The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-10

chief of police for protection tonight.
claiming he was in danger of he'ng hung
As u was evident he was labO, ~ under
an halluclnstion, he was taken IA erarce by
the police, pending examination by the
county physician. Meyers is from Roches.
ter. New York.
=, An Italian created something of a senss.
tlon IN a prominent banking establishment
.o,Isy by asserting that he had been
robbed OF apurse he claimed to have laid
on he counter. Several prominent citizens
were present, and the chiet of police being
summoned, all willingly submitted TO being
searched, but the purse was not found, al.
though s2ll We're found on the Italian.
lhe remains OF Ex-Governor L. ] Davis
WI MIL arrive for interment here tomorrow.
nhey VIII lie In state at Artillery hall, the
oaiVeston Artillery company acting as n
guard OF honor. lie will be buried beside
his father. NN
News has reached the city of cutting
ARRAY on Bolivar Point, between William
Oarr and his father.in-law, John Crainer, In
wnlch Cralner was badly cut about the
isce ana side. The trouble originated in
wiaIheis lin opposition to Carr's marriage
with his daughter.
M, me eminent sculptor of Baltimore and
washington, Giovanni Brienni, is engaged
upon the bust OF the late Rev. Father
onamoodut, which has received the high
90. eneohlums rom competent critics as an
artistic ana accurate piece of portraiture.
BARLOW, Wilson h Co.'s minstrels per.
.vrllieu mere tonight to house crowded TO
its utmost capacity. They leave by special
tram over the Santa Fe tomorrow.
FL Paso.
Ell PAso, Feb. 9,-[special. The remains
oil Judge William NJ. Pierson, prominent
citizen ofthisplace who had Just completed n
line three-story brick hotel here at A cost Of
$1,000, and whose death occurred last Man.
day at Hot Springs, Arkansas, arrived This
morning, and the funeral occurred this
afternoon, attended by large crowd of
lrienus; lie was native of West Virginia.
acaptain OF an Ohio river steamboat. ro.
sided IN San Antonio, Texas, a few wears
ana IN I'll Paso twenty-five years. He was
worth nearly quarter of q million dollars,
all OF which he recently acquired by the
great rise IN real estate in this city, and he
9ied Just as his fortune accumulated, before
ne mad time to enjoy it, aged 62.
Inc Mexicans were ringing their church
a oei,s aii uay yesterday in Paso del Norte,
ana on inquiry as to the cause. thew stated
that they received news of fight between
their soldiers and Indians, near the divid.
ing iine OF the states of Chihuahua and So.
nora, where seventy.flve Indians were killed
ana hity captured. The Mexican loss is
reported slight. w ~
| metty thieving is alarmingly prevalent.
mere are only three cases of smallpox
In the city. r''>
Henry Afford. barkeeper, was handling
pistoi, when II exploded. The ball pene.
trated through his left arm.
| iMilt. farberry was executed to-day at
AiDuquerque, New Mexico, for the murder
VI 0ahpoell IN New Mexico in June 1851.
Meridian.
MERIDIAN, Feb. 9.-[Special. THE pres.
ent week has not been as quiet as usual in
Meridian. Wednesday afternoon Difficult.
W occurred between John p. Harding and
Lee Parks, in which Harding shot at Parks
with pistol, but only succeeded in burn.
ing ms lace with powder. Harding was ar
rested, ana IS under bond to answer ut the
next term of the district court. The affair
grew out of q previous row,
in which the parties named and several
others were engaged, and in which Harding
was severely bruised.
niehs last night 1Sa .,os shortly after mid.
| nmibh,l WIG saie oil MIR. A. j.
handle, a merchant of this place, was
o,own open and burgarized OF $9i5; only
Si4o was Mr.. Randle's loss, the balance
having been deposited there for safety: the
depositors and the amount of their loss
6elns rs follows; Colonel X. Y. Blythe
$$3oO; =. Emmerson, $3.50; Tom Pool, about
SiCO; Colonel j. q. jenkins, $50; G. Nj. Ran.
dle, $4o. The burglars opened the safe by
drilling hole in the door near the lock
anu iilling 1t with powder, which thev sci
iire, then breaking the lock and inside of
me door. They were evidently profes.
si0nais, and have thus far evaded detection.
JuugeAbbotts is detained at Hillsboro
by the illness of his wife, and the bar have
siecleu special judge 10 preside over the
district court till his return.
The weather is damp and disaCreeable
Cleburne.
CLRBuRNE, Feb. 9.-TSpecial. l-Colonel
u. q. Stone has gone to Austin, at the re-
quest OF the chairman of the senate com.
mlttee on internal improvement, in the in.
terest OF railroad matters, he having had
III nch eXperieSCe on this subject
Inc contractors expect to begin work on
the new public school building as soon as
the weather moderates. The location is
beautiful and convenient.
lew nights since during the extreme
Goid weather, while the snow was falling, a
horse was left hitched to tree on
henderson street near the Episco.
pal church. In his efforts to
free himself, he twisted around the tree
and broke his neck. The owner was doubt.
less imoibing long and deep in some "a.
loon, thinking nothing of his faithful sleed.
CMr' ~. r.. Craig, commercial tourist of
Dallas, is in the CITY.
DR.. Henry Wolf, OF Galveston, is n ruest
of the Cleburne house.
Spence Hodge and w. +. Ramsey are at
tending Mardi Gras in the Crescent City.
;, Mr.. Crave, of the law firm of Brown,
liamsey d Crave, leaves for Dallas tonight,
on legal business.
A ull.blown norther was reported en-
route southward, at the Santa Fe telegraph
ONCE here, yesterday, but no norther has
switched OIL"
Waco.
WACO, Feb. s.-[Special. l-Yesterday
evening Mr.. William Newton, of the firm of
Newton Il Wise, of Morgan, accompanied
by his wife, boarded the south bound Cen.
tral tram at that place in order to come TO
waco ior the purpose OF awaiting the cul.
mination Of an interesting event which was
to add new member to the family. On Tho
way down the jolting Of the cars SO far
hastened the process of nature that Il soon
became apparent that new passenger was
likely to be added to the list, and by the
time the train reached this city matters had
progressed so far that halt Of thirty min.
minutes beyond schedule time was neces.
sary TO meet the pressing exigencies of the
occasion. In brief, Mrs, Newton gave birth
to q bouncing baby in the sleeping.car
while the train was at the East Waco depot,