The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-03

Waxhhachle wants u good barber shop
and good tailor.
Only ten divorces wore granted NJ the last
term Of tho district court nj Bellville
The s,ockmen Of Jack county will hold
meeting on tho first Saturday In March.
Boo county has 2s,7G5 head of cattle, S,i9S
head Of horses and O3 Oh head of sheep.
The merchants Of Brentwood are incroas-
Ing their stocks, and business Is very brink
Mr.. John Robert DeForreat and Miss
Eliza Ellen Dicinich were married at Fulton
a few days ago.
Mr.. w. b. Rsgland, of Waco, and Miss
Della Wilkinson we're married in Bryan last
Wednesday morning.
The wheat crop in Comarche county is
very promising, and the acreage this year
greater than II was last.
The Houston s. Texas Central railroad ia
now completed through Comanche county,
and reaches into Eastland.
Measles now prevail 10 Galveston, and
daring the past five or six weeks, there has
been fully two thousand cases.
Frank Elwood WAS awarded two years in
the penitentary at San Antonio Wednesday
for the embezzlement of mule.
There is not q vacant house in the town Of
Brentwood, and persons desiring TO locate
there are compelled to go elsewhere.
For lack of transportation the mil men
Orange are receiving msny letters counter
handing orders for lumber and shingles.
There are now some parties in San Antonio
prospecting for q location west Of that city,
on which 70 settle some seventy five Quaker
| families.
Weatherford offers $4,000 in money and
| her superior advantages to secure one of the
! state normal schools, if there should be any
| more established.
The government now has at work at
Arkansas Pass improving the bar, large
| force of mon under the immediate supervis-
ion of Mr.. Brown.
Mrs. j. D. Shaw was buried in Waco
| Wednesday and one of the largest funeral
professions ever seen in that city attended
her body to interment.
! DR.. Frank Cauch, of Upshur county, and
Miss Alice e. Wright daughter of sheriff
| A. u. Wright of Marion county, were mar
ried in Jefferson last Tuesday night.
There has within tho past week or so,
been an opposition pilot association to the
old one, formed AZ Arkansas Pass, with
Captain Frank Stephenson at its head.
jim CofIield, a colored deputy sheriff of
| Washington county, has been arrested and
| Jailed in Austin county, for making an rs
| sault upon an old lady at Sempronius.
A man psmed Mcnamara had his leg
| badly crushed and broken in wreck on the
| Houston 81 Texas Central railroad within
| tho city limits Of Houston on Wednesday.
Sam McGill, charged with murder, was &C
! Quilted Wednesday in the district court at
Meridian, Basque county, and grea. many
neople ere incensed and disguised at the YER
dict.
! Mrs. Turner had her house destroyed by
| fire at Brentwood few days ago, and her
ueighbors having aided her to the extent of
1920, she has set about rebuilding her resi-
Gence at once.
The carriage mandatory Of Mr.. Paul b.
| Jandon was destroyed by fire in Waco
Thursday morning with its entire contents.
| The insurance on the building was only
$1,000 with probably more on the stock.
A seventeen year old boy, name unknown,
| became involved in an alteration with a
man named Gap McGee, at Trinity Wednes
| day and shot MCGEE through the bowels.
| The boy then mounted a horse and escaped.
According TO the meteorological record
nublished BY the San Antonio Express, it
| rained during the year 1880, on $50 days,
and during that period nearly five feet OF
water. The Express asks: SIS western
Texas dry coustry?"
| The Bellvlle Times has found o negro
| man iust across the Brazos rivor, in Waller
county, who, according TO we'll authenti-
Gated accounts, is about 1870 years old. His
| name is uncls Peter; he is able to 20 short
| distances, make bsskets, etc.
! Brownwood did have barber up to few
DAYS ago, but as they are u hirsute people
| out there, he couldn't make living with
! ravor and shears, so he broke into store
Wednesday night, and now he langnishes in
| iail. Ed. Morgan is the euphonious cogno-
men by which this Senegsmbsn was known.
Monday Mike Mshoney, discharged sol,
| der at San Antonio, went home intoxicated
and after assaulting and badly beating Mrs
| Kercher, the woman he lived with, picked
M her seven months infant, Of which he Is
the father, and slamning il against the ilooi
came near killing It. lie was jailed for as
ssult with intent TO murder.
I The Galveston cotton seed oil mill has
been forced 10 suspend operations on account
| of iDaDulty 10 geb seeu. Inc mClVnch.
weather all over the state has prevented
farmers from taking their surplus seed TO the
| railroad stations. II is presumed thar The
winter Is row about broken up, and this diff
aculty will soon be obviated.
The Coleman Fulton Pasture company
was organized a, Rockporl few days ago,
under charter obtained from the secretary
| of state and Colonel g. w. Fulton was
elected president. Colonel Fulton is \ SON
in-law Of tho late Governor Smith, the Brsl
governor Texas ever had-before she had
achieved her independence and became a
republic with q president Us chief uAgis-
| trste.
Two Auatin officers few days ago found
a Mexican in pasture near that city with
three horse. and a six-sbooter In bis posses
sion. Ga being questioned he could give no
satisfactory account of himself; nor OF the
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