The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-17
TEXAS TOPICS,

NTJ. B. Robinson died Il. Houston last
MONDAY Of consumption.
Tine wheat, rye. oats asd barley of Mason
are LOOKING remarkably we'll.
CATTLE. sheep. hogs and horses are looking
unusually fac this year in Mason.
Tns feed and grain store of Burns & Bsker
of Austin was destroyed by fire last Satur-
Cation receipts were light yesterday at
Austin, the best grade only commanding ten
cents,
The operations of the East Texas railway
ora Greatly retarded on account OF the con-
tnued rains.
Several of the citizens of Tyler have been
furnished With carp from Orange, with which
10 stock their tsh-nonds.
A cotton gin aul mill On the Darlington
pace. in Brazoria countJ, we're burned down
the latter part of last week.
Mr.. William Reid, clerk of the United
States circuit court, and Miss Emma NJ. Nix
on, were married yesterday at Tyler.
Mi. PENIS meetings are still going on in
Palestine. He is assisted bya AIR, Hun =
from Missouri, who aids in conducting sbe
music.
The grocery firm of Lind -e7 & Wright Of
Wostherford, suspended last Monday. Nt9
creditors viii be paid in full. Liabilities,
SLIGO
Lee Turner, man stabbai lew dsys ag0
at Rockdale, by Nose Pelberton died Sstur-
day. Pelborton was still 81 large ut last
accounts.
The grading force is hard at work on the
Missouri, Kanals & Texas between Waco
and Hillsb0ro. The contractors ere in want
of mon AMI teams.
4 Houston firm are contemplating invest
ing the sum Of 100000 in cotton seed oil
mill st Waco. This WI give that city two
mills in short time.
r. j. Bzzell, of Greeae county, has
Durham calf two months old, 36 inches
high, Al inches around the girth and 9 inches
Of the knee joint. Who csn best III
There hes been a general hegira Of dsrkies
to the swamps to capture cypress timber, of
which it is estimated 5000 sticks will be Sc
cured on the big rise y he late storm.
The work on the Marrow Gauge in Ma
varfo county is still progressing rapidly
The trustees held meeting and called for 10
per cent subscription to be applied to work
in this county.
Laredo, on the Rio Grande, is in q furore
of excitement, and real estate has materially
advanced The cause is the prospect Of the
early completion of the International rail-
road fro Il San Antonio 10 thar place.
Ed. Hutchinson, white, sged about thirty
Eve years, and native Of Newcastle-on.Tyne
England, WAS brought in from too terminus
of the East Telss railroad Saturday, ut
Beaumont, sick, and died At the Maison de
Ryan Sunday.
Sunday morning the fire alarm was
sounded az Houston, ami il was discovered
that frame dwelling in the sixth ward was
in flames. Nothing WAS saved from the
house, and the inhabitants barely escaped
with their liyee.
The Texas s. New Orleans road brought
in a lot Of immigrants Monday to Houston.
Most of them were taken by the transfer
Company to tho |. u &. n depot, and went
to Rockdale. Tho rest of the party left on
the Central for points IN the interior of the
state.
The residences of George Adams and O. s..
Rowland, of Tyler, were entered Saturday
night, and the kitchen Of Mrs. House the
night following. Mr.. Rowland had sharp
tusse with his man, and Mrs. House fright
ened his off by firing shotgun ut him.
Nothing obtained.
Deputy United States Marshal MGFar-
land, reached Brennan Saturday evening
from Austin, and arrested several men,
charged with buldozng in the late election.
Captain Tom Clay, one of the victims, left
fer Austin, accompanied by Seth Sheppard,
counsel for defendant.
A negro, by name Ben Smith Grit, while
Attempting to enter tho house Of another
negro, Taylor, at Tyler was poked in the eye
by the latter, with derrnger. The weapon
exploded and Griff was killed. Taylor declares
that be did not shoot, and that the pistol
while pointed simply went off.
1t is affirmed that tho meanoa. man in
Texas, lives in Smith county. lie s farmer
who, being offended n; tho Texas Il Pacific
railroad, because they had the right Of way
through his farm, allowed IN engine with
its crow to go unwarned, through q bridge
partly washed away, when ho had fulloppor.
tunity Of preventing the accident.
Mr.. Emile Phillips, clerk in tho employ
of Paatorl2a in Houston, scratched the back
of his hand with tho point OF lead pencil, q
few days ago. The abrasion WAS SO slight
that hc paid no attention to il, but il soou
began to inlame, and now not only the hand
is very badly swollen, but the whole arm is
rendered useless. 1t ia quite painful, and he
is apprehensive OF serious consequences.
Sunday afternoon about o'clock three flat
cars of cotton were burned at Eureka. 1t is
supposed that the fire started from the
sparks Of passing engine. A switch eSgnC
bearing tank Of water went up to extin-
Puishthe flames, but arrived an hour too late
One hundred and fifty bales were consumed,
but tho company carrying an open insurance
policy tho loss will fall on the insurance
companies.
Last Monday two ladies discovered q mar
pouring kerosene oil on the building on the
corner of Prairie and Crawford streets al
Houston, and then set fire to it. They gave
the alarm and he skipped out. A youth
followed him. A policeman soon overlook
the boy and had the man pointed out, whom
he arrested. He gave his name as Johr
Howell, but declares 1t case Of mistaken
identity.
Las Sunday morning, about mile from
town, two colored men, Manuel Spane ant
Pony Davis, after indulging freely in Dexter
expectorant picked up u couple of old and
as they thought, empty muskets and went Il
swapping them at each other for fun. They
were mistaken, OF course, and Spane's muske