The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-05-05
TIE STATE OVER.

Be County. Fifteen thousand six
hundred aud sixty. seven acres ofschool
lands were sold. The average price
was 81 50 per acre.
Gojid,i Coi0hL-Mrs. Adelaide Won
Dohlen, cousort Of George Won Doblen,
died on the 5th. She was the oldest
daughter OF Mr.. Michael Seeligson.
HHyfsrs Csuty AT Iearne local OPP
ton Is much talked Of, hat whisky is
/ q. much sought for.--Rey J. Bell
/ preached plain sermon the other day.
. 10 WASH couChed III honoyed phrases.
Robertson County. They are deter
mined to form military company at
Calvert. court sits serond
Monday in May. Business is very
slack. storm of wind, rsin
and hail on Monday.
Bgarop Co,ngtg.-The exhibition
fine stock, last Wednesday, was very
creditAhle. Eleven indictments only
were returned. The mast crop will
be good; 50 too Of the general crop,
Notwithstanding the hoppeTs.
. Berdr County. The grasshoppers
have not done the damage that was at
one time expected. Herrod
was bitten by a rattle-snake, The
/ whisky and the poison tanimal) gave
: him hard time. He'll get well.
leon C0tDtg. lockwood had u ter
riuc wind and bail storm on the night
Of the Did AT Buffalo the storm
was terribly severe. Many people
Z prayed, thinking their time had come.
Levy's store WAS partly blown down.
NararrO COinty.--Corsicana IL repre-
I scented 10 he duli--Colonel Mills pre-
scented the coruet band With nice,
! clean $50 hill, on the occasion of their
/ sersnsde Of his guest, the Hon. =. =.
/ Cox. +. III. For. man, esq is oil for
a visit to his mother In Illinois.
| Hunt COlmiy.-DF. Ditlier has nm
/ ished his locturiug campaign In Hunt
oounty.--The Methodist Episcopal
/ Sunday school has celebration May
/. All GTeenEille will join. 49, Robert
Jones Patterson, soH OF DIR. W. NJ.
Patterson, OF Greenville, Is dead.
| hagBiGH County The cditor of the
Terrell star had basket of straw Der
ries the other day.--Most ot the
/ wheat j. doing we'll. Colonel Elders
/ May wheat promises large yield.
Justice Bridges funeral was an im
I posing ceremony. The different Odd
/ Fellows' lodges of the county partici-
pated.
Rcd River COUNTY. The wheat crop
il very fine.-COru il being plOwed.
- Business IL quite brisk, and farm.
ers are busy. The county IL remark.
ably healthy. The Times wouldn't
Z advise physicians to come there.
Farmers can find plenty of profitable
employ ment--Lands are fine and in
demand, though cheap.
Marion Codaty.-Hon. W. s. Cole
man, Of Marshall, is in Jefferson AZ
counsel In the ROthohilds case. Fish
plenty High water.--CottOn j.
selling at 9if9l0t .--Charley has been
giving the "Jimp" fox squirrel. the
sly fox - clever old man named
CODY was found, in u sitting posture
in his house, dead the other morning
Tfasis Cosmty.--Mr. Chas Fowler
Major L W. Cave and Mr. Waldo of the
Central. spe u day or two in Austin
last week.---'How to keep cool" is
: one OF the capital problems.--Tht
! citizens are moving TO prosecute Col
! Trigg the county attorney, A wager
load of fishing poles on the streets pu
= uncle Bobby Josselyn in a good humor
1 .1adersoH CoaHfy.-The Palestine New
y Era mentions divers new houses "a il
. course of construction in that thrivin,
70 village. Tennessee colony is il
; prosperous condition.--T. X. Nc
Farland and Mrs s. f. Ward are mar
ried Mr.. Rheims has been unde
= arrest, aud complains that he can't ge
justice. because he Is a northern man
: The Era laughes at him.
HeLssaaa Co,otfu-The Waco Mai-fes
is 10 be a grand one.--Two Italian
fruit vendors had stabbing aiiray -
The vacant iudgeship troubles the Elk
aminer --Base ball matters are brisk
Not so with business however ---f'rop
are looking. fne.--Colonel Eugeu
Farley has an elegant new phaeton.--
&, No grasshoPpers, and wheat'at Bosque
! Vile as fine "a ever was seen in tn
: state.
Bel C9pnh5.-Thc Bolton bar, by re;
I. olutions, regret the resignation q
Judge x. b. Saunders. The bar. how
! ever, think Lin c. Alexander Shout.
I succeed him. II c. Lanier. who xii
. ed Wiilie Hardin few weeks since, ha
, been tried and acquitted.---A sad cas-
!. OF seduction and death is given by tn
I journal: Miss NJ S. Ellington an
John Richardson are the parties
4 Bolton has silver cornet band -
? Jim Matthews aud Lewis Merely bot
: got two years in the penitentiary -
/. Mrs. j. NJ. Harrisons concert was
. success.
Z Gragssa Coaa,ty.--That as big sci
= the hanging of three horse thieves las
"A ] txasLr lIr. lfAna Il IL
u excitement was occasioued Wednesda
n evening by the report that three hors
Il thieves had been found hanging To
a limb, some eight miles west of tow
Il and on Thursday Justice Rainey. D
g companied by coroner's jury an
Il three collins, went in search of III
a. bodies They, however, found no trac.
10 Of the tragic scenes, and returned |
they went, with the collins empty.
q was, perhaps, hoax, and perhaps
IN wasn't
a Hamilton County. --"Crop prospec
~ throughout the county are said to |
" splendid-never hetter.--Ths site 4
the courthouse was staked of la
Wednesjsy.--The foundations 4
\. the Jail are being laid.--There W
heavy rain and hail storm eigI
miles south of town last Tuesday q
Ia ternoon. We hear Of no damage
N it.--Last Monday night house cs
- which had been bitten 10y skunk
week previously, belonging to Mr..
G.. Howard, cur district clerk, exhtl
ted unmistsksbie signs of hvdroph
n bia. MIR. How ards wife and childr,
n. were In the room. and he succeeded
Jd getting the children upon the bec
aud, armed With club, made the I,
lie tack, and, after an exciting bait
"a succeeded In dispatchiDg the mi
ar feline"
lis lam Comty.-Ar Foster Fleming h
at returned from Louisiana ----Anotl
IN. lumber yard is to be started at Jewe
to Mr.. Bill Thomas met with DIRE.
full accident the other day. The Cabir
st says While returning home fro
w Je9ett in company with Mr.. Bill G.
rs, ada, and a young man whose name
,st have not learned, and being under
er influence of whisky. they all commenc
ait firing oil their six shooters. and runni
or their horses, and while thus engag
N. and a. they we're passing the resider
of Rev. y. E. Hooper. Mr. Thorn
he horse stumbled, threw him over
le- head and fell on him, breaking three
he his ribs. and tearing them loose frs
his body, crushed his breast bone a
q a knocked his shoulder blade out OF ioi
OF Cansda and tho young man rode
ed without paying any attention to ]
lat Thomas wheu he fell Mr.. HOol