The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-10-13
THE STATE OVER.

ot our stock men has nested e 500 on
Cattle slsls season, thus fas. Al have
fesi.lzsd thirtg-three per cent. on in
festfnent. --F Farmers are all busy gath
efing their crops ----The committee on
courthouse building have done nothing
rs yet toward the direction OF the same.
4arTaat tss.aty - During the late
| storm the roof q ,jatln Daggett's house,
near Caddo Grove, was blown oil. his
wife wedged between the timbe-s aud
her collar bone broken. while the ehil-
dren were blown some forty yards from
the ouse,-A thief entered the room
Oh j. B. Biaokstone and relieved him
OF fourteen dolla-s.--fort Worth is
unusually quit
Harris County William Peck a negro,
fatally shot another negro. An old
difficulty was the eaase.----An incenS
diary attempted to burn the grocery
store of Mrs. Sims at Spring; this is
the second attempt Bates
was detected in the act of smuggling
tools into the Jail Sanford now has
permanent quarters there
hands OF the Houston Direct Nayiga-
ton company attempted a strike which
ended IN a miserable failure.
TosNg Co,uaty.--Lassge quantities OF
prairie bay is being put UP around Ora
hanl.---Graham is eiamoro1s for q cal
abeose. Good institution deputy
Sheriff Melton, who was recently shot
by q desperate. is eonvalescing.- Rain
is needed to facilitate the sowing of the
wheat crop. "A money order Office
has been established at Grahanl.--
EmIgrants are constantly coming into
the town and county, and Graham is
fast improving.
Graysoa Coaiats An unsophisticated
country youth exhibited his wealth in
Deuison bawdy house and soon afters
wards it was missing. A policeman
convinced a soiled dove that she had it,
and the amount was recovered, where.
upon the country gentleman was so re-
joiced at this piece of good luck that he
inhibited so freely of Denison bug Juice
that he had to be put in the lock up.
The citizens of Denison are miifed
at the city council because they refuse
to put a pump in one of the public
wells.
Washington Counfy Wv lille Ned Pas
chal was cleaning out well, the rope
to bucket of sand which was being
drawn up. broke. preeipitating the
bucket to the bottom, striking Paschal
on the head, killing him instantly. --I
., CrozIer, constable, rendered his resig-
nation. which was accepted and Mar,
shall Williams appointed in his place.
I'D. Morton, negro, was jailed for
driving dray Giipin speed through the
streets OF BRENNAN a difficulty oe-
Cured Sunday night between Alfred
Gee and Robert Lacket, in which the
latter ifak shot through the breast and
il is thought fatally wounded. DR. sgd
Smith then shot st Gee, but missed
him
Berar Coe,sty.--San Antonio has
new postoifiee SIX marriage licenses
were issued in San Antonio the pass
week.--Herai1: 0nr German citizens
are praying for rain before the Sanger,
fest and for pleasant weather durin,,
the fest.--rhe dust is as deep on til
streets and rlszas in this city as it was
at any time during the summer, and
when the wind bioss il is terrible
nuisance. As Officer kirschner, OF
the mountes! police. was riding by the
New Orleans camp yard, he noticed
smoke coming from pile of lumber
near negro shanty, and proceeding 10
the spot, be found that three li.tle negro
children, aged from three to seven years,
~ere building FIRE among the lumber
The officer extinguisbed the flames,
which luckily had not got under head-
way.
C5liiS CoEnty-Joan Rhine, of African
descent, was fined twentysthree dollars
aud fifty cents for defscing the court
house with his ehirography.--T
men. named Scott and Kendall, got into
a row in Mckinney saloon, the latter
cutting himself slightly in the hand
with knife. being the only damage
done.--Jack Meeks, while feeding a
cotton gin and thinking about some
thing else, got his hand fearfnlly man
gled The fair begins on the 10th
Graysoa Cs,t,sty--A Mrs. Metiee was
fined ten dollars and cost for keeping
disorderly house in Denison, refused to
pay the same, was jagged, paid out and
sued the city for twenty thousand dol
lars, getting not a cent.--The pupils
of the Denison public schools number
foar hundred and twenty-five Six
car loads of Durham bulls and heifers,
forty hogs. twenty -ive Coswold sheep
a iine jack ami several jennetts from
Kentucky, passed through Denison en-
route for 6oiiad county The Ness
insists that Denison is ahead of Sher-
man in the cotton business The
News is mad. 1t presented bill to the
city council for letter heads furnished
the mayor, and thecouneil refused pay
ment. 1t says he gets salary of one
dollar per month.