Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-18
TEXAS TOPICS.

Local option received black eye in
Fannin county.
A cat i'm Gonham raised two young
squirrels placed with her litter of kit
tens.
One man in Bonham has handled
to date $500 bales of cotton.
Bishop Garrett will dedicate Trinity
church, Bonham, on the Goth of May.
The citizens of Bonham are erecting
new college.
Coleman county Teioices that she is
soon to have q new courthouse.
The Jail mt Kaufman is to be inn
proved.
Bonham has three wives who have
given birth to triplets this year.
Two crazy women in the Kaufman
Jail sing revival songs all night.
Rev. James Harper of Forney has
Withdrawn from the Baptist church.
The county tax in Williamson coun-
ty is only 10 cents OH the 500.
The mayors office ut Texarllana is
worth from $1,000 to $1,000 per year.
A fire at Wills Point destroyed the
residence Of Colonel Wynne.
Salado Sulphur Springs are to be inn
proved and made place of resort
The Texas Veteran Association
meets ut Bolton on the DIST of April
Cleburnc is to have telephone con-
nection with Dallas and Fort Worth.
In Cleburne they fine man SO for
running gambling house and S2j for
stealing n handkerchief.
Chester Lewis was arrested in Bos-
que county on the 18th, charged with
rape committed in 1878.
Twenty-Five miles of the Sabine &,
Northwestern railway have been sur
veyed and located.
The young men of Greenville have
organized and raised $225 to purchase
brass band.
: n well-connected young man in
; Kaufman county, named BullaId, Ii
in Jail ut kaufman for hog stealing.
The moneyed men of Weatherfort
, are working to secure WOODEN mil
+, for That little city.
Frank Beverly of Bolton has q clocl
that has been in his family one hun
, dred and fifty years.
An attempt was recently made {,
: rob the postolllce at Ferris, by blowiny
open the door with dynamite.
. Bolton will ship 10000 bales of cot
ton this season, and is to have com
press next year.
+ The Methodists at Alvarado ar
. endeavoring to infuse new life int
their church.
= A man named Long was seriousl
~ poisoned mt Cleburne by taking med
cine from bottle given him by
wagon driver named Tenant.
. The one-legged acrobat, who wake
J. rope here some weeks ago, and fell {
y Corsicana breaking his other leg,
dead.
lie Chairman Jesse Harper, of III
II Greenbacl> national committee, IL
lc deliver ten speeches in Texas With
h n short time.
Young Haynes, son of Collect,
Haynes who killed District Attorne
Cummings at Laredo because of III
!" dishonor of his sister, has been tri,
II and acquitted.
il The age of the living governors
10 Texas are as follows;
ID Roberts, 6s; served four years.
~ Lubbock, 90; served two years.
:, Pease, II; served four wears.
" Throckmofton, 81; served one and
IL quarter years.
4. Coke, 81; served three yeara.
10 Hubbard, 80; served two and qua
y er years.
il Ireland, 50; present governor.
ID Some of our officers are training
=. pack of blood-hounds from the i,
at yard. They get Il freedman to run Il,
n put the dogs on his track after he h
ld had sufficient start To be out of da
lie ger The race last Saturday was w
ID messed by quite crowd which IA
n. gathered at the Jail. The runner h
To about a half-mile start and was makil
us n circle to get back to town when t
us dogs wers turned loose. They follow
Y, the trail without any difficulty a
BY forced the man to climb tree in abe
twenty minutes from the time tn
M started. The leadsr of the pack is
rs old well-trained dog, and once sold
Mt one hundred and twenty-five dollars