The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-06
TEXAS ToPIcs.

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ton barge, oars, ETC.
During tho recent norlher largo number
Of cattle died IN Washington county
l., Hines died, aged ~ years near Chapel
Hill, Washington county, i've or six days
Agnt
Emanuel slreman IN tho dny-elghlh year
Of hb age, died NJ PspaloIe, Boo county lat
week,
The people Of Houston ara discussing
whether or not they will have State FAIR
this year,
influenza has prevailed TO distressing ca
leut throughout tho southwestern counties Of
tho State,
Mrs, Mary lioecler, living near La Grange,
has just been adludged lnfpneby Il jury delu'
npllco lnqulreHdo'
A nan nam,d William Lewis was brutally
murdered by unknown persons Va Llyu Dab
county fcw days ago
Tho young ladies OF Rookport Aro making
preparations 10 glyea grand leap year mas
quomdo ball on the I'm inst,
on tho evening" Of tho Sd int, Dr. D. Croly
Shaw lRte Of Alabama, ind Miss Mamie u,
sypoN were married In Marlin.
lakewood has Just Ind new school house
completed, md Miss Agnes jurnel Smith, n
popular teacher viii begin school Monday,
The Democrats Of McLcnnNn county hold
llpir convention on tho 10Th inst, to choose
delegates 10 the State convention Ut Galyes-
ton.
Tho Young grass Is growing finely IN CALLS
hnn county, Tho farmers Nil have their
lands prepared, and planting Is going
ahead,
Tho Collector Of taxes nj Austin has o1-
am med tho bell'puncbes In that city with n
microscope, ~ 500 how many drinks hive
been registered,
MaLonnan county has two wings Of the
Ropublcnpatty, the Davis aud anti Davis,
United states District Attorney Evans lead
ing the antics
Gid Lincowin, convicted Tuesday in the
Federal court NJ ustln Of robbHg the mails
was sentenced TO nincly-nno years in the
Penitcntary.
Tho mills Mt Beaumont ar closing down on
work because Of the scarcity logs, owing 10
the low stage Of water in the river The arst
rise will bring down plenty
On Saturday last the engineers on the
Texas & Pacific, going westward, were In six
miles Of Belle PLAIN, Callahan county, and
heading straight for that town.
A. II. Baldwin Il Co., Of New Orleans,
have subscribed 500 TO assist in the con-
struction Of tap rnlro d from Alleyton,
Colorado county, to La Grange
Two colcred roustabouts on the steamboat
Hooker, ut Beaumont got into n fight with
two other negroes on Wednesday, and Que
Of them drew pistol, shooting his enemy
twice through the arm The shootst is un-
der arrest,
McIennan county boasts that she ha'
$1,000 in her treasury, and Fayette county
comes ba k growing that she does not owe II
cent to any one, has Sl07.32 Of county funds
in the treasury, and, besides, SOB o belong
ing TO her school fund.
1t concede in Washington county that
W. X. Holman, independently has been elected
Senator for that district by about 100
majority. Had the Democrats of Austin and
Washington counties turned out and voted
he would have been defeated.
There are, according to the report of the
. Commissioner of the General Land Office
now about ready, 20,0O0,000 acres of unap.
propriated public domain, Of which 12,C00,
900 acres are reserved for sale and pre-emp-
ton and 100000 are subject TO location.
Mr. Charles Gordon, recently sent to this
State as commissioner by the General Gov
eminent to accumulate data ss to the States
meat producing facilities, etc., is now in
Southwest Texas inspecting the beef-packer-
les of Fulton and throughout that section
A Mexican tramp, run over by an lnterna-
tional 4 Great Western railroad train Il few
nights pgo while sleeping on a bridge, died
Wednesday night IN the hospital at Houston,
L., al 1nl, 20 l,i,
ex-conyict and said he was drunk when run
over.
A. T. Monroe, of Crockett has brought
suit against w. j.. Denmar, of Angelina
county, for defamation Of character, laying
his damages Mt $40 900. Denmsn, it seems,
ntimated that. Monroe, when Quarter-mNs-
ter in the Confederate army, had too much
government money eaten up by the rats.
Mr. j. w. Pecor, connected with a shrimp
canning establishment at Galveston, is in
specting Arkansas and Corpus Christi bays to
ascertain if there are shrimps enough in Ell
Their of those localities to Justify him in NOV
ing his establishment from Galveston as his
expenses there are heavy and he can only OBJ
tain shrmps enough to putup three hundred
buckets per day, when he is we'll prepared
to put up five hundred.
On Monday Chptain VI. y. ERIN, engineer
of construction on the extension of the
Houston Il Texas Central Waco Tap, met
with severe accident at Whitney. He was
standing on car on which we're
two water tanks, and the car ran
into stationary fat car, with
such force as to break one Of the tanks from
its fastenings, and it sided against Capt,in
PERKINS, foot, jamming it against the brake.
rod, crushing the bones OF the front part of
his foot He will be laid up long time
whit
The following shows the condition of the
weather for the month of February, 1880, as
recorded at Galveston: Highest barometer
30.558; lowest barometer 29699; monthly |
range $50; highest temperature "a; lowest
temperature 40 monthly range 34;prevailng |
direction of wind, SOUTH greatest velocity Of
wind "a miles from the northwest on the l4th;
total number of miles 1908; number Of fair
day, 6; number of clear days 8; number of
cloudy days 20; number of days on which
rain fell 16 Comparative temperatures
1873, 593; 1874, SO; 1875, 55.8; 1876, 60; 1877,
56.2; 1878, So 8; 1879, $685. 1880, $50. Com
parative preciptation-1S73,,5 so inches; 1874