The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-08-06
From T exas.

waco Texas, July 27.-Rains have beer
= very partial throughout the entire state. Corn
} IN many localities will not make the seed used
J in planting II, and Is being Gu, into shocks fol
fodder. 1t will prove a great barrier to lmmi
grafton, ~ was the case two years ago, when
all of our corn had to he shipped from Kan
sas. Every north bound train was then filled
with passengers Disguised with Texas; and
ere another season grows old the same scene
will be re-enacted.
Location of the Great State University,
which | have alluded to before, has settled
down between two candidates-Waco and
Austin. And close race 1t will be, as each
one has, or rather seems to have, decided adj.
vantage over the other. Prominent citizens
of our city are spending considerable money
IN the campaign. September will soon decide
the race. when somebody will have spent IN
vain for the great institution.
The completion of the Texan Pacific Rail.
way has reached a distance of 372 miles west
of Dallas and climbed to height Of 5000 feet
above the sea level. THIS takes them near TO
the border of Mexico and into the staked
plans of Texas.
Goulds great system of railroads is being
pushed steadily onward, as if anxious to be
first In tapping the great mineral and tropical
wealth of Mexico. This seems to be an era In
railroad construction unprecedented in this or
any other state. Scarcely week passes with.
out some new projected line or the resurrec.
ton of some dormant one, or perchance big
syndicate is formed
Convcnng of the Baptist General Associa-
ton has Just closed ITS labors within our little
city. Some three or four hundred ministers
were present which is said to have been the
largest attendance of delegates in the history
OF the lnstltuiioa,
News from Fl paso states that a south
bound stage from that place was robbed by a
party of Indians Several passengers were
killed.
The shooting Of President Garfield filled the
people of Texas with general regret and sym.
patty; and while she cast her last electoral
vote solid for Hancock, she looks forward
with the same eager anxiety to the unfortunate
Executives recovery as if she were the man
Of her choice
The refusal Of Gov Roberts to appoint a
special day Of Thanksgiving for the recovery
of the president may be harped about from
one end of the north to the other, as a great
bugbear, and even in the hands of such men
as Conkling and others Of the stalwart blood
be used a. a lever in the next campaign, but it
will not shake Texas in the least in he. fldelI.
Ity to Garfed's policy, tor one united pray er
goes up from minister and layman for the
presidents recovery.
The commissioners on the state capitol
building which is soon to be erected, have
requested each county within the state to furn.
ish stone with its name and date thereon, to
be laid in the wall Some of our eastern
counties will doubtless have to call on her
western sisters for a suitable stone
The first bale Of new cotton was sold in
Houston on the llth, and brought S425. 1t
was grown in Southern Texas
Laying the corner stone of the African
Methodist College, which took place in East
Waco the other day, was quite jubilee
among the negroes. The buildings are to cost
"a ,000 and the schools to be controlled by q
colored faculty, under direction of the African
N. Church Such an institution speaks well
for the negro population OF our country, and
will doubtless do great good in moraliAing
and fitting the colorcd youth for citizenship.
LITTLE TEXAN.