San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
TEXAS tories.

An enterprising Dallas firm is ship
ming eggs to Chicago and making Il
handsome profit.
More corn and cotton will he plant
ed west of the Brazos this year. than
ever before in the history of the State.
The stock raiscrs association OF
northwest Texas will be held in Henri
eta, Clay county, on the 10th OF next
March.
With one mule and COW, Mr.. jim
Ncwsome. of Qnitman, Wood county,
made % bales Of cotton, 800 bushels OF
corn and five barrels Of syrup
Probably the largest pigeon roost
in the world is in Grayson county. 1t Is
said to be eighteen miles wide and forty
miles long, and contains millions OF
birds.
Mr.. ID. FAINT, of Goliad county, in
tends to send three droves of cattle up
north this spring. He reports grass
aud water as being very plentiful in ms
county.
Those Texas farmers who burned
their straw piles last sumner after they
finished thrcshing, are now bringing
their COW hides into market by the wag
on load.
Another profitable industlyis beine
developed in Texas, in the cultivation
OF upland rice, which produces immens"
crops on poor land with the same cult
walton that is given wheat.
A body of armed men made a raid
on the Young county jai! ono might ltsl
week, and attempted to liberute tin"
prisoners. They were driven oil by thu
Sheriff with loss OF one man killed.
Texas will contribute one-fiith OF
the cotton crop this year. 1t is II state
that minds its own business, and yields
implicit obedience to the divine com
mand of multiply and prosper.-Mobi'e
ReJister.
The Telegram thinks that if Texas
were dramatically sealed for quarter
OF a century, at the end of that time
large and ilourishing manufactures
palatill residences, and immense UNFOLD
wealth would be the result.
OF all people who would derive
benefit from nm efficient system of pub
lie free schools, newspaper men would
be the most benefited. What they
want is readers for their journals, and
they can never be obtained from among
the ignorant and tupid.-GroeSJech
NcT Erd
49, Good land can be bought at very
reasonable figures in Comanchc coun-
ty At present prices run about as fol-
lows unimproved, 81 to $500 per acre,
while improved lands are II little more,
with cost of improvements added. Pub,
lie school and asylum lands. oTthe very
best quality, can be purchased from the
State ut 81 80 and 81 per acre, with ten
years t. pay for the same, ono-tenth
paid annually, and ten per cent. interest
on all amounts due. These lands Offer
strong inducements to the poor man to
procure Il comfortable home on reason
able terms. and are rapidly being taken
up.
On Tuesday OF last week Il negro by
the name of Rufus Irving, living near
Huntsville, in fit Of jealousy. shot his
wife and then fled. Officers bad been
in pursuit. but were unable TO find him.
On Thursday he returned to his house.
and finding his wife still living, shot her
again, and drew a razor across her
throat, nearly severing the head from
the body. Ee then drew the razor
across his own throat and fell beside
her. Not meeting death, he cndeavor-
cd to get up, when boy, aged ten years
brother Of the wife, came into the room,
aud picking up n shotgun, literally blew
the mans head of.
On Sunday night of last week while
church was going on, and the family OF
Il. ". Hines, Esq, We're enjoying the
happy family circle around the fireplace,
At about O'Clock, some unknown per-
son fired a shot through the window ut
Mr. ]. l.. Parker, who ut tn" instant had
arose from his seat 10 bid the family
gcJd night, who were all present, nciu-
diu5 Mr. and Mrs Rimes and the chill
drru. The bullet missed Mr.. Parker.
but came SO near rs to Craze his coat
sleeve near the shoulder, and lodged in
tha ceiling. During the night dogs
were procured. and an attempt made To
track the uld-bc-usslssin, bat without
success He escaped unseen. Martin
T1H
An bulhuous roots flourish in this
section 81 Texas during the winter. and
W bnl notably n this time a demand
for Icet5 from s.. Louis. This vegctI-
lie = most easily grown. and - an IL
Instratiun oi it, production, the fact i
stated that barrels containing from l25
a. $50 beets To- the barrel realized in St
I.sais last season 81 per barrel net,
While al average crop is loo barrels 10