The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-09
TEXAS NEWS.

EffOrtS ATf DelLE LIlHa6 W doop5ll WIG 6aL"A1
sas bar off Rockport.
The m,,ssals In the Jlano river are pearl
bearing.
Harrison county has just sent nineteen
conviets to the penitentlary.
The flour mills throughout the State are
crowded with work grinding the new wheat:
silver mine has been discovered on Walk
ers creek, In Bandera county.
Levi Grover and Miss Lizzie MCGOWAN, OF
Paris, committed suicide on thursday OF last
week.
Tramwayg ore being constructed through
the sWanps iii Orange county, for conveying
timber to the Louisiana Western road.
Miss Jeanette Kirk was elected by the clti..
zens Of Denison to personate the Goddess Of
Liberty ON the Foutth.
Grass in many places Ia San Patricio is
burned out But for the mesquite beans, Of
which there appears TO be- IN abundant crop,
stock would now be- perishing BY Wholesale.
The Franklin Herald says dIsease prevails
among the cattle III Van Zandt county which
causes decomposition to set in before the mn
NAL is dead, and the hide to be perfectly rotten
rs soon rs the animal dies.
Andy johnson, Waller county convict, es-
capped from the poor farm Sunday last He
hid himself and sent and had q cOloTed friend
make s. reward Of, the county for catehlng
him. 1t WAS played hne, ana Lne lnOney Wiss
made
A young man named Hughes was waylaid
and shot III Hamilton county last week, by q
seif-organized band Of citizens. 1t Is said the
young man was "a suspicious character, put
1t is not known that ne had done anything
justifying the coWardly manner IN which Ills
life was taken.
A conflict occurred Tuesday night, near
Uvalde, between two Mexicans In possession
of stolen cattle, and party OF trallers from
the Frio. Some forty shots. were fired, the
parties being only o few yards apart, but the
darkness prevented aim. Mr.. Avant received
an ugly wound on the hand. and It is sure one
or both Of the Mexicans were wounded.
Mr.. Hawp, Eho resides some i've g. miles sa
northwest Of Dallas, was forced TO ehootna
fine horse of his on Monday evening, owing to
his going mad The animal was bitten some
two nlonlhs since by q rabid dog, though ! n {,
blood was brought by the bite. Saturday
sanity by biting itself On the side and legs.
and Swapping at everything that came Within
reach. Il bit a COW that was In the lot with It,
and three or four hogs, all OF which Mr.. Hawp
has since killed. The rabd animal chased him
from the lot several times, and Monday even
Ing he shot II.
Dallas by Al. Dye. died last week. Dye had
just come into Dallas city with load OF
vegetables, and while riding through the
street was assaulted by johnson, and beaten
over the head with D loaded whip. Dye en-
deavored to drive away from johnson, but
the latter being mounted on Q horse followed
up and continued striking Dye, who took 9
pistol from his saddlebags, which lay Id the
wagon, and shot Johnson through the head,
from the effects OF which he died. Dye was
arrested, and, after the death OF johnson, was
examined and discharged, the evidence show
Ing clearly that Dye was Justified ~ shooting
his assailant
Mr.. "A. Bolton. while rowing on the river
Monday afternoon, near Bolton, WAS shot at
from the bank by m unknown party. Three
shots were fired, one taking effect just above
the knee, passing through the leg.
At the eooredl peoples church. o Sunday
through the window, he was shot through
the back. He was taken home and pr. Fuller
called, who probed the wound and found the
ball had passed under the shoulder blade,
and that it could not be taken out, Two
more shots were fired in the church by the
same parties, supposed to be white. It seems
they Were trying to shoot some one inside
party Of colored boys returned the fire, and
about thirty five shots were exchanged One
Negro, was shot in tile hand. Those In the
church found their way out In q hurry.
Corpus Christi Ledger: An expre5sman left
Garlic on last Tuesday, and arrived at San
Diego about II O'Clock on Thursday. asking
fer immediate assistance to prevent the
r hanging, by an Infatuated mob of Mexicans, OF
Benjamin Dix, the son of Mr.. Theodore $.
Dix of Carrie, for the killing of q Mexican
The father and some friends, at the time OF
the departure Of the express were using their
best endeayDrS to prevent the lynching, the
MeSicans vowing vengeance and swearing
that they would hang the father first and the
son afterward. At San Diego the messenger
was furnished with fresh horse, and pushed
rapidly on to Lagarto for the purpose Of
communicating the news TO Mr.. O. L. Dix, a
brother and uncle Of the parties in trouble.
The latter soon collected q party and returned
via San Diego, where he was joined by nine
others, making total OF twenty-five 10 the
crowd bound for Garlic. The commission
ers' court Of Duval county was In session at
the time, but the members did not wait for q
formal adjournment Of the court by the Judge,
or stand upon the order OF their going, but
j went. News OF trouble Is expected