The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-16

lailor and 0yerpowerlng him, gage,
MN ana locked him In a cell, llIah
OF them then quietly "left town. nn,
nave not been heard OF slnce. php,
carried the Keys with them, aud An,
cage had to be broken 10 pieces to gol
the jailor out,
Considerable attention Is heinz
paid by the farmers of WashInrinn
county to the cultivation of small
gram, such as oats. rye, millet aud
harley, all OF which grow to perfection
IN that county.
Andy Banker Any.slx years of
age, was sentenced at the recent term
OF the Comanche District Court To
hlteen years Imprisonment In the
penltentiary for the murder Of r. p.
McCrary.
Wright Christian, who killed a
young man named Sidney q. Smith,
at Palmyra, Missouri, student I'm the
Columbia University, was arrested In
peLlsoh, Tuesday, and will be sent
$500 W. 'hi''Dhlh
Victoria Advocate: Fish and oys.
lers are abundant aud cheap. Eggs
twenty cents per dozen. Fat beef M
rom three to four cents per pound.
Vegetables remarkably CHEAP and
plentiful, and everything eatable In
proportion makes living very cheap
here.
bad feeling has for some time
existed between two families named
Story and Hood, both living In Free.
stone county, AS Young Story was on
MS way to mill recently, Wiley Hood
met aud killed him. No one knows
what occurred between them nj the
Time Young Hood rode to his father.
ln'law's, and told him what he had
done and where to find the body Of
story. He then left for parts I'm.
known.
The Denson News states that the
stockholders of the Red River and RIO
Grande Railroad Company which met
in that city on Wednesday last, made
contract with John Scullin to build
llfty miles Of road The work will
commence Immediately after the cleo.
ton of directors in April. Ten miles
of road are to be graded and ironed
within the next ninety days, and It is
expected to complete the road TO
GAINESVILLE by October.
II. M. Subett, of Yuzoo, Missis-
sippi, had difficulty With Mr. Dave
Walker, in the Raymond House, at
Austin, last Monday, during which
Walker knocked him down. Mr., Sub
lett fell very heavily to the floor, and
in a few minutes was dead The coro-
ner's jury returned verdict to the eff
feet that Sublett came to his death by
a fall On the floor, produced by stroke
Of the fist from David Walker, acting
in self-defense and under justiiiable
circumstances.
Last Sunday w. M. Sedberry,
youth sixteen years of age, son of NJ.
). Sedberry, was accidentally killed by
he son of II neighbor named O'Neal,
n Gonzales county. They commenced
the guns, of which there
were two, supposing them to be empty,
a "a
,ui''ilS caps a. tney uiu 50, uhtii maj
y oaP was piuceu Oh 'He tuoe OF
o o,.is u uaIiel Wy young " Neal VINO,
ahihe uiiil' uisclaIeeu Tvs contehts ih-
. .he heau VI lis young irlehu' kiiiihg
I'M Instantly
Waco Examiner; A party of hun. |
ers came in yesterday with two wagon
Dads of buffalo hides and dried meat. |
hey are from the head waters of the
,oncho river, in Green county, and re-
'ort game in that section very alum
ant. The buffalo are not so numer-
us there as formerly, but other game,
onsisUing Of bear, antelope, turkeys,
to-, is found there in immense num-
ers. AT Concho Post eight compa-
les of regulars are stationed, and
ew families line there, but away from
ne fort there are not more than half
dozen families living in the county.
When the hunting party left the Con-
no river on the 18th of February last,
lie grass was already well up and the