The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-31
TEXAN roPICS.

IN Farmers in Van Zzndt county are rather
bscs ward with iheIr crops.
4 Toe miEtsry compsnv of Orange, gave a
erand unilitsry bal last might.
IA negro msil agent IS running on the
froute BE-, seen Orange aud Nav Orleans.
y A council of the American Legion of
Honor ~ss crg nized at Cantor last week.
q The wheat d Ids in Cooke county sre
n lookirg in fne and prosperous condition.
F,rmers in Cooke county intend this year
/ TO put ia increased crops of corn and cotton
Mr Dave MOBILES ard Miss Jolly were
married in Cooke county. A noble and jolly
pair
Ar item Is going therouuds that Beaumont
has had strawberri &. So has Dsllas-lsst
yesr.
Mr.. John b. Goodhue and Miss Josie Hall
ton we're married in Beaumont on the 2ith
inst.
MIR Charles Bsteman and Miss Cynthia
Grsyson we're married in Van LsDdt county
last week
The government has substituted kerosene
for lard oil for USE in the lamp at the Sabine
pass Ugh. house.
Mr. William Longhsm end Miss Adde
Stephenson were married in Jefferson county
short tine siuce
Mr.. Weter T Floyd and Miss Msggie
Hopkins waro IN FRIED nv Leesburg, Upsher
county, few days since,
A contribution land league meeting was
hold at Texslkana Saturday night and organ
izat with y large membership
Beaumont ia constantly improving and
growing IN population, and has already be-
come the hub OF southeast Texas
The Baptisis of Gainesville are building a
new churc1, which win be g very handsome
bui.I iag with spire l2S feet high.
The past severe winter has injured the
orange trees IN Orange county much more
severely than wss at first thought.
The bonded debt of Selma, Alabsma, Is
said to be about 800 600 or about % per
cent of the assessed value of real estate.
There is now about four months run Of
timber on hand at Beaumont but another
supply is expected on the next spring rise.
Captain r. Burke, of Texsrkans while
sitting convsrsing with y friend Monday
evening fell forward, dead from heart disease,
The editor OF tho Canton Chronicle cello,
brated his forty eighth birthday Sunday last
We trust he may live TO celebrate his centen-
NAL.
Large herds Of cattle from eaatern Texas
have been passing through Van Zandt coun
ty for a week past, going west In search oil
pasturage
The Winston. North Carolina, Leader as
ser,s that gentleman of Buffalo, NcV
York, has given $4,000 TO Oxford orphan
asylum.
IF. &. Gillock, country merchant ir
Cooke county, lost STA out of his pocket
while on his way to Gainesville to buy goodI
the other day.
John Arden, one of the largest sheep own
ers ia Tom Green county, suuided a few days
ago by blowing his brains out with Win
chester ri1a.
II. w. Sanders and j. G. MillikeE had ar
altercauon in Beaumont one day last week
and the former cut tho latter severely in the
head with a Ratchet.
The business men of Gainesville held 4
meeting one day last week and organized
Themselves into board of trade, with judge
j. NJ. Lindsay as chairman.
The steamboat, L. Q. 9. Lamar, arrived a
Orange day or Two ago with S92 bales o.
cotton brought down the Sabine river, TIT
largest cargo of the season.
The Catholics of Beaumont have pur-
chased handsome lot, fenced it in neatly
and commenced the erection of church
which will be- speedily completed.
For the purpose of protecting sheep il
Buncombe county, North Carolina, commits
aioners are allowed, by alaw recently enacted
to pay $50 for the killing of wolf
Ed johnson, colored laborer in the
Centennial mills, Mt Beaumont, attempted tC
push pine slab against a saw with, his foo
and the consequence was that tho saw tool
his foot or Just back of his toes.
Tho six men recently arrested BY Lieut'n-
ant Ogilsby's state troops, Mt Campbell!
store, in Live Oak county, suspec,eh OF rob
bing the mail ccsch near that place, prov,
not 10 be the men wanted and were released
A writ of Injunction hsviug been sued on
in the district court of Washington count,
TO restrain the collection of tax for the sup
port of the free schools in Brenhsm, tho trus
tees of tho schools closd he IN on Monda,
until the matter should be decided.
Messrs. Long u Co. got l7l3 feet O
lumber from one cypress To-, at their mill il
Beaumont one day last week. The log wa,
S3 fee, long and WAS % inches in diameter
at the top.
Right Rev. @. NJ. Dubuls, bishop Of Gal
weston, will administer n sactament of con
firmation at Beaumont on the 9th of mex
month, and at the same tlme will perform
the ceremony of the benedietion of the cor
ner stone of the Catholic church in thu
place.
Tho country Immediately around viii.
liams' Rsnohe, pretty little town in Hamil
ton county, is certainly very prolific. In
radius Of four milos around tho town ilv,
mothers sucklo eleven young infants, and /
hasn't been very good year Tor children
either
Ono night last week some negroes II
Beaumont heard groans and cries of murdo
noar the negro church In that place, but fear
ing TO 10 near they next morning informed
ajustce Of the peace who, with the count,
attorney went TO tho spot indicated. where
large pool of blood was found, and loadip,
from the pool, traces Of blood going toward
the Neches river. These traces were followed
and on tho bank of the river another pool o
blood was found. A negro named Zaol
Perkins Is missing from the town, and 1t I
supected that he was murdered and his bod,
thrown into tho river Anothpr nerro pap,o,