The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-07
TEXAS TOPICS,

ball on the 9th instant.
The district court is now in session at
Greenville, in HuRt county.
Mr.. j. w. Hudson and Mrs NJ. E. Thom
were married 10 Waco last week.
DR.. J. ]. Riddle di0d at his residence in
BosqueYille, McLennan county, on the lSt
inst.
Wood is twelve dollars a cord in Calves
ton, and is clssssd as one Of the lu1uries of
life.
The clubhouse Of ]. j. Bowen, noar Bolton,
WAS destroyed by fire on the night Of the I'd
inst.
j. NJ. Robinson was reelected mayer of
Bryan Monday, and A. B. Carr town mar
shall.
Austin is to have new hotel, which will
be ready by the time the legislatures con-
venss.
The Odd Fellows of RockdAs will give a
grand ball on the night Of the 10Th, weather
or no weather.
District court is in session in Georgetown,
with heavy docket, including some big land
cases to dispose Of.
District court is in session at Franklin, the
new county site of Robertson county, but
there is not lawyer ia attendance.
Galveston intends to celebrate Mardi
Gras, and already subscriptions are being re.
ceiyed for the entertainment of Menus.
At the municipal election at Bsstrop on
Monday, Joseph Glover was reelected
mayor and ona negro was elected alderman,
Martin T. Bull, leading and enc of the
oldest citizens of Cherokee county, died at
his house In Jacksonville very suddenly Tuss.
day.
Several cotton buyers at Bryan declare
their intention 10 sue the Houston Is Texas
Central railroad for delay in shipment Of their
cotton.
The dry.goods house of E. Blum, at Waco
was closed by the sheriff Tuesday afternoon,
who run attachments on the stock to the
amount of $500.
Grading on the Missouri Pacific railroad
has commenced between Gresnvilo and
Mneols, and will be completed, it is claimed,
in one hundred days.
VI Colonel J. j. Stubblefsld, an old and
highly respected citizen of Georgetown, died
Tuesday, at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where
he had gone fer his health.
The quid Auncs at Austin say that the
senatorial question will enter into the cleo
ton of speaker of the house Of representa-
tives in the coming legislature.
An excursion train left Waco Wednesday
for Mount Airy, the terminus of the north
western extension Of the Texas Central rail-
road, where a sale of lots took place.
The Denison artillery company has re-
ceived an invitation to attend the Inaugural
x,e A AL
president elect on the 4th of March next.
James and Newell Burdslt, two brothers
raised in Austin, were arrested and jailed at
Austin Tuesday on charge Of robbing the
stage near Brownwood on December 9th.
Judge E. B. Turner, the new Judge Of the
United States court fer the western district,
has refused to hold court at Brownsville be-
cause of the prevalence Of small po1 there.
A Methodist preacher got on big DRINK
at Sulphur Springs Christmas week, and get
ting into fight ia q bsrreom, WAS gsnteelly
logged and left q wiser as well as q used up
man.
At San Saba during the recent cold snap,
the thermometer stood two days rs low as
four degrees above zero, and one man froze
to death between the town Of San Saba and
SsntSrfeit.
The republicans of San Antonio have
nominated James P. Newcomb for mayor,
with strong municipal ticket behind him.
A straight democrat and an Independent are
also running.
A bank known as the "Hunt County Bank"
has been opened Of Greenvlle, with j. T.
Russell, of Bonham, Messrs. Hall, B. Evanp,
and Colyer, of Terrell, and j. w. Rainey, of
Greenville, as stockholders
Colonel John D.. Templeton, present in
umbsnt, will remain in the secretary OF
states office until the legislature is organized.
when it is generally Understood he will be-
appointed assistant attorney general.
A Mexican named Mslchor Cervantes.
after lying in Jail two years, was acquitted of
horse stealing al San Antonio last Tuesday,.
but was Immediately remsnded to prison on
two more indictments for horse stealing.
Gus Downs, a colored boot.black in Waco.
while tussling for the possession of small
derringer pistol Monday night, was acct.
IDENTIFY shot in the neck, the ball passing
down and lodging under the shoulder blade
A number of Polanders living on the San
Antonio river, below San Antonio, were
bound over to the United States district
court in sums of $40 each for inducing a
eountryman to illegally vote for president
and congressman.
The stockmen's convention, to meet at
Fort Worth on Monday next promises to
be very largely attended, and business Of
vast importance will be transacted. The bus.
mess men of Fort Worth are trying 10 raise
money to give the COW boys banquet
The r. r. II. Rs, have convened in Austin
in annual session, and 3 nsw ritu4l hiss been
adopted by tha order which is said to be full
of mirth. The lodge ia initiating by the
wholesale, and high times are had. The r.
r. r. Rs will be ia session when the right
worthy grand lodge of /. o. o. +. meets in
Austin next February, and it is expected that
the whole grand lodge will be initiated.
The following are the grand officers elected
for the year 1881: Charles II. Defienbsugh,
most worthy grand rollicking ram; II. w.
Mooler, most worthy ram; Theodore Raiss.
ner, most worthy grand SO. EN- up; B. F,
Forster, most worthy grand spondoolx re-
ceiver and dispenser; w. O. Denny, most
worthy grand write 'em-up; Fred Carlton
most worthy grand senc escortSr; Charles
Cortissoz, most worthy grand turnkey; Will
liam Keye, most worthy grand jsiloi; George
L. Assmann, most worthy grand clean 'em
up and take 'em up.