The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-11
STATE NEWS.

"hh tHnH,
Honey Grove has a dramatic or
gan2atlon. -
IBonham enjoyed II liye-day north
er last week.
They are having ripe tomatoe
down In Goliad county.
Corn elong the Rio Grande IL II,
and growing finely. =
"A broom factory has been eslab
lished at lndlanola.
Mrs. Isabella Sanders, aged sixty,
FOUR died In Austin on the Sth.
Corn sells at seventy.aye cents pc,
oushel and oats fifty, In Lawrence.
- Mrs. Amelia II. Colby is deliver.
ism. P"'''"'
--Erath county is trying to organize
an agricultural and mechanical asso.
citation. '''
"A military telegraph line Is being
constructed from Fredericksburg to
McKavett. w
The French residents of San An.
tonic have organized a mutual bencti.
ciary society.
Tyler is uniforming and drilling
her military company for exhibition
at the Centennial.
Six men were lynched for cattle
stealing In Montague county on Thurs.
day OF last week.
Bolton Journal: Corn is selling at
seyenty-live cents and wheat at 81 .2O@
l.30 per hushel, cash.
The people of Fredericksburg are
making efforts to establish u stage line
rom Concho to Dallas.
Frank Davis, of Denison, was
killed by desperate at Delaware
Bend in Cook county last Sunday,
The Gonzales Index is still eloquent
IN advocacy Of Hon. John Ireland's
claim to u seat in the United States
Senate.
The Index reports that Mr.. James
Story, of Smith county, has lust cut a
lully ripe sheaf of rye sown last Au-
gust.
Writ Saunders tried to kill a dog
III Bonham, last week, and accidental.
y shot of one of his own dog-goned
fingers.
The Radicals of Grayson county
have nominated candidates for the
Senate, House of Representative and
county offices.
William z. Britain was arrested
in Waco, few days ago, on suspicion
OF having committed Il murder in
Cherokee county.
They have had a blending of May
and December in Bonham. A wild.
over OF fifty was united in marriage to
maid OF fifteen.
Twelve thousand cigars belonging
to an Austin manufactures, were seized
the other day on account of O technical
violation of the revenue laws.
-Brenham Banner. The Germans
are taking out naturalization papers by
wholesale, and declare their intention
of voting the Democratic ticket solid.
-Bonham News "Iast Monday If
ty delegates took dinner at the Burney
house, and thirty-two at the City Ho-
tel the various candidates footing the
bill.n
Gonzales Index "Many persons,
for the want of a cool season in which
to save their pork have lost the joints.
Owing to this fact we may expect
bacon to be scarce and dear"
Mr.. II. L. Wren, of Austin, retired
to bed one night last week in his usual
good health, but awoke the next morn
ing stone blind. His physician pro-
nounced it contraction of the optic
nerves.
-Bonham News; "a tract of ninety
acres of land Sixty acres in cultiva-
tom, with considerable improve
ments on it, sold under u deed of trust
last Tuesday for one hundred and fifty
dollars"
-Hearne Enterprise A man came
into this office and demanded an apol-
ogy. He went home; it took his wife
three days to find out whether he had
been run over by the cars or struck by
lightning.
Gonzales Index: "Mr. Jacob Rob
erts, of Round Lake, brought us this
week, q bunch of shallots, containing
one hundred and ten stalks, all from
one root. Who can beat this ?"
-Brenham Banner: The Dallas
HERALD says 1t received an average OF
fifteen new subscribers each day las I
week. Dallas is Il lively town and her
citizens appreciate and know now TO
support good newspaper.
Houston Telegraph "rexas beats
the world for broad horns. We saw
Yesterday a team of five yoke OF oxen,
and either OK in the team, If fattened,
would furnish not less than six hun.
bred pounds of beef, free of shanks ana
neck, as the government requires"
-Denison News: "a new office on
the line of the government telegraph
was opened Tuesday, the Sth instant,
at Fort Mason. Mr.. King, recently in
the government office in this city, Is
the operator. The rates are the same
to Mason as MclKavett, viz; First ten
words so cents, each additional word
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