The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-02

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sights and examining the capabilities
Of our country, The party will remain
until Monday morning, when they VIII
depart for other points IN the state on
their special train, The first spike OF
the street railway was driven friday
The work viii now be forced 10 u speedy
completion,
MLeaHaa CoualE- Waco Register
On Tuesday last about 2 o'clock the
alarm Of fire was sounded from tue
third war engine house, and people
began rushing hllher and thlther look
inn for some indication Of the fire, and
finally II was located by u column OF
blue smoke ascending from the rear OF
Wallace n Gurleys grocery house,
where number of bales OF cotton
were discovered TO be on fire, The
llremen with their engine, and hook
ladder company were promptly on hand
and stream Of water was soon NJ
work subdnlng the llames'
Coryeie COuaty-Mr, j NJ, Davidson,
who lives near Pecan Grove tellsa Its
Ito incidents A hen on Mr., Dayidaon's
farm recently Matched brood Of chicks
ems aud eight hours after It's enlree
into the world, one of tho little roosteR
| (it must have been u rooster) was seen
and heard 10 flap its wings true rooster
fashion, and crow seven times IN Buc-
Gession ~ Justify and accurately ~ any
Ghnnticleer IN the land could have done
lust after ynnquishing rival Shanghai,
Mr., Davidson, who is u thoroughly re-
liable gentleman, is willing to make
affidavit 10 the fact The ambitious
fowl Ia still alive and we'll
Fort Bend CouuiD-The Houston Tel
egram; On Sunday afternoon man by
name of London Dubncy, notorious
colored man and well known TO the
police Of Houston, was killed ON the
place of Mrs, Taylor, now occupied by
II, G. Ferguson, colorcd, in Fort Bend
county, by n fifteen year old boy named
Jack Pierce, London took II special
delight in bullying and expressing the
boy, and had frequently got into dini-
cultics with others, always succeeding
in terroriang over them. London made
m effort TO enter room where the boy
was, after approaching tho boy in II
threatening manner when Pierce fired
putting lortysone shot in his left breast
and killing him inatantly, Tho boy
gave himself up, and upon examination
before FERGUSON, acting M coroner, he
was bound over in $500 to appear before
Magistrate McGinnis.
GrdySon ComtH-Ncws; Tho sheriff
OF Red River county, with II posse OF
three, attacked u Mississippi murderer,
named Frank Graves, for whom there
was reward OF 1850, when u lively
fight ousued. Graves horse was shot
twice in the neck badly wounding it,
but he made for the brush and mans
aged to escape The sheriff and posse
are still in pursuit ----Thomu Ratclill,
n noted horsethief of BonhLm county,
vas arrested in Denison by Constable
Spence The trial of j. d. Whitney
for assault with intent to kill Captain
Lee Hall, in Whitesboro, in April 1877
was commenced in the district court
Monday. Whitney was captured few
weeks ago in the Indian territory by
Sheriff Eyerheart, Constable Spence and
posse, Tho county commissioners
meet in Sherman on the 18th of May
The Michigan house, in sherman,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday evening.
Loss 50, 100, covered by 1000. At the
same time Greenlaw's carriage factory
and residence was burned to the ground
Loss $4,000, covered by Sll 800 in
surance
GrdySoR CO,mtH-Sherman Courier,
3Oth ultimo' This morning, Just before
two o'clock, the two-story hotel and
boarding house, situated on the north|
west corner of Houston and Branch
streets, known rs the Michigan house,
and owned and kept by Mr. II. II. Clep.
per, was discovered to be on fire, and
together with most of its contents, was
soon licked up by the fry iend AS to
the origin of the fire. Mr.. Clepper in,
forms us that he and his wife were
aroused by the smell of smoke in the
room whore they were sleeping, and
the cook room in the rear of the house
filled with smoke and flames. Within
an hour after the burning of the hotel,
a second alarm was sounded, and this
time Improved to be Greenlaw's carriage
factory, which, together with all its con.
tents, and the adjacent residence, were
soon entirely consumed. lie estimates
his loss at $4,000 and had Sll 900 in
surance on stock and building. There
were some pretty free expressions of
opinion in the crowd during the burn
ing of the factory, that the fire was the
work of an incendiary.