The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-09
TEXAS NOTES.

The Bryan Post has resumed pub
LEGATION.
There is not q vacant house in
Hillsboro.
The ball worm is doing consider
able damage to late cotton in Hill
county.
The old citizens Of Indianola will
not rebuild their homes, they fear to
risk another storm.
The young men of Denison are go,
ing to open rat pit for their winter
evenings amusement.
--Bonham will resist the payment
OF the $4,000 subsidy demanded by
the Trans Continental railroad.
The new county of Somervllle is
building q Granite Courthouse, which
will cost eight thousand dollars.
The total number OF deaths in the
city of Austin for the months of July,
August and September were tifty-tive.
On Saturday last, at Gladewater,
A. Shaw shot and killed VIM. Hamp-
ton. The killing is considered justitia-
BILE.
The majority report of the Com
mittee on Suffrage recommends the
prepayment of poll tax as requisite
to the exercise of suffrage.
-Grasshoppers have appeared in
great numbers in Comanche, Coryell
and Hamilton counties. 1t is too late
for them to do much damage.
Colonel C. A. James, formerly
commandment of the Texas Military H.
stitute, died at Weatherford, on Tues
day of last week, of hemorrhage.
Henrietta, the county seat of Clay
county, has four hundred inhabitants.
But few years ago it was vast will
derness, inhabited by savage Indians.
There were one hundred and sixty
three arrests in Houston during the
month of September, nearly all of
them arising from the effects of mean
whiskey.
Last Saturday, Mt Harrisburg,
Moses Phillips, a conductor ON the
Harrisburg, Galveston and San An
MOTTO railroad, was shot by Jack
White, a brakesman.
On Friday night one week ago, at
Georgetown, the District Clerks office
was broken into and all the county pa
nrrs taken away. There is no clue to
the perpetrator.
The wealthy cattle men of South
west Texas are rapidly getting mo-
nopoly of the cattle trade. They own
vast tracts of land and the small
raisers are compelled to sell out to
them.
The resolution introduced by Hon.
ID, H. Russell, of Harrison in the State
Convention, reinstating land certiii-
Gates debarred by the present Conven-
ton, is meeting with much favor
among the delegates.
MIR. Geo. w. Smith, of Bryan,
while in IA somnambulant state last
Monday, fell through the hatchway In
the second floor of his building to the
ground floor, fracturing one OF his
Thighs and breaking one OF his ribs.
Mat Kelley, a deputy under Sher-
in Raby, of Gatesville, was shot
through the bowels by George Franks,
a former United States Marshal, last
Friday night between twevle aud one
o'clock. His recovery Is extremely
doubtful.
Information has been received at
Austin of the killing of a German
named Dan Hoester in the town OF
Mason, by John Beard, OF Burnet
county, and George GLADDEN. ana scott
Cooley, of Mason county on the ZSth
day OF September The muruerers
made their escape.
Sheriff Williams of Cass county,
has arrived home, having IN CUSTODY
+. ]. Stokes, Judge Of Grant parish
In. Stokes was q defaulting tax col
lector OF Cass county, In the amount OF
twentv thousand dollars. He lelt Tex
ma several wears ago and went to Lou
isiana and has held several offices 10
that State under the Radical admins
tion. He will probably serve long
term In the Texas penitentiary'
The Bolton Journal gives us thu
following list OF the prisoners VINO es
capped on last Monday morning 'rou