The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-09
Texas News Items.

| TINS year amounts 10 ONCT oV,VVO
bushels.
The preliminary trial of the alleged
mur'erers of old man Mnckey, in
Comanche county, cost the State
1870.
Petrolca is the name of new "in-
FAINT wonder" village in Tarrant |
county.
The English immigrants who stop |
ped about Wcimar have gone mostly |
10 Guadalupe county.
A large colony moves from Pciroba |
Pennsylvania, to Tarrant county.
Disease is among the shecpin West
ern Texas. Many have died of II.
Most of the English immigrants
who arrived at Wcimar recently have
settled at Seguin.
DIR. j. A. Forbes, of Round Rock,
who went to Memphis TO attend vel
low fever sufferers, died in that city.
Another hero TO add to the list.
Mayor Neal, of Scguin, is about to
bring suit for the recovery of the
land upon which the town is located.
The blood of Ireland win he aroused
and the burgesses will be out in their
might.
| The high price of quininc is being
much complained of throughout the
State. The scarcity is due TO wars
now going on between Indian tribes
in the quinine country of South
America. They have shipped no
bark in six months.
A man named Williams, in Bas-
trop county, locked up his wife whom
he suspected of iniidelity; she man
aged TO get out and Williams got his
gun, loaded it, and killed the man
whom he suspected was the guilty
party and then escaped.
Mr.. Jonathan Soules, of San Saba
county, was killed by his horse run
ming away and throwing him. His
spurs caught in stirrups. and his
horse kicked and dragged him some
distance. mangling him terribly. a
gentleman, who was with him, over
took the horse, caught him, and cut
the saddle from him. But il WIS too
late. The poor man was so terribly
manglcd, that he died that night.
The Brennan Banner calls atten-
ton TO matter which should be
corrected by the next Legislature. II
frequently happens that sheritls and
other legal sales made in pursuance
of written notices posted on court
house doors are unattended save by
spectators VINO make u business of
buying property in this way, and the
party at whose instance the proper
~ is sold. Such parties are general
ly satisfied if enough is realized to
pay their claim, and thus valuable
property is often sold for a mere
song. The only remedy is to cause
all such sales to be advertised in
newspapers which find their way to
the greatest number Of people in the
county where the property is to be
sold.
MURDER OF CAPT. KILLoUGH.-
The follwing particulars of the muir
der of Capt. |. q. killough are from
a special to the Ne,cS. On Wednes-
day afternoon as Capt. killough in
company with his wife and little son,
was returning from his farm to La
Grange, he was suddenly assailed by
John ID. Hunt, and Bird Moore, son
of w. Ii. Moore, and without word
, the former shot and killed him.
Nine buskshot entered his right side,
just below the shoulder and came
out ON the left side, bespattering his
, wife and child with blood. II. j.
Moore and Bird Moore were arrest
: ed and taken to La Grange rs access
, series to the murder. John ID. Hunt
; has not been captured. This is the
most horrible murder ever commit
ted in Favette co Inty. C.pt. X. was
unarmed and in his shirt sleeves, hc
was stopped near the six-milc post
on the Ledbetter road by the two
Moores and Hunt. Without word
Hunt presented his pistol and fired.
a Red River ChOcttaw Indian re-
Gently bought mahogany table in a
North Texas town, carried it TO his
wigwam, turned the legs up, nailed
on cleats and spread over them a buff
falo hide.
, Last Friday night C.. Il. Iloadly,
n white teacher of negro school in
Wallace Prairie, was taken from his
ONE and severely whipped by Il
band of disguised men. We learn
from very good authority that the
mob was composed of colorcd men
who wero incensed at liOadly init
macy with the wife of the colorcd
man with whom he was boarding.
Ndrdsota IdJiet.
Frank CLANCY, one ofour subscrib-
ers at lola, writes us that on last
! Monday while gathering corn with
, :. Wooten and a freedman named
Dock Williams, on II. &. Chaney's
farm near the town of lola, they
found and killed the monster rattle
I snake of the season. His snaIcship
measured eight feet three inches in
length and ten inches in circumfer-
cnce, and his fangs were an inch in
. length, but how many rattlcs our
our correspondent docs not state.
f His captors, knowing the powerful
healing qualities of the oil of rattle
snake, extracted one pint of the val
liable pain-killer from the carcass OF
: the srnke.-Ndc0sOtd TdJict.
: The derrick for an 6rtcsian well
Qifty feet high has been erected, and
: presents quite an imposing appear.
ance. The board Of directors met
this evening and passed resolutions
ordering the necessary drills, ropes
e &C., shipped Mt once Work ON the
II ground will commence in about tive
weeks,
Mr.. Shoemaker, who was thrown
from his mule on the evening of Tho
q 26th of August, and accidental,