The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-12
TEXAS TOPICS.

les, but it is not a malignant type.
Reports from all over Comsnche county
give evidence of a splendid wheat crop.
Those who have been holding cotton fol
higher prices have been nicely swamped
On the 4lh, Brenham had the city election
circus, and murder case in the district
court
Measles at Worthsm are sparing no per-
son whatever except those who formerly
hadit.
Cotton business in Waco is now SO dull
that the Telephone no longer gives local
quotations.
The people In some parts of Limestone
county are sowing largo quantities of Ger
man millet this year.
The negro child missing at Hemstead on
circus day was found four miles from town.
1t had wandered away.
Fourteen babies were born in the little
town of Ennis during the month of March,
despite the hard fall and winter.
The residence of Mrs. Bette +. Tate at
Columbus, was robbed of over one thousand
dollars worth of jewelry last week.
Melvin Eubank, a very exemplary young
man, died AT his home at Tennessee Colony,
in Anderson county, IA few days ago.
A mad dog WAS shot and killed in the
ourth ward at Houston on Thursday, but
OF until it had bitten several other dogs.
Mr.. L, D. Lilsrd, editor of the Fairfield
Recorder, and Miss Matte Il. Watson were
married in Fairfield last Thursday night.
The local reporter on the Colorado Citizen
is looking hopefully forward TO the time
when camp meetings and dewberries will be
In season.
An election will be held in Castrovile to.
day on the question of corporate limits or
not, and there has been much discussion over
the matter.
The Texas & Pacific railroad company is
going to put up stock pens at Denton, and
expects to do good shipping business from
that point.
Track-laying on the extension Of the In
ternational road, west of San Antonio, is
progressing ut the rate Of three thousand
feet per day.
The good people of Bowman Grove,
% Limestone county, have organized Sunday
school, which STARTS out under most fayora'-
Bile auspices.
There wore thirty marriage licenses issued
from the clerks office in Anderson county
during the month OF March, and sixty hearts
beat as thirty.
On the 4th, Robert Taylor, a young man
and stranger at Weatherford, was arrested
in that place charged with robbery at the
Taunton house.
The Jail of Medina county is full of prison.
ers, not all from that county though, as some
have been sent there from neighboring coun-
ties for safe keeping.
A Travis county farmer. who has raised his
tobacco in three states, says that as fine "A
quality of tobacco can DO raised in Travis
county as in Virginia.
On the fourth, Nathan wood, colored- wa
sentenced to the penitentisIy for two years,
for shooting one Jake Brown, and two years
for shooting ut a woman.
A. j. Carrawsy, young man who ENJOYS
the confidence and esteem of all who know
him, was discharged from the Austin post
office to make room for negro.
Trsck.laying on the Fort Worth branch of
the Santa Fe has ceased and 1t is believed
at Belton that negotiations are pending for
its transfer to the Gould interest.
A negro named Henry Jones was found
dead in his cell 10 the county Jail of Marion
county a few days ago. Two physicians
testified that no died of the combined effects
of heart disease add tetanus.
Col. j. w Fishburn, editor of the Mexia
Ledger, after prolracted illness in which
he was not able to leave his room for thirty
days, has just cotton SO he can get about
now, AVID is looking very pale and thin.
The Houston Post says that Col. A Groes.
beck contemplates the erection of large
four story brick hotel on his property now
occupied by the Barnes house. Work Is 10
DO commenced about May LIST, and the build
ing completed by December lst; the estma-
ted cost is 100000.
Melchor Cervantes, a Mexican, was Jailed
at San Antonio September 18th, 1878, on the
charge of cattle stealing. His case was con.
tinued from term to term, and this week
when his case was called the witnesses had
all disappeared and he was dismissed, after an
imprisonment of two years and half.
AT Brenham on the 4th, Ham White. who
was recently psrdoned by the president OF
United states, out of the United States peni-
Tertiary, at Moundvile, w. Vs.,where he had
been sentenced for stage robbery, was taken
in custody by Sheriff Jenkins, charged with
the killing of James Rowe, about FIVE years
ago.
The Austin Statesman wants to keep tho
law before fishermen and informs them that
1t Is unlawful to seine between February LIST
and July let, and that If they do so they will
be fined. Sainers in Dallas county should
remember the same thing. and also remem.
Der that any seine with meshers less than two
and one-half inchei square is unlawful.
With the law strictly enforced, there will
soon be plenty of fish in the streams.
Tho following account of most brutal
murder We CLEAN from the last issue of the
Castrovile Quill, tho murder taking place
in LsSalle county:
Ed. Davis, Mack Kerchival, Nath. Guide.
John Newton, Mexican and two other
men, were driving a herd of cattle for Lot
johnson, who had bought them in Mexico,
and from there these men had driven them.
On the fatal night tho camp was struck
about six miles from Fort Ewel, and
Davis, Kerchival, Guide and Newton Law
down to sleep, while the other two men were
watching the cattle. About midnight the
men herding tho cattle heard shot after shot
In quick and rapid succession, and ali was
quiet except the sounds of receding horse
steps. Davis, Kerchivsl and Newton Law
there weltering in their gore. Guide was
missed and fled for bis life. He says Davis
rose and tried to raise his pistol, but no