The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-02
TEXAS.

TEXAS.
Oranges are thriving in Texas.
Jefferson reports plenty OF negroes
and all OF them lazy.
The Goliad Guard wants better mail
facilities for that section.
Jesus X. Lizard-o owns the rancho FL
Bianco, near Brownsville.
The rich CANYONS ut the head OF the
Mucous river are attracting many iand
buyers. ,
Cotton worm it Drenham, but little
damage done as yet.
A mastodon Ia tolerably good condi-
tion was dug up at Bolton the other day.
Twenty.six persons in the Galveston
iail-six females and three luDaticS.
Why don't they build an asylum
A Jefferson hunter, Souter by name,
claims to have killed two deer at one
shot.
The Texas papers almost universally
condemn the now dead ana extinct
Legislature as incompetent.
Brown county claims 10 have sep
tupled" the population in two years
The immigration there Is unprece-
dented. Inc roads for miles are Gov
cred with wagons
The Texas Legislature wound up with
a grand ratification meeting ut Austin,
endorsing Tilden and Hendricks.
Two hundred bills, on the second
reading in the Legislature, will have
to be sacrificed on account OF the long
Texas Pacific debate.
The convicts in the penitentiary are
mounting up rapidly to .2O0o: they Will
reach that figure In very few weeks
In the present condition OF weather and
price Of whisky.
The stage lines between the Eastern
terminus of the Southern Pacific Rail
road at Fort Yuma, and the Western
termini OF the Texas roads, has recently
been strongly reinforced by new
coaches and fresh stock.
The evidences are continually In
creasing that there Is plenty OF silver In
North west Texas, particularly IN LlaDo
and adjacent counties. Mr.. w. j. Locke
owns u tract of land In that region
with silver mine on it, the ore Of which
assays considerably over $500 to the
ton.
In the Lucy Chiles murder case, In
Sherman, the jury rendered the follow
ing verdict:
awe, the jury, find the prisoner
guilty OF murder in the second degree,
and assess her punishment mt cobtine-
ment in the penitentiary for sixty
years"
as 10 leu tue DliSouCL oub Juob III IlLtb
for the next centennial.
The Texas papers waste brains, money
and good taste In personal controver-
sizes. There Is hardly a paper In the
State that has not at least dozen Of
these controversies on his hands.
The show at the Horticultural and
Pathological Association at Houston In
dicates that Texas will eventually be
one of the greatest fruit-growiug States
In the Union.
An apothecary boy In Whitesboro
thought that there was no great differ
ence between morphine and quinine--
they looked so much alike-and now
Mr., Womack, OF that place, has lost his
little daughter in consequence.
Fort Worth is still rejoicing over the
completion Of the Texas Pacific Rail
road TO that place. The trains arriving
are crowded with free passengers and
cheered by the people In the State. The
Fort Worthers have already had one
dinner over the event and now pro
pose a grand celebration and barbecue
August 10.
MISSISSIPPI.
Thos. s. Gathright, Esq, Superinten-
dent of Education ia Mississippi, has
accepted the Presidency OF the Agricul-
turaf College Of Texas, at salary OF
$4,000 year In gold.
Hon. A. j. Sykes. who farms near Mul-
don Station, In Monroe county, received
seventy head of sheep from North Ala
bama, last week. and expects to add four
hundred more to his stock this summer
and fall. Sheep raising will soon be-
come one of the Leading industries OF
Monroe county. In this connection we
will mention the fact that several gen
tlemen from the West expect to open
sheep farmsin this county in the fall.
The Fayette papers are taking a cen
sus Of the white Radicals in that county
There are ONLY eight in the entire coun-