The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-23

is turning ouL kSnueu Wis
The pecan crop in Austin county will be
small this year owing to drouth.
Adiutsnt General w. II. King Is on a visit
10 his home in Sulphur Springs.
Already three charters have been filed for
street RAILWAYS in the town Of I'll Paso.
At Bellville the railroad platform is
crowded with cotton awaiting shipment
The court house at San Saba is infested
with bats, and so 10 the court house at Bren-
ham.
The Lsmpasss and Bolton stage was rob-
bedlsst Saturday fifteen miles east oil Lan>
pass.
Concord Grange, Lee county, now has its
meetpps enliyened by the music OF an
organ.
Temperance couueils have ceen organized
at Yellow Prairie and DeaDyiile IN Blrleson
couuty.
HnntsyGla. bg vote Of SO to l, has been
elected to lake charge Of the public SCHOOLS
in its county.
The postofioe at Strickland ID Burnet
county, wss broken into and robbed Monday
night OF $50
The San Antonio Express is fully satisfied
that tho coming fair at that place will be p
grand success.
Rcd Miller WAS dangerously though not
fatally cut by Martin Tall, at Texsrkans, on
Tuesday night
Mr.J. p. Evans, formerly manager of the
fremont opera house a! Galveston, died at
San Marcos last Friday.
The new Baptist church at Giddincs is
about completed and will be dedicated on
,hs fourth Sunday in October.
Aaron Logan, for forty years a resident OF
Austin county, died at his home near Nell
tnyille last week aged 81 years
The Giddngs Lone Star has seen fire
kldler for the frat time. Fire kndlers have
b,tu in the market for twenty years.
III. Williams a ranger, was shot and
killed Mt Big Springs, on the Texas " Ea-
cilc railroad, ov McGehee, gambler.
We learn from the Caldwell Register that
taSe is to be camp meeting three miles
eSs of Brenham, commenciDe as early
dEJ
tofessor Kruger, well known in Bren-
hal fell out of saloon ut Bellville last
wee and broke his leg. The professor was
druK.
Re. E. +. Kahlo, who has been preaching
at Lnpssss, he is, says the BuTnat Bulle-
tin, Osrged with Beecherlsm in West Viz
ginii
Jaes Odell charged with the murder Of
w. Mckee, in Comanche county in 1879,
has ter three days trial at ComanCne, been
acquted.
Pit oats, rye, wheat or understanding
thatill make coed crop of forage for
whit use, is the advice the Bolton Jour
nal yes farmers.
II Collector n. A. Morris, OF Bastrop
couH, had his hand severely cut IN gin
saw,l Tuesday and !. is thought he will lose
one his fingers.
A egro was saken from the Jail o.
Woman, carried two miles iuto the couu,
try 81 hanged On tree. WHAT the negro
nadine is not stated.
Aoung man named Fletcher living near
Intbendence, IN Washington county, vs.
thrEn from his horse few days ago api
dsfrom his injuries on Tuesday.
Je Georgetown Sun says the constable Of
the1oorgetown precinct was drunk in town
"a insulting people from the country
Dlnken officers should be punished.
train on the narrow gauge road ran into
entrsl freight train Saturday. The or =
geer Oh the narrow gu3ge engine claims
Ut his locomotive was unmansgeabe.
The Commaudery OF Knights Templar, q,
Ienham, have asked for sdispensston from
10 grand commander for q memorial service
honor of the president on Sunday next
On the ranch of Mills s. Ards in south
western Texas they keep a large pet chicken
snake in the house. His snskelhip catches
all the rats and mice that coma to the house.
The Austin Statesman calls the attention
of farmers to the fact that ii is better for
them to sell cotton at Ien Ceuts pound net
cash than to sell il for ten and a half cents
and take the proceeds in trade.
Some tilaN ago good deal was said in the
newspapers in regard to Colonel Sabriego,
of Mexico, who claimed portion of the
present city Of San Antonio. The Express
says his claims amount to nothing.
The Caldwell Register calls the attention
OF the county commissioners TO the necessity
of good bridges. Good roads and good
bridges are the main stay Of interior towns
nearly all of which depend upon wagon
trade.
NOton heou IL ebHlnp NJ seNcn uollhIs u
ton at Bolton. The result of high prices for
cotton seed may be scarcity u that very
important article at planting timo. Fern
ers should guard against this by not soliin &
out too close.
HoR. John. 7. Crisp, of Missouri, under
Indictment atSulphur Springs, was by con-
sent of the counsel for the state admitted to
bail in the sum of $4,000 on Tuesday for
his appearance at the next term OF the dis
trict court OF Hopkins county
The county surveyor Of Bexar county has
received instructions TO survey 1000 sections
of school lands in his district snd in Crockett
county, and as the minimum prices Ct these
lands fixed BY law ia 81 per acre, tho sum
total at that figure will be some Sl92 900 for
thepublic school fund.
A Race for Life Ending in Death.
New Orleans Picayune.
Last Tuesday our district courtroom wa,
The theatre ola thrilling scenoe from real
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