The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-12
STATE NEWS.

county.
Sherman IL TO have a new four
story brick hotel.
"A good blacksmith Is wanted In
Cambridge, Clay county.
Our exchanges report the wheat
prospects most flalterlng.
Ice formed In Gonzales county ON
the ninth, the first OF the season.
Houston Is beginning TO mike
preparations for her annual fair
-Whltevlle Is the name Of n new
town lately laid OIL in Comanche
county.
The Changers of Brown county
nave organized a grange store at
New Braunfels has voted subsidy
Of seventy-five thousand dollars to the
Pierce railroad.
The Northwest, published Mt Cam.
bridge, is the neatest and best gotten
up OF our country exchanges.
"A valuable mare belonging to Mr..
Barnhart, of Austin, was attacked with
hydrophobia and had to be killed.
The Northwest claims that the acre
age of cultivated land in CLAY county
VIII be at least ten times what it was
last year.
The Arkansas Democrat saws. Four
passenger trains went out Thursday.
bearing seven hundred souls bound
for Texas.
Meningitis is said to prevail to nm
alarming extent in Johnson county.
Among its victims are Alonzo Myers,
William Lucas, Marion Marler, Mrs.
Marler and Thomas Gable.
-Rockwall county boasts man
who rivals the man who stole n saw
MILL The Rockwell man stole about
TWO hundred yards of his neighbours
fence, and actually got away with it.
"A public call is made upon the
merchants and other business men at
Oakville to meet at the Courthouse for
the purpose of considering the neces-
sity of totally abandoning the credit
system.
Mrs. Sullivan, a widow and moth.
er of several children, one of which, a
mere child, was residing with her In
house of ill-fame, suicided through the
agency of morphine in Denison last
week.
The grade between Brookston aud
Paris is finished within two miles of
Paris, and forty hands are now engag-
ed in laying the track. So the iron
horse will whistle in the streets of the
latter place ere many moons.
"A standing reward of one hundred
dollars is offered for information which |
will lead to the arrest and conviction |
OF any person who may unlawflilly |
tamper with, cut or interfere with the |
United States Military Telegraph lines
leading to the frontier post.
Houston Telegraph "Bishop Gar
rett spent half hour yesterday in the
Telegraph sanctum, and it was a de-
lightful half hour, entirely too short.
The Bishop gave us q glowing descrip-
ton of the country around Dallas, and |
that section is fortunate in having so |
eloquent an advocate.n
Washington county is in healthy |
financial condition. Thursday Sl3, 900
of county scrip, which had been re-
deemed and Cancelled, was burnt. The |
new Jail just built has been paid for in
full, and there only remains debt of
$4,000 against the county.
Last Tuesday party of five armed
Mexicans stole seventy head of horses
from Los Animos rancho, near Lare-
do. They were pursued by the owner
of the horses and party of citizens,
who came up with them in camp Fri
day morning at Logano Cavillo, and o
fight ensued. One Mexican was kill
ed, two taken prisoners aud the horses |
recaptured.
Houston Telegraph: A wild Texan
at Waco, Friday evening, carrying
more benzine than was healthy, yelled
like Comanche and fired oft his pis-
toll on the streets. The police got after
him, but he changed his base, they |
opening fire on him as he ran with
their revolvers, but without hitting
him. When one or two policemen
are either hung or sent to the peniten-
tiary for shooting at people who run
from them to evade arrest, possibly |
the Others in the habit will stop.
Colonel w. Y. Leader, of the Mar
shall Leader was attacke on the
streets, last Wednesday, by man
named Jim Mooring. Jim took Of
Tense at an article that appeared in
the Leader, and interviewed the Colo
mel with navy-six. Leader has this
to say in reference to the cause of the
difficulty: "The article which gave
otfense to Mooring was local stating
the fact that he had been arrested on
a charge of stealing cattle on the prai-
ries and selling them in this city. lie
lives in Hopkins, where he is now I'M
der heavy bonds, we understand, Tor
that crime, under different indict
ments."
Last week the Sheriff and a posse
from Bee county went to Colonel Means
house, in San Patrico county,
for the purpose of arresting the
Young Means, who had previously had
some difficulty with parties In bee
county. Upon their arrival at the
house the old gentleman went to the
door, when volley was fired at him.
He instantly expired, and the young
Means, not being prepared for "a fight,
surrendered and gave bond. the
sheriff and party were then arrested
for the killing of Means, and gave
bond for their appearance at court,
-: 80, thar in session at San