The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-03-20
TEXAS IN BRIEf.
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Willie Beaie and Miss Mollle Ed
wards, Of sulphur Springs, bid defiance
10 the commands OF stern parents, aud
splced without the consent Of the old
folks.
Sam. j. Hunter and w. II. Mutt
pin are candidates for mayor of the
thriving village Of sulphur Springs.
Mr., Il. b. Council, Of Houston, was
married to Mrs, Lottie Church, In Aus
tin, Tuesday.
The Telegraph waSeth Wroth at the
can can, which, TO use its Language,
"pcrsists IN perpetratlng this Insult TO
Houston In spite OF every protest and
the defiance Of virtue, religion and
common deCency," md threatened to
publish The name OF every person who
attends. But 1t didn't.
A stranger stepped into the county
court room at Austin, Tuesday, and af-
ter sitting quietly II while, took out n
knife and made an assault upon pre-
siding Justice Smith and also upon an
attorney by the nume of j. NJ. Denton.
After u severe struggle he was knocked
down and secured. He refused 10 give
his name or assign any cause for his
c0nduc. lie is presumed TO be crazy.
THE gang Of Gounterleters cap
tured In Coryell county were taken to
Austin Tuesday, aud turned over to
the United States Marshal. Two more
of the gang were captured in that city
Tuesday, witha large amount ofmoney
IN their possession, Of the denomina-
ton of i've dollar bills, on the Traders
Bank, of Chicago.
Albert b. Scott, grandson of Col.
r.. Ii. Il. Whitley, who was in com
mand of the arsenal mt San Antonio ut
the outbreak of the war, has received
the appointment of cadetship ut
West Point,
Several weddings are onsthe tapis
in Marshall.
The Tyler Democrat proposes to
touch Grant on tender spot, and give
u rancho on the frontier, and stock ii
with say five or six hundred thousand
head of cattle.
Mr. James w. Jones and Miss An
ME f.. Jones, of Travis county, were
married Tuesday.
Houston ladies cultivate their own
gardens.
Farmers in Lee county have fin
ished planting corn, and are hilling-ul
sweet potatoes and nearly ready t
plant cotton.
The Galveston hotel enterprise has
been abandoned, cause why--lack o
funds. The building, as it now stands
will be disposed Of by the sheriff.
"A brute named G. w. (alas
George Washington Elliott was tinec
one hundred dollars and imprsonet
sixty days in the county Jail, at Waco,
Tuesday, for beating his wife.
The first locomotive for the narrow
guage railroad arrived at Houston las
week.
"A farmer living short distance
from Bonham captured three bushels
/ of rabbits during the late snow storm
They netted him four dollars anC
ninety cents, at five cents head.
The prospect for u fine fruit croI
throughout the state is excellent.
II. p. Dmmitt has been appointed
sheriff of Guadalupe county, vice j. F.
/ Gordon, removed.
John Brill shot man in Guada
lupe county last week, named Horton
Cause-whiskey.
/ An old man named Alexander
who was arrested some time since, aut
I brought to this state on requisition
1 il now confined in the Paris jail on the
4 charge of murder, committed owe
| twenty years ago.
The Rockport Transcript says Their,
was slaughtered at the packeries q
! Fulton, three miles above that city
/ during the season of but little over foui
/ ,aonths just closed, twenty-six thous
and three hundred and fourteen heaC
of cattle.
Tom L. Shaw, sheriff of Rockwell
county, died o short time since.
Tho CHANGERS of Kaufman county
will hold grand Barbecue, at the tow 1
| of Kaufman, on the LIST of May.
The following is II list of the can u
dates to fill the various municipal off
ces at the ensuing election. g. w
/ Carter mayor; q w. Nealy, marshal
7. G. Hawkins, Z. II. Layne, a. ID
Edwards, d. NJ. Oldham and Jane,
Harris, nldermen.
Tile prospects for an abundan
! yield of the wheat crop in Kaufman
county are most cheering.
Two deaths near Wills Point, thi
week, from tie measles. Several casei
ut Terrill, but none as yet have prove,
fatal
Ts-0ur exchanges throughout the stat,
give cheering accounts of the coming
wheat crop.
THE new police OF Houston are max
5 Ing II rather warm for Migrants ant
idlers.
Houston claims population o