The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-30
THE STATE OVER,

lMLmm C6mnL--E aminor; Mr..
Warren Patterson has boy seven
months old who hns cut four teeth
and can talk aud wnik, -- Major
White il pushing the waterworks with
great vigor Engines and machinery
have been located on the river bank,
reservoir Is being built and corps
Of workmen are putting down the pipes
throughout the lire limits,
ENs County Enterprise; The county
convention will meet at the courthouse
In WaxohOchie on Saturday the Och Of
July, at II o'clock in the morning ----
Crop reports from all sections of the
county continue favorable. The late
warm weather has started cotton to
growing beautifully, and there il every
indication now that our farmers will be
well paid for their labor this year.
Ru8k ComtH-Ilenderson Beacon
For several weeks past large droyes Of
cattle have been driven through our
town. westward bound.--rhis region
was blessed with bounteous shower
of rain on Saturday afternoon last,
fully rs much as was desired by our
farmers, Gardens present beautiful
appearance, and the prospects for
abundant crops are more ilattering than
for years,
RATS ComtH-Marlin Ball We learn
that another assassination has disgraced
our county. The news of the murder
reached town Tuesday, to the effect
that Reverend j. j, Davis a resident Of
Mustang prairie, in the eastern part of
the county, was found lying dead in the
public road shot by unknown parties.
Mr.. Davis was one Of the most promi-
nent men in, that section, Baptist
minister and delegate to the county
convention.
GraySoa CoUty-News Colonel Will
Lambert, aid. deScamp to Governor
Hubbard, is here in the interest Of the
encampment OF all the Texas military
az Houston. q hail storm in
Lamar county last week, the ground
was covered with hail oneShalf foot
deep. A child was killed by the hail
and one man severely injured, We
learn from Mr., Thomas Powell, who re-
turned Monday evening from Dexter,
that terrific hail storm occurred at
that place Sunday evening The storm
extended over Il piece OF ground six
miles long and about four miles wide,
and completely destroyed orchards and
the growing crop. Even fences were
demolished, and nearly all the window
ponae in Dnytnr brokan
Victoria C0mN-Advocate On Satur-
day last the Advocate was presented
with a mammoth fig, we'll ripened, the
first of the season. The zig measured
four and a half inches in length, was
eight inches IN circumference and
weighed FIVE ounces.--On Friday the
young graceless colored scamp, Willis
Fields, who in open court plead guilty
of the rape of Theresa Shindler, young
white girl, was convicted to term OF
forty years in the penitentiary. OH
Wednesday Mr.. C. Lackner sent to this
office curiosity in the shape Of a mods
crate sized potato through which two
thrifty looking stalks OF cocoa grass are
growing. The cocoa apparently found
the potato in its way and grew through
it without difficulty, The distance
penetrated is about an inch, and the
strange relation existing between them
does not seem to have affected the
growth OF either, as both look vigorous
and thrifty.--This week the district
court now in session in this city, has
been devoted to the trial of criminal
cases. The following convictions to the
state penitentiary were had Jim Bish'
op, burglary, four years; John Williams,
theft of geldng, five years; Abram Eds
monds, theft Of hog, one year; Alex
Lewis, theft of mare, five years-new
trial granted; Willis Fields, rape, forty
years,