The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-07
THE STATE OVER.

senseless, --- Ia Recorder j. II. Friet
ham has been arrested, charged with ii
emhezAlement of twenty five hundro
dollars,
NcAamdH GmM-Some one she
through the office window of llamear
derrick, attorneys NJ law,-John Wi
llRms and Frank Ingram arrived froI
the Tehuaoana with two negroe
Columbus Clark and Sam GillArd, VIII
are charged with burglarilng Reno
store on the CorSicana road, "A nogr
shot and killed another, on farm nea
Pattons mill
Denton COnty,--On last Wednesda,
evening man and woman were in
2arcerated in the Denton Jail, charge,
with bigamy. "a large number of i'm
migrants are passing through Denton
No mails on Tuesday evening. Tn,
creeks We're up and the ferry boats
washed away, Denton county enter.
prise took several premiums at the
Dallas fair,
TdrrGHt COmty-John Sonberg alias
Cheap John, late Of Dallas has been
arrested by the authorities of Kaufman
county for Knowingly receiving and
selling a stolen horse from that county,
In jail --Burk Burnett attempted to
ford the raging Trinity on mustang,
and both came near being drowned.
Three men, drivinga team of two horses
and two mules, essayed to cross, when
the mules drowned, they and the horses
escaping.
Wise COlmtg--The mayor of Decatur
has been busy this week with several
knotty cases Of drunk, which contribut,
ed small pittance toward maintaining
the dignity of the town. A man,
May, charged with bigamy in Clay couns
ty, was arrested near this placeon Tues,
day, He was out of Jail on bond, and
was trying to leave the county when
arrested.--There is considerable sick>
ness in our town now, and we heard n
physician predict, the other day, that
in many cases it would prove fatal,
Ellis County-On Wednesday night, at
Wright's saloon, Milton Shields and
Merrill Anderson quarreled over game
Of ten pins, when the former shot the
latter in the leg severely enough to in,
teriere with graceful locomotion for
some time to come. Both parties left
town Immediately, and no arrest was
made. We are not posted as to the par
ticulars of the affray, THE store of
Messrs Rollins a. Andrews, dealers in
general merchandise, at Ferris, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with its con.
tents, on last Saturday night, We did
not learn the origin of the fire, or the
loss ofowners.
GraySon ComtH-Trade dollars are in
considerable quantity in this city, and
half dollars just from the mint are in
thousands. No one man has got the
thousands" though, that we know OF.
looking under her bed before she
retired night before last, Sherman
widow found trunh which some one
had secreted under that piece of furni>
ture, and which contained fifty dollars
in gold and several pieces of necessary
clothing. -Jim Fisher, negro, broke
his jaw yesterday, with the axe he
swung aloft to divide piece of wood
with. Notwithstanding Jim's fractured
maxillary wall, he jawed about the mis-
chance awfully.-A coal oil lamp ex-
ploded ON Friday night, in small
dwelling occupied by single gentle
man, on Branch street, and set fire to
the house The flames were extin-
guished before an alarm was sounded.
Burch brought the news to the
city Friday night that the upper Min
eral or Hubbard bridge, was carried |
away by the severe rain storm Wednes
day night. The destruction of this
bridge will prove of great loss to our
Sherman neighbors Now both of the
bridges purchased by the county of Mr..
are gone. Denison gave 500
towards the purchase of the lower
bridge.-A man by the name of J.
NJ. Brook was arrested Saturday at the
depot by Officers Yocum and Wright,
for carrying pistol, one of Colts army
revolvers He was at once taken before
his honor the mayor, and fined So and
costs.--The trial of John Null for
taking a bale of cotton from Judge
Porter's gin, near Mineral Springs,
came off Saturday, before Judge Kirk.
His bail was fixed at $780, which was
not procured at late hour that even
car loads of cotton
were shipped from Denison Saturday
seventeen cars to Chicago and one to
st. Louis.
Tom Green C6unty.-The travellers
first view of this county, as from the
stage on the Colorado divide, he looks
over it in almost every direction for
fifty miles, is fine indeed To the right
along the ridge may be seen an i'm
mense herd Of antelope, ahead loater
wolf skulls along seeking his prey,
while ( the left on the hill side a small
herd OF buffalo roll" along toward
the creek bed to hide themselves from
view. To the west, forty eight miles
away, the position Of Fort Concho is
clearly defined against the horizon as
though only twenty miles interviewed.
To the northward, the flat top nouns
tains reflect back the rays of the rising
sun; to the south, the Concho range
lifts its huge zigzag shape against the
sky. while the Colorado river winding
through the intervening space seems
silver thread woven by mighty hands
natures verdant carpet, and
back of all and higher than all rises the
Twin mountains as though they were
two grand sentinels reared by natures
hand and left behind to keep watch
and ward of her vast domain. But any
anpreciation Of natures beauty and
grandeur is considerably dampened
when two hours afterward the. traveller
is asked seventy,fve cents for breaks
fast, consisting of nothing but cracked
wheat biscuit and dirty green coffee,
with black molasses tor sweetening:
Ben Ficklin, the county seat. is small
bamlet and stage stand for the FL PasO |