The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-30
TEXAS TOPICS.

nc. Ford has Just been appointed post.
master at Whitney vice Mr.. j. W. Jasper
Jr.
The citv council of Gainesville has appro
prisied Sl4 900 for the building OF pub. /,
school-house.
There mas been received in the state tr-as-
ury at Austin for this mouth, I'D to Mon.
dsy last, $4,000.
On Friday the fret inst, the confeder,t,
soldiers and Texas veterans land pension
bill goes into effect.
around Whitney, and corn will not make
more than a fourth of crop.
The astronomer of the Houston Post saws
there is but one comet visible at this time
appearing twice during the night.
The rumor.prevslent in Houston, MONDAY
that there was yellow fever ut New Orleans
and Galveston proved to be csDard
T. G. Walker, charged with killing VIM
Meyers, was required 10 give bond ia tho
sum Of So 600 at Huntsville Monday.
Two droves of cattle in the stock.pens
at Gainesville stampeded Sunday evening G, de-
molishing the pens, but they were recovered
Ishsm Walker, freedman, was sentenced
to BE- hung at Gonzales Monday, for the
murder o his wife. The 28lh of July is the
day appointed.
The capitol commissioners we're to bave
met at Austin yesterday TO open and consider
the bids on file for the construction of the
state capitol building.
The bridge of the International railroad
over the Colorado at Austin, sas been com
pleted, aad Is now ready for trains. L. is the
finest bridge in the state.
j. M. Stewart, a mail rider be,w on
Jacksonville and Huntsville, was kicked in
the f.ce by mule a. Jacksonville Friday
an died in a few minutes.
Van Z. DIT county has citizen, Mr.. Alex
Norman, who is ghty.three years old and
VINO has the largest progeny of any man ia
the country, then. number being one hundred
and sixty -four, though they are not all
living.
Major Penn's Baptist camp-meeting Lar
flslonM is under full Roadway, and
some LOU people are camped on the grounds
width more constantly arriving Nineteen
conversions We're made Sunday night, and
the interest is increasing.
The body of an old man nom I'd Michs al
Scholt, he WAS 10 years old, was found in
the river at San ADionio, Monday morning.
1t was supposed the old man was walking
near the river and stepped in, and being too
feeble to get out, was drowned.
There are in Houston 1918 children of The
scholastic age, of whom 452 cannot read.
VI these who cannot read 23l, msiorlty.
are white children, showing conclusiyely
that colered children have rs good educs-
tlonal advantages ss white children.
Mra. Rutledge of Sherman, was in Den.
ison, MONDAY, looking for her daughter
Lille, aged sixteen years. The girl mystic,
riously disappeared from her home Sunday
night and her mother was in great distress.
She could fod no trace of her in Denisor.
Maud Lewis, bswdy woman in Gaines.
VILE, attempted suicide by tskiog morphine,
and Mondsy,A Ada Ferrill, another female of |
the same kind, tried to do likewise by taking
Twenty-Five grains of morphine, but both
were save from death with stomach pump |
and other means.
George Green, fireman on the Missouri
Pacific branch roam runuing TO Mineols,
was takea sick Friday on his train with
pneumonia and died in Denison Sunday
night. He had recently become member
of the Legion of Honor and thus left $4,000
insurance to his aged mother.
j. j. Boone sn old and prominsn! citizen
and leading merchant of Round Rock, died
Sunday and was buried Monday morning.
b. siness of all kinds, both 10 the old and
new towns, was susp Jnded, and the people
turaed out ca masse to ths fuleral, Klights
of Honor and Odd Fellows uniting ia giving
him burial honors.
The gun clubs in different portions of the
sta % are doing good service by watching
closely TO prevent any violation of the game
law of the state. Tnere are gams vgndals
everywhere who will kill prairie chickens
and psrtrdges while they are setting, or
murd + tho chicks before they are hslf
grown, and it is right that all such should be
prosecuted and punished to the
extent of the law Ii is to be hoped that
these clubs will look after the fish too.
Sundsy.m orniug six prisoners, including
DR.. Ball, escaped from the Tyler Ill. 1t
seems that Dr. Ball is an expert at opening
locks, and having got bis own cell door open
he opened the other cells which let all the
prisoners into the corridor with only brick
wall between them and liberty. This brick
wall they soon went through, lesving only
hole behind them and note from DR.. Ball
stating that the papers could announce his
departure. This is the third
jail delivery at Tyler within
q month, yet il is brand
new structure received from tire contractors
but short time since. Shoddy jails are
more expensive than solid, good ones, al
though the first cost may be less. None of
the prisoners at last accounts had been re.
arrested.
DR.. 81. j. Avirger, prominent and
wealthy citizen Of Cass county and senator
from that district in the thirteenth legisla>
ture, was dangerously and perhaps MORALLY
wound d by negro named Hicks Ross, a
tenant on bis farm, last Saturday. 1t seems
that the doctor was remons trsting with Ross
for not cultivating his corn 10 certain way
which he had u right to do as he was inter-
ested in the crop, when r 'ss told him he was
tired Of his Interference, as he was bimsolfa
man. On receiving this reply DR.. Avinger
knocked the negro down and COM
menced humping him when the
negro reached up and cut him aero S
the bowels, the wound being about eight
inches long and the bowels protruding. The
Doctor lay seven hours before medical aid
could BIO obtained, and when the wound was
dressed il was much swollen, and 1t was also
discovered that one Of the intestines WAS cut
about half in two. Ross escaned Int waa