The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-03-22
TEXAS.

Sabine river s threatened with dangerous
floods.
Cattle hAve been dying OF starvation IN
LlanO county.
Dredging Oh tho Neches river bar is pro
gresslng well.
The Republican county convention at San
Antonio WAS for Grant.
There are only nine settled counties III the
State that have no newspaper.
Tom Echert was shot and killed by Dave
COnnel at San Antonio. Old feud.
| A man was killed and horribly manglad by
| the cars at Dallas on Friday last
| The Washington county Repubicon con-
| ventlon was for GrAnt and u. j. Davis.
| Sixty thousand pine and 81, 900 cypress logs
are expected down the Sabine during the
RISE M.u.+
"A Mexican child was killed and another
| horribly maDgled by u feroCious dog at San
Marcos.
| Navarro county delegates sent to the Gal
weston convention Hra instructed To oppose
tho two-thirds rule
One hundred and twenty-five indictments
have been Issued for violations Or bell-punch
and the Sunday law In Sherman.
Smallpox is prevalent in Rio Grande City.
and ls dealing out death to the natives No
steps have yet been taken for protection.
! A band Or Indians from Mexico have been
IOOKlOR HTOuUu NuOuk GHS CUtIlttl upuHthltl
boomers to see X they have anything worth
taking.
| The nrtesan we'll auger at Whitney is go
| ing down into the bowels Of the earth at the
rate Of ten feet per day. 1t has also dlscov-
cred oil.
The Republicans and Greenbackers OF Dal-
las have fused on candidates for city marshal,
and will make . fight against the Democratic
nominees.
| great number OF men are at work on the
Central extension between Morgan and Wal.
nut Springs Contracts have been let for six
ty miles beyond Morgan.
The Bosaue county Herald says: No doubt
long mines will be opened. There may be
other minerals, lead and copper. which from
oil indications exist in large quantities.
| While three young brothers. SONS OF Mr..
Bardine, living near Bryan, were fishing In
the Little Brazos river. one OF them. about
six years old, fell In the water and was
drowned. One Of bis brothers, in attempting
to save him. was also drowned. Tho third
went home to relate the sad occurrence. The
| bodies were recovered.
One hundred and fifty stock raisers COM
posing the Northwest Stock RRisers' Associ-
alton, have been In session ut Jacksboro the
early part Of the week. About twenty rail-
road live stock agents were present from st.
| Louis and Chicago. The object Of the meet
ing was to get q reduction of shipping rates
to Kansas.
The Ncws says that a train Of twenty three
wagons, with 15s negroes, passed through
Fannn county, intending to stop In the VI
entity OF Red River City and make one crop,
meanwhile sending some Of their leading men
to Kansas to investigate and report on the
advantages offered by that section. II the
report Is favorable they will 90 Oh to Kansas
next year.
| On the twenty-eighth John Henry. alias
johnson, hangs at Corsicapa, and Allen
Towles, the wife killer, at Fairfield the same
day. Samuel H. Meyers. who shot his step
mother. Mrs. Hester, through her window at
night and laid her out a corpse, stepped off at
Cleburne, johnson county. on the nineteeth
William Walker, murderer Of Major Monroe
stretches himself at Calvert on the fourteenth
proximo. On the thirteenth or the same
month Noitsinger, the murderer Of Cline, be-
cause the latter married his sweetheart,
hangs on the same gallows at Gainesville
| Cook county, with krebs and Preston, who
massacred Rev. Mr.. England and his whole
family In Montague county. On the four
teenth Of May Henry Shoffor, colored. for the
murder of Houston Heard swings ut Long
! view.