The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-29
TEXAS TOPICS.

| WeatherIorus new lall Is nearly com
pleted.
Gainesville will actually have gas 10 abou,
three weeks.
There are now 2,l26 coAvicts in the state
penitentiary.
Henderson county will make % 900 bales
OF cotton this year.
Corn in Montague county averages forty
five bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Peter McAlister, an aged lady, died
last week in Lamar county.
One acre of watermelons paid Bell
county farmer 800 this year.
The per capita for children with the
scholastic ago in Bell county is S270.
The Knights of Honor number l4s lodges
and membership of $500 in Texas.
!Mr. Roberts and Miss Fannie Parr were
married few days ago in Montague county.
Some of the farmers in Lamar county are
importing from the older states blooded
sheep.
Mr.. t. j. Conway, of Terrell, and Miss
Minta Oliver, of Rusk county, were married
last week.
Mr.. w. B. Lewis, of Terrell, and Miss
Bette McClarty, were married in Henderson
last week.
Boil worms and dry weather havo damaged
the cotton crop in Montague county about
one-half
The citizens of New Salem in Rusk county,
are getting up a stock show to come off on
October lst.
The crop of ribbon sugar,esne is better
this year than in Rusk county than ever
known before.
The young men of Gainesville consume
their leisure time chasing Reynard the fox,
and they have rare sport.
The deaf and dumb asylum at Austin
opened with sixty-six pupils this year, and
expects seventy live.
Paris is having new school building erect.
ed, which, it is said, will be the finest in north
Texas when it Is completed.
Erath county has dwarf, Herman Blair
byn'me, who is twenty years old, weighs
fifty pounds, and is thirty inches high.
John McConnelly, charged with tho muir
der of John Crimmers, was acquitted IN the
district court of Harrison county last week.
The army worm has stripped the cotton Of
its leay es. on most of the farms in Rusk
county, and the crop will BIZ lighter than
last year.
Henderson has received something over
fifteen hundred bales of cotton this season
and the price of the staple ranges from 81 to
lOf ents.
Q lite a number of immigrants have gone
into Clay county this year, and are settling
up the rich valleys of The Wichita river and
| its tributaries.
A negro poisoned a we'll in Fayette
| county short time SINCE Of which fifteen or
twenty persons drank. but fortunately none
of them were fatally affected.
Jim Currie, who killed the actor Porter, at
Marshall, is now in Vincennes, Indiana,
working il the machine shops of his brother
and leading soOer industIiou life.
Mr.. Dock Hearre and Miss Page both of
Paris, were married last week. He has
turned over a new Page in life. and she mas
Dock eted new beginning in Hearn.
NJ. Bob Baker, of Paris, last week stole
Miss Katie Wake, with the young lady's full
knowledge and consent, and stepping over
into the Indian nation, they were married.
The Texas Northwest, sprghtly weekly
paper at Montague has been enlarged from
II six to a seven column paper, and shows
other pleasing evidences of thrift and pros
perity.
Mrs. j. f. Graves, of Lamar county, who
short time since lost her mind and attempt
ed suicide by jumping into well, WAS car
ried TO the lunatic hsl lum ri Austin, where
she fingered only little time when death
relieved her sufferings.
There is in Wilson county species of
fax grown.that bids fair to become remu-
nerstive crop. 1t is indigenous to the poor
| black Jack lands that will grow
nothing else, and it is now attracting much
attention. 1t is said to bs but little Inferior
in quality to the cultivated hemp.
Saturday Afternoon at Gaines, lille, Young
man named John Hayes, clerk in a store
and Harrison Thurman, a ssloon-keeper, had
al alteration, during which Hayes plunged
knife into Thurman twice in the region of
the heart, the wounds being pronounced
mortal. 1t seems that Hayes had owed
Thurman small bill for drinks, and day
or two before the recontre he was
in Grigsby's saloon, where Thurman
entered and presented the bill. Hayes said
it Was ali right and told him to receipt it and
be wo Id pay it, which was done and the
| bill settled. Thurman then began charging
him with patronizing other saloons while he
was indebted to him, and carried the matter
so far as to draw and level pistol at Hayes,
who WAS unarmed. Hayes defed him and
charged him with being too cowardy to
shoot, but parties interfored and they were
separated. They met again Saturday, both
being slightly under the influence of liquor,
when the difficulty was renewed, with the
result as above given. Sympathy seems to
be with HAYES.