The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-31
THE STATE OVER.

HcLennaa COmty--Examiner The
weather continues very fine the roads
are all in fair condition again, and bus
siness is good The benefit given the
guards by the Stoddart company was n
success in all respects. --District court
has adjourned, having been in session
only five weeks. "A Sherman hotel
keeper went to Waco in search of his
wife who eloped last week with Mex>
lean cook, leaving her four children be-
hind He found them a. hotel, where
she, working as chambermaid was
making enough money to pay her own
board and lodgingand that Of her dusky
paramour. The woman refused posts
lively to return with her husband.
Turaat Comtg--A car containing
forty bales of cotton was destroyed by |
fire on the 2Sth instant, at Fort Worth.
The cotton belonged to c. p. Smith, OF
Baltimore. Loss estimated at 81 500.
Forty car loads of salt received by
one house in Fort Worth. The Fort
Worth Evening Journal just made !
appearance. c, Ii. Warren is
city editor of the Fort Worth Standard.
The attorney OF Tarrant county had
u personal alteration with tlournoy,
one OF the local editors of the Standard
on account of an article which appeared
in the Standard. No bones broken,
however. The question of water
works is being agitated at Fort Worth
lrauis Colu,ty.--The Austin board Of
trade are moving in the matter OF con
structing an elevator in that city. -
Gazette A couple Of young men made
up a plan to rob the Casino threaten,
but were frustrated when they attempt
ed to carry their plan into execution
The Central pay car paid out over
$4,000 to citizens OF Austln.----lh
Methodist Sunday>school is the largest
in the city having membership OF one
hundred end ninety~siX. - A man
named Johnson said to be one OF the
Ham gang of land forgers, is on trial
before Justice Neill.--Saturday night
the Capital threaten was reopened UNI
der the management of Frank How
ard u Co.---The frequent robberles
occurring in our city nightly are the
natural consequences of the fearful
crisis through which we are passing.
We use the word passing advlsedly, for
we believe that the might ia far spent
and Il bright day about to dawn
Lampasas County.-Dispatch LamN
rasas county has been able to furnish
the people of San Saba, Brown, Cos
manche and several other counties with
an abundance of corn at from twenty
five to forty cents bushel, Besides
that, many hundred bushels have been
sent to the government forts, rs Tar as
one hundred and fifty to two hundred
miles We have now on hand great
abundance for home consumption, ana
to supply the wants Of newcomers who
will settle in our county.
has begun now in earnest But little
had been done before on account OF bad
weather, but now it has dried OIL and
the lands are getting in good condi-
ton fol ploSing and the people are at
it with will. A much larger amount
Of land will be in cultivation this year
than ever before, and the Improvement
In the manner of farming will insure q
better yield than at any former period
The grangers had very interesting
and sociable meeting at the lodge room
in Lampasas on last Saturday. An ele'
CANT dinner was prepared, and q happy
day was spent by the membership
A number Of new school>houses are in
process Of erection in this county.
Bis,rgp County Bastrop county has a
population of 10000, and the town oil
Rastrop has 2.j00.-The Temperance
question is being agitated by the food
Templars Advertiser. On sunday
morning last, Laurence Marshall was
killed by his step-son, Houston, under
the following circumstances. The step
iaiher, who is represented as WORTH
less gambler, was in the habit OF sqilan'
dering all the earnings Of his wife and
siepSchildren, forcing the wife by mis-
treatment to give him her hard earn
ines, to which the boy, some eighteen
or nineteen years old, objected and re
monstrated, wheTeat the father struck
him sith the round Of chair the boy
running from him, was pursued, anc
the chair round thrown after him, which
the boy picked up. The father. still
Pursuing, threw an aSat the boy, who
pitched the chair round over his snoul
der. the end striking Laurence on Thu
head. irac,uring his skull, from which
he died on Tuesday night The killinI
Il considered jusiifia0le, Kidding thu
community Of worthless, meddlesom'