The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-01
TEXAS IN BRIEF.

on inc lhluNy'
San Antonians ARE cndcavoring to
make water run up hill.
-Copious and needed rams have Wis
tied all portions of the state.
Paris Is to have II concert In whiih
sixty musicians will take part.
The wife of Captain T.. q. lIanrick,
of Waco, died on Monday morning
The pcnitcntiary committee will
report about the 10th of next month.
Dr. II. q. Galloway, late of Alba
ny, Georgia, died near Austin on the
2lst.
The Round Rock Grand Gift con-
cert has been postponed to july -,
1875.
An Old School Presbyterian church
was organized in Bonham on the llth
instant.
Two hunters found n wolf and
seventeen pups on La Parita, and
killed them.
Tile old folks of Lancaster are seiz-
ed with the mania, and propose spell
ing IL out.
The colored children of George
town are to havea May-day celebration
on the LIST.
John f.. Price, the notorious horse
thief, is now safely deposited in the
Brenham Jail.
The grangers of Grayson county
oppose starting Il paper ut either Deni-
sOnror Sherman.
Miss Rhoda, daughter of Mr.. VIM.
r.. JONES, died at her home near
Waco, last Saturday.
DIR. ID. j. Mcdowell and Miss Fran
els a. Logan were married in Conan
che county on the 22d.
-Erath county farmers have ell
gagged quite extensively this season in
the culture of sorghum.
The Bosque Herald learns that
several men have been killed in Brown
county by the Indians.
The two negro murderers, Cooper
and Williams, will be hung in Bren-
ham on the 30th instant.
The prospect for heavy peach
crop is said to be the best that has
been known for many years.
A little five-year old daughter of
Mr. Samuel Shruder, ut Denison, was
fatally burned on Sunday afternoon.
j. w. Ward has received the APP
pointment of postmaster Mt Corpus
Christi, vice Horace Taylor, removed.
The Lampasas river is to be
bridged ut Lampasas on the line of sur
vey of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
road.
George Mexican was shot and Tony
WINFIELD killed Oh Peach creek, by
the brothers Abe and Joe Baker, last
week.
Dallas having set the example,
Houston is not slow to follow, and now
boasts of her Martha Washington tea
party.
The r.. Z. Lee base ball club of
Houston has challenged the Waco
club to play II match game during fair
week.
An alderman ofMarshall was fined
five dollars for carrying II "nigger shoot
en-" That Marshall is II progressive
town.
The stockraisers association of
western Texas, meets in PleasantOn,
Atascoso county, on Monday, Sd day of
May next.
"A man named Homsinger, n not0-
rious cow thief, was arrested II few
days since at Cedar bayou, and taken
to Houston.
An absconding postmaster from
Indiana, named Jewett, alias John
Dewitt, was arrested neai Victoria
last Sunday.
About one hundred and ten thous-
and head of cattle on the east side of
the Colorado. Most of them will be
driven to Kansas.
The Jefferson Leader sympathizcs
with eX-Alderman Young, of this city,
and calls for the suppression of
"nigger shooters"
-Grasshoppers have made their APP
pearance in Coleman county, and fears
are entertained that they will play
havoc with the crops.
jefferson Leader: "rhe crops of
Harrison county are now in good con-
dition, and our farmers are looking for
Il heavy crop this season."
B. +. Clark was arrested in George
town last week, OH Il capias from Hays
county, on a charge of assault with i'll
tent to murder. He gave bond.
-LStatesman: Governor Coke receiv-
ed letter from MIR. Moody on Saturday
last, reporting the sale of twenty-three
state bonds at nine-three cents.
The seventeenth senatorial district
to nominate three delegates
to the constitutional convention, will
meet in Bolton OH the 23d day Of June.
Somebody in Austin erects new
shed, and forthwith the Statesman
goes into ecstacies over the extensive
going on in their midst.
John Robinson accidentally shot
and killed Emily Woods, in Austin,
Sunday night. The parties were col
ored and lived together US man and
wife.
Marble playing is the principal
in Bonham for old and
young. Cutting cord wood and hoeing
cotton used to be very profitable bus
mess.
The penitentiary commission is
still vigorously pursuing its investiga-
lions. The general drift of matters
hBBtho w NC tfShihot WV
ment.
Jefferson has organized Me-
Manufacturing establishment,
and will proceed mt once To build sew |
sral factories, foundries, mills, etc.-on |
paper.
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.
San Antonio Herald: Tke Bell,
was found guilty on two in
lictments for burglary, and five years
1t Huntsville is the limit fixed for his
absence from our midst.n
Dennis Keep, of Victoria, was ac-
,identally shot and killed in that town
asst Thursday evening. The shot was
ired 10y unknown parties and is sup
Dosed TO have been accidental.
Frank Sherwood aud a man named
elder had a difficulty in Lawrence last
We Tx, in which the former was seri-
'usly stabbed a number of times i'm
he neck and body. Elder escaped.
A colored man, named Wash Aus
in, was stabbed in the side last Friday
light in Indianola, by some parties
Unknown. There was some row or
ther and Wash got the worst of ii.
Houston whisky don't agree with
IS citizens. One of them, last Sunday,
1hile labOring under an overdose, made I
n unsuccessful attempt TO commit
licide by jumping of the railroad
ridge.