The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-10
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Fer August the ,eceiris of the land Office
st Austin xsehed $4,000.
-Four marrisgs licenses were Issued by the
clerk OF Navarro county, last week
Couonis turning out much better in Ma
vAro county than wss At frat expected.
San Antonio city bonds are selling st
81 IL coHis ca tho dolsr. Nearly up 70
par, nut not quite,
From Austin county Mas Silia Thornton
has been selected as pupil 10 the normal
school at Nashville.
1t raned in Waco on The Ttt inst. for the
first time in three months according 10 the
EKsminer of that city.
Eiehty-seven bales OF cotton were burned
at Brdhhsm on the platform, having esught
from sparks from passing train.
Mr.. J. d. Wood and Miss Carrie Mills,
daughter of Hon. Roger Q Mills, were mar.
ried in Corsicsna last Thursday evening.
When 1t Tsned in Waco on the 7th there
was much lightning. which was a deep red
in its glare and therefore appalling to look at.
The vote in harris county, including
Houston, will reach 1000 for Houston for
the medical department of the State Univer-
sity.
Bolton, Waco's nearest neighbor, onls
gave that place ten votes for the state uni
versity. Why this was thus, let Waco On.
swer.
The money in the state treasury is con-
stantly accumula,iDg, Less q months ex-
penses the amount was svelled in August by
$250,000.
Corsicans is Twin the tbroes of munic-
ipsl canvass. A good thing this for the pa
pers, but somewhat stiff, perhaps, on the
candidates.
A man named Charley Cowart had his
hand and arm SO badly lacerated 10 cotton
gin "Wednesday, near Brennan, that /! had to
be amputatej.
There does not seem TO have been more
than third OF the vote cast on the uniyer.
SHY question nowhere except in the towns
that were candidates.
P. Burns night yardmaster of the Interns
tioual Il Crest Northern railroad, was run
over and killed st Austin, while on duty
Wednesday, night last.
Dat of eight bids for surveying the school
lands that of L NJ Moore &c Co., of Hemp.
stead, at IS per lesgue, was the cheapest and
WAS lneIelol6 accepted.
A United States signal office has been es
tsblished at Houston. A lieutenant of that
service was in Houston on Wednesday ses
curing suitable quarters.
A negro attempted to commit
henious crime upon the person Of
Mira. Taylor, wife of Rev. Elijah raylor,
living near Oorsicans, and Bud EIke, is
npder suspicion OF being the guilty psrty.
q man was under arrest in Waco day or
two ago charged with the theft of half bush
elof corn. The county attorney dismissed the
case, whether because il was a Jean VAL
jean sort Of case or because the evidence
did not sustain the charge, we know not.
Colonel John M Swisher, of Austin, his
received letter from s. M. Swenson IL
Sons, formerly Of Austin, bankers IN New
York, offering to locate and survey all the
veteran land certificates for onehslf the land,
and to advance each veteran $3.50 on his Ger.
tifcate, which is from $40 to $40 more than
they are being sold for now in Austin.
Henry Holderson who had been insane
for some time and kept in constraint, but
who II was thought had become harmless
and was therefore allowed 10 20 about at
his own volition, suicided day or two ago al
Floresville, near San Antonio. by shooting
himself with shotgun. When found he
was lying across the grave of his wife.
Waco through its papers claims to be the
best cotton market in the state. Perhaps
this Is true, bat we fail TO see it in the prices
paid as compared with those of Dallas,
Houston and Galveston. Cotton being
staple has Its regular price, auctuating, per
haps, every day and no town or city 10 Texas
except it be Galveston, and It may be Hous,
ton, can pay more than another.
The county cour! of McLsnnan county, in
session at Waco day or two ago, was the
scene Of lively sort Of sensation. Bill
Edwards and his wife Mary, both colored,
were witnesses in csie on trial. They had
been separated for some time, not living
happily together. They, by some means, had
seats near together and began talking over
old times when they were one. Mary became
excited, and her temper getting the better OF
her discretion, she seized broom near by
and began laboring William. William re-
tslliated with his fists, and the two fought
round over the court house, stopping the
wheel Of justice entirely until the sheriff and
his deputies finally succeeded in getting
them apart. A lne of $25 each. which nei-
her could pay, brought them TO their senses