The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-29
TEXAS TOPICS.

week.
San Antonio is having her scholastic census
retsken.
Wheat fields around Terrell are locking
beautifully.
Some corn in Kaufman county is eight
inches high.
Measles. and catarrhal fever prevail in
Pamela county.
Miss Mary Z. Bennett died in Pnaos coun.
ty few days sgo.
The thermometer was high up in the
ninetes at Austin on Tuesday.
Farmers in Brszos county are sorely
worried by the scarcity of labor.
Henderson will have big Sunday school
celebration and picnic tomorrow
Measles seem to be epidemic in Henderson
but it it is not OF malignant type.
Good medium wool of the new crop is
selling in Antonio at cot cents.
Wagons loaded with immigrants seeking
homes in the west, pass through Palo Pinto
every day.
Mr.. Sudwig Strscker and Miss Mary
Msresch were married at Caldwell last Sun
day night.
The reunion of the survivors of General
Ector's brigade will take place 10 Henderson
in August.
The grounds have been procured in Bren.
han. and large cotton seed oil mill will 90
up at once.
The presbyterian church at Jefferson il
holding weeks meeting, with preaching
day aud night.
Mr.. Alfred Baldrv, we'll known citizen
of Houston, died al Brenham Tuesday after
q lingering illness.
A fatal disease has been for some time
past prevailing among the hogs around Bell
view, Rusk county.
A movement is on foot to form a Joint
stock company with a capital of $4,000 to
erect cotton mill in Denton.
Lots in the new town of Alexander, twelve
miles south of Stevensvillo and on the Texas
Central railroad were sold yesterday.
Governor Roberts issued proclamation
yesterday, or was to have done so quaran-
timing the Texas coast against Vera Cruz.
Sarah Jonecan, negro woman, was sent
to the penitenuary for life at Houston,
Tuesday for the murder of another negro
woman.
A gentleman of Waco has procured a lot
o. English sparrows, and will turn them loose
there. They will be an intollerabe.nuisa
in few years.
The negro, Charlie Potter, who in fit of
Jealousy, shot another negro named Quinn a
few nights ago in Galveston, had not at last
accounts been captured.
A young mnn named Williams, recently
from Logan county, Arkansas, was drowned
while trying 10 swim Doggy creek near
Gainesville on Sunday last.
Mrs. Mary E. Constant, lady who went
dersDged in Kaufman county week or so
ago over spiritu.ism, will be taken to the
lunstic asylum in few days.
Two Norwegian sailors, while returning
to their vessel in the offing FROM Galveston,
Tuesday, were caught in squall, their boat
capszed and both Of them drowned.
The fruit in portions of Rusk county was
entirely destroyed by frost, and many people
are bewslling the toothsome peach cobblers
they were anticipating this summer
The loft of livery stable in Henderson,
in which was stored car load of baled
hay, fell down the other day and negro
named Henry Bowden was hurt, though
worse scared.
Colonel j. S. Boggess, who had been a
resident of Henderson for more than thirty
i've Jea.s, and who was well and fayorsbly
known throughout east Texas, died last
week, over eighty years of age.
There Is a report in Galveston that the
body ofCaptain Peterson, reported to have
been lost overheard from the sloop Liz in
Galveston bay some weeks ago, had Teen
found with a bullet hole in his brain.
The funeral sermon of Captain r. A.
Terrell recently deceased, after whom the
town of Terrell was named, will DO preached
at Terrell on next Sunday, the lst proximo,
by Rsv. w. ii. Hughes, one of the pioneer
preachers of North Texas.
In 1879 there was q fire in Brephsm and
the insurance companies involved refused TO
pay the policies on the ground that the fire
was incendisry. A suit followed which was
decided in the district court Tuesday in
favor of the insurance companies.
Austin has slight sensation in the report
that an sgent of some of the architects who
have submitted designs for the state capitol,
is there with corrupt intentions and plenty
of money, End Marshal Thompson was in
structed to watch him. Such nonsense.
Woodson Hardy left Georgia eight years
ago and came to Texas, since when he has not
been beard Of by his relatives. His, sis,,r,
Mrs. Jennie Stapp, a widow who lives
at Huntington Tennessee, and who is very
poor, is anxious to hear from him or of him,
and asks for the information desired.
Tom Gouldy, youth Is or 10 years of
age, wandered off from his home at Jefferson
a few days ago, in fit of arrangement, and
has not since been heard Of. His mother is
dead and few months ago bis father died,
leaving to his care number of helpless
chidred. He had been working on the rail.
road, but returned home short time since
insane.
Monday as wagon loaded with immi>
grants was crossing bridge over ditch in
the outskirts of Denison, one of the mules
became frightened at hole in the bridge and
jumping to one side caused the wagon to
topple over into the ditch. All the people
in the wagon were more or less hurt, one
child being insensible for some time. The
team was hurt and the wagon broken.