The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-09-10
FORT WORTH LOCAL NEWS
ALMOST A SERIOUS faAoAs.
what the Courts AFo Doing suuduy
School Matters Onths ? saok-fhe
Coming Amusement season
a Lecturer Locked up
other LaoaI Matters,

| Ini8 MteTnODn ullhiulAN ottuffol
between Jim Bontop, tho driver OF
laundry wagon, aud Tom Mason
head waitOr at tho Mansion hoIol
There has boon aomo mlsunders.and
log betwoon the parties for some time
aud thla afternoon Benton beeomln {
enrag cd 40 something Mason aaiC
hurled a glass 20 him. rhareupOn wal
was vigorously wAgsd and Benton
can0 out rather tho worst for the fray
hut no wont OFF and ao0n came bach
with q shotgun, which no lav0led ~
his late cOmbStant, aud bus for
tho timely Interference OF
outsiders would, II IL said
have given him dose OF lead. Ben
tou was arrested, but gave bond ioI
his appearance and was released.
COURT CRoPPISGs,
In tho district court to-day II. j.
Mathews and others brought action OF
trospss, against Nj. n. SHvlar for 2SI
acres OF land, and o. $. Kennedy
brought q similar action against a. II,
EmbTy and Others for block In
Tucker's addition. In tho Same court
@. III. Hlgbee brings an action against
tho Texas & Pacific railroad. Tho
petition alleged that by the wrong
fal act OF tho defendant i,225
acres of grass, tho property
OF the plaintiff was, burned, nnd.tor
this he wants 80 go damages.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEETING.
On Sunday next at o'clock in tho
evening there will DO mass meeting
OF tho city Sunday schools a. tho First
Baptist church. Interesting addresses
win DO made by prominent gentle
men, and Mist Nellie Knowles, OF Dali
las, will road an entertaining and in
structive poem. The different Sab bath
schools are earnestly urged 20 b.
present.
CAR WRECKED.
Early this morning IA the cast
bound freigh. train, on the Texas d
Pacific, was entering tho city u box
Car, when near the Rnsedale street
car crossing, jumped tho, track and,
farming Oy3r, was yle[sly wrecked.
rhs debris was cleared away and tho
posssnger trsins were not delayed by
the accident.
THE OPERA HOUSE.
Mr.. William O'Neil, tho zsntlG-
manly manager 81 tho opera house, is
busily engaged III thoroughly over.
hauling and ranoyGting tho interior OF
the opera house preparatory 20 tha
opening OF tho nsuse for tbs season on
tho 18th instant by hrst-ClasS comic
opera company. Mr.. Charles Benton,
who has beal in Now York for th9 psat
two months booking companies for
the fall and winter season, ~ eX-
pected homo in few days, whom list
Ortho attractions for tho season will
TO given the readers of THE HERALD.
LECTURER IN LIMBo.
In the carly part OF the week Jhero
in tho city 2 stranger, who
sought out the newspaper office. ana
fusde himself known ss Harold o.
Leonard, county attorney OF Throek--
morton. The papers were requested
to announce that he would speak in
tho court house "wednesday night
sgainst prohibition, aud he challenged
any of tina local champions of prohibit
ton 10 joint discussion, but at the
time appointed no one was preseut 90
answer him, and he procee1ed 70 i'd
drsss quite larg3 aud boisterous
assembly. His talk was lengthy, and
before he finished his au Iienco began
TO call upon others 20 come to the
tront, thereby showing thai they we're
tired OF Mr.. Leonard end his speech;
but he refused TO be put down, ana
when tho thrice renowned Colonel
Andrew Jackson Whestley, lawyer,
historian, poet and humorist, late of
Tennessee, stepped TO the front in re-
spouse to loud calls, Lq0uard an
that he alone would speak,
and showed evidences OF declaring
war upon ell who intTuded upon his
time, as he called It. This much IL
said by way of Introductory. This
evenins Sheriff Maddox received
q cspigs frOn the sheriff Of Wise
county for Harold Q. Leonard, who is
wanted in thGt county TO answer to an
for bribery, which has just
been retained into COURT which 10 now
ia session at Decatur. Deputy Sberih
and officer Rushing, OF the
city police rec, armed with tho c1pias,
soUn found Leonard, and escorted him
to the county I'll, whare no is now
awaiting an officer from Dec stur, who
will probably como down Tomorrow
evening. Owing to the latsness OF the
hour at which tho arrest wss made,
fuller particulars could not be gotten,
PERSONAL,
CAPTAIN Joseph Q. Terrell has re-
turned from a visit to relatives ia Vlr~
ginig, Judge Alexander w. Terrell,
who accomplished him,is living among
tho mountains st tbs various watering
places OF She ol5 Dominion.
Massrs. II. G, LS aa, Z. w. DsaloY, j.
w. Brow and V. Q. Hart, all OF the
Galveston News, were in the city TO-
day.