The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-18
TEXAS TOPICS.

WNlO uillo u0AtnS IN CAlVeStOn for
the week ending Saturday last.
MIR. G, P. Wicks and Miss Laura NJ. Keller
were married day or two ago in Jefferson.
Mr.. A. Jasper and Miss Bette Shaw were
married IN Denton county on the 10th in
slant.
Brazos county has organized an immigra-
ton association, of which w. w. Long is
president.
Nine hundred immigrants from England
arrived in Houston Friday and went west
over the Sunset route.
According 10 the latest returns, Hon. c. c..
Potter, of Gainesville was elected Judge of
the Denton county district
MIR. Thomas McGathard, of Denton
county, has this year gathered $50 bushels
Of fine, heavy corn from ten acres of ground.
Hico, the present terminus of the Texas
Central railroad, is in the northeast corner of
Hamilton county, eighly-seven miles from
Waco,
The German Baptis, church of Houston.
of which Rev. f. Keifer is pastor, ha, pur-
chased u lot and will soon erect a church
edifce.
Bryan shipped during September and
October GAS bales of cotton and had 500
bales on the railroad platform on The LIST inst.
awaiting transportation.
The Texas & st. Louis nsrrow.gauge rail
rosd will be comnleted to Athens, II anderson
county, by Christmas. Twenty-four miles of
iron are laid west of Tyler already.
There is not dollar of money in the
McLennan county treasury belonging to the
school fund, with which to pay teachers SAL
aries, or to buy wood for the school. houses
A young man named S. H. McFall who
last week killed another man named Hanks,
in McLennan county, was discharged at
Waco Saturday, the evidence showing that
he acted in self defense.
johnson county has done remarkably well.
Out of a total vote cast for presidential cleo
tors OF 239, the republican electors received
only two and the greenback electors only
249, and Chambers, the greenback candidate
for vice-president, lives in that county.
The two little children of Mrs. Kouns. in
Cleburne, were afflicted with chills, and one
day las week she gave each of them dose
of qulnlne as she thought but the dose hap.
pened to be morphine, and but for the siren
uous efforts of Il physician both would have
died, and that fond mother overwhelmed
with grief that would have known no end
in this life
The best score ever made by Texas gun
club was made in Houston Friday evening
last Out of u possible twenty, eighteen
balls were the fewest number broken. p B,
Watson made nineteen; D. w @. Dunn,
eighteen; j. II. Mason, nineteen; w. +.
Black, twenty; S. X. McLlhenny, nineteen; j.
j. Weiss, nineteen-a total of one hundred
and fourteen.
The following is the list of active elders
on duty as members of the northwest Texas
conference Just closed at Waco
Thomas Stanford, James d Shaw, L K
Barcus, George r Bryce W Il Melug!n, w
Turner, A Murphy, S Frank, Samuel
Morris, Sam Wright, Fred Cox, James
Campbell, j S Lane, w j King, George w
Graves, II M Glass, G s Baird, N f Law,
" V Jones, james Mackey, NJ Il Wells Il
G Armstrong, p Mus.ett, G w Swofiord,
j K White, j NJ Trutt, F NJ Winbura, G !
E Brown, B Allison, John S |
Davis, II s P Ashby, j A Wal.
kup, h H Fl Burnett, w d
Robinson, j p Hulse, Il l. Armstrong, Horace
Bishop, John r Alien, Z A Baily, w RDl
Stockton, j j Davis, VIM Price, A D Gas.
kill, j M Jones, W IL Vaughn, Isaac N
Reeves James Gtsnl, Andrew Davis, Marion
Mills, Melville b Johnston, Joe Hines, S
) Scott j Perry, o M Addison, @ H Ellis,
Il b Henry, W B Allen, Peter w Gravis,
5 y Vaughn, j I Graham } Parker, X
Lane, VIM Vaughn, j j Shirley, A X Miller,
George + Fair, Levi Collins, L NJ Lewis,
W I'll Flshburn, w H Lefeyre, B + Stone.
The following report of the secretary of
the Northwest Texas conference, Just ad-
journed at Waco, shows how the Methodists
are hourishlng in the bounds of that con.
ference: Number Of church edifces. 155;
number of church parsoDages 49; number of
church preachers, 800; number of church
Numbers, 1856; received by ritual, 1908;
received by certificate 2,2O4; infants bsptised,
1884; adults baptised, 557; members died,
S24; dismissed by letter, $780,
explosions 15S; dropped by con
ference, 564; number sunday schools, 22l
officers and teachers, 1916; Sunday school
scholars, II 283; volumes in Sunday school
library 1926; sunday school "Visi
tors" taken, 1,492; magazines taken,
SSS; lesson questions taken, 4024;
Texas Advocates tsken 1850; other church
periodicals TAKEN 1884; value of church ed-
ices SlG6,7ll; value of church parsonsges,
$2o,725; value Of other church property, $50
Voo, w peiueu Oh UuuulDS huu repairing, |
S20,360 25; expended for Sunday schools,
S2,6Ol 27; assessed for foreign missions, ST.
IA 40; collected for foreign missions, ST.
996 3S; assessed for domestic missions, $3,0Ol |
collected for domestic missions, $2,785 40;
assessed for bishops fund, SAB 80; collected |
for bishops fund, 1852; assessed for confer
ence fund ST 800 II; collected for confer
ence fund, $50 40: assessed for presiding ell |
ders, SI7Sl; collected for presiding elders
S5,7O7 II; assessed for preachers in charge, |
S46292; collected for preachers in charge, |
SS3 266 43; collected for the poor, 1914 10; !
collected for other objects, $l,3l5 34 value
OF books sold, ST, l46 a.
Captain Charles Buckley, long connected
with the Texas press, died in New Orleans
few days ago. Captain Buckley was well
and favorablJ known in Houston, Galveston
and San Antonio, and was facial and pleas
ing writer. He was the author of number
OF serials, several dramas, and won consider
able distinction for himself by his letters
from London over the nom de plume of |
Tom Vspid. He came to Texas Just prior
70 the late war, organizing castles Of the
knights of the Golden Circle, of which
order his uncle, General George Buckley,
was the originator. The New Orleans Dem.
ocrat speak ng of his demise, says: "a small
party of Borrowing friends Yesterday &C.
COMMANDED IN the prava Tho -, :; q a.