The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-31
TEXAS TOPICS.

They grow buckwheat in Fannin county
seven feet high.
A Methodist camp-meeting began in Bel
ton last Thursday.
Butter, country made, brings twenty cents
pound in Bolton.
The boil worm has appeared in some cot
ton fields in Bell county.
There was no preaching at Bonham on
Sunday of last week.
Burning sulpbur in the cotton field is said
to destroy the boil worm.
A Greenback club has just been organized
near Ladonia with thirty members.
A wool cardiug and spinning factory is be-
ing erected in Cuero, De Witt county.
The caterpillar, or genuine cotton worm.
has madeits appearance in Bastrop county,
Corn crops in Smith county are better this
year than they have been before since the
war.
Rev. Mr.. Owen immersed fourteen persons
in Bots Dare creek, in Fannin county, last
week.
Mr.. Will Dixon, and Mrs. Mary Darum,
both of McIennsn county, were married last
Friday.
Iron for the Texas & ST. Louis narrow
gauge railroad is being received daily at
T Ter.
The boil worm has done no damage in
Coryell county, although it has been in few
farms.
Mr.. John B. Smith died at his home near
Tyler few days ago, at the age of iifty-tve
years.
The public square of Honey Grove is to
be enlarged by taking in another block OF
ground.
The Republicans at Navssota have
organized Garfield and Arthur club seventy
stong.
Precinct No. /, of Guadalupe county, has
instructed against non .ations for county Of
fcers.
Taylorville, on the International railroad,
in Williamson county, is anxious to be in
c0rporated.
1t is estimated that there will be $4,000
bushels ofpecans gathered and sold in Brown
county this fall.
The boil worm has not amounted to much
i Smith county, and the hot, dry weather is
killing them rapidly.
Rev. DR.. o. Fisher, of the Methods
church, who had been preaching in Texas for
forty years, died at Austin, Satmdly.
Miss Minnie ArbucSle of Seguin, an in
teresting young lady, daughter of Captain
Charles Arbuckle, died Saturday morning.
Joe G. Kindred, ESQ.,, has been nominated
for the legislature for the tifty.ninth district,
Colorado and Lavaca counties, by the Dem
corats.
There has never before been SO much corn
raised in Williamson county as has been
made this year, and the same can be said of
the cotton crop.
Mr., Alexander Story, of McLennan
county, recovered, the other day, in johnson
county, three or four fine horses stolen from
his farm last March.
Rev. S. w. Turner had 14,50O feet of
lumber, which he was kiln drying to build
him a house with, accidentally burned up at
Tyler few nights ago.
The three schools heretofore taught at
Salado, in Bell county, have been consolida-
ted into one, and splendid institution of
learning is being built up.
A little daughter of Mr.. Thomas Jones,
of Fannin county, was bitten by copper
head snake last week but prompt remedies
saved the little ones life.
The wife of Judge Nugent being very i'll,
compelling his presence at home, j. j. Har--
deman, ESQ.,. of Coryell, was elected a special
judge to hold court in Erath county.
Every town from Buffalo Gap, Taylor
county, to Bolton, distance of more than
100 miles, has representatives at Major Penn's
csmp.meeting at Moffat, in Bell county.
-. The New Orleans and Houston cotton ex-
changes were sending each other congratula-
tory kilograms Saturday over the completion
of the Texas & New Orleans railroad.
A company has been formed and the neces
ssry stock taken to connect Cleburne with
Dallas by telegraph line. The line will con
meet with the Pacific line at or near For
Worth.
Bolton seems to have considerable boom
about now. The prospects of railroad in
few months, and the splendid crop raised, has
given an impetus to business that builds the
place right up.
Captain H. W. Lightfoot, of Paris, son-in-
law of United States Senator Maxey, was
nominated for state senator at Honey Grove
on Saturday, and James Patterson, of Delta
county, for Aoater representative.
Major Bethel Coopwood, a lawyer Of
Austin, accidentally shot himself in the left
arm ana sue, iodturuay, Wniie surveying lanu
in Wilson county. The wound is SO serious
that amputstion Of the arm is necessary.
Captain j. F. Battle, of Round Rock,
having been left legacyin Virginia, started
with his family short time since after it,
and on his way was in a railroad accident,
whereby one of his children was killed.
Centipedes are becoming quite numerous
in Coryell county, and quite number of
people haze been stung with them Of late.
Local application of soda, dampened, or
ammonia, whichis better, and the imbibation
of whisky neutralizes readily the poison.
The report of the slaughter of the johnson
family, formerly of Waco, by Indians while
they were en- route to FL Paso, turns out to
be untrue, as letters have been received from
them since from Fort Davis, where they had
stopped because of the presence of Indians
in that country.
Last week man named Jenkins had been
cleaning out we'll for Mrs. Bob Miller, in
Bell county. On being drawn out of the
we'll the rope broke just as he reached the
top, and he was preeipitated to the bottom,
distance of ffty-four feet, sustaining a
fracture of one of his legs and the serious
crushing of one foot.
Master Reece Brooks, of Waco, fell into
yvall th;rtv .three feet deem Friday Ha ro-