The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-19
TEXAS.

saveral horses have been killed In Franklin
county by buffalo gnats lately,
ON the fifteenth instant the Southern Pacific
Railway began tho survey OF road from
San Antonio 10 I'll Paso.
A tlspatch from Dallas says; Grasshoppers
have made their appearance In the county In
The sandy districts. They are doing no dam
age, and none Ia apprehended.
A little negro child died of hydrophobia at
Burton last Sunday. She was bitten by dog
some five or six weeks ago. tirst symptoms
al the disease were noticed last Saturday,
The Goode farm, In Bell county, contains
saOO acres, 1900 In cultivation, and between
thirty and forty tenant houses. 1t belongs to
MIR. H. N. Goode. who settled there without
capital some twenty-five years ago,
The number of drinks registered Ia Dallas
during the last month are: Alcoholic 1904,
and malt 30Sl2 The revenue accruing from
the former is Sa6l as. and from the latter
sSf5A Oe, making a total Of Sa15 a. Some
% siealera have registered more and others less
than during the previous months, but alto
rether there were iess drinks Registered than
during any month since the law went into
force, ....
The bones of mastodon were exhumed at
Dallas recently. In the resident portion OF the
city, while digging "a well. The outlet is Two
feet; across the shoulder through the chest
the bones measure seven feet; the head and
neck were destroyed by the workinen. but the
balance of the frame SO far "a unearthed Is
In a good state OF preservation. The back
bone Ia six inches across. and the Joints OF the
vertebra are larger than mans fist.
The customs district of Brazos de Santiago,
IN which all the business Is done through the
city OF Brownsville, Is one through which a
large amount OF goods passes yearly, and
stands second to Galveston only In some par
ticulars as port of entry and export for
foreign goods. In the matter OF direct foreign
imports Brownsville stands first among the
Texan ports. In the matter OF goods that DO
not pass through the custom house use the llg Z,
Brownsville amounts to something like
$4,000 900 per annum.
The Dallas Herald of Wednesday says
Gen. Cabeil. vice president OF the Texas
Trunk Railroad Company, left last night for
Kaufman, and will to-day start the engineers
out on the line between that point and Jack
snnyille. Over 200 men are now employed on
the grading of the road between this city and
kaufman, and by Saturday night will have
seven miles OF grade ready for the ties and
iron, The ties will be gotten from the timber
In the vicinity of Dallas. and the iron for the
line can be secured az soon as aesl l,e TRICK
LAYING will begin within q few weeks.
Al the meeting of the Kinney County Wool
Growers Association at Bracket, April 10, 1t
was resolved that. should 1t be necessary to
urusecute any person having scaopy sheen
moving In or through the county, the associa-
ton will bear the expense OF such prosecu-
ton, and the arst case that comes In will be
made test case. That all sheep having or
showing any indications OF scab In this county
shall be thoroughly dipped before the first OF
July next. Any parties neglecting to dip
such diseased sheep shall be prosecuted; and
that the secretary be Instructed to notify any
and all parties he may learn OF, that contenl-
Mate moving or passing through this county
with seabby sheep thai they Will be prose-
cuted.