The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-21
lEXAS TOPICS,

The district court of Jack county entered
upon its second week Monday.
J.W. McNeal, notorious character and
outlaw, was lodged in jsil al Columbus Mon.
day.
The latest news at tho adiutant generals
office in Austin reports everything quiet on
the frontier.
Rev. Fred f. Wilson, of Columbus, late
pastor of ore of the Methodist churches in
Houston, died Sunday.
The First and Second Baptist churches OF
Galveston have agreed to consolidate, and
will form one church hereafter.
DR.. Chaplin closed Baptist protracted
meeting at Brennan Monday night, with
eleven Hccessions 10 The church.
The route Of q railroad from Fort Worth
to Denver has been located through Clay
county, passing within six miles of Hem
iieNs.
The corn crop in Clay county will be
light. Wheat and other small grain crops
are generally good, while cotton is doing
finely.
1t hss rained nearly every day in Colorado
county for some time past, and nearly every
cotton plantation il the country has crop
Of worms.
After drouth of three months with in
teh'e heat, New Braunfels and surrounding
country was blessed with abundant rains
Monday.
captain Caldwell. of the state rangers,
los' In iron the front to Austin, reports the
discovery ofs rich coal deposit on the plains
'nif'y miles from Blanco canon.
r. b Clspport, master mechanic of the
Austin branch Of the Houston s. Texas Gen.
tfal railroad, died at Hampstead Monday af-
Wfnoon after two weeks illness.
Lsmpssss has been having q number of
me rains lately and the 800 or 1000 visitors
athe springs are rejoiced ihereat, to say
nothing Of the farmers and cattle men.
Companies Lave been organized in Wealth.
efiord for the establishment of water work,
aud tho construction of street railway lines,
days.
Twenty-eight Texans, arrivals during the
Pas! week. arc now sojourninr at Hot
springs, Arkansas, and tsk'r,. tho benefit of
doubtless. p''"'
A number Of camp and revival meetings
are going on In Burnett county and much
interest Is being manifested. The people are
probably ,.,,ey preparing for the advent Of their
Inc body Of Mr.. Milling, Of Louisiana.
VINO died at Lampasss Springs of consump.
ZION two years ago, was exb1med from ibe
vemeefy there Monday for removal 10 hie
,v'.nef nome, when II was discovered that II
WA partly petriasd.
ine Sanetiacationists, who have been
TSS'uing camp meeting In the suburbs Of
vI'esna for some weeks past, shook the
Wv" OF That town from their feet and moved
.ssen miles into the country, Monday. 40
wsow Of reach Of the unsodly.
me youngest child Of Judge A. T. Wstts
vi DALLAS. nov on the bench OF the com,
customers OF appeals, his little daughter
SOmmi'sa Appells, named 10 honor Of his
soufN she being born only some month";
~ d'ed at Weasherfcrd q few days ago.
Early Monday morning al Css.royille a
sIes' sur And commotion was noticed among
,i.s Oh wagons on tho bank of tho Nedins
h.s, and II was ascertsined that they were
asy'og 10 cross the river ss Il had sud-
,i .a'y risen several feet and was still on tho
NJ .e, ;, 10 few hours Il had become impssss.
So NJ. ~, oegeies. Heavy head rains sre sup
p'sed 10 DO tho cause,
Ohm n negro nsmcd Henry Gregory with three
Surd,ss.'o Oh ME race, was arrested q. Ellenper
e,,,sy' charged with stealing
susse and wero confined under
fops 70 q house at Fayetteville, Abou,
inovoo o'clock Monday morning some NO.
foous o psf.y dred through window of Tho
Who Nv. as!e tae prisoners were and Gregory,
nn, ~. considered, g, tho fingleader Of lie
M sI s,, .''al Of Henry Logrios, CHARGED with
Wslisss ss OF his cousin Reuben Morris In
vile. n X" w.v' w.s begun Monday Al Bsl'-
EeAt ,os S.Wn county. on change Of venue
''" were obtained hat day ana