The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-19
THE STATE OVER

Harris COUNTY Age; Thieves ale
showing up in the city once more
Farmers have finished planting corn
The Fay Templeton troupe has re-
turned from Mexico aud are Mt present
in Galveston - Since the last meeting
ofcreditors, Mr.. Peter Floeck has offer
ed by letter to settle with each indl-
yidual creditor at thirty cents on tho
dollar,
Grayson Coutg-Patriot Mr.. D. 5.
Warrlck has been reelected treasurer
and superintendent of the sherman gas
COMPANY. We learn from the mail
carrier that man named Benton Nance
was shot and killed last Sunday near
Dexter, Cooke county, by one Ferdinand
Lamb -Jalier Gordon has nearly
fifty prisoners in Jail, and their condi'
ton is clean and as comfortable As such
number can be in a Jail the size OF
ours. - Last Wednesday about
six o'clock in the evening, shooting
affair took place between T. G. Bass
and Moses Chaplin, of this place, in
which the latter received two severe
flesh wounds,
Bear County Express Lee RAN
die, a colored girl, WAS arrested on
warrant from Waller county, charging
her with the theft Of four hundred dol
lars from Ed. Alsbury in Hampstead,
about two years ago,-Mulberries are
rpening. Green peas are in the mar
ket. "A colored boy recently employ
ed at the Central hotel as a waiter &C,
cidentally ran splinter into his foot
few dayssago, causing lock>jaw, from the
effects of which he died. The wide
expanse of green since the young grass
has sprung into life again, is truly love-
ly to look upon and in n short while we
will see thousands OF head OF cattle from
the west and southwest grazing upon 1t
preparatory to shipping for the great
eastern markets.
Coffin C6untH-Advocate: Quite
large number ofKentuckians got of the
train at this place one day last week.
They are very intelligent lot OF people,
who say they have come here to work,
and, from their looks, we are willing to
risk the assertion that they know how.
Last Saturday night our usually
quiet town was thrown into perfect
Juror of excitement, by the announce.
ment that one Z. W. Haskell, carpen-
ter who is we'll known in this vicinity,
had outraged the person of little
seven year old girl of Mr. Cook: In the
examination before Justice Mack, on
Monday, Haskell plead guilty in part
of the charge, and was committed to
Jail in default one thousand five hundred
dollars bail.
Comanche Couaty.-Chief: Comanche
county wants hog law, but the judge
refused to grant the order because the
petition did not set out the bounds in
accordance with the statute.--There
isa spirit evinced by our farmers this
year to try new seeds, and new lmple-
ments to cultivate with. -MHny FAR
mers are planting corn but there are
few who have not made any prepara-
tons, thinking they will have plenty OF
time--The wheat is looking. green.
and if nothing happens to it, the crop
will be the largest ever raised In the
county,---The horny>handed pursue
the traditional even terror. Corn plant.
ing is going bravely on The acreage
OF wheat, oats and other small grain is
very largely increased over last year.
This is not astonishing when we re-
member the heavy yield last season on
some farms. of forty bushel OF wheat,
one hundred and fifty bushels OF oats to
the acre "A greenback club a. orr
ganized at Pleasant Hill church, on the
evening of the 9th instant, with nine
members. J W. B ,nner was chosen
president, Parson W Bates, vice-presi.
dent, and X. Drvin secretary. The
club meets on Wednesday night.