Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-10
TEXAS STATE NEWS.

1t is said that other professors in the
state university will resign ut the
close of the session.
The Sweetwater youngsters are bad
lot. Ata public meeting they threw
paper balls AT their teachers and others
In the audience, almost interrupting
the exercises, and afterwards stoned a
Chinalnau's house.
Fort Concho is twenty-six miles
nearer TO Sweetwnter than TO Abilene,
and yet the latter place gets all the
trade.
Web Flanagan, who is in Washing
ton, is said To be working To get Eos
tcr's vacant place for his brother, j.
W. Flanagan, who is now postmaster
at Longview. "What are we here for
but to get The offices?
Rev. w. ID. Powell, Baptist mission
airy to Mexico, is now soliciting con
tribu,ions for college at SaIlillo lie
raised 81, 200 at Luling and will make
a general tour of The state.
Col. G.. Wash Jones will probably
soon remove permanently TO his fam
in Lanipasas county.
There are fifty.iivc inmates in the
Beyar county poor house.
The colored people Of Brenham are
liberal patrons of the opera house, aud
they are orderly and wcll-behaved.
The dwelling house of J. T.. Hamll-
ton AT Navasota was destroyed by fire
tie other day.
Several of tie Brenham negroes who
went to Sugar Land, Fort Bend coun'
~. TO work on II sugar plantation. have
returned home. They didn't Ike the
work.
Several car loads Of cattle were
turned out of the pens at Sweetwater
for lack of transportation on Inc rail-
| road.
Mr.. J. Taylor Rradley's well in Tay-
( ,or comfy Is 81 feet deep and con-
| tains 260 feet of water.
/ There will be teachers convention
nj BRENNAN on 9th December.
The Nolan county school land, lo'
Gated in Preside county. Is Tor SAFE
The Gllmer cornet band has been re-
yiyed and promises TO become NOR.
1 interesting than ever. Ihey make
''melliuous music"
some Eastern Texas farmers are
making $500 per acre ifoai iheir NUN
crops of ribbon cane, which they man
ufacture into good syrup.
Colorado City is TO have n new eoour'
house. Lands have been Donated by
SENATOR Brown OF Georgia, the sale o
when will pay for the building, apc
The old court hou &c and lois VIII prop
ably bring 5000 more.
Ar Maddox has been sentenced Il
two wears in the penitcntlhry Tor ms
smIliing Ben Maddox at Van Alslyn'
in May last.
The celebrated hog case AT Honey
Grave has been Appealed 10 the county
cnur. The valne.of the swine IN DIS
nnte /. about twelve dollars, and th'
inets already reach 5000. The con
te.tants ARE a white man aud n darkey
The Guadaloupc Mission church q
pa.n del Norte II over 800 years ole
aud contains marriage, death ana DAP
,is,nai records dated 1909. OH patch
,nant hound in sheep. Inside are rel
les and rare paintings by Old masters
bot not chair, bench or pew.
Mr.. Joel d. Webb, near Hone,
. crave. has made fine samples OF sliga
nm sorghum and ribbon cane WIZ
his patent centrifugal sugar machine
Last week about 500 yards OF th
pasture fence OF Mr.. 10. Wallace sonlI
~ Delton. was cut ALI TO pieces ny uh
known parties. His pasture contain
some I'VE or six hundred acres
The Greenville Banner suggests tl W,
tho new court HOUSES now beng Dun
in 60 many counties be constructed =
answer also ~ opera houses, ana lease'
10 travelling companies. lecturers, exc
M pay interest on the bonds.