The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-04
TEXAS ropl>"s.

the CITY.
Galveston's artessn well mas rea, he'd
depth of over GA fact.
Lonsvew is going to have q basket fac
tory established very soon.
At Hillsboro the road hands turned out
and worked the streets. Forty-two out of =
hundred reported for active duty.
In Galveston last Sunday night a young
man named Edmonscn, while drunk, fired
his pistol. woundiug woman in the leg.
There were eighty three interments in the
city of Galveston during the month Of Nav.
or an average of two and two-,hirds per day
Aug. Hsckerson, Swede, in the employ
of j. q. Dufield, near Round Rock, suicided
on the Slst ult. by shooting himself. He
was in love.
Bob Voss got drunk in Bonhsm and
swore there were not men enough in town
to arrest him. He was taken in, but it took
five good men to hive him.
The Sherman Courier Chronicle saws that
not more than half crop of cotton will be
made in Grsyson county this year. Weeds
and grass have taken the crops on many
farms.
Miss Anne John, daughter of Rev. !. G.
John, editor of the Galveston Christian AZ.
yocste, was married Wednesday night Ia
Mr., Morgan, an employee in the house of P.
j. Willis & Bro.
The Palestine News Is now engaged in the
very laudable undertaking of trying to con.
vincs the merchants of Palestine that adyel.
tising pays. 1t haa been partially successful
as it has about two and half columns OF
specials.
The Galveston city real estate COMPANY
through its president, j. L. Darragh, has
Just sold TO the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Ne
railroad five blocks of grouad In Galveston
for $40 600. These same blocks of ground
were reodered for taxes as worth only
$4,000. Some people must have very
elastic con'ciences when thoy render prop
er!y for taxes.
Captain Nick Weeks, popular business
and society man in Galveston, and formerly
chief clerk in the treasury department under
Governor Lubbock, was married in Austin
Wednesday night TO Miss ANUS Green,
daughter of Colonel John A. Green, prom
inent lawyer of the capital city The lady is
also niece of the late Major General Tom
Green, and therefore a grand daughter OF
Judge Green, oncs chief justice of the state
of Tennessee.
The trust deed of the first mortgage bond.
of the Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central
railroad, to secure payment of $40 600 OOO
to the New York Central Trust company,
WAS filed Wednesday in the state depart,
ment at Austin. The company have Dor
rowed 500 600 per mile on the entire length
of the road, and will issue bonds of 500
each, dated December l, 1880, and PAYABLE
thirty years after date, with six per cent per
snnum, interest pay able in gold semi -annu.
ally.
L. is generally conceded that the existing
contracts by which froights arrive at Calves
ton by sea, and consigned to points on the
International s. Great Northern, and Texas
d. Pacific railways are received and for.
wsrded to their destination via the Gulf.
Colorado & Santa Fe route terminates in
August. 1t is supposed that after that time
these freights will go via the q. Fl. g. H.,
since it Las passed into the control of the
Gould syndicate, who owns and operates the
l. & g. N. aud the 7. s. p.
The Attorney General bsing asked for bis
opinion as to certain provisions of the cattle
and hide inspection law, in answer saws he
IS clearly of the opinion that under article
1921, it is the duty of the inspector to rein.
spect dry hides when shipped into another
countryf or expectation, ard he ia further OF
the opinion that when such hides are for ex.
portation and inspected It the exporters
b 'pd's The .inspeeto' !: entitled to fees; but
parties holding the hides under duly aus
thenticated bill of sale, and proper inspec-
ton certificates, are protected there
under from any further fees for inspection.
or unless the hides come from Mexico, or
unless the point in question is the last place
Of shipment in the State.
San Antonio will certainly have fair next
November, tho association having arranged
necessary prelimina les. 1t is to be hoped
1t will not be like most of the fairs in Texas
made up of bushe of corn, ono whisp of
bay, two bushels of oats, lone pumpkin.
five or six carrots and three dung hill chick,
ems; long horn COW, two as,h.
mstcal sheep, muly bull, halt
bred jacksss, a prairie raised --stsllion, a
spanish mare and four r5zor backed pigs;
while in the grand exhibition hall a pone of
two weeks old light bread, blighted and
sad looking p ,und eske, two stacks of scol :
loped ginger cakes, a small jar of diminutive
peaches preserved on a scant allowance of
sugar, and live bed quilts of vsriegsted bues
and sadly in neod of washing; two home.
made shirts that couldn't possibly have been
made anywhere else, and feminine gar.
ment OF some kind that makes the girls all
g'gge when they look a. it, with q Negro
hddler and bass drummer in the grand
stand, filling up the interstices with music
until the races begin, splendid match be.
tween spooned COW pony and wind bro.
Ken dray horse. mile heats, two in three
and trotting contest between a couestog,
wind CALLED and q Spanish mule, one.eyed