The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-13
THE STATE OVER.

plhce --OliGers arrived M.t Thurs,
day evening from Hamilton county
with G., l. Frisby and put him In nil for
safe keeping l'risby is the alleged
murderer of Henry Board, Hamilton
county farmer "A young man in
Waco fell oil q wagon the wheels pass.
ing over his body severely ipiurng him
BH Cmmil-'rhe Bolton Journll con,
mus un account Of nm effort to la,so j.
q Blackburn while riding home with
his wife in u wagon, The rope was
thrown from the roadside, missed, and
before il could be thrown again Black.
burn brought Winchester rifle TO bear,
when the two robbers made Off His
wife prevented him shooting them. 49,
II also has a rumor that the dead body
of negro has been found hanging to u
tree on Nolan creek,
Trails County Stock is rapidly com,
ing in for the fair aud the stalls are
fast being taken, August Newman
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the right temple, the bali pass
ing out of the left, When found he had
six-shooter in his right hand and a
picture of his wife, with whom he had
not been living for some time, Belle
Barkley and two other horses from the
stables of Barkley and Higgins, at DALI
las have arrived at the fair.--Austin
receives one hundred bales of cotton
per day.
Leon ComN-Town dull and farmers
busy picking cotton, Gin house of
John d. E2ell set atire 10y an incendiary
and burned Nith number Of bales Of
cotton.--Meagre information reaches
us this week says the Cabinet, of the
killing of Mr.. Ashbrook west of
Leona, last Sunday, by a young man
named McAdams. Mr., Ashbrook had
rented land from Mr.. McAdams, and
was living on the latter gentleman :
place A dispute arose in regard to a
settlement about the rent, and from that
SANDER was circulated by McAdams
about Ashbrook's daughter, and the
whole resulted in the killing OF ASKS
brook Sunday by son Of Mr., Mead.
ans, who filled his body full of buck
shot.
Tanant C0mg.-Fort Worth is very
much troubled over the proposed ex>
tension of the Texas and Pacific to
Weatherrord. A BoEque county farm
er brought his own and u widow wo,
mans cotton, plus her daughter, to
Fort Worth. Sold the cotton and left
for Salt Lake city, leaving the girl beN
hind-rhe cost of nine cases in the
mayors court amounted to one hund
red and seven dollars and ten cents
We learn Of cutting scrape that oc>
Cured last evening, at the crossing OF
the Clear Fork of the Trinity. 1t seems
that a man by the name of Morrell had |
drove into the creek, and had stopped |
in the water for some purpose, when
some freighters drove down the bank
behind him, and ordered him to drive |
out Morrell informed them that he
would as soon as he could conveniently |
do so, whereupon one Of the treighters
began to swear at him, and threatened |
to make him move. When they all
reached this bank, the freighter again
commenced on Morrell, and finally |
struck him with a whip several times
and once on the head with the handle |
of the whip. Morrell then jumped out
of the wagon, and made for the man
with a knife, cutting him severely, twice
on the breast and once in the stomach. |
The latter wound is thought to be seri.
Gus. When the fight commenced the |
other frcighters drew their pistols and |
threatened to shoot Morrell, but party |
of hunters from the city coming up, in
terfered, The parties were arrested and
put under bond.
GrayS0a C0,0,tg.-On Sunday evening,
November 4th, while Rev j, D. Smith,
of the Marysville Methodist Episcopal |
circuit, was on hisway to conference he
was halted when within about two
miles of Whitesboro, by two highway
robbers, who demanded, with the pre-,
sentation of two six-shooters, what |
money he had on his person. The |
amount obtained was about S97 |
which Rev. Smith had collected as
conference money-The Denison
Herald gives an account OF a double |
wedding in Cook county short time
since. The grooms retired to bed drunk, |
ard next morning it was discovered that
each had got into the wrong bed. Then
there was a scene.-A Fannin county |
farmer started to Denson last week
with a load of cotton. While camping
at night a party OF horse thieves stolea
horse and pair of mules from him. -
A paralyzed woman on the Central train |
passing south last night, excited the
pity of the passengers by lifting up her
tight arm, the only part Of her body |
retaining its vitality, and remarking !
This is all that is left. This will be
better understood by the information
that she had lost her husband and all
her children, and the grief had brought
aboutRher functional abolition.-A
horse was shot dead by a sportsman
hunting with a rifle in a copse Of wood |
mile north of Sherman, yesterday |
The horse was in the grove, which was
covesed with heavy underground, and
the fowler shooting at a squirrel struck
the-ndfse. John Harris, laborer at
work on Montgomery street, fell from a
stable he was repairing yesterday, and
broke his arm.
American Horses In Demand Abroad.