The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-26
Houston A. Texas Central II. II.
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

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There was very little improvement
In the receipts OF wheat yesterday, TN
receipts being about four hundred AM
twenty-five bushels,
There was nothing OF Importance
transacted In the district court yester
day. The county court IL not IN ses
sion nj present,
Marshal Morton will sell the loos'
hogs that have been impounded, n
Duncan's stock yard, on Elm street
Tuesday evening at 4 o'clock.
Sheriff Moon left lust night FOL
Plano TO bring back aprisoner that
had been caught ut that place, for the
theft Of n wagon In this county.
"A fair quantity OF hay was on the
market yesterday, The spring grasses
have reduced the price some, yet those
Offering Insist on eight dollars ton.
AT the LeGrand hotel yesterday
morning, Justice McIiure united II
marriage Alonzo l.. Steele and Misi
Mary ii Rawls, both OF Limestone
county.
"A number OF delegates en- route
for Atlanta, Georgia, TO attend the gen.
eral conference ofthe Methodist III is'
copal church south, passed through the
city yester day.
Mr.. Wheelock, the railroad ticket
agent, has moved his office east o
where II formerly was in the LeGranc
hotel building, where no has fitted W
an elegant office.
The liver being the largest ant
most important gland In the system
what affects II must affect all others
To keep iis action natural use Home
Stomach Bitters.
"A man named Graf, charged witt
having threatened the life Of one Free
mouth, was tried In Justice McLuree
court yesterday, but there being M
evidence against him, he was dis
charged.
The trial OF Samuel Pipes and AL
bert Herndon, charged with being OK
press robbers, was to have come uI
this evening before Justice Mcclure,
but will in all probability be continued
until Saturday.
Thirty or forty Odd Fellows from
Denton came In on the Wichita road
at half.past six o'clock yesterday even
ing. About as many more will arrive
at twelve O'Clock to-day. They come
to participate In the picnic at the lake,
We are requested to call the at
tention of the authorities to the pools
on Ross avenue. The one at the cor.
ner Of Griffin street is about six inches
deep, and the water green with decom.
spoition. The people In the neighbo
hood fear the generation OF disease.
From gentleman living below
this place, 1t is learned that the fish in
the Trinity, some three miles below
here, rs well as those in the smaller
creeks, are fast dying. The cause OF
this is not known, though it is sup.
posed that the water has been pois.
oned.
The lecture OF Bishop Garrett, last
evening, at the hall Of the Young
Mems Christian association, on Mo
manned, was attended by good.
sized and appreclative audience. The
speaker handled his subject in his
usual able and happy STYLE and wa.
listened to with marked attention b,
his hearers.
Trains for the picnic at Long,
lake to-day, given by the l. o. o. T.
will leave the Dallas aud Wichita
depot at 9:3O'and 10 o'clock a. M, 2,
2:3O, 3, $3.50 and 4 o'clock pm. Re-
turning, leave the lake at 8 and $3.50 p.
m. Trains for the dance, at night,
leave the city at $3.50, 8 and ll:2O. Re-
turn at IL, II and l o'clock.
1t Is generally admitted by those
engaged in ferreting out the train rob.
bers that Sam Bass Ia the head and
leader OF the gang, and that he, to.
gether with Underwood and Jackson,
are still In the cross timbers In Denton
county. What course Major Jones
and Lieutenant Peak or the detectives
mean to pursue Is not known. Should
Lieutenant Peaks command meet the
Bass party lively fight will most Ger.
tainly ensue. Yet Bass Is too willy to
put himself in fighting range with
them.
"A negro man named John Skaggs,
charged with being an accomplice Of
the Bass gang, was arrested In Denton
yesterday morning, by the sheriff OF
that county, and turned oyer to squad
OF Lieutenant Peaks men, headed by
7. Rice, late deputy sheriff of this
county. Rice and squad left Denton
with the negro In charge, coming this
way, and although, they had ample
time In which to have arrived at this
place, they had not done 80 up to a |
late hour last night, and the SUPPOSE
ton Is, that the negro Is prisoner |
In their camp. He is known to have |
carried Bass notes and brought notes |