The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-05
TEXAS TOPICS,

the Cooke county isil.
Only the banks, telegraph and post offices
were closed in Marshall on the LIST.
The cold weather at Rockdsle suspended
business there portion Of last week.
The wster pipes iroze in Austin, and the
people were much worried TO get water.
Mr.. Richsrd Leo and Mrs NJ. c. Martin,
were married in WeathOrford, on the 23d
ultimo.
Mr. A. D. Oliver snd Miss Emma j. Ross,
wsre married in Parker county on the 26th
ultimo.
During the year 1880 tho county clerk of
Galveston county Issued 287 marriage
licenses against 246 the year before.
Medins county has 1877 children within the
scholastic sges, and her apportionment of
the school fund is S2,861 or S. per capita.
Mr.. John jackson Thomas and Miss Engle,
an clipping couple from Luling, were mar
ried in the courthouse at Seguin last week.
Three inches of snow fell at Rockport last
Friday, and ice was four inches thick. This
is something unprecedented in that section.
Mrs. Rice, daughter of G. W. Rains, of
Marshall, died on the Sd ult, at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, and was buried in Marshall on the
1st
Hon. j. Fl. McLeSry has taken possession
of the attorney-general's office at Austin and
entered upon the duties incumbent upon
him.
4 seiled dove known as Jennie Wick, sui
cieded in Johnson's dance house, of which
she was an inmate, at Westherford last week.
by taking morphine.
Major John Henry Brown, Of Dallas, is
mentioned as the probable successor of Hon.
V. o. King, as commissioner of insurance,
statistics and history.
A frame shanty in Richmond, occupied by
man named Jack Mckinney as a tin shop,
was burned Thursday morning, and McKin-
ney persisted in the flames.
The steamboat Pearl Rivers, arrived at
Orange Thursday night, with 512 bales of
cotton from up tho Sabine river, consigned
to the New Orleans railroad.
An Irishman named Ed Qugev, was killed
at Austin on the lst inst, by tho filling Of 3
piece of timber at tho International railroad
bridge across the Colorado river
In the casoof the state vs. Ward, Dewv &
Co., lsto lessees of the penitentiary. on trial
ri Austin, p judgment was given the state for
u $4,000. The defendants appealed.
u Old Simon McKeen, m old negro who
n had been drunk for twenty five years, drank
a quart and a-halt Of raw whiskey ut Seyuip
4 Christmas night and died in an hour
The ladies Of Troupe availad tbomselvc
a of the last opportuniiv, ard gave leap wear
ball oh the night Of the 31st of December,
which was Q splendid success in all parti-
culars
Mr. John HitSon one OF the pioneer cattle
men Of northwest Texas and many years a
resident Of Palo Pinto county, was scci1ently
killed few days ago on q rancho he owned
in Colorado.
A great deal Of cotton still remains in the
field unpicked in Cherokee county. The
weather was Sc bad in that county the last
A two weeks in December that no work was
done st all in the fields.
Mr. J. A. Aycock hiss been removed from
the position of inspector OF post.ofrices in the
4 Austin district, and Mr.. A. 9. Snyder, Of
. Missouri, has oeon appointed to assist Judge
. Amos P. Foster, in this state.
General @. O. Augur assigned to the com,
mand'oftha department of Texas, vice Cen
ersl ". @. Q. Ord, retired, passed THROUGH
Houston en- route for his headquarters al
San Antonio on the LIST instant.
A general court martial with CAPTAIN
Fergus Walker, First infantry, as president
I Second-Lieutenant O. H. Vadges, First in,
tantry, rs judge advocate, will convene a,
the mouth Of tho Rio Pecos on the 10th in.
slant.
Some ono set fire to the wide prairie ba-
tween the BRACES and Colorado rivers, near
& New Philadelphia, on Friday, and great
4 many thousands Of acres Of grass was d.
stroyed. A serious loss to the stock man Of
that region.
q The Houston Bohemians. with Hal Cos
K ling, Of TIE Osstroville Quill, as their guest,
made New Year calls in body, visiting
from place to place in circus wagon with 4
bugler as herald. They drank nothing but
coffee, of course.
Mrs. Jane H. Long known for a long Tina
IS "the Mother Of Texas" she being one NJ
the brave pioneer women of the earlies,
dsys of the state, died ut the residence of ber
grandson, j. E. Winston, in Richmond, Fort
Bend county, Thursday last
The street car driver, Frank Gsgsr. shoi
in Houston seven or eight days ago by Matt
Bankston, Central railroad engineer, died
y Friday afternoon while surgical operation
was being performed on his throat to enable
him to breathe. Bankston is still st large,
Professor Edwin N. Tullis, q Young man
raised in Marshall and Jefferson, and n son of
DR.. j. B. Tullis, of Marshall, died on ronte
from Vanderbilt university, at Nashville,
where he was one of the faculty. to his home
in Marshall. He was buried on the 2ud inst
in Marshall.
Frank Vslenta, q Bohsmisn, who lives near
BreDham, attempted to get on board NOV
ing train at Millcan last Friday and fell I'm
der the wheels of the car, which crushed one
of his leg very badly. He was taken Ia
Navsso'a and put under the care of Drs.
& KilpetrcE and Ketchum.
Mr.. Chsrles Sesbaugh, one Of the proprio-
tors of the San Antonio Express, and tho
brilliant city editor of that paper had The
misfortune to lose his infant son on New
Years day. Els oonireres of the press and
many friends throughout the state will con.
sole with him in his sad bereavement.
A white man named Gregor, who lives n,
Areola, was in Houston on New Years day
and visited a colored dive where he made
himself generally obnoxious. As conse.
N quence colored nan present was asked 10
nut him out and for attempting 20 do SO
Gregor shot at but missed him. The shoot
ist WAS arrested and Jailed.
Rev. John Westrup, Baptist missionary