The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-26
TEXAS roplos.


the past few days.
Paul Bromond will extend his narrow
gauge road TO Victoria.
Corn seems to DO tho chief article OF traffic
at present FISHERMAN.
The Neches river WAS higher last week
than it has been before for five years.
Wednesday night, negro was shot and
killed, near Brennan. Cause, Jealousy.
Ed. Hutchins All Englishmsn, was found |
dead in his bed recently, Gt Beaumont.
Married last weef, a. Henderson, Mr.. Will !
liam Manning TO Mrs. Mary Henderson
Shermanjtes sre having turnip greens Cor
dinner, aud teel very much elsted over the
fact.
Coal beds which pIomiso to yield plentiful.
ly, have 5een discovered in Morrison county,
near Hsriie.
Gov. Throckmorton, OF Mckinney, was
taken sick last Wednesday, with symptoms
Of meningitis.
Martin, an escaped convict, was captured
at Laredo. He has seventeen yea's' SEN
tence to serve.
Two Suuday-school superintendent of
Lougvew have been indicted by the grand
jury for gaming.
G. Kamiaus, overseer Of @. McDOnald's
ranch. near Laredo, was murdered last Tues
day night by unknown parties.
Houston had y shooting scrape on the 10TH
inst, which resulted in the shooting Of g
negro in tue thigh, by white man,
a number Of the citizens of DecNtur speak
of visiting New Orleans 20 pay their
respects to tho Mighty King Menus.
Jonn Watson who lives e4st of DoniG9n,
celebrated hi3 9O.n birth day Friday Ho
has been q resident Of Texas forty years.
One hundred and nineteen bales of cotton
were in the Sherman market, last Wednesday,
which is not bOd for tho last Of February.
The net receipts Of the ladies' bazaar en-
terlainment recently given for the benefit Of
ST.. DnylPs church, Austin, are report at
S403 so.
Mr.. B. Il. Robb, Of Leon SpriDgs this
state, is said to be meeting with success in
his experiment of raising shetland ponies on
his ranch.
A telegram from Corpus Christi states
that b. Morris, one of the principal wholesale
dry goods merchants of that City, has made
an assignment.
The average legislator at Austin continues
to introduce bills ana make long speeches,
Just as though he was going to stay at Aus
tin for lifetime.
A subordinate council of tho American
Legion of Honor has been organized at
Waco, and, at last accounts, had charter
membership of 49,
There was wreck on tho Central, We'd
nesday, just below Choctaw. No lives or
time lost. Two cars of freight smashed
pretty badly though.
An uninsured ginhouse, belonging TO a
Mr., Casey, near Jacksonville, hiss been con
sumed by fire. Twenty bales Of cotton con-
tained in the gin were also burned.
A white man by the name of Charles Will
son attempted suicide Monday, MT Austin, by
cutting his arm with q razor. lie was lodged
in the hospital, aud at last accounts was
doing well,
A young lady, Miss Frieke, Of Brenham,
was thrown from Il buggy the other day and
seriously hurt The horse, running aganst
baTbed wire fence, cut bis throa. through
the windpipe,
The artosIsn we'll at ForDey is now about
300 feet deep, and the work still goes brave
ly on. Some people may call this perseyer-
ance' bu. We call it stunning the thing in
the ground." No water found as yet,
Sherman is growing over dead beet that
weighs over sixteen pounds. Pshaw that
Is nothing We know Of several dead beats
that weigh considerably over one hundred
pounds, and no fuss made about them either.
Another destructive fire in Sherman We'd
nesday. The residence Of H. w. Clark. on
South Montgomery street, was burnt to the
ground, and the family being absent IT the
time, none Of the household goods were
saved
james O'Connor, locomotive fireman,
was shot in = difficulty, and killed by James
Gibbons, the proprietor Of saloon, vt Mar
shall on Wednesday night. Gibbons was
arrested but waived examination, and is ont
on $1,000 bail.
Milton Hubby, Of Cameron, who was to
have been hung ut that place next Friday,
had the psnal.y commutsd Wednesday by
the Governor to imprisonment for life. The
communication was granted on the testimony
Of one Brewer.
Some days since, negro violated the per-
son of white lady, whose name is withheld.
st Relugio. After the act she followed him
mile with on axe, but he escaped. The
brute was subsequently caught and lodged in
Jail. Tuesday he was removed by force and
lynched By an infurilted aud Indignant mob,
The safe of Mr. Green, of New Braunfels,
was burgarized by setting fire to the store
and burning it. Two safes in the store were
blown open, aud one belonging to Mr.. Green
was robbed Of $1,000, aud the other, the
property OF the city treasury was robbed of
$4,000. No clue to the perpetrators of the
deed.
Tim Irwin, who was convicted the other
day in Fort Worth Of assault with intent TO
kill Bill Whitlow and sentenced to the peni-
eentiary for two years, attempted suicide in
the county j-il by butting out his brains
ageiust the wall. Some of the prisoners in
terfered and stopped him, but he says he will
die before he will 90 to the penitenriary.
"ChinoOkiug..,