The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-18
STATE NEWS.

Farmers In Gonzales are planting
c)rn.
The "AustIn College, ~ to be 10.
Gated ut sherman.
The debt OF Anderson county on
the first OF January was only $500 W.
--Indlanola shipped two thousand
hales Of cotton during the month OF
January.
William Conwell has been expelled
from JudsOn Grange, No, 5sS, for con-
duet unbeGOminB n Patron.
There Ii u baby four months old In
Hunt county, and hls mother has just
reached her thirteenth year.
Mr. Isaac Williams sold his farm
in He'll county, near the Shallow Ford
on the Leon, last week, for $4,000.
Waco had shipped thlrty-one
thousand five hundred and eighty
three bales OF cotton up to Friday last.
The latest victim In the Taylor
Sutton feud, In West Texas, IL Mr.. w.
A. Pridgcn, who was murdered last
week near Cuero.
--Messrs. O'Conner, Legg Il Allen
are grading thirty-two miles Of tho
Tyler Tap Road. They have one
hundred men and twenty teams at
work, and are pushing ahead.
Mr.. John G. Womack, who was
indicted by the last grand jury for
killing Abner Womack, ST., was tried
aud acquitted ut Montgomery on
Friday. The jury remaining out only
few minutes.
--Brenham Banner, 10th; We learn
that Il difficulty occurred yesterday ut
ChappelI Hill between Captain }. 5.
Smith and James 9, Stephens, a depu-
ty sheriff, in which the latter was shot
In the neck.
Rev. M. V. Smith, OF Bolton, has
II Durham COW which during the
months of December and January
gave two hundred and seventy-five
gallons of milk. This il about four
gallons and quarter per day.
Work has been commenced on the
extension of the International Rail
road from R0ckdale towards Austin.
A grand dinner and barbecue was
given by the citizens Of ROckdale and
vicinity, Monday, at the place whore
the work commenced. The ceremony
of breaking dirt took place exactly at
noon. The Grafton was delivered by
Mr. Enoch Breeding.
--Navasota Tablet: Lewis Porter,
n freedman of Grimes Prairie, In
tn county, killed hog on the first
In slant weighing nine hundred and
tw enty-eight pounds, gross; nine
hundred and seven pounds net. The
head weighing tifty.five pounds. This
monstr0us porker was not quite three
years old, and Is represented as having
been common Texas breed.
Peoria Record: On Monday last
n difficulty occurred in the Aschew
valley, in this county, between Sam
Barnes, Of Bosque county, and man
named Smith, in which the latter was
shot in the hip, the ball entering the
bowels. The parties are brothers-in-
law, and no cause Is known for the
difficulty. Smiths wound Is supposed
to be fatal. A warrant was issued, and
parties are in pursuit OF Barnes who
left Immediately after the shooting.
CLAY county must be o healthy
place for gentlemen of leisure, if the
industry of the following named two
ladies Is criterion of the industry of
the entire sex of their county, Mrs.
Cutler, n widow, has in two Years, with
her own labor, brought into cultivation
of one the best farms in Clay county,
and Mollie Cornish bales shingles at
the rate of n thousand day.
Houston came near having seri- !
Gus riot on election day. A negro |
named Harrison ATTEMPTED to vote |
the second or third time, when he was |
taken into custody by Sheriff Ashe. A |
mob of negroes followed and attempt |
ed to rescue the prisoner, but the
Sheriff. aided by few law.atiding
citizens, succeeded in combining him.
Sheriff Ashe was knocked down twice
by the mob, but never let so his pris-
0ner.
The dead body of Frenchman
named Frank Veleot, n shoemaker, re-
Gently OF Palestine, was found in an
old mill at Nechesvile, on the fourth
instant. The man had been murdered,
and evidently while he was asleep. He
was shot in the top Of the head, the
bullet coming out under the right ear.
BY his side lay bloody Ratchet, which
had been buried into his brain above
the right temple. There were two
other wounds from the hatchet over
each eye, and the face, from these
gashes downwards, was cut away, and
the neck bone cut out and gone. He
was also shot through the hand. He
and companion, who claimed to be II
barber, had camped out at this old mill
in preference to paying for lodgings,
they having just arrived at Neches-
vile. The companion is missing.