusetts promises to be very
gorgeous this season. 1t has already
assumed autumnal tints in many To-
calities.
If a white man steals coat in Arizo-
M, says The Wheeling wv. Va) Regis
ter. he is hanged; if an Indian scalps
white man he is sent to Florida to gather
oranges.
The prominent young men OF Vicks-
burg Miss. are taking steps toward
organizing literary and library asso-
citation, something the city hasn't had
since before the war.
Philadelphia is the home OF very
mean church organist He is all bent
with age, and the other day, at the
wedding of an antiqe Philadelphia belle
whom he knew many years before, he
astonishcd everybody by playing fan
TASTE on the air when You and Were
Young"
1t is stated that Charles Carson, held
ut Chamberlain on charge of steal ne
horses at Pierre, turns out to be noted
highwayman and desperate. who has
been operating south of the Black II lis
for II number of years, and he is also
wanted in several other places. He was
taken TO Deadwood.
Charles Porter, a colorod man, sup
posed to be % years old, died at the
Oxford, Conn, town house recently.
He was commonly known as the
colonel, having been colonel in the old
colored regiment which, in place OF the
guns, not then permitted 10 be borne,
carried painted sticks.
The lircmen in an cnginc-housc ut
Portland, Oregon. have chickenhawk
which kills the rats for them. The
hawk is kept in large drygoods box,
made into cage. The boys catch rats
in traps and throw them into the cage,
when the hawk swoops down on them
and spears them to death with its
claws.
The water used in Sacramento, Cal.
is of peculiar color. One day recent
lv resident of that city was in San
Francisco, and strayed into restaur-
ant. When a waiter placed glass of
water before him he looked ut it mo.
mcnt and angr.ly exclaimed: you
can't fool me. That ant water; wa
ter's yaller."
In the rotunda of the Richmond.
Va. capitol there is an old stove made
of iron which is said to be one OF the
oldest stoves in existence 1t was made
present to the colony of Virginia in
1770, and was spoken of at the time rs
a warming machine. 1t is seven feet
high, and has rs much ornamentation
rs Queen Anne house.
A very old Indian relates that about
forty years ago a battle. extending over
several DAYS. each having about one
thousand lodges. was fought in the VI
cinity of Portland. in Trail. Remains
are still visible of trenches sunk by
Chippcwas, who were victorious. but
lost about one thousand ponies that the
Sioux took in their retreat TO Devils
lake. They had flint-lock muskets.
and the number killed was large on
both sides.