The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-23
TEXAS TOPICS.

ru.,tr IA miles of Germsns are to settls
.,a,,y near Wills Point.
I,dre G. H. Sleeper, a prominent lawyer
Wsso died there Sunday after linger.
ing Illness -, .w :,
rho Germsnia club. Of Waco, will cele-
Nv ,hs An and 5,h days Of July by
S S.s;v yolkstest at Proctor Springs.
Ma Julia Greenwood, of Luling, who
..sin,,ed with high honors at the Waco
liver ;vers " last week, died in Waco Monday
morning.
Tina frs, passenger railway train that ever
-, west of Ssn Antonio, went out Monday
war var the International road to Moore's Hol-
low, forty miles
Fish commissioner Dunkin he's placed in
hs San Marcos river 30 600 shad; in the
rn.d.lupe $4,000; in tho Colorado 10000.
md in the Sabine l25 900.
A contract has been let by the East Texas
.s;lroad company for the construction of lis
.aoa from Beaumont to Sabine Pass, to be
completed in four months.
m, attorney general of the state gives it
"a His opinion tina, tho county ad vslorem
.sx cannot exoold twenty cents on the $500.
whether levied before or after the Mth Of
March last.
Engineers are nov locating the line of the
Anstin & Northwestern Narrow Gauge rail-
road. the first objective point being Burnet.
Three thousand tons of iron for this road
have been purchased and will be delivered
nv August first. This will build the road 10
Of nearly to Burnet.
A lone highwsyman stopped tho stsge be-
tween San Antonio and Laredo Saturday
NIGHT about ninety miles west Of san An.
tonic. He made railroad mar, passenger
on the stage, open the mails for him, and he
took everything but drafts and money orders.
he did not modest the driver or passengers.
/ If the passengers were armed 1t is disgrace
upon their manhood that they should per-
nit one man to rob the mails.
A mill boiler exploded four miles north
| of Wills Point Saturday morning, killing
Mi. Laden, engineer, and man named
Green, and irjuriDg man named Richard
son sDd another named j. d. Murf The
| boiler had capacity for only eighty pounds
/ Of steam but it had been allowed to run up
+ 10 1870 pounds. Laden the engineer was torn
| 10 atoms every bone in his body being bro.
| ken and Green an old man recently form
Georgia who was at the mill waiting a grind
| log of girls. was struck in the stomach by enc
| Of ibe mill stones and msngled horribly.
All the fuss made during the past week or
such matter. about an alleged letter re-
ceived by x>Uuited States Marshal s. II.
Russell from ex-Assistant Postmaster Gen.
ersl Brady relative to the standing of legisls-
| tive members on the late senatorial question
| in this state, in which it was attempted to
cast reflections upon United States Senator
Maxey, and BY contemplate innuendo to
make it appear that Brady was interested in
having him returned 10 the senate, turns
out 10 be miserable claptrsp, the hslluci
nation or esrbled and added to connection
Of some quid nunc reporter. Mr.. Russell
says oft'e letter in question: Immediately
after the state election, in the fall, I received
q letter from Postmaster. General Brady.
asking that l inform him as TO the political
complexion Of the legislature, and the
names Of tie members, elect. l turned the
letter over TO one Of my deputies, with In
structions to call on the secretary of state
and get the information and forward it to
Washington 1t never asked for the ad-
dresses Of members, nor we're they sent.