The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-02
TEXAS TOPICS.
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tree.
The Baptist association for that section
begins at Blossom Prairie, Lamar county, to-
morrow
The International railroad is now run
ming cars to Onion creek, twelve miles west
ofAustin.
All drinking saloons close at II o'clock at
nigh. in Georgetown, in obedience to city
ordinance.
The freight business of the international Il
Great Northern railroad company is greatly
increasing.
There has lust been Hancock and English
club formed in Georgetown, and it meets
every Saturday.
Too much rain and wind have seriously
Injured the crops of grain and cotton in
Aransas county.
The cotton crop around Blossom Prairie
station, in Lamar county, ia estimated at half
bale per acre.
Brady City, county site of McCulloch
county is "a pretty little town of 200 inhabi-
tlnts and is growing.
Mrs Dr.. A. Il. Fitzpatrick, mos! estima.
bic lady, died at Savasota Monday of con-
g}stion of the brain.
An old man named Woodington was muir.
dered in Baylor county near Seymour, Cor
his money about a week ago.
The Democrats of Galveston cannot agree
rs to whether they will have a county nomi-
mating convention or not.
The Northwestern Texas conference of the
Methodist church South will be held at
Waco, commencing November 10th.
A surveying party of the Gulf, Colorado
& Santa Fe railr sd is in Brown county, run
ming prelmna lines for that road.
San Antonio, the second city in population
in the state, wants the letter delivery system,
and will not be content without it. Why
not
A petition has been circulated in Rock.
port and Arkansas county generally for sign
ers asking Governor Roberts to visit that
section.
Walter j. Rice, commercial traveller f.
LeGierce & Co., of Galveston, died at Nav
asOta, on Friday, after an illness of several
weeks.
The business men and property owners of
Palestine held meeting Monday night to
consider how best to increase the trade of
that place.
Georgetown has aspirations as a cotton
market this season. Several cotton buyers
will be there to pay cash for all the staple
they can get.
Mr.. Samuel Gholston found the tooth of q
mastodon in Coleman countya few days ago.
1t was in a perfect state of preservation, hav-
ing petrifed.
Mr.. G. f. Stephens, formerly of the Dali
las & Wichita railroad, has been appointed
general superintendent of the Texas & St.
Louis railroad.
The total assessment for Bastrop county this
year amounts to $2,S17,457. Town lots in
the town of Bastror foot up the handsome
little sum Of $ls0,SS0.
The city council of Austin has given the
variety theater proprietors of that city
twenty days in which to close up their bust
ness, but they only laugh at the council.
The plank monument erected in 1871 to
mark the spot where seven teamsters were
butchered by Santanta and his Kiowa cut
throats in Jack county, is fast going to de-
cay.
Major Penn has secured five hundred con-
versions at his camp meeting at Moffet, in
Bell county. There have been from 5000 to
1000 present all the time and it still
progresses.
The Express is agitating the question of
having the city government of San Antonio
employ man to collate and tabulate Stats
tics of the ages, nationality, color and occupa-
ton of the citizens of that city.
News has been received at Galveston that
165 immigrants left Liverpool, on board the
steamer St. Louis, for Galveston, on the 18th
instant. They ought to be in that city in the
course of week.
Miss Ella Price, daughter of DR.. Price, OF
Graham, a young lady beloved by large
circle of acquaintance, committed suicide at
her home on Monday afternoon by taking
arsenic. The cause was disappointment in
love.
Flatonis has a hollow pated muggins in
The person of DR.. Rev. Bristow. who pro.
poses to fast for Fifty days. This thing Of
doing without food has gotten to be q
nuisance. 1t IL both stale and improbable
and a marked evidence of idiocy.
The completion of rail connection between
Houston and New Orleans and the arrival of
the first through train at Houston on Mon
day created considerable excitement. An
artillery salute Of forty rounds was fired,
champagne was demolished and tossts
drank.
The two young men, Jube Cohen and
Tom Will Spark man, arrested on suspicion
of having murdered Rev. X. L. Edwards, in
Ellis county, some ten days ago, have had
their preliminary examination and were dis
charged, the state failing to make even the
semblance of q case against them.
Mr.. B. F. Reaville, an old Texan, who
c4me to this country in 1924, from Kentucky,
died at his home in Chapel Hill, Washing
ton county, Monday, at the age of eighty.two
years. He was highly respected citizen
and his death cast gloom over the place.
All business houses were closed during the
funeral.
Ex-Governor James w. Henderson died at
his residence in Houston, on Monday last.
Since 1878 he had been an invalid, having
early that year received a psralytic stroke.
He was one of the moving spirits in the early
days of Texas, a gentleman of great intellec!
and lawyer who stood atthe head of the
bar where he practiced.
Some of the farmers in this state are paying
as high as 81 per hundred for cotton picking
and board. A good hand can pick say 400
pounds of seed cotton per day. This will re.
qure four days for the picking of one bale of
lint cotton at cost of SIC for, the picking and
not less than 50 for 4 days board, making a