The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-28
THE STATE OVER.

Cameron C0untH-The spring clip OF
wool IL very heavy.---Sheep raising,
~ Il business, IL looking up
Bee C0nmty,-Fifteen thousand six
hundred and siXty.seven acres 0fschool
lands were sold. The average price
was 81 50 per acre,
GOlidd County. Mrs. Adelaide Won
Dohlen, consort of George Won Dohlen,
died on the 9TH. She was the oldest
daughter of Mr.. Michael Seeligson.
Robertson County. They are deter.
mined to form military company at
Calvert. ----District court sits second
Monday in May. -Business is very
slack. Heavy storm Of wind, rain
and hail on Monday.
BdStr0p C0uRtU-The exhibition
fine stock, last Wednesday, was very
creditable. Eleven indictments only
were returned. THE mast crop will
be good; so too Of the general crop,
Notwithstanding the hoppers.
Bear COaRW.-The grasshoppers
have not done the damage that was at
one time expected. Madison Herrod
was bitten by a rattle.snake, The
whisky and the poison (animaD gave
him II hard time. He'll get we'll
Leon COuaty.-Oakwood had a ter.
rifle wind and hail storm on the night
of the 23d.-At Buffalo the storm
was. terribly severe. Many people
prayed, thinking their time had come
Levy's store was partly blown down.
Navarro C0unty.-Corsicana is repre-.
scented to be dull.--ColOnel Mills pre-.
sented the cornet band with a nice,
clean $50 bill, on the occasion of their
serenade of his guest, the Hon. S. y
Cox. II. Foreman, esq Is off fer
visit to his mother in Illinois.
Hunt COIntN.-Dr. Ditzler has fin
ished his lecturing campaign in Hunt
eounty.----The Methodist Episcopal
Sunday school has celebration May
/. All Greenville will join.
Jones Patterson, son of DR.. w. M
Patterson, of Greenville, is dead.
Kaufman County. The editor of the
Terrell Star had a basket of straw ber
ries the other day.--Most OF the
wheat is doing well. Colonel Elders
May wheat promises large yield.
---Justice Bridges funeral was an i'm
posing ceremony. The different Odd
Fellows lodges of the county partici-
pated. e.sg
Red RiUer COunty-The wheat crop
is very tine.---Corn is being plowed.
business IL quite brisk, and farm
ers are busy. The county is remark
ably healthy The Times wouldn't
advise physicians to come there
Farmers can find plenty Of profitable
employment Lands are fine and in
demand, though cheap.
Marion County. Hon. w. s. Cole
man, of Marshall, is in Jefferson as
counsel 10 the ROthchilds case. Fish
plenty High water.---Cotton is
selling at 9l@l0i .--C Charley has been
giving the Gimp" fox squirrel, the
sly fox "A clever old man named
CODY was found, in a sitting posture
in his house, dead the Othtr morning.
H7rdws County. Two bridges over
Waller creek were swept away by the
late storm aud high water.--A tan
merry is to be built at Austin.-The
recent hail storm broke over one hun
uleu pdnts VI blhoS w WV it'S hhOh'
house windows.-Aaron Burleson
stabbed his son-in-law, John w. Tay-
lor, the other day, in store on Pecan
street. THE late storm was very de-
structive In all parts of the county.
Hamilton CO,mty-"Crop prospects
throughout the county are said TO he
spleudid--never better. The site for
the courthouse was staked OIL last
Wednesday. The foundations for
the Jail are being laic.--There was
heavy rain aud hail storm eight
miles south of town last Tuesday AZ
ternoon. We hear of no damage by
it.-Last Monday night house cat,
which had been bitten ny a skunk a
week previously, belonging to Mr.. n.
c. Howard, our district clerk, exhibit
ted unmstakable signs of hy,lropho-
bia. Mr.. Howard's wife and children
were in the room, and he succeeded in
getting the children upon the beds,
and, armed with a club, made the at
tack, and, after an exciting battle,
succeeded in dispatching the MAD
felinen