Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-19
TEXAS NEWS.
Camp meetings prevail in Texas

Camp meetings prevail in Texas.
At (Iouza!es new cotton Is selling at
ten cent?.
The cotton-wOrm has appeared IN sew
eral counties.
In come parts Of Texas corn is selling
at twenty cents per bushel.
Sherman hasa population OF SIX thou'
sand one hundred and sixty-t"o'
Indians are committing depIedslions
il the vicinity o. Fort M'KsVett-
The Texas express C mpany mas
opened business Office ST Fort WORTH
Jewett, of Leon county, expects to ship
i've thousand bales OF cotton tnis Ben
son.
In Erath county last week, the Their
monster reached 1909 and lOoO III the
shade.
San Marcos, Hayes county, has been
ssIecta6 "a the site for the branch penl-
Jentisry.
A son of Mr.. Bobnett died from The
effects Of surstToke, In bosque county,
last week.
Last week a dozen bales Of new cot
ton were shipped from Bastop county
to Galveston.
Kinney county has one thousand
sousre miles Of territory, and about mr.
teen Luadred inhabitants.
The new county seat Of Stephens
county is named BEeckinridge, IN honoE
of ths Iste John G. Breckenridge, OF
Kentucky.
The two Brown brothers, who are sup
,,osad 70 ba connected with Ward, who
was killed on the twenty hfth OF July,
| heve heeu captured near Aurora by the
sheriff Of Wise county.
Clay county, still further west, ia na5
n ne.,et ~ in northern Texas during the
| past five years. It's lands are OF great
fertility, and can be bought at very low
prices.
! Another large sale of cattle has been
made by J. D. Reed, OF Goliad, to Cole
man, Matthias and Fulton, selling his
entire brands, Ieserving few milef
COWS only. Forty-five thousand doilsri
is the price paid.
| Bias Zamora was accidentally shot &
few DAYS since at Mission Refugio. The
| circumstances were as follows: A quar-
rel occurred between two men, Power
| and John M'Grew. Powers seized "a
morals pistol, and firing, wounded "a
mora, it is feared fatally, and killed
| M'Grew.
| On Martins place, five miles north O
| MiIIicau, a gray wolf snatched negro
| bshy sitting in the door Of cabin, ant
was in the act Of running off with 1t
when the mother picked up rifle ar
shot the brute dead. Infant Africa ROLES
| over with the wolf as he took his deatE
tumble, but was rescued without dam
age.
At a meeting of citizens at Jones'
Springs, Lavaca county, a preamble ant
resolutions were adopted by which thos
present pledged themselves to "protec
the citizens that executed the Brother
Campbell snd M'Elroy from all lawles
violence growing out Of said set" Abou
one hundred names were signed to tn
resolution.
A Gonzales special to the Gslvesto
News says: 1.-THE sheriff Of this count
Yesterday arrested the notorious HON
Willis a negro policeman implicate
in the murder OF Applewhite, at Groes
beck, in 1871, which murder led to NAL
tisl law in Limestone county. He hs
bean at large since that time. be WI
be taken to Limestone county to ausWs
the charge Of murder"
A little son Of a man named Moore
in Collier county, was bitten on tn
ankle by s copper-head snake Sunda
= last. A touTnaquet was applied to ii
| limb above the wound, and some whlsB
procured and administered, which ha
its usual effect in intoxicating. Aft
the whieky began to die in the system
: the bandage was removed, giving tt
po's1ued blood q chance TO flow throu2
: the system, producing death in fe
: minutes,
In Liano county last week at fam
house, two women, one eighty-thr'
, wears old and the other young ma
] ried woman, were murdered-beat
death with stones. A child four yea
old in the house could give no psrtc
lars, A hundred men (drovers) we
= camped in half mile of the place, II
t proes, white men and Mexicans, in pa
, ties OF five to ten. In that county, al
others in the district, murders are Fl
uuent: in one thsTe having been twel
t ty.seven in little over year, and
s another fourteen in year.
: Aside from the agricultural, pastor
: snd mineral wealth and natural a.
- yaptsses of Grayson county, her IA
u road towns have a very large and rspi
: " developing section OF country imm
s diateIy tributary to them and lying
II the west, from which they receive
immense trade. Iu last year, her shi
u menta of flour and wheat reached IL
J. eighteen million pounds of net fioU
a There was shipped the same year OF &C
q ton fully one hundred and twenty II
thousand baIes-shippiDg from Sherm'
: alone over forty-nine thousand bales.