The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-26
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MIR :, W, Allen and Miss Emma Myers
were married In Falls county on the 10Th
iast
There has been mo- increase Of taAatlon"ln
Falls county in consequences Of the building
~ new jail,
Rev. John Davis, whllom rector Of the
Episcopal church NJ Marlin, has gone 10 take
charge Of the church ut DeniSon,
The steamship Colorado arrived at Calves
ton Sunday, from New York, with fraction
over three miles Of railroad iron for tho Inter,
national rallroad
@. q, Garrett and j, j, Msliugh, OF Calvert,
hayf < been appointed n committee for the
purpose have gone 10 work 10 raise funds
ior tho relefof Irish sufferers.
General A, 4, Hawthorn, West Point
graduate, aud er.BrlgAdlor'Gs Of tho
Confederate army 10 lecturlng In Eastern
Texas on what he SAW In Brazil,
The steamship Deronda arrived at Calves
ton Sunday from Cardif with cargo OF
fifteen hundred tons " railroad iron fol. the
~, Louis 81 Texas railway company.
Some ono set fire TO the prairie near the
line of Harris and Galveston counties Mon
day md several hundred tons Of hay, with
considerable fencing, was destroyed
A respectable married lady WAS outraged
hy negro IN Cass county Sunday and then
murdered The negro, being suspcioned,
was arrested, confessed his guilt and was
burned by u mob,
The Republicans of Leon county have
elected delegates TO tho Austin State conyen-
ton with instructions 10 instruct for Grant
for first choice for President and u. j.
Davis for second.
James Ilighsan and David Kemp refused
bail few weeks ago for the alleged murder OF
Smell in Hamilton county, have been re-
moved from the Hamilton 10 the Ernth
county Jail for safe keeping.
A man named Vitcr while out hunting on
Galveston Island Sunday, was shot by the
accidental discharge Of his gun. The lond
Of shot was lodged in the muscles Of his
arm, INJECTING II painful wound
Pleasant weather prevails in Red River
county; farmers are Rt work planting
corn, and new buildings are going up IN
Clarkyille. These evidences Of thrift and
prosperity are pleasant in the extreme to
contemplate.
Three young men, residents of McLennan
county, were arrested in Coryoll county day
or two ago, on the charge Of having robbed u
wagner of groceries in McLennan county
They were released Monday at Waco on
$3.50 bail each.
General Csnales, of tho Mexican army,
accompanied by General Trevino, also of
the Mexican army, Is very shortly TO visit
San Antonio, and General Ord, in command
Of the department, is making preparations to
receive and entertain them.
The celebration Of Wasbingtons birth
day, Monday, by the Athletics, At San An
tonic, was grand success. All the business
houses we're closed and the city empted
itself into San Pedro park, where the day
was spent in frolic and jolhty.
Candidates for various Offices in Red River
county are beginning alreadyto let the dear
people know that they are ready to sacrifice
themselves for the general good, and as an
earnest OF what they say they are hand
shaking and treating prcmlscuousy.
There was an exclusion frem Waco to the
Brazos bridge on the Houston X Texas Cen
trail railroads Waco Tap misunderstanding
in which some three hundred people partc-
pated. A man named Barton injured severe
ly one Of his knees trying to board the train
while in motion.
Mr.. John Thompson, Sunday, in Waco,
left his fine gray horse hitched TO his new
buggy standing in front of his house, neg lee
ting TO fssten the hitch rein. The horse be-
came frightened at something and ran away
breaking the buggy into kindling wood and
seriously injuring himself
Mike O'Donnsll, in the employ of the
Gulf, Colorado g. Santa Fe railroad company
at Galveston, had a leg broken Monday
afternoon. He was assisting to unload car
of sugar, when the plank they we're rolling
the sugar on from the car to the ground
slipped and fell, precipitating a hogshead
containing 1900 pounds Of sugar on him.
According to instructions given the Census
Commissioners by the proper authority
women are just as legible as census enumor"-
tors as men. The Waco Commissioner has
received, the Waco Exam nor says, app lea
ton for appointment as enumerator all the
men in his district and is now waiting to hear
from the women.
Accounts against the State for fees in
felony cases, the appropriation to pay which
has been expended, are being hawked about
the streets without finding buyers ut sixty
cents on the dollar, and other deficiency
claims are quoted at only forty-tive to itty
cents on the dollar. Funny, isn't it, when
the "pay.as-you-go policy" has filed the
States Golfers to overlooking.
Dennis Mannin, a Waterman for the Nor
gan steamers at Galveston, died very sud-
denly Monday under circumstances that lead
to the conclusion that he either took, or some
one gave him, dose of arsenic. lie had
taken drink of whisky in the morning and
went out to get another and on his return he
complained of great pain, which was accom-
panied with violent retching. He lived only
a few hours.
Captain George T. Olmsted, jr., is the
officer of the United States army detailed by
the War Department as Commanaant of
cadets at the Bryan A. & n.
college. Suit has Just been brought against
him BY the Government for the recovery of
$500 in money alleged to have been i'm
properly accounted for by him in the years
1869 and 1870, while acting as agent for the
Choctaw and Chickassw Indians 1t is appa-
rently piece of Washington red tape fool
ishness as the papers filed by the Government
show on their face that if any error or wrong
was committed it was only technical In the
make up ofvouchers.
Mrs. Lowell, who resides in Falls county,
near Bremond, was left a widow something
more than year ago, and with two children,
a fifteen year old daughter and thirteen yesr
old son. The daughter, realizing that they |