The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-25
TEXAS Topits,
Brenham now has gas.

to only one-half of one per cent.
Mr.. II. F. Voone and Miss Phena Crawford
were married in Waco last Sunday.
Sherman boasts that her cotton receipts
far outnumber those of Fort Worm.
Grading on the Lagrange tap Railroad
s will be finished in about fifteen days.
Mr.. Charles Copeland and Mrs. Sarah
Hunt were married in Denison on last SUI
day.
Mr.. John II. CLARK and Miss Luna Rucker
both of Paris, were married last Wednesday
night.
Since the frosts and SHOWS of this season
Ppossum dinners are the fashion in Denton
county.
Mrs. T. Blythe, of Sedslia, Mo, died nj
San Antonio Sunday afternoon, of con-
umption.
Mr.. William Preston and Miss Laura
sCourtway were married in Coryell county a
Few days ago.
Seven thousand bales of cotton have been
Shipped from Taylo sville, in Williamson
county, this season.
"A A coal mine owner west of San Antonio
has teams engaged hauling the black dia-
nonds into that city.
The state liberal league meets at Waco
10 day, but Bob lngersoll will not be- present,
as was expected and advertised.
Grading on the Texas Il st. Louis mario "
gauge railroad has been completed ten miles
beyond Athens toward Corsicana.
Mr.. Joe Cross got his hand into his gin
mws last week. in Cooke county, and lost q
bigger besides having his arm ripped up.
%Csptsin Lee Hall, late of the state rangers.
nd Miss Bessie @. Wedman will be married
AZ Lebanon, Tennessee, on the 25th instant.
The st. Louis & Texas narrow gauge rail
rpad will begin work between Corsicsna and
Waco about the middle of December uexl.
y A shepherd on the Rio Grande has sheep
with six legs, which he expects to sell to Bs!
pun for $500. 1t is about eighteen months
Old, and is double bodied from the shoulders
back.
Farmers in east Texas who had been too
busy picking cotton to dig their sweet pota-
toes lost them during the late snow and
fieeze.
Mr.. ingalls,, Grayson county farmer,
laughter, d an eight months old pig during
The cold snap that weighed $50 pounds when
dressed.
" Mad dogs have been infesting the Mays
vile neighborhood in Cooke county, and last
week an old man named Bracken was bitten
By one.
The residence of Mr.. L. 5. Stewart caught
fire Saturday night in Waco and damage TO
the extent of 5000 Yves done before the flames
W re extinguished.
Captain Fred w. Minor, United States
attorney for this district, was made the happy
father of a bouncing baby girl, at his home
In Paris, list week.
The Deni;on and Sherman cornet bands
had a musical concert at Denson on last
Tuesday and that night enjoyed themselves
at ball given by the Deniaon band.
"a dis.illeiy in Waco uses cotton seed for
fuel, as it's cheaper than coal or wood. 1t is
a wanton waste Of wealth to do this thing,
and Waco sadly needs a cotton seed oil mill.
"A man named Clutts and his brother-in-
law young man named Stephens, both
died in the same room in MiReola and within
the same hour one night last week. Malarial
fever was the cause Of death.
The men to whom Galveston let the cor
tract of boring aR artesian we'll, it seems will
beunable to carry it out, and it will ba relet,
asthat city is determined on trying the ex-
periment of obtaining we'll water.
A colored man named Anderson has been
solected to fill the vacancy in the presidency
of tho colored state normal school, near
Hampstead, occasioned by the death of Pro.
lessor Miner, and he has taken charge.
A number of farmers in Smith county
have taken advantage of the freezing weather
we have been having, and have killed their
PORK. They and their folks are now luxu-
rinating on spare-ribs, sausages, back.bones
and gatherings.
AZ the medical association recently held at
Weatherford, DR.. E. j. Beall, of Fort
Worth, read paper on the practice ofmed-
icine, in which he took the ground that pneu.
monia should be classed as a specific disease,
and not among the plegmasis.
A negro known in Waco as Cal. Allen and
WIG for seven or eight years has been q ter,
rof to that community and q source ofmuch
ronble to the officers, by his lawlessness
was given two terms in the penitentiary, ag
gTegating fifteen years, for horse stealing
saturday last.
The stable Of Mr.. Hermon Banks, near
Denison, was burned Sunday night, and il
was with difficulty he saved his residence
The building contained a lot of garden i'm
plehents, chest of tools, also several boxes
contaning wearing apparel. Mr.. Banks
Inn ks il the work of an incendisry.
The Jefferson Manufacturing company. it
seems, is IN assured fact in so far as the TAX
lngof the stock is concerned. A building
mas been secured and money is now being
nised to put force of thirty hands to work
cuttlng timber for seasoning ready to wor,
npin the spring. The stock to this concern
vas raised in Jefferson in two days.
Friday carload of salt arrived in Denison
,yer the Missouri, Kansas IL Texas road, and
when it was opened tramp stepped out. He
wasat once taken in charge, but rather than
peputto work on a stone pile he paid hi:
are from Parsons, Kansas, where he had
Sotten into the car, to Denison, 500. His
eet were badly frozen up to the ankles and
to be thawed out by physician.
Brown county has the youngest telegraph
pporator in the world. The station at Will
ms rancho, in that county. is managed BY
lth Miss Halle Hutchinson, only ninC
yeNs old. She is an exceptionally sprightly,
mH ligent child, and handles her instrument
~ rare skill and rapidity. She spends he
Nnre hours playing with her dolls, dressin.
zen and nursing them as she sits ut he
n9e awaiting business.
John Culp and companion were il
annesVille one day last week, and both file,
lp1ln Whiakav On their road homn thn,