The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-09
STATE NEWS.

Sisters Of Mercy.
The spring races Of the Capital
Jockey Club will begin at Austin on
the 10th of May.
Strawberries aud green peas tickle
tne appetlles of the epiCureans In
Kaufman county.
Wild flowers are blooming ON The
pralrles In Ellis county, aud ripe mul.
berries are plentiful,
They have tank of water ON the
public square OF Waco In which there
are trout eleven Inches long,
John Thompson, while drunk. was
crushed TO death by the Central cars ON
"Wednesday t'Corsicana.
Work has commenced ON the
bridge at Austin, which Is TO span the
Colorado at that seaport.
Colonel w. w. Woodward for
many years u citizen of Washington
county, died recently in Hampstead.
The epiaootic Is prevailing among
the horses In Cass county. Several
have already died.
Colonel Lang, the Master of the
state Grange, will run his plantation
This year with convict labor.
Hon. j. Frazer Brown and Miss
Dolly A. Wadsworth were hitched in
san Saba, on the 26th ultimo.
Joe Homer and another OF the
Comanche bank robbers We're arrested
in San Antonio, few days since.
Henry Wolker, a stranger died in
Bracket last Sunday morning, from
the effects, 1t is supposed, of poison.
The wild plums are blooming In
Grayson county, and the woods are
filled with the sweet perfume they
distill.
"A freedwoman named Amanda,
charged with arson, burnt hole in the
jail at Mexia and escaped last Tuesday
night.
Austin il glorying in water works.
No longer clouds Of dust, aud impure
water. Dallas will soon have hers IN
ship shape. =
Crops look splendidly in Navarro
county, and the Observer crows over
the opening of multltudinous new
farms. Glad to hear that everything
is SO lovely.
Vegetation has put out in Rock.
wall county, and they had ice up there
a day or two ago, so we fear the tender
buds are all killed.
Hon. w. A. Workman, of Hopkins
county, has been nominated for the
Senate, and Hon, w. J. Swain, of Red
River, for the House.
Figs will be ripe in the course of
week in Lee county if Mr.. Frost will
delay any visit he may intend making
for any length of time,
"A negro prisoner confined in the
Jail at Rockport sawed out one of the
CRATE bars in the Jail window, few
nights ago, and escaped.
Hanna, rough from Llano coun-
ty comes down to Austin spelling for
fight. He got two bullets put through
him and retired in disgust.
Mr.. Hornberg, an old citizen of
Austin, was thrown frem his horse
day or two ago, and received quite Sc
we're injuries about his head.
-Brenham Banner; "a second
crop of apples now adorns the trees in
the garden of Mr. Hig. Traver; also,
corn in tassle and roses in full bloom"
The Comanche bank robbers, Joe
and George Hamer, were arrested in
San Antonio on the ID instant by
Deputy Sherifis Baden and Mccall.
Thirteen hundred dollars were recov-
cred.
Some scoundrel,a short time since,
shot and killed twenty-one head OF
horses belonging to Mr.. Floyd Powell,
who resides near Oakvllle, Live Oak
county.
Colonel Richard King, of the Santa
Gertrudes Rancho, will drive thirty
one thousand head of cattle this sea-
son, and Dawes & Ellison fifty thous-
and head.
The Wallace Sisters played at the
opera house in Corsicana on Saturday
last. The denizens of that village were
highly tickled at the rolicking fun
evoked by these pretty girls.
1t is currently reported in Erath
that a party of twelve buffalo
hunters were murdered by Indians
about sixty-five miles west of Fort
Griffin, recently.
"A bar.room was smashed and de-
in Sempronius, Washington
county, ON the night ofthe 2lst ultlmo'
That village has no "doggery" now,
and the people are happy.
"A woman at Ennis, Texas, had her
and his sister arrested last
week ON charge of incest in William
son. whence they came to Ennis near
A wear ago. The parties were taken
back to Williamson county.
-Four hunters In Clay county killeu
butialoes, forty-two tur
KEYS and one antelope, In four days
hint last week. A boy thirteen years
old killed two buffaloes with a Colts
revolver.
The Federal Government Is IN
debted to the State OfTeXas IN tne
ann of SlC1,ll3 81 for bonds leit Tor
Texas in the hands of the General GOV
eminent, to liquidate the debt OF the
Republic.
-Bishop Elliott has ordered erected
in the southeastern part OF Lullng an
axtenIye building to ACCOMMODATE
two hundred pupils. The college VIII
bo known as the Texas Episcopal re-
ale School. This is general Tor the
State of Texas.
-One II. Butler, alias w. M. Jones'
n D.,llo, hoo inst been arrest