The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-02-02

| Ham gang OF land forgers, is on trisl
| before Justice Neil ---Saturday night
The Capital threaten was reopened un,
/ der the management of Frank How
ard q Co,-The frequent robberies
| occurring IN our city nightly are the
/ natural consequences of the fearful
crisis through which We are passing
/ We use the word passing adyised.y, for
we believe that the night is far spent"
and bright day about 10 dawn
C6ryeR County -Gatesyiile sun. BAR.
mes Holloway of Eagle Springs, was ad
judged lnnatic on Thursday last, and
is now confined in jail. until it can be
I ascertained whether there Is vacancy
I in the asylum at Austin Before and
/ during his trial he attracted quite a
crown by his preaching the gospe as he
called it.--CouDty court for civil bust
ness has been in session during the past
week Much probate business was dis
posed of.----The Leon river has been
up fo- weeks-Public sentiment is
. favorable to the repeal Of the local ops
/ ton w--The subject o. organizing a
reading room is being sgitated. --Cot-
ton gins throughout the county are
kept constantly busy and while ginning
j. going on cotton keeps coming in.
6atesyille has a surplus of cotton Just
now. We counted over ninety bales in
one yard.
Hia0d t0entg-Flag Our calaboos
has phoeHxed, and ia now ready for
accommodation of guests This time it is
two stories high, with court house on
top--New houses are going up in
Mineoia every day, and yet we have no
empty ones. New families come in as
fast as the houses are built, and owners
realize handsome profits on their in
vestments-Ac car load OF INN grants
from Alabama, disembarked at this
place Thursday. and will make this
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 a mutual
protection association. Tor the purpose
of guarding against parties who " i'll not
pay their debts
wilson Coaafy.-But few of the feaths
cred tribe have digported themselves in
the waters of Wilson county this easoa.
| The failure OF duck crop is esteemed
little less than calamity by those who
art fond of cunning The regular
term of the commissioners caurt will
be held at Floresville on the second
Tuesday in February Mr. Haywood
BrabAn, well known to the citizens OF
Wilson county, has been appointed
superintdent and treasurer of the penis
Tertiary. Hawkins, one OF the
prisoners who escaped from jail, charged
with the theft of cattle, went home and
arranged his bond, and returned to
Floresvills Tuesday. and surrendered
himself 10 the authorities Tho finc
weather for q few days past, has given
the farmers An opportunity 10 SOW their
spring wheat, and other kinds OF small
grain, the putting in of which has been
I delayed by the excessive and continued
/ raines.
Galveston County --0a the Goth ultimo.
I ME- Frank Gardoni shot Mrs Brandon.
colored woman, with small sized
single barreled pistol. The ball pene>
trsted the cheek. and glancing around
this bones lodged under the skin, hack
Of the right ear. The cause of the
shooting was supposed 10 be Jealousy.
Mrs. Gardoni 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. "A SCISSOR
Mccormick gives these figures in refer
eBce 10 the increase of the county re-
venue for 1877: Tax collected on $40.
| go 3i4 assessment for 1873, sos, l2l u
7 - axflaat.a
for 1877. Sl02, $50 90. The excess OF
the tax for 1877. the result OF his assess
ment, over that for 1876. is found TO be
$S7 1853 i6.--Mr. Mccormick states
that taxpayers are rendering very
promptly this year, the number OF inyen.
tories reaching over 800 to date,
Harris t9sogg--Telegram Active
preparations are being made for the ans
nual Purim ball. Either the 2Ist or
the 18th of February will be decided
upou as the day on which it will be held.
The city and gas company, are hay-
ing trouble, and the citizens are desirs
Gus of a compromise between the two
| corporations. During the past week
the receipts of cotton over the Texas
| and New Orleans railroad was I25s
baies.--Mr. T. w. House slaughtered
last week one hundred and eley en- full
! grown hogs, for consumption on his
Arcola plantation. Mr.. House says he
will not have TO purchase any bacon or
hog meat during the coming year The
saving In raising hogs is immense, and
and the cost OF feeding them but trihing.
III ne were TO purchase this supply Il
would cost $500 nice little sum these
hard times. -The Age says. DR.. Kayan.
sugh has been demonstrating 20 the
people of Houston that electricity has
more to do with the motions of the
heavenly bodies than gravitation
Graysoa Ct,.rfy SUNDAY night. be
tween seven and eight o'clock Rev.
| Robert McKsmey, an old and highly
respected citizen of Whitesboro, heard
a noise in his meat house Getting q
candle he went oni. accompanied BY his
little grandson. Arriving ct tile nea,
house door. he banded the light to the
little boy and stepped in Just As be
stepped inside the DOR he was stabbed
three times. once in the shoulder and
twice in the breast, the two latter reach.
ing HIS heart and producing instant
death. After the stabbing q white man
ran out, followed by negro woman, q
servant of Mr.. McKemey's. He was
seen q little while before the murder. TO
60 over the back fence Of Mr.. Mex amey :
yard. Matthews ID young man about
twenty-five or threA years of ge, and
tina SON Of blacksmith. The negro
| woman admitted that Matthews was ia
the habit Of coming TO zee her. and Was
| the person who committed the murder
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