The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-13
TEXAS TOPICS

r,.,,v.one railroads are in course of con-
.,nclicn in this state.
Tho rlsde says the Meridian temperance
oancil bss played out.
,r,tlns state fair will be held on the 18th
,hs 92nd of October.
m. taxable property Of Galveston is re-
IA, I'd 10 be $25, 100000.
wnv.seyen school communities have or.
|..zd in Bosque county.
u,0aerson county has cash balance Of
-, 5000 in her treasury.
r,,ouel Goodwin, of Shackleford county,
:. I'D his ranch for $4,000.
r,o German language is to be taught in
A. Dublic schools al Houston.
nisksv, who killed Sears al Gatesville a
S1tme since, has been arrested.
ri. wheat crop in Guadalupe county is
III % be the finest ever raised there.
Trains on the Missouri Pacific railway are
rsuirg to Alvarsdc, johnson county.
Nn Gardner, of Wills Point. killed her
IAiA BY giving i! strychpine for quinine
D, Edward sneed, u stranger, died in
Houston from mania potu, on Saturday
/ There are seventy eight persons attending
| M normal school at Gainesville.
Three negro conviets were taken from
|g,lyple on last Saturday, to the peniten.
Ihp ,o,
Since The lst Of August to the Ion inclu.
i've, Beaumont shipped seven hundred car
! ssh Oflumber.
1 There were ihrse marriage licenses issued
/ N The clerk Of Washington county for the
v,S ending the 10Th. 1t ia rather warm.
Rusk county News: If The worms do not
u,ks their appearance within tho next few
weeks, al average cotton crop in this section
4 viii DO assured,
There we're four locomotives tor the Chi
sgo Texas & Mexican Central railway COM
pSy at Galveston, Wednesday, awaiting
Apmentto Corpus Christi.
OnWelnesday, Beaumont held munich
plelecticn and John @. Craig was elected
MAYOR, With q board Of aldermen of the
MOI! substantial citizens Of the place.
M. K. Oorb n, late superintendent of the
| Rdriver division Of the International rail-
|rsi, has been made road supervisor of the
sane road, with headquarters at Austin.
LuCian Reed, who is in Jail at Bryan for
killing the two Porter brothers, and Mrs.
FrAnCi, Rogers, were married in the Jail
office Wednesday, afternoon. The groom
was then returned ~ his coll and the bride
went bsci 10 her home.
A collision took place between two freight!
trains on he Missouri Pacific near Csddo, in
The IudiA territory, q few days since, by
which thEe car loads OF flour we're COM
petely demolished. The train men Jumped
ofin limtto save themselves.
The commissioners of Milan county have
Issued an order requiring the county Judge
10 give lond of SIC, 900 as the custodian of
Tho free nhool fund. An order was also
iaued prohibiting the sheriff from receiving
pnioners from any other than state and
nlnty others.
On Sunday night last there was an extern
i've praire fire in the vicinity of Sulphur
pings, ia Hopkins county, which did con-
trable damage 10 property. Mr.. Perry
leS : thought the fire until be became
anauo.- Al heat, and died the next day.
Mack Ros, villainous negro, entered the
lseping apartment Of Mrs. Fsircloth, six or
aTen mi)a from Bryan, Tuesday night, for
q Outrageous purpose, but was frightened
ID by the esistsnce and screams of the lady.
1t last accounts party of indignant citizens
ere in pusuit of him.
Young nen in BRENNAN and other por-
ons of Washington county, wishing to
roid the law sgainGt carrying pistols,
Olunteer 0 deputy fherifs, and tho report
that thi woods are full of them. This i.
Try wronI, and no sheriff should be guilty
accepting the services of any such
equities.
A man famed William Henry Fairfax Uox
ent to Sherman, Wednesday, from Van
htyne, and sold horse Cor $40. lie then
ok a couple or three drinks of the Sher-
An whisky near the depot, and Of course
rs blind drunk directly. He went to sleep
this condition, and some enterprising gen.
emsn stole al his money.
Mr.. A. Q. Hutchinson, of New Orleans,
ldmsnager Of the Morgan Louisiana rail-
'ad, was in Houston, Wednesday and stated
lat the Southern Pacific railroad company
nd made combination with the Houston
San Antonio, Texas & New Orleans and
lorgan Louisiana railroad lines, which
Ould 90 into effect as soon MS the Houston
San Antonio and Southern Pacific ma Ike
onnec,ion.
The survivors of the 11th Texas cavalry
I which Honorable George r. Reeves
peaker ofthe house of representatives, wa,
Olonel, held their annual reunion at Gaines
lie on Wednesday. Colonel Reeves, Judge
lutt, of Iallas, Judge .Silas Hare, Of Sher'
nan, and other gentlemen made speeches
There was an abundance OF the very best &c
at and the two thousand persons present
lad an excellent time.
Ffom lie Galveston News we extract thu
Glowing "In conversation with gentle.
nan connected with the Palmer-Sallivar
allvay cmpany, yesterday, News repre-,
enla'iVe earned that one of the surveying
PARTIES FIR this company is at present en-
gagged n examining crossings OF tho west END
u the sland and along the upper bay, ant
mat srothe corps Is on the limo between
aere and Vttoria, engaged in running lines
Ior The road The same gentleman lie author.
w Tor the tatement that II is probable ac-
Insl work vii be begun in several places OF
me pfoposa, road between Galveston and
victoia, within few weeks. AS their con-
Nset reqdr,s the road to DO constructed
wilhla twoysars from July last, 1t is thought
that rePIdasrk will b. required to comply
with III, terms of the undertaking; and tina,
when cork Is once commenced, II will bt
pushd withll the dispatch that possibly
can b commanded"
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