San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-09-29
TEXAS TOPICS.

-Texarkana will have street cart
soon.
The Brazos river is lower than II
has been for years.
Good rains ore reported in north
ern and western Texas.
The Colorado river at Austin is
now as low as it ever gets.
Work upon the coal mines in
Stephens county progresses satisfactor'
lily.
For the year ending September lst,
the receipts Of cotton at Jefferson were
1894 bales.
There is some excitement in Mon
tague county over the discovery OF cop.
per and silver mines.
The Rio Grande has been on boom
recently, and caused some damage by
overAowing near Ell Paso.
The amount of wool shipped from
Corpus Christi for the year ending
July 81, is 100000 pounds.
The Agricultural Department esti-
mates that four per cent. OF the acreage
Of Texas can produce enough cotton to
supply the whole world.
Texas sells annually four hundred
thousand head OF cattle. At 800 head
it foots up grand aggregate of$S, OOO,-
600. According to the census returns
Texas, in 1878, cultivated 2, 173, 1872 acres
Of cotton producing SO2, 643 bales, worth
$4O,OOO.0OO.
There is said to be more money in
and around Laredo than in any town in
the state. II has population Of about
5000 about five or six hundred of whom
are Americans and foreigners-the re-
mainder are of Spanish or Spanish-In
dian descent. All shades Of admixture
of Spanish and Indian blood are notice.
able.
Montague. Northeast: Work in
the mines has been suspended for
short time on account Of the extremely
hot weather. First-class ore from Sill
YER bluff assays $500 to the ton of cop.
per and silver, and the vein grows larger
Is they follow into the bluff. They
have now struck brown oxide. The
owner will commence shipping next
month.
An Austin correspondent says the
oomptroller's accounts show in round
numbers the following revenue for the
year ending September /: By tax rolls
81, 725, 900; by liquor licences $685..
eco; revenue polls, $156, 900; special
licenses, $175, 900; other occupation and
special taxes, $285, 900: total 81, 525, 900.
The change Of the retail liquor license
tax from the bell punch has diminished
receipts from that source.
San Antonio is to have one of the
grandest hotels in the United States.
Col. Ed. Wilkes has the matter in hand,
and Jay Gould and @. p. Huntington
are down for $4,000 each-to be in
creased to 100000 each if necessary.
Il will be known ESQ it is now thought
as The Great Southern Hotel, and will
be the halfway house between the City
Of Mexico and New York, as well as
between San Francisco and New York.
All the money necessary to build
mammoth structure can be had at once.
H. P. Chapman, grader having a |
contract on the international railroad
west of San Antonio, was shot and kill
ed for his money few days ago. He
was shot from behind, the ball passing
through his head, and at the time he
was killed he was evidently drinking
from bottle of water be had with
him, as the bottle was shattered and
one of his teeth found in the bottle.
The place at which he was killed was
near the end of the track, 101 miles
west of San Antonio. There is no posi-
tive clue to the perpetrators of the
deed, but some parties are suspected.
He was stripped by his murderer aud
his clothes carried some little distance
where they were riAed.
Hamilton Herald: An alligator
was captured on the Upper Cowhouse:
near Inpian Gap, on the Price farm,
Last Thursday, by Charley Collect, d.
T. Phillips and DIR. Richardson. His
length is few inches less than eleve n
feet, and his weight estimated at up
ward of 300 pounds. This monster had
been depredating upon the live stock
Of the neighborhood for number of
years, and many an unfortunate porker,
while innocently roofing round the
waters edge for grubs, had been knock
ed by that formidable tail into the cal
niverous jaws. His haunts were for
tunately discovered by tracking him
from the water to hole in the bank,
where he had secreted himself. The
entrance was stopped and hole dug
in from above. A chain with a moose
was let down, which he grabbed, and
prestol they had him.
Fort Worth Democrat: The drouth
has Affected crops IN n oraafar nv laou