The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-11
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Galveston Is going TO sink m arteslan well
for city and other public purposes,
From two hundred and nifty 10 five hun
dred dry hides are sold daily In Waeo,
A eolored boy foil overheard from a sloop
In Sabine lake Saturday and was drowned
There Il 10 bOa county stock show IN
Preestone county on the second Monday OF
April next
Quite number Of farmers In Smith county |
are planting Northern seed corn lImhllFes
earlier than Southern corn
A bald headed eagle measuring seven Feet
from Ito 10 Tip Of is wlngs, was Killed IN
Victoria county ono day last week
Tho praires, or rather prairie, between
Houston and Galveston, WAS Hooded with
water Monday from tho heavy rains
The Democrats of Smith county hold their
meeting on the 10th Of April 10 select dole
"ates 10 tho Galveston State convention
MoLennan county Democrats held their
oonyentlon Yesterday for tho selection ofdel-
eoatos 10 tho Galveston State convention
The Neches and Angelina rivers nro both
full md large booms OF logs are beng sent
down on the rise TO tho millsAt beaumont
tramp named Jones about thirty years
old, who was In Upshur county last week, Ia
suspected Of having stolen horse from Mr.
Hart. ,,,.,,..
The Democratic convention for the election
oflelpgates 10 tho Galveston State cOnyen-
ton win meet nj Gilmer, upshur county on
the Goth inst
The County Clerk of Smith county has
recorded seventeen hundred and hity cattle
marks and brands, md that Is not prairie
TbS Republican Of Smith county hold II
convention on the 18th TO elect delegates TO
the State convention nj AUSTIN which meets
on the oath inst
The editor ofthe Victoria advocate mas y
museum of curiosties TO which no last week
added portion of tho jaw and the thigh
bone Of mastodon.
One Justices precinct in Smith county,
embracing Troupe, voted on local optoh one
dny last week, the election resulting III ma
iority of sixIy.one in favor OF w. .,
Mr.. G. w. Wood Of Goliad county, sold
last week to Mr.. H. j. Rosencranz two INou'
sand head of one md two year old cnltIG 10
be delivered at Beale's rancho n the ran
Handle.
The steamship Rio GrOnde, from Now
York. arrived nj Galveston Monday with
four hundred and twenty rails for the Inter-
national j. Crest Northern railroad
Judge ID. Il. Chamberlain, who was q
nroninent lawyer and formerly banker at
SVnco. died in that city Monday night Ills
family arc absent North on n visit to relatives
Mrs. Zadek, wife of dry goods mer-
obant at Decatur. cowhided $. Il Hart, her
husbands clerk, last Monday. Hart after
wards sgned libel for SANDER and letI the
place.
A farmer in Gonzales county, who always
nlants corn on the last day OF January, UNI
less It is Sunday, and then on the lst OF Feb
ruary, has not failed TO get n stand but once
in eighteen years. ,,
me silver boom in Brown county has SUB
sided and the farmers are looking for prollt'
in their fields, being all well upin their crops
with An average in the county OF ten acres "
one heretofore in cultivation.
The Galveston Artillery company will glv'
an excursion over the Gulf, Colorado " oAh''
Fe railroad on the first through tram u
Brenham, which it is hoped will BIO apou
the DIST Of April San Jacinto day.
Jefferson claims to have received this year
seventy thousand bales of cotton. and prom
SOS to send one hundred thousand bales owe
the international to Galveston if that roa'
will build from Lonsyiew to Jefferson
Friends Of the Methodist church at Wac
have Just presented to the new churcn .ner
some handsome presents. Mrs. Lusk gave
silver communion set; Mrs. Wheeler hand
some clock; Mrs. Eaton an elegant pulp
bible, and Capt White hall lamp.
Ali the creeks and water courses IN M'
J,ennan county, some Of which had been DRY
are now running brskly, afferding an abur
dance of stock water, and farmers are happ
because the ground is in fine condition, an
their crops are we'll advanced.
The Houston Direct Navigation compan
is going TO have number OF mouei DATE
built vt Jefiersonvillo, Indiana, Tor the !rah
portation of compressed cotton from Ci'ii "
on Buffalo bayou, to vessels OUTSIDE 'ho YIN
weston BAR
A specisl meeting of the stockholders
the International u Great Northern hailioa
company WAS held at Palestine last Monae
About four-hfths Of all the stock IN the r 1m
was represented, but mostly by proxy II
action of the directors in selling the road
the present company last October was q
dorsed and ratified.
DR.. Clopton and Mr.. Martin, delegates iro
Jetfarson. were at Palestine on Monday UT
inc the management of the road to exsei
il from L,ongyiew to Jefferson. They we
courteously received and returned home LEI
inc hopeful, though without positive asst
ances that their request would be granted
Waco has two new church buildings ~
completed, one Baptist and the other
Methodist, and last Sunday the initiatory 81
mons we're preached in them by the ! heV'
ends J. b. Shaw, of the Methodist Epise
nal church south, and B. ii. Carroll, OF !
Baptist church. They are represented as
inc AS fine church ediices US any IN
State. ~
A lone woman afoot, on her way to 20
man county, she said, created sol
little excitement in Brown coun
last week. Her statement was that she '
from Bluffton, Llano county; that her isti
had recently married young girl, a
things being unpleasant for her at home
had started to an unce's, who owned she
rancho in Coleman county. she was nea
dressed and quite intelligent, and didn't SCI
bit afraid.
There are only FIVE prsonersin, the Brov
county Jail. Brown county mas anotl
boom. 1t is petroleum this time. Mr. mar
Meirhinger claims to have found petrole'
on lis place in Brentwood, which we
sixty-fve per cent. of pure OIL, lie was
ping we'll in his wagon-yard, and al
1.l = - b,,,droI and fifteen feet,