The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-30
TEXAS TOPICS.

few days ago.
They have com uencod to sow wheat in
Montague county.
Died, on thu 9th inst DR.. Harry Young,
Of Hunt county.
The German Methods! conference is in
session at Brenham.
Wood sold last week at Tyler, for three
and four dollars cord.
Sweet potatoes are selling at fifteen cents s
bushel in Montague county.
Married at Waco last week, Mr.. j. N.
Patrick to Miss Miranda T. Iilard.
Several deaths ara reported in different
portions of the state from exposure.
Married, near Lindale, last week, Mr..
". G. Gatteys to Mrs. NJ. A. Sterling.
Married, in Waxshachie, Mr.. Harry Cliff,
ford to Miss L. j. Snyder, on the 22d.
About fifty hunters have gone from Deni-
son over in .he Indian Territory hunting.
Potatoes have been received by some of
the newspapers, weighing from five to sixteen
pounds.
Married, few days since, at Sherman,
Texas, Mr.. George Louis Kalb to Miss An
ME Klas
The cotton crop is considerably shortened
in Lamar county by the recent severe cold
weather
A man named Nick Carter was run over by
train and his body cut in twain near Trinity,
las. Friday.
Rev. Mr.. Hodges, an eyangelis! from Gray
son county, has been holding tent meetiags
in Montague.
The accidental discharge of a gun in the
hands of Il negro killed another negro in Har-
ri;on county Thursday.
Several well executed counterfeit silver
dollars were passed at Terrell during the
early part of last week.
A! San AntoaiO, last week. Mr.. +. Beau
mont ard Miss Olive Graves were united in
the holy bonds of wedlook.
Several thousand bales of cotton have been
lost in the fields in Washington county,
owing to the bad weather.
There are over 200 conyicts on the
prison rolls, the bulk of whom are at worl;
on plantations and railroads.
The cattle and hogs 10 the neighboThood
of San Antonio are in excellent order, and
have plenty of good shelter.
One hundred and seventy immigrants ar.
rived at TexarkanN Friday, and from that
point scattered over the state.
VIM. Bratcher has Just been sent to the
pepitentiary at Sherman, for two years, for
forging the names o. Ganter " Munson to q
S25 check.
A man by the name Of Lee Preston got
ono Of his fingers so badly mashed while at
work at the Paris If n works, that it had to
be amputa!ed
A couple Of cotton buyers got into q little
musS one day last week ut Austin. and one
of them got his head punched, to the detri.
ment Of the others hand.
A double wedding took place few days
ago near Dewitt county, when both couples
were united at the same time, the same oero
mony serving for both parties.
THE epizootic Las broken ont in Austin
Saturday morning horse bel -nging TO one
Of the livery stables wss taken sick and dice
with every symptom o. the disease
The sugar yield on the Brazos river and
Oyster creek is one and half to two hogs
heads per acre, ald the whole crop will BE-
taken of by the middle of next week.
Last Sunday car lood of cotton was fired
BY passing engine while watering at tank
near Terrell. Fifty-eight bales of cottor
changed form and was void. It was insured
A girl about fourteen, and young mar
not much over sixteen years Of age, passed
through Denison last week, for cover thu
river" their minds on matrimony bent. They
were from Bonham.
Mr.. Jerry Ellis, of San Antonio has jus
returned from trip to Laredo, and say
there were heavy losses of sheep down tina
way by the recent cold snap. There were 90
outof one flock lost.
Much corn remains ungathered around Sal
Antonio, and is worth in the ear about fit,
cents per bushel; oats from forty to fifty cent
per bushel; wood very scarce, and bringin,
from three TO four dollars cord.
A Mexican, named Bis Guttierez, ha
been arrested and charged with the murde
of the Mexican whose body was found nea
San Antonio few days ago. A woman i
said to be at the bottom of the matter.
r. J. Boykin, Jr., who is only nineteen
years old, has boom arrested and Jailed fol
killing William Broadnsx, at Cameron, las
week. The excitement is SO high that tue
Jail is strongly guarded TO protect him from
violence.
There was cowardly attemrt made las
week to burn an entire block in the northerl
portion OF the city at Tyler. The act aroused
considerable indignation, and if the partie
tat made the attempt could be notified it i
ligely they would find it rather warm.
About fifteen hundred bales of cotton hav
been shipped from San Antonio this season
Labor Is so scarce that farmers have bee
enabled to get only about three-!ourths o
their crops picked, though they have bee
offering one dollar per hundred pounds, an
board.
The gas company at San Antonio notifies
the city last week that the use of street lamp
would have to be stopped temporarily o.
accour' he scarcity of fuel. The ear,
and pr d cold weather has caused n
unusus .avy demand on coal mines, an
has prev, d wood-choppers from keepin
up a supply.
There is now in San Antonio private sol
der of Captain Rlndalps company, Eight
cavalry, who Is ambitious to rise in tn
world. For seven years he has been a men
Der Of the company and has studied hsr
all the WHILE He is now on his way 10 o.
tend college in the state of Iowa. II
name il William Adams.
Maior Pena is booked for another moetin
in Bell county, and the infdes there hay
made queer challe' &C. They propose tbs
twenty. five of their number listen TO eac