San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-03-03
TEXAS CLIPPINGS.


TEXAS CLIPPINGS.
There 10 10 be q daily mail between
San Antonio and Laredo.
Brennan il to have an extensive plan
ing mill. On.
There is q 6us opening for ship
yard 10 Orange. TeTas. -.
Tslmsse promises to coms 70 Texas
this summer.
Tho Sunset Il. r. has 1000 men at
work on ito extension.
A new newspaper, the Texas Pro-
orc., j. 10 b. started at Fort Worth
There 10 only one saloon 10 the town
Of Comanohe. .i..... w
Gonzales county has balance in her
treasury Of $8.l57.l3.
The taxable wealth Of Washington
county il $6,OOO,OOO.
The total number OF children attend
ing public school ut Houston is LILY :
Salt in abundance is being manuiac'
tured 10 Shsckleiord county.
There Is profitable opening near the
city Of Waco for pottery.
The Deuisou cotton compress, the
mast season, handled 5000 GALES.
Georgetown hes shipped 5000 bales
Of cotton this season.
Property owners at Sabine Pass are
growing suddenly rich.
The tsxsble property Of Houston M Is
.l6.OOO,OO0. on which il owes $2,UOO'0Vo.
Small grain 10 looking we'll through
the state.
Fir trees flourish ~ Hays county and
yiald abundantIy whan well cared tor
A company Of Michigan capitalists
have Become the owners OF over ZD,Oh'
acres OF pine lands in Hardin county
j. r. Seates. the collector of Fnyettee
county. Is q defaulter to the amount OF
$4,000.
The market gardens near Austin are
in fine condition and vegetables will o.
soon on the market.
Mrs. Bedwell, while slonc at home
At Llsno. was burned SO that she died
within few hours. III
Rumor s,ys n Houston firm will in
vert $200, 900 in cotton oil seed factory
At Waco.
A vineyard 10 Live Oak county is
said TO have produced in 1880 three
crops OF grapes.
Many farmers Of Washington county
are speak king OF planting tobacco exten
sively this yenr.
The Texas Press association il com
posed Of 12Oeditors. all smart aud hand
sumo. (2)
A Bell county hen. last yenr.produced
jo5 eRas and Matched and raised hive
broods of chickens
Probably sl5O,OOO will be npproprl,
A,ed by congress Tor Sabine Pass, and
$1,000 at the mouth OF the Brazos.
There are 6 O0O, 900 acres OF surnr lane
IN Texas, capable Of producing BIT ,0o0,
600 gallons of syrup
The Masonic temple at Palestine ha'
heen sold 10 A. }. Walker. OF Calves
ton. TOR *9,5OO. r......
The Mexican National r. X. COmpa
nv have purchased the Corpus Chlisi
aud Laredo X. X. and will extend it Il
Rockport,
Feb. q John Passmore, four miles
from Volts Crossing. LlanO county
was shot and killed at his home b!
30 sssassin,
Mr.. Shanghai" Pierre, u cattle
prince of jackson county. recently sol,
1000 head Of cattle Tor Al2Wo cnsl
and has 10000 head OF cattle lett
Gov. Roberts has been requested t.
furnish a stone from Texa- for tn
Washington monument, and will shorf'
ship one.
Within the pat three months not les
than $500 German immirrarts hnv
sailed from Europe Tor Texa-, dir Ct
landing at Galveston.
Robt. Emmett Walsh. six years OF age
WA recently shipped bv express through
from Memphis to Luling" right side u
with care"
There is movement on hand {
establish q cotton cloth factory at Hous
tou, About $50 0d0 are required beinr
work il begun one-half the sun ha
been raised.
Feb. 81, James Murphy. a carpen'e
San Antonio. attempted to kill him
.elf with l. revolver, but missed hi
heart about nue iuch. lie was alive a
ls,t accounts.
san Msrcns IL the most hesntiiul an
heslthiul plsre in Teras and surround
ed by fertile frmiug land. II has on
Il the most moral. leg abiding commu
mites 10 the southwest.
10 the last too years 2e Texas pen
ueuiisry conyicts diea OF di-.a- sn'
thirty Eve were -hOt sud killed Will
attempting 10 escape. Daring the - IN
p-risd Gov R-e-ri- 70 -sed sse hundre
p,rdou-. OF abaui "be IN every seyeniee
rseeived since ls1s.
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