The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-10
TEXAS TOPICs.

TEAAE AOEAS1s
-,,svss are operating in Decatur, Wise
equity. r.n
Sheep business Is vi wv 'iiS'S"'N ~ ~'A
county. ,. = ~.
county. ,
Dsnison.
Peaches and other fruit are in abundance
m and about Tyler.
Ti.b frys and picnics are all the go now at
peo Hamilton county.
MANSION and Gainesville have been visited
,scenlly by severe storms.
The late sickness reported in Beaumont is
sspi.d by the local paper.
Over twenty-one railroads are in courie
teopstruction in this state.
r,ts rains in Ersth county have given
D,omise of good cotton crops.
I'm 10 the 7th inst nine new bales of cot
AN had been received In Austin.
Ts Ars, bale of cotton for this season re-
xTed At Hillsboro cold for 500
The residence of Il. +. Pritchett, near
/ gsco was blown down on Friday night.
| On Saturday, the 18th instant the citizens
/ At Orsnge vote for or against corporation,
An astronomical show in Comsnohe
Uuuty has been arrested for disturbing the
Esce.
OOly two negroes reside in Hamilton
vunty, and only one republican vote cast
here
1 The Sherman oouncilmen are making
DIVISIONS to light their town with the cleo
/ ITO light
TIE bursting of water pipe in Austin
aIed forth the canoe as means Of traver.
1 ing the city,
The constant ring OF the hammer Is
pss.snt music 10 the ears Of the citizens Of
/ IEhbOro.
! A are in Hamilton county, recently,
ansderable grass.
Mr.. F. Coleman had his leg broken and
badly shattered last week by team running
svsy with him.
1 A farmer of Williamson county claims
Ast be will with one more rain make over q
hls 10 the acre OF cotton.
Hrs. Mills, of Wills Point, boasts of hays
hgs chicken with only one wing, no traces
aanolher wing being visible.
Ed. Moore, one of the supposed murderers
d the two lawyers al Tyler, seven years ago,
As been arrested in Jefferson.
The young men of Rockpors, Aransss
u county, will soon be able to wear clean linen
Ma steam laundry is promised them,
0ne hundred and twenty-five thousand
Mp fish were put into the Sabine river
recently by the fab commissioner.
1 Tbs good people of Henderson, Rusk
jmalty, propose TO meet, fast and talk until
he sanitary condition of their town Is i'm.
4 proved.
A ten year old youth In Camp county
while carelessly handling shotgun, fired 1t
nd killed negro boy. This was the first
time he ever fired gun.
A man Familiarity called Uncle Johnnie
Hall" was baptized at Lndonia last week by
he Csmpbelites. This was his twentieth
baptism.
4 Protracted meetings under the auspices of
the Presbyterian and Baptist congregations
have been progressing with success about
Round Rock.
Last week Detective Wood shot aud
wounded one Delsno, a supposed express
1 Obber, in the town of Orange. Delsno
esited arrest. Sam Finley was tho only wit
lss TO the affair.
A lad about twelve years Of age, the son
81 N. M. Scott, of Rains county, WAS riding
4 mule ct rapid rate, and increasing 0
gully the mule fell on the boy, injuring him
10 that he died in half an hour.
Three little girls, daughters Of Mr.. D. o
D0sley, who lives come eight miles from
sherman, were playing near hay stsch
during thunder storm when they were
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
The negroes of Crockett are excited over
The report that President Garfield requests
.gusrd, composed of twenty-five negroes
rom each county in Texas, and each to re-
ceive $50 per month.
The citizens of Henderson have met ant
adopted resolutions protesting against thu
action Of Governor Roberts In refusing tc
concur with tho governors of other states ii
appointing day of prayer and Thanksgiving
Tor the recovery Of the president.
Two unprovoked murders occurred il
Hunt county last week. Nat Armistead wa
iiabbed seven times by his brother in>lsw
Nose Hopkins, from which he died. an,
Lewis Patillo was shot down by ma,
named Reeves.
Last week at Sipe Springs, Fred Paine, 81
Old man, rode up to store where William
Woods, young man, was lying on
counter, and emptied load OF bucksh OF int
bis head, killing him instantly. The onl
ptoyocstion assigned for the deed was thi
Woods had taken Paine's daughter out ridin
against his will.
DR.. Mcfarland, Of Honey Grove, who wa
arrested for rape on his step-daugbter, Is
lnl in default Of bond in the sum Of 5000
This case Is very strong one sgainst McFsl
land The girl was only about thirteen year
Old, aud Mcfarland, il Is said does no pre-
lend TO deny Illicit intercourse, but aims
make il appear she was prostitute. FL
asd threatened TO kill any one who divulge
bis crime
The citizens near Goose Lake, VanZand
county, are excited over monster aniini
whoie body Is fifteen or twenty feet in longt
aud a. large around rs hors
nesd like a dog and tail like
vhnih; no hns or feet, thong
y moves with the motion OF fish. tt
Portions Of the body which have been o,
posed arc covered with long dark hair. Tv