The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15
TEXAS TOPICS.

IU RdiiOns pei oey'
A Are in Waco on Tuesday destroyed the
house of Mr. Ben Herring.
Nine rattle snakes killed by one man in
Comanche county in one day.
A grand ball is to be given at Bsllvile on
San Jacinto day, the 2lst inst.
The annual reunion of Hoods brigade
takes place in Brenham, June 22d.
The Heights of Honor of Terrell will cele'
brste their anniversary on the Slst.
Bonhsm is improving more rapidly than
at any other period of lis existence.
Whea. and oat crops are reported as look.
ing we'll in Bo:que and Erath counties.
Remember that the state sunday school
convention meets 10 Austin, April Oath.
Merchants of Paris have organized q
trsdesmen's and mutual protection ascot
alton.
During the past two week, but two mar
riage licenses were issued in Cor zales; parties
all colored.
During church services at Waco roughs
take the buggies of the devotionist, and
have q frolic.
MIR. Walter Tipps, of Austin, has been
appointed one Of the trustees of the deaf and
dumb asylum.
1t is said that wooden mill will soon be
started in San Saba county; water power and
building secured.
The Baylor University at Independence
invites bids for plans for the completion Of
its main building.
The Gonzales Inquirer thinks that if the
fool killer would come thst way he would
reap rich harvest.
Alarm for the condition in society in
Texas is expressed in consequence of the in
crease in divorce suits.
The proposed macs Meeting Mt Galveston,
last Saturday, to consider the municipal
middle did not come of.
Dr. A. 9. Sloan. agent of the Corsicara
immigration society, is 10 visit Europe ia the
interests of his company.
Will Howe, q railroad hand, was killed at
Ferris by bar of steel falling on him while
car was being unloaded.
Farmers in Barnet county are buying more
sulky plows and other improved Cultivators
this year than ever before.
Crops 10 Travis county are reported to be
as far advanced, and in as fine condition as
usual a. this time of year.
The returning physicians frora the State
Medical Association report Waco as the
banner town for hospitality.
A drunken and noisy freedman at Con
zsles, had to be hit on the head with trand.
ing iron before he would behave himself
The Austin Statesman says the news-
paper fellows are wondering what clothing
house is going to present them with $50
suit.
Mayor Fisher, of Galveston, has been
selected to receive with speech of welcome
the visiting singing societies to the Galveston
saengerfest
Mrs. Mcpherson, the enterprising and
versatile editress and proprietress Of the
Sherman Democrat, is going to start daily
afternoon paper shortly.
VIM. Rockford, adiudged guilty Of passing
counterfeit money, in the federal court at
Galveston, was sentenced Tuesday, 10 five
years in the penitentiary.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
Go. offers 10 give 40 acres of land, near tho
town Of Sealy, on Its line, to any one who
will settle on it for three years.
The frat county bridge across Cedar creek,
in Bastrop county, was completed a few days
ago, and the event was duly celebrated
Judge Dyer Moore, and Hon. q. w. Jones
were the speakers of the day.
A party Of CAV and festive Bschannalians
out on o cruise in hack in the quiet and
orderly seaport of Houston, amused them
selves by firing off their pet revolvers. For
this innocent paslime, the Pos: wants them
arrested.
Hon. F. Charles Hume, of Galveston, has
been appointed by the governor special
Judge to try certain cases in the district
court Of that county, in which Judge
Stewart. the present incumbent, is dis.
qualified.
Major B. H. Davis, of Bryan, is shortly to
leave for Ell Paso, where he will make his
future home, and on Tuesday the lawyers
just before the adjournment of the district
court, passed resolutions of regret at his de-
parture from their midst and from the bar.
The old Denison and Pacific road, now
branch of the Missouri Pacific, is to be ex.
tended from GAINESVILLE, Cook county, 100
miles southwest into Baylor county, to tap
the main line Of the Texas Pacific. The line
has been located and grading forces arc at
work.
Tho editor of the Gonzales Frqu.roc is
bachelor, and wants ton 80. 20 court him
bad. He is always telling it il lis columns
that the gentler sex ere more enterprsing
than men He Isl backward young man
and wants to give his girl little back.
bone.
The San Antonio free schools, for March,
show an enrolment Of 1876 pupils and an
average daily attendance of 1l76. If this be
true, somebody gets school money without
having complied with tho law, which saws
that 10 per cent, shall attend, TO ertitle the
teacher to pay.
A correspondent of the San Antonio Ex.
press says that King Fisher, who few years
ago had most unenviable reputation as
desperate, Is ppw living quietly on bis ranch
on tho Nueces. and IL one of the most indus
trious and law-abiding citizens in that sec.
ton Of the country.
A. j. Levy for an alleged assault to a
young lady in Beaumont, was assaulted
Tuesday by the girls father, and mos, I'm.
ceremoniously handled, and beat up, his con.
dition being sprecarious one at last accounts.
Levy IL a man Of family, and the spmpathies
of the community were against him.
Albert Washington and his father. In law,
VIM. Blake, had fight Tuesday night 10
Galveston because Blake was beating his
daughter, Washington's wife, and when told
to stop It, struck Washington. Blake re-