The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-08
TEXAS rs BRIEF.

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Mr.. j. r. llirt, Nh. old citizen
san Antonio, died on the eth.
Several horses stolen in the nelgl
lorlIood of DcnlSon the past week.
The frontier telegraph is compile
ed TO within few miles Of JacksbOr'
Some scoundrcl made an inellectui
attempt to burn the Presbytcria
church ut l.Ongview last week.
San Antonio, New Braunfels u
San Marcos will he selected rs the sit
for the western penitentIary.
Burglars are ut work all over tn
state. Every exchange received con
tains some account of their exploits.
Five prisoners escaped from tin
Georgetown Jail, Saturday night, b,
digging out, Two were recaptured.
Alfred w. Sandige has been arrest
ed for having committed rape upon
Mrs. Hannah b. Brown, in McLennal
county.
Sherman wants gas. She has
three newspapers, which certainly fur
nish II suillciency for an ordinary com
munity.
The Houston Age has been en-
urged and greatly improved, and
changed from an evening toa morn
ing paper.
Marshall will hold Il fair in Octo-
Der, and the amount subscribed for the
cotton premium fund already foots up
over one thousand dollars.
And now they are talking of build
ing II grange foundry and manufactory
in Dcnis0n. That village is the livest
place, on paper, in the country.
The Huntsville Item fears II revolt
from the convicts. Treat them with
common humanity, and perhaps they
will have less grounds to complain.
Mr. Thomas Roper, an old Texan,
died ut Jefferson Tuesday. Mr.. Henry
a. Steady, another old citizen, died at
the same place Wednesday morning.
Waco Examiner: "1'he police ar
rested Il man yesterday, for murder
committed six years since in Georgia.
We withhold names for very obvious
reasons"
The contract for the grading and
tieing of the Waxahachie Tap road,
was let out on last Wednesday to Mr..
j. w. Hoffman. The work VIII be
commenced about the 5th or 10th proX.
The board of aldermen of Bren-
ham have assumed control of al pub
lie free schools in the corporate limits,
in compliance with the act of the four
teenth Legislature, passed March, 1875.
Charles Eilla, well known in Dallas
and the principal towns of Texas,
dropped dead, II few days since, in the
streets OF Galveston. At the time of
his death he was proprietor of the sa-
loon at the Southern hotel, Galveston.
"A call has been issued for the re-
publicans of the state to meet in coll
vention ut Hampstead, on the 25th Of
May. The San Antonio Express fa-
vors the call in order to put qui-
etus on certain a"piring and ambitious
federal oiliceholders.
San Antonio Express: "Icsterdny
evening about six o'clock, DO na
Juana Reveals, Mexican woman, was
discovered dead in her bed, at her
house, west of San Pedro, she having
taken about one quart of whiskey a
short while before"
A man named BeaZeley shot and
killed u farmer named Watson, nine
miles west of WaXahachie, on Friday
last, Beazeley had rented some land
from Watson, and the difficulty grew
out of the manner in which it should
be cultivated. The murderer was ar
rested.
San Antonio Express: "rherc is
a rumOr in the city that Sandlaben's
train has been attacked by Indians on
the way down from chihuahua, and
the train master killed and Sandlaben
wounded. No other particulars could
be had, or any reliable source for the
rumor found"
Sherman Register: "There are
now in the county Jail twenty-eight
prisoners, eight of whom are colored,
as follows -Four murder
four burglary; one, swindling; one,
forgery one, lunacy two, carrying
pistols; and fifteen, theft. They seem
to be kept as clean, quiet, and health
ful as possible in space so small"
-Giddings Tribune: "'rhe Hon.
Matt. Gains was arrested in this place
on last Monday and confined in the
county Jail until the following morn
ing, at which time Sheriff McKeown
started with him for LaGrange. He
was arrested OH the same charge upon
which he was once convicted, and it is
likely he will make Huntsville his
headquarters for awhile.n