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

pounds of wool.
Waco had a splendid and most enjoyable
celebration OF ne Fourth.
Genuine cotton worms have been found
in some fields IN Rusk county.
Mrs Jane Glow died suddenly Sunday
morning in Sherman at the age of thirty two
years.
Mr.. W. 7. Lane and Miss Mollie Z.
Smith were married in Smith county last
week.
james Il. Seely, ESQ, a prominent young
lawyer Of Mexia, died Of black jsundice on
the 4th.
Sue Allen, colored womsn at Waco, &C.
cldentslly shot. her hand off with a pistol on
the Fourth.
The celebration of the Fourth at San An.
tonic is represented as having beena very
tame affair.
There were fourteen deaths in Houston
last week, one from drowning and five were
children.
There is great deal of sickness in Frank
lin county, but of mild form being thermic
fever generally.
There were seven marriages in Harris
county last week and fourteen persons went
to that matrimonial borne whence they will
never return
Fifteen thousand persons are sa 10 have
been present NJ tho celebration at Denison
on the Fourth.
The mortality among the children in
Sherman ard neishhorhood during the past
two months is alarming.
The condition of the corn crop in Walker
county is deplorabe and cotton is suffering
because of the long dry spell.
Miss George Johnson was thrown from a
buggy at Bastrop Sunday, being painfully
bruised and dslocsting an ankle.
An excursion train of nine coaches filed
with colored people from Houston went to
San Antonio on the Fourth for a holiday.
The track of the International railroad Is
completed sixty miles west of San Antonio,
and trains are runSiDg to point fifly.fou.
miles wes..
d. p. Morrison has been appointed Judge,
and John ID. Morrison district attorney, of
the thirty sixth district. Both are residents
o. A.sscoss county.
Ed. Moore, one of the supposed Davis
state police murderers of Hause and Cad
bold st Tyler, eight years ago, was arrested
at Jefferson on the 4.h.
The corner stone Of o new Episcopal
church at Bastrop will be laid OH August
the 18th Bishop Gregg and other divines
of that church will be present.
Rev. DR.. Ksvsnaugh, late of Houston, but
now Of Kentucky, and seventyssix years of
age, married buxom young widiw at Mt.
Sterling, Kentucky, few days ago.
A new street railroad company has organ.
lied at Hou-ton and from the names TO be
seen among the officers and directors, it is
evident an abundance of money is behind the
enterprise
Dysentery of most malignant type is ep-
idemic in some portions of Risk county, and
prevails to such an extent that there are not
we'll people enough to wait on the sick OF
bury the dead.
The Lamar county horticultural society
gave its third annual exhibition al Paris on
the fourth. The display OF vegetables wac
| not go large IS last year, but there was y
/ vast attendance
All the milk drinkers at boarding house
in Sherman we're made sick by the milk they
drank on the Fourth. A physician who was
summoned, said the cows had been eating
n Some POISONOUS weed
The Good Hope western association of
colored Bsptists will convene at Marlin on
the Nth inst. and remain in session several
days. A Sunday school convention will be
4 held at the same time.
The capitol commissioners have adopted
the HERALD's suggestion, and will Invite
each county in the state to contribute rep
resents,ive stone, appropriately inscribed, &c
Y be placed in the new capitol.
n The advertisement for bids for the erection
N of the new state house is to be published foul
times in the New York World, Chicago
81 Times, ST. Louis Republican, Dallas HER
"A AID, Galveston News. Houston Post, Sar
III Antonio Express. Jefferson Democrat and
n Austin Statesman.
a The teachers normal schools, now going
on, are not supported by the state or in any
wise under the control of the state suthori
tie,. They we're insugursted and supported
out of the Peabody fund, and il was rs ar
agent of this fund that Mr.. Hollingswortt
Il went north for the teachers.
~ A telegraph operator at tho stone quar-,
OF the Cult Colorado & Santa Fe railroad
near Brenham, was struck on the head BY
man named Nicholson, Sunday, and pain,
fully though not necessarily fatally hurt.
A majority Of the city council of San An
tonic will resign to keep from obeyiug tn,
mandamus of the federal court at Austin t,
ievya special tax to pay subsidy voted
years ago, to proposed railroad from Iudi
anola to that city. In the meantime the cas-,
will be carried TO the United States suprem,
court.
A correspondent of the Henderson Times
signing himself Suggs, announces that h,
discovered comet in the heavens a feu
mornings ago, a while before daylight. a,
ne happened 10 be gazing northwsrd. anf
no hastens to inform a startled world of IN,
fact. He ought to have that Rochester 500
BY all means.
George. WLynehwhose:house and children
IN twas burned near Hockey some time ago
was convicted Of murder in Leadyil,e n feu
days ago. He always suspected certain
man OF burning his house and children And
swore he would kill him. and tits supposed
ibis is the man he killed al Lsadville.
Dr. II. j. Avinger. wounded BY a negro
some ten days ago, died on the SOth ultimo
a post mortem examination Jyesled thc
TACT that two of the intestines had been ont
and gangrene ensuing, death resulted. From,
accounts Of the affair II was an unprovoked
and most malicious murder, vet the murdar.
or was granted bail in $4,000, which he Ia,