The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-03
TEXAS NOTES.

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Denton county.
The State election was postponed
by vote OF 80 to rs.
The city of Austin has two thou
sand registered voters.
San Saba is Dragging about the
number of its temperance people.
Eggs are selling at twenty-five
cents dozen In Jefferson, Texas,
1t is now Il settled fact that the
waterworks Of San Antonio will be
built.
The Terrell and Elmo depots will
soon be enlarged-work will COM
mence at once.
Bishop Pearce, of Georgia; will
preside over all the Methodist Annual
Conferences of Texas.
THE merchants of Bryan have
adopted a currency basis for all COM
mercial transactions.
--Terrll Is indignant about boy
residing in that town who habitually
curses aud abuses his mother.
"Local option" is Mt present agita-
ting the average citizen OF Longview.
The "boysh won't stand it.
The arms heretofore used by the
Alamo Rifles will be forwarded to the
"Old Guards" at Houston.
The Houston Texas Central Rail-
road company are moving their round
houses from Marlin to Waco.
Nearly all the telegraph poles that
were blown down south of Hampstead
during the late storm have been put
up again.
The directors of the San Antonio
Fair have been requested to offer pre-
miums for mosquito tanned leather,
also for leather tanned with the Texas
sumac.
They wouldn't be left out any
Longer, so they met at the Raymond
house and organized base ball club.
Austin has our congratulations(Y
On last Saturday night, in Crock
EFT, just after dark, Mr.. Colquit Parker
shot and MORALLY wounded yOuBg
man named Workman. Whisky.
The International Circus had their
bills posted all over the Sandy Creek
Church in Fannin county, and the
Church folks are going to prosecute
the Circus.
A brutal and cowardly assault was
made upon the city editor of the Aus
tin Statesman, last Monday, by one
Jose Cordoba, a bartender Of saloon
on Pecan street.
w. lizard, large cattle dealer in
Clay county, was shot through the
hand several days since, by Buffalo
Bill, one of his herders. Mr.. lizard
says there was no provocation.
Russell, of Waco, Offered resolu-
| ton in the Constitutional Convention,
to expunge from the minutes the reso-
luton granting suffrage to women.
The resolution was referred to u COM
mittee.
The ball given by the Sam Hous-
ton Fire Company, OF Sherman, last
Monday, was grand success. The
parade in the afternoon was fine af-
fair, and proved very creditable to the
company.
The principal bankers of Austin
have resolved not to overpay any de-
positors checks, and when depositor
checks for the money not OF kind on
deposit, they hold the right to convert
the amount at the ruling rate into such
funds as may be to their credit.
--"Crcketn- Salome Brown,
of the Sherman Register" and Dick
Hopson, of the "Courier," have been
having personal war of words lately,
in their respective journals, and now
the fair Salome wants to interview UNI
willing Richard with COW hide. We
bet two to one on Cricket"
Charles Evers, charged with at.
tempting to outrage three little girls,
at Houston, the oldest Of whom Is not
more than eight years old, is wanted
badly by the citizens OF that burg
they want to interview him. The pa
pers there want TO get his views about
the pi obable amount of property des.
troyed at Galveston. Five feet eight
inches high, light complexion, light
hair, light blue eyes, inclined to squint
and pug nose. Pass him around.
We have noted the explanation o
the Houston Telegraph, and In reply
we will simply state that the two arti
Giles referred to appeared in the Tele
graph verbatim as they were clipped
from the local column ofTHE HERALD
One of them was credited as coming
from Dallas paper, but the other re
ceived no credit at all. We probably
would never have mentioned the mat
ter, but In the. same column appeared
a short note which was credited to Ii
proper source. The news editor Of TIL
, HERALD, like that of the Telegraph
, also condenses his news items, but W
try and make II a rule to put the item
, In our own language, and II we eli
we always endeavor to give the prope
credit. THE HERALD has the kindes
; feelings towards the Telegraph, an
! will always endeayor to extend to tha