The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-03
DALLAS, TEXAS,
SATURDAY MORNING ; NOVEMBER 3.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

The Mckinney fair Ia In full blast
The guests at Tho jail number thir-
ty.nine
The lumber trade IL rather dull NJ
present.
The Lamars drilled Mt their armo-
ny last night.
The workmen are still busyat work
IN the county court room.
Freeman, at tho Windsor hotel
bar, puts up the best whisky In the
city.
Three cattle trains went east yes
terday over the Texas aud Pacific rail-
road.
An enormous oil tank has been
erected near the site OF the old Central
depot.
The weather yesterday was pleas
ant, and the mud in the streets IL fast
drying up.
"A great deal OF wood is coming In.
and the eeller Ia 40 obturate about the
price as OF yore.
"A large drove OF cattle, from the
west, were driven across the bridge at
dark yesterday.
The fair was u financial success.
All the Indebtedness OF the association
has been liquidated.
"A motley crowd hangs around the
union depot during the day. AT night
II increases in numbers.
Several car loads of compressed
cotton were shipped east yesterday
over the Texas and Pacific.
Two citizens INDUCED in n little
ls!lculls last night on Lamar, near
Nam. Bloody shoots and no arrest.
--Messrs, Common d Walker are HAYS
ing an addition made to the rear of
their store Of twenty-five feet square.
The Nimrods are still having fine
success shooting ducks. Longs lake
is favorite locality for the hunters.
No pools were sold last night, as
advertised, on the Tenbroeok Parole
race, that takes place at Saratoga to-
day.
EAST Dallas was dull yesterday.
Elm street, east of the "a lroad, pre-
scented quite contrast to the days of
the fair
"A force were at work yesterday,
clearing the mud from the crossings,
which made quite an improvement in
the walking.
Owing to the ravages OF the worm
and tho late destructive rains, there is
very little strictly first-class cotton in
this or any of the markets.
Mr.. Musset, the farmer residing
near Austin, from whom John Matt,
now in Jail, stole a horse, arrived in
the city yesterday and recognized the
animal as being his property.
Three wild steers escaped yester-
day from the cattle pens, near the
union depot, and the drivers, OH
horses, had an exciting time getting
them within the enclosure again.
--Bunions, oorns, unsightly lunches
on either feet or hands, are removed
without pain or discolorization, by
Giles Liniment Iodide OF Ammonia
1t never fails. For sale by Conner "
Walker, druggists, Dallas.
Yesterday evening, ON Mckinney
avenue, man diving wagon heav-
lily loaded with shingles, ran into II
sink in the road, upsetting the wagon,
shingles and man, the latter barely es-
Gaping being crushed by the falling
load.
Marshal Morton returned from
Kaufman yesterday, where he had
been ~ witness for the state in the
Bailie Dougherty murder trial. We
learn from the marshal that strong
case has been made against Bob Perry,
accused of the crime, and the proba-
bilities are that he will be convicted.
The Trinity was rising slowly yes
terday evening, at six o'clock. The
waters have overlooked the west bank,
and are extending to the bottoms be,
You'd. The backwater is In the low
lands on each side of the wagon road
for half mile, but 1t is not thought
that the road will be overlooked dur
ing the rise,