The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-26
Other Interesting News by Specials.
Fort Worth,

rOrt worth,
Fort WoRrn, Jan. 25.-[Special. Cen
eral r. A, Estava, inspector Of customs
General Il. Canno paymaster, and Il. Orva-
nanos, collector of customs OF the republic
Of Mexico, are here, en- route to Paso-dcl-
Norte.
Jones, Brooks and Seaton, street and al
ley committee of the board of aldermen |
City Engineer Smoot, and City Secretary
McDougal, will visit Dallas to. morrow to in.
spect the bois dare pavement in front Of
I. l.. Marsalls store. That class of pave
ment is strongly urged as the best for Main
and Houston streets. The ordinance by
which the Fort Worth street improve
ment and sewer bonds were exc.
cuted, declares that the city treas
urer shall receive no percentage for
receiving and disbursing funds arising from
these bonds. Notwithstanding. John l..
Loving, the city treasurer, declares that he
will exact per cent. each way, and thereby
pocket $1,000 of the funds alluded to. The
board of aldermen, and the mayor declares
that rather than to permit this extortion,
the funds shall remain in the City National
bank at New York city.
In separating two bulldogs fighting this
afternoon, Robert Brimmer was bitten
through the hand.
W ~. iiViiuili oduuitT, Will Dt tTleu To-
morrow on charge of attempting TO shoot
n clerk named Hamilton. with six.
shooter. The row occurred last Sunday
night on Weatherford street.
la the county court to-day the will of
Nathan Butts was proba,ed II makes the
wife and children heirs she executrix She
renounces the will and refers her settlement
TO the court,
In the suit of w. II. Want VS.. J. II. Hol-
land, TO enforce contract as to ginning GER
tain cotton, judgment was had by default
for plaintiff in the sum of $403.
the petition of Mrs. j. G. Barber was
filed asking for appraisers OF community
estate lett by her husband,J. Il. Barber,who
died last Friday.
A farmer arrived to-day and told the
county treasurer IN amusing story OF
fight ri1w days ago, on the Dallas county
line, between citizens of Tarrant county and
OF Dallas county. He saysone Winchester,
three revolvers and a double -barreled shot.
gun figured in the combat, which lasted
half an hour, aud that although many shots
were fired no one was hit, One, however,
suffered severely from the recoil of shot.
gun, having overcharged 1t.
About thirty hands were discharged from
the construction on the Waco district of
the Missouri Pacific railroad These men
were Hot supnlleu w tuelr ulSmlsShl Win
certificates of discharge, and. therefore,
must wait month for the small sums due
them The highest amount due one indi.
vidual is Sl3.
A colored girl named Marinda Jones was
riding into the city yesterday on an old
horse, crippled aud unable to go faster than
slow shuiilipg trot, About two or three
miles distant from this city, on the Wealth.
eriord road, tramp ordered her TO halt,
and when she refused he started forward
to overtake her, knowing that she could
not escape on the horses The frightened
girl dismounted and fed on foot. The
tramp cut the saddle W tn his pocket knife
and beat the poor old horse severely
Thirly-two cents for day aud forty cents
for night composition is the cxaciion of the
Typographical Union of Fort Worth.
Sixty Missouriahs drove through this city
with twenty-three heavy mule teams, pros.
pective settlers of Jack county Texas.
AT half past ~ tonight William Houston
was knocked down and robbed by two
tramps, In an alley near the Local Option
saloon. The robbers are In jail