The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-13
TEXAS rOPICs.

The police ~ Gast eston are nov getting
seventy,hve dollars pmouth.
Two hsuo ID and thirty bales Of c,ttor
Wsfa received ~ Giddings last THURSDAY.
Tha Austin StS.esmAs states ihst tbe last
Georgetown Record was tst, and thSt n. 2
has played 0ut-petered.
A Bohemian, d and d. by the name Of
Trilcik, was run over and killed by freight
train near Bryan the other day.
A Denisou dispatch says "a delightful
norther struck US last night" Ii will not be
long before the northsr will be "bluo."
p Burns, the night yard MISTER NJ the In
ternational depot at Austin, was run over
and killed while coupling cara one day last
week.
Horse raising in western Texas is proving
very important and profitable business, the
demsnd at present being 10 excess of the
supply.
There has been splendid rain at Gains
vile, and the cotton is greatly improved
thereby. 1t has been coming in NJ the rste
OF l25 bales day.
q. A. Morrow, yardmss.er of the Texas
Pacific railway 1T Fort Worth, dropped
dead in restaurant ss he arose from the
supper table-heart disease.
A San Augu,tine farmer informs the Tax.
on that he will make half a crop Of cotton,
but will not make ten bushels of corn TO the
acre, where he made fifty lsst year,
Three drunken negroes trlej 10 take the
settlementin tSu nfth ward in Houston the
other day. They were taken, however, and
hired, before any damage was done.
A train of wagons were met by two road
agents as their owners were returning from
selling cotton and $500 and two gold
watches were taken near Mountain creek.
Bill Hammers, who stabbed Farrall, ssc-
ton foreman. was captured on Friday at
Troupe, by Special Detective Bob Smith.
Hammers was identified. FArrall is i'm.
proving.
A construction train was wrecked on the
Sunset road, west of Castroville, the
other day By . cow being ON the track. A
negro was killed and fourteen or fifteen men
were wounded.
Judge Porter, of Preston Bend, was sss
saulted Friday morning by fellow named
John Weaver. Weaver fired on Porter with
a six-sbooter, but fortunately missed his aim.
It WAS the result Of an old fGud about cotton.
Captain T. A. Smith, OF Navasots, was
bitten on the hand last week by very
large tarsntuls. There is quarter of an
inch between the teeth marks. Antidotes
wero used which prevented any serious re-
suits.
James =. Newcomb, editor of the Evening
Light 81 San Antonio, and Deputy United
States Marshal Bob Mcfarland had a little
encounter Friday night, about an article in
the Light. They were arrested and bound
over to sppesr before the recorder.
4 difficulty occurred between Mr.. Speight,
q prominent merchant of Giddings, and
half cssy negro last week about debt. II
seems the darkey had Spite" against
Speight. and made at him with knife,
which he escaped by running through the
alley back of his store.
During violent thunder storm which
took place on the 8th at Eagle Psss, the
Dalai hotel svss struck by lightning, and
lady in the house, Mrs. Campbell, knocked
senseless. The electric fluid demolished the
chimney, and ran down the wall, tearing Il
to within two and a half feet of the floor
then dsrted across the room to the opposite
wall, and escaped TO the ground.
James Marks, Frank Beck and W. ID.
Morton, switchmen, while sitting on the low
front pilot of the Missouri Pacific pony en-
CINE No. Q, at Whitesboro, narrowly escaped
being killed. The engine was pulling up TO
csboose to couple on, when from some
cause the engine gave sudden lurck and
the rear car run into it with great force, aud
the men we're caught as between the blades
of q pair of shears. Marks had his leg
broken, and Beck was severely bruised.
Morton escaped with severe fright.
Private Charles Smith of Captain
Oglesby's company Of rangers. at San An,
tonic, arrested man named Betty charged
with being implicated in what is known as
the blackberry robbery, in Lavacs county,
which occurred the 18th of last December.
He was then in company with Neal VIII
kerson and Albert Smith, who are
also charged with robbing the
blackberry postoffice. He was handed over
to Deputy United States Marshal Bob Nc
Farland and lodged in Jail.
The people of d'Hsnis, Medina county,
refused 10 cell the railroad company piece
of land OF what was considered fair price,
and the company has bought a piece of land
for a siding, about q mile and half from
there, and is now putting down q siding and
laying out town. Passenger trains have
begun 10 run there. II is sixty-two miles
from San Antonio, on the Mexican
Pacific road. Msjor Munroe, in
charge of the construction, is using
forty carloads of material, and is laying two
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