The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-05
TEXAS TOPICS.

week ending Saturday last.
Citizens of Tex4rkSna have move on foo
TO establish $50 0 cotton mill.
District court. with Judge Potter on TIT
bench. convened 1T Dacstur, Wise county
Mondsy.
Several pieces of Burnet marble have
been polished and present u beautiful sp-
pesrsnce.
According to the Denison Herald News
several Sherman families will soon move ny
to the Gate City.
1t is reported in railroad circles in Waco
thst the Missouri Pscif, will build tap road
from Temple to Bolton.
The comptroller is preparing for prepare
ton list OF lands in unorganized counties
on which taxes are due for 1880.
There we're only fourteen deaths in the
city of Je fferson during the month Of April
all being colored people except three.
The Sabine Pass & Oenison railroad has
changed its name to Texss Northeastern Il
Gu'frslroad, as per amended charter.
The grsngcrs still keep up their orgeniza.
ton 10 Burnet County, and held meeting
Saturday at which they elected officers
Charles Rollins, a tie cutter nesr Texsrk
ans split his foot open with his axe Monday
and was taken to that place for surgical
treatment.
DR.. Chaplin, of the Baptist church at
Brenham, left there Monday night to attend
the Southern Baptist convention at Column
bus, Mississippi.
Mr.. p. nj. Davis, OF Pink Hill, Grayson
county, is the oldest male settler. He moved
from Tennessee to Grsyson in 1887, and Is
now nearly 30 years old.
At the Volksfest to come off 10 Houston
on the 18th and 18th insts., there will be two
or three military companies present from
different sections of the state.
The Knights of Honor of Texarkana had
agrsnd picnic at Clear lake Tuesday, and
Mr.. George T. Todd of Jefferson, and Mr..
Elmer Mitchell we're orators Of the day.
The people of Orange and Newton want to
be connected by railroad and are consulting
with the Texas s. New Orleans railroad
management to assist them in the matter.
For the first time 10 two years the criminal
county court Of Bowie county met at Boston
on Monday. The sixteenth legislature re-
moved the jurisdiction and the seventeenth
restored it.
Mrs. j. Il. Matthews, an old resident of
Texas and daughter of John d. Pitts, a
former acknowledgement OF the state, died at
her home in San Saba on Monday i'll her
59th year Of age.
Bolton Journal: On Friday Mr.. Chauncy
Shepard, representing Galveston house.
was arrested by the sheriff and fined $25 for
having failed to have his license recorded, as
the law requires.
On the 25th inst. the government will sell
the buildings, barracks, office furniture,
wagons, ambulance and various other per-
aonal property Of the post of Fort Griffin,
which has been discontinued.
The directory of the Texas & st. Louis
narrow gauge railroad, at a recent meeting
in Tyler, determined to extend rs rapidly ss
possible their road from Texarksns to Cairo,
and from Waco westward to Laredo.
While DR.. Blske's little children we're
playing with the cotton press on his place at
1oungsport, 10 Bell county, few days ago.
the head block weighing some 75O pounds,
fell on one of the little ones, killing it in
stsntly. -.
A burglar entered the Red Light al
Abilene Monday and secured $500 from one
of the inmates. A row grew out of the
question as to who committed the offsnse
and one man was wounded and another badly
beaten up.
Deputy Sheriff Krause, of Travis county,
got on a high horse in Austin, and punched
womsn's head. He was arrested BY
policeman and locked up. Deputy sheriffs
have no more privileges than private cti-
zens In Austin.
An incendiary attempted to burn the resi-
dence OF DIR. Gaelly at Brenhsm Monday
night. The walls Of the building were
smearod over with kerosene to make them
burn rapidly, but the flames were discovered
in time to be overcome. ~ -. --...-.
There are many evidences Of prosperity in
Greenville and Hunt county. New business
and dwelling houses are sprjnging up in
Greenville and in the country, old farms
are being enlarged and new ones opened up,
while population is coming in all the time.
Pete Bradford, colored reprobate, made
q tiendish attack upon his wife in Brennan
Monday night, with club, and would have
beaten her to death had not her screams of
murder attracted the attention of parties
near by, who interferred. The sssailant
escaped, but officers were in pursuit If him
at last accounts.
John Simmons, the husband of Mrs. Emily
Simmons, who, with her mother and child
were so brutally murdered near San Antonio
few weeks ago, has been arrested on sus.
picion of being the perpetrator of the deed
He claims his ability to prove an abb, and
expresses the opinion that his sheep herder,
Phillips, now in Jail on suspicion, is the
murderer.
Tho three men arrested al Castroville a
day or two ago, charged with robbing the
east and west bound stage west of San
Antonio few days before that, were taken
10 San Antonio Monday. They proved to be
j. II. Aft, a son-in.lsw Of Gen. John X.
Baylor. w. H. HardemaR, a brother. n.law
of young Baylor, W. p. Waller and Fred
Berringer. They are men who have always
borne good reputation and 1t is believed
that the authorities have caught the wrong
men.
M. Shilling and family and l. Epstein and
family, both men being prominent merchants
In Palestine, went out Sunday last 10 Clear
lake, twelve miles in the country, for dsy
ofiecreation and fishing. About ton o'clock
In tho morning the two men went out into
the lake In the boat, and when about two
hundred yards from the shore Il cspsized
and beth were drowned. Their bodies were
recovered about nine o'clock that night.
closely locked together In embrace. Mr..