The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-08


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factory, nj Suu Antonio, has arrived
aud lhe machinery viii sOon boat
work.
Jefferson Leader "Dnllns " IA
have paper mill. Glad 10 learn II,
and we hope that every printer In the
state will pntronilo IT,"
Mount Pleasant has abolished the
liquor traffic, and that interesting viii
lagc boasts Of not having II single
place whore drink Of liquor can bo
purchased.
DR.. Lowell, Of Mlcr, McSlco, was
shot IN his house and killed. lie was
much beloved, and great excitement
prevails says the Valley Times, be-
cause Of his death.
The marshal OF Fort Worth con-
templates running drinking saloon.
lie wants the police and city govern
II. ent supplied with good whisky, and
of course he is good fellow.
A discharged priest in San An
tonic has been making himself con-
spicuous 10y visiting, in his clerical
dress, saloons, and causing much scan-
dal. His name Is $. 5. Martingly.
A notorious negro thief named
Dave Land, who recently killed
white man and wounded II negro near
Crockett, was recently caught and rid
died with buckshot by a party OF pur-
suers.
The Lampassas Dispatch says
"that if George Washington himself
had only been crOss-eXamined by
Judge Fullerton, we have no doubt IL
would have been proven that he lied
about that cherry tree"
The Leader threatens to publish
the names of the young men who visit
the bawdy houses and gambling hells
of Marshall. The Houston Telegraph
was going to do something of that
kind once, butt didn't.
San Antonio Express: "a Ger
man lady named Mrs. Brown, living
on the Helotes creek, was bitten by II
rattlesnake on Wednesday. She was
brought to town to-day in very dan
gerous condition to secnre medical at
tention."
Willie Jones, postmaster and pro-
prietOr of grocery store at Comanche
Springs, in the upper edge of this coun--
ty, reports seventy.eight thousand
Texas cattle rs having passed that way
Ell route for the northern markets, so
far, this season.
--Bastrop Advertiser: "The Oldest
inhabtant does not remember to have
ever seen a finer prospect for crops
than at present. With u half season
in the future we will make an abund
ant crop. Corn generally is looking
splendid and growing fine"
During a thunder storm last Sun
day evening, the barn of Mr.. w. Nj.
Low was struck with lightning, de-
stroying the barn, killing IL valuable
horse, and knocking down several of
Mr.. Lows family, who were milking
in the barnyard ut the time.
Madame Octavia Walton lie Vert
is an admirable woman and mother
in-law. She is coming into Texas lee
turing, and the Dallas Commercial had
better get out. 1t spells her name lie
Weste,n and ifshe escapes from grass
hopperdom, won'tshe wool him?
Houston had a fifteen thousand
dollar fire Tuesday, and to conclude
the nights entertainment, the engi-
neer of Protection Fire company was
arrested, at the request of Foreman
Butts, and locked up for drunk and
disorderly conduct at the fire.
Two men were murdered in Hazel
Dell, Comanche county, last week, and
next day four men were arrested on
suspicion, and placed under guard.
That night body of armed men rode
up, took one Of the prisoners off aud
shot him. The Others were not mo-
Tested.
Austin Gazette "Mr. William
Brueggerhoff purchased day before yes
terday 80, 900 pounds of Texas bacon
and 10000 pounds of Texas lard, all
from the same parties. 1t came from
Uvalde and Kerr counties. The bacon
is well cured and as sweet as II nut
The lard is splendid, and as white as
the driven snow"
-Jimplecute: ave are emphatically
opposed to any more conventions con-
Quoted in the manner which has been
common for the last few years. In no
instance, save one, for three years, has
the right man or the choice of the peo-
pie been obtained, but have been in
variably defeated by wire-workers and
chicanery in every conventional body"
-Comanche Chief: "On Monday
night last a party of fifteen disguised
men rode into Hazel Dell, at the dead
hour of night, overpowered the guard
and took Mr. James Dooley, who had
been arrested on suspicion of being i'm
plicated in the murder of Cole and
Vinson, and riddled him with bullets.
The perpetrators of this cowardly and |
murderOus deed are not known"
Jefferson Leader: "a very brill
liant meteor was seen on Tuesday |
evening just after sunset, while it was
yet good daylight. 1t appeared in the
Sky due south from this point, at about
an angle of forty-fve degrees, and shot |
with the usual declivity, more than
the ordinary distance. 1t was exceed |
ingly bright, and left its path behind |
it brilliantly illuminated. If it had
been good dark it would have been
dazzling to the sight.
BY TELEGRAPH.