The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-24

Bryan signs for Il spelling match.
San Saba has organized IL debating
club.
The Galveston Mercury has been
suspended.
Silver Is at par with greenbacks in
Henderson.
Thousands of buflaloes are about
Phantom Hill.
Corn sells at seventy-live cents n
bushel in Ennis.
-GreenTille has an election for city
officers on the 1st of May.
The fire department of Bryan will
attend the Houston celebration.
Mr. Jonn Dowell and Miss Minnie
Gray were married in Austin on the
18th.
-Blaclibirds are destroying the
young corn in the neighborhood of
Athens.
The most flattering accounts are
received of the crop prospects in Bos-
que county.
Judge J. ID. McAdoo has been ap-
pointed postmaster of the village of
Jefferson.
DR.. n. H. Hunter, dentist, dropped
dead in Hampstead, Tuesday, while
extracting the teeth of Il patient.
The residence of Colonel Campbell,
inspector of the penitentiary, was de-
strOyed by fire Wednesday night.
Mr.. Allen has II ranch below Har-
risburg, and 200 600 head of cattle roam
over territory of 200 square miles.
"A little child of Mr.. Rogers, who
lives two miles west Of Ennis, was
burned to death last Sunday evening.
Jack Hays, who resides in Caliior-
MIA, has recovered his health, which
is 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.
Mr.. G. G. Callan has assumed edi-
torial management of the Fredericks-
burg (Gillespie county, Sentinel. CAL
Ian Il Hunt are the publishers.
J. p. Kong, a brute tolerated in the
town of Fredericksburg, was fined
three hundred dollars and imprisoned
three months in the county Jail, for
beating his wife.
The citizens of McCulloch county
recently contributed to Mrs. Busick,
the widow of the man who was killed
in that county recently by the Indians,
the sum of $50 Is.
-Gatesville Sun: "In the event of
the adoption of new constitution
thara 10 M In, bt thuf Cnlya will ha ra-
elected to the office of governor if he
will accept nomination"
The News says Governor Coke has
appointed Assistant Attorney General
Peeler, Hon. Ti!ghman Smith and
Hon. ID. III. Triplett, as a committee to
investigate the convict labor system of
the state.
San Antonio Herald: "Cutler, of
the Dallas Commercial, is as unfortun-
ate with his Spanish as his French, he
says adois for adios. But where
ignorance is bliss Cutler will not be
troubled.n
Austin Gazette "The amount of
stock subscribed to the Capital Fair
association, up to the present, is seven
teen thousand five hundred dollars.
The committee appointed to select the
grounds have not yet decided upon
plat"
Austin Statesman: SSome of our
merchants are shipping vast quantities
of western Texas bacon to Houston and
Galveston. Western Texas is the great
est meat country in the world, and its
exports of beef and bacon could be even
yet largely increased"
Waco Examiner: "Mr. b. NJ. Nc
Neel, of johnson county, was bitten
by mad dog OH Friday last, and came
here hunting a maidstone. We have
one In the Office, and applied it to the
wound. The stone adhered at once,
and seemed to draw with good deal
of force"
Fort Worth Standard: "This
week n sale of a 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 a drove of two thousand
head here again in about two weeks.
The Greenville Herald credits
Dallas with having four hundred and
eight registered voters. As there were
sixteen hundred aud sixty-six votes
cast for mayor in the late election, and
several hundred registered who failed
to vote, it will strike the casual OBJ
server that the Heralds figures are
inaccurate.
Fort Worth Standard: "The fol-
lowing droNes of cattle have passed
through this place during the week:
Caruthers * Taylor, of Llano county,
Texas, eighteen hundred and twenty
head mixed; billiard FAINT, of Goliad
one thousand head mixed
John L. Rutledge, Of Karnes county,
eight hundred beeves.n