San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-07-06

e. A, Hittson, Of Taylor county
sbeared l,450 head Of sheep recently
that averaged 14iib each. One OF hi'
rams sheared 37ib, and one eve l9tib
He sold the entire clip for "a cents per
pound. ."..
Wheat is yielding 40 bushels to the
acre in Taylor and contiguous counties
II is said that the prairie dogs are be-
coming so destructive to corn and oats
in that section that great aprrehensions
are entertained as to the result OF their
depredations.
Sherman Courier: Mr.. j. W..
Garner, living five and half miles
from Sherman, on the Pilot Point road'
sold Tuesday to Mr.. Y. A. Morrow, a
pair of six year old Terss raised mules
for $445. How does that show Texas
es a mule producing country?
The sale of the first shipment OF
1900 bushels of Texas wheat, at auction
on the Produce Exchange in New YORK
on the 18th at $1.50 per bushel, Will
doubtless stimulate planters another
season to brisk and generous rivalry Tor
the first shipment -AIGatoeSto" Ne'0''
. The men at work on the Texas ana
Pacific gravel pit, near Eagle foro'
Dallas county, came across three skete'
tons recently at a distance OF fourteen
feet below the surface. Long HAIR was
fonnd near one of the skeletons, which
would indicate that it was a woman s.
The other two skeletons were evidently
those of Indians.
The proprietor of Paris, Texas,
Touring mill has peid out for freight on
wheat from California. since the first
of January, over fd2 1000, and firm OF
grocers of that city have shipped IN ana
sold $4,000 worth of Kansas corn since
last winter. The present prospects are
that the balance will be on the Other
side of the books by this time neHt
year.
The Texas stcte teachers assocla-
ton will meet in Tyler, Texas, on the
9th inst, and matters of great import
ance will be brought before them, and
every teacher in the state is urged to
attend. The railroads have consented
to furnish transportation at one and
one-fifth care. Free homes to every
delegate.
-Paramore's Great Texas Narrow
Gauge has progressed so rapidly that
the LIST of July viii see construction
trains running into Birds Point, oppo-
site Cairo, Illinois. and by October lst
over 700 miles of road will be IN tul
oneration. Fourteen locomotives and
800 new cars are in rapid course OF
construction, and Will arrive as fast as
needed. Incline arrangements tor
transfer across the Mississippi at Cairo
are being pushed rapidly forward.
The Laredo of to-day, or rather
The Two Laredos of to-day, are perhaps
the most prosperous cities III Texas ;
and with the machine shops OF the In
sernational railroad located there, as has
been finally decided, with ample water
power for all the machinery which can
ever be required, with coal lying almost
under their feet, and other mineral re-
sourses all about us, they bid fair to
rival any and all our olden cities IN
point of population and substantial
prosperity.
Corpus Christi Free Press: Mon
day evening, as Ed. Walls, Jailor, at
San Diego, opened the cell door and
went in 10 hand in supper to his prison
ers, they rushed upon him, threw him.
down and took his pistol away. The,
cook. who was in the yard at the time
gave the alarm, and Messrs. I. Lam
bertson. L. c. Graves and j. d..
Latta. who were in the courthouse near
by, rushed to the Jail. By this time
the prisoners had secured another pistol,
and when the party from the court
house entered the Jail one of the jail
birds showed fight. and fired one shot
at LambertSon, which took effect in
the hand and shoulders. The other pris-
oner who hada pistol, seeing their game
was blocked, rushed back to his cell
and the prisoner was seized before he