The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-07-11
TEXAS ITEMS.

btpuly tHiteu ''l"''H Soii'hir'i''-
ers, Millner and Mason, arrived AT
Austin on last Friday, with sixty
thousand shad from the Smithsonian
Institute to he placed in the Colorado
river. They placed twenty-five thous-
and in Clear creek, n tributary of the
Brazos, one mile east Of Hampstead.
One negro shot and instantly killed
another at Plano, on the I'd instant.
The "green eyed monster caused il.
Judge William Smith died at Orange
on last Friday. He was formerly rep
resentative in the legislature from that
county.
General Braxton Bragg is on visit
to Austin.
Half dozen flats loaded with rail-
road iron for the San Antonio track
passed Houston last Thursday.
The Eye-Opener is the name of an
anonymous newspaper recently started
in Galveston. 1t is said to be pub
lished by league of seven. Its mis-
sion is abuse of the city officials.
The new crop of wheat is selling at
Pilot Point at eighty-fve cents.
DR.. A. G. Clopton is announced in
the Jefferson Democrat as candidate
for congress from that congressional
district.
Last week was occupied by the dis
trict court of Cook county in the trial
of the Sch8aseil case, who was charged
with being accessory to the murder of
Captain Rehsf4tsspsAvrhe jury returned n
verdict of guilty" and the punish
ment was assessed at five years impris-
onment.
Mr.. John Hobbs, of Cook county,
raised one hundred and eighty-siX
pounds of Tappahannoc wheat from
four pounds sown.
THE West Texas Free Press, in reply
to letter from an old friend in Indi-
ana, who thinks ofremoving to Dallas,
Texas, because the people are too "fast'
where he lives, tells him that "he can
hardly find faster place in Indiana.
That some of its old citizens say they
want to get away from it on that ac-
count" "Besides," says he, "our late
advices are that Dallas is very much
overdone, as fast places are apt to be,
and is likely to take at least tempo
rary backset."
This forcible illustration of the old
adage that person must go away from
home to get the news of his own
neighborhood. We here were not
aware that we were taking q "backset.'
The fact only dwells in the provincial
Imagination of our small contemporary
A man named Lawrence was run
over by the mail train, one mile west o
Flatonia, and instantly killed, on thu
evening OF the 18th instant. He was o
prepossessing appearance and abou
| seventeen years Oh aye.
A party of men went to the house o
q colored man named Nathaniel Bur
ges, about two miles south of Mexia, OF
Thursday night last, and shot him ant
his mother. in-law, Sarah Field, killing
the latter. The assaulting party wer'
arrested and incarcerated.
The "glorious Fourth" was enthusi-
astically celebrated in Austin by thu
Hibernian association, the Travis rifles
and the German society. Patriotic
speeches were made by General Rob.
ertson, Lieutenant Governor Hubbard
Hon. G. A. Grow, Hon. John Reagan
and others.
Navasota was made money ordel
office on the 9Th instant.
Rev. George w. Baines, of Salado, ;
young Baptist preacher of much prom
ise, was awarded the first prize at Bay
lor University for eloquence.
Major H. H. Boone, of Navasota, il
a candidate for congress from thu
fourth congressional district.