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

party III sSherfnhn we nave heard the
particulars of the occurance and des,
cription of the two men correspond
The killing was done with billiard cue
while Gordon was drunk At FIRST the
blows were not supposed TO be fatal,
and Gordon was released on bail but
the man died, and then Gordon ran
away. A reward was offered for him.
but We believe he has never been beard
from since. He was OF good family,
and SUNDAY letter was cent TO his
father containing description and au
account of the suicide Our readers
viii hear more ii there are any new
developments
Bel County There is considerable
cotton remaining unpicked in the coun
ty, and all the corn has not been gath.
cred The protrscted spell Of bad
weather has interfered considerably
with farming operations.--Farmers
are paying considerable attention to
wheat There will be large acreage of
spring wheat sown il the weather il
propitious. The fall wheat looks -four
lshing all over the county. last
Saturday a negro rode up TO white
man who was loading wagon with
wood, on the roadside, near the Tyler
farm, and proposed trading horaes with
him. He was riding good horse, and
the man suspeetlng that he had proba-
bly, stolen him refused TO trade with
him. and the negro passed on. In few
minutes after be left, two white men
came up and made inquiries concerning
just such a negro and horse. and said
the horse was stolen. They remarked
as they passed on that they hoped he
had gone up Leon bottom Whether
he went up or not, we have not heard |
Lampasas County --Dispatch Lam,
pasas county has been able to furnish |
the people of San Saba, Brown, CO. |
aud several other counties with |
an abundance of corn at from twentys
i've TO forty cents hushel. Besides |
that, many hundred bushels have been |
sent to the government forts, as far as |
one hundred snd fifty to two hundred |
miles We have now on hand a great |
abundance for home consumption, and |
10 supply the wants of newcomers who |
VIII settle in our eounty.-Plowing |
has begun now in earnest. But little |
had been done before on account of bad |
weather. but now it has dried off, and !
The lands are getting in good eondi- |
ion fei pioSing, aud the people are at |
It with will. A much larger amount |
81 land will be in cultivation this year |
han ever before, and the improvement |
n the manner OF farming will insure q |
better yield than at any former period |
- The graneers had very interesting |
aud soclahle meeting at the lodge room |
"a Lanpasas on last Saturday An ele. |
sant dinner was prepared. and happy |
lay was spent by the membership--
number of new school-houses are in |
process of erection in this county.
Jack County Echo John 5. Thomas,
The jail builder, has gone TO st. Louis,
md will bring back with him the mate |
rial for the iron cage which is to be |
placed in our new jsil---Major b ?. /
Wilson, in command of detachment OF |
company Z, 10th infantry, is now in |
AT Fort Richardson sheriff |
@rutchtisld has sent two prisoners to |
Decatur Etor safe keeping-Jsmes ST. |
lair, charged with hog stealing, and |
William Hill of company l. 10th cavalry,
charged with assault with intent to |
grinding of corn in this |
county Is more than 100 per cent. greater
han last year, while the lumber trade /
) good, the mills are running night and |
lay Tom Riley who escaped from
all IN Decatur some time ago, was ar, |
'ested by Mr.. Samuel Shade and his
ION, near Weatherford, Mctiuire, I
mother one of the escaped prisoners,
vas with Riley at the time, but man
iged to get away.-Captain J f. |
Hines. in command Of detachment Of |
company B frontier battalion, have lust |
three horse thiefs Frank |
Newell. K. IL. NaEanstin and John Cor.
Ion They have been taken TO the |
Wise county Jail for safe keeping, to |
await the next term of the district |
sourt
Basfrop County Bsstrop county has |
population of 20 1000, and the town of I
bastrop has 2,5Do---The temperance |
question is being agitated by the Good |
fempiars. --Advertiser: Ca Sunday |
last, Laurence Marshall was |
killed by his step>son, Houston, under |
The following circumstances. The step
ather. who is represented as worth-
ess gambler, was in the habit of squan-
fering all the earnings Of his wife and |
step>children, forcing the wife by mis-
treatment to give him her hard earn
ngs, to which the boy, some eighteen
Or nineteen years old, objected and re- /
wheIeat the father struck /
him Aith the round of chair the boy. |
running from him, was pursued. and |
the chair Found thrown after him, which |
5he boy picked up. The father, still |
oeisuing, threw an ak at the boy, who |
pitched the chair round over his sGoul- |
Ter, the end striking Laurence on the |
bead fracturtng his skull, from which |
le died on Tuesday night. The killing |
> considered unsuitable, Kidding the
community of worthless, tneddlesome |
legro, whose chic: pursuit was gambling /
md demoraliziBg the negroes around I
1in. AT least saeh is represented by |
hose who know.
Berja Coltnty. ga the 2ith inst nj
he body OF well dressed Mexican.
evidently one Of the more favored of /
ais nationality, was discovered lying IN |
he ehapparel about TWO miles west of
Nat Lewis rancho, and about nine
miles from San Antonio The only |
evidence which could be obtained at
he inquest was the testimony of the
Mexican who discovered the body and /
the position and general appearance of
The body From bill OF sale i, would 1
appear that the deceased was Don |
Marcos Escalante Why he was MUIR
Tered, and by whom, Is one of the many
mysteries incident To frontier life. Ii /
le was a horse thief, then it was an act |
of from tier Justice IT he was not a
horse thief, then everything points TO
The fact that he was murdered by des-
oeradoes who wanted his horse. -
Fish were never so plentiful az last |
now. Thewater in the irrigation bitches
aas been cut of. and old and young are /
having soft thing of it catching the |
'naH trout and catfish which have been
spawned and are grown TO nice size /
or eating. All the main bitches have |
\ great many fish in them.
Nay perxcns think their kidneys are per-
affected, whereas. tho tae; Is on /
account of the liver being inactive, they ars |
,niy enthusiastically 80. to prove which |
use Home stomA n Filters.
An Item for Ambsftoas single Ladies'.
There are over thirty unwedded |
Diplomats at Washington, including