The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-02
TEXAS TOPICS.
Ne Trinity river is filling RAPIDLY,


Tie Trinity river is filling rapidly.
Died last week at Jefferson Mr.. Hobart E.
Conway.
Kosse has shipped G,00O bales of cotton
this year,
San Antonio is full of strangers looking for
locations.
W. B. Simpson has been murdered near
San Saba
Professor Fowler is still occurring 10 Texas
audiences.
The Breaham "Ars bucket" company has
disbsnded.
Breaham is lighted with gas and is happy
accordingly.
The Tczss Express company has opened
an Office at Bolton.
New improv menls are ordered on the
courthouse at Tyler.
Tho treasury at Austin has over million
dollars cash balance.
Gardening ana farm work are gocg on al
around San Antonio.
They have church services every Sunday in
the little town OF Rice.
Nine hundred bales of cotton sold in one
lot at Bryan the other day.
A Sunday school has been organized at
Cedar Springs, Falls county.
A late fire in Jefferson burned the resi-
depce of Mr.. Willis kirkland.
General Hamman is attending district
court, now in session ut Marlin.
Active preparations against tho Indians sre
being carried on on the frontier.
Galveston opened college Tor musical
artists on the hrst day Of March.
Work on the new school building ia Ccri
cana is expected to begin next week.
Tho meningitis and the scarlet fever are
both prevalent in tbe city Of Galveston.
Tho bayou al Jefferson, which overlooked
its banks last week, is falling very fast.
A large gray wolf e,,schel colored child
near Dosgils last week and severely Injured
ii.
Mr.. Brock @. Dura was married on the
23rd inst. to Miss Blanche Higgins, Of Bsa-
trop.
The Denison Daily and Weekly News has
been consolidated with tho Herald, Of that
city.
MIR. Morris Bernheim and and Miss Ber-
tina BerWin were married last week ut Rock
dale.
A brakeman named Corbync had his anklc
badly crushed while switching near Oak
WOOD.
Tho state is full of strangers Of present
prospecting for new location and business
openings
Julu; Kaufman has been recognized by
the president rs consul Of Austria Hungary ot
Galveston.
The residence of Mrs. Mary Stubs, OF
Houston, was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss, 1900.
The Catholic church at Sulphur Springs,
it is expected, will be completed about the
first Of March.
Charles Harris, charged with robbing the
mail stage near Brentwood, has been released
on bail of 81 900
The Donison News il growing religious. Il
Offers copy of the New Testament as 8
premium TO its readers.
One w. ID. Edgell has been swirdIina
CERTAIN people in Navarro county, and de-
parlcu lor parls unKnoWn.
The wreck Of the passenger train on Che
Texas 81 Pacific near Longyiew resulted il
the injury of twenty persons.
The circulation of tho CorsicaDa hides
has 50 increased rs to neCess!Gte the use o.
steam power to run of its edition.
A. Nj. Weir, Of Leon county, a lane
forger, was convicted III Austin last week aud
h,yN- l,n
Governor Roberts was hung in eflgy G
Cameron for refusing to commute the sen
tence of Hubby from death to Imprisonment
for liie
John Cook, q boy only thirteen years old
was arrested yesterday IT, Galveston for steal
ing Sl500 from Mr.. McKerweriz, the furni
turo dealer.
The machinery for the Excelsior manufac
turing company element attachment) o
Cuero, has at last arrived and will DO placed
in position At once.
All along the line between Hilsboro ga,
Waco is beng graded very rapidly. 1t
thought that the road within eighteen nile
OF Hillsboro will be ready for the cross-tie:
On the night of the 18th some unknown
party shot and killed Psse Moore, in tn
southern portion of Llano county. through
crack In the house as no WAS BEGINNING T.
retire.
The Alamo, which it is proposed the stat
shall purchase to save it from the destroying
hand Of progress, has passed from the hand
OF the church, and is now the property of
private ciiizen.
Gardening has been commenced ia earnes
in Waco. Every one who has q patch o
spare ground, no more than yard square
have planted it with seed, with view of Tia
vegetables that are to come
Some robbers threw poison into ward il
Houston last week to Kill the dog, but th
dog after eating some Of the meat on whcl
it had been placed, recovered. A fae doi
ate aome ofthe poisoned meat and died.
A burglar relieved a citizen of Gimer O
S02 last week. He next broke open tn
treasury, and finding nothing in it depoaitec
So 80 in it. The Mount Pleasant New
thinks that he dropped tear as ne made til
deposit.
In Upsher county there ara sandstone an,
IRON hills traversng the country, and in thos
hills are found also, traces of silver coppe
and lead. There are also fine clays in tn
county, which it is believed the pine kaoll
will be found.
The entire taxable property of Texas