The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-08
TEXAS TOPICS.

TEN M EOFiNS'
Tonsolit seems to be prevailing in Gains
VILE
The tea plant is being guilty ted in Lime
stone county.
Horse thieves are plying their vocation IN
Travis couaty.
Dry weather in Lampasas county Is cau'-
ing the wells TO fail.
Sore ewes is prevalent in some sections OF
Comanche county.
The penitentiary lessees now have = JIG
convicts in their charge
The Brazos river at Waco is now very low
and the water very red.
There we're five marriage licenses Issued In
McLennan county last week.
Sweet potatoes find but limited sale in
Austin at fifty cents per OusheI'
All the bottom lands in Travis county will
wed one bale of cotton per acre.
Hogs are greatly in demand in Comsnchte
county, owing to the heavy corn crop raised
The wool market is very dull in Austin at
weak prices and very little being offered for
sale.
worse than they have been known before In
years
Mrs. John S. Johnston, of Comanche, died
few days ago while on visit to PaIo
Pinto,
On the 10th inst. the international rail-
road cars will reach San Marcos, in Hays
county.
Mrs. Knudson, wife of H. Knudson,of Co
manche, died at the residence of her husband
last week.
Never before since 1873 has there been
more sickness in Colorado county than now
prevails.
Captain Longs company of state rangers
s now stationed at Hockberry Springs, in
Mitchell county.
Judge j. R. Fleming, of Comanche, has
Just purchased | 900 head Of cattle, for which
he paid 81 900 cash.
The citizens of Ls Sale county are pre-
pairing for county organization. The county
seat will be ct Fort Ewell
Cotton picking and cotton ginning in
Coryell county is now the order of the day
and both are being pushed.
The cattle drive from Coryell county next
year will be quite small. The marketable
bovines have about all been exhausted.
Plover in Corye.l county are very plenti-
full and nimrods have all the sport they
want as we'll as elegaLt bird suppers.
An Irishman. named j. S. McGuire shot
and killed Louis Hico, in Fannin county, on
Wednesday last and then fled to parts un-
known.
j. W. Crawford, an old and highly respect
: ~ Toll u ,l,
at Spe springs, of rheumatism of the heart,
3 few days ago.
The editor of the Gatesvle Sun killed a
snake in his sanctum the other day Snakes
in assnctum are not good to have. They
are too jim-jamy.
There will be big barbecue at Hazle1el
in Comauche county, on the 18th instant,
and Hons. r. Q. Mills and j, w. Throck.
morton will deliver addresses.
Navasota keeps pace with the times and
the progression of the age. She has Just
voted municipal tax Of one,fourlh of one
per cent. for free school purposes.
Lee Ting Chinaman converted and bap.
tized at Houston last winter by Major Penn,
has cast off his queue, wears a white cravat
and wants to go to China as missionary
Charles Brooks is colOred man, and
George Powers was too, until last week they
had difficulty at Reagan and Brooks killed
Powers. Public sentiment sided with Brooks.
On the 2Srd inst Dpnison will celebrate
her ninth birthday. "The Infant Wonder
is still in swaddling clothes as it were, but
she is we'll grown for her age and = lively
young one.
There is candidate in Harrison county
~ c>- N ,ftyp off, IL Of h.
ing, declaring that only American. should bC
put upon guard Rather late in the day, il
strikes us, for such principles.
Texas can boast of at least Ave femal
printers and there may be others toiling a
the case The Henrietta Shield, Henriett'
journal, Sherman Chronicle each have one
and the Sherman Courier has two.
There was a picnic at Ennis last week ant
as none of the young men invited the youn!
ladies to 90 with them thirteen beautiful
maidens chartered an omnibus and wen
without the young men, who have beef
kicking themselves ever since.
Mr.. James jolly, while feeding a gin a
Lockhart last week, had his hand caught i
the saws and lost great deal of blood.
was thought at one time tn the hand woul,
have to be amputated, but his physicians sue
ceeded in saving it.
Waco, on Saturday last, was filed wit
cotton wagons, and about two hundred bale
of the staple was disposed of at fairprices,
the great Joy of the granger, who forthwith
expended goodly portion of his money 70
supplies to the great joy of the mercantil
gentlemen
A party of men in Mitchell county bega
digging for gold in January last and are sti
hard a. work. They decline to answer que'
tions as to their success, but as they seem I
be cheerful, in good spirits and work enthu
siastically, the presumption naturally is tbs
they are rewarded for their labor.
Two gentlemen, well posted in agricultt
raj matters, have Just completed an exam
nation into the ravagos of the boil worm
Comanche county and they report that th
worm appeared only in seven farms. aggr,
eating 354 acres and that these farms woul
make an aggregate of 1853 bales of cottol
despite the worm. Farms not molested wi
average bale per acre.
Last week Mrs. Pennington's little thre
yearo child fell into sixty foot well
Comanche county. The mother, seeing tn
fall, at once lowered her little girl to the DO
tom of the we'll and she kept the little felo
from drowning until her father could g
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