The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-22
TEXAS TOPICS.

The foundations for $4,000 court house
have been laid at Corsicana.
Mr.. L. H. Bailey, of Bryan, was seriously
Injured by fall on Friday.
There were ten deaths in Galveston dur
ing the week ending Saturday last.
Sugar planters in Fort Bend county will
begin to grind on the 10th of October.
Eleven couples were granted divorces at
Sherman in the district court on Saturday
last.
Mr. John F. Waybourn and Miss Joke
Walker were married in Montague county
last week.
The continued wet weather has injured
cotton i'll some parts Of Anderson county
very much.
A little daughter of Mr.. W. c. Waters, of
Corsicana, fell and broke an arm Saturday
afternoon.
Fort Bend county, on account of the worm
and continued rains, will not make over half
cotton crop.
There is a great deal of sickness and no
little of it IF fatal type, prevailing in and
around Bremond.
Cotton pickers are SC rec in Navarro
county, but the crops will turn out half
bale per acre anyhow.
Captain Nat G.. Henderson, editor of the
Georgetown Record, is making vigorous
canvass for the legislature.
Alonzo McHorse, young man from Cir.
cleville, was drowned Friday in 'Possun
creek, in Williamson county.
The cotton crop of Montague county, it is
believed now, will make one.fourth more
than was thought month ago.
Corsicana is shortly to have two new brick
school houses, the bids for building which
have been received and accepted.
Forty bushels per acre of corn ard more
cotton than they can gather is the complaint
of most of the Montague county farmers
A forger named Mexican just convicted at
Sulphur Springs, goes to the penitentary for
sixteen years under an Accumulation of terms.
The people of San Saba county will give
grand barbecue on October 10Th, at which
Hons. Seth Shepherd and Wash Jones will
speak.
Two masked mon rode up to the store of
Mr.. Herzog, on the Bastrop road, near Aus.
tin, day or two ago and robbed it of 800
in money and a gold watch.
District court has Just adjourned in San
Saba county, and of thirty seven criminal
cases tried, tkirty-four were convicted and |
seven sent to the penitentiary.
1t has rained steadily for week in San |
Saba county, and both the San Saba and |
Colorado rivers are very high, so high in. |
deed that all travel has stopped.
Colonel r. II. Williams, of Matagords |
county, who opened farm on old Caney |
in 1914, died at his residence, the old home |
stead, Il few days ago.
The Galveston hospital is full of patients, |
railroad men who have contracted malarial |
fevers along the different lines OF railroads |
now in course Of constru ton in this state.
Colonel j. B. Hawkins, of Matagorda
county WAC badly hurt by his foot hanging in
his stirrup when he went to dismount from
his horse and throwing him heavily to the
ground few days ago.
Professors Milton Park, e. G. Mobey aud
Sam H. Dixon, have been appointed a board
to examine applicants in the fifth congress-
ional district for admittance to the Peabody
Normal school. at Nashville, Tennessee.
The Colorado river is so high at Austin
that the International 81 Great Northern
railroads temporary bridge is in great danger
Of being swept away. Two spans have
already been moved eight inches out of line.
s. A. Austin, esq, and Miss Eula McLen-
don, both of Rockwell county, ran away and
crossing into the Indian territory, were mar
rie1 Friday night, and returned home on the
next train. The bride was only about fifteen
years old.
James Cornell alias Holt, one of the par.
ties arrested in San Antonio about week or
ten days ago charged with stealing horses,
and with shooting Deputy Sheriff Gleason,
while resisting arrest, was released on hear.
ing under writ of habeas corpus Saturday,
but was Immediately re-arrested for cattle
stealing in Lavaca county. He is one Of five
prisoners who broke Jail at Hallettsville
abou! five months ago.