The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-03
TEXAS TOPISyT


The veteran board, at Austin, has djournN
ed to October the 18th.
Col. j. r. Russell, an old citizen and mer-
chant of Bonhsm is dead.
Mr.. james Duncan was crushed in mill
near OAstrovile on the 26.h.
Tue total loss OF the shops Of the Sunse
al Harrisburg is set down at 100000.
Black i,uudico has been killing few
people in soma pa rts OF Freestone county.
The Texas & Mexican railway ia to begin
in earnest from Galveston, in a short time.
OSi~g to the scarcity of corn number of
Walker county farmers have stock hogs for
sale.
Mr.. + G. Butler, an old citizen of Free,
stone county, died near Cotton Gin few
days ago.
The Rockdsle Messenger says that city
will soon begin tue erection of u 81 500
school house.
j. Z. Ellison died suddenly in Medina
county, on the 2j.h ultimo. The death WAS
very sudden.
Four Mexican horse thieves were shot to
death while under arrest near Bracket, on
Saturday last.
Ton Williams is to hang in Rusk county
on the 23i of September for the murder of
Joseph A. Nickle.
Sowing turnip seed engsgeth the farmers
attention now VIXEN he can get rain enough
to dampen the soil
According 10 the census returns Texas in
1879 cultivated 2,l73,732 acres Of cotton,
producing 803. 6I3 bales.
no
postofllcs department asking that Beaumont
be made money ORDER office.
Around Antioch in Freestone county there
has been great deal of sickness, and many
of the best and most prominent people have
died
A petition is being circulated in Freestone
county for signers, asking Major w. E. Penn
to hold one of his revival camp meetings
there.
The Corpus Christi Ledger is iaformnd
upon good authority, that Captain X. King
will brsud this year in the neighborhood of
10 900 calves.
Mr. j. W. L. Sturgis, an old and re-
spected citizen of Hillsboro, is no more. He
WAS 81 years old, and the present mayor OF
Wsco is his son.
u
Jointly by the MeLhodists and Cumberland
Presbyterisns in Ffeestone county, sixty
conversions resulted.
The Sherman papers swear that there is
not case of smallpox within the corporate
limits of shat city. The report was circula-
ted without grounds.
Cotton is opening very fast all around and
about Fairfield and farmers, with all the help
they get, are busy from early morn till dewy
eve saving the tleecy treasure.
The Gulf & East Texas Is the name of
new chartered railway company, promising
10 build from Bolivar Point, the mainland
opposite Galveston, to Beaumont.
The Burnet Bulletin announces the advent
of Major Penn in Burnet aud says, such a
religious interest, we imagine, has never be-
fore been created in this community.
A man name Clay ton shst another named
Pearaon, in Kaufman county, about the
ownership of a pool Of water. AT last &C.
counts it WAS thought Pearson would die.
Bishop Nersz was welcomed at Osstrovile
by the local priest and delegation of sisters
and citizens, amidst the firing of anviIs and
ringing of bells. Ca5troville is Catholic
village.
The dead body of II white man in u badly
muLlated condition and supposed to have
been murdered Yves found in the weeds
at Beaumont. There was no clue TO his
identity.
The. Marlin Ball thus explains Tylor's
candidacy: "The anti.Ro bertsites in Smith
cOunty-Bonner and Hubbsrd-broughl
Tyler out for the university" Tyler is
likely to stay out.
The steamboat Colorado took from Gal
weston in its last trip 40S bales of cotton, 500
barrels OF flour and 8 bales of alligator skins,
No explanation is given about shipping flour
from Galveston to New York.
The trial of w Bonner in the district
court Of Delta county, charged with the
killing of j Wheeler, resulted in hung
jury. Tho evidence as published at the
time shows it to have been deliberate
murder.
Mack Taylor, q negro, was shot il
Freestone county = few days ago by young
white msn named Henry Horn. The negro
owed Horn sixty cents which he desired him
to pay in cash or work. A dispute arose
over the matter, aud the negro was shot four
times, but not mortally.
A negro named Bob Smith, was driving
along the road near Fairfield in Freestone
county a few days ago, when some unknown
person shot him, the ball passing through
his arm and lodging in his left side, making
an ugly and dangerous wound. The man
Smith made affidavit that Mr.. II. A. Hinton,
near whose house the shooting was done,
shot him as feud of long standing existed
between them. Hinton was arrested and put
under bond.
The citizens near Goose lake, Van Zandt
county, are excited over monster animal
whose body is fifteen or twenty feet in length
snd as large around rs hor.', head like
a dog aud tail like catfish; no fins or feet,
though II moves with the motion of fish.
The portions of the body which have been
exposed are covered with long black hair
Two citizens, Terry and Osborn, while pig
fishing, drove their gig into il, but it tore
loose
Nat Q, Henderson, in public meeting
heldst Georgetown few days ago to con-
aidor the Thanksgiving business, publicly de-
nounced Governor Roberts as being an inf.
del, and asked the people if they wanted
such a man TO rule over them.-Psnola
Wstchman. And the Graf Curious did
this in religious meeting, of which be was
secretary and principal conductor. II NAV
be supposed the people of Texas de,ire Ia