The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-02
TEXAS TOPICS.


A party of Eogishmen travelling for pleas.
ure, are now dong Ell Paso.
The artesisn we'll at Galveston has reached
the depth of 692 feet and inches.
There are five murder cases pending in
the district court Of Madison county.
About half an inch of rain fell in Colorado
county, round about Alleyton, Tuesday.
The report that scarlet fever was prevail
ing in burleson county proves 10 be un'
true.
There will be Methodist camp meeting
near Pilot Point, commencing on the Oath
instant.
A prOtracted meeting closed at Crockett,
Sunday night, at which sixty conversions
were made.
Bsstrop is shortly to have new E,isco,
pal church, to be built of brick, on rock
foundation.
Mrs. Mcdonald died at her home in PAN
ola county last week at the age OF seventy
four years.
Silver orc asssying very high, was discov-
cred in the mountains adjoining Ell Paso
few DAYS ago.
Mr. V. A. jackson and Miss Nj. NJ Decker,
both OF Denison. were married 10 Sherman
on Wednesday.
The wheat in McLebnan county is thresh-
ing out from sixteen to tweRty bushels of
wheat to the acre.
Coles circus and rnenagerie was in FL Paso
last. week, and it was the first show of any
noteever In the place.
The Texas e. St. Louis narrow gauge rail-
,to la;I H,,hk
miles east Of Waco.
Spring chickens sell 10 Dapgerfield at only
~ cents apiece They oushlto get up
Methodist campmeetiDg,
Dee Reese, nineteen year old colored boy
accidentally shot his brains out one day lest
week in Pamela county.
W.B.Gause of Dsnison Las been presented
by his good wife with twins, both boys.
Nothing gausy about that.
Broom corn is being raised in Harris
county equal in quality and quantity per
acre to that raised anywhere.
An iron foundry is shortly to be establish
ed In La,ater, in Marion county. L,sster is
right in the midst Of iron hills.
The stock of the Gulf, Colorado s. Santa
Fe railroad company is to be increased TO
Si,OO0 OOO rs per announcement.
Mrs E'telle Atkinson bride of only three
months aud society favorite, died in Column
bus OF typhoid fever Tuesday night.
City Marshal Ysrber, of Albuquerque
killed another man few days ago, and en-
tirely without provocstion, it is said.
There is not vacant house in Pilot Point
OF any KIND, while numerous residences and
business buildings are going up under con.
tract.
Hen Charles Hough, county Judge of Mari
on county, and Mss Maggie NJ. Watson,
we're married in Jefferson on the 29lh nj,
timo.
De- j. X Graves,the great Baptist presche,
OF Tennessee, and author of the Iron Wheel.
will preach in Sherman on the night Of the
9th instant.
James w. Neighbors stabbed Charles
Worley In Bryan Wednesday night inflict-
ing painful but not dangerous wound
Neighbors escaped.
A corps of engineers Of the Palmer.Sulll-
van railroad combination are running lines
on the Island of Galveston and another on
the mainland near by.
A negro named Pat Nsilor accidentally
shot himself with shotgun, causing instant
death, near Stafford's Point, Harris county,
Tuesday morning.
Six tons of silver ore from Boss Shep.
hard's mine was received at FL Paso last
week, and shipped per rail TO PHILADELPHIA
TWAS worth $4,000 per ton.
The frat freight train on the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad arrived at III
Paso one day last week and had TWENTY-FIVE
carloads of merchandise for that place.
Mrs. James Brothers died at Nashville
Ca's county. one day last week of tetanus. a
lew days before she accidentally stuck a
sningle nail in her foot, which caused hel
Inc grain warehouse of Moore g. Early, In
waco, csved in Wednesday from overweight,
OF grain stored in 1t, and Mr. Moore and 9
eountryman came near being swallowed uE
In the wreck.
BRENNAN 10 not much of town for ice, al
fused Is tons during May and June up tothe
18th. Dallas uses not less than two tons a
day. enham holds her own very we'll
however on beer, as one man during tn,
same period sold twenty carloads.
Major Bush, paymsster for the depart.
ment of Texas, left San Antonio Tuesday to
pay of the troops at the frontier posts
When they get their money there will be
high old 4mboree as long as II lasts and
The guard houses will be crammed day and
night.
One night last week party of twenty. flv,
men called on man named Tom Elkins
living near Hughes 8 prings and notified him
that he must leave the country in ten DAYS
They charge that no 10 implicated In hors,
stealing. Elkins says he 10 innocent and ne
fuses 70 leave.
Mr.. r. A. Park, q prominent citizen O
Galveston, died on Wednesday. MI, Psrl
was member Of Hoods famous Texas bri
gade, and was desperately wou ,ded in one
OF the fierce engagements 10 which that bri,
gade VIGOROUSLY participated as IL did in Al
its engagements, from which he never re-
covered.
A cowboy and an Indian got into FIGHT
tho circus at San Simon near I'll Paso IN,
other day, and the Indian bit the COWBOY,
finger nearly off, which 60 enrsged him ~
he shot the Indian dead. The peoplo I'M II
New Mexico and Arizona know 90 muci
about indians that they dent think n An,
wrong to kill one. "''
Mack Adams. a eolored boy, sixteen year
:, sgs, Tor shooting a negro man named