The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-07
FORT WORTH.
Correspondence of the Herald,
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correspondence of the Herald.
FoRr WORTH, Aug. 6, 1850.
The dogs in the pound broke out last
night and the boys will be glad to make more
money to day by catching them The
Greelback Weaver club will meet at the
court house tomorrow night. Forty-fve
Joined the club the other night.-John r.
Orowdus, who was arrested here q few days
ago for killing man at Leadville, Col. has
been released. He says he killed the man in
self defense.--The picnic on Mary's creek
Yesterday was a very pleasant and successful
sffair.---Hsrry Furman will make Demo.
cratic speech at Oak Grove on Saturday, 18th
inst Greenback speakers are invited 10 par
tcipate.---Six carloads of cattle were
shipped to Chicago to-day.-Ex,Govern
Brown, Colonel Noble and Mr.. Harris ar
rived and went on toward the terminus OF
the road this evening: Their business is 10
receive twenty miles of the T. & P. railroad
beyond Weatherford.-We have not been
more pleased for months than we we're thi.
morning to meet our worthy friend, the Hon.
John D. Tempeton, who is NEW visiting our
city.-County court is in progress, and
Milton Thomas is being tried to-day on a
charge Of malicious mischief, for cutting up
buggy-top with an axe. which is creating
more interest than usual Fakes brick
building, on the corner Of Second and Hous.
ton streets, is rapidly being built. The frame
Just north, it is reported, will be torn down
and large brick stoIe.room erected by Dr..
jackson. The frame house adjoining that is
being torn down to-day to make room for a
brick house, to be built at once by W. B.
Cromwell, and the frame building Just NORTH
of that will be torn away next
week by W. II. Mamie, who will
erect a brick.--Henry Furman, Democrat
of Fort Worth, j. G. Kirby, Greenbacker, of
Dallas, will speak at Bedford tomorrow
Stages run regularly from here to Gle
burne, leaving here every morning Except
Sundays at 7 o'clock q. m. A stage also
leaves here at o'clock o. ~, on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, for Decatur. Colo
nell j. Gallagher is proprietor Of the line
Report comes from many neighborhoods OF
the injury of cotton by boil worms. j. W.
Caraway, Of Denton county, reports that
these worms are great scourge in his
neighborhood. --The plaza has been more
crowded with Wagons and teams than usual
to-day and fully 1900 bushels of wheat are
reported on the s o'clock A.
m. train will have time to eat breskfast..at
the Waverly house. 1t is close
to the depot and the fare is Splendid
The report of go crops still comes 10 our
city Messrs. Fay aud Jones, from Mon
tague and Clay, yesterday reported corn in
those counties to be about 100 per cent be-.
ter than ever known. Many farms there will
average fifty bushels per acre.--About one
thousand telegraph poles went to the front
last night.--The number OF cars on our
yard here for the last few days has exceeded
the number at any time since the extension
reached Weatherford. "A new switch en-.
CINE arrived yesterday. 1t is q real beauty,
and is numbered SO, showing that the T. e. P.
company has more than fifty engines in its
service.--Quite an exciting scene on First
street yesterday was Texas cowboy
subduing a Texas mustang pony
Local Option Monarch reigns supreme at the
Fort and McBrayer plays we'll its part. They
are favorite brands, and are to be had at the
Local Option saloon, presided over by the
genial Chris Rintleman and Charles Hitler.
The mbibing of either and few whitfs from
Pacific Railway Improvement cigar is suf-
Geient to make the grand duke smile.