The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-04
ROCK WALL.


Correspondence Of the Herald
RocKwALL, December 30.--This evening
at about O'Clock the usual quiet Of oui
village was broken by two shots fired in
quick succession. John White, who came
here from Kentucky about a year ago, had
had Il misunderstanding with a young man
named Goodwin, who came last fall from
the same vicinity. White about 5 o'clock
borrowed double barrelcd shotgun under
the pretensc of going duck hunting" AZ
forwards he was observed sitting on he court
yard steps with the gun across his lap
| He was told by some of his friends to "go
put il away, that people were beginning to
suspicion that something was wrong" He
replied he would directly. Soon he got up
and walked down to the drug store opposite
the southeast corner of the square. About
the time Goodwin passed he called out to
him TO stop or hold on. As the latter
turned round, as he says, not suspicioning
anything wrong, White threw The gun
| down and fired one shot after the other in
rapid succession.
They were only few feet apart but by
a quick movement or on account of the ex.
trlordinary excitement under which White
was laboring, escaped unhurt. White has
Miie and one child. lilo made good his
escape into the East Fork bottom, throw
ing away the gun on seeing he was pur-
sued. Parties are in pursuit tonight
Christmas festivities are pretty well con
Guided. On the 2Ith the Masonic Lodge
at this place gave an entertainment to Ma
sons and their families. A table was set in
the Lodge room In the form of
a cross, loaded with profusion
of cake and choicest cdibles seldom witness
ed to which all present paid due regard and
many baskets full OF fragment were car
y. &. Heath, W, NJ, after which 7. l.. Stan
field was called for and delivered an extern
pore address ,oi about 30. minutes in
length, which was Lightly applauded by his
brethren.
After dinner Rev. A. II. Brewer was call
cd to the stand and delivered a wel-timed
address, when the fraternity was dismissed
and all went away happy.
A correspondent of the Terrell Star. of
the 2ith ult., raises II great hue and cry
about high taxes and proposes to vote the
little county back into Kaufman. desire
permission to say that this correspondent
does not represent n minority of one
twentieth of the citizens of this county. In
addition to this, the present tax of one dol |
lar on the one hundred dollars worth of
property now being collected will finish |
paying Tor the county safe and wipe out all |
the county Indebtedness, and next year tho |
courthouse and Jail and courtyard will |
he all paid for, and probably our taxes next |
year Will not be more than scvcnty-iiye |
cents On the one hundred dollars |
worth OF property. The people of
ihe county are prosperous and |
happy, aud have no desire to be rcmandcd |
to Kaufman, SO that they would have to 90 |
rom twenty to thirty miles TO get to the |
county site,
The "Star's' correspondence manifcsts |
woeiul ignorance by boldly proposing to do |
q thing by ballot that is impossible. and
Tor which there is no provsion, and sun. |
pose that We would be wonderfully amazed |
II he were informed that it, from any
cause, this county should lose its organi- |
zatlon ,as county, that it would be for |
judicial and surveying purposes, and for |
the registration of deeds, mortgages and all |
other instruments that are now. or may
hereafter be, requred,by law to be recorded. |
attached to Dallas county; yet, If am not
mistaken as to the comparative distance TO
the two places, such is the case.
Several marriages have occurred during
the past week.
Last Sunday Mrs, Mamie Lindsey died
rom consumption. She was sister of ]
q: Heath, ESQ, and had many warm
friends.