The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-08-05

Eifs C6untg Waxahache ladies have
organized a reading club "a cat fish,
weighing fifteen or twenty pounds was
taken from Waxahachle creek, The
authorities about the oourt-house have
had the yard nicely cleaned Oh and Ia
u few days they will have diagram
ready by which 10 set out trees, ---
From all parts Of the county the reports
are that crops are doing exceedingly
well since the late rains, Cotton Is
heavily laden with fruit and, without
any mishap, will yield very largely
There will DO u considerable surplus OF
corn,
Williamson C6uaty--rhe farmers are
counting on u bale OF cotton TO the acre
The plant Is now shoulder high and
loaded with bolls, and there Is no indi-
cation of the worm A good rain fell
there last Saturday, and the country
looks beautiful with green grass and
waving fields Of corn, cotton and sor-
ghum cane, The mustang grape Is
very plentiful and many will make
wine, ----- Attorneys in Georgetown
amuse themselves by an occasional
fight in the courthouse yard, --Moior
Jones succeeded in capturing the llor.
rels and eight of their associates on
the 9th OF July, in Lampasos county,
GoHai county Lieutenant Hall and
his men have captured the principal
GolOd bank robbcr, lie was found in
Burnett county,---llugh Stapp hay.
ing succeeded in obtaining " change of
venue will be tried in G)liad county
under the indictment found against
him, The Victoria Advocate says
We don't know, and in fact don't care
anything about the true nature of the
difficulty which Charles Roberts, recent
county attorney of Goliad, has become
involved in, but we do know that, while
in office m county attorney he made
things lively for the cattle thieves, and
this Of itself condoncs many fault he
may have had otherwise,
Gaivesioa ComtH--Many Of the cooks
and washerwomen of the city struck
during the week, and wanted more
wages. The emergency was met by
most Of the ladies OF the city, who pro.
posed going to the kitchens, rather than
blTthen their husbands with extra eX-
rense. Tho first bale of new cotton
from the cotton raising district was
brought to market Wednesday THE
eastern entrance TO the warl is being
shelled, Two striking leaders got
fifteen days and $40 fine, for leading
the band in Galveston. The heat
Thursday reached 990 in the shade -
Negroes are said to ambuscade for some
OF the city officers
Turam C6uatH The Democrat re-
porter assists in the quawels of young
debaters in order to get IL local item -----
After all the free school braggadocio of
the Fort Worth press Attorney General
Boone has decided that the recent vote
rejected the proposition, and hence the
invitation for Dallas to send scholars to
their schools has "been countermanded.
"A girl sat on her beau's hat until
nearly daylight one night last week If
he would hang his hat on the rack, in
stead of keeping it ON his lap, he would
be allowed to 20 much earller----
Thursday night about ten o'clock, n
man 10y the. name OF McWhorter died
in the engine house sitting in a chair,
of what was supposed to have been u
sudden attack Of congestive fever, lie
had been engaged MS cook by n party
who started for the frontier.--Thurs-
day afternoon Ben Simmons who shot
j. NJ, Gam Wednesday morning in his
bed, and attempted to kill him with n
pitchfork, near Dido, surrendered him.
self to the authorities We are in
formed that he claims that he was tens
porarily insane at the time OF his MUIR
derous attack upon Gam,
Harris C5lmtN- Harrisburg had to
have strike the same as other towns
The colored laborers of the saw mills
there, who are now getting n dollar u
day struck for one dollar and fifty
cents A dead lock in the saw mill
business is the result, No violence is
ported, The city of Houston is
troubled with dogs, and the report of
rabbld one among them has caused
great alarm. The Telegram calls upon
the marshal for the slaughter of the
entire number now at large The dog
which was known to be mad bit at sew
eral persons, and among them several
but none are reported as be"
ing bitten by him Taylor Prindle
shot and dangerously wounded ii. c.
Thompson, ON the excursion to San An
tonic, Tuesday. The difficulty arose
from dispute the night before, which
friends thought had been settled. Prin-
die was arrested, and locked up in the
Jail of Colorado county,--B. F. Adams,
who performed the cutting on rail
road train in the city, short time ago,
was arrested Monday night, in the
county west of town,---At Egypt the
steam saw mill exploded, destroying
some property but injuring no one Sc
riously. Mr. Munger, the proprietor,
escaped almost miraculously. A fire
man Nvog soulInI a l;it1a