The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-10
EXAS TOPICS.


Gonzales county.
Tha appointment OF the sehool i"no w
Austin county is S70l4.
Cotton worms are doing great dsmaso !"
the fields il Walker county.
The thermom TOR resched lo5.ln the snsde
Mt Gainesville on tne LIST lust
All the schools public aud private
onened at Waco on Monday last'
The cattle in Western Texas arc roi'''s
fat, and the grass exceedingly hne.
Orange trees are doing well In victoria
county, and bearing delicious iru"'
The Gulf Colorado tS Santa re railroad
will reach Bolton by December first.
The COM lies county Jail now has eleven
;,n,stss inclu ling one insane person.
Victori4 is about to organize a gun ciuo
and demolish glass balls by the oarrel'
Tho army worm has stripped most of the
ootton in Austin county of its foliage
n F.son and Miss Mary Long, both
of Titus county, we're married asst week.
r,,col ontion was voted on and defeate at
Huntsville ON Tuesday by majority OF nine
ty-six. ~ ill.,,
The Cuff, Colorado ~ oahta ~ Ioilio"u
has located depot at Perry, in McLsnnan
county.
slvbe cultivation Of riband sugar cane has
snnavnn tn be II marked success in Marion
county.
The valuation of property in Fannin cGun
~ AZ appears from iLs assessment rolis' Is
$4,l62, 1896.
Liberty county and that section proposes
n shio their cotton this year direct 10 New
Orleans by rail.
subscription has been started for the re-
Iefof the sufferers by the late cyclone at
Brownsville.
Orange has eleven steam saw mills busily
running All the time, which give employment
N 3G8 hands, nd 81 SO per day the lowest
wages paid.
VIM Porter, recently of north Texas,
vss drowned Mt Ads,in, in the Colorsdon
Monday, while trying to cross the stream
horseback
The horned frog has suddenly risen in
value in CLAY county. The farmers there
saw this frog wed their cotton by destroying
the worm.
There are ffty-six public school districts
in Wood couuty. and the pro rata of the
school fund is SO per head for each chiIa
within the scholastic age.
Mr. Joe Z. Brown, Of San Saba county
vas nominated BY the Democratic conven-
ton tor the legislature for the seventyfourth
district on Tuesday last.
-Four Mexicaus in the Ataseosa county JAIL
escaped last Saturday night and had nov
been recapured at last accounts Two Oh
them we're charged with murder
The band of the First United States IN,
fantrv at San Antonio. gives the people OF
thst city every Tueaday and Thursday after
noons free omen air concerts on the Alamo
Plaza.
George Mears, charged with the murd' r of
Rntler. in Burleson county, week or TWO
400 wa, released Tuesday, at BRENNAN, on
S3 600 bond, the evidence against him Deihg
only crcumstantial.
Mis-, Addie Swindall, of Kau man county,
and Mr.. VIM. Dowell, OF Wood county, were
awsrde the scholarship TO tne I9am HOUSTON
normal school last week IN Inc hauinian
county senatorial district.
hand of thieves, ten or twelve IN NUMBER,
are committing depredations IN LaVaca
ronnty. They lie in wait for farmers return
inc home from market, where they nave
hesn to sell cotton, and rob them.
Lightning struck the residence of Mr. W
A J1,we At Tilden, on the 80 instant greatly
damaging the house, demo!ishng gun ahC
hnrlins MIR. Lowe, his wife and his fathe
across The r, IN and seriously hurting thu
two latter.
Sunday afternoon, near Marlin, Leonard
Majors. n colored boy ten years old, wa
drowned in the Brazos river, he and com
nanion getting into scutlle on the bank ant
both falling into the river. The other DO
was rescued.
Tn Menard county the cotton worm ma
done much damage, but there IS hoWswari,
ing in the fields little black pug tnat XIII
every worm they can get mold OIL Inc
have about exterminated the caterpiilar ou
they came almost too late to be OF maleriS
benefit.
Two Mexcans named Diego and Sever
MARTINEZ, traded wives at San Diego som
weeks ago. but few days since he slckene
of his bargain and wanted to rue but HI
ORIGINAL spouse demurred. Diego then GREY
q revolyer and shot her in the face. the oulIt
LODGING near the right ear, infcting serol
if not fatal wound.
Charles Vaughan, a white man, and Fran
Curtin, alias Webb, had difhcIlty
Mount Vernon, one day last week, an
Vaughan shot at Curtin twice, one she
taking effect in the right shoulder intl'ctn
nniv . slight wound. Witnesses to the a
fair say Vaughan acted on tho defensive
Thomas Drake, charged with murderin
simon Monk, on the San Antonio river,
November, 1877, has just been apprehende
bv the rangers on the Rio Grande, and wi
last week lodged in the Victoria county Js,l
Monk was called out of his house In the mig
bv some unknown person and shot aes
and circumstances point to Drake as II
guilty party.
On the evening of the 9th instant six prlso
ers confined in the Coleman county JAIL owe
powered the jailor and his son and escape
The isilor's wife gave the alarm ana soon !,
least a hundred persons were in pursuit OF u
fleeing birds. In about twenty. minutes 10
of them we're recaptured, but the otner wv
John Perry convicted Of horse stealing al
awarded seven years In the penitentary; al
John Hall awaiting trial for the same oiien
succeeded, owning to the darkness, In eluoi
their pursuers.
A bel. broke in saw mill in Georgetow
on Monday last. and the end of it struck
man named Roberts across the Torches
crushing the frontal bone, destroying o
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