The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-01
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AID not much c0tniag iu-1he sweet
potato crop is hne, selling AZ hfty conts
bUshel $780, Merchants are buying
cotton sn3 doing q fair trade
Farmers generally throughout the
cuuu,y are done sowing wheat. and
notwithstanding the UnfAyofAhie sea-
son TO- eIing there j. q much greater
sroa sovu iu wheat than ever before.
Empire Mr.. S.mms. who has been
with Bennington outfit on the buffalo
range came in last Monday lie re-
porte buffalo very scarce. and thinks
there BE- not an outfit on the range that
Is making expenses
TrIgFa1 fofr'y Mr.. George Nost will
have charge of the construction train
CA the Deu,sou and ~1uthvesterr. -
Twenty cars of cotton aud six ear
loads o. stock arrived last night from
the south. The first car load OF iron
i1r the peuison and Southwestern has
aruyed--Mr. LlLonde has ginned
nine hundred bales of cotton up 10 the
present tIme.---tieoree :, Rowley has
accepted the position Of check clerk at
tae Central depot--Mr William
Hughes is having a beautiful summer
house butt jn hi- front yard a cattle
man informs the Herald that several
thousand head of cattle will be shipped
from that point before the close Of the
season
WrIrHHga ia,aty-An lsIaelite. fresh
from Jerusalem. is in Waco soliciting
money FOR the poor Of his country
Nr 90 Donouhn started on trip 10 the
western portion OF the state. When a
few miles from home the horse threw
MIN. aud ran OF aud has not been seen
SINCE The grand jury have made au
Inspection % the county jail and found
/ 10 kept m clean and business-like
manner They complimeuted Sheriff
. Ross and Deputy McGher for their
strict attention 10 duty. The Rev. 7.
=. Gross Is IrOciAimiug the wrath to
come 70 the sinners Of Waco Six
families Of immigrants, three from Cass
county, Missouri, and three from Iowa
passed through Waco yesterday for
I williamson county, where they pro-
[ pose making their future homes They
were a fine looking lot of travellers
| MI Co,mtg.-Farmers are hurrying
. in their Sheat--rrsde for the last
( few days has been unusually brisk -
Saloon keepers in Hillsboro have pro-
/ cured license and will test the local op,
. tiou law A good deal OF cotton yet
I 30 pick Cotton in pens was damaged
[ 10 some extent by the wet weather.
| Last Friday week an unknown man,
riding one horse and leading another,
was arrested few miles north Of Hills
huro by party Of four men, said to
have been from Hood county. They
started with him ia the direction of
. 'uyingtOn. Next morning the man was
/ found hanging % a tree in the timber
T uear tovingtou Very little is known
/ 1t the affair, but the supposition is that
the man had stolen horse in Hood
county was pursued captured and
. hanged for the Volunteer
oats on tTot0Tis place have headed
uut---E.Eht petitions for divorce have
been lied for next term OF court Three
were already on docket
Lal ,a.rs.-Eouuty commissioners
court IN session. Fishing IS the sport
OF tLe season. ---.Jsck sborro has flour
i,EluE literary socicty.-The Echo
. The time OF arrival and departure of the
Neaiheriord mail has been changed
from q night to a day run and now our
mail arrives Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday evenings. The change will be
au advantage TO travellers, who will now
avoid the tedious night ride.--Last
year Mr.. Adamson's gin turned out one
hundred aud forty bales of cotton, about
all that was raised in the county. Thi.
year % date, bis gin has turned out one
hundred and fifty bales, and still the
cotton comes in -luartefly meeting
OF the Methodist Episcopal church com.
meuces IA the Masonic hall, on Satur
day. November "a III. II. McCon.
nell, esq, received his commission a.
postmaster last Sunday morning
The probability is that on account oil
the heavy rains and early frost the rage
will be very poor this winter and cattle
poorer. -Niue wagons with immr
grants from Franklin and Jefferson
counties Illinois, came IN yesterday and
propose TO scttls in this county.
/ Io4ag Cosqt.--A large number o.
prospectors from Iowa will visit era.
ham shortly The new money order
office is a great convenience 20 Graham
Wild geese and ducks are abund.
ant on the Clear Fork Leader. The
Graham mills are running all the time
grinding, saving and ginning
Is selling at seyeuty-tve cents per bUshel
and the supply il as great As the lie.
maud. Many farmers have large guam.
titles Of corn, which they are keeping
until they can get a dollar a bushel-
a gentleman living fifteen miles sou h
of this place Informs US that since
the first Of January he has killed
seventy~hve Wild cats, racooons and
foxes, eight deer, two bears and one
panther.--Our town has been quite
lively this week immigrants. farmer.
and treigbters have been on the streets
with their wagons, and the moving
hither and thither of people, has created
a connection equal to that of large,
towns. Farmers who sowed theil
wheat at the proper time, have excel
lent prospects for a large yield, while
} those who waited for the grasshoppers
to come and 60 are behind with tbeiI
sowing. However, we are credihly in,
formed that the acreage of wheat sowI
IN this county, will be five times as great
as that of last year.
Collin C0,otty.-The tramps are nu,
merous and congregate around the lie.
pot. The Advocate: Mr. Johr
) Fitzhugh, better known as Uncle john
aged eighty-six years, brought to tewr
last Friday, bale of cotton which h,
bad raised himself, doing all the worl
except ginning. We call this goot
showing for an old man, and one tina
might well be followed by many of tn.
, young men who are hunting soft place.
such as statesmen, book-keepers. or wan
TO run tor otiice.--E. r. Stiff, of thi
county took the second premium at tn,
Austin fair, on his fine stallion Nor
man d. He also carried off two frs
and two second premiums in the no,
rings Rah for Collin.-,Jesse /.
Stallings, who lives near Wildwood il
this county, has raised the boss hill o
potatoes so far as heard from. Five DC
} tatoes taken from one hill weighe,
! forty-five pounds. One of the numbe
weighed eleven pounds. His whole crol
is said to be- equally fine.--The cheer
ing reports come up from the differeu
parts Of the county, that the schools ar
in good working order, and everything
: going along smoothly.-A Collin
: county man planted one acre in pota
toes, and has been hauling and selling
wagon load per day for the last sil
weeks, and be says there is no sign O
: giving out yet.-Ten coal cars wer
, thrown from the track between Plan
. and Allen. last Tuesday evening, caus
ing delay TO the passenger trains @
about tvalya hours Mr. petar W al