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


ter sitting quietly while, took out t
knife and made an assault upon pre-
siding Justice Smith and also upon NJ
: attorney by the name of j. Nj. Denton
z After u severe struggle he was knocked
down and secured. He refused To Civ,
his name or assign any cause for hi
:, conduct. He is presumed TO be crazy
The gang of counterieiters cap
/; tured In Coryell county were taken It
Austin Tuesday, and turned over tc
the United States Marshal. Two more
of the gang were captured in that city
Tuesday, with a large amount ofmoney
in their possession, of the denomna
ton Of five dollar bills, on the Traders
Bank, of Chicago.
Albert b. Scott, grandson of Col.
r. ii. X. Whitley, who was in COM
mand of the arsenal ut San Antonio at
the outbreak of the war, has received
the appointment of II cadetship at
West Point.
Several weddings are on the tapis
in Marshall.
The Tyler Democrat proposes to
touch Grant on n tender spot, and give
Il rancho on the frontier, and stock it
W Ith say nNc vi siA liuIluicu tuouSuhei
head of cattle.
Mr.. James w. Jones and Miss An
ME +. Jones, of Travis county, were
married Tuesday.
Houston ladies cultivate their own
gardens.
Farmers in Lee county have fin
ished planting coru, and are hilling up
sweet potatoes and nearly ready to
plant cotton.
The Galveston hotel enterprise has
been abandoned, cause why---lack Of
funds. The building, as it now stands,
will he disposed of by the sheriff.
A brute named q. w. (alas
George Washington) Elliott was fined
one hundred dollars and imprisoned
sixty days in the county Jail, at Waco,
Tuesday, for beating his wife.
The first locomotive fer the narrow
guage railroad arrived at Houston last
week.
"A farmer living n short distance
/ from Bonham captured three bushels
of rabbits during the late snow storm.
They netted him four dollars and
ninety cents, at five cents head.
The prospect for fine fruit crop
| throughout the state is excellent.
II. p. Dmmiit has been appointed
sheriff of Guadalupe county, vice j. i.
| Gordon, removed.
| john Brill shot man in Guada-
lupe co lnty last week, named Horton.
Cause-whiskey.
| An old man named Alexander
/ .hn D.tn nI en- nj a mo sinta nIlI
brought to this state on requiSl.iOn,
is now confined in the Paris Jail on the
charge of murder, committed over
twenty years ago.
The Rockport Transcript says there
was slaughtered ut the packeries at
Fulton, three miles above that city,
during the season of bit little over four
;.:onths just closed, twenty-six thous-
and three hundred and fourteen head
of cattle.
Tom +. Shaw, sheriff Of ifoclIwall
county, died short time since.
The grangers of Kaufman county,
will hold grand Larhrcur, al the town
of Kaufman, on the lst Of May.
The following is list of the can IL
dates to fill the various municipal oili-
ces at the ensuing election q. w.
Carter, mayor; G w. Nealy marshal;
P. &. Hawkins, p. II. Layne, A. ID.
Edwards, ID. NJ. Oldham and james
Harris, aldermen.
The prospects for an abundant
yield of the wheat crop in Kaufman
county are most cheering.
Two deaths near Wills Point, this
week, from the measles. Several cases
at Tcrrill, but none as yet have proved
fatal
Our exchanges throughout the stale
give cheering accounts of the coming
wheat crop.
The new police of Houston are max
ing it rather warm for vagrants and
idlers.
Houston claims population of
between twenty-five and thirty thOus-
and.
A letter from California states that
Colonel Jack Hays, the famous Texas
Indian fighter, is in very delicate
health.
Austin is to have Il new ice factory
with acapacity ofmaking ten thousand
pounds per day.
Austin Gazette We learn from
Mr. e. Sampson, who is just down
from Burnett, that news had been re-
ceived of the hanging of one Keller in
Llano county. We also learn that a
Mr.. Brown was murdered yesterday
by a negro man, near Round Rock.
Brown was a pedler, and the negro
murdered him for his money. The
Il r;f nd aud lnhnaH m
Jail.
Houston proposes to tender Hon.
r. @. Mills banquet.
The Jefferson Jimplecute promises
to enlarge i'm short time TO meet the
increased demand, while our special
correspondent in forms us that the
Leader, spicy and well edited paper
of the same city, will soon he compelled
to suspend for want of patronage. So
1t goes.
The Jimplecute fears that the frost
of last Monday night has seriously in-
jured the fruit crop in Marion county.
Mr.. John Gardner, of Jefferson,
was united in marriage on the 18th,
to Miss Annie, daughter of J. NJ.
Morphis, Esq, of Marshall.
-Waxahachie voted unanimously
to issue seventy-five thousand dollars
in bonds to aid the proposed Tap road.
Ennis votes, at the coming muni-
cipal election, whether she will be
taxed to build a school house or not.
The little matter of city printing
Is disturbing the equanimity of our
contemporaries, the Age and Telegraph, |
of Houston.
Travis county farmers have corn |
eight to ten inches high.
The supreme court, under the I
amended constitution, is now held at |
Austin, Tyler and Galveston.
The following Indian chiefs are in I
irons at Fort Sill: Strong Bow. Red |
Hunter, White Horse, Woman's Heart,
and six or eight others. Big Tree is /
still on parol not to leave the vicinity I
of the post. A cOurtmartial is in pro-
gress at Sill. None of the Indians 1
have been tried yet. The impression /
seems to prevail now that none of the 1
Indians will be hung, though many of
them will undoubtedly be sentenced TO I
terms of imprisonment Col. David /
son, commanding the 10th cavalry, I
will leave for Concho before the first cf !
April. Mckenzie is now scouting
through western Texas, on his way to
Sill.
THE Mobile Register of the seventh I
instant publishes two column letter 7
from Admiral Semmes which Is
complete refutstion Of the lander cast