The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-21
TEXAS TOPICS,
Paris cries out for lsborsrs and onn |,


The epizootic and blind atsggers both or
vail in Van ZARdt county.
Corn is selling in Lamar county nj % can
bushel, ana pork is exceedingly cheap.
Some corn crops in Lamar county ave,
sge from fifty to seventy bushels per acre.
Five hundred German immigr.pt, dira,
from Bremen were duo at Galveston ysste,
day,
Tyler wants to protect herself apain,
Christmas and has an ordinance sgainst Gre
works.
Immigrants are arriving and settling q
the rich lands Of Blossom Prairie, Lsua
county.
Paris is in need Of dwelling.house, an,
whenever this is the case, thrift and progros
are the causes.
Itison the tspis that Mr.. N. W. Finley O
Tyler, will be rendered the position Of ssere
tary Of state.
Mr., j. S. Brown, Of Kaufman, md Mrs
Ellen Slower, of Van Zsndt county, wer.
married last Thursday night
Rev. f. Il. Stygley, late of Tennessee has
bean secured by the Christian church Of Psris
as its pastor during the yeAr
! Farmers in Van Zandtc0unlySrs stilI bnsv
gathering their crops, corn and cottOg, and
will be the balance Of the year.
A portrait of the late Gel. Thomas NJ
Jack has been placed in the United States
district court room in Galveston.
Paris has been using gas msde from cotton
seed because of the inability to procure coal,
owing to the continued bad weather.
Rev. Mr. ManJen has besn called to the
pastora.a Of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, al Paris, for the ensuing scar.
It is proposed to establish 8 life saving sta.
ton st Galveston, near Kuhs's wharf on
tho bay, il The necessary space is provided BY
the city.
General l.. n. Lewis Of ths WaIahAeha
cellege, is iscturing On tho food ofNoah, and
deiuses his audiences with fact. and elo-
quonce.
The Missouri Pacific railroad corps, under
direction Of Captain Wen.z, loft Waco yes
terday going southwark, running a trial line
for that road.
Oastroyillo has granted Tho "Sunss," rail.
road the right ofWay through any streets Of
the town desired, AID grounds for dopo!
buildings will be donstsd.
An eleven year old colored bay, the son Of
man named Wells, was caught in g Gin
near Waco Friday, and IS badly sawed up
that be oied that night.
Mr.. Jordan Brewer, of Lsmar county, |
killed bsid sRslo a few days ago that mass
urad sight fact fem tip 10 tip Of iL7 wings
whsn they we're outsustcbsd.
The stockrssn hold ac6ayention 81 Austin
on ths 10Th Of next ruoGth, aud will prebably |
tho legislature fsr lezisi alton |
protective Of the stock iatsrsss
Judge Pratt 81 Hsrrissta, married by tel
esrsph, few days $50, VIM. Num- and Mis-. |
Victoria Catherine Grsy,tao contracting par
ties being as For! Sill, in tina Iuaian Tor
ritory
A little two year old child of Mr.. A. Co..
trell, a hotsl keeper st SAa Saba, turned |
potof boiling coffee over one highs Isit weak,
and was 20 badly scaiasd from lis breas.
down that il died in raw hours.
Bon ThoMpsoD, who hss been involved in |
o numbsr of personal difficulties in this state,
and who hs4 kiusd number Of Insn, for
which he was always tried and acquitted, has |
just bean elec!sd city marshal Of Austin.
Mr.. B. +. Wilkes team ran away in San |
Saba few days ago, ruHniag over buggy |
and demolishing it, and tearing the wagon
to which it was hitched TO pieces. One Of
the horses WA killed.
A brakeman on the TfanscohtinpRtal di. |
vision Of tbs Tsxss 81 Pacific railroad, fell |
from passing freight trsin near Blossom
Prairie station few nights sgs sAd was
badly bruised up, one Of his arms being
broken,
Jack Welsh and JASPER HslliHgEorth had
q fight near SherHs IN one nisat Last week ct
q dGnce, in which Wg..h was Gu. scrsss the
left tsmplo by Hollingsworth with pocket
knife, whSD' Welsh shot ~ AeliingsWOrsh but
missed him.
Several citizens of Harrison county, Of the
best people thore, have been indicted in the
federal court, charged With violations Of the
election law The republicans Of Harrison
couAty bad to do something, a2d this ia what
they have done.
This court of appeals having afiFnsd TIE
judgment in the case Of WilliSm Burton for
murder ia Parker county, the court now in
session at Weatherford will pass sentence
upon him to be hung ct come time No lster
thsn February.
The Morris County BsnnsT complains Of
lot of gentlemen Of elegant leisure, who leaf
around the saloons of Dangsrfeld, spoNging
drinks AID talking politics, while thor wives
Or mothers are taking in va1hins to earn
bread and meat for than 10 cat.
Constable Hsadock, with yssIe Of three
men, arrested four horss-thiavts neSr Caia-
we'll few DAYS ago, bus nftsr goisg short
distance, tho thieves concluded thsT would
70 Ho further, ssd fght snGusd, in which
nobody waa hurt, but tho thieves escaped.
One of tse mes! sensible men in Texas is
W. j. Nstlsy, of LaaSr cousty. DO sub
scrihos for fsur copies Of the Paris North
Texan becspss no believes stat every citizen
should support hiS bone papsr ard enable it
to be credits and an seEor 70 ito coEamualty'
In .as Rotssehild ease the motion to
luash the isdiesmsas sRd 20 soarsI sa'tsle
10 elscI on uhich count it would 90 10 trial
having sean srmralsd, tao oAAs gees on to
rial. Dol. Culbsrson 'wHs e1psctsd to re-
urn from Warrington Sunday last to con-
iuet tAs dsfosse.
Dspatv UsisBa StStsS AE'Sal ice Will
ard shot and kllsd 0 nagrs o. james oTs'
ey's plasla,iea,. on Red riysr, il IL mar
,Ous.y o.ani MI laas week. TAe shot was