San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-02-01
TEXAS TOPICS.


ND about 800 tons OF leo. s.a
The Texas State Grange convened
in Sherman last Tuesday.
The crop Of wheat is much larger
in North Texas than last year, and was
greatly 'bcnefitted by the snowfall. "
The tide Of immigration from Ger
many TO Texas is heavier this year than
ever before. nHe " ~
Reports have been received at Fort
Worth Of great destruction among cat
tic and sheep, principally tho latter,
during the late severe cold weather.
The western siege driver, on arriv-
ing at Fort Worth on the 9th inst, was
too badly frozen to leave his seat, and
was assisted to descend. ....,.
Colonel w. d. s. Cook, for many
years editor OF the Enquirer, a Jealous
legislator and true soldier, died at Con
xales on December 20. % l'1f
Mrs. Mckinney, who was shot by
her husband at Sherman, is paralyzed
in her right leg, and her entire recovery
20 that she will be able to walk about is
somewhat doubtful.
Mr. N. Boxer, county attorney. of
Kimball t,unty, while descending a
ladder, fell and fractured his leg. Am
putation was necessary, from which
death resulted. ,.iR Leqa e.I erai
An eight-year-old son Of L. Mas
dick, named Fred, while playing with
sled on the banks Of the Trinity, at
Dallas, on the 9th, was precipitatedints
the river and drowned. lHttf
The weather in Texas, during last
week, was the coolest known for many
years. In many parts of North Texas
the thermometer was as low as four de-
grees below zero.
Many Texas towns, remote from
railroads, have put up supply OF ice
for ne,.i summers use, one firm at Hen
rietta having filed the ice house with
ice about five inches in thickness. 4,
Emigration to Texas by wagon has
almost entirely topped nee the recent
cold spell came on, and the suffering
among emigrants on the road has been
intense.
1T is asserted that not more than
one-thiid Of the convicts in the Texas
penitentiary have received the rudi-
ments Of an English education, and not
more, than half OF them know how to
write their names.
"A woman by the name Of Keller,
who claims to have been captive
among the Cheyennes for several years,
passed through Denison recently, EN-
route for her home in Kimble coun'y
She refused to communicate any facts
concerning her captivity. She was sur
rendered to the military authorities at
Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory.
"A cougar or Mexican lion was
killed ON Lampasas creek, Hamilton
county, recently, by NJ. W. r. j. New
ton, measuring eight feet ten inches
from the point of his nose to the tip of
his tail. His height was two feet eleven
inches. He had taken the head of a
good sized dog in his mouth, when New
ton shattered his spinal column with u
pistol ball ai,u saved his dog. s.g
"A man named Keith. who lives
few miles from Stephcnsville, became,
from some Cause, cnraged at his little
daughter, mere child, ten or twelve
years of age. He threw her on the
floor, whipped her cruelty for several
.,.,1 thny, 0,,hnn ota o1.
ministered parting kick in the stom-
ach. The child threw up her hands in
agony, gasped, and fell back on the floor
dead.
1t is reported that on the night of
the 9th inst. party of emigrants, in
GLIDING wife, husband and two children,
were frozen to death between Sherman
and Pilot Point. They were supposed
to be travelling towards Western Texas
from parts unknown. The name of the
family is supposed to be Clark. They
we're ia very destitute circumstances,
having not en blanket to shelter
them from the stormy weather.
AS an evidence of the great diver
sity OF climate in Texas, we have re-
ports during the past week of fine
spring-like weather in the southern
counties. where the wheat and oat crops
are growing finely. and vegetable gar
dens are being made, while from the ex-
treme northern part of the State We
hear Of the thermometer marking rs low
~ four degrees below zero. and the peo-
ole in many places putting up their
summers supply of ice.
Last season Galveston ranked fourth
in Importance rs an American cotton
market. New Orleans having received
for the season $50, 693 bales: Savannah,
4i4.73O: Charleston. 3l6,s 92 bales, and
Ealrosto,, M S77 bales This season