The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-03

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frhree hundred and fifty people, half on
(om we're women, married In Eralh county
1879.
|Wills Point has succeeded in raising, 5000
| tho erection Of school house ana sup1
tiptions are still being made
|On Tuesday last while Mack Kennard was
|asing cattle in johnson county, his morse
Il with him breaking his thigh.
|The railroad bridge across the Brozcs, be-
cen Whitney and Morgan Is now iinlshedi
ii is five hundred and scveniy-iivo feet long,
lThe artesian well being bored az
4 ills Point is now five hundred and my feet
lip, and the prospects for water are
Ia tenant house on the farm of Il. @. Perry
Ir Gainesville, was burned down last weel'
everything in it, including dog, was de-
dyed.
kne night las! week two highwaymon me!
IL SIiiicrn. near Little River City, in Boil
Jaty, and robbed him Of all tho money ht
N -S7l
tr VIM. Friar citizen Of Bell county
"; teaspooniul OF concentrated lye on(
last week thinking it was vinegar, and
De near dying,
Two Young men named Rufus Gray an(
| lers gov INTO fight at n party one nigh
\ Iypek in Bell county, ind Meyers wa'
10 cut in the arm.
" house Of Mr.. VIM. kcnnard, jri
It's contanl., including several nun
uuds Of pork. nJohraun county, wa
ell by lire last week.
Jennie Wood, of Erath county
E orseback riding last week WAS throw
Z Ter horse and badly hurt, being
about tho head and face.
I How named Louis Bcumont stole
4 Ii Wills Point from Captain Green
4 vght last week and was captured after
With the aumal at Aiiheola
J lars transacted tho premises Of Mr.
ed, near Gainesville, during the 40
1 the family from home last week, ant
I off considerable amount of clothing
\ dehafiey, Of Wills Point has just re
from Washington, twenty German
hitch he placed in pond on his farm
I a few years he expects to have lots o
' FISH.
grath county Is looking forward with mucl
ion TO the advent Of the railroad. Th
beds of that county will then be opened
or market, and the quality Of coal in tina
L. 20 ao;d IN ha ynrv fine
dethodist parsonage is in course OF con
ion in Bell county. The people of Bel
" have invested largely Of late in frui
md shrubbery, and are determined Il
olenty of fruit and pretty yards.
Court of Appeals having affirmed tn
nnt in the case Of Noftsinger for tn
fkof young Cline, who married tn
yofSr Noftsinger loved, will swing a
Gsi,lle whenever the Judge fixes the day
Ipsweels's Wills Point Local seria
gill ear entitled, The Masked Chief. o
ayay, the Maiden of the Sabine" a Val
sant being the author. Well, Eva may
shors. be the maiden Of the Sabine, AM
benin she mayn't.
n II A named Miller got license in Cook
4 b,nfew days ago and married Miss Tip
In. was less than fourteen years of age
We rage taking place during the absenc
hther. He is now raising the mis-
ieh,t it. and may possibly interview
cy clerk in the courthouse for ISSUING
il
M Nat. Williamson, locating engineer o
c Ion IL Texas Central railroad, an,
,paJ. L. Elgin, right-of-wuy agent
,riitephenvile last week, looking Oh
roitom Morgan 10 Eastland county
lSI die impression on the minds of tn
clhete people that the best route the
df3uarTight through that town.
AdomE nan, of Waco, has in his EN-
,ih al ian named Psdgett. Frida,
la1ooeE I'D occasion to use some gun
ssfr led his coat pocket with loos
W.. Ter while he forgot about th
eSE a Tut into his pocket with 1t hi
.p9, b lst been smoking. Immediatel
a4rd explosion ensued, tearing th
,,at ~, badly burning MIR. Padgtt
20 yarting his hand.
vo, youl men in McLsnnan count
R;se SAL girl, and were so deepl
TI.sthat ,ey determined to settle th
ssrl as which one should have her b
an , due The time and place was al
,and tlprincipals and their second
-mptlys The seconds hated to Sc
SnM younnen 90 down 70 death in an
enensnngr,nd they proposed that th
wnome edi,led by drawing straws, th
roke got thiongcst straw to marry th
10 deahe was,illing, and the other to leav
-Sntry. After considerable demu
d; PAGE pit Of both, the.
q lot osreed tit and the Aung man who's
tectedi was tdraw the shoft straw immt
the stoountedhis horse and left for part
much v whilehe other ono told his tale
pair ofthe gin and married, she being keer
were mice Of te duel that game near bein
guilty pd the fal settlement.
--Oddlowiug item which we give in flu
On W. @aco hammer wi be Of speci'
few doom landlohs and tenhnts: "An II
and exancase, insolving something Of tb
buggies, .ndlords was decided in the Count
livery ccrday. Our readers will remembe
members Southern, a tenant on the w. i
NJ. Sorl@m, brought to this city two {
cbsren whs ago and sold ts Messrsl Mama
ltton buyers, eigh bales Of cottol
5. i. Prtther had 4 landlords intel
ssdisse aftsa selling the cotton
N, disappeared AMI as not since bee
from. Mr.. Prathe instituted su
~s,.t bin, at the ssme tine selling the co
a ~ a distress warFtiat, intbe hands of N,
* & Gray. The latter trm replevied i
s,it wss concluded yesterday. resultin
.Sist fo- the plaintiff. MIR. Prathe
necision was made oathe .ro1nd I'll,