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STATE NEWS.

instruct.
Hays county instructs for
Throckmortan.
Denton county instructs
for Throckmorton.
Prairie chicken shooting is
good near Fort Worth.
-Burleson county holds her
convention on Saturday the 9th
inst.
"A majority of the Lamar
county delegation is in favor of
Lang.
"A Touring mill in the neigh
borhood of Comanche is turn
ing out excellent -four.
Five precincts in Burnet
county gave majority of ia
in favor of local option.
The Harris county dele
CATION is said to stand, Throck-
morton, 5; Hancock, SO.
Honey Grove, Fannin
county, is about.to have a first
class merchant Touring mill.
The Chief notes the arrival
at Comanche of the first stage
of Fort Worth and Fort Yuma
line.
The Fort Worth Standard,
of the goth ult., reports very
heavy rains and great damage
to crops.
The San Antonio Exp,ess
regards the denomination of
Schleicher for congress as GER
tain
= Tom Spotswood, the Al
len train robber. gets ten years
in the penitentiary. He was
tried at Mckinney.
= Honey Grove, as its name
implies is a sweet place. The
hog law is inforced and some
people are unhappy.
= Ed. Eaton, for the killing
of Bob Holman, at Cameran, had
an examining trial and was COM
mitted without bail.
The Harris county con-
vention did not instruct for gov
crnor though it appears that
Hubbard has majority.
w. A. Fields, formerly of
the Comanche Chief, and S. P.
Ford will shortly begin the pub
LEGATION at Meridian of a news
paper.
Houston sends six con-
riots to the penitentiary as the
result of the last term of the
Criminal court. They were all
negroes.
= disciple of Joseph Smith
has opened Mormon church
in Atascosa county. He has
five adherents, three women and
two men.
= The Caldwell Eagle learns
that cotton worms have appear
ed on the farm of Maj. E. A.
Munfort, on Birch creek, Burle-
son county.
= DR.. Marlin, ofDallas, late
ly took a needle from Mrs
Peaks hip. She swallowed it
eight years ago. 1t was very
much corroded.
A man named Riddle en-
gagged in a battle with polecats,
naer Austin; he killed seven of
the scented "varmints" before
the fight closed.
"A son Of William White
head, of Victoria county, was,
last week, bitten by a polecat.
No serious consequences have
resulted from the bite.
= At San Antonio, Swede,
while laboring under the jim
jams, jumped from a bridge
twenty feet high and then crawl
ed into the river and drowned
himself.
The Galveston county con-
vention met on Monday and
elected delegates to the Austin
and Brenllam conventions. No
instructions were given.
j. w. Humason. of Houston,
went to Galveston on an excur
Darden, Dorm and Fisher
Congressman divided between
Schleicher and Ireland.
Walker county is anti
Hubbard, with very little choice
as to others. Instructions were
given for Sam Y. Smith for
treasurer, and resolutions en-
dorsing Mills adopted.
Geo Keller, accused of the
Marshall postoffice robbery, is
said to bo entirely innocent by
good citizens of Marshall.
Judge McAdoo, cx-postmaster
believes that Keller is innocent.
There was a heavy hail
storm in the vicinity of Harris
vile, Bell county, last week a
stone chimney was torn down
and two mules killed by light
ming. Some corn was blown
down.
- Caldwell Eagle, 18th ult:
1t rains about every other day in
in this vicinity. With an over
stock of cotton worms and sick
ness in every household, we
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