The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-09
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licenses issued them last week In Galveston,
One mill at Beaumont shipped last week
$4,000 feet Of lumber al ! sawed during the
week,
One hundred and seventy pups are now
In attendance on tho Orange Masonic and
Female Institute,
The Houston gun club Is practcng regu-
larry now for the grand tournament " come
OF nj Dallas next May,
-Four marriage licenses were Issued by the
clerk Of Harris county Inst week and eight
souls no doubt boat rs four by this time,
Bishop Gregg visits Houston on Sunday
next, II being his annual visitation, when the
ordinance OF confirmation will DO admin-
stered
Burglars ply their noiarous Ryocation
nightly In Houston, 10 tho gr0at annoyance
Of good citizens and TO the detrment Of the
good name Of tho city,
Willie Gray Thomas, lawyer liability Mt
Austin, and son'in-law Of Hon, John 5,
Ford, superintendent Of the Deaf and
Dumb asylum, died Friday,
What glorious country IL South Texas
They SIRE beginning TO have picnes around
Orange already and they wont DO ripe m this
section for two months yet,
The concert nj Marshall Friday night for
the benefit OF the Irish sufferers was mag
nllcient success, the house being crowded
and the performance admirable indeed.
Fathers Daman, Swscro AMI La Gac of
the Catholic church, commenced on Sunday
in Houston, mission service, which they
will continue daily for ton days or more.
The EpiscopaliNns ut Beaumont have or
ganized Il church and made arrangements for
preaching by minister once month and
lay services the other Sundays In the month.
A prairie fire between Houston and Gal
weston SGT fire 10 the ties OF the railroad about
half way between those cities Saturday, but
the hands on passing train eStinguished It,
One mill at Beaumont cut during Pebru-
AIRY, running twenty-three and n half days,
4,0iS logs, aggregating l,05S,S00 feet of lum'
Der, and in addition made 100000 pine
shingles.
Saturday tho body of Isham Smith, col
ored boy seven years Of age, was discovered
floating in Galveston bay near the railroad
bridge. He was drowned near Virginia point
on the 9th of January last,
Saturday morning little coorod boy on
board schooner lying ut the wharf at Gal
weston, attempted TO kindle u fire in the galley
with kerosene, when the can exploded and
burned him very severely
The Gulf Colorado e. Santa Fe railroad
commence to-day running through daily
trains between Galveston and Belleyille, Aus
tin county, distance OF ono hundred and
seven miles, and expects to run its cars into
BRENNAN by the end Of this month.
The Texas Medical College and Hospital
at Galveston, has Just created the new chairs
of clinical surgery, clinical medicine and
clinical diseases of women and children. APP
pications will be received until the 9th Of
May for these professorships, when the trus-
tees will meet and proceed to an election.
For the months of January and February
according to the bell-punch registers, only
1886 alcoholic and 63,6iS malt drinks were
taken in Galveston. Mardi GrOs came off in
February and it must have been either very
small or very temperate crowd that visited
that city then.
Galveston seems to be q way station for
Morgan steamers. Saturday there were four
vessels of that line in that port-the Hutch
inson, bound for Clinton (Galveston's bette
noir) the Whitney, from Clinton for Morgan
City: the Eransas, en- route for Corpus
Christi, and the l. Q. Harris, en- route for
Brazos, Santiago.
Mrs. w. D. Cleveland, on the 2Sth ultimo.,
the anniversary Of the death of her sister,
Mrs. Abbie Latham Tryon placed in Christ
church, Houston, work of commemoratlon
in the shape of a heavy gold.plated cross,
four feet high. The inscription is as follows;
"In memory of my sister, Abbie Latham
Tryon, entered into rest February 18th, 1878.
Christ church, Houston, A. ID. 1880"
Judge Josiah +. Crosby, distinguished
lawyer of Houston, and Vice-President of
the Texas & New Orleans railroad, is at
Washington urging the importance Of an APP
preparation for the benefit Of the bar at
Sabine Pass, showing that it was the best and
deepest harbor on the coast Of Texas, and if
an appropriation sufficient to amountto any
thing is made he gave assurances that it
would a. once be made the centre Of several
railroads.
The Catholics are beginning the construc-
ton of church at Orange. They have
bought plat of ground nine hundred feet
square which they have enclosed with a
handsome picket fence. The church will be
6lx26 raet and the tower IS feet high. The
sides will be westher boarded twothirds Of
the way up and the balance bsttened, which
will add to the beauty of its appearance. All
the material for the building has been Sc
cured and ia on the ground, except the ratters
and studding
Captain Lee Hall, of the rangers, was in
Austin Saturday, and his version Of the kill
ing of Miguel Martinez by his company, a
short time since at Fort Ewell,
about which friends and relatives of
Martinez are making so much commoton at
San Antonio, shows that the rangers were
iustifabe. Martinez had, he said, aeknow-
lodged being horse thief to = member OF
his company who was acting detective, and
had agreed to deliver TO him a certain
number of horses, to be stolen from Hon.
Santos Ceneyides, at five dollars per head,
but hearing that the rangers were in the vi
cinity, he went to the detective and postponed
the delivery. Then the rangers determined
to arrest him without waiting, and to that
end the detective sought him and decoyed
him into trap When he saw the rangers,
he opened fire on them, and they, after being
fired on more than once, returned the saluta-
ton and killed him.
Houston is now in the throes of a NUM-
cipal canvass. The ward meetings of the
Democracy have been held, and nominated
candidates for Aldermen and selected dele
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