The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-05
STATE SPECIALS.
TEXAS TOPICS BY TELEGRAPH.
Hon. George Clark Resigned-P full
Accident at Pilot Point-Fort
Worth Items Shepard andJones
Lock Horns at Brenham-
Affairs at Galveston, Etc.
special to the Herald .

Special to the Herald.
Fort Worth, Sept. 4.-Another new opera
aoon,is spoken of by the ladies for the benefit
of the new cemetery.
Policeman Davenport has replied to the
charges against him. The city council de.
clines to entertain the charges.
The Salvation army is expected here mex
week.
James Swayne, 'sq, has arrived from a
months visit to Tennessee.
Miss Fronie Gathrigbt, young lady of
fine educational abilities, of Falestin ar,
rived Thursday night to take charge Of a
school in the White settlement
Telegraph poles have been placed ready for
erection along the entire line from here to
Oleburne, and soon will be up and the wires
stretched.
The horse trade is very lively, and from a
few to many are traded and sold at auction,
and privately, each day at good prices
Captain John Hannah and j. F. Wilkes,
esq, have each recovered from serious at.
tacks of sickness and are on the streets again.
Stop at the Waverly house if you wan,
the worth fyour money.
Several houses on wheels are being moved.
Men from the front stated to-day that from
twenty to twenty-five days would be required
to place the track to Eastland City.
Mr.. Chase, conductor at the front, arrived
here this morning, He says there is much
sickness in railroad circles out west
A nice shower for nearly an hour be?an at
5 o'clock yesterday evening. Then sunshine
again.
From what farmers of this and adjacent
counties say, the boil worm has only effected
cotton in certain neighborhoods and fields,
and have not been general.
A disease sembling CHAMBERS of very
malignant form has broken cut among the
horses and mules here. Quite number have
died and Others are sick, The livery men
and wagon yards are enforcing o strict
quarantine. The city council has passed
all act forbidding any diseased stock to be
kept within two hundred yards of any resi-
dence.
Mrs. Serena Stowell, the mother of our
sheriff, Joe NJ. Henderson, died last night
in this city, and will be buried at Birdville
To-Day.
An fashioned Democratic barbecue is
one of the probabilities of Fort Worth in
the near future.
An ice panic has been raging in our city
the past two days, the factory failing to meet
the demand.
Work will commence soon on the new
bridge across the Trinity at this place. 1t is
to be OF the Home truss pattern.
Mrs. Geo. Buchill returned from Wash
ngton last night.
From Sept. LIST, 1879, TO Sept. lst, 1880,
our merchants sold goods to the amount of
S4,500 600. Shipped 4l,0O0 bales of cotton,
$4,000 pounds of wool, and 100000 pounds
of hides.
The inclemency of the weather prevented
meeting of the Hancock club last night.
At q meeting of the council last night it
was determined to amend the ordinance
relating to sidewalks.
On account Of the dearth of ice, the fest-
val by the ladies' of the Presbyterian church
has been postponed until September It'll.
A gentleman by the name of johnson, who
has been running saw mill in Wise county,
fell against the saw last Saturday and had his
left arm cut off near the elbow jvin,. AT
last accounts he was doing we'll.
Thirty.one bales of cotton were on the
square to-day, and sold at prices ranging
from &c. to 9Sc. per pound.
1t is rumored that some important changes
will be made in the postoffice in the near
future
Eight carloads of cattle were shipped for
Chicago to-day.