The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-25
TEXAS TOPICS.

Jake Williams, sheep man, living near
San Antonio, spent week in that city spree
ing and frolicking, and Friday night last,
from the effects Of drink, he grew tired of
the world and took big Use of morphine,
which rested him.
Mr.. Bunk Mayes, Of Freestone county,
while hoing over an acre and half of new
ground last week, killed seventeen snakes,
fourteen Of which were grouhd-rattlesnak
He had eight acres more to hoe and thought
from the start he made that he would get up
a pretty good snake store by the time he fin
ished
The San Antonio Express says: "a
Mexican fsmily residing near Graytown,
tyenty-one miles to the southeast, are in the
city with child about nine years of age
which was bitten upward of two weeks ago
on the right hand by IL rattlesnske. The
entire hand is decayiDg ard will have to be
amputated. By the use Of herbs, the parents
prevented the poison from pervading the
child's system and thus causing its death.
The following account of the killing of a
convict we clip from the Jefferson Jimpli.
cute: "On the night of the 10Th instant,
about 10 o'clock, a convict entered the horse
lot OF Mrs. Ferrell for the purpose of stealing
horse, and was shot and instantly killed by
Young John Ferrell. Said convict escaped
from Kelly's camp about 10 a. m. the same
day, after being shot at twice by the guard.
AT the inquest held by S. j. White, Esq, the
iurv decided that it was a clear case of iusti-
liable homicide,thus exhonerating young Fer
rel from all blame The convict was identi-
fed by Captain Caidenhead. and bore tie
name Of ii. Q. Halliday and appeared to be
about "a or % years of age, and lacked
about years Of filling out his term of penal
sevitude."
The snake editor of the HERALD is absent
on business for the paper, but that his de-
partment may not be neglected in his
absence, we reproduce the following from
the Canton, Van Zandt county, Chronicle;
"Sam Scates, our snake man, comes to the
front again. Last year he said the snakes
caught one of his calves and swallowed its
tail this time he says he killed a snake and
threw it in the fire where he was burning
brush, burned the snakes head off and
live, grown fox squirrel ran out Of the snake.
BY good man and news
paper reader. We have heard of only
one man that beats Sam on Snakes. His story
runs w IillS CuGCL' u ShlAOu JUS NNS y us
in the hens nest, the snake swallowed Il few
eggs and while resting on them crawled
partly through the Jug handle, then swal-
lowed the remaining dozen. Ills snskeship
could neither go forward or backward, and
in order to extricate himself swallowed the
jug
What is left of some of the defunct Wa
Goes is coming to light, as in learned from the
following from the Waco Telephone
'Whie excavating on Eighth and Wash
ington streets yesterday, to lay the water
Mains the workmen dug up the skeleton
of man, evidently an Indian, who had
been resting there for many years. The
frame was in perfect state of preserva-
ton, and was that of man fully six feet
high. That he was comparatively young
man was attested by the fine set OF I'M
blemished teeth, not one of which was miss.
ing. The body was about two and half
feet under the surface, buried face downward,
with the feet pointing due north. Several
pints of beads and fancy buttons were found
around the wrists and waist. Mr.. Il. L.
White, of the water company, has the skull,
stecth, beads, etc. This is the third skeleton
unearthed here by the workmen while laying
water pipes They are the remains of the
once powerful tribe of Wacoes that held
sway over this section before the white man
knew it."
The Morris County Banner furnishes the
following decidedly rich matrimonial item ::
"Quite novel marriage took place at the
courthouse last Saturday evening, the con-
tracing parties being Luke Bowser, a mu-
latto, aged twenty-five, and the widow Nancy
Putt, aged forty-eight, and some blacker than
Egyptian darkness and with only one tooth
in her head. The nuptial knot was tied by
Judge Moseley but not until after Luke 5
sister had raised storm of objections to dat
marriage" as Luke was her "own dear brud-
der, and Mrs Putt was her own dear mudder-
in law, and dat Luke had promised to
marry dat dar gal (pointng to Il
blushing dusky damsel in the
crowd), and dat de relations would be so
mixed up dat YOU couldn't tell WHICH from
which," But Mrs. Putt soon Putt all the
objections aside with rebuke to the rebel
lious daughterin-law and the marriage VOWS
were taken. The last we saw of the couple
they were driving out of town and Luke was
grinning until his mouth looked like the en-
trance to the Mammoth cave, whilethe bride
occasionally showed her solitary tooth IN
smile that seemed to say:
"fhere never W. sak Dose sn gray
Blu what some ginder, soon on late,
SOUGHT out her aged Crinklel charms
Anu took her for his mate "
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