The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-04
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REAAS EOfA OS.
Ksu,, nan is improving rapidly.
Thieves h, fest the town of Uvalde.
The comet ia till visible at Ennis.
The ar.esisn we'll of Galveston is now abou
700 feet deep.
A man goes up in a balloon at Ennis
Tuesday, August I'd.
M.ior Isaac Sellers has beea holding q
camp-meeling at Weimar.
A new house for the fire department hes
| just been completed at Palestine.
The infant daughter of MIR. and Mrs. 1.
Oscar died in Calvert on Sunday last.
Oats are selling in Terrell at 30 and 35
cents per bushel, and corn at fifty cents.
The borders at the Wooiea Wells hgte to
pay ten dollars per week for their board.
Died at Calvert, July "a, 1881 Mrs Mary
A. McCorkle wife of Mr. II l. McCorkle.
The Texas & St. Louis railroad wants but
| four miles to complete its track to Waco.
Mr.. Tacitu Nlsy, one Of the Oldest pioneers
| OF Wsshi4 county, died few days ago.
A heavy -: { II at Corsicsna few nights
ago.
One suns.roke occurred at Cameron. No
rains TO amount to anything for nine
weeks.
With the present prospect. Ellirg ger,
Texas, will ship about 5000 bales OF
cotton.
Mr.. @ A. SABBATH, an old, highly srespected
German of Houston, died in that city on the
10Th inst.
NJ ilr w. E. Penn preached his farewell
sorrn N at Caldwell, Burleson county on the
81 list.
Captain j. Fl. Orr, of Jefferson, Texas,
was robbed at Black Jack Grove of $l70 on
last Tuesday.
The first bale of this years cotton was re-
C lived at N4vssoEa -ela-the 25sh. /. weighed
500 pounds.
A man by the name of Gaorg, X. Vsllett
WAS found dead 10 his bed atS.I Antonio
few nights ago.
L W. Richardson was bitten by rattle
snake a few dsys ago at Waco. He is 10 u
critical condition.
The NJ ,tho1ist association under the aus
pices of r ,vi. Klox and Fisher, is holding
m.eting at U,ade.
Brenhsm received her fra. haw bail of
cotton on the 9th, and it weighed $40 pound
and sold at Is cents.
Smith county has been having some r.
freshing rains of late, which is great beLe
DIT to the cotton crop.
The barge L,rk arrived at Galveston from
Houston, with 269 bales of cotton, fat, and
80 bales compressed.
The first new bale of coitc0 was received in
Millican on the 81 h and sold for ID IL. IL
was shipped to Houston.
The San Antonio str5't r,'lwsy company
carried over 100000 part .,rs in the month
of july, and 80 900 10 jus.
Al Ugalde, Texas, the sheriff, through
mistake, put mao in The wrong celi, and
the man escaped through hole.
DR.. T. T. Crenshsw, who died suddenly at
the Ne, ger hotel, San Antonio, few days
ago, resided in Athens, Alabama.
Corn in Washington county will average
about one-fourih of crop, and cotton will
mako about half a bale to the acre.
Another new compress has been ORGANIZED.
at Houston, with capital OF about SI5,OOO.
Il is to be known as the International.
Mary Bruckar received divorce from
her husband, Oscar Brucker, in the district
court of Galveston, by Judge Stewart.
James w. Smith and Young Blackwell,
who forged fifty dollar check on the Waco
National bank, we're CO nmitted to all.
Austin for the literary and Houston for
the medical department. are the tsvorite
candidates for the university at Huntsville.
The fire which burned Big creek bridge 1T
Waco few days ago is supposed to have
originated from the sparks of q passing en-
CINE.
An old lady by the n.na of 0rrell, about
so wears cd, had about $40 stolsn from her
few nights since 10 the wagon yard at San
Antonio.
Mrs. Epscomb, near Hesrns, and p. w.
Hal. several miles east Of Calvert, bave
wells with the same msdicAl properties As. The
NoOien water.
The Galveston b)ard Of apprsisars. met ct
their Off e MoDdsy afternoon for The pur-
pose Of passing upon the assessment OF the
gas company.
Las, Sunday evening man BY The name
Of smith vss struck BY lightning and IN
stantly killed, and also the mule be was nd
ing. This happened near Ks Ifnsn.
A large mss meeting vas held ct Tyler on
the 26sh, 10 decide whether or Lot Tfler
should be csbdidsts for the literary depsrt-
uent II The state university. IL was decided
10 the sfirmstive.
A company hss been formed in Calves
ton under the name Of the Brush Electric
Lsgbt ard Power COnpsny 81 Galveston"
f5r the purpose Of supplying clues. towns
snd counties 10 ths state Of reTss with sum
Gent LIGHT