The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-23
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Died at Clarksyillo on the 18Th, Mrs Eliza
LONE.
Measles aud pneumonia sbouud in Wake r
count.
Eggs are selling in Clarksyio at 10 cents
q dozen.
On the the 10th, Mr.. f. yows, of Pilot
Point, died.
Major P4nus meetings aro sill carried on
8t Palestine.
Died at Pilot Point, Mrs. NJ. SIelizer, on
the 10Th instant.
Died at Pilot Point, on the l6.h, Mr..
Charles Nawton.
Els reported that jim Ourre is in j,il in
OHIO, for murder.
Gro is to be- n new depot built at
~i49hurg soon,
M, yaro prevailing 1t Clsrksvill9 to a
considerable extent.
Over a thousand bales Of cotton have been
shipped from LaGraoge.
A large number of cross ties are being got
out around Robbinsville.
Died last week Mt Bonham, of heart
disease, DR.. f. d. Kennedy.
q Some t.lk of building {. mill and gin at
Venison Grove in the spring.
E A bout 1l.5l4 bales of cotton have been
Shipped by rail from LuliDg thus far.
There is move on foot 10 establish an
other cotton cloth factory OF II ust0n.
A Mexican baguio was destroyed by fire
& recently NJ San Antoni) Loss about $500.
III. B hardy, If Nov Warren. had his
thumb badly cru3hal ia corn shelter last
week,
IA mau named Ben Brooks was run over
BY IA engine at Harley switch, but not
TIC wagon and carri'ga works Of Jordan,
at Wac, we're burned aud totally destroyed.
Loss, $1,000.
Thera hrs been sufficient go made at the
Shaekefyrd county salt works to last the
county for years.
Some of the Dewitt county farmers are
not through gathering corn and cotton Of
last years crop yet.
a man by the me of Fritz Weiss was
thrown by u runaway team sud badly hurt,
last week at Brenham.
Friday Was the Gath birthday of Gen. w.
". Lane, of Marshall, one of the survivors of
the battle Of San Jacinto.
A gloom WAS cast over the city of Sherman
Friday, by the death of its leading hardwar o
merchant, ID. w. O. Davis.
Farmers about Mopk9town have COM
menced their preliminary work, and begin TO
talk OF "share and the hoe"
The saw and grist mill of Mr.. j. II Nor
rison, at EyergresR, WAS burned Wednesday.
Loss estimated st about $4,000
The vegetable gardens around San Auto-
Mo are in excellent condition, and have pea
vines some four inches in height
james M1bloy, a man living near Leon.
\ ard, conimittgd suicide last Monday by cut
ting his throat with Barlow knife.
The Morris block, at Denison, WAS very
nssr being fired one night las. we,ll but was
tortunateiy discovered IN time TO prevent.
The postofice ut Paris was burglarized
last week, apd robbed of 3 loi Of postage
stamps aud hno gold watch, owned by the
poslmnstcr.
A serious shooting scrapa occurred in a
bar Room 1T Eagle Pass Saturday. Sam
Leary Shot aud taortally wounded Reilly, a
colored man.
al day or two ago tramp was locked up
in Texas 81 Pacific cotton car aud sol fire IL
II. Upon being discovered, he jumped out
and escaped, 10 East Texas.
The Waco Examiner speaks Of lights that
appear on the horizon, visible from that
place, that arc very singular looking and en-
itifely too bright for prairie fires.
Some wood choppers lellel an elm tree
\ fifty feet high near Donison, last week, and
found an Old case knife.. embedded in the
heprt about thirty feet from tho ground.
There is - man in Bell county who has 4
hea that hid 1875 eggs last ye II, and Matched
AM ri. cd tva broods of chickens besides
That hen is convenient animal TO have on
the place.
A. NJ. Tylear, employed in Gulletps CIR
! factory ut Marshall, was caught in band o.
4 the machinery last Friday, resulting in {
compound fracture of both arms and Other
Serious injuries.
The continuous bad weather has, made il
impossible for the farmers to make any hesl
way with their work, and should the rain
cease now, it will DO impossible to pillow for
number of days yet.
Denison will erect an opera house on the
site of the buildings destroyed by fire in thai
CITY last Wednesday pr vded tho citizens
viii guarantee that $1,000 year be realized
from the rental thereof.
A company is now being formed at Sal
Antonio, for the purpose of mining in TN
Chihoti mountains, Ia Preside county. The,
Will be fully prepared with tho necessar,
machinery for the prosecution of the work,
Saturday morning the smoke stack of tht
Missouri PPcllc machine shops, NJ Oenison
4 became so Intensely hot that The SCOT tool
& dre and sot fire. to the roof but by promp
actiln what might have proved most disas
tfous fire was Quelled.
Saturday of last week, while Mrs. j. w
SA dler was sitting by the fire in her hom
NJ Bonham, carding, she fell in Il fit, which
she is subject to, ond her clothing becom
ing gnited, she was burned TO death befor
assistance could reach her.
News has just reached us OF . killing
scrape IN Paso del Norte. The prisoners II
the jail made break and shot the guard il
the head, bot not killing him. They thel
made for tie American line, but were over
taken by the guards and three Of their NUM-
X Der killed in The struggle.
A strange package came through tn,
4 express last week, from Memphis, Tenn, t,
B Texas. This package was boy of sbou
81 six years OF age, and is destined for Luling
s. His name is Robert Emmett Walsh, and WA
way-billed, tagged aud checked like al
ordinary express package.