The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-29
TEXAS ToPIUs.

Texsrkars had considerable FIRE or the
night of the lisa.
Southern Texas hsd lns rain aud the
grass is creening up again.
At Cameron FIVE prisoners oyerpswered
the iailer and made their ascape.
A man named Averiu fstally cut one Hum
ter 1t Hillsboro in an ARRAY last Tuesday.
]. CorleIl, charged with the murder of
w, IL. Mckee in Uomsnche has been acqur,
ted.
In nearly all Texas towns bells were tolled
or business suspended SIS 3 mark OF respect
for the dead president
Advices from the agricultural and meehsn-
ical college indicate d largely increased num-
Der of students the ensuing season.
Right. of,wsy for the Gulf, colorado Il
Santa Fe has been secured to Lsmpssss and
yhe people are looking for the iron horse.
A negro named Frank Lucky was taken
from the jsl st WOrlhsm one night last
week and hanged to tree. lie was not very
lucky.'
The charter the Houston Belt Railroad
has been filed, The object OF the roAd IS to
enClrcle inc Guy anu luIuAhu SOuhoSVOHe W
all roads entering there.
Brentwood is enjoying a boom over the
prospect of the speedy building OF the santa
Fe road to that town, Real estate has ad-
vAnced greatly in the last thirty days.
A German family living near San Antonio
had the barrel Of water, which they used for
drinking purposes, poisoned by some Liend
and one az the children died rom drinking
the water
Jack Post, condemned murderer a. Gre
ham, tell in his cell few days since and has
apparently remained unconscious ever since.
Physicians declare him unhurt and that he Ia
only PLAYING of.
John Gran, one of the noted Bright gang
operating in southwestern Texas, has been
picked up and lodged in jail by the rangers.
We are always glad to publish any item of
service by the rapgers-such items occur
very seldom.
Fro county has applied for authority to
raise a minute company TO protect life and
property from raiders beyond the Rio
Grande. The authority is given 70 raise q
volunteer military company, but the state
pays them nothing, and repudiates their
claims even when called out by the gov
ernor.
The secretary of the Board of Education,
in reply to DR.. Curry, agent of the Peabody
fund, discussing educational matters
in Texas, submits that por-
ton of the Peabody fund might be very
advautageously used in aid Of Galveston
and Austin schoos, these places being the
principal commercial ard political centers
of Texas, and having recently voted TO sup
port free schools by local taxation.
Colonel j NJ EDDY, superintendent Of the
construction of the Missouri Pacific, writes
that the line Of the Bolton branch has been
finally located. lie Gays the construction has
been necessarily delayed solth from Fort
Worth, owing to the failure Of the rolling
mills to supply the demands. There ia no
doubt, he adds, but that our branch to Bell
ton will be completed Just as soon as our
track reaches the crossing of athe Santa Fe.
Our New York officers have already issued
their Instructions in regard to this matter.
Bellon is considerably elated.
Jefferson Democrat: We spoke of the
frost here on the 10th AS being the earliest
ever known. That WAS an error. DR. | g
Eason calls our attention to the year 1851
OF which he has record. 1t was An extra
ordinary year Is we well remember. There
was frost that year on the morning Of the
7th of May and frost on the 10th Of Sep
iember There was frost every month of the
year except three june, July and August.
On the 9th of April there WAS freeze that
killed nearly all the fruit and many of the
fruit trees The peaches were nearly one
third grown and frozen clear through. Corn
was waist high and whest was headed out
All vegetation was blasted as by fire and
the forests that we're INVESTED with full
foliage presented the dssolation Of mid-win,
Ter. The frost of tho 18th of April WA
continued every day until the morning of The
29rd.