The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-04
TEXAS TOPICS.

Collin county mas 4,2io children Wltnln
scholastic ages.
The corn crop of Guadalupe has averaged
fifty bushels this year.
Houston has been shipping walnut and
"a dar logs to Bremen, via New York.
Cotton is rolling into Houston and Gal
weston by the half hundred bales per day
Farmers in Victoria county boast tina
their cotton will make bale and half Il
the acre.
The screw fly is troubling stock in Collin
county and giving much trouble to stocl
owners.
There we're 1874 cases disposed of in the
police court of Galveston during the month
Of August
The chicken crop of Collin county is about
consumed. Candidates and camp-meeting:
have done the work.
At Kelly's foundry, near Jefferson, there
are l4O men employed, 1O4 Of whom are pen
itentiary convicts
In Burleson county the cotton is opening
very rapidly and but f1w pickers can be
found to gather it.
A son of Mr.. John Manly, in Austin
county, got his head caught in a cotton gin
few days ago and cut to pieces.
A lot of cotton caught fire in Houston
Wednesday night, but was extinguished be-
fore much damage was done.
~. NJ Parker colored, has been nominated
by the Republicans for foater representa-
tive for Washington and Burleson counties
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad
now has iron enough at Galveston to finish
the road from its present terminus TO Bolton.
Mr.. G. Hoffman, of the Western Union
telegraph company at Houston, has Just, for
the third time il three years, been made the
father Of twins.
Ed Emery and James Allen, two negroes,
had fight in Morris county two or three
days ago, in which Allen cut Emery several
times very seriously.
The first bale of new cotton in Danger
field was sold on the Goth ult. for sos rs.
1t weighed 725 pounds and was raised by n.
Z. Coole in Morris county.
Mr. Everheart, who runs gin in Ken
tuckytown, Grayson county, got his hand
caught in the saws few days ago and it was
badly mangled, three fingers being torn off.
Copper mines in Llano county are being
developed A company, at the head of
which is Colonel w. A. Taylor, has purchas-
ed all the necessary machinery for the
purpose.
Gordon, forty-three miles west of Weather
ford, the present terminus of the Texas u
Pacific railroad, has been made the head
quarters of the Fort Yuma and Ell Paso
stage company.
A negro in Victoria, who may not be able
to starve like DR.. Tanner, can certainly beat
him eating. a few days ago he swallowed
twenty-six raw eggs without stopping and
would have swallowed moreif he could have
gotten them.
Texana, Jackson county, has
a merchant named u. Egg, a
h'enthusiastic business man, who never
undertakes anything but what he is able to
pulet through. He is good egg and ''cock
Of the walk in his line Of business.
The warning factions among the stock
holders of the Houston Telegram have
buried the hatchet, SHAKEN hands across the
'bloody chasm" and united in the determine
ton TO make the Telegram better paper
than it ever was before.
The citizens party" of Harrison county,
made up without regard to politics and with
the aim to secure good men in office has or
ganized throughout Harrison county and
will make a vigorous campaign to secure the
election of the citizens ticket.
Mr.. F. A. Small, of the Houston Telegram,
secretary of the Texas press association, pub
fishes his first quarterly statement showing
payment to him of dues for membership of
$50 and expenditure by him for books OF
81 so, leaving balance of sos 90 in his
hands belonging to the association.
A negro named Emanuel Howard was
found dead in his bed at Marshall Wednes-
day morning. The physicians aftera careful
examination testified before the coroner's
Jury that he died of "heart cot," or coagula-
ted blood formed in the right side OF the
heart caused by deposit there from an
inflamed sore of old standing on the inside OF
the left leg just above the ankle
A farmer in San Saba county is demon
strating the fact that Two crops per annum
can be raised in that section. In the spring
he raised q fine crop of Irish potatoes on
piece of land and now has asplendid crop OF
sweet potatoes on the same ground. lie is
also making three-fourths of bale of cotton
to the acre on land that has produced an ex'
cellant crop of rye.
MT. LOU. Va SoioLu"u SNNA'J
made him pallet of a quilt few days ago.
for an afternoons siesta and smoke.
While smoking, after taking his nap, ne
dropped some fire on the quilt anconsciously.
When he got up he doubled up the quilt
and Law it on his bed and then went out on
his place, and in short time discovered his
house in flames. He was only able to save
a few things from the building
Mr.. D. B. Robinson, Of San Antonio, is the
Greenbsck candidate for congress in the
sixth district. He has purchased the old
Courier Office and will publish a paper in
his own interest during the campaign, to be
called THE Peoples Banner" Col. Epson.
the Democratic nominee, thinks so little OF
Robinson's advances on his lines that he has
gone to Hot Springs and Washington City,
and left Robinson to work up his boom
without opposition.
Who is she? A Appointment lady patron
of the stage, known to be wealthy, is said to