The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-09
TEXAS TOPICS.

De Witt county is over run with wild
duck and geese.
Sore eyes Of the grsnula.ed typo prevail
in Golisd county.
Denison has hog ordinance, aud now
the hogs are bsnlshed from the streets.
Last year Texas was su importer of grain
this year she has surplus expectation.
The city bonds of Brenham are selling in
that city at from % 10 81 cents on the dollar.
Stock owners in Golsd county are all in
closing their pastures for the horses and
cattle
Corn is selling in Sherman at thirty cents
a bushel; large quantities are being shipped
by rail.
San Antonio proposes grand celebration
for March, 6, the anniversary of the fall of
the Alamo.
A little child of w. R. Slrsughau, Of
Mckinney, fell in the fra last week, and IFS
head was badly burned
Tho farmers in Victoria county began
breaking up and preparing their lands for q
new crop over two weeks ago.
Tho Houston Daily Telegram has sus-
pended for want of funds, 1t having been
losing money for several months.
Ia some places in the Panhandle, near
Camp Supply. the,snow was piled up ten feet
deep in the ravines during the cold weather.
Tue saw and grist mill and cotton gin of
S. Il. Morrison, at Evergreen, San Jacinto
county, was burned Wednesday. Loss about
$4,000.
"Hores TO the jury" was Abe Rothsehild's
toast at the banquet given him in Cincinnati,
on returning from his four years visit to
Texas.
During the quarter ending DeceMber 81
1880 SlG6,493 81 was paid on steel rails i'm.
ported az the port of Galveston, and $751;
39942 on iron rails.
A Houston boy aged Is years, working in
a San Antonio printing office, was sent out
to collect bill of $27. He did SO and hau
not b3ea seen since.
The Evening light is the name of a new
daily paper which comes to US from San
neutrality-suspicious. by Clifford IL New
comb, the wel-kHown Texas Sun men.
McLennsn county has an immigration
society which, after the most strenuous
efforts, succeeded in raising SO toward print \
ing pamphlets descriptive Of the county.
A young man, Will Westmorelandl
rushed ia the ps.h OF runaway team 1T
Henrietta the other day aud saved the oc-
cupsnts Of the vehicle a! the risk of his own.
life.
The saloon Of Charles Keelers and an old
ten>pin alley attached used rs o stable were
burned a few days ago in Comanche county,
eight horses being consumed in the ten.pin
alley stable.
Orookednes3 has hsan discovered 10 ths
county surveyors office of xar county,.
One and q half million acres of land are
Involved. The late county surveyor, LED
Navarro, left for Mexico last August.
Texls ha, on tho market $4,000 acres of
university lands, 307,6l5 acres Of asylum
land . and nearly S0.0O0,000 acres Of school
lands. The sale, under the system of doler-
red payments ana interests, is assuming
proportions. -. I'll
Work was commenced Monday morning.
putting up the telegraph wire between
Sherman and Whitesboro on the rraus-Oonti
mental railroad. AS soon as the wire is up
the trains will commence running regu,e
larry. b
A travelling show company visited Gone
zales a few days ago, and after the perfornf
ance two of the leading actors we're treated Il
q snipe hunt. 1t is the same old snip
hunting yarn rs-vamped to suit the occao
sion. Amateur snipe hunters certainly de-,
not read the papers or they would hardly b
taken in on a snipe hunt. nl
The body of Albert Williams, q negriSs,
was found on the prairie about four miller
from Columbus with his brains shot out an,n
his hands tied behind him. Tho coroner al
jury found the body laying over as ii sho. hSS,
u sitting position with five bullet holes in tby
body and one in the head. Two men namh '
Walker have been arrested on suspicion.
The body of Fletcher Jones. a mere b IL
aaon of the late Judge Fielding Jones, sprofe,
inent lawyer Of Victoria, was found near VIDE
toria short time since, with two gun stsu
wlunds on the body and one in The Fl
ei.her of which would have caused dea III
Two men, Allen Farrar and Dan Schums
were arrested for the MURDER on SUSPECT