San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-05
TEXAS TOPICS.

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location of the railroad shops oil inc NJ
2. Railroad
-pIeosanton Chronic es: Mr., bosch,
&c San Antonio, and Mr. Crawford, OF
onr comfy. killed eighty-seven deer on
n recent hunt south OF here.
The Missouri Pacific is now com,
,,ated from st. Louis to Waco, ana
throngb trains are running, via Fort
Worth and Denison, to st. Louis.
The wheat crop in North Texas Is
looking unusually fine for this season ol
the wear, and as the acreage Is larger
than ever before, the yield next sum
mer promises to be immense.
Col. w. w. Lang has written let
TOR 1, friends in Waco to the effect that
two steamships will be placed on hne
of regular transit loaded with frelght
ond Immigrants direct from Liverpool
to Galveston.
-Brvan Pilot: Adam Royder, not
w;tbstanding the unusually severe
Srontb. made fully three-fourths OF a
hale Of cotton and forty bushels OF corn
tn the acre on his upland farm near
Wellborn.
Wagner sleeping cars will soon re-
r,oca the Pullman palaces on all the
EEonld lines in Texas. One OF the new
cara now building will be named 1or
Waco Others will bear the name OF
Dallas. Fort Worth, Austin, San Anto-
MO, etc.
Washington kilograms announce
tho fact that the first shipment OF Ger
man carp for Texas was forwarded from
Woshineton last Monday. The dlstrl-
lnt;on will be made from Dallas and TO
sncb only as have suitable water reser-
voirs to successfully care for and raise
them.
Victoria Aduocate: Mr.. J. nj.
Mathis. through Mr.. James M. Cram
made his last shipment of cattle TO the
mort Of Havana on Monday last, the
largo consisting of AL head OF cattle.
Mr. Mathis, we are informed, was com
1,elIed TO discontinue his Havana trade
IN account of the high price at which
cattle are held. He will, however, coh'
tinue to ship to New Orleans.
The census office has issued its first
bulletin on the subject OF forestry. IL
is mostly devoted to Texas. ltlnciuaes
an illuminated map showing the c, alstrl-
button of the pine forests OF Texas
with special reference to the lunoer
industry. Different colors on the map
show where the different kinds OF pine
GROW. During the year ending May
last there were cut in Texas 27O, 444, OO0
feet of lumber, board measure.
The Penitentiary Board have had
under consideration the report of Col
onel Kelley, of the Kelleyville Iron
Works, who had been employed to ex-
anime the iron deposits around husk,
where the East Texas Penitentiary is
situated. Colonel Kelley reports that
there is iron ore in the immediate VI
cinity sufficient to run $25 900 furnace
for hundred yeals. ina poard at
once determined to establish smelling
works at that point. The Narrow Gauge
Railroad has been graded to kusk, ana
will be cmpleted and in running order
Ms soon as the State is ready to operate
the iron works. A furnace OF the ca
pacity of fifteen tons every twenty
hours will be constructed.
The Flatonia argus gives an &C
count of the accidental killing of Mr..
William Braddock's little son, aged
about two years. 1t seems that crook
ed tree standing in front of his resi-
dence had been cut down and left lying
rs it fell, with the crook uppermost.
His children were in the habit of get
ting upon its branches and riding,
as they termed it. On the day of the
accident they were all riding except
the little unfortunate, who was standing
on the ground near the trunk OF the
tree, when the latter turned over and
fell upon him, crushing him to death.
His mother ran to him Immediately
and reached him in time to see HIM
gasp his last breath.
Seymour CreSSet: Another mishap
has befallen the copper mines III Knox
county. Last week while making the
first lIIn the check valve to the boiler
became manageable and permitted
the water from the boiler to escape. In
permitting the fire to cool down SO that
the valve could be put in order and the
boiler he replenished with water, the
molten ore in the furnace cooled and
hardened, and those III charge not
knowing any other way ont oi the Ill
Iemmn decided the furnace had 10 be
taken down to displace the hardened
metal. Before the furnace can Ice re
bull ire-rroaf cisy has t. be procured
from Weath-rierl OF some other point.
Mr.. 4. {. Ir.lrtt thinks they VIII be-
ready O. make another run In two
weeks.