Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-03-16
TEXAS.
Rockport has a IS 900 new steam fer

y ~OOdts
The San Antonio artcsian we'll is
now $50 feet deep.
Horses sell at $40 to $50 at auction
in San Antonio.
Kaufman has one Of the finest artc-
sian wells in the State.
The spiritual circles of Waco are
frequent and well attended.
Erath county, first settled in 1865,
now has 5000 inhabitants.
Austin has subscribed $500 to induce
DO. Jefferson to visit that city.
A freedman's temperance society has
been organized in Gonzales.
Denton county reports excellent
success In raising pears, peaches and
apples.
The Baptist church at Independ-
ence, Texas, burned on the 18th Loss
g, 600
The Goliad Guard reports that the
grand jury brought in twenty-five in
dictments.
Four hundred Alabamaians have ar
rived in Gonzales and Caldwell coun-
ties, Texas.
Navarro county has % free schools,
and they had one thousand pupils dur
ing January. ~
The iron railway bridge across the
Trinity on the International road of
Texas, has reached GALVESTON.
All along up the Brazos the planters
are taking in greater breadth ofiand
for cultivation than ever before.
The sub-post of Camp Hudson is
discontinued, and the troops are or
dered to Fort Clark.
Col. VIM. Myers. who migrated
from Garrard county, KY, in 1916,
died near Dallas, Texas, on the 2lst,
aged "a.
THE post commanders at Forts Con-
cho and Bliss are authorized to sell
surplus commissiary stores to the citi-
zens.
Lumber, in Austin, since the com
pletion of the railroad to that point,
has declined from Sl2 to $40 per thous-
and.
The Huntsville Item says there il
more immigration to Walker county
since the railroad reached it than for
ten years previous.
The Bastrop Advertiser says that
from the Sd to the 18th inst, the value
of real estate changing hands in Austin
amounted to s5,520,0O0 gold.
Northern Texas has inexhaustible
mines of copper and iron, while silver,
lead and bismuth are said to exist on
the frontier ranges.
A paper called the Two Eagles IL
now being published in Laredo. This,
we believe, is the most western pointin
Texas where paper has been pub
lishcd.
The Waco Advance says that men
who can garden, chop wood, or in fact
do days work, are in demand, and
from 81 % to to 81 so paid without
grumbling.
The Victoria Advocate states that
Geo. w. Smith, the Brennan incendi
airy and Gonzales county black mailer.
has been appointed postmaster at
Corsciana, Texas.
The Supreme Court of Texas has
reversed the action of Judge Scott in
the removal or the sheriff of Hender
son county, and ordered him to replace
the sheriff in Office.
Until further orders a scouting party
will be stationed at Kickapoo Springs.
to consist of twenty cavalry and TWEEN
y infantry. under an enterprising and
discreet officer
Texas expects her trade to be revo-
lutionizcd by the rapidly approaching
railroad connection with the North
through the Indian territory, and with
Louisville through Arkansas.
The earliest city charter of San An
tonic dates from the King of Spain in
1873. At that date, says the Houston
Union, its prospects were as bright as
those of the infant town ofNew York.
The Austin State Gazette, in refer
ence to the extension of the Victoria
Road to San Antonio, says that the
distance is computed at $50 miles,
when by the line of the johnson sur
vey, il does not exceed III miles. IL
IS little less than 100 miles from Aus
tin to the point Of intersection to
Cuero, near Clinton.
All of the managers of the last cleo
lion in Hill county have been indicted
N the United States District Court re
emily in session at Austin. One of
he clerks confessed to the taking
,ut Of the ballot-box three hundred |
Holdings tickets and putting in their
place three hundred for CLARK. -San
Aatoaia Herald.
The Washington (TexnsJ Chronicle |
iays that Colonel w c. McCarty, who |
has for some time been making re-
searches in the northwestern portion
# the State of Texas, known as the
LLAMA Estacado-' staked plains
brought with him some Of the most
specimens of copper and
liver ore and coal Of superior quail
~ from that region. Both copperand
liver are very valuable. The coal
,ears a close resemblance to the an
hracite of Pennsylvania.
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The evidence submitted to the Clay
on Investigating Committee goes TO