The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-29
THE STATE OVER.


o.,s,L COuntg-Comanche county
V onIy one hundred and fifty dogs, -
g aa' V ,oial value Of property rendered
u' ,STation in Comanche county is
mani, Lounty-Malor Buck" Wall
Of Austin, IL TO defend John Wes'
you Hardin at his approaching trial in
G9nanehe--Major Purnells Is grad,
o vi" recovering his health and strength,
uA"y The eiW council of Austin made
snd effort 10 give Paris five hundred
ScIars but an alarm OF fire broke up
,be meeting and the scheme
hLennm COuntg-The Guards rifle
tam of Waco, had II shooting match
Wednesday in which Flo Downs car.
'oJ olr the palm.-Waco contributed
,wo hundred dollars TO the Paris suffer.
"a squad of men are pursuing
Simms who killed Melon. He is making
%r tbe Rio Grande,-The councilmen
ofWaoo and Mayor Byrd are at outs,
difference of opinion on the free school
question.
Harris CountD-Houston is troubled
with horse thieves. Houston is to
have a new iail,--Mr. Alderman, of
Houston, while standing in the second
story of his house, lost his balance and
nmbled out falling on his head. 1t
made him awful mad. A crazy negro
in Houston, who is allowed to 80 loose,
on being leased by some little boys ran
one of them down and dealt him a se>
we're blow over the head with u stick.
Bcrar County San Antonio has be>
gun the manufacture of brick, hereto.
fore deemed impracticable, on account
of bad clay. An old fashioned chain
cannon ball was found in an old San
Antonio wall. 1t was imbedded there
during Milams fight with the Mexicans.
The San Antonio Express says the
general office of the Sunset route will
be located either at Houston or there.
Colonel Pierce will not take long TO de-
eide between locating at the head and
hind quarters OF the road.
Tarraat CounW-Two little boys
named Albert Bowe and Willie Carter
at the Pacific Hotel in Fort Worth,
went through one of the guests valise
and found pistol. Willie was engin>
eering it when it went of, striking AL
bert in the feshy part Of the left arm.
He is doing well and won't now even
look at pop.gun.--The Democrat
says Mr. John V, Ellis, prominent
cattle man, is camped six miles west of
the city with q herd of seven hundred
three, four and tive,year-old beeves. -
The typhoid fever continues to rage in
Fort Worth.---The Standard says that
the Rev. Grant has selected for q SUBJ
iect of discourse, 1.-THE Three Crosses"
He will nail the Standards editor and
Paddock to the outside ones, in char
acterstic sense of the word as it were.
citizens of Hood county have
sent memorial to the postmaster-ge
eral asking for daily mail on the route
from Fort Worth to Concho as far as
Cleburne
Gragsoa C0unty--Ground was broken
on the morning of the 9th for work
On the Denison and Southeastern rail.
road, a young man named Bishop
while bathing near Sherman, was taken
with the cramps and went under three
times before being rescued. He is still
N critical copdition.-The Register
'ays that there are thirty-six males and
,hree females in the Sherman Jail. Six.
cen of these have been served with in |
iictments found by the grand jury, =
md three of them had their cases cons
inued from last term Denison is
lappy over steam cotton gin.-The
Register states that Mr.. King informs
Is that on Saturday evening man by !
he name of W. S. Smith was arrested
n Denison by Deputy Sheriff Holford,
md brought to this place and lodged in
all. Smith is an escaped convict from
Arkansas, and was identified by his (
'rother.in>law Strange to narrate he A
$ horse,thief himself and for some \
ime has rendered Mr.. Douglas material .
ssistance in arresting other thieves in i
nd about Denison.