The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-29
STATE NEWS.

Mckinney clamors for fire EN-
CINE,
Waco had n four hours snow last
Wednesday.
-Mexia had n slight snow storm
last Tuesday.
Nearly dozen schools, white and
colored, are In operation at Marshall.
The Austin News has temporarily
suspended, owing to business compli-
cations.
The police force Of San Antonio
are being uniformed in n handsome
suit of blue.
Mr.. Henry Clay and Miss Sophia
Gates were married in Mexia on the
23d instant,
Three prisoners escaped from the
Sherman Jail Thursday morning. One
was recaptured.
Near Graham, on the frontier,
William Jackson, last week, shot and
killed James Jennings.
Collin county will be entitled to
thirty-one votes in the next Demo-
cratic State Convention.
"A young man named Kale lost his
life, last Sunday, while descending II
well, from the effects of the damp.
The planters near Eagle Lake,
Colorado county, have organized a
Il funUn nf ~ hinh Oh 10
Austin Statesman. The DALLAS
HERALD is twenty-six years old, and
the older, IN this case, the better we
like it.
j. S. Chance and J. A. Rust, both
candidates for Treasurer of Burlesop
county, each received 46S votes, being
tie.
Hill county has more acres and a
better crop of wheat than ever before.
The whole country is carpeted with
verdure,
About ten days ago, party of
thieves from Mexico crossed the Rio
Grande with forty head of horses,
stolen from Texas.
The removal of the raft In Red
river has begun seriously to injure the
navigation of the lakes and Cypress
Bayou to Jefferson.
"A slight snow in Robertson county
on Tuesday varied the monotony Of
the weather, which had been like
summer all winter.
The Catholic ladies of Calvert gave
n dinner election day and realized Sl4O
net to help pay for an organ for the
Catholic Church of that place.
Eliza Brooks, whose husband, j ohm
K. Brooks, left her two years ago, is
anxious for his return. His family is
in distress and needs his assistance.
Mr.. d. p. Coker living u few miles
north of Athens, had four thousand
new rails burned. Some miscreant set
the woods on fire, which was COM
municated to the fence.
The Sherman Patriot, who had a
special representative In our city on
Carnival Day, speaks in the most
glowing terms of the visit of Rex, and
the festivities attending the same.
The Mayor received official notifi-
cation day or two since that suit had
been commenced against the city of
Denison for $1,000, by Mr.. Barnet, in
New York city.
Statesman: Some three or four
Texas merchants have in the last few
days been brought before the Federal
Court here charged with defrauding
st. Louis creditors.
Sherman Patriot: The Texas and
Pacific railroed track on Saturday last
was laid three miles east of Brookston
towards Paris, and tracklaying pro-
crossing at the rate of about half a
mile per day.
Heads of families in Texas are en-
titled to one hundred and sixty acres
of vacant public land upon Occu-
plying 1t three years and paying
and Office fees, which are
about fifteen dollars.
Last Friday nighton Major Moores
farm one negro killed another. The
Bastrop Advertiser remarks that the
dead negro lies Wondering in the
ground the live one ''luxuriates" in
tie county jug.
Sherman Patriot; The city council
at its last meeting employed Captain
Il. J. Brown, of this place, to bring
suit against the Central railway for
taxes, due Sherman, for two or three
wears past and which this company
have failed to pay.
--Bascom Rhoe, of Bastrop county,
accdently shot himselfwhilst out hunt
ing. He was in the act of shooting a
bird, when the hammer caught in a
bush causing the gun to fire, lodging
the contents under the cheek bone,
killing him instantly.
-Rockport Transcripts The Dali
LAS HERALD Is one of our very best
exchanges, and when it sometimes
fails to reach us, we are disappointed.
II is a real tirst-class Democratic
journal, and bears upon its pages many
evidences of prosperity and progress.
"A printer named A. L. Booth, en-
Moved In the Herald Office, was ar
rested in San Antonio, last week, on a
reouisition from the Governor of Min
nesota, charging him with bigamy,
The evidence against him appears
conclusive. He left for Minnesota,
Saturday, in chage of an officer.
"A posse from Brazos and Burleson
counties, in their efforts to capture two
brothers named Fisher, notorious
horse thieves, were compelled to use
their weapons, the result of which was
10th brothers were killed, not before,
however, they succeeded in killing
one of the posse, Deputy Sheriff