The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-29
TEXAS TOPICS.

county as has been reported.
Coleman county sends her delegation Il
the state convention uninstructed.
The delegates of Austin county to the STATE
convention come uninstructed.
The nominations for county officers il
Walker county are to be made at primary
election.
Victoria county sends an anti Roberts del
egation to the state convention, but unin-
structed.
The steamer Josephine left Clinton Sat
urday, loaded with beef cattle and ten car
loads of Texas raised oats.
Calvert received its first bale of cotton Of
the new crop Saturday, and paid liz cents
for it. 1t classed strictly low middling.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad
is receiving more iron. A thousand rails
was landed at Galveston, Saturday.
On Friday last the colored people of Ksuf-
man and vicinity gave grand barbecue at
Kaufman, which was largely attended.
Major j. +. Fennell, one of the Oldest and
most highly respected citizens of Guadalupe
county, died on Thursday evening last.
Luling, in Caldwell county, expects
on Saturday received her first bale, paying
Sll8 forit.
Mr.. Perwen Henderson, one of the Oldest
citizens of Denton county, died at his resi-
dence near Pilot Point, of consumption, on
the 18th instant.
A little daughter of Mr.. Elliott living in
Red River county, was asleep on his gallery a
few days ago. when snake bit heron the lip.
At last accounts she was doing well.
Mrs. America Bolts, wife of Major B. A.
Bolts, president OF the Houston City bank,
and a sister of Judge w. z. Ballenger, Of
Galveston, died on Saturday morning.
A white man named Joe Cross, delivered
himself to the authorities at Columbia, Bra
zeria county, Saturday, stating that he had
shot man on the Waddeck plantation.
James Murphy, contractor at San An
tonic, became involved in difficulty with
soldier on Friday last, and fight ensued.
The soldier threw Murphy, breaking one Of
his legs.
The Free Methodist, rather peculiar re-
ligious sect, are holding camp meeting at
Terrell. Thet do not believe it is right to
beg money to build churches, feature of
their faith that will commend them to most
people.
A convert died at Bennett station in Red
River county last week, it was supposed of
sunstroke, but doubts arising about it, the
body was disinterred and post mortem ex-
animation revealed the fact that he died of
appolexy.
There was grand barbecue at Oakwoods
Saturday at which Hon. John II. Reagan,
Hon. K. @. Mills and Hon. John r. Brady,
Greenback candidate for congress, against
Col..Mills, made speeches. Reagan and Mills
sQuelched greenbackism, though Col. Brady
made hard fight.
Two horse thieves named Dodson and
Minal had fight with sheritf's posse from
Erath county on Friday, and Dodson was
shot through both legs, but escaped. de
went to the residence of Minal's father in
johnson county and was arrested Saturday
by the sheriff Of that county.
The town of Pilot Point, in Denton county
has Just donated to the Texas g. Pacific rail-
road one hundred acres of fine land, two
hundred yards from the public square of
that town. 1t will be used for depot pur-
poses for the Dallas. IL Wichita road and
there is also on the land quarry Of fine yellow
sandstone, splendid for building purposes.
On Saturday, deputy United States
marshal arrested in Brszoria county, several
prominent Republicans and one Democrat
Dr.. Ashcomb, on the charge of ku kluxing.
1t is said they were SO charged by negro,
an emissary of the Republican executive
committee Of Texas, to get up bloody.shirt
grist for the outrage mills, but not being post
ed he nabbed his Republican friends.
Co.., yfy,1sao onJ liz, N1sp,paft cant 70
the penitentiary from Franklin county re-
Gently for murder, have just confessed to the
murder of man named Bob Whitaker, in
Red River county, about a year ago. They
belonged to gang Of desperadoes, and the
reason they gave for killing Whitaker was
that he had peeched on them for breaking
open the Mt. Vernon Jail.
While Mr.. Russell Wren, farmer in
Kaufman county, was driving two horse
team to wagon one day last week, the horses
became frightened and ran away, tearing the
wagon all to pieces. A piece of the broken
coupling.pole was driven through Mr..
Wren's body, causing his death in about two
hours afterwards. One of his little children
was in the wagon with him, but escaped I'M
hurt. He left widow and several children
to mourn his loss.
The San Antonio Express has the follow
ing antidote for the bite of the rattle snake:
DR.. j. II. johnson, of Centre Point, Kerr
county, sends US the folio wing antidote for
the bite o. the poisonous rattlesnake: Pot
asium lodi, grains; hydrargyr, chloridi
CORROSIVE, . grams; bromide, 8 drachms.
The doctor says: "Ten drops of this mix
ture taken with q tablespoonful of brandy or
wine, constitutes dose, TO be repeated, if
necessary means, should any swelling
return in the space of an hour, there should
be a repetition of the dose"
DR.. johnson says further: with this
antidcte and spirits of ammonia applied ex-
ternally, should have no apprehension In
doing the same as DR.. Bibron did in his ex-
periments before the academy of sciences Of
Paris. He allowed rattle-snake to bite him
on the lips and cheeks, and then by taking
the antidote discovered by him, prevented
all alarming symptoms, and, in fact, suffered
no inconvenience therefrom. Dr.. William
A. Hammond, United States army, and |
believe now residing in Philadelphia,
was stationed at Fort Riley, in
1857 He made many experiments with
Bibron's antitode on animals, and with COM
plete success, which he reported in the
Medico Chigurgicsl Review of March, 1868.
One case | will give as stated by Dr. Ham
mond: Heinrich Brandt, hospital steward,
was bit on the second of July, 1857, on the
index finger of the right hand by o large
rattle-snake, which he was in the act OF put