The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-30
cEXAS TOPICS.

s,u'man is improvlI & rapidly.
r,;sve, infsst the iowa OF Uv,lde.
Tia came. is still visible At L mis-.
rns sr.esisn we'll of Galveston is now about
| 700 feet deep.
A man goes up in balloon AZ ENNIS
raesdsy, August I'd.
M.i,r Isssc Sellers has been holding a
l,mp- meeting at Weimsr.
A new house for the fire department he's
Al been completed at Palestine.
Tbs infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. l
Near died in Calvert on Sunday last.
Oats are selling in Terrell at 80 and 50
mis- per bushel, and corn at fifty cents
III, tosrders at the Woven Wills hate to
M ten dollars per week for their board.
nied \, Calvert, July "a, 1881 Mrs Mary
McOorkle, wife of Mr., Il l.. MeCorkIe,
The Texas & St. Louis railroad walls but
sur miles to complete It's track to Waco.
Mr.. Tacitus Clay, one of the Oldest pioneers
iWsshington c'unty, died few days ago
A heavy rain fell at Corsicans few nights
-
Ooe sunstvoke occurred a. Cameron. No
,is TO amount to anything Tor nine
seks.
With the present prospect, = l'tger,
rr.. will ship shout 5000 bales OF
cSton.
", @ A. SABBATH, An old, highly,respccted
n.msn of Il lusson, died in that city on the
9th inst j,
Nj, ". E, Penn preached his farewell
AVN. m u a, Caldwell, Burleson county ON the
ghhst
c.n,.nJ. II. Orr, of Jefferson, Texas,
~ 0, rpohh d At Black jack Grove of Sl70 on
ln, Tuesday.
MA GA, b,le Of this years cotton WAS res
s;oei 4, n ,yssoss on the 25.h. IL weighed
800 pounds.
man by the name Of George Z. Vallett
vp f0und deal in his bed a.San Antonio a
few nights ago.
W Richardson WAS bitten by rattle
mako feg DAYS ago at Waco. He is In a
critical condition.
THAN nholst sssociation under the aus
uesofRv. Knox and Fisher, is holding "A
netting AZ U salde.
Bsnhsm received he. first Raw bail OF
cotOu on the 9th, and it weighed $40 pounds
snd sold al 10 cents
Smith county has been having some re-
fre.hirg rains Of late, which is great bene-
tito the Cotton crop.
The barge L'rl; arrived At Galveston from
Houston, with 269 ba'es OF cotton, h't, and
80 bales compressed.
l Thsar.tn new bale of cotton was received in
Millicsn on tue q h and sold for Is IL. 1t
va; shipped to Houston.
The San An,,1io street railway company
carried over 100 900 passengers in the month
CfJuly, and 80 000 in June,
Al U5alde, Texas, the sheriff, through
mistake, put man in the wrong cell, and
eem,n escaped through hole.
Dr. 7. + Crenshsw, who died suddenly a.
ae Me- ger hotel, San Antonio, few days
49, resided in Athens, Alabama.
Corn in Washington county will average
sSlu! one'fourih of a crop, and cotton will
nise about half bale to the acre.
Another new compress has been organized
gHou'tn, with capital OF about S75, 1000
lh to DO known US the International.
Nary Bruckar recaivsis divorce from
ts husband, Oscar Brucksr, in the district
WI Of G,lveston, BY Judge Stewart.
Vines W. Smith and Young Blackwell
vhlg,d fifty dollar check on the Waco
NdnI bank, wsrs committed to sill.
Au'in TOR thu literary and Houston fol-
sn'licsl dspsrtm ant are the tavorite
andids.es for the university at Huntsville.
The IRA which burned Big creek bridge at
Waco sfaw days ago is supposed to have
rignssd from the sparks ofa passing en-
sine
An old lady by the mama of Orrell, about
Wears old, had abou. $40 stolen from he
i's1 nights since 10 the wagon yard at Sal
Antonio.
Mrs.. Lip,comb, near Uearne, and p. w
Htl several miles east of Calvert, hav
mIs With the same medical properties as. th
Nooten ws,er.
The Galveston bard Of appraisers. met a
paelr oiiiie Monday afternoon for the pur-
pose OF pissing upon the assessment of tn
ns company.
LAST Sunday evening man BY the nam
aSmth WIS struck by lightning and In
M'ly killed, and also the mule no was rid
1s This happened nea' Kaufman.
AArge mass meeting was held at Tyler OF
M26ih, to decide whether or rot lyle
Enld bs a csndidsts for the literary depart
tsl!Of,he state university. 1t WAS decided
theafirmative.
Accompany hss been formed in Calves
thunder the name of the BRUSH Electri,
lhtand Power Company Of Galveston,
nhepurpose of supplying cities, town
M@unlies in the state Of Texas with sufli
dS light
Louis Cuer, o Frenchmsn, was found II
y Missouri river n ar Rsfugio with hi
uGSst cut, but he was still alive. He sale
w four men attacked him and cut hi
uM and threw him 10 tho river for dead
~ he had been there for four dsys; bu
, ,aSa not believed. II lis thought he triet
70 commit suicide.
Inc Emptiness of Materialism.
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