The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-16
TEXAS TOPICS.

we're married near NFeChNllle lAsl week.
Mr.J. S. Psrtain, prominent merchqn
H. Rockdse, Diet at that place on Monday
nj Mr. Albert Patterson and Miss Hattie He'll
ner we're married in Hunt county a few night
go
II man named Dave Franklin was arrested
in Houston Monday, charged with stealing !
L horse
1 The epizootic is raging among the horses
Il and mules in Weatherford and Parker
county
III Mr. II. Rollins and Miss Mollie McKir.
ney were married at Van AlStyns, on the Oh
instant.
Dr. ]. B. McLenard, county treasurer Of
Brszos county, died at his home in BRYAN
si Monday.
Mis- Sallie OllingNr, thirteen vesr old
grl, caught fire near Piano Monday and was
burned TO death.
n The electoral vote of Texas was delivered
BY the messenger, DR.. Graham, to the vice.
president on Monday.
Mr.. Leonard Isaacs, Rockdale merchant
and Miss Annie King, were married at d..
Wills on Thursday last.
The vote in the third district is Wollborn.
BOOj; Kearby, greenbacker, 1904; Well.
brn's majority being 1881.
W. Z. Tabor, dealer in dry goods and
groceries at Bryan, has made au assignment
fDr the benefit Of his creditors.
The official vote of Jones for congress in
thefflh district is 22,94l, and that of Shep-
sh q IOS, Jones msjority being 288 votes.
I The Irish citizens of Galveston have sue.
Ceoded in organizing land league and have
gOn, regularly to work in behalf of the old
land.
Denson is clarifying in the prospect of
an ice factory with the capacity Of 10000
pounds daily. They want to keep cool next
summer.
Ore has been discovered on farm in
Washington county, which some wiseacres
hink is gold. 1t will probably prove to be
Iron pyrtes.
Il The citizens of Hill county hold meeting
Saturday, and guaranteed the right of way
Through that county, and also subscribed
$4,000 for the NJ, X. Il Il. road.
Solomon Davis and Jim Postu had a fight
|st the house of n colored woman IN Weather.
4 ford last week, about the woman, and Davis !
Pho! PoGtu in the head but didn't hurt him
|nuCh.
There was pitched battle at Berlin, in
Washington county, last Saturday night, in
|Ehch stones, bottles and clubs wero indis-
|llminately used, but no one was seriously
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
ESd company has filed thirty-two
FEEDS for right of way through johnson
|0unty for record in the clerks Office at Gle
|hlrne.
A man named Walter Dyer was displaying
|his pistol one day last week in Clarendon,
|Then it WAS accidentally discharged, and the
|bal passed through the aeshy part of the leg
|Of Mr.. Sam FeSon.
The Od4 Fellows of Sherman have ap-
pointed committee to hunt up and report
|sI families and persons in destitute croum-
Fsnces in that city. Their object is to dis
tribute holiday charities.
The Houston & Texas Central railroad be-
Eng unable to carry off the accumulation of
potion at Bryan, the citizens are taking steps
Iomake wagon rosd to Hearne and ship by
Nhe international from that point.
Rev. George w. Baines, ir., one of the
most eloquent dvines in Texas, and who has
tor several years been paster Of the Baptist
church at Rockdsl', preached his farewell
sermon there Sunday, he having boen called
TO- and accepted the church at Mckinney.
In the case of Bowden in Somcrvell county
last week, charged with the murder Of Mrs.
Hester ia johnson county, there was mis-
trial, eleven of the jury being for scqulttal
and ono for twenty-five years in the peniten-
tisry.
Mr.. Isaac Self. of johnson county, cele-
brated his sixty-seventh birthday with aroyal |
dinner on Saturday, the 4th ihst. He is the
father of twenty.o one children, grandfather of
iorty'one, and great grandfather of three
children. The old gentleman knows how il
is himself,
The funeral of Colonel James R, Sweet,
VINO for five years wss mayor OF San Anto- !
MO, and lieutenant colonel Of Duif's confed- |
crate cavalry regiment, took place IN San |
Antonio Monday. lie had been an invalid |
Tor a number of years, and although his
Death was not unexpectedly occasioned much |
gloom in the city.
Joseph +. Marsh, of Independence, WASH
mgton comfy, was clrcumcised at Waco,
Monday, by DR.. S. w. Cohen, assisted by
D', Sam. Houston, jr. Mr.. Marsh is not |
IptoSe'vte to Judaism, but is a christian. In |
DIS childhood no was sprinkled by a Presby- |
i!eran minister; after he grew up he was
immersed and now he has been circumclsed |
hat he might fu' Ill all OF Gods commands.
Bill Jacobs, repulsivo looking negro,
was convicted of rspe in the district court at
Jefferson on Monday, and given five years
10 the renitentiary. His wet m, pretty |
white girl, fifteen years of age, named Jennie
uslel, b came mother by his iiendish as |
ssult and it was the testimony of experts
matt the child was part negro that convicted
MN. The way tho experts ascertsihed that
.Ae child was part negro was extremely in-
Ntesting and cdifying,
p Samuel +. Sexton, Oldest son Of Hon.
frank B. Sexton, died at his fathers resi-
0enee, in Marshall last Monday. Last March,
Nnlle guarding some penitentsry prisoners
lear Longview, ho was shot by arother
guard named Bynum, and has fingered every
sICe, enduring intense bodily psin until
g''h released him. Bynum is in jail IN
tongvlew and as the shooting was said to
ave been wanton and unprovoked, he
sands showing for the gibbet =,
There was social entertainment at the
sadencs of DR.. Skinner, near Gre0nv'lle,
NV nights ago, at which ayoung man named
s aarl putin an appearance. Hart was o6Jec-
..onable to DR.. S sinner and no ordered HIM
'. leave the premises. Hart would not 60,
s %aa personal difficulty ensued in which both