The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-12
TEXAS TOPICS.

There are one thousand voters in Morr
county,
The pecan crop of Navarro county is very
large this year.
The Republicans will give barbecue in
Corscana on the 10th inst.
Sickness, some of It of virulent type,
prevails all over Morris county.
Mrs. r. w. Stewart died in Corsicana on
Thursday last of short illness.
Typhoid fever prevails to greater exten,
in Austin this year than ever before.
Up to Tuesday night last, there had been
paid into the state $4,000 on the drummers.
Mr.. A. H. s. Davis and Miss Sallie j.
Ficklen were married few days ago at Cor
sicana.
The Morris county Banner of last week an
nounced four births in Danger6eld in tive
days, all girls.
Quite a number of negroes in McLennan
county make as much as four dollars per day
picking cotton.
The coming state capital fair to be held at
Austin, offers three thousand dollars worth
Of premiums this year.
Governor Roberts is making strenuous
efforts to get assistance from the Peabody
fund for the public schools.
Clayton Z. Ward, ESQ.,, was elected CITY
attorney, and j. Ii. Hambrin, city marshal at
Tyler on Wednesday last
The steamship Haytean cleared from the
outer roadstead of Galveston, on Wednesday
for Liverpool, with 5,7lS bales of cotton on
board.
The effects Of the late Telegram news
paper company at Houston, are to be sold on
the 18th inst, to satisfy number of iudg-
ments obtained against it.
A young man named j. A. Millican had
his hand badly crushed on a construction
train on the Central railroad few days ago.
and was taken to Waco for medical treat
ment.
The Order of Heptasophs in Houston have
been entertaining their brethren from Orange
the past day or two, and there has been a
feast of viands and Of the flowing bowl, as
well as of reason and of the soul.
The people of Morris county are in the
throes of discussion of the question of
moving the county site. 1t is now at Dan
gerfeld, and must remain there until two
thirds ofthe voters Of the county change it at
an election to be held.
Galveston seems to be daft over the prob
able fact that there has been one case Of vel
low fever in New Orleans The board of
health met Wednesday and no less than five
kilograms were discussed in connection with
the reported case at Key West.
Guadaloupe county will make this year all
the cotton that can be gathered, though the
crop would have been larger than it is tire
times, but for the worms. Seguin, the coun-
ty site, has already received 1880 bales,
against 1000 to the same date last year.
Ben Williams and Ben johnson, both
colored, had fight in Waco about woman
Wednesday, and johnson knocked Williams
down with the butt end Of whip, and then
jumping on him, bit great chunks of flesh out
of his face and neck, woundiLg him very &c.
yerely.
The Cleburne Bulletin says that the right.
of.way agent for the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe railroad is meeting with many difficulties
and ,,discouragements in securing the right
of-way for that road through johnson cOun-
ty, the owners Ui the land proposed 10 be
crossed asking good round pay for it.
The steam cotton gin of Mr. James |.
Moore, near Waco, came near burning up on
Wednesday. One of the gin stands suddenly
blazed up into flame and in an instant the
gin room lint room and the loose lint on
the walls were afre. But for the presence of
mind of the fireman, who in moment turned
a full head of steam into the burning interior,
the whole fabric and contents would have
burned up,