The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-09
TEXAS TOPICS.

q a buzzard flies arouni Lulins with bel
on his neck.
Major Penn is sin gathering in the siauus
a. Palestine.
The Texas Journal Of Commerce calls MIN
"Fsied GoLlt.'
The narrow s ue rosd viii soon be fni.h'
ed 70 C0.sicaaa.
Cotton in central Texas reported Go De in
splendid condition.
Several persons died last week 10 Browns
vil.o o. snail pox.
Farmers around Austin have already com
mencei 70 pl.n. c1.n
The wheat crop in Comaagho county is
said ba ocsins well.
The .hee, bas been worry great this
yeu in Dewitt county.
Gotten in west Ss' is reported t. hSyo
wihtgf,d remarkably wel'
Austin people, principally little ones, axe
wresil . Wnh Va measles
On,h e6,hilst. precinct No G, of Lunar
county, viii yo.a on local Np on.
The firm as Of rlygaa. county aro going
TO have protao,iona ISOLATION.
Flvc tea-wlee ocomo iytg have been
blilt for use on tao Texas and Pacific.
A adv Of Flyett' county has made
quilt Composed Of eighteen thousand pieces
A little boy, IL wears old ia now in jsil e.
Gainesvl'e charged With thief, of horse.
Gov. Rob Uta has signed the bill prohibit
ing the plea OF Insanity when CAUSED by
whisky.
Meningitis prevails TO some eAtcrt in Par's
bnt it seems to DO confined principally 10
children.
March 10Th is the day SGT for the ssla Of
lots at the new town of Abilene, on tho 7. &
p. railroad.
Judge j. NJ. Msxcy an able lawyer Of
Waco, is going to leave that place aud settle
in Palestine.
DR.. VIM. Burke and Miss Kate Harris,
both of Red Rvor county, were married
few days ago.
Capt. S. j. Wright, of Paris, has been sp.
pointed c0mmissi Oner for Texas for the
Worlds Fair.
Waco want, the State Univerai.y and is
bidding strong for il in the way of argument
and pretty talk
T1ero hss bsen sufficient salt msdo at the
ShackNeitrd county sslt work. to lsst the
cou ty for yeara.
The Huntsville Item thinks farmers ought
to raise In 60 crops This year, aa there arc no
can >i1etest> bother them.
G. w. Giyens has bon appointed by to
national greenback club ss organizer of the
party throughout the State.
Gen. Ord has ratu'nei to San Antonio. g
Vyh hal "a INT lie - .l-.4
place his future home or not.
A Victoria paper says that forty per cent
oil tho sheap hsve di0d in that section from
the effects Of the cold weather.
the vegetable gardens sround San Anto-
MO are in excellent condition, nnd have pes.
vines some four inches in height.
The len new locomotives recently brought
ont for use on the Texas 81 PScflc west Of
DMlss, are said 70 bo perfect beauties.
In souihern and western Texas, the gar
dsns are all looking green ard fresh and some
vegetables are nearly ready for table use.
The Waco Examiner says the hydropho0ia
csse-.-,bat of the French restaurant girl--of
that placo, turns out TO b. case Of ntermit.
tsnt fever.
A fire has been raging in the cedar brakes
around Austin ana has destroyed quite
number of fences ard vast deal of valuable
cedar timber
A live whsle, full City feet long, is report.
cd at Arkansas Pass, II is of that species
known SIS the mscheFel tail, snd appears fear.
less and playful
The joint committee on the penitentiary
recommend that new buildings bs erected at
Huntsville to cost ore hubdfed and llfly-
Thousand dollars.
Mr.. Chsres G. Lathrop of Austin, died Of
consumption on the dth inst. He founded
the Austin Weekly Review, and did large
book snd stationery business.
The Austin Statesman says tbst meas!os
mumpo, diptheria, scsrlo. fever and such
things now engage tho attention Of tho doc
tors, and they are kept busy.
Robert Henry, the negro recently killed in
Washington county, was shot from off his
male whilo driving plantation team. The
murderer stood by the roadside.
Col. Lang president OF tho south western
immigration association, has open an office
in New York and is endesvoring to turn i'm
migrants ia tho direction OF Texas
The DapgerlielG Banner saws that a bout
three weaks ago, Mt Molvin Gslaway, of
CAS- county, was Hiok9l in the abdomen by
ahorse, snd Is still in dangerous condition.
The lalioJ Of Paris sre eylnGins Il lively
irtsr1et in behalf OF temperance, and are
nov signing petition 90 be legis6sure to
pass prohibition amendment TO the consti-
tuition.
The bloody roisn Of tho desperate GA tho
Rio Gfanda ia drawing to . close. Tha day
Of his power is q. IN end 80 soon as the iron
horse reaches tho RIO Bravon--an event
not very far distant,
Denison Will erect Gn on--1 house on the
site Of the old builju,s destroyed by fire in
tbst city q few days ago, provided too CHI
zens Will Gusrsotle t0et . $1,000 gear DO
70 liand trom rental thyrefrom.
Weekly Wills Pointer; A goodly number
Of our yJup; ladies' and gentlemen attended
tho bail NJ MileolG, last week. They ex-
pressed themselves highly pleased with the
manner 10 which they were received.
Captaio Wade IL, Hampton has raised on
his farm near Corpus Christi bee. twenty
Elk inches long md thSt weighs twenty lvo
pounds. Tia. beot cant DO beat, Ns tho
fellow said when ne pulled up o rsdish.
Henderson News; 0@iaS % tho scarcity
of farm labor, caused by tho exodus of the
negroes to Kansas from these parts, many of
our farmors Gro being forced TO plant larger
tracts of their land ia smalI grain than they
desired.