The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-03
TENtS rs BRIEF.

" livery IoT tilc WIGS
: "A joint stock company In Austil
, proposes 10 build nn opera house.
, The taxable wealth Of Texas la
= increased thiriy-livc per cent In fou
years.
Last week II steam saw mill II
{ (herokec county was sold for taxes AM
: brought SlO3.
"A girl eleven years of ngc, has mar
ried, In Houston, an organ grin"cr wh'
is old and blind.
The new lunatic asylum buildin'
Mt Austin will he completed by the frs
Of May, ut II cost of Sio,OU.
Austin will this year send some o
the best and fastest horses In the stat'
to the state fair in Houston.
-Messrs. J. +. Mulkey and w. AL
! bridge are candidates for mayoralt,
honors in the village of Ennis.
"A son of General A. q. Malloy. o
Jefferson, had his collar bone broker
by fall, Tuesday, while playing.
There are about three thousanC
Episcopalians, thirty-four clergymei
and thirty-four parishes in Texas.
llt tIlul VI I'i WV
murder of young Eugene Carter, IN
Waco, five years ago, is now progress
ing in that town.
Galveston has shipped to the intc
rior this season 1000 pounds of fresl
fish, averaging from ten to twelve and
Il half cents per pound.
-Denison has appointed Henry VIII
son, ESD, to accompany the Central
railroad excursion, and look after the
interests of that village.
Horace Hamlin, Of Rockport, con-
victed at last term OF court of cutting
II man by the name Of Cline, has been
pardoned by the governor.
The citizen soldicry and firemen
/ of Houston, having settled their differ
ences, will participate in honoring the
2lst of April-San Jacnto day.
Galveston has received 10000 bar
rels of oysters this season. The con-
sumption of hivalves in Galveston and
suburbs reached 4,50O0,OOO this season.
The Texas State medical associa-
ton will meet in Austin on the 9th of
April. All members of the profession
throughout the state are invited to at
tend.
Mrs. NJ. Massey II charter member
of Ennis Grange, No. OO5, Patrons of
Husbandry, died on Saturday last, and
was buried Sunday by the members of
the order.
Miss Anna A. White, aged seven-
teen years. daughter of III. X. White,
ESQ of Ennis, Texas, died at George
town female seminary, on the l4th, of
erysipelas.
The cattle trade between Rockport
and Havana will lie opened in short
time. Two vessels are to he employed
in the trade, and will make alternate
trips every ten days.
On the 9th instant II party of IN
dians, believed TO ht Comanchcs, COM
mitted many deprcdalioms near New
Laredo, on the ncXican side of the Rio
Grande, killing several persons, and
carrying II boy into captivity.
Master Ohio Ainsworth. lad
about fifteen years old, killed II large
otter, on Waxahachie creek, near En-
mis-, II few days ago, and the "oldest
settler" says it is the first one ever
killed in that section.
The San Antonio Herald says "the
city pays the paupers no more cash,
and consequently several of the female
mendicnnis are having their winter
hats trimmed over, instead of pllrchas-
ing the usual spring bonnet"
The young ladies of Austin pro-
pose to give II complimentary ball on
the night of the sccoi,l of April, in the
capitol, to raise funds for the compile
ti0n of the hall of the Calhoun $ ciety
of the Texas Military institute.
Galveston Mercury: "a young
Scotchman named Gordon, who for
some time past was struggling To get
employment, hut was Unsuccessful, On
going to the post office yester'i;r' found
II letter from home with !. J;20 en-
closure"
The work of excavation in Austin
for building the Roman Catholic church
has commenced. The masonry will he
started about twenty feet below the
surface, and will be very massive.
When finished, this church will cost
some sixty Or seventy thousand dol
lars.
And even Pari, has her "spclling
Matches"
Paris is building II Congregational
church.
A newspaper is To I've cstablishcdat
Emory, Rains county.
The grand Purinl ball was II great
success at N0vasola On the 23d.
The San Saba News is weeping
over wastes left by the norther of last
week.
- DR.. j. II. .Joi es, of Paris, died in
that town, last Thursday, OF heart
disease.
Mrs. America y. Massiugale died
ut her residence in henderson, county,
on the Goth.
Tho Mount Pleas ant airint speaks
encouragingly of tic crop OF, habies in
that locality.
Joseph G. Martin, district clerk of
Cooke county, died NJ his residence, at
GAINESVILLE, on the 20th instant.
Mrs. NJ. q. EcholS, wife of Mr.. ].
II. Echols, died of measels Mt Willow
Springs on last Saturday morning.
Paris is to have four large cis:$ns
sunk around the square, which ard Ito
be paid for out of the occupation p.
edward Groten, II German any a
member of the Turn Verein soc y,
fell dead, in Galveston, Thurs y.
Heart disease.
"A little boy named Fitzmorr of
Savoy, was shot and seriously wouf hed
by his father, lasv week. 1t was an nc
cident.
One of the nations wards tried
little bluff Oh a civil rights hand, "a few
days since in longvi wv, and got called
on "pat club flush."
"A "Reminiscences of war times pre-
sented itself III the sanctum yesterday,
in the shape of the Giddings Tribune,
printed on brown wrapping paper.
A man named Kelley, accused. 1t
is thought npju-tl. of horse stealing,
was pursued, capt ,red and hung by un-
known men last Moek, near San Saba.
"A couple of supposed mad dogs
were killed recently at Longview, one
of them after having bitten number
of other dogs and several head Of stock.
The Austin Statesman scribbler
continues his petty filings at Dallas.
As they are considered the result OF
narrow-minded Jealousy, intelligent
people pay no attention to them.
The editor of the Longview New
Era has invented and submitted to
practical test, n new mailing ma
chine. Letters patent have been APP
piled for.
-Longview New Era: "I.awlessness
and crime is rampant on our frontier,
SO much 80 that large portion Of our
state l,nrderinr on Mexict, il now given