The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-16
THE STATE OVER.

HUr9 County -- r5irrdav u nerr
nam IN the town of Courtney was killo,
usleusibly Cor resisting arrest TN
iuil particulars of the murder coul,
not be- osccrmucd. Tho erection O
the jail which was eUioined is At
stand still
Washington County The family O
Mr., Skriyanik, consisting Of himself
wife and four children, were posone,
from eating mushrooms Tho timel,
visit Of the doctor saved their lives --
Brennan has free roudiugraom, Whicl
swell patroniaed, Heavy lrosts pre-,
vail,
camp ComtH-Pittsburg Magnet
The farmers of this county have mucl
larger acreage Of wheat than ever be,
fore Big frost here Tuesday morn,
ing, Hog cholera has began to pre-.
vail in this section, --Seyeral severe
cases Of typhoid fever in this vicinity
-Dstrlct court in session here, Judge
Estes presiding
Cherokee ComtH-Too much rain and
damp, gloomy weather has seriously in.
terIered with cotton picking, A good
deal of cotton Is yet in the field, and il
is damaged so much that it will not
bring n fair price when put on the mar,
ket--We have had no killing frost
here yet Potato vines, which are very
tender, are looking as fresh and green
AS after a rain In July
H0a ComtH-Greenvile Independ-
cnt; Mr., l.. NJ, Dyer killed rattle
snake, on the Lone Oak road, ten miles
southeast of Greenyille, which measured
six and a half feet in length and seven.
teen inches in circumference in center
OF body---White Rock is Astonishing
town in the northern portion of Hunt
county. There are seven or eight bust.
ness houses in the place, and they all do
n aourishing business The White
Rock school under the superintendent
of Mr.. j. W. Barr, will open on the
third Monday Of this month.
Palo Pinto County, Western Star ::
Wheat is up and looking well all over
the country, save that of some who
waited for the grasshoppers to come
and go before planting, and nov they
are left behind. Our county is fast
improving--new houses, new farms and
an enterprsing class Of people are dot
ting the prairies all over, and, by their
industry, are making things tell There
is one man who came into the county
last February, and opened the land and
has in cultivation three hundred acres
of cotton, from which he will gather
two hundred bales. He has steam
gin in operation, and is ginning seven
or eight bales per day,--We learn
from the physicians OF town that there
is considerable sickness in the country,
mostly OF an intermittent type, attends
ed with more or less congestion in every
case. There have been two deaths in
the last week from congestive chills.
Stephens C0mty-The district court,
with its machinery for bringing evils
doors to judgment, began on Monday
and continued the whole
week, About twenty bills of indict.
ment were found, the most important
of which are against DR.. Dupuy, Nc
Donald and HARDER, who were charged
in the month of July last with taking
man by the name of Mccullough from
his home, in this county, and brutally
him. The judge decided
that the otfense against the aforesaid
parties was not bailable, whereupon the
counsel for defense applied for a writ of
habeas corpus. Judge Fleming again
refused bail, and ordered that the pris>
oners be confined in the nearest secure
jail to await the next term of the dis>
trict court for trial The weather this
fall has been all that heart could wish,
rains have been abundant and vegeta>
ton of all kinds is looking splendid.
Early sown wheat is three or four inches
high. Turnips grow almost to pertec,
ton in this county; all who sowed seed
at the right time, and on ground in a
proper condition, are now feasting on
the best quality that the world ever
saw. All the folks here are well salts
fed with this county, and pronounce
Stephens the best county in north
western Texas.
Berar COmtH-San Antonio Express;
Two parties living i'll this city, one an
influential business man, the other an
ex.county official, and one of our most
energetic young men, have recently en-
barked in the business of purchasing
donkeys, which they get for about five
dol rs per head, and drive by the huns
dred to the Navajo Indian village on
the San Juan river in southwestern Col
orado There the animals are traded
to the Indians for use in the rough
mining country The compensation
these gentlemen receive for furnishing
the miners with this necessary adjunct
TO the pursuit of their occupation, is
two fancy Indian blankets, or blanket
and choice pony, for each jack, the
reward being valued at about thirty
five &, lars. The readers of the Elk.
press will remember the report some
weeks ago of an attack made upon u
schoolboy by grey fox. The boy was
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sides on the dry Salado, about ten miles
north of San Antonio. The incident
occurred about the first OF September.
The boy was attending Mr. Mills
school in the vicinity of his home, and
during recess, accompanied by several
comrades, went to battle in waterhole
near at hand. Whilst bathing the boy
Shelby ran out of the water, and pass
ing through thicket near by was at
tackled by tho fox. He called to the
other boys for help which they prompts
ly rendered. Upon reaching him they
found that the animal had bitten him
severely. Willie Smith procured a
p cketkniie and cut the foxs throat,
killing the desperate little aniu.eL Lit
tie Shelby was then taken home to his
parents, and the wounds he had re,
ceived in the strange encounter were
dressed, and in few days he appeared
to be rapidly recovering. After lapse
however, of about sixty days, on Mon