The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-08
STATE NEWS.

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The measles are peallng the trur
!, dle-bed trash IN and around San An
= tonic.
The Masona and ODD Fellows hav
commenced the erection of hall II
Rockwall,
D Somebody up NJ Huntsville think
|. the Trinity, W
. The county Jail at san AntonI,
mas lhlrIy'llve Inmates, aud is Yer,
much crowded.
-Denison News; A party are about
starting tobacco factory, IL they ear
raise lhe necessary means to DO 80.
"A negro was tried at the recent
term OF the Washington District Court
on charge OF bigamy, aud acquitted
The Grange Of Camp county ha,
resolved to plant only one.third of
their land In cotton. the rest in grain.
Mr. II. $. Runnels, brother of the
lAle Ex-Governor Hiram II, Runnels of
this state, died in Bowie county, re-.
Gently.
-Lum Gray, u Choctaw brave. who
was arrested In Denison and bailed
OUT last week, subsequently, got into n
difficulty on Red River and was killed,
The frontier telegraph line has
ueeh completed TO Fort stockton, and
There Is now direct communication
between San Antonio aud Browns.
vile.
IA negro was chopping with an axe
IN Noodyille, Tyler county, few days
ago, when little negro, running UNI
der II was struck 10y it aud instantly
killed.
The San Antonio Express learns
that one hundred c0nvicts have been
put to work repairing the defects O fthe
Galveston, Harrisburg aud San An
tonic Railway.
Vie Woodruff lectured in Brenham
last Friday. 1t was too much for the
sensitive editor of the Banner aad he
had to postpone his continents for
twenty-four hours.
The interest on the Texas State
bonds maturing in January has been
settled aud the treasury is in n healthy
condition., all owing to good Demo-
cratic management.
A party of six buffalo hunters re-
turned TO their homes in Denton
county from hunt on the upper Brazos
few days ago. They were only gone
short time and killed twenty,one
butlaloes.
"A negro is on trial before United
States Commissioner Vaughn, at JEFF
ferson, charged With stealing register
ed packages from the postolllce at that
place, where he had been employed us
Il porter.
On Tuesday night last the Court.
house and Jail at Pennington, Trinity
county, were burned. 1t is not known
definitely who the parties were, tut it
is supposed the object was to destroy
important papers.
The Jefferson Leader is waging a
relentless war against the gambling
hells OF that place. 1t is scathing in
its comments on certain members of
the grand jury, whom it charges with
being conLected with these gambling
houses and with visiting them.
The dead body of man named
VIM was found near Hickory Hill,
Titus county, II few days ago, and Bill
Edwards, of Mount Pleasant, is sus-
pected of having murdered him. Winn
had three or four hundred dollars on
his person when killed.
The prisoners, Colquet Parker I'M
der Indictment for two murders COM
mitted in Crockett within the last six |
also Felix Thompson and |
Moses McRae, likewise charged with |
murder, all lately confined in Houston
county Jail, made their escape on Sat
urday night last.
-Rockwall Banner: Our Dallas eX-
changes are teeming with the glowing
accounts of the carnival in that city on
the oath ultimo. Those of our citizens
who attended express themselves as
highly pleased, and represented it as
being grand success, one that
would have done credit to a city of
much greater pretensions. The citizens |
of Dallas never do things by halves.
They have just got the pride and enter
prise to make complete success of
they undertake to do.
The Austin Statesman has this to
say of Travis county bonds: Under
the bids for courthouse bonds yesterday
the following sales were made: DIR.
Barton purchased 100000 at 100 PIG;
Mr.. Baxter purchased 5000 Mt 81, and
G. r.. Johns d Co., $4,000 at SO lila,
all paying extra for two months inter-
est. These bids were the highest on
the proposition to sell $4,000, and the
prices not only speak well for our home
capitalists, but favorable for finances
under the management of the present
county court.
San Antonio Express: \ man on
horseback rode up to the south
side of tent west of the San
Pedro, in which l0w-dOwn dances ale
given, at a late hour night before last,
and shot four times through the tent. |
One of the balls which passed through |
the canvass. struck Mexican woman
who was drinking coffee on the oppo-
site side, killing her instantly. a few
hours afterwards, officer Buckley ar
rested a Mexican, also in the dance
business, by the name Of Manuel Lo-
pez, who was armed with slx-shoot-
er, and is thought to be the man who
did the shooting.
Houston Telegraph: A singular
thing happened in this city Friday. a
dav or two after the storm in last
September, the little boy of citizen
rot china berry up one ofhis nostrils'
Efforts to extricate 1t only caused it to
90 further up the nose, until finally the
parents supposed it had passed through
the opening in the roof OF the mouth
and down the throat, as it ceased to be
felt or to give any annoyance to the
little boy. Friday, while the little iel-
low was at school, he blew his nose
,n Land n blnQt he