The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-29
TEXAS TOPICS.

Waxshsehia wants good barber shop
and good tailor.
Only ton divorces were granted at the last
term Of the dI'tric, court at Bellville.
The stockmen of Jack couuty viii hold q
meeting on the first Saturday in March.
Bee county has % 1855 head Of cattle, s, I98
head Of hor:es sn6 10 Ola head Of sheep.
Use merchants Of Brownwood arc incress-
ing their stocks and business is very brisk
Mr.. John Robert DeForrost and Miss
Eliza Ellen Dic!nie6 we're married az Fulton
few days ago.
Mr. ~ b. Rsglsud, Of Waco, and Miss
Della Wilkinson were married in hryaa last
Wednesday morning.
The wheat crop ia Oomarche county is
very promising, sn3 the aoreage tuis wear
greater than it was last
The Houston d Tsxss Central railroad is
now completed through Comanche county,
and resches into Eastland.
Measla. now prevail 10 Galveston, and
during tho past five or six weeks, there has
been fully two thousand cases.
Frank Elwood was awarded two years in
the peDitentisry at San Antonio Wednesday
for the enbezzlenent Of mule.
There 70 not = vacant house in the town Of
Brownwood, and persons desiring to loos.e
there are compelled to 20 elsewhere.
For lack of transportation the mill nea q
Orange are receiving many letters counter
handing orders for lumber and shingles.
There are now some parties in San Antonio
prospecting for @ location west of that city
on which 10 settle some seventvhva Quaker
families.
Weatbeilord offers $4,000 in money and
her upE0r advantages 10 secure one Of the
state normal schools il there should be any
more established.
The government now has AZ work at
Araraas Pass improving tho bar, large
force o. me1 under the immediate supetVis-
ion Of Mr.. Brown.
Mrs. j. D. Shaw was buried in Waco
Wednesday and one Of the largest funeral
PROFESSIONS ever seen in that city attended
her body to iuterman.
Dr. Frank Cauch, OF Upshur county, and
Miss Alice u. Wright, daughter of sheriff
A. U. Wright Of Marion county, were mar
ried in JaiioFson last Tuesday night.
There has within Tue past week or So.
been an opposition pilot association 10 the
old one, formed at Arkansas Pass, with
Captain Frank stephenson at its head
jim Cotield, colorad deputy sheriff of
Washington county, hos been arrested and
jailed in Austin county, for making an as
sauIt upon An old lady ut Sempronus
A man named Mcnamara had his leg
badly crushed ard broken in a wreck on the
Houston & Texas O3nlral railroad within
the city Limits Of iout9n on We ueaday.
Sam MeGill, charged with murder, was sc
quilted Wednesday m the district court at
Meridian, b sque gJualy, and q great many
people use ineonseI and disguised at the YER
diet.
Mrs, Taruor mad her mouse destroyed by
lire at Brentwood few DAYS ago, and her
neighbors having aided her 10 the extent of
$500 she has sol about rebuilding hor r0si-
donce at once.
Tie carriage mauulsetory Of Mr.. Paul B..
Jaudon was destroyed by frs in Waco
Thursday morning with its eutire contents.
The insurance on the building was only
$1,000 with probably more on the stock.
A seventeen year old boy, name unknown,
became Involved in an atercalioa with a
mau named Cap McGee at Trinity Wedue,
day and shot MCGEE through tho bowels.
The boy then mounted horse and escaped.
According to the meteorological record
published by the San Antonio Express, IL
rained during the year $780, on 1870 DAYS,
and during that period nearly five feet Of
water The Express asks: SIS western
Texas a dry couatry?"
The Bellylle Times has found negro
msn just across the Brazos river, in Walor
county, who, according to we'll authenti.
Gated accounts, is about 1870 years old. His
name is uncle Peter; ne is aOle to go short
distances, make baskets, etc.
BroTnwood did have barber up TO 2 fav
days sgo, but as they are q hirsuta peoole
out there, ne couldn't make Il living with
ravor and shears, so no broke into a store
Wednesday night, and now no languishes in
Jail, Ed. Morgan is the euphonious cogno.
men by which this Senegambian yes known,
Monday Mike Mshoney, discharged SOL
der at San Antonio, went homo Intoxicated
and after assaulting and badly beating Mrs
Kercher the woman he lived with, picked
up her seven months infant, of which he is
the father and slsmmiDg it against the dool
came nesr killing it, He was Jailed for as
s4ult with intent to murder.
The Galveston cotton seed oil mill has
been forced TO suspend operations on account
of inability to get seed. The inclemenl
weather all over the state has prevented
farmers from taking their surplus seed TO III,
railroad stations. II is presumed thar The
winter is now about broken up, and this diff
fculty will soon be obviated.
The Coleman-F Fulton Pasture company
was organized at Rockport few days ago
under charter obtained from the secretary
of state, and Colonel G. w. Fulton WIS.,
elected president. Colonel Fulton is son.
in-law of the late Governor Smith, tho fra
governor Texas ever hsd-before she has
achieved her independence and became a
republic with a president as chief magis.
trate.
Two Austin officers few days ago found
a Mexican in pasture near that city will
three horses AID a six-shooter in his posses
SION On being questioned he could give nc
satisfactory account of himself; nor of tn,
horses, but stated that white man had The
horses in chrge, and on seeing them ap
proacb, ran of and left the six.shooter The,
arrested the Mexican and took the property
in charge.
On Sunday morning a stable caught fir
IN sherman. fortunately the danger wa
discovered in time and the flames ouickl,
subdued But for the promptness Of IN
citizels, long row Of frame building