The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-17
TEXAS IN BRIEF.


-Quitman had Jail delivery last
week.
WIN. Walker, an old citizen OF
Bryan, died last week.
Corn is selling at eighty-five cents
per bushel, coin, in San Antonio.
All state papers give most glowing
and cheering accounts of the crops.
Mrs. Matte A. Miller, wife of Il. j.
Miller, died In Sherman last Wednes-
day.
Colonel j. D.Jackman and Mrs. G.
Gaines were married in Austin last
week.
An unknown man was run over
by the train and killed, Friday, near
Bryan.
The Galveston Artillery company
will give its annual ball on San Jacin-
to day.
Colonel George w. Newman, an
old citizen of Fort Worth, died last
Tuesday.
The executive committee of the
stale grange meets at Austin OH the
18th inst.
The young bucks of the thriving lit
tie village of Denison have organized a
social club.
Captain L. III. McNelly is raising a
volunteer company to operate along
the frontier.
The Brennan Banner is writing
up its business men, and makes very
creditable showing.
Thomas Moore, an old New Orleans
and Texas painter, died in Galveston
last Thursday night.
-Brenham elected O straight out
democratic ticket last Tuesday. r.
Shipley, Esq, is mayor.
The Decatur Advance warmly sup
ports Governor Throckmorton for the
constitutional convention.
jefferson came near having an
other fire on Monday evening, at the
residence of Judge McAdoo.
"A paper, devoted to grange and
temperance interests, is soon to be
commenced at Honey Grove.
The Sherman Courier gladdens the
hearts of its verdant readers with the
promise of CONTINUED" story.
The Colorado is to be spanned by
an iron bridge, at Columbus, at u cost
of twenty-five thousand dollars.
w. II. Harrison, Esq, of Jefferson,
has been elected director of the Tex
as and Pacific railway company.
Captain M. b. Lloyd, of Fort Worth,
has received the appointment of cattle
agent for the Kansas Pacific railroad.
The physicians of Travis county
gave supper Thursday night in honor
of the members of the medical associa-
ton.
Paddock has a new pair Of five dol
lar boots, and crows as Justify over
them as any bantling over his first
"red-tOps."
No decision has been given on the
motion for new trial in the case OF
Hunnicutt, sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life.
Some scoundrel entered the office
of the Fort Worth Standard and pur-
loined a portion of the lever of the
news press, and one of the arms of the
press.
"A meeting of the incorporators Of
the Houston east and west narrow
gauge railway was held in Houston,
Wednesday, and an organization
effected.
Colonel Clark, a prominent law
yer of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, has To-
Gated at Bonham, and associated HIM
self with Judge ]. Q. Chenoweth In the
pra nj ipa nf hia pr0 fassiOn
The wife of Mr.. Millican, editor of
the Fort Worth Standard, died: on
Tuesday last. This is the third time
within the past few months death has
entered the household of Mr.. M. The
HERALD tenders him its sincere SYM
pathy.
Sherman Patriot IA Mr.. Nc
Caffery, a lawyer recently from Green
vile to this place, was arrested on
Monday last, charged with forgery in
Hunt county. He was put in Jail In
default of bond, which was put at two
thousand dollars"
z. w. Abercrombie, living about
twenty miles from Bonham, on Red
river, was shot and killed by Mr..
Jackson, last Wednesday. johnson
and posse were endeavoring to serve
a writ on deceased, when the unfortu-
nate affair occurred.
Peoria Record: "The wheat crop
of this comfy looks splendid, more
than double the acreage of last year
has been planted. There are only
few exceptional localities Of inconsid-
erable extent where the crop is not
good. We predict glorious harvest"
-Denison News: Lieutenant Ca
prom, United States army, who has had
charge of the government telegraph
construction train, has been relieved
by Lieutenant Greely. Lieutenant
Greely left Denison Monday morning
for Fort Sill"
"A man named Peter Koder, aged
seventy-three, attempted to assault his
wife, about eight miles from Calves.
ton, last Saturday. A son interfered
to protect his mother, when the old
reprobate stabbed him in the abdomen
with knife, infiicting, it Is supposed,
mortal wounds.
San Antonio is to have bone fac
tory. II will manufacture bone meal,
bone black and ivory black, turning
out from six to ten tons per day. The
bone meal is for fertilizing, the bone
black and ivory black is used in the
manufacture Of paints.
An effort is being made in Jeffer-
son to organize a young men'sc christian
association, and right under the notice
fhoraof in the nader We find that