The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-06
TEXAS Tories,


There were only four marriage licenses Is
sued Ia Harris county last week.
Mr. Walter Adams died Of consumption
at Georgetown, on tho 8Olh nlt'
A larger acreage than usual viii ba plant
cd In cotton in Rcd River county THIS year.
Mr. Robert Lemond died Of typhoid malo'
rial fayeE ut Georgetown, on the ~ instant,
Mr.. George Furguson md Mrs, Kate Hale
were married Ia Red River county lasl
week,
The lloupton & Fan Antonio railroad has
lust received q new lot Of cars and loeomo'
lives,
Collin county has school fund Of about
sls0O and this scholastic year had one hun
drol school committees
j. A. FeldOrmAn, postmaster ut Bolton,
has ahsconded, and : 800 cash on money
orders % mid 10 BIO short
Six hundred head of Sheep were shipped
from San Antonio 10 st. Louis Saturday and
two hundred head TO Galveston,
The peach trees, the blossoms and buds of
which wore killed By the late seot and freeze
in Milan county, aro blooming and budding
again,
Colonel Medill, editor Of the Chicago
Tribune, with his lady, was NJ ToXnrkana
Saturday night, He will make tour Of
Texas.
Seventeen hundred and five children are
enrolledas pupils Of the public schools In
Houston, and the attendance has been ninety
three percent
A man named Edward Nranee had his
hand so badly crushed nj McGowrie's foun-
dry In llou.ton that three Fingers had TO be
amputated saturday
Row. Father Busant, late OF Waco has
been appointed TO succeed the Into Father
Glynn In the pNstorNte of ~. PAtrico's
Catholic church NJ Galveston.
@, A. Turley, Tor thirty years Il citizen of
Houston, and for the past three or four
wears connected with the police force, died
Friday night and was buried Saturday.
An unknown man who was struck by n
passing train that fractured his skull near
Hearne WAS taken to Houston saturday night
and will probably die, il not already dead.
A courtmartial will convene tomorrow nj
Fort Stockton, with Lieutenant Colonel M.
NJ. Blunt, of the Twenly.ifth infantry, ms
President, and Chaplain b. L. BaIdridgc as
Judge Advocate
II. S. Alien, indicted for the murder of
Lucy Perkins in 1874 at Huntsville, una who
had been fugitive from justice since, was
Jailed at Huntsville Saturday. having been
arrested in Ellis county.
A general court martial convened Mt Fort
McKavott yesterday with Capt Francis
Clarke, ofthc 22l infantry rs President, and
second Lieutenant Theodore Mosher 22nd
infantry Judge Advocate.
In Gainesville for the month of March
eighty thousand five hundred and seventy
three alcoholic and ffty-llye thousand nine
hundred and ninety-two malt drinks were
sold, according to the bell punch register.
The law office of Captain j, w, Posey, at
Georgetown, came near burning up from
lamp explosion one night last week. Office
and books we're saved but the bedding and
many other articles in the bed room adjoin'
ing where the explosion occurred, were de
stroyed
The female portion of Gainesville, at least
some of them, are quite attentive to j.. NJ
Noftsinger, the man to be hung on the 3Ott
inst. for murder. They visit him in jail and
on the first some of them called on him and
April fooled him with u pie containing cotton
between the crusts 1t must have been very
funny to the man who is to die on the glbbel
before the month expires.
A court ofinquiry to examine into certain
accusations made against Capt. II. U. Fechet'
of the eighth cavalry have reported that the
testimony shows that he was drunk on the
9TH of july last in Edenburg, on the Rio
Gronde. and recommends that he be brought
to trial. TIE report has been approved by
Gen. Ord, and the festive Captain will have
to face court martial.
Jesse Wartham and Mr.. Hemphill had a
serious difficulty at Walker, in Red kiver
county, last week. Bad feeling had existed
between them for a long time, and meeting a
Walker, words were passei which led to y
fight. Wartham struck Hemphlll with
a weight and Hemphill hurled bot
ties and other things at Martham'
when Wartham shot twice at Hemphill,
missing him both times.
One Nick Handsome, who is either crazy
or knave, was jailed in Clarksville las
week for burglary. A man named Strong,
living in Red River county, with his witt
went off en- a visit for day and night, leav-
ing his house locked up. When he returned
home. he found Nick in his house. seated by
blazing fire, and the evidences were that he
had comforted his inner man from the larder
and slept in one of the beds in the house
when Stone told him to leave he refused to
do 50, saying his grandmother had left tina,
house and its contents to him four thousand
years ago He recognized his grandfather
hat on the wall, and an AK sticking in
stump in the yard which his grand
father had left there for him. Strong
rot a stick with which to drive him off, whel
nick seized gun and Strong beat retreat.
Nick then fastened the house, got sack anc
filling it with clothes and provisions, started
off Strong then returned to the house, ano
getting the gun followed him and made hin
nut down the sack and contents. He thsl
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