Freestone County, Texas History 1881 News The Dallas Weekly Herald February 3, 1881 Robinson, administrator, vs. Philpot; from Freestone. Affirmed. ====================================================================== The Dallas Weekly Herald April 7, 1881 Loper and McElroy vs. Robinson from Freestone county. It is not material whether the party misrepresenting the fact upon the belief of which another is induced to act, know it to be false, or believed it to be true, he is still responsible for the injury sustained by party who relied upon it. Affirmed. Quinan J. ====================================================================== The Dallas Weekly Herald April 14, 1881 Page: 5 Texas Topics Measles at Wortham are sparing no person whatever except those who formerly had it. ... Mr. L. D. Lillard, editor of the Fairfield Recorder, and Miss Mattie E. Watson were married in Fairfield last Thursday night. ====================================================================== The Dallas Weekly Herald May 26, 1881 Page: 4 Sherman Special to the Herald Sherman, May 23 - A gentleman named Clarke made a contract at Knoxville, Tenn., with John Brown and Wiley Gallion to work for him in Freestone county, advancing their passage. When they reached Sherman they attempted to dodge him an evade the contract. He had them arrested, thinking to force them to fulfill their contract. They were dismissed on a writ of habeus corpus, paying an attorney more than the fare they would have been out had they paid through. ====================================================================== The Dallas Weekly Herald July 28, 1881 Page: 8 WORTHAM WORTHAM, July 25, 1881 Correspondence of the Herald: Mr. Jim Anderson went to Walker Miller's last night and paid him three hundred and thirty dollars for cattle. Walker Miller locked the money up in his trunk and put the key in his pocket. Anderson and Miller soon went to bed in the house. Mr. A., seeing a man in the door, aroused Miller, who discovered his money was gone. Pursuit was made without effect. Mr. Dave Berleson, one of our most substantial citizens, died to-day of black jaundice. Hon. C. L. Watson, of Fairfield, spent several days here on a visit to relatives. The weather is decidedly showery, and the bottom planters are cheerful. Grass is green on the prairies again, and the hay cutters are making ready to cut as soon as the showers are over. Camp meetings are to be found in every direction; preachers generally are having a good time. Mr. J. Barbee has carried three balls of lead in his lungs since the war. They are just now exciting serious disturbance, threathening his life. He will get the benefit of the late land donation. Good fruit is scarce. The late rains are in time to save the late peaches. Melons are abundant and cheap. John Shelton was to-day bitten by a water mockasin while trying to get a fish on a hook hung in the brush in the lake.