The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-22
STATE SPECIALS.
TEXAS TOPICS BY LEoRAPR.
A Negro Rapist at Fort worth Sen.
fenced TO the Penitentiary-A
Death and u Marriage at
co-MiscellHneous.
Special to the Herald

Special to the Herald.
Fort Worth, Oct. els. W. 7. Lauharn,
of Weatherlord, is to make IA political speech
tonight at the court house.
j. w. Draper, of Callahan county, and
General Berry, of Belle Pain, are here.
1t is now concluded that the horse disease
that was here some weeks ago. was the resu-
lar epizootic, though then called by another
name.
There were shipped las! week 77S cattle to
Chicago and ST. Louis,
A. j. Byrd, of the Cloburne Bulletin is in
the city.
Colonel 5. w. I. Lanham arrived SO late
night that ho had to postpone his
ch.
Arrivals; Mrs. r. Il. Montgomery
daughter OF General Dodge; Ben Hacket,
contractor of the T. & p. road; II. knight,
of Baltimore.
Jane Harman, colored, is reported crazy
on religion, and is acting very strangely.
DR.. George w. Wilkes, who was suddenly
called two weeks ago to see his father who
was dangerously i'll in Tennessee, returned
last night, his father being much better.
In the district court TO day Nathan House,
colored, who attempted to rape Miss Maggie
Coulter, white girl, last March, was SEN
tenced..to the penitentiary for three years.
The case will be appealed
Six women of the Red Light have been on
trial to-day, being implicated in the robbery
of one Of our prominent citizens of $500
some time ago,
The cotton yards are moro donsely packed
than at any time last season.
A heavy shipment of cedar poles for the
I. & p. telcgraI h west of here are in the
yard here to-day.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe engineers
have been at work in and to the south of the
city to-day, surveying.
Judge Thomas and Doherty, Of Callahan
county, left for the west this evening.
The city of Fort Worth owes debt o.
gratitude to j. p. Smith, for the vim he has
exercised in our city, that but few fully ap
preciate.
The new compress rapidly approache
completion,
The Waverly House is still in the lead.
Henry Moore, charged with stealing from
D. Schwart IL Co.'S store having been arrested
in WISE county, was brought here late yes
terloy by policeman Joseph Wi.oher.
A little pugilistic amusement occurred al
dusk yesterday between a newspaper mar
and an insurance agent, but nothing serious
There cane near being fire in an out
house at the Ell Paso yesterday.
If the aremen's ball tonight is not encour
aged sufficiently to obtain the desired uni
forms, they propose to disbaud.
DR.. W. D. Barradsle and j. II. Leavill,
we're duck hunting yesterday, and killed sixty
1t is estimated that about $70,O90 worth
of cotton was sold here to-day.
The Chalk figures, 32sso common every
where seems to be continually renewed.
The work of adding new Cedar cross ties
and braces to the street car railway, is Wig
orously progressing.
Six hundred bales of cotton on the msrke
today at from 8 to 9i cents per pound.
Three hundred bales of accumulated cot.
ton at Cleburno are being brought to this city
by employed wagons at Sl.25 bale.
The proprietor of the Warerly House, R
X. Craft is remarkable pleasant landlord.
Eight men who became debilitaIed with
mslarial fever at Lewisville, on the Dallas
a. Witchata railroad, arrived here yesterday
evening to try our city for the improvement
Of their health.
Eighteen hundred pounds Of wool arrived
to-day.
Six wagon loads ofpecans, about three
hundred bushels came in to-day and will be
shipped to Chicago.