The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-27
STATE NEWS.

Mckinney has two cases of small
poX.
Fort Worth claims three thousand
inhabitants.
There Is u constantly increasing
demand for farm hands in Camp
county. '.. ... .I
There is "A comic opera troupe play
ing in Austin. Colonel, send them to
Dallas.
"A vigilance committee in Burnett
county are hunting down outlaws and
desperadoes.
Last week three Mexicans were
found dead in Karnes county. No
clue to the murderers. -
Gregg county is the only one in
Texas out Of debt, and with plenty of
greenbac<s in her treasury.
The Waco Daily Examiner says IL
does not expect pollteless from the
Austin Statesman and Gazette. ''.
The new Constitution has been
the benefit of our German citizens.
The Statesman says "a Democratic
convention is not Greenwish hospi-
tai for manned and disabled soldiers
Judge a. p. Mccormick has nc
cepted the Republican nomination for
State Senator from the nineteenth Sen
atOrial District,
The Galveston News pays splen-
did tribute to Colonel w. II. Ledbet-
ter, nominee for the State Senate from
the Fayette district.
Linden, with population of only
Six hundred persons, has large and
ilourlshing temperance society, num-
bering Elk hundred members.
Corn is selling in Bell county at
fifty cents bushel. Labor is in de-
mand, and good hands command good
wages anywhere in that county.
Mr.. j. j. Dunn was buried in
Houston last Sunday. AT the time of
his death he was the Oldest printer in
Houston, and had spent thirty-fve
years db Une CilSe,
Atkins bill, which he introduced
in Congress, known as "Atkins' Texas
and Pacific bill,p strips Tom Scott's
scheme off portion OF its worst feat
ures, and will, in all probability, be
adopted. .-,-..
Texas Congressman are urging the
United States Government to take Cap
tain Mentally into the United States
military service, with authority TO
raise five hundred men In Texas.
j oseph Elliot, son of Mr.. Sam Eli
OF, who resides on Nails creek, near
Giddings, was seriously if not fatally
shot about halfa mile from his fathers
house on last Monday night, by two
unknown parties.
Last Saturday night in Galveston
the residence of Judge w. p. Balinger
was entered by burglars and over $1,000
worth of silverware was stolen. No
clue for Identification was left behind
them. ~ ~ TIA g.,
Last Saturday night a raiding band
of robbers murdered Dronicio Garcia,
a prominent merchant, and they
plundered his store, at the Rancho
Mattos Los Olmas, near Santiago. The
Sheriff and posse pursued them and
succeeded in capturing all of the
scoundrels as the party were attempt
ing to cross the river. lHt UIa
Charles Willis, of Galveston, con-
victed of theft, has applied for new
trial on the ground that the verdict of
the jury was in violation of the law,
inasmuch as, not being able to agree,
they marked on twelve slips of paper
the word guilty" and on twelve 9th
ers the words "not guilty,n and then
each juror drew a slip. The majority
of the slips so draw having the word
guilty on them, it was then that, under
the agreement made before, n verdict
of guilty was returned into court and
therefore the defendant claimed that
said verdict was made up by chance.
Judge Cook Immediately granted a
new trial.