The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-19
A Nuptial Knot Hastily Tied at Sher.
man--.Two Hotels Burned. and
Burglars Playing Their Ayoca.
tiOn In That City.
A Fire at Corsicana Destroys In,
Buildings and Threatens the
Entire City.
The Attorney.General Gets After III,
Defaulting Tax Collectors.
bonanza King MacKay Visits Houston
in His Interests.
Other Interesting State News
Navasota.
Snnoial IN tbo IInr.tt

Nayasota,
Special to the Herald.
NAvAsoTA, November lS.-An excitement
has been caused in business circles in Naya-
sofa on the receipt of intelligence from
LeGierse Il Co., of Galveston, that L. A.
Cohn, a travelling salesman representing
the iirm in Texas for two weeks, had mysteri-
ously disappeared. Cohn's collections in
Navasota amounted to about 81 400. He is
said to have collected money due his house
from business men at different points
on the Central road, aggregating about
$1,000, which he appropriated and disap-
peared. Cohn has wife and child living
at Palestine, and to the former he wrote a
letter apprising her of the step he was about
to take, and avowing the deep grief he felt
at the thought of separating from his
daughter. He assigned as q reason for
the determination to betray his employers
an inability to discharge his Indebtedness
to the firm, and hope that in new field
OF operations he might accumulate money
sufficient to satisfy his creditors. His finon-
cial embarrassment is attributed to A reck-
less mode of life. He was known to earn n
salary sufficient to support himself and
family in ailluence.
a party of seventy German immigrants
arrived here to-day, and they were received
by parties representing leading farmers and
planters OF this county, and will perma-
nentlV locate and engage in agricultural
pursuits.
1t Is reported here that negotiations are
being quietly conducted with a view Of the
purchase by the Gulf, Colorado ty Santa Fe
railroad company of the Central E Mont
gomery road, now in operation from Navo-
sofa to Montgomery, a distance of twenty
eight miles. | the agreement is consumma-
ted ratification is expected at meet
ing OF the Central & Mont
gomory directors in January,
after which 1t is said the road will be cx,
tended northwest to Caldwell, on the main
line of the Santa Fe, and southwest To The
Texas pineries, fconsummated thetrnn for
Will be of great benefit to Navasota,
a few days ago Floyd Jemn ison was
stabbed in four places by his uncle, Ben
Jemmlson, about seven miles from Navo-
sofa. lhe two men were fascinated bv
Lucy Smith, and jealousy prompted Ben
Jemmison to repair to the place where
Floyd Jemmison was stopping, and
summoning him to the gate. seized him by
the hand and plunged knife in his breast
the LETT shoulder and in the right side. The
assailant fled and is now at large.
The collecting. agent for leading whole.
sale house in Galveston says there have been
ABOUT sixty failures in business in Texas
thls season, which number is larger than
ever before. Short crops and CONSEQUENT
partial stagnation in business is the chief
cause of these failures.
MIR. Fred. l.. Cawthorn popular young
man, and member of one of the Oldest
and best families of Navasota, died at An.
derson yesterday from the effects of an
overdose of chloral, taken by mistake.