The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-28
TEXAS TOPICS.

Washington county has nine murder cases
on its docket
Baird did not have to kill man 10 start
her graveyard.
The state Sunday school convention met
in Austin Tuesday.
Tracklsying on the International railroad
has reached the Medina river.
Immigrant wagons going west are con-
stantly passing through JacEsboro.
Mumps and measles, which have prevailed
oil over Jack county, are now disappearing.
A lodge ofthe Knights of the Golden Rule
was organized in dustin Monday afternoon.
Tho new crop of wool in considerable
quantities is being received at San Antonio.
The peach, plum and grape crops will be
short 10 Grimes county this year owing to
frosts.
Citizens of Navssota are moving in the mat
ter of Clement attachment for spinning
cotton.
BRYAN is said to be all abloom with beauti-
full flowers. Perhaps they have no northers
there.
Some foreign parties are looking out
location for q colony down about San An
tonic.
Several CANADA merchants have been in.
speeding the cattle interests around Fort
Elliott,
j. w. Miller, an old citizen of Bastrop
county, died last Tuesday. He was seventy.
five years Of age.
The Missouri Pacific road, between Fort
Worth and Denton, is to be completed by
the 25!h Of April.
Another elopement occurred at Psles,
tine the other day. Several elopements from
that place of late.
MIR. Moses M. Camp is an aspirant for the
postoffice at Navasota and is getting petition
signed in his favor.
A fallen white woman was shot and killed,
by a negro woman, without provocation, at
McKavet, on the 9Th instant -
An abundance of rain in Harrison county
has greatly benefited the crops, and now the
farmers all wear smiling faces.
The wool market has not fully opened
yet. Some small lots have been sold
at from 10 to % cents per pound
Three horse thieves we're summsrily
disposed of few days since in Hill county,
A rich copper mine has been discovered
in.Llano county, and the indications are that
there are some silver and gold also.
An architect from New York to choose
from among the number substituted, plan
for the state capitol, is now in Austin.
Some fifty new houses, residences and stores
are going up in Marshall, and the town has
sgeneral air of improvement and thrift.
Two men near San Saba sold their stock
of cattle the other day for $4,000, the
largest sale for several years in that portion
AT Bastrop the other day two society
young mon engaged in list and skull fight,
much to the amusement of peaceable citizens.
Five gentlemen, of Jacksboro, went out
few days ago into the post oaks near the town
and killed fifty-nine squirrels in little
while.
One negro went to the field of another
near Lovelady the other day and shot him
down. Some words had passed before,
however.
Track laying on the International & Great
Northern railroad, west from San Antonio,
is progressing at the rate Of about 5000 feet
per day.
Major WI. Hughes, chief quartermaster
for the department of Texas, has arrived at
San Antonio from st. Louis, and assumed
his duties,
A party of eight gentlemen left Navssot Ia
Tuesday on u prospecting tour to FL Psso.
They go overland with wagon and will camp
out all the way.
The governor has psrdoned Rusk Smith
from Rusk county, youth, out Of the
penitentiary. ReasoDs-exemplary conduct
and adolescence.
The sheriff. convention has been called
by the president of the association, Mr. Den
mis- Corwin, of Travis county, to meet in
Houston, May 10Th.
Mrs. S. r. Gerald, former resident of
Washington county, died in Burleson county
sfew days ago and her remains were inferred
at BRENNAN, Monday.
The International railroad bridge across
the Medina river west of San Antonio will
soon be completed, all the material being
on the ground and ready to put in position.
A passenger on the International railroad
lost his pocket.book containing $500, on
Wednesday. Tho loss occurred on coach
above Palestine; the finder of the pocket.
book said nothing about it.
All the little towns along the Texas &
Pacific line, have had or arc having their
boom. Weatherford has doomed, Eastland
has doomed, Abilene has doomed, Colorado
is now booming.
Paris has eight churches and eight saloons
and the North Texan says 1t is nip and tucE
between the devil and righteousness, with
chances in favor Of the latter when the home
stretch il reached.
On the 25th of May there will be grand
gathering Of all the colored troops In tn,
state at Houston. A sham battle is to bt
fought and prize will bs awarded to the ont
that gains the victory, or rather displays thu
best tactics.
ST Marks Episcopal cathedral was conse.
Grated at San Antonio Monday, Bishop
Quintard, Of Tennessee, Gregg Garrett and
Elliott, Of Texas, being present and taking
part. The ceremonies lasted two hours, and
at night a sermon was preached by Bishop
Garrett, of Dallas.
Mr.. B, +. Ackerman, living ten mile:
north OF Rockdale, while at the house of one
Of his tenants, was fired on by four men
Tuesday, aud was wounded in the face
breast and leg, the balls being from Witches
ter rifles. His wounds are painful but arc
not thought to be dangerous
The district court convened at Marshall
on Monday, last. Among the new cases on
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