The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-17
THE HERALD COMPRESS.

Crops are rapidly drying up IN san
Saba for want of ruiI.
Terrell is going 10 build Il Presby-
terrain church.
Gold and silver hunters haunt the
mountains and valley OF San Saba.
Wheat Is worth eighty cents and
flour SI % per hundred in Bonham.
Mrs. Mary Miley, wife of Rev. A.
b. Miley, died in Bastrop asst week.
-Grading,is being vigorously pushed
forward on the Waxahachie Tap Rail
road.
Mr.. Felix Mann and Miss Fannie
Speer were married in Menard county,
last week.
MIR. G. b. Simms and Miss Aman-
da Heydep were married in Jefferson
OH the 18th.
Michael Boren, an old citizen of
Ellis county, died, few days since, in
WaXahachie.
Three car loads of negro troops
passed through Ennis last Sunday en-
route for the Mexican border.
Gus Rodrigue, fourteen years of
age, was drowned in the Trinity, near
Waxahachie, last Saturday.
San Antonio had a twenty-five
thousand dollar fire on the night of
the 10th.
Tracy & Bro, Rockda!e, bankers,
expended on account of cattle, last
month, S2l2,u00,
The Democrats of Bastrop hold Il
grand barbecue ct the mouth of Piney
creek, ON the 2lst.
Colonel Bob Taylor sends the Bon
ham News some beans measuring
twenty-six inches in length.
The fruit growers of Smith county
propose to hold convention for the
advancement of their interests.
"A little boy, son of the widow Og-
den, while bathing In n tank near
Bryan on the fifth, was drowned.
John G. Gibson, near WaXahachie
threshed and measued from five acres,
unsolicited, two hundred and seven
bushels of wheat.
-JtItlsOll Ildti II Sliidll IRE Ou VIC
Sth. 1t would have been considered II
"disastrous cOnfiagration" in any 9TH
er town in the State.
The RAIDS have nominated T.. l..
Theuman, of Colorado, and eX-Repre-
sentative Ballard, of l.avaca, for the
constitutional convention.
San Antonio will not accept the
terms proposed 10y the National Water
Works Company, Two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars is rather steep.
Colonel w. c. Parham, of st.
Johns College, Little Rock, Arkansas,
has been visiting Paris, with view of
establishing II military institute in
that place.
Mr.. Joshua Brewer and Miss Ollie
Barnes, and Major John Emory and
Mrs. Elizabeth Voorhees,, late of Balti-
more, were married, in Austin, on
the 18th.
Austin Gazette "a gentleman
from Dewitt county informs us that |
the notorious outlaw, j. Wesley Har-
din, was recently seen in the west
edge of Dewitt county. 1t is said
that lie has gone W hehico.
M. w. Davenport is running the |
first steam thresher in Denton county. |
II threshes eight hundred bushels per
day.
Mr. Pleasant Willis and Miss So
phia Walker, and Mr.. q. Il. Sprouell |
and Miss NJ. I. Collier, were recently |
married IN Waco,
10. al .n...aafl 81
passed an ordinance prohibiting the |
erection of any but fire dro0f buildings I
on the burnt district.
Jefferson Jimplecute at turns
out that Texas has made 5000, 900 BUSH /
els of wheat this year, one half Of
which will he for sale or export. This |
begins TO look like doing something i'm |
earnest, Cotton aip't no where"
--StephensvIlle Empire; IA man /
by the name of Townsend shot q Mr.. |
Hagler through the head with needle /
carbine, near the county seat of East
land county, o lew days since. Hag-
Ter died instantly. Townsend escaped
and has not siuos been heard OF. No
cause for the difficulty was known.
Both men were comparatively strang-
ers in the county"
-Stephenville Empire: "a friend
from near Fort Griffin informs us that
crops are fine in that section. Rains
have beeh abundant. Tho wheat crop
will average about twenty bushels per
acre. The cotton orap, so far rs we
have seen, and judging from what We
have heard from our farmers, will be
much larger than any former one. We
do not fear the army or boil worm,
and the web worm has entirely disap-
psared.n
Chief Justice o. NJ. Roberts has
furnished the Tyler Democrat with
The following synopsis of the business
Of the Supreme Court, from first Mon
day in October, Iva, to 3nth Of June
1918, bsing two hundred and thirty
'Snf working days.
Cases. Deed. op'ns Unds,d
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