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STATE NEWS.

Dallas is described by a
local paper as being a gulf of
mud.
The mayor of Longview
has ordered all citizens to be
vaccinated
Huntsville is becoming a
city OF sufficient size to estab-
lish fire limits.
Rain, sleet and cold wealth
er was epidemic in north Tex
as on Monday.
! District Court now in ses-
sion at Bellville is disposing of
business very rapidly.
"A farmer in Limeston coun-
ty lately killed a hog that
weighed 7I3 pounds net.
Five thousand German carp
have been distributed in the
neighborhood of Corsicana.
1t is thought that the oil
mill at Columbus will be run
ming by the Ist of next month.
! AT Ell Paso a few days ago
one Chinaman had another al
rested for stealing $40 fro
him.
Houston must be very dull
in a local way judging from the
local columns of the Post and
the Age.
-Galveston's fire department.
is very deficient and now thu
cryis raised for more steam f,
engines.
Several citizens of Ca
well have taken the FL Paso
yer and talk of selling out an
going there.
-Greenville Independent,
Banner The old alcalde to
Wash Jones: Boo! Who's I
afraid of your
-Greenville appears to be
having a big boom. Property
is advancing and improvements
are being made.
Farmers in Bastrop county
are preparing to plant large |
quantities of oats as soon as the |
weather will permit.
Heavy rains have played |
havoc with a number of bridges |
on the St. Louis and Texas
Narrow gauge railway.
The recent rains have |
caused Buffalo bayou at Hous- |
ton to rise about ten feet above |
its ordinary stage Of water.
Houston now has no steam |
fire engines, depending entirely |
upon the efficiency of her sys-
TEN OF water works in case of
fire.
AN imposter is in San An
tonic, who claims to be a worn
out minister; his business is |
selling poem printed on a slip |
of paper.
Every Texas paper now |
has few remarks on bad roads
and the fearfully muddy condi-
ton of the streets in the cities
and towns.
AT Austin the small pox |
patients are exposed in tents
and if they escape death from
the present freeze they will be
fortunate.
Sack Brewer, charged with
horse stealing, plead guilty in
the district court at Bellville
and was given ten years in the
penitentiary.
Farmers in Lamar county
who have lands to rent say that
never before has there been so
many tenants who want every
thing furnished.
Several saloon keepers OF
Rockdale have been indicted
for selling liquor to minors.
This law is a good one and |
should be enforced.
The financial affairs of Col
orado county seem to be in a
flourishing condition. She has
a cash balance of S7,SSo.5S in
the hands of her treasurer.
According to the Rockdale
Messenger five bright-eyed
babies we're born in that town
within three days and nights.
No immigration society is need
ed there.
William Bubo, who MUIR
dered a man in San Saba coun-
ty nine years ago has been ar
rested IN Walker county and
will be taken back to San
saba for trial.
Bill Robertson, shot and
killed Frank Hightower on a
plantation near Hearne, last ;
Friday night. Both were col
pred and a woman was the
cause of the tragedy.
Two horse thieves calling
themselves John Lee and Chas.
A. Haypie, were shot and
near Crockett last !
week; they were then arrested
Ind jailed. Lee is supposed to :.
De MORALLY wounded.
-Grigsby, one of the parties t
implicated in the robbery OF
he United States mail near I
-ampasas, last September, has I
,een tried, convicted and SEN 6
enced to go years imprison- :
nent in the Federal court at r
Austin. q
"A row of frame buildings a
we're destroyed by fire at Ter t
ell, last Sunday night, The 6