The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-03-10
THE STATE OVER.

Mrs, Colby, the spiritualist, is at
Jefferson
S,.lden Irwin is doing Il good business
at Denison.
The health of Gonzales county Is said
to be not good
Smith county Furnishes persons who
play at tenpins.
a Ladies' Christian Association IS
talked Of ia Texas.
Shelby county people are beginning
TO trade at Longvies.
Several families of Hoosiers have set.
tied in Caldwell county
The bell in the Second Mission, at
san Antot.i3. was cast in 1872.
Two Waco boys have started "a hard.
ware store at brentwood
The Commercial Reporter, the aew
Luling paper, is on our table.
Local option obtains in johnson
county, SO says the Chronicle.
There are some Kentuckians settling
| in the region around Palestine.
Local option matters are becoming
/ charmingly hot in Travis county.
A Mr. Dubose was adiuds ed to be IN
sane in Bell county the other day.
1t is thought that Galveston will ship
! 10000 bales Of cotton this season
The Ennis Tribune has gone the way
| Of all flesh Dead, but not forgotten.
| One quarter of raile of track is being
laid per day on the Tyler Tap railroad
Colonel Stones chances to be mayor
| Of Galveston are growing better daily
Tom Ed Bomar will soon commence
the publication OF paper at Mckinney.
1 Theodore Tilton lectured at the opera
house, Galveston, on Thursday, the LIST.
I Efforts are being made TO get branch
| of the Federal Court located at Sher-
| man.
The Houston Age publishes an eIab-
crate critique Of Theodore Tilton's lee
/ ture.
There has been no drunken man seen
in Gainesville, since local option went nto
effect.
Mckinney has swinish curiosity.
/ fhe pig has two distinct heads and
eight feet
Robert F. Emerson. highly esteemed
citizen Of Mckinney, died oil conges lou
last Tuesday.
There are fifty-two prisoners in the
Grayson county Jail. 0nly one of whom
/ is a woman
The State convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association is in session
at Galveston.
The whole face Of the country in
Colorado county is covered with ycung
grasshoppers.
The sale OF plows was never before so
brisk in Mckinney sure indication
OF a heavy crop.
The steamboats, charge twenty i've
cents per hale for cotton. from J eilsgson
to New Orleans.
The Patrons warehouse, at Terrell, is
closed. The net loss foots up about
$500 So says the Terrell Star.
The Austin Statesman has a won Ter.
full amount of trouble to keep West
Texas papers steady.
They boast of the orderly condition oil
/ Coryell county. Local option fits /, m
ike gun-lock over there.
They are planting corn over in Ellis
county not having the fear OF frost or
/ grasshoppers before their eyes
I The Statesman is irreverent towards
Hall and Cree. 1t SAYS they are pump
ing piety into the Houstonians
The town Of Nacogdoches has recently
been incorporated 1t is one of the
Z oldest American towns in the State.
Major SayiIls, who lives near Savoy,
Fannin county, has discovered large
/ deposit OF coal on land owned by him.
The indications from Nueces county
/ are that the spring cattle drive will
about equal that of an average season.
| Palestine, according to the Advocate
/ OF the first. has an agreeable druggist.
Perhaps their drugs are agreeable also
The frontier is free from Indian dep
Rotations. The frontier battalion is
/ mainly employed in arresting criminals
William A Stephens, of Wilson coun-
/ ty, offers reward of 81 500 for the APP
| prehension of the murderers Of his
( Brother.
| The farmers of San Saba are plowinq
! deeper than ever The result is a
largely increased yield per acre in all
the crops.
I As far as the Wills County Observer
/ has been able to ascertain, Van Xandt
county gives over three to one against
4 prohibition.
Three hundred hands are employed
I in the manufacturing establishments of
New Braunfels. Dallas ought TO have
| three thousand.
Erath county made two thousand
bales of cotton last season She paws
her county judge yearly salary Of i've
hundred dollars.
Prominent members of the city GOV
eminent of Fort Worth sometimes par
tieipate in an accident Hows that
Pad, old fellow
The Nasasota Tablet has been shown
a Macmillan dollar, which the Empe-
ror gave to one of his surgeons on the
eve of execution
Martin, OF the Sherman Register has
been sick, but ~ recovering. Bad Bnur-
bon viii, get away with" the best of
EN-, after while.
The Appellate court confirmed the de-
cision of the Bee district court, in the
case OF Ed Singleton. He will be sem
fenced this month.
Haywood Brothers brass band fright
ened team the other day in Denison.
The damage was sixty dollars, which
the Heywoods paid.
Mr.. J. W. Doremus win be ordained
deacon by Bishop Gregg in few DAYS.
The ceremony will be performed at
Trinity church, Galveston
The Wachtenhlait, of Fredericksbure
seems to be good paper, though we
must be permitted 10 say that It's best
qualities are sealed book to us.
"Helen's Babies go like hot cakes at
Waco. Julius Griesenbeck, well known
IN Waco, committed suicide in DEM.
son the other day. Drunk.
Mr.. Tilton yisited the Brenham free
schools. he complimented the you ng
ladies upon their appearance. Theodore
Is fair Judge of female beauty.
The Age cruelty critieises the great
London newspapers. file of which a
returning tourist hands it, That 5 ron, oh
ON the Times, the Telegraph and chron-
iele.