The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-10
STATE NEWS.

-Menlngltis prevails around Alya.
RADIO, IN Johnson county,
The wife Of John 4. Flint, Esd.
uled IN Waco on the 9Th. "
New farms are being extensively
opened up IN Navarro county.
Mr. George Gamble has assumed
editorial control Of the Peoria Record.
Mr., Jacob Leopold and Miss Eda
Hart We're married In Waco ON the OH.
-~The,ylllagers ofJeierson trustlngly
anticipate II royal visit from Queen
Nab
DIR, j. NJ. Sledge, aged seventy.
died ut his residence IN Brenhala'
last week.
The railroad subsidy of Bexar
county carried, in city and county on
Saturday last.
-Tarrant county Is being visited by
an army Of persons in search OF farm
Ing lands.
"A large importation Of negroes
from Louisiana have recently settled
In Washington county.
B. b. Lacy, of the never.lo.be.
forgotten Twelfth Legislature, died,
recently, at Carthage.
Austin Is favored with n visit Of
the genial scarlet fever. Fortunately
it is not ola malignant type.
Ripe apples and plums, grown
since the September storm, have made
their appearance In Grimes county.
The acreage OF wheat in Kaufman
county is 30 per cent. more than last
year. and barley double that of last
year.
Bolton Journal: "Corn Is selling at
seventy.llve cents, and wheat at one
dollar twenty to one dollar thirty cents
per busheln
The United States mail was robbed
on the Sd, near Delialb, en- route from
GAINESVILLE to TeXarkana. No clue TO
the robbery.
Some vandal shot and killed TWEEN
ty-eight horses, one night last week,
belonging to Mr.. Floyd Powell, of Live
Oak county.
Colonel Thomas Whitfield, son of
General J. Whitfield, of Lavacca coun-
ty, departed this life at the residence
of his father, on the I'd.
The Grand Lodge Of !. O. o. Il. Of
the State Of Texas convened in Waco
on the Sth. A large number Of dele
gates were in attendance.
Limestone county has planted and
up already the finest crops Of wheat,
barley, rye and oats ever before seen
in that county, or at least for years.
The old veterans of Texas are COM
in to Austin on San Jacinto day. Cum
berland Gap Morgan, of Ohio, TeXa-
veteran, it is said, will address them.
-Fannin county has thirty-fve
acres of land that produced last year
seventeen bales of cotton, four hundred
and eighty bushels of corn and one
hundred and forty bushels of oats
Thomas Eacott shot and killed
William Gilleylen at Brentwood on
the list ultimo. Gilleylen was seeking
Eacott's life but was slain himself.
Eacott surrendered to the authorities.
Polk county is making big farming
preparations this year, and the Gran
gers down there hope to make heavy
crops and have plenty of the rag
baby"
"A second crop Of apples now
adorns the trees in the garden of Mr..
Hig. Traver, in Washington county,
also corn in tassel and roses in full
bloom.
The body of an unknown man
was found near Houston Oh the 2Sth
ultimo, with his throat cut. The sup
position is that he was murdered for
bis money.
Two men unknown rode up to G.
w. Schobey's house in southern Bas-
trop, and, calling him to the door, shot
and killed him. Schobey's character
was not good and he was comparative
" stranger in the neighborhood
A fellow named Taylor, tried to
kill Sheriff Ash, of Houston, on the
5th instant. He first tried to kill
negro, but the sheriff intervening, he
tried to kill him. The sheriff received
a painful wound with knife on the
hand, but not fatal.
"A shooting aflray at the lunatlc
asylum in Austin, on the 9Th, between
Frank Garland, warden, and J. NJ
Hughey, % cook of the institution, IN
which the latter received dangerous
wound in the abdomen.
-Clarksville Times: "The impression
now seems to prevail that the railroad
will be built through from Brookston
to Texarkana soon. The iron to build
the road to Paris is already at Brook
ston.n
Houston Telegraph: The Moving
Ball says Dallas is the second city IN
Texas That is hard on Galveston,
which we thought aspired to that dis
tinguished honor. But somebody Is
always making filings at the village
with a wharf company.
-Giddings Tribune: IA resident OF
Lexington informs us, that on the Z'th
ultimo, he saw growing Oh Mr.. Puck
ett's place, about six miles northwest
of Lexington, cotton squares ana
blooms, and quite number of green
bolls. Also butter bean vines win
beans thereon, and, in short, a first
class spring garden"
Houston Telegraph 1--WE saw yes
terday one dollar bill, issued by the
Rennblic of Texas, in June, lS4l. 1t
was signed by W. II. Abel and J, II.
RAYMOND. 1t awakened sorrowful feel
ings, and we could not help regr ',dlng
the hopes of young nation centered
in that bill, and its companions, as
,hoy want forth, hopes that never saw