The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-06-21
TEXAS NEWS.

The Corsicana flea crop this year i.
said tn be abundant. 1t is one tia
never fails.
The other day a stock man nance
Hagler was shot in Erath county b!
another stock man named Davidson
| A young man, Jackson Smith, sho
by a mob in C"ryell county, died "
the night Of the 9th ultilno.
At its late sitting, the grand jury
If Grayson county made a clraI
sweep, and indicted every man VII,
had not paid his occupation tax up t.
Apri! /.
A few miles from Dallas. the Other
night, while Mrs. Massh was sitting
near her window, an unknown part
threw a rock through the window,
striking her 90 the head aud kuOck-
ing her down insensible.
Lreper, arrested for the late dread
iul assassination If q father aud lii
s"n in CoryeII county, tried to get of
by proving aIibi by three witnesses
The magistrate couldn't ere it, and
remanded Leeper without bail.
In Terrell, the other day, a five.
foot c"achwhip snake created sensa.
ton by crawling into an ice cream
saloon among a number If young Ia.
dies, wl'"se screams frightened lie
anakesl'ip into a hasty retreat. HI
was finally killed.
John Sc"tt has been arrested At
E|m" nI"n the complaint "f Ma.
josie Gr"rge, who WAS sh"t a few
nights az" She says he was the
msn VII" atten' pied her assassination.
Scott wanted ~ marry the widow aud
was rejected.
Saturday last, doring . rain storm,
the lightning struck tree in the
snhn,bs If Ans in. Two ponies nj
its root we,e instantly killed, and a
negro riding near by WA knocked
from his horse srnseless. The ground
was torn up at the foot If the tree.
H"nston Telegram Between the
ages If 8 and IL there arc Of Texas
children twenty 10 every hundred
who cannot read or write and, Of the
c"I"rrd population, sixty Oat Of every
hundred. OF Te1as white childreu
between the ages mentioned, there
are $1,000 who cannot. 81
Gen. Waiter P. Lane Of Marshall,
has bren appointed Land Commits
si"ner, to l"catc the land for thu new
Capitol and has accepted the position,
Governor Roberts never made a bet.
ter or more acceptable appointment,
and he hooored himself by confsrrine
this place On the gallant old hero,
and chivalr"ns gentleman, Walter p.
Lane.-(Sao Antonio Courier.
A dreadful aud most cowardly %.
saesiWation haa Wccursed in Cnrrvell
cOnnty, seven miles from Gatesville
An intensive man and q gc"d citi.
zen, W. F. Smith, aud his little s",',
a deaf mute, at night went s"me dis
lance from tho house to stake 4
l"rse. They we're fired upon BY
unknown parties. Smith aud hil
s"n we're both shot iu the abdomer
and fatally wounded. A man named
L+epsr has been arrested on suspi'
ciOn.
Dallas Herald and Commercial d
the 9th: 1t continues dry. NJ raft
.incs tho 6rst week 10 May. Report'
from all the connties are Uniform, tha
good season would be very accepta
ble to everything and to every b'dy,
Crops are not actually suffering, bul
it is feared corn will prematurely tas
sel unless relieved in Z few days
which would prevent tie maturity .
a full grown ear. The progress. q
everything is necessarily claw uods
the circumstances. Wheat bas beer
harvested. Tie clear dry weatle'
hss been very favorable to securing
the crop 10 splendid condition. There
bat been ample time to have ever!
bnehel housed. Gotten lmks we'll
though that too, would I've greatl!
| benefited and receive g.'od srnd~"f
by a rain at TIM time. Al rule, fl''
lands Of North Texas ate so rich AM
loamy, they retain m"isture Is KIN!
time. And hence it takes . long
drought to seriously effect it's crop.
To s0m up, wo are not hurt yet al
though 10 some danger. a.
Dallas, June 7.-Report comes frou
Denton county that Jamrs Murphy
the betrayer IT the Sam Bsss gang "
railroad robbers, died IN great agony
If prison, At home yeat~rday. H
has lived . life of terror since hi
trrachery, sleeping in Jail or unde
guard for safsty. Unde, wood AM
Jacksou, The only remaining know
mrml~ra 1t the gang, were eeen I
the oeighln,rh.s,d the day l,ef"r
Murphy's death, and To-day on Gran
ip,sirir, 20 rou,s 70 nssico, Whrr
MocIe's buys are to jnin them. TIL
tan.,rt c0n,ea FINN tom different n0nrC