The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-02
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Flux is prevailing about Canton, in Van
Zandt county.
Whooping cough prevails among the chill
dren in some portions of Cooke county.
Coleman will have telegraphic commune
cation with all the world early this month.
Columbus Is about to havea cotton and oil
factory. The company is being organized.
A hailstorm in McLennan county did some
damageto the crops last week, especially to
cotton.
The survivors of Wauls Legion and the
Second Texas Infantry will meet at Bren-
ham on the third inst and organize anassocl-
alton.
A COW died of hydrophobia in Hopkins
county last week, and being aten by dogs,
they have since manifested hydraphobic
symptoms.
Tommie, little son of Mr.. T. i. Wade,
of Whitesboro, was thrown by a horse one
day last week, and sustained u double lrac-
ture of his arm.
1t is estimated that the cypress l,gs now on
hand Mt Orange and Beaumont will, with the
shingles already there, make one hundred
million shingles.
The colored people of Waco and vicinity
will celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of
their freedom in Texas on the 10th list, by
giving picnic and he ring speeches.
A Knights OF Pythias lodge was organized
in Gainesville last Thursday night, with a
number OF Knights from abroad in attend
ance and assisting in the ceremonies,
Mr.. Joe b. Sadder, lawyer and ex-
member of the Legislature, was stricken
with paralysis last week while attending
court at Belle Plain. His left side was at.
fccted.
Mr.. Hugh Wise, who had been Il respected
citizen of Van: Iandt county for twenty-five
years. died at the residence of his son.n-law,
in that county, last week at the age of rs
years.
Mr.. Klaeden, the father of the late G.. W.
Klaeden, who suicided n few weeks ago at
BRENNAN, was stricken with paralysis Satur-
day, and was in u critical condition at last
accounts.
Wagon trains of movers are constantly
passing through Cooke county, going west
ward. Some of them are from the eastern
counties and great many of them from the
other States.
Rev. Samuel Lacy, indicted for murder in
Bosque county, was granted a change Of
venue last week to johnson county, and is
now in the Cleburne Jail. His case will come
up in July.
Fort Clark has had until few days ago, a
female gambler named Lottie Demo. She
left that place for Silver City day or two
before the freshet and probably escaped
drowning by so doing.
Onion creek a few miles west of Austin,
rose forty-five feet Tuesday, nine feet less
than in the great freshet in 1869, and sweep.
everything before it on its banks, submerg-
ing crops and taking off fences.
Jim Lane, an old colored fisherman, and
another freedman named George Robinson,
were caught on the banks of the river by the
sudden rise in he Colorado at Austin, Tues
day, and being washed out into the river
I h were drowned.
saturday the driver of the stage between
.4ampasses Springs and Austin attempted to
cross u small creek near the former place.
which was swollen by the heavy rains, and
the stage was washed off. The driver, named
Crisp, was drowned, but the horses
escaped.
A young Austrian, named Schusterman,
citizen of Rockdale visited his old home in
huoblll, u Slblb Nihp anu was Nv tllOt
impressed into the military service. He has,
however, just been discharged through in
tervention of the American Consul, and will
return to RJckdale.
Captain lack Howard, of Dexter, died last
week, after an illness of FIVE months Dur
ing the past two years his wife and five chill
dren have died, and now he has gone to Join
the loved throng on the other side leaving
one little boy five years old to linger yet
awhile in this vale of tears.
Three or four days ago Mr. Nat B. Curtis
and Miss Alice Evans were married at Mar
quez, in Leon County The bride is the
daughter of Hon. VIM. P Evans, an old
Texas veteran, unto whom and his wife have
been born twenty-five children, only two Of
whom are dead. The brides nineteen broth
ers and sisters were present at her wedding, |
with her parents, and when that family all |
got together in one group, it was an interest
ing sight indeed.
The prisoners in Jail at Tyler came near cs-
Gaping one night last week. They broke |
down both the doors leading into the jail |
hallway and had started down the steps that !
lead to the front door, when they were dis
covered by Mrs. Finch the jailor's wife. She |
gave the alarm and Abe Marlborough, u col |
ored man asleep on the place, came to the
rescue and stood guard at the door with
an axe in his hand, until the Sheriff and |
others could be summoned.
In 1867 Captain B. L. Crouch, of Frio
county, found himself dead broke and hired
out to sheep owner in Williamson county
as a shepherd for 50 in silver per month. He
was so attentive to his duties that he won the
conf encc of his employer, and bought eight
hundred head of sheep from him on credit.
This was his start. He soon paid his debt,
and to-day the pasture fence on his sheep
rancho in Frio county, is one hundred and
seven miles long and encloses 10, 900 acres of
land. In tNis posture he has IA, 90 head of
sheep, and from IL. 600 to $4,000 head of cat
tie. He hes sold 10000 pounds of his this
years clip at thirty cents per pound and still
has 10000 pounds to dispose Of All this he
has made BY growing wool and attending
closely to his business.
Thursday night the rain in Bosque county
did no little damage, and among other
things il washed out a culvert on the Texas
Central railroad between Morgan and Whit
ney. The train left Morgan about three
o'clock in the morning, and as it neared this
culvert the conductors attention was
attracted to an old woman standing beside
the track in the drenching rain and scream
ing AZ the top of her voice for the train TO
stop and gesticulating wildly. He pulled
.he nell -cerd and stopped the train, within
Yen leet or the cuvert, when he learned from