The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-23
STATE ITEMS.

Died at his residence near Ben
Franklin, Delta county, Texas, on Sat
urday morning, the llth instant, Col
onel Thomas j. Lane, in the sixty-iifIh
year Of his age.
Last Tuesday, about O'Clock, the
residence of Mrs. Baggerly, in this
city, took fire and despite every effort
of our citizens, 1t was totally consum-
ed. The fire originated in the tlue Of
the stove pipe. Loss about $1,000; in
surancc 81 600. / Tyler Reporter.
Messrs. Ward, Dewey & Co., who
run large plantation on the Brazos
worked ry pententiary convicts, have
experimental and invested largely in
| the construction of worm cotton de-
( stroyers, SO that should the pest come
they will he prepared.
The young straddle-thc-line city of
TeXarkana has some spirit in it. Cap
tain Hakes offers premium of one
| hundred dollars to the man who gets
| the first bale of cotton into that town,
provided the cotton Is the produce of
Red River or Bowie county, Texas, or
of Lafayette or Little River county,,
Arkansas.
a gentleman just from the rural dis
tricts of Sims bayou tells us this;
Saturday last he had some calves in
q pen and was about branding them. He
had the hot branding iron in his hand
ut one time, but being called for some
purpose, stuck it, hot end up against n
! box. just then negro man came
along, and not knowing the brand was
hot, sat down upon ii in n jaunty man
ner, but suddenly recovered, hallooing
"Help, fire !" or something that sound
ed like IT.. He is said TO be well
branded.
Who will be the fortunate man Mt
| Fort Worth on HE 18th, of course we
can not tell. Every thingseems TO in
dictate that Governor rhrockmorton
will be the man. Whether he is the
nominee, or some other man, DR.. |. i.
Vollntine, of our town, isnot disposed
TO let him walk over the track with
out opposition. He is announced rs
an Independent candidate, and expects
to make the race on that platform.
The doctor has many friends on the
frontier, and he expects to make him
self known throughout the district be-
fore the first of November Weather
ford Times.
SAN MARCOS, July lS.-On the even
ing of the fifteenth, a negro was dis
covered attempting TO ravish Il German
child twelve years of age, by the pa
rents, and party OF citizens hung the
negro, whose name | aseertained was
Ed, Horseman. The sheriff Of Comal
county, tried to obtain further partiou-
lars, but was unable to give me the
names Of the parents of the child or
of any Of the parties concerned in the
lynching. He buried the negro this
morning, after an inquest had been
held. This is the second negro who has
been hung on York creek within the
last month.
Crops are in q splendid condition
, here and In the neighborhood of New
Braunies but we are having excessive
rains.
The Bonham News says:
From Sheriff Dunn, who took his
daughter to the mad stone in Collin
county, this week, we learn that the
stone is in possession of William Me-
Kinney. living six miles south of Van
Alstyne, on the Texas Central railroad.
The original stone, Of which this is Il
fragment, was picked up by boy
many wears ago on the coast of Viz
yinia. A Mr.. Massie, yet living at
Palmyra, Missouri, saw the boy with
il and taking fancy to it bought it
: for Il triile. AT that time it was a
rounded stone about the size of II goose
egg. Upon discovery Of its wonderful
properties, it was divided up into sew
eral pieces, one of which MIR. Massie
still retains, while two others are in
the possession of persons in Texas.
lot Gunter, ESD, has shown us let
ter received by him from JacksoOrO,
, dated the 18th, which confirms the
news we published Thursday Of the
tight between the rangers and Indian5
in Lost valley. and the rout of the Tor
{; mer We quote the following addi-
I; tional particulars
After the fight portion of the ram
; GERS Law in the ravinrs from II o'clock
b. until after dark. They broughtin one
man killed, ten others missing ard
t supposed to be killed. The rangers lost
thirteen horses. There were supposed
to be one hundred Indians In the night
. Every available soldier left Fort ts'ch-
. ardson Sunday night Tor the valley
[Denison News.
!; FASHIONABLE and official circles n
!, Washington City are shaken to then
d foundations by the marriage of young
Mr.. z. j. Jenking, son of Admiral Jen
kins, of the navy, to"Frank Christie,
}. ballet dancer al the theatre Comique
!; She is described as a good looking
blonde, about ten years her spouse
senior, and has been on the stage anC
[. In the "variety" business for SOM