The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-02-01

HHHh hN ''Nh ANNlNhhhlHhNE w WV
people Of Houston that electricity has
more 10 do with tho motions OF the
heavenly bodies than grayltation'
Wood tomhj--IHlag Our oaleboose
has phoenixed, and Is now ready for
accommodation Of guests, This time " Is
two stories high, with u court house on
top. Now houses ara going up IN
Mineola every day, and yet we have no
empty ones, New families come In aH
fast m tho houses are built, and owners
realize handsome profits on their IN
yestments, "a car load Of immigrants
from Alabama, disombarkcd AZ this
place Thursday, aud will make tins
county their home. They number
about forty IN all, This makes several
small colonies Of Alabamians that have
settled In Wood county during this
winter, The leading mercantile firms
Of MineOla have organized mutual
protection association, Ior tho purpose
of guarding against parties who will not
pay their debts
Wilson C5nuty, But few Of the IeathN
ersd tribe have dlgported themselves In
the waters Of Wilson county this season.
The failure OF duck crop il esteemed
| little less than calamity by those who
are fond of cunning The regular
term of the commissioners court wlll
DO held nj FloresviTle on the second
Tuesday in February Haywood
Brahan, well known TO the citizens OF
Wilson county Inns been appointed
Mperinident and treasurer OF the pens
teniiary. ben Hawkins, one of the
prisoners who escaped from jail charged
with the theft of cattle, went home and
arranged his bond, and returned ia
Floresville Tuesday, and surrendered
himself to the authorities THE fine
weather for few days past, has given
the farmers m opportunity 10 SOW their
spring wheat, and other kinds of small
grain, tho putting in Of which has been
delayed by the excessive and continued
raineB
{ Galveston Cdumiy--On the 10Th ultimo
Mrs Frank Gardoni shot Mrs. Brandon
II colorod woman, with small sized
single barreled pistol. The ball pono'
trated the cheek, and CHANGING around
the bones, lodged under the skin, back
of the right ear, The cause of the
shooting was supposed TO be jealousy
Mrs Gardon was arrested but was re-
leased on bond, the doctors having re-
presented that the wounds received by
Mrs BRANDED are by no means neces-
sarily of fatal character, ----Assessor
Mccormick gives these figures in refer
cnce TO the increase of the county res
venue for 1877; Tax collected on &c.,
$50 assessment for 1878, sos III ~
tax collected on So, S62 ,237 assessment
for 1877, SlO2,SSO 90, The excess OF
the Tux for 1877, the result of his assess
mcnt, over that for 1876 is found to be
$37, 7jS 76,---Mr, Mccormick states
that Taxpayers are rendering very
promptly this year, the number of invcn
tories reaching over 300 to date.
Bell ComtH--rhere is considerable
cotton remaining unpiclSed in the coun-
ty, and all the corn has not leen gath.
cred. The protractod spell of bad
weather has interIcred considerably
with farming operations. -------lfarmers
are paying considerable attention to
wheat. There will be large acreage OF
spring wheat sown If the weather il
propitious. The fall wheat looks ilour>
ishing all over the county .------Last
Saturday u negro rode up to white
man who was loading wagon with
wood, on the roadside, near the Tyler
farm, and proposed trading horses with
him, He was riding u good horse, and
the man suspecting that he had proha~
bly, stolen him refused TO trade with
him. and the negro passed on. In few
minutes after he left two white men
came up and made inquiries concerning
Just such negro and horse and said
the horse was stolen, They remarked
as they passed on that they chopped he
had gone up Leon bottom" Whether
he went up or not, we have not heard.
Jack C6,mtg Echo John $. Thomas,
the Jail builder, has gone to st. Louis,
and will bring back with him the mate,
rial Tor the iron cage which is to be
placed in our new Jail. ----M0ior d. I.
Wilson, in command of u detachment of
company \, 10th infantry, is now in
commnndat Fort Richardson. Sheriff
Crutchfeld has sent two prisoners to
Decatur for safe keeping-.James St
Clair, charged with hog stealing and
William Hill, of company 10th cavalry,
charged with assault with intent to
kill,---The grinding of corn in this
county is more than loo per cent. greater
than last year, while the lumber trade
is good the mills are running night and
day. Tom Riley, who escaped from
jail in Decatur some time ago, was ars
rested by Mr.. Samuel Shade and his
son, near Weatheriord Mcclure,
another one of the escaped prisoners,
was with Riley at the time, but mans
aged to get away,--Captain J. Il.
Hines, in command of detachment of
company b. frontier battalion have Just
captured three horse thieis; Frank
Newell, r. IL, Vananstin and John Cor.
don. They have been taken to the
Wise county Jail for safe keeping, to
await the next term of the district
court.