The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-07-31
COUNTRY ITEMS.
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Inc He0 hISei hv""@ vs." 1919
20, 900 bales.
Ante CITY has its bistrionic society,
which. we are glad TO see, gives dramas
suited to the weather, farces and come
dies. and does not try, like our city
amateurs. heavy five-act tragedies.
A great deal Of sickness is reported III
some parts OF the State. in Natcbitoches,
Grant, and Rapides, for instance, ana IN
Tangipahoa, along the line Of the JOCK
son railroad ,
erected at Fausse Point, parish OF IBERIA:
iberia. mt this rate. will become one Oh
our largest sugar parishes.
Five gentlemen in st. James parish
went ont hunting the other day in the
swampa back of the river. They we're
Loaf, for wandering around for several
davs. getting nothing to eat but lew
birds and crawtishes. A number or
citizens. in the meanwhile. went I'D
search OF them. and succeeded In rescu-
ing them from probable starvation.
Rain has damaged the wheat in North
Texas.
Immense deposits OF coal have been
discovered In Atacosta county.
Dennison pays five per cent taxes
paris papers complain that the town
lacks enterprise and Is falling behind
It's neighbors.
Madison county raises the larger cot
ton crop ever known there.
Burglars and chicken thieves are
operating in Houston on grand scale.
Relic BOYD. the famous Confederate
any or her ghost. IL lecturing in Texas.
Waco has q saddler named j. Christ,
aud vat IL Ia not hAppy.
The cotton crop OF Rusk county Will
he immense. No rust or worms.
The people around Bolton are cult
waiting sugar cane for the syrup. The
weld il nearly 100 gallons to the acre,
Round Rock has a newspaper, the
Headlight: Leon another, called Inc
Cabinet, and Tyler new mdeI.
The people OF Brenham voted over
whelmingly for tax for free sono9is,
Parkersyille, Brown county, is DONG
we'll although 1t has not reacneo us
1rst birthday vet.
The Dennison papers complain OF tneir
CITY Council The town Is doing badly.
Quite a number OF prairie dogs nave
lately emigrated to San Saba county,
where they seem to have taken UP the'r
permanent residence.
Texas reports quite an unusual num-
Der OF it's people MS having gone NOrth
this summer, many OF them to the zen
tennial. u.,,
Cotton worms aae reported In Waller
county.
The Texas pea and potato crops are
the greatest ever known.
Twenty miles OF iron are at galveston
for the international road.
n ia said that Brigham Young adver-
tises his religion extensively In some
of the Texas papers, hoping to get
few converts.
The people OF Palestine complain that
they have more grain than they want.
"What we need now" says the New
Era. "are people to consume IL.
The white pine In the Sabine river
swamps Is said to be the finest IN the
world.
Dallas il TO get her water works At
last. General rejoicing tbereat. Inc
waterworks will be erected on the Holy
system.
The Texans are at last learning how
to cultivate wheat and promise a larger
crop next year than ever.
Texas is full Of jails and the Jails lull
of prisoners. Houston has thirty-sx
six to small cell.
The Texas peach crop this year is
failure from late frosts. 1t will only be
one-third Of an average. :.
A seven foot alligator was caught II
st. Gabriel river, near Georgetown, VIII
an ordinary hook and line. tooo;
There will be the largest yield OF corr
and cotton in Harrison ever known II
the county.
New corn will be gathered and sole
within the next, month in various por
tions of the State.
Texas can feed, during the next
twelve months, double the amount o
her present population. a
The thermometer in Texas has beer
: ranging for the past month consider
ably over a hundred in the shade,
New buildings, permanent ana SUD
stantial, are springing up all over Aus
tin, and no city in the State Is improving
Twenty-one miles Of the Houston ant
: Austin narrow gauge road have beeI
completed.
: The Houston and New Orleans roat
(, progresses at the rate OF half h mile
day. despite the weather.
Dallas claims to be metropolis be
$ cause a hand organ has reached Their
: that can play selections from ii Trova
Y tore.
4; The Bolton RerieW thinks that tn
), corn crop OF that part OF the State ha
y been exaggerated.
|
. to obtain permission from the city au
thorities to erect a better and NOR
!, suitable one.
A runaway in San Antonio smashe
up. three hacks, killed Major Ord, U.
r A., and injured number OF Others
Notwithstanding which, runaways seer
: still popular in Texas.
Il At Marble Falls, on the Colorad
Q River, fifteen miles from Burnet, al
l. inexhaustible supplies OF white, blac
IS and variegated marble.
u The Texas and Pacific Railroad Con
l.. pany have contracted for 30 Locomotives
p 400 freight cars and about 20 othe
cars to equip their line: The line frol
Eagle Ford to Fort Worth and frol
a Paris to Texarkana will be complete
n before July.
Taylor's gang OF desperadoes recent
> entered Flotonia, Fayette county, too
IL possession Of the town, robbing ever
store in the place, and ravishing tu
women The Sheriff,S nOSSa gave OH