The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-16
STATE NEWS.

The scholastic population of Texas
il about $50 600.
Austin claims n population Of four
teen thousand four hundred.
--Bennettc, eldest son of Lieut. Gov.
Hubbard, died ut Liudale on the Sth
inst.
There are twenty-five students
from Texas ut Roanoke College, Nir-
ginia. t|ia
--Ouly three houses are left at Yelas'
co; all the rest were destroyed by the
late storm.
Bell county had eighteen marriages
during last month. II Is II regular
marriage Bell. ... .....s4.t
Clay county claims n larger amount
Of arabic land than any other county
in North Texas.
Immense swarms of grassh0ppers
have been passing over Austin ever
since last Friday.
One hundred and siXty-siX thous-
and cattle were driven North from
Texas in the year 1874.
Captain r.. i. HALEY, Sheriff of
Bell county, died last Monday from in
llammntiOn of the brain.
bishop Geo. f. Pierce, of Georgia,
preached at the NJ. II. Church ut Sher-
man, last Wednesday night.
The State of Texas has offered n re-
ward of two hundred and fifty dollars
Tor the body of Amos Colbaths.
Over one thousand miles OF tele-
graph has been established 10y the uni
ted States government in Texas.
Mr.. Pinckney Brown, of Erath
county, accidentally shot himself last
week, inIlicting n painful wound.
Caldwell county has twelve thous-
and inhabitants, and land sells there
at from one to ten dollars per acre.
The City Council of Denson have
declared their bonds, known as the
slaughter house bonds, null and void.
The Methodists are raising the
sum of $4,000 in Waco, for the pur-
pose of building new church edilice,
j. II. Clinton, of Marshall, who
has been on trial for burglary, has
been sentenced to three years in the
penilentiary.
Albert Duncan, of Anderson, Texas,
accused of the murder of Albert stencil
comb, was acquitted by jury on the
18th of this month.
The colored people of Athens have
been carrying on protracted meeting
ever since the war, and they have not.
got religion yet
"A young man named Roberts was
buried last Monday at Alvarado, He
died from the effects OF u spider bite
received while picking cotton.
II. b. FOgleman, Il farmer residing
on Shawnee prairie, Red River coun-
ty, Texas, took the live hundred dol
lar premium ut the st, Louis fair.
The grading of the Waxahachle
Tap has at lust been completed. The
line is eleven and n quarter miles long
and perfectly straight, except at the
terminus
One of the best principles of the
Grange is to protect dumb animals
from abuse Any member counten-
ancing their abuse is liable to censure
or expusioh
The Montague News says many
persons in that section of the country
are suffering from severe Inflammation
of the eyes, some of them are confined
to their beds.
Little Jimmie Seedham, aged five
years, son of w. b. Needham, who
lives near Grove Creek in Ellis county,
picked four hundred and seven pounds
OF cotton in four days.
John Allen, a white man from San
Augustine, was compelled to elope
with Kate Written, negro girl Of
Marshall on account of the strenuous
of the colored mama.
The Houston Age ridicules the pro-
duction of Prof. Tice, who has publish
ed to the world that n terrible torn ado
will blow over Texas on the nineteenth
Of this month. We willbet on rice.
The mill house and gin of Mrs.
Barlow, were burned, at Collnsville,
county, on Wednesday night.
Total loss 5000, which is covered by
insurance. Supposed, to be the work
Of an incendiary. ~.-- @..a 3 \
during divine service last Sunday
IN Hillsborough, in Hill county, some
Of the congregation behaved 50 out
rageousiy that the minister was COM
PEELED TO suspend the services and adj
II severe rehuke.
During the last two months, sew
enty thousand bushels of wheat, six |
and fifty thousand bushels OF |
oats, eight hundred thousand pounds !
Of flour and four hundred bales of cot
ton have been shipped from Mckinney. |
SHERIFF Rabey, Of Coryell county,
has been arrested by Major Purneil, |
United States Marshall Rubey II
charged with having released two
counterfeiters whom he had arrested.
and also With having resisted an ofii-
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