The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-20
TEXAS Tories,

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Waco, died at Bolton on Tuesday
Carpenters and stone masons aro all busy
In Henrietta plying their ayocOtlons
Rich leads Of silver have been discovered
In the Plnta mountains, Kinney county,
Crops and vegetables arc only slightly
Injured In South Texas by the hlu freeze,
Mr., j, G., Walker and Miss q, Shelton,
both OF Travis county, were married Wednes-
day,
Three thousand deer pelta were shipped
from Kinney county during the past fall ANA
winter,
The military and Aremcn of Waco will mp
propriately celebrate San Jaclnlo daythe 2ld
Of April,
Motley county Is filling upwlIh stock men,
and II will not BIO u great while before the
county organizes.
The census Of Waco Is being taken md
estimates of the population reach as high rs
twelve thousand,
The Democracy of Houston will have
grand rally Monday night In the interest Of
the municipal ticket
Fourteep citizens of Bolton aro bcsleging
the President for the appointment OF post
master NJ That place.
A Joint stock company Is being formed ut
Waco TO build nm Opera'house IN time for
the next dramatic season.
The county officials OF Robertson county
hayo moved thor offices from Calvert 10
Franklin, the county site.
Wcalhcrford has had more visitors during
the past wecl, than ever was seen In the town
before for the same length Of time.
Over two hundred mon ind teams arc
canpcl ut Walnut Springs, near Whitney,
awaiting work on the Central extension.
Frank Hodge, colorcd man IN Fort Bond
county, got drunk Sunday und lroze to death
that night. His body was found Monday,
A fifteen year old boy killed forty-two
bears on Devils river in Kinney county in
live weeks during February aud this month
The Democratic convention Of Parker
county meets on the 9th inst, to elect dee
gates to the State convention at Galveston.
A telegraph line Is to be constructed from
Austin to Lsmpasses, via Georgetown, Lib.
erty Burnet and San Saba, the contract be-
Ing let
The total rainfall in Clay county from
March LIST, 1879 to March 0b, 1880 was
twenty-five inches, and 1879 was the dryest
year known Of in that county.
Andrew Carolina, Gillian, and Pedro
Cortez, Mexican, had fight nj Fulton
last week. and Cortez burstcd the Chilian's
skull with an iron bar. Domestic inlelicities
led to the difficulty.
The steam boiler of j. Kely's saw mill,
one mile aud half from phelps, on the In
ternational railroad, exploded "Wednesday,
killing II convict and woundng two other
men. Loss $1,000
The Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade
of Houston, are taking steps for the erection
of fine Cotton Exchange building. A
committee has been appointed TO select an
eligible site and propose plans for the build
ing,
A farmer has been exhibiting young
chicken with four perfect legs to the people
of Houston. ltlived but a short time after it
was hatched and is preserved in alcohol
What u splendid breed of chickens four-leg-
ged fellows would he.
Mr.. G. Grumbach, of Houston, owns a
manuscript in the Hebrew language said to
have been written before the birth of Christ,
and four volumes ola Latin and French en-
cyclopedia written in the year 1901 long be-
fore the art of printing was though of.
Last week, at San Diego, little Mexican
boy was driving monada to water, when
they went in front of Chihuahua wagon to
which was attached fourteen mules. The
boy, being unable to get out of the way, was
run over by the team and wagon and in
stanty killed, one arm being mashed and his
skull crushed, scattering the brains.
Mr.. Robert L. Collins, a popular en-
ploye of the Morgan steamship line at Hous-
ton, and Miss Carrie L, Fitzgerald, whilom a
belle of Houston society, but lattery of CAL
vert, were married at the residence of the
brides parents in the latter place on We'd
nesday last,
On Saturday last Mr.. A. Barber, u carpen-
ter in Weatherford, was killed bya wall fall
ing on him. He had contract for tearing
down and renoyating an old concrete build
ing, and while undermining one of the walls
it fell on him, crushing his skull and causing
instant DEATH