The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-04-18
TEXAS IN BRIEF.

Silver IL at par With greenbacka In
Henderson.
Thousands OF bullhloes are about
Phantom lIill. 100. .EyGEi
Corn soils at seyenty-aye cents a
bush0l In Ennis. lILpJ ILlal
--GreenYille has an election for city
officers on the lst of May. rt
-Blackblrds are destroying the
young corn IN the neighborhood Of
Athens.
The most natterlng accounts are
received Of the crop prospects In Bos-
quo county .t .F. ......
Judge j. ID. McAdoo has been APP
pointed postmaster Of the village OF
Jefferson. - '-.a .
DIR. N. II. Hunter, dentist, dropped
dead In Hampstead, Tuesday, while
extracting the teeth of II patient.
MIR. Allen has u ranch below Har-
rlsburg, aud poo, 900 head of cattle roam
oyera territory of 200 square miles.
"A little child of Mr.. Rogers, who
lives two miles west III Ennis, was
burned to death last Sunday evening.
Jack Hays, who resides In Califor-
MIA, has, recovered his health, which
IL good news to his old Texas friends.
The Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad company advertise for propo-
sails TO build the first forty miles OF the
line. AAA| m Ia ant 81, ..
Mr.. G. G. Callan has assumed edi-
torlal management of the Fredericks-
burg (Gillespie county, Sentinel. CAL
Ian u Hunt are the publishers.
j. =. Kong, n brute tolerated In the
town Of Fredericksburg, was fined
three hundred dollars and imprisoned
three months In the county Jail, for
beating his wife. 1f4irtt
San Antonio Herald: coulter, of
the Dallas Commercial, IL as unfortun-
ate with his Spanish as his French, he
says adois for adios. But where
ignorance IL bliss Cutler will not be
troubled. "3 k.8 e-.A.H-A ,'. y
Waco Examiner: "Mr. Is. M. Nc
Neel, of Johnson county, was bitten
by mad dog on Friday last and came
here hunting maidstone. We have
one In the office, and applied 1t to the
wound. The stone adhered at once,
and seemed to draw with good deal
Of force.n ist
Fort Worth Standard: "This
weeka sale Ola herd Of cattle by Mr..
John Redus, of Medina county, Texas,
to Geo. w. Miller, of Newton county,
Mo-, for fourteen or fifteen thousand
dollars cash was made. Mr.. Redus
will have drove of two thousand
head here again in about two weeks.
Tile Greenville Herald credits
Dallas with having four hundred and
eight registered voters. As there were
sixteen hundred and sixty-six votes
cast for mayor in the late election, and
several hundred registered who failed
to vote, 1t will strike the casual OBJ
server that the Herald's figures are
somewhat inaccurate. M a&
Fort Worth Standard "The fol-
lowing droves of cattle have passed
through this place during the week
Caruthers u Taylor, of Llano county,
Texas, eighteen hundred and twenty
head mixed; billiard FAINT, of Goliad
county, one thousand head mixed;
John L. Rutledge, of Karnes county,
eight hundred beeyes.'' fsFstf
Palestine Advocate: 1.-TWO OF our
civil officers were informed bya tel
egram from Huntsville that two pris-
oners had escaped and were on the
train last evening. The officers boarded
the train on its arrival but as they en-
tered the cars the prisoners escaped.
They were followed and shot at but |
they made good their escape. They
each had a revolver, and were dressed |
I'm citizens clothes. Il
Houston Telegraph: 1--WE learn
from passenger on the Central train,
which arrived in this city yesterday |
at $50, that awhile man,
to be drummer, attempted |
to outrage the person of young oct0-
room girl, a passenger on the same
rain, and would have succeeded in his /
hellish purpose but for the timely in
.ervention Of a brakeman, who called
.he conductor, when the wretch was
put off the train. The affair occurred
lbout mile above Millican;. the girl !
rot off at that station" 5et
Waco Examiner: ''The indications
ire that the mustang grape crop this
eason will be immense in this state.
The wine from this grape is greatly /
uperior to the ordinary claret we
get, and when 1t has two or three
'ears age, it is superior even to the
very best Every family In Texas
night mtup barrelaor two, at the
ritiing expense of "a few, cents per
yallnns We trust farmers gwll pay
'ome attention to the matter, for their
,wn comfort, and also as q matter of
profit. Let us make our Texas claret
Is famous, as her girls are for beauty"
To the People of Texas. 4
In. view of the importance of the ?
election for delegates to constitu-
l0nal convention which takes place
he FIRST Monday in August, / think IL /
important that the democratic party
hould act ,asyu- unit throughout. the
tate on that important subject. From
II portions of the state inquiries are
eing made whetherit is advisable for
he democratic party to make nominal
ions for delegates to the convention. +
d order to get the Views Of the execu-
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