The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-27
TEXAS TOpiCs.

The Louisiana Western railroad closed III
no, between Lake Charles md Orange yes
agday'
Fourteen thousand head Of cattle will b.
,i-iven from Dewitt county to Kansas lhi
,sAfon
Charles Gurrd, Frcncbman, wa
gpbbed Of $1,000 Monday night IN Sal
Antonio.
3oth the Angelina and Neohos rivers mr.
gal, aud navigation being good, steamboat
iare doing u heavy business
Vegetables arc plentiful In NictorIr
county and wild flowers I'LL all tho prnlrles
The freeze did not reach that region.
4 Chlnamap, after three weeks Illness
Ned In Terrell Monday, aud was buried n
,he citys expense, with his feet TO tho west
General Grant will stop ut Houston on BIZ
-0u.e from San Antonio 10 New Orleans and
.be bayou city will entertain him luxurously
Rev Mr.. Stone, Presbyterian preacher
.Sas stricken with paralysis near Clcbumc
lsst Tuesday while on his way TO school
baasc where be taught.
The residence of Mr.. William Oglesby,
ftlet completed and unoccupied, was destroyed
dyfre In Mcl4ennan county, Tuesday night,
Cue work Of IN incendiary.
Three little negroes, the Oldest only thir'
teen. burgarzed the residence Of Mr.. Ernest
paschal, in San Antonio, on Tuesday last,
securing $50 worth Of jcwelry,
A negro named Alex Turner was running
bis horse few days ago in Morris county
tl,.nuun aQuiuat Al iran with aIInn
force rs to break both his thighs.
Sergeant j. NJ. Warren, of Halls State
&okce company, arrested in Reluglo county,
William Hunt, alias George Williams m
escaped convict who had for "a year or more
evaded arrest
The skeleton of n man was found in cave
three miles from Georgetown last Wednes'
day. They are believed TO be the bones OF 4
freedman named George Organ, taken by a
mob two years ago, and it Is believed made
way with.
Little Bette Ennis, an eght-year-old child,
While playing near an old well last Saturday,
accidentally fell into it. 1t was twenty feet
20 tho bottom, and she was taken out In
sensible. She remained, death ensuing Mon
day evening,
The son of prominent merchant in Gal
vcston eloped short me since witt, var-
etS actress and went to st. Louis, where no
airried his inamorata. Frequent letters
from him to his father asking him to bless
,hG union still remain unanswered.
Colonel French Smith, an old and highly
res pected citizen of Guadalupe county, died
at bis home on the 2lst inst, at the age of
sepenty-one. Colonel Smith was u man OF
rare ebility, and was once candidate for
Northumberland of the State on the
Wing ticket.
The Nollssfest association at Houston pro.
poses to have q press meeting of oil the
EDITORS in the State, in that city, at the time
9f their Nolksfest. The association proposes
chat the editors shall be their guests and it
Wllt furnish transportation aud defray all
expenses. 1t will be Il big advertisement for
l3uuston.
Wednesday negro named James Foster
was in Texarkana looking for his sister Liz
1ie, who was missing and was last seen with a
;nan named Andrew Hoskins, with whom
she had been living, but had separated trouI
bin. Hoskins had threatened to hill her
a,sa her bonnet and budle Of clothing were
found ia the woods near her home. 1t Is |
suspected that she has been murdered by
Heskins and her body hid in one of the many
4kes about Texarkana.
The first cold-blooded murder ever per-
oesrated in Morris county occurred there on |
.hc night of the 10Th inst. The Morris
County Banner gives the following account
If it @On Thursday night, the 10Th inst, in
Morris county, about ten miles northwest
IRON Dangerfleld, there occurred the most
mysterious ard horrible crime that ever
s:Sined the history of the county, An Irish
woman, about seventy years old, feeble, weak
nd alone. lived in tenement house on the
lia AGE Of Mrs. Ragland, mother OF our Sher-
H. Her nearest neighbor was MIR. William
A n3ecson, whose house stood about two
hundred wards distant. Mrs Reilly and her
husband, John Reilly, had separated about a
rear ago, and since that time the old lady's
,niy companion was u large and ferocious
log, which usually slept in the room on the
loJr- On Friday morning the dog was no.
iced ia Mr. Anderson's yard. A son OF MT.
4. was directed to go to Mrs.
feily's on some errand, as the murder
lad not vet been discovered. The boy
tarted and called the dog to take him home,
,ut the dog refused to 90, and crouched
Town as it. be was aware Of the fate OF his
mistress. The boy went on and was the hrst
o discover Mrs Reily's body. 1t lay on tie
round in the back yard, cold, ghastly and
lead. The head had been struck with an
Ike or Ratchet and the throat was cut from
ar to ear. The face was covered with
cratches and bruises and the features and
lair clotted with cold blood. The form lay
N its back, the hands were carefully folded
n the breast and there were no signs OF a
irugele. The form was dressed in its usual
arb except that nghtcap was on the head.
,he body was taken in charge by Justice
.asley who held an inquest, but no light
yss gained as to the pcrpetrsfor of the awful
murder. A pocket book was found on her
erson and contained twenty-five cents. The
oors of the house were closed and nothing
ppeared to have been disturbed inside.
Tue old lady was eccentric, and had told that
he d..money--SS0Q to Sl,OOO--but her
eiehbors doubted these statements, as size
eeined very Door. She is said to have car
led sat ,hel with her everywhere she went
nd would watch it with the utmost care, as
/ il was very valuable. After her death
esrch was made for the saachel, but it could
ct be fouad. But If she was murdered for
louey, why was not the house plundered,
nd why was she so carefully laid out? Her
usband, John Reilly, is reported by some to
ave gone to meet another wife OF MS IN
'anada- Another report says he works asa
sction hand on the Texas & st. Louis rail-
Dad. de had lived with her only. short
=. a. lac lodi with har