El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-25
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A negress sues the5Wagner company
for ejecting her from sleeper at Deni-
son. She had ridden in sleeper from
Kansas City.-San Antonio Express.
The clerks In the Dallas postoffice
handle between $4,000 and 100000
pieces Of mail matter daily. The aver
age per cent correctness of the clerks,
| according to q most rigid examination,
| is 80 9O.-Alpine Avalanche.
Capt Gillett's carrier pigeons are
| the very thing to bring election news
from the out-of-the-way precincts
| vote from Boquillss to Marathon, then
| attached there te one of Mr.. Gillett's
| birds which brought it to Alpine. The
entire distance of 100 miles was COW
cred in two and one half hours.-Al-
pine Avalanch.
The Austin chapter of the Daughters
of the COnfederacy will petition the
next legislature for construction in the
state capitol grounds an elegant foun-
tain to be dedicated to the memory of
Stephen F. Austin. Mrs. Will Tobin
of the chapter informed The Express
correspondent that they have q nu-
cleus of $500 and promises from pro-
minent Gentlemen.-Exchange.
The best fishing record Of the season
took place on Wednesday morning of
| last week at the mouth of Red fish
bayou in Mr.. L. Wards pasture below
| Edna about fifteen miles. Within less
than two hours time of angling Messrs.
John Rowlett and George Sparks
broughs safely to shore LOG very fine
trout and reddish. One of the latter
Edna Progress.
Colonel Frank Grice, publisher of
the San Antonio Express. is here to-
day. He hopes to impress MAJ Or Sayers
with the necessity of including in his
message recommendation for the en-
actment of a libel law that put the re-
puta BILE press of the state on notice as
to what it can or can not publish with
out running afoul of necessitOus law
yers in search Of fat contingent fees
San Antonio Express.
Last Sunday Drs. Scott & Tisdale as
sisted by DR.. Patterson and DR.. Van
| Mcfarland performed a difficult sur
gical operation ON Dan Booth, the
sew raj nights before the election by
another colored man. The skull was
trephined and the crushed. bones re-
moved from the brain and the sufferer
placed in fair way to recover. Last
week Marshal Hatch went around with
a subscription list and raised a good
sum of money to help the injured man.
Port Lsvacan.
While hunting near Cedar Creek
yesterday afternoon. Frank Gallagher
| and George SOutherwoOd we're acciden-
tally shot by Wallace Miller, but the
wounds are not of serious nature.
The parties are we'll known sportsmen
of Austin, and all are first class shots,
especially Mr.. Miller. While Gal
lag her and Southernwood were follow
ing up covey of quail which had been
| flushed, Miller, who was about seventy
yards away, flushed another covey,
which flew to the same thicket where
the other birds had gone. Miller,
thinking that the birds had flown
away from the direction in which he
had seen his companions. fred two
shots at the covey in two different
directions. Wonderful as it may seem,
both loads struck the other hunters.
Southernwood was hit in the shoulder
and arm, and Gallagher in the hand.
The shot fred by Miller was chilled
shot aad penetrated the anatomy of his
companions much easier than had the
shot been common lead.-Austin Tri-
bune.
An Austin dispatch says: State
Treasurer-elect J. w. Robbins today
announced his appointment of Maj.
Roger G. Roberdeau as chief clerk of
the treasury department. While the
appointment is in the nature of sur
prise it will give great satisfaction to
the many friends in this city and
throughout the state of Maj. Rober-
deau The latter ia now q major in the
First Texas regiment of volunteer in
fsntry and is at Savannah. He has &C