San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-31
TEXAS TOPICS.

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politan airs by illuminating with tne
electric light.
The number of sheep in Coleman
County aggregates $4,000, valued at
174,630 dollars.
Two Texas brothers, eight{feettall'
have applied for positions on the New
York police force.
The cash balance in the State
Treasury has, according to late reports
reached the handsome sum OF $l,5OO,-
OOa
The experimental farm of the Tex
az Pacific Railroad Company, near
Baird, seems to be doing very well. The
wheat, corn, oats rye, barley etc., have
thriven and done well.
The Texas Wool Journal says
that Throckmorton county has 1887
sheen. The amount of land owned for
grazing purposes is 1886 acres. Some
of the sheep owners own no land.
The following are the Democratic
Chairmen in their respective districts:
First district, E. P. Hill, of Houston;
second district, John Brooks, OF San
Augustine; third district,ssJ. H. Turner
of Marshall; fourth district, r. M. Hen
derson. T,of Sulphur Springs; fifth dis
trict J. w. Booth, of Decatur; sixth
district, NJ. A. Otis, of Cleburne; sew
enth district, g. @. Sweeney, of Calves
ton; eighth district, A. FL. Phelps, OF
Lagrange; ninth district, l.. @. Alex
ander, of Waco; tenth district, Gen. N
G. Shelly of Austin; eleventh district.
G. K. Bell, of Hamilton.
1T was the intention of the Matches,
Red River and Texas Railroad Compa.
ny to have begun on Monday, August
14th actively the work of grading, track
laying, ETC., on their road, but the re-
cent strike of all the hands except Mr..
M. J. Greanys may interfere somewhat
with their plans. The strike cannot
entirely stop work, as by Monday the
company will have big force of con-
victs that they will put to work and the
construction of the railroad will be
pushed vigorously forward to Trinity,in
time to handle this years cotton crop.
Gliding Plaindealer: The three
ent law passed by our last Legislature
has brought great revolution in the
kind of cash used for change. The
South has never before been Yankeeized
with pennies copper cents, but now
that the railroad companies are subject
to fines for taking more than the regu-
lar fare, they have brought into the
State to use in making change when
fare is paid, large amount Of pennies,
and this introduction will soon place
the pennies in common use, and when
hereafter, We want but one peach, we
will not be obliged to take five; and
when the urchin wants to go fishing he
will not be compelled to tie five fish
hooks on his line when he wants but
one.
The Texas g. st. Louis Narrow
Guage railroad, which is being built
through Arkansas and Northern Texas,
is making rapid strides toward compile
ton. 1t is now completed forty miles
beyond Waco, Texas, on its way to the
Rio Grande, and northwardly track
laying has reached the Red river, TWEEN
ty-fve miles from Texarkana. By
September LIST the road will be in OPP
Grafton from Pine Bluff to Camden,
Arkansas. and from Clarendon, on the
White river, to a point which will cross
the Memphis & Little Rock. 1t will
also be finished by the same date from
Birds Point, Missouri, opposite Cairo,
to Jonesboro, Arkansas, a distance of
125 miles, making a total of 572 miles.
Track-laying on the other part of the
line is progressing at the rate of fifty
to sixty miles per month. The entire
road across Arkansas will be completed
by October 18th. Contracts are LET for
nine hundred frtight-cars, fifty cabOos-
&c, fifty stOck-cars and fifty locomo-
tives, in addition to those already in .
use, which will give the road when .
complete an equipment Of sixteen hun
dred freight-cArs and seventy locono-
lives The Pullmans are building the