The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-02
THE STATE OVER.


~ Stock association met in Fort Worth
last week,
ElHs County Review remind,
those who promised il wood as pay
ment for subscription that IL is time
they were waltzng'in with it,---Gen,
eral John l., Rains addressed the gran
gers of Ellis Saturday, Mr. John
Ransom, aged citizen of Ennis, was
stricken With paralysis on Wednesday
morning, .r.N
anderson County Palestine IL fast i'm
proying.----Hhe people Of Beaver val
ley proposes 10 have irolic on the 9th
nstant.--ln the future Hon h, A,
Reeves will make his home in PalesN
tine.--A negro named Louis Akin
son, who was confined in the Palestine
Jail, was, while under guard on his way
to his trial, shot ut killed.
Traits CountD--The farmers around
Austin will SOW small grain this year.
The Statesman says When Gov
ernor Dick calls ito arms for the inva
sion of Mexico, it is said that San Anto'
MO will supply ten thousand men Aus
tin will give twice that number in case
free lunches are suspended. The
girls and boys of Austin had spelling
match, in which sixty boys were arrayed
against thirty girls, The boys went to
griefdespite their numbers.
Lamar CdvRtH-Last Saturday morn
ing man named Clark was shot at his
residence near Paris, while out feeding
his horse, receiving two buckshot in the
right arm one in each hip and one in
the small of the back. Clark does not
know who did the shooting, being
so stunned by the shots. 1t is thought
that one Wallace was the party, as he is
the only person with whom Clark is at
outs. -Paris fire sufferers received two
thousand dollars from outside contribu-
tions.
Grayson C6mtH-Nine street drums
mers have been arrested in Denison Tor
their clamorous manner OF soliciting
trade. -Andrew Wort, a colored man,
was arrested Friday evening by Deputy
Sheriff Hoiford, for theft. Another col
ored man, named Solomon Senior, lost
his pocketbook on Main street, contain
ing $50, which Wash seen to pick up.
Only twenty dollars was recovered, l.
The News has the following "At Por~
ter's grocery on Main street sweet pos
tato can be seen exactly four feet in
length. Fort Worth beat Denison one,
half pound on watermelons, but we
challenge the state to produce sweet
potato longer than ours" 0, CULVER
where art tbou2 We retire discomft,
ted-The fremen of Sherman gave u
ball Thursday night.
Harris C0umty-A drunken woman
while riding through the streets Of
Houston, fell off her horse and knocked
her nose out of joint.--A large man
in Houston accusing small sized speci-
men of humanity Of turning his pet
bear loose, was seized by the trestle>
work by the diminutive creature and
toppled over, Sampson style, he getting
worsted by his opponents fall.--The
Houston BARRIERS are on strike
Houston is squabling over the location
OF her new jail, "A negro preacher
in Houston proposes to 60 it Ia Brig
ham Young. He intends to take in
four miles square near that place and
stock it with his race--that is if the
authorities don't interfere. The Tele-
gram says: Two train men whose
names could not be ascertained, were
brought down to the city on the Inter-
nrtional and Great Northern train yes
terday, arriving at 1890 n, m. The left
leg of one of them was broken below
knee and the other had a fracture of
the ankle. They received their injus
ries from run off by freight train at
q place where the section hands Just
finished repairing the track three miles
north of Willis
McLennan COunty-On Saturday morn
ing William NJ. Buchanan, aged twenty
one years, committed suicide in Waco
by taking morphine. He was a son of
Inspector Buchanan of that place. -
The Examiner is responsible for the fol-
lowing Waco creek is small stream
which flows through the southwestern
portion of this city, and empties into
the Brazos river inside of the corporate
limits. 1t has its rise three and half
miles west of town, and is fed py mum
Der of small springs. 1t has very Pc
culiar characteristic which to us is an
unacoountable phenomenon Every day
between the hours of nine or ten o'clock
n. m. and four or five o'clock p. M, a
swift stream of crystal water, five or six
inches in depth, pours over its pe6bly
bottom in continuous and undated
quantity. During the remainder of the
twentysfour hours there is scarcely any
water to be seen; it ceases to run, and,
apparently, is almost dry.--Two prin
tiers on the Examiner, besides working
ten hours day at the case, have made
ten bales of cotton and several hundred
bushels of corn and potatoes They
rented thirty acres of land near Waco
on which, with little help, they have
made a handsome sum of money.
Berar County.-Horse and cattle
thieves infest the vicinity of San Ans
tonio.--The Herald learns that since
the railroad has been completed to San
Antonio there have been one thousand
four hundred and forty,one car loads
of lumber received there, each car load
averaging not less than fifty thousand
feet of lumber. Four firms have re-
ceived over two hundred and fifty car
loads, the largest amount received by
one firm being two hundred and sew
enty mine car loads, which were re-
ceived by Mr.. Sam Maveried The
San Antonio Express of the 26th ultinio
says Colonel McLeary is not yet re.
cruiting publicly, but it is well known
fact that he has taken steps to organize
his staff. 1t concludes its editorial on
the situation thus: Whatever may be
the result of the present movement,
there can be no doubt that our governs
ment is preparing for an early aggres.