The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-03
TExAs.


TEXAS.
Polo has reached Corpus Christi,
The story of the pllage Of Fletonio by
by way Of Dallas.
Gen. II. L. Bee has been assigned the
place Of General Superintendent Of
Bryan College.
Grass Ii reported on the Llanos Esta-
cadoH, or Staked Plains.
Dallas subscribed $35, 900 In four days
for the establishment OF u district fair
Dallas IL flooded with tho new ont
crop and oats are down TO IL cents.
IL Ia said that this years cattle drive
will be the largest for many years. The
cattle IL now there to drive.
The boys in Milan county found a
horse frightened to death and hardly
capable OF moving, with u man 9 dead
body strapped across its back.
Cotton and corn are both injured by
the rain in Red River county, Texas. In
some localities the country is completely
Hooded.
No through freight trains arc now
running on the Texas Central Railroad
owing TO the loss Of its Red River
bridge.
IL is claimed that Huntington has
10000 men at work on his South Pacific
road from San Francisco To Galveston.
Dallas Is daily visited by n "beggar
on horseback" who rides around town
soliciting aims. The horse Is stolen, OF
course.
Here Is encouragement to railroads.
The Bolton Journal promises TO become
daily as soon as the Central Texas
Branch road Is completed to that town.
The railroad was completed to Fort
Worth last week. The first immigrants
were a company OF burglars. who are
now putting la their little work. The
Fort Worthers are now debating the
question whether their barbecue over
the railroad was not premature.
Grayson county shipped last year
425,S00 bushels OF wheat. IL. 200 bushels
of potatoes, S2 car loads OF corn, besides
fattening by corn feeding over 10000
head OF beef cattle, 3lS car loads each
Of -four and shelled oats, 81. 300 pounds
OF dry hides, and l02, 900 bales OF cotton.
In speaking of the completion or the
Texas Pacific Railroad to Fort Worth
the Messenger says: Fort Worth IL all
smiles" The Dallas papers say that
the Messenger has hit the true character
OF the Fort Worthers, only they might
have better whisky for their smiles.
Mrs. Robb, of Corpus Christi, has
$4,000 acres Of land inclosed, and fattens
She is the largest stock owner In the
State. In 1871 she refused $4,000 for
one brand OF her stock, and the COWS
and sheep have been increasing In num-
bers ever since. This is, beyond doubt,
the largest rancho in the State owned
by one person.
The late rise in the Brazos was the
highest water known there within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant. The
destruction to crops in the extreme low
lands cannot at present be estimated.
There are said to be as many as one
hundred wagon loads Of fish in shallow
water in the Blair Valley. A 1872 pound
cat was taken out.
MISSISSIPPI.
Hon. J. f. Sessions, of Natchez, has
left the Republican party, and will now
support the national and State Dem
ocratic nominees.
The Natchez papers say that crowds
Of lazy negroes fill the streets and
Courthouse green of Vidalia, Concordia
parish, gambling. :.
The Natchez market is overstocked
with figs. The vendors find it impos
sible to sell them, and have to offer
bribe to get rid OF the stock on their
hands.
county. The corn crop will be short
the prospects for cotton are improving,
and it viii do well if the caterpillars do
not come.
The Democratic Nominating Conven-
ton of the First Mississippi District
met at Okolona, July a., to nominate
their candidate for Congress. It bal
loted all day and night, and finally, on
the ninety fifth ballot, nominated Col.
II. T.. Muldrow, OF Oktibbeha. Not
withstanding such long and earnest
contest. the nomination was received
with the widest enthusiasm and de-