Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-10
DALLAS.
Bad Eject Of Hot Weather Pioneers
Of Dallas County 10 Have a Grand
Reunion and Picnic.
The Author Of the FAir-erounds Hemiside
san AZ Large-A Painter
Gets a Fall

Special 70 the Gazette
DALLAS, Tx, July SIT is hy-,iEe
in Dallas. The court-rooms, hotel lob
bies and sometime busy hsunts Of indus
try appear TO have fallen into 3 state Of
semi-innOcDOus desuetude. Numbers of
people whose financial capabilities enable
them 20 seek cooler climes have betaken
themselves 10 summer resorts, and local
society has shut up shop in the absence
81 20 many Of its brightest ornaments
Comments on the weather have taken tue
place Of commercial quotations, in 8 great
measure, and dreamy lAnguOr has sue
ceeded the hustle and activity Of the
winter months One effect Of this de-
pressiOn in the trade and commerce and
industrial pursuits seems TO have been 10
drive men 70 drink, as not less than
dozen aole-boGied men were before the
mayor this morning charged with
being drunk and down. With
due regard 10 the stringency
Of the times, only minimum fines were
imposed, but even this consideration and
forethought failed to ellie much cash.
In only one branch of ind ,'ry does there
seem TO be much actil Y, and that is
pulling the rumsellers who are &C.
cused OF violating the Sunday law. Sew
ersl Of these have been caught 10 the
meshes Of the law, and the uni
form assessment has been $3.50 IN
each case" the number Of cases being
governed by the number Of violations or
numoer Of drinks sold
The pioneers of Dallas county are
to have grand reunion and
picnic at the City park on the 18th
inst. All persons who settled in Texas
prior to June 10, 1866, and now reside in
Dallas county, and all their descendants,
are entitled to be ranked as pioneers and
to participate in the picnic. Invitations
are also extended to pioneers and citizens
OF other counties.
Water was turned into the new 1S-iuch
mains this morning, and the superlntend,
ent says pumping at the new station will
begin the latter part Of next week. This
VIII Improve the quantity, but, unfortu-
Dately, not the quality, of the Dallas
water-supply
Among the transfers of real estate re-
corded to-day was the holland & McRusky
building on Elm street, which has been
purchased by Mr.. T. w. Scollard from
William Lawson for $27 600
Mrs. Gary, a sister of Mrs. Sawnie
Robertson, died last night at her home In
Taylor
James Jet, the author of the fair
grounds homicide on the evening Of the
Sd, has not been apprehended. A fellow
that looked like Jett was arrested at Gle
burne, but when Officer Jacoby went to-
Cleburne and saw him, he proved to be
the wrong man.
| Charles Meachams, painter engaged
on the newly erected pavilion In CITY
park, was precipitated to the ground, a
distance Of forty feet, by the giving way
OF the scaffold on which he was at work.
His injuries are seriou-, and, 1t is feared
may prove fatal.
! Dr. City Carter, city health officer, saws
tne hospital Is being yerrun by patients
from the railroad construction work in
the vicinity OF Dallas. The complaint
among them is dy ntery and fever.
There is good dCn OF the same com.
plant among resideDl Of the city, prcba
bly, owing to the character OF water in
general use.
twelye-year-old son of Deputy Dis
| trict Clerk Stewart, who lives at Oak
Lawn, was bit by copperhead snake
| yesterday evening late while proudly
\ pointing to the work he had done in cut
| ting away weeds from the family spring
Inc father applied bottle of ammonia TO
the wound, by which the poison was ex.
lracted, and administered mixture of
ammonia and turpentine internally. This
morning the lad was said to be ali right.
having suffered but little Inconvenience
IRON the snake-bite.
Mrs Mary Halves, about twenty.seyen
years OF age, relates a sad story of de-
sertion. She alleges that her husband,
Charles W. Halves, bringing her here
under the pretense OF seeking home,
deserted her on their arrival, leaving her
penniless, frlendless and alone She was
seeking employment in order to raise
mOney 70 defraY the eXnensa of q rntnr.