The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-05
No. . Commerce Street
TEXAS NOTES.
Items Cleaned From the State Press and
Comments Thereon.

Comments Thereon
LAMAR CoUNry.-This county wants the
whipping post established by the Legislature.
The increase Of certain offences will perhaps
lead TO it.
WAco.--The late city census shows the
population to he n, sat, not counting those in
the suburbs 60. The Examiner makes fun Of
the city fire alarm bell and says it is just large
enough for a small farmer, whose chief crop is
a sorghum patch, and that it has been mis-
taken for a COW bell. .... The Presbytery Of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church met in
Waco on November so; Rev. G. N. Morrison,
Moderator. Attendance good.
HILL COUNTY. Hillsboro had a S24, 900
fire on November 20, but the property was
insured for $40, 900. The Opera house was
saved by heroic exertions Of the citizens....
Cuttingwire fences is still going on zee. There
is complaint and outcry against the changing
of the public roads by persons fencing their
lands, and it is supposed this leads in some
instances to fence cutting The Hillsboro
Mirror says the cotton in Hill is all gathered
and sold and spent, and some farmers are
trying to borrow money for next year go.
There is the greatest abundance of corn and
an increased supply Of meat, but not enough
meat for the house demand. More small
grain than usual has been sown. This is a
step in the right direction, less cotton and
more corn and meat is the first stage to South
ern independence.
Austin. A. Saylor has been reelected
Mayor by majority Of 2So....J, T. Love,
engineer OF the Lunatic asylum, has filed
complaint against DIR. Denton, Superintendent,
and Mr.. Weeks for an aggravated assault on
him ..., John G. Gates, who was indicted for
land frauds, but forfeited his $1,000 bail bond,
was arrested in Louisiana and brought back to
Austin ....T The Western Union Telegraph
company, for the quarter ending September
80, paid as tax to the State on its gross earn
ings $1,000 ST.. The railroads paid as tax on
passenger earnings as follows: Texas Central,
SOL oo; Houston and Texas Central, $2o72 81;
Central Texas and Northwestern, $I4 a..
Colonel John S. Ford's resignation as Super
intendent, TO take effect December 81, was
accepted. Professor Lowry, DIR. Beaumont,
DIR. William Shepard and General II. b. Bee
were applicants. Dr. Shepard was elected
....A young lady belonging to one of the first
families, took strychnine to ease the pangs Of
disappointed love, but the doctors run her of
on a side track from the "short line" to eter-
nifty, and she will enjoy a semi posthumous
existence.
GREGG CoUNIY.-The Longvew New
Era is good for the sore eyes, since it is the
'last rose OF summer left blooming on the
stalk"-a Greenback undismayed and
hopeful. What blessed thing it is to have
the bump of hope well developed, as is the
case with the New Era. go. Spelling matches
seem to be the rage at Longview, from which
one may infer the town is dull ... The report
of the grand jury says; "The Jail is as bad
as it is possible for such structure to be and
is unfit for use as place in which to confne
persons accused of cline" 1t mentions
with pride that "Gregg county is exception
ally free from crime" and there have been
but few misdemeanors. Gaming and viola
tons of the Sunday law form the bulk of the
misdemeanors, and respecting these the grand
Jury say: 1--WE are constrained to say that a
more particular and vgilant discharge of duty
on the part of the civil officers of the county
would have relieved the grand jury of half OIL
its labors at its present sitting and saved the
tax payers largely in the way Of expenses con.
sequent upon Investigations in the grand jury
room." The grand jury drove the centre
and did its duty. Whitewashing county Off
GERS is all wrong and disgraces grand jurie!
where officers have not discharged theii
duties. This part of the report OF the CRANE
Jury Of Gregg would fit nearly every county
in the State and should be embodied in the
reports TO spur up county officers to do the
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