The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-05-11
THE HERALD'S COMPRESS.
-MeXia has May-Day parties NJ
spelliZootic foyer.


--MeXia has May-Day parties and
spelli2ootic fever.
--Bonham has u twoyear old heiiel
that weighs nine hundred.
The smallpox in very viruent
form has appeared at Corpus Christi.
The Wise county prisoners tried to
saw out of Jail last week, but were de-
tected and ironed.
Emulating the example of Dallas,
Austin proposes to number the houses
on the principal streets.
AT the election last week in the
new county Of Franklin, Mt Vernon
was chosen for the county seat
Five thousand persons were in at
tendance ut the granger's barbecue re-
gently given in Kaufman county.
The Mexia Ledger has erected an
extensive addition to its office, in order
to accommodate its increasing bust
ness.
The work on the Rusk tramway Is
completed, ana the Observer hopes,
ere long, to see the iron horse tearing
into Rusk.
The Bolton Journal publishes u list
of appropriations made at the last SEES
sions of the legislature. The aggregate
amount is S,35S, i2O.
The commanding officer at Austin
has given permission TO the military
brass band Of that post to accompany
the Travis Rifles TO the Houston state
fair.
The Star says the prospect of the
wheat crop in Kaufman was never bet
ter, and that thousands of acres have
been sown IN wheat where hundreds
We're before
Tyler Reporter: "The hog cholera
has prevailed in this county during the
past winter. A great many hogs have
died, and the loss will be severely felt
by the farmers
The Baptist church at Sherman
has secured the services of Elder j. c.
Carpenter, of New Orleans, rs pastor
for this year, mt salary of two thous-
and five hundred dollars.
---Freestone Herald: az. C. Jones,
living on Brewer prairie, last Monday
was bitten on the finger by acentipede.
Beyond the swelling of the injured flu
ger no unpleasant results were felt.n
The prisoners in the Freestone
county Jail have made several in
efrectual attempts, recently, to break
Jail. They have succeeded in filing Off
their shackles twice within the past
week.
Decatur Advance Guard "0n ac-
count of the cool weather corn is some
what backward, but begins to look
well. The wheat crop is indeed prom
Using. Many whole farms bid fair for
thirty bushels per acre"
DR.. Turner, of Granbury, Hood |
county, was assassinated last Sunday
night, while sitting in his own house.
A negro who was in the house at the
time was wounded. No traces have
been discovered of the perpetrators OF
the dastardly deed.
The Austin Evening News is the
style of new paper that is soon to be
published in Austin, by j. ID, Logan d
Co. The paper, says the proprietors,
VIII be independent in politics. but
the managers being possessed OF dem
Ocratic instincts, its best efforts will be
exerted for purifying that great party
and keeping 1t at the head of public
afiairs.n
Victoria Advocate: 1.-THE latest mon
,trosity that has come to our knowl-
edge is that of the birth of a calf with
,ut feet or legs. The deformity was
iound on the prairie last Saturday by
Iome boys who were out COW hunting,
md 1t had been born, AS was supposed, ,
he night previous. II appeared to be
perfect In form save the absence Of
limbs, and was suffering for want of q