Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-02
TEXAS NEWS.


| ton rallies.
The Hunt county farmers have organ
lied an agricultural fair.
Wesley Jones, of Dallas county, will
be hanged the eleventh Of August.
At Waco the thermometer reached
103 in the shade the twenty-fourth.
Bishop Pierce is to attend the Hays
county camp-meeting, which begins Au-
gust Sd.
Major W. B. Ector, judge OF the
county court, died at Wills Point the
twenty. fourth.
A hOree with five feet was in HillsboFo
the other day. The superf1uous foot
seemed as perfect as the Others.
Alaska Shaw has been lodged in the
Limestone county Jail on the charge Of
killing negro in Lavaca comfy.
General Griersop, of cavalry fame,
passed through Gran5ury the oiher dsy
He was formerly a tennessee horse
trader.
Burnett county farmers are preparing
to utilize the heavy corn crop in the way
OF adding to the supply and quantity Of
pork this fall.
George Nichols, of Nacogdoches coun-
ty, aged siXLesn, last week shot aud
killed a man named Thomas Ray, who
WAS attacking him.
The Hearne Enterprise reports hot
weather, watermelons, figs, apples,
grapes, peaches, camp m citing, refresh
ing showers there and thersAbIu5s.
George johnson, charged with the
murder OF a German teamster four or
five years ago, in Dewitt county, has
been arrested and sent TO Jail at Clinton.
TIE post 1ffice at Pilot Point, Denton
county, was robbed one night last week of
letters and other articles. Parties of
citizsns were out looking for the thieves.
There are now about one thousand
visitors at the Lampasas county springs.
Many of them live in camps, and there
is still room in the hotels and boarding
houses.
A deranged white woman of Bren-
ham fired two shots at negro girl few
nights ago, one ball striking her corset,
the rib OF which turned the bullet and
saved her life.
a few days ago the sheriff OF Madison
county went to Seguin, Guadalupe
county, and arrested w. p. Wolf, who
is charged with the crime Of murder,
committed six years ago.
Walter M'Gieggor, a son of DR.. G.. G.
MGreggor, Of Waco, while hunting a
few days eg}, had his arm so shattered
by the accidental discharge Of his gun
that amputatiOn was neces isTy.
Only two homicides have been COM
mitted in the city Of Jefferson within |
the past four yesrs, during which time !
its population has been 8s great as fl !
teen thousand and not less than five |
thousand.
Messrs. Coleman, Mathis & Fulton |
cOnsummated quite an extensive cat |
tie trade last Monday with Mr.. J. D. |
Reed, Of Golisd county, buying all Of |
Mr.. Reeds cattle, with back claims, and |
paying therefor tOrty-five thousand dol
lars.
Anderson Helms, colored policeman
OF BRENNAN, was assassiDated Saturday |
night, the twenty-fOutlh ultimo, while
on his way home, 10 the suburbs of
tOwO. The murderer was mounted, and
killed his victim with uble-barreled
shotgun. The darkness OF the night
enabled the assassin 10 escape.
Governor Coke has issued his procla-
nation declaring Brown county no
longer frontier county, and liable to
incursiOns of hostile Indians, and that
on and after August 10Th the law regu-
lsting the keeping and bearing of dead
Iy weapons will be enforced in that
county. This is perhaps the only
county in the State that isn't "froniier
county"
a winged insect about three-quarters
Of an inch in length may be found by
the million In the corn fields around
Terrell, Kaufman county. They do not
seem to be iDjuring the corn in the least,
but feed mainly upon the coarser va
rieties of nettles, the leaves of which
they entirely destroy. When the net
Ties are finished, it is feared they may
attack the corn, but this is already too
near made to be seriously injured.
Captain Neal Caldwell's company of
State rangers has arrived in Camp Mer-
lit, on the Upper Guadalupe river, Kerr
county, from a twenty-six days scout,
and report all quiet. On their trip out
hey struck the Rio GIande at San
Felipe, and from thence west to Fort
Hudson, on Devils river, and Aom
hence to Camp Shsfter, on the Pecos.
On their return they came by way OF
Fort Lancaster, on the Peco3 river, and
rom thence went to the head
u L0e C0nc00 river, and nom
here to Menardville, on the Saba, and
rom there returned to this county. No
ecent signs Of Indians were discovered,
Though their route embraced circuit !
( over five hundred miles. !
Several days since, Mr.. Campbell, a
armer living in the western portion of :
f'Lennan county, was bitten by a :
hunk. Fearing hydrophobia would re-
nit from the bite, he came to Waco in
sarch Of a maidstone, but failed to find )
ne here. The following note from him t
sufficiently explained: "After c
svlng your office and riding |
'ur days, 1 found a maidstone. The cat o
roved to be very poisonous. The stone o
uck nine times. l had high fever q
ON the time left there until the poi &
N was extracted. The duck that had 9
zen bitten went to the water to drink, II
ok fits, and died the ninth day. 1 a
und the maidstone at the Widow 81
nith's, near the head Of North Ssladc, a.
Williamson county. Yours. Ct
an, d, CAMPBELL" p