The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-03-27

five hundred thousand dollars for pay
ment OF salaries Ofteachers for the yea
ending August |, 1875, II now payable
The state superintendent OF public In
structiOn is to-day Issuing the warrants
on the state comptroller for tb,
amounts due the several counties, pay
able either ut the state treasury or by
sherifls OF the counties, out of any
funds on hand"
From correspondent to the st
I Louis Times: We love our old Mis-
sOurl, state of adoption, fondly and
well, but we love Texas more. HeI
! immensity In extent Is almost incom-
prehcnsible; she has more productive
soil than any two states in the union;
wider plains, richer prairies, the great
est number of rivers, purer and balmier
atmosphere, aud more enchanting
landscapes; more and cheaper acres for
the home hunter, lower taxes, and a
heritage can boast.
As the senate refused to pass the
act allowing county courts to issue
bonds to build court houses, over the
governors veto, work will not be re-
sumcd on the court house Mt Sherman,
for some months Mt least.
Mr.. Coly johnson, OF Tarrant
county, was severely hurt by the over
turning of a buggy on Monday eve
ming. The knee cap was injured, and
he received some severe Commissions
on the side and abdomen.
Henderson, in Rusk county, must
be Il lively village. The Times says the
town has been incorporated, officers
elected, the railroad Is coming, a fire
company and brass band is talked of,
and plaintively sighs or the can can.
-Bonham News: "Our Savoy cor
respondent informs us that Mr.. Fitz.
morris, ofthat place, accidentally shot
and seriously wounded his little boy
the other day. Five shot struck the
boys mead, two of them wOunding the
temporal artery aud causing profuse
hemorrhage."
sherman has had first-class SEN
satlon in the shape of a case Of genuine
destitutiOn, in which the mother and a
half-dozen children of family of paul
pers from Denton county died during
the late severe cold weather. The
Patriot don't speak very eulOgistic of
the action of the county officers in the
matter.
Mr.. ID. G. Williams retires from the
Tyler Reporter, and is succeeded by Mr..
w. .. Minis. We extract the follow
ing paragraph from the editors salu-
tatory: SIN politics ] was whig up to
the nomination of old "fuss and
feathers,n alias, General Scott, when
left that party in disgust, aud have
ever since worked with the Democratic
party, and of which claim to be an
earnest, conscientious member"
Thomas Cole, aged fourteen, son of
DR.. Thomas S. Cole, living in Fannin
county, near Honey Grove, accident
ally shot and killed his little brother
Willie, aged about twelve years, on
Tuesday last. The boys were out gun
ming, and seeing some birds in an OBJ
lique direction from his brother,
Thomas raised his gun and fired. The
ball struck some object and glanced in
the direction of Willie and struck him,
the ball entering the back near, or
against the spinal column, ranging
through the body, lodging in
the left side.
Fort Worth Democrat: 1--WE have
an excellent communication dated
Folt Worth, March 18th, A. d. 1000,
giving a history of the growth of the
city, up to that period, and the account
Of the capture OF some animals among
the ruins where Dallas once stood AS
the writer failed to comply with an
and inflexible rule of all
newspapers, and did not sign his name,
the communication goes to the waste |
basket" We presu:n ne that, as mat
ter of history, it also contained the
of the chronic various in
iignation meetings, the extension, and
its causes and effects together with a
graphic description of the appearance
Of the "panther" on the streets of the
future great city.