San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
TEXAS TOPICS.

-DuNM County pays sNo' va <N'
horses and mules, 1l,l47 cattle, III
jacks, 25l,l5 sheep, s9,4O6 goats, ant
$40 hogs.
1T appears that San Antonio lead
all the other cities in the State on the
public school question. She has 4,OO(
pupils, and the county, G, 1871 the largest
In the State.
The New Orleans Pacific road has
been completed from Texas to New Or
leans, and regular trains began running
over the road on September 18th.
The Texas g. st. Louis Railway
Company contemplates during the next
six months building branches from Mt.
Pleasant, in Texas, to Dallas and Fort
Worth, and has already forty miles
graded.
"A dispatch from Laredo, Texas,
says that the additional rise Of water in
the Rio Grande has carried away what
remained of the International & Great
Northern and the Mexican National
railroads which spanned the river there.
-Statistics of the Dallas, Texas,
post office show that the city is growing
rapidly in population. The average
number of letters and other packages
mailed per day is $4,000. The sale OF
stamps averages between 500 and 5000
per day.
In an interview with st. Louis
newspaper man day or two ago, Pres
ident Paramore, of the Texas q St.
Louis narrow gauge, took occasion to
state that his road contemplates moving
the entire cotton crop of the new coun-
try it penetrates to st. Louis, and has
an eye on the grain crop next season.
During the first week of September
heavy rains prevailed all over Taxas,
doing great damage to the growing cot.
ton crop. In the northern half OF the
State, the crop is from two to four
weeks late, and an early frost, which is
now feared, will do still further injury
to the great staple.
-Rockport Transcript: The report
OF our citizens bring up from Arkansas
Pass is very Aattering. He tells us
that the works are holding well that the
channel is cutting splendidly, and that
nothing could be better. He, however,
says that by all means the end of the
work SHOULD receive the attention of
Colonel Mansfield at once, as it is in
such a condition as to be at any time
very much damaged by strong winds
and heavy weather.
Henrietta Shield: Last Tuesday
night Jim Sanders, or Mexican Jim, as
he is generally called, was shot through
both legs, and his horse shot from I'M
der him. He had Winchester, and
Yves shooting around the dance-house
in somewhat promiscuous manner
Cooper Wright, deputy marshal, ordered
him to desist. He refused to stop
shooting, and turned loose in the direc-
ton of the deputy marshal, whereupon
the said deputy shot the horse and put
one ball through both of Sanders legs.
Texas has long boosted of its
school system, and Commi Ssioner
Eaton presents some facts to show that
L has done so Justly. In the matter of
both of white and colored
children, the State is far ahead of any
,ther in the South. What is more sig
lifcant, yet almost as great percentage
If blacks as of whites is provided with
chool facilities. In Arkansas, Florida
nd North Carolina larger proportion
# colored than of white children is in
he school. In each case the percentage
S small. In Texas 81 per cent. of the
' hite children and " per cent. of the I
olored children of school age are on q
he lists; in Delaware, so and 20 per {
ent. respectively; in South Carolina, 5
3 and 80 per cent; in West Virginia, |
s and 50 per cent; in Missouri 81 and t
3 per cent. Even South Carolina, it
ill be observed, has a greater pro-
ortion of its white boys and girls in S
chool than poor old Missouri" and {
early as great proportion of its col C
red children.-St. Louis Globe Dem. S
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