The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-04
STATE NEWS.

The Radical ticket was elected in
Jasper county.
Two negroes, Neil and Lee, were
hung at Jasper recently for murder
Sulphur Springs, Hopkins county,
was visited by disastrous fire last
week,
Some Of the people OF Cass county
are feeding on new Irish potatoes
raised ut home.
The grain crop of Hays county is
growing beautifully, and there is an
unusually large acreage in.
The material Of the Austin Even
ing News Office IL to be sold by the
sheriff on the 18th instant
--lIastrop county has levied an al va
loren tax Of seventy cents on every
hundred dollars worth of property
Colonel Lippard, residing near
Corsicana, has had ripe Strawberries
and asparagus for several weeks past.
Tho town of Columbus, Texas, is
infested with beggars. Many of them
abIe-bodied and able to earn an honest
living.
Gonzales had telegraphic Commu-
nication opened with the rest of the
world on the twenty-eighth of Feb
ruary.
The loyal subjects of Queen Nab
are preparing to give a grand ovation
in Jefferson some time during the
month Of April.
The Northwest claims that the
acreage of cultivated land in Clay
county will be at least ten times what
it was last year.
--Madsonville has n small dog that
Will 90 out and hunt up geese nests
and carry home the eggs without
breaking them.
MIR. Wilke died in Fredericksburg on
the 2lstultimo of trichinm, from which
dreadful disease he has been sufferer
for two months.
The Agricultural College at Bryan
is nearly finished, and will be opened
for students this year. Texas will soon
nave plenty OF colleses.
The editor of the MeXia Ledger
has had two full grown ripe watermel-
ons presented to him recently, raised
on farm near that place.
The Bastrop cotton mills are turn
ing out one thousand.yards of cotton
goods daily, and are meeting with u
ready sale for all they can manufacture.
A United States soldier shot his
wife and then himself In Galveston on
Thursday last. Whiskey was the cause.
Both man and woman are expected to
die.
"A train on the Waco Tap Railroad
run over u freedman named Harvey
Alexander, about tour miles from
Waco, few nights ago, and killed
him.
Ky Hunt, who murdered one Bell
Piper in Williamson county, last No
vember, was arrested last week on the
forks of the Llano, in Kimball county,
by Captain Caldwell.
--Denson News: The Mayor in
augurated his reform policy last night
by closing up gambling rooMs, and it
is astonishing what crowd of men il
turned out upon the street.
Brennan Banner: Captain l.. II.
McNelly, of the Frontier Scouts, has
lately returned from Washington, and
has been spending few days with his
friends here. He left yesterday for the
frontier.
The News is doing good work
for the town and county of San Saba
by publishing in detail their advan-
tages and resources. This is the first
duty of county papers, and every citi-
zen should extend to them substan-
tial support.
--Jimplecute: A man named Wynn
was murdered n few days ago about
twenty-five miles from this city on the
Daingerfeld road. There is good
deal of mystery connected with the
affair and we have refraGed from
mentioning it before. Detectives were
sent from here to endeavor TO ferret
out the murderer, but have not yet re-
turned.
Austin Gazette; There is q fair
prospect of the Radical negroes who
killed a man Of their own color in
Huntsville, for voting the Democratic
ticket, paying the penalty of the cruel
deed with their lives, the c0roner's
jury having returned verdict that the
killing was done by the four parties
implicated. Down with the black ku-
klux. Let 'no guilty man escape" on
account of the darkness of his skin.
Chickasaws who had been imbibirg
too much Crooked got into fight
yesterday afternoon, corner of Wood
ard street and Kusk avenue. One cut
the other on the head with large
knife, and made the "welkin ringN
with war cry. For few moments
it looked very much as If the citizens
of Denison would witness one of those
scenes enacted very often on the
lonely plains. Namely, lifting of
hair from the top OF the noble red
mans head.
Waco Examiner: About one or
two o'clock yesterday morning a man
who had climbed to the top of car OH
the sOuIu uounu Train on lne houston
and Texas Central Railroad fell OIL at
a point near MeXia, and received fatal
injuries. He was trying to steal his
way to Houston. Some of the train
men saw him fall, and the train stop
ped and the poor fellow was taken
aboard. Every attention was paid
him, but he was too severely injured
to. live, and was breathing his last
when the train left the station. He
could not give his name. Another