The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-19
TEXAS TOPICS.

Bryan Agricultural college opens Octo-
Der LIST.
Chills and fever predominant around
Bryan.
Corsicana has an artesan well between
seven and eight hundred feet deep and still
going deeper.
A vast deal of sickness prevails ia Pamela
county at this time
A very malignant type of sickness is pre-
yailing around Millicsn.
Galveston has system of telegraphic fre
alarm now in full operation.
Grading on the Texas g. st. Louis railroad
has reached Corsicana.
Gonzales county will make more cotton
this year than can be gathered.
Sms caterpilars are reported in the
Dresden neighborhood of Navarro county.
P.J. Lunnermann and Miss johnson were
married in Denton county lew lays ago.
Thursday and Friday Bryan had brisk
norther, the first cool weather OF the season.
A ten year old boy in Pamela county picks
over two hundred pounds of cotton per day.
The scholastic population of Denton
county is 2,45S and the county is allowed
1874.
Cotton picking is worth dollar hundred
around Millican, but the crop is An unusual
one, and the farmers are anxious to save it.
A Denison banker has realized, from a
forty-acre fruit farm, in Grayson county,
$4,000 this year, two thirds of which is
profit.
DR.. d. Port Smythe's horse ran way with
his buggy at Bryan few days ago, and
throwing the doctor from his buggy he was
slightly nurt.
There are now, according to the criminal
records, six thousand criminal tugitiNes from
Justice in this state, one Thousand of whom
are murderers.
Mr.. G. T. Ellsworth, of Collin county, and
Mrs. NJ. 9. Rue, of Denton, were married
one day last week by the county judge OF
Denton county.
Mr.-Charles II. Corn was bitten WY a
snake in Navarro county few days as, and
because there was no bell-punch III his neigh
borheod he could not get corned and came
near dying.
MIR. William Bullard of Denton county,
being affected with dropsy, started with his
family to Missouri last week, but as travel
made him worse, he died before he got out
of the county.
Mr.. James Scott and Miss Docs Murphy
elopeG, in the Dresden neighborhood, in
Navarro county, few days ago, and were
male one by a convenient and accommodate
ing justice of the peace.
The Brazos synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church will meet in Corsicana
on Wednesday before the second Sunday in
October, in convention, with which Sab
bath institute will be held.
The wife of Mr.. L. A. Holland, of Bolivar,
Denton county, presented her liege lord with
seventeen and half pounds OF baby flesh
last week. Said baby flesh was twins, two
bows, one weighing eight and one half pounds
and the other nine.
Mr.. Thomas McMichael was ginning near
Millican few days age, when his shirt sleeve
was caught in the saws Of the gin ana draw
ing in his hand his arm was terribly maugled
up to the shoulder, so much 50 indeed that
he died shortly after.
The old settlers barbecue in Denton
county last week was an eminent success,
being largely attended. There wss an abun-
dance to eat of the very best in the land, q
number of speeches and the people had
royal time generally.
Judge Urquhart, of Marion county, while
returning from political meeting tow
DAYS ago was shot at and his hat ridded with
bullets, He returned his assailahts fire and
wounded him. He then carried the man to
a house and left him. The man mistook
the Judge for another person.
MIR. j. J. Thompson, of Rock Hill, Denton
county, is having hard luck. About ten
days ago his hand was caught in his cotton
gin and his arm torn nearly off, since when
he has been laying very low, and two or three
nights ago his gin house caught fire and
burned down with all its contents.
A little negro boy ran up behind horse
in Denton, Sunday night, and the horse
kicked him fearful blow IN the head, knot k
ing him senseess. A physician was sent n,
who on examination found the skull Fl &c.
tured for about four inches around. de
took out several pieces of bone and rest red
the boy to consciousness, but pronou eed
him in a very critical condition.
Harvey Lee Matthews, youth livirg in
Navarro county, accidentally shot himself a
few DAYS ago. He had been hunting and
while returning home with quite lal of
squirrels, he dropped bis gun,and, one barrel
going off. the whole load Of squirrel shot
entered his right heel, taking with it the
waddipg and leather of his shoe. The doc
tors attending him fear amputstion will be
necessary t. save his life.