The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-01
TEXAS TOPICS,

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The cotton crop 10 Washington county
ha- about nll been cold,
4 Greonbaell meeting IA 10 be held In
S,ophpnyile, on tho 9Th Instant
qho Democracy In Washington county
recognizing campaign clubs
Aelag, line Is shortly to DO established be-
tWssu gainesville and Henrietta,
A drlsgisl In Pulo Pinto has violin that
WIS made In 1871, aud Is worth 200.
IIogs are dying IL great numbers In Rralh
county, Of n GIaease similar to tcab In sheep,
The survey Of new road direct from San
hui,aio to Fort Clark gives tho distance Us
21l md,ea.
Wogd, on tho Texas q Pacific railroad
through Palo Pinto county 10 progressing
rapidly
Lamar county Democrats In convention
assembled, instructed 10 favor Of the two
lhrde rule,
Three highway robbers have been relieving
volplo they met Of their yauables out In
RrOth county,
The 6tssm planning mill Of Mr., briggs was
blows down during storm NJ whitney u
few nights $50.
This spring, In Goliad county, blooms
leaves and fruit haycappeared simultaneously
on the peach trees,
NM, Lucy \. Majors, Of Waco died Mt
San Marcos on tho 9th ultimo she having
gone tholo for her health.
An otter was shot aud killed IN the San
AVionio river in Rolugo county last week,
The hrit otter ever seen in the county.
General Canales, of the Mexican army, Is
now IN San Antonio 10 confer with General
Ord on Rio Grande frontier matters.
CAPTAIN Lee Hall, of the State police, "a
now ia Southwest Texas. He expects shortly
10 make visit to North Carolina to visit his
parents.
The transcript of the Baylor county land
records now Ia possession Of Clay county, Is
being made for Baylor Ms II Is now mn organ
Red county,
Many horses have died in Dewitt county
recently from peculiar disease, which Mt
tscks them In tie loins, causing them TO lose
theuse of their hindquartors.
"A delegation of citizens from Paris are In
CiGNqeston 10 confer with business men IN that
CITY relative to the extension Of the Inter
national railroad TO Paris.
II seems that the Independent movement Is
g,rgsnzing ut Austin and that Col. Wash
Jones, member of Congress from the Fifth
district will be the head of 1t.
The mail-carrior's team gave out last week
between Coleman and Buffalo Gap, and he
continued or his journey on foot, carrying
the null and walking six'y-avo miles
An ok musket, owned by some Kansas
bound negroes in camp near TeXarkana,
wenl of accidentally Monday, wounding a
twelve,year.Od boy, probably fatally, IN the
thigh.
Five persons have been sent TO the peni-
Tertiary from Houston county, in the Dis
trict court now in session at Crockett, whose
term aggregate thirty years One goes
nineteen years for murder in tho second de-
gree.
Pease River City has been laid off on the
centre section of land in Hardeman county,
one hundred and twenty-five miles west OF
Henrietta, Clay county. 1t is three-quarters
of a mile from Pease river, and is pretty
site.
A party of Comanche Indians passed over
Curtis range, on Pease river last week, and
killed Eve head OF cattle, Two men tried to
drive them off, but the Indians showing fight
thew desisted. The Indians then went to the
Wichita agency.
sam Fryarsop, an escaped Jail bird from
Columbia, Tennessee, turned upnot long ago
in Palo Pinto. He had good time until he
found out that his whereabouts had been as
certained, when he borrowed all the money
he could, stole $2S and left rejoicing
Monday night the third attempt was made
IA burplarize the Deaf and Dumb asylum
within week. 1t seems TO be an organized
hand of six or eight men who are making
these attempts, and they are armed with
Winchester rifles and six-shooters.
Some of the Taxpayers of Galveston have
oned out A writ of Injunction, restraining the
tsv.colIector from collecting five and half
cents on the dollar, levied by the county for
having up the bonds of the Gulf Santa Fe
and Colorado railroads for CANCELLATION.
Monday night at Houston. when General
Grant stepped out on the balcony OF the
HTgtcbins house 10 address the people, such
crowd followed him that the balcony began
10 siye way and the multitude skedadled:
Ever Grant did not stand upon the order OF
his going.
Sheriff Robinson, of Robertson county,
accidentally dropped his pistol in saloon at
Bremond. Saturday night, and one barrel
going off, the ball struck Marion Wyatt
above the knee Joint and passing around
lodged under the skin on the upfss font
part of his thigh.
Victoria county, went out to his barn a few
DAYS ago to shoot an o'possom that had dohii-
ciled Hereunder, and while kneeling down,
hooking underline barn, the pistol was acct
dentally discharged, the ball crashing through
his brain and causing instant death.
Mr.. A. L. Corning, who was Greenback
candidate for the Sixteenth Legislature, hav-
ing contracted cold which terminated in
Rheumatism. is now in Waco under the
treatment of "a mon named Sewers, who claims
TO cure disease by the laying on of bands.
Mr.. Corning says he ID rapidly improving. !,
Mr.. Ben Voght all esteemed citizen OF
There was a free fight at BRENNAN Mon
day evening, between Some railroad hsnds,
in which negro named Horace Lindsey also
became involved. An 1rishman made a lick
at him with knife, cutting him slightly
across the abdomen, when Horace took the
knife away from him and made a luuge,
wound;no hin, In the neck. but not