The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-14
THE nERALD'S co MPRESS.

I'tlllSol oIlly cuSJ 100 NolcS iasl
Monday.
The San Saba canal route is being
surveyed.
Cotton picking is going on brislily
in Washington county.
The Austin Evening News has been
enlarged to II seven column paper.
Horses worth, two months ago, $50
can now be bought at San Marcos fol
SO. -
Henderson county expects to make
more cotton this year than for years
past.
The Houston Age speaks of its leg.
islative body rs the Board of Block.
heads.
The Ennis stock yard shipped over
one hundred car loads Of cattle last
month.
Mr.. Holcombe of Erath county, has
threshed over ii 900 bushels of wheat
this season.
The City Council of San Antonio,
have resolved to publish list of de-
iihiaoho t"Np"J VIC
Robert Forson brutally and cowardly
stabbed his brother, w. n. Forson,
near Englewood, few days since.
A farmer living seven miles east of
Longview, Gregg county, has lost Al
head of cattle this year from hydro
phobia.
Rockdale Messenger: at has come
to be n pretty well settled fact, that the
International Railroad will not 60 on
this Fall.
The Waco Examiner thinks Captain
w. f. Morton, Deputy Marshal, of Dal-
las, deserves the civic crown. The
HERALD thinks 50, too.
Austin Statesman "a. s. Roberts
has just received u large lot of new
flour from Dallas, which he warrants
as good as the best"
Mr.. Chew, of the Mcleod House, at
Paris, has in his possession sprig OF
evergreen which was plucked from
the coffin of Robert L. Lee.
Longview New Era: "Dallas con-
tinues to improve. Her business men
are alive and full of energy. And that's
the way to do it." You bet.
San Antonio by subscription and
theatrical performance will be enabled
to send about 81 900 to the sufferers
from inundations in France.
Rev. j. Fl. Curry, of Mobile, Ala
bama, has been, for the last week, as
sisting in carrying Oh protracted
meeting at Gilmer, Upshur county.
There were twenty-seven young
ladies from Texas in attendance at the
Wesleyan Female Institute, ut Staun-
ton, Va, during the last session just
closed.
The Patrons of Lake City, Marion
county, Texas, are endeavoring, with
good prospects of success, to start u
large cotton factory. The additional
capital required is Sl5,OOO.
Jimplecute "Freight to Shreve-
port, by river, is down to card rates
again. The river is now in good boat
ing order, and no trouble in getting
goods through on time"
The press of the State are almost
unanimous in their censure of the
Commissioners for the selection of San
Marcos Spring as the site of the west
ern branch of the peDitentiary.
Calvert Texan: "Mr. S. b. Long
raised and brought the first bale OF
cotton i'm this market. 1t weighed $40
pounds, and WIS shipped 10y Messrs.
McLendon IL Co. to VIM Hendly "
Co., Galveston.
Jimplecute "Fannin county sent
fifteen persons to the penitentiary at
the last term of the District Court,
There will soon be use for about four
more new penitentiaries the way
things are going on" ~
Hillsboro Expositor IA gentle
man from Bosque reports the hanging
of the negro who shot Smith, and, at
the same time and to the same limb,
two white men, accused of hiring the
negro to do the killing"
Jimplecute: "a severe rain and
hail storm visited us yesterday eve
ming, which threatened for while to
be very disastrous. A large amount
| of hail fell, and some signs and a few
trees were blown down."
Austin Gazette 1--WE learn that
there was one citizen who lost largely
by the failure of Sherman ~ Co. We
allude to Mr.. Fish, who has recently
bought out Mr.. Wolf-he lost thirty
thousand dollars, in cash by this fail
ure.n
Ward, Dewey & Co., have made a
proposition to grade and tie the u. ii.
& S. A. Railroad, from the Guadalupe
| O.. fn pnflaa for a
sum of Sl00,000, and obligate them
selves to complete the work in six
months.
Houston Telegraph: "Some mis-
creant has set the prairie on fire SOUTH
west of Houston, and 1t has burned all
the grass from the Harrisburg railroad
to Stafford's Point. The stock have
been compelled to seek the bottoms for
pasturage."
Brennan Banner: "If Dick Harvin
gets Justice done him for his rascally
manipulation of the registration lists
of this county, he will get board and
lodging with Wsrd, Dewey d CO., for
term of not less than ten years"
The Southwest Index says that the
first newspaper ever published in Tex
as was the Cotton Plant. IL was started
at San Felipe. Goodwin b. Cotton
was its editor and proprietor. This
publication was i'm 1929, 1908, and
was afterwards called the Texas Re
publican.
Brenham Banner: 1.-THE cotton
crop in some parts Of the county will
be very short, while in other portions
an average yield will be the result.
The sweet potato crop is suffering for
rain, and unless it comes soon, the
crop will be failure"
San Antonio Express: "Houses of
prostitution have become so public,
that the city administration has de-
termined to drive the plague out The
owners of the houses kept for this pur-
pose should be put in the same boat
with their tenants"
Brenham Banner: "Mr. II. E.
Locketts new iron front store rooms
and opera house is now fully under
way. The building will be 60x6O
three stories bigh-the two uppel
stories to be finished in the latest and
most improved style as an opers
house.
Hillsboro Expositor I'VE learr
from Esquire Griffin that a man By