San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-11-22
State News.

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telephone connection with Cotulla
Orange County is to have n new
court house.
Eggs are selling at II cents n doz
en- in Cameron.
The Mother Hubbard has moi
struck Ladonia yet.
Spanish is taught in the San An
tonic free schools.
Milan County has issued 173 mar
riage licenses this year.
A clairvoyant stopping at Sherman
is well patronized.
The farmers at Salado are jubilant
over the top crop of cotton.
Twenty-Five paupers in Limestone
County. Each draws SIS a month.
A col colored child was burned to
death twelve miles from Pales tine, re
Gently,
The first Bohemian came to Texas
in 1854. There are now $4,000 in
the State.
The roads having become more
passable about Dallas, cotton is COM
ing in lively.
Eight fence cutters were recently
arrested at Greenville and placed I'M
der $3.50 bond.
A 13-year-old girl at Brennan, fell
out of pecan tree, broke her wrist,
and died of lockjaw.
The artesian Water Company at
Colorado, will commence sinking
their wells in few days.
The store and stock of goods of j.
w. Boutner, on Heard's Prairie,
worth $4,000, was destroyed by fire,
recently.
Frank Stillworth Jr. at Marlin. re-
cecently killed monster pelican,
measuring eight feet from tip to tip
of it's wings.
Five rice crops were made about
Magnolia Springs by several farmers
who had arrangements made for irri-
cation.
Wnterworks are being erected at
Denison and Corsicana. Cleburne,
Paris and Georgetown are also to
have waterworks soon.
Mr.. George Sinclair, of Richland
Springs, while Mt work in his SAW mill,
fell, the Saw striking him, splitting
his spine, and severing the ribs.
The bi-centenary of the settlement
of Texas, occurs, according to the
Waco Examiner, in 1885. The earli-
est record in Chambers Encyclopedia
is in 1857.
Jim Davidson, (colored), at Terrell
whose son had his arm badly mangled
in the Inter OF the oil mill, recently,
has brought suit against the company
for $4,000 damages.
Two little boys were playing in
cotton pen, in Montague County, and
one, the son of the County Tax Col
lector, was found shortly after, cover
ed up with cotton, quite dead. 1t is
thought he was smothered.
The Blanco Star-Vindicator. sadly
remarks that it misses the master
hand that is wont to indite the edi-
torials. The editor was sick.
George Reeves shot himself through
the head near Gainesville the other
day. He had deserted his wife, and
had been drinking hard of late.
Cattle are coming into Denison in
large numbers for shipment north,
five or six long trains loaded with the
Texas staple, leave every day from
the Union Depot
The human remains lately found
concealed in brush pile in Hearne.
neara house Of had rcpute, are sup-
posed 10 be thUse Of an actor named
Brown Of Haverlys MINISTRIES
There are enrolled at the public
schools in Austin 1913 white children
and 400 colore,l. making l443 attend
ms the public schools Of the city.
The various other schools have near
ly 500 more
In Uvalde a burglar. rendered des-
perate Nv thirst broke INTO a saloon
with the frienned intention = drink
ing West Texas Eliskey. The pTo-.
prletor merrifuIly stood him II with
a ~ slssstcr