Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-16
SHERMAN.
Sixteen convicts Taken to the Peni.
Tertiary and Thirty Still Left
in the County Jail.
State Engineer BrittOn Completes His
Tour Of Inspection of the Rail-
ways in the State.
special to tho anrotte.

Special to the anEette.
SHERMAN, TEX, Dec. l5.--The fol-
lowing is a list Of the convicts for this
term of the district court sent Off to
the penitentiary to-day in charge of
J. w. Winston and ]. II. Forsythe,
agents;
VIM. Rose, theft of horse, five years;
Aaron Ross (colored), burglary and
theft, four years; Willie Harris (col-
ored), burglary and theft four years
Samuel MeggUre, theft, two years; q. |
w. Hodge, theft, two years; John =. |
Isbell, theft OF horses, five years; the |
same also for embezzlement, three |
yeare: j. II. Thomas, theft from the |
person, four years and six months; G., |
Il. Williams, forgery, two years; Jack |
White, alias Kerby, theft OF a mule, |
five years; James Bevins, theft, two |
year,; w. ID. Staley, alias Shang, theft |
| from the person, two years; Willis
Jones (colored), burglary, six years;
Fred Cook, robbery, ten years; James
Ryan, theft from the person, two
years; Charles Davis, theft of horse,
five year.; John Nelson, burglary, two
cases, six years.
with rape, committed on the person of
| Mrs. Catherine Dove OF Denison, the
/ widow OF All Dove, was put upon
! his trial to-day and most of the day
was consumed in deciding motion
for continuance, after which the work
OF selecting jury was begun, which
consumed the time Of the court until q
late hour
Lee G. Davis gave himself up TO the
Justice of the peace at Howe yester-
dnv. and MIR. Culver OF thar place
brought him to Jail. He c0nfesses to
being fugitive rom Justice, charged
with the theft OF horse in Tennessee.
Eight prisoners are now held in jail
under conviction, but on whom een-
tence has not been passed, besides
those sent off. The total number in
iail Mt this date is thirty.
This has been the heaviest criminal
docket ever tried In Grayson county at
any term of the court. The total num-
Der arraigned under indictment for the
term has been about one hundred, and
several arrests have been made under
felony charges since the grand jury
was discharged, 50 thst their cases
must wait to be considered ut the
apring term, beginning on the second
Monday in March, 1855.
Col j. II. Britton returned from a
months work inspecting the railroads
OF the state yesterday morning and
left for his Office in Austin on the $50
train this afternoon. He reports the
main, lines generally IN fair working
. order, much better than they were one
wear ago, but some of the branch
, Toads are in bad condition. He
goes to Austin to prepare his annual
report for the new administration to
consider, and viii doubtless have some
Important suggestions 10 make for the
, future regulation OF railroad business
In Texas. Col. Brittons calm judg-
ment. coupled with his ripe expert
nee in such matters should give his
views great weight on this subject.
DR.. A i. Wight of this city met
with an accident about O'Clock this
afternoon that startled the bystanders,
but fortunately did the doctor no
serious injury. His horse became
frightened and by n sudden turn up
set the buggy and threw the doctor
ont on his head. Being quite heavy
and somewhat venerable man, every
body expected that he WAS killed, but
he got up and walked OIL with
, ont any apparent injury.
: There il one virtue ut least Ia being q
stiff-necked and hard-headed man, 80
; the DOCTORS friends now think.
. We took personal look to-day at
the new Westinghouse established IN
this city by Dillingham; 4 Halsell and
found Them Ia full operation, slaugh-
tering hogs. They dispatch a hog
! with rapidlty. In about hye
n,inntss from the time
, II reaches the chute It Is ON the hooks
and dressed. This establishment has
, usde spare-ribs and backbone5 so
! abundant in the market that almost
auv one can afford to send some over
10 his preacher, rs they do every
; where that that good old country
rustom prevails. II this thing
i. e0uld last all the year. your
! scribe would soon be
, candidate for ordination. The
market price to-day for hogs on foot 10
So 30, being an average Of kansas Cily
quotations. A.
]. ii. Releher Of Gainesville vas IN
the city to-day.
? The baltimore & Ohio Telegraph
company having removed all obstruc-
lions on their way to sherman, are
9 now securing the came from this
! Mace To Denison. They have been
met bv iDjanctions and delays
: ,vherever possibe, but expect soon 10
have their lines fully established ana
/ in WORKING order all over the country.
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