The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-27
TEXAS TOPICs.

was received In II,
Tho Wizard oil musicians gave a eoncer
for the benefit Of tho Houston police fore
Wednesday night
One brick firm In Houston has within III,
last four days sold In that city, 2,lOO,OO
brick, The Bayou city Is evidently improy
ing,
Alternate land certificates, $40 acre tmct,
are IN demand nj Austin NJ $40. Is there
not money III this for the railroad eompa-
resi
The residence OF Mr., Eugene Pilot, one
Of HouHon's weathlest citizens, was do,
stroyed by fro Tuesday night tho loss being
$4,000,
Rev A, II, Finders, connected with tho
p0slotllee NJ llenrne, was missing Tuesday,
and his friends feared no had been louly
dealt with,
Ahcr the payment OF $500 deficiency
warrant claims NJ Austin, there are still SOL.
900 outstanding, Is there any money In the
State Treasury
Out Of six months salary due, tho Houston
police force has Just received one months
pay, aud they aro m happy Us II they had
been elected aldermen,
Tho East and West Texas narrow gaug-
railroad has within u few days past received
lot Of new freight and passenger cars ut
Houston and MI engine for Us machine shops,
A party of three ladies aud two gentlemen
In carriage drove into the San Antonio
river Monday, and but for timely assistance
some Of them, II not all, would have been
drowned,
Houston Is in tho throes, CldmOring cred
TORS are bowling at her doors and suits al-
most without number are being brought In
the Federal court by owners Of her bonds
against her,
Ben STAFFORD and West Radcliffe have
been arrested ut Columbus on suspicion for
murder of W. w. Guyson fow days ago,
Ben Stafford was in trouble month or 80
ago for killing negro.
Parson Lacy, a refugee from the action Of
the District court in Bosque county, on
tho charge of numbering Willie
SwRnk, has Just been arrested in
Arkansas and will be taken to Bosque coun-
ty for trial.
The verdict of the jury Of inquest on the
sudden death ut Galveston on Sunday we
gave, was that he died of arsenic poisoning
but whether taken accidentally or purposcy
they could notsay.
p. w. Hall, County Judge Of Robinson
county, who was suspended from oilIcc ut
Calvert by the District Judge has had his
case wherein he was TO show cause why he
should not be removed, continued TO the
June term Of the court.
international Il Great Northern railroad
first mortgage bonds quoted in New York
on Thursday nj l02 Houston " Texas Cen
trail ilrsts Mt IA; and Texas Il Pacific in
comes Mt II to 7G. Houston " Texas Cen
trail stock was going AT 81 TO 81.
1t is pleasant tact to notice that Rev.
Walter Richardson, Dean of the Episcopal
Cathedral ut San Antonio, who WINS few
days ago attacked with vertigo and supposed
to be paralyzed is convaescent aud pro-
nounced out of danger by his physician.
Special officer Harry Woodruff, |
as reliable man as Texas can
boast, arrested a man named |
Iarrell at Hearne Tuesday on telegram
from Dodge, signed L. IL. Snow, but as it APP
peared that Snow was not an officer, and
only had claim Of debt against lIarrell, he |
was released.
-Four variety theatre performers were en-
joined from performing at Galveston, Tues
day night, by the boss of an opposition show
to the one they proposed TO appear in.
The injunction was dsobeyed and the per-
Torrance went on. The grounds tor the in
junction by the enjoiner, was that he first
engaged them.
The shipment of bones from Texas has
grown to be trade Of such immense dimen-
sions that every day a vessel is loaded at
Galveston for northern ports where the bones
are sent to factories and ground into dust for
agricultural purposes. Why ship them of
Why can mol the bone-dust factory be made
to pay right here in Texas?
The old press on which the Houston T To-
graph was printed during the Mexican war
over thirty years ago, and which was thrown
into Buffalo bayou by the Mexicans, is now
in Houston warehouse, a relic of the days
that are dead, ard u curiosity that attracts
much attention. The Houston Telegram,
the successor Of the Telegraph, ought to buy
it as a memcnto Of old times.
General +. 0. G. Ord, commanding the
Department of Texas, accompanied by Cen
orai B. G. Card, Chief Quortermaster of the
department., and DR.. Smith, Of the United
States cavalry. left Galveston by steamer
for Brownsville on Wednesday. AT
they will be Joined by General
Canales of the Mexican army, and other
Mexican officials, and The. party
will make n tour through Texas, visiting
the principal cities.
John Kerlicks is county clerk of Harrison
county and honors Houston. by living in Its
corporal limits. He has n thorough
bred stallion, boswell by name,
md Just like his master he
owes beer. The other night John rode Dos
well into popular beer saloon in Houston,
and master and horse drank together social
glass of beer. Kirlicks put in his best licks
n local politics and besides he is a leading
tar in the Magnolia Histrionic society and
= favorite in the polite society in the Bayou
,ity as well. He speaks broken German aud
5 a loyer of Macauley's essays which he elo- |
cutes well.
The Irish sufferers arc not forgotten in
rs the following from the News :
will show: "At the anniversary ball OF
Washington steam fire engine company
given at Artillery hall, Saturday night Mr..
John Cosssr was the winner of a handsome
cake and pair of slippers. Mr.. Cesar de-
cidcd to donate them to be auctioned for the
benefit Of the Irish sufferers, and Mr.. SAM
son Heidenheimer consented to act as auc-
tioneer. The sale took place at tho Cotton
,,,OrninS the cake /.