Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-24
TEXAS STATE NEWS.

/ drawn up for 5000 brick school
building in Temple.
| The citizen ofGainesville have raised
4 S7l coo of the SIS, 900 required To secure
the Narrow Gauge railroad. Pluck
wins.
Lampasas Globe: WANTED, good,
/ quiet, steady, thorough three DAYS
rain" That ad. ought to bring ii.
Advertising pays.
An Arkansas man bought some Fam
min county rois dare wood, of which
to make fine buggy to exhibit at the
Louisville exposition.
I The Austin Statesman relates ii as a
1 fact that two fashionable Young ladies
of its town one evening donned male
attire and went out to see the sights
| they saw q great deal.
Gainesville Hesperiaa: J. C. ouirk
has discovered copper mine in this
| county, but no man knoweth in what
direction it lieth. The specimens
shown US are said to be wonderfully
rich.
The Fayette County Bar Association
held a meeting at LaGrange last week
and unanimously endois ed Judge
Teichmiller for the United states dis
! trict judgeship made vacant by the
| resignation of Judge Morrill,,
Waco Examiners: The base ballists
/ have given out going to Dallas To the
tournament on the 9TH. The citizens
of Waco did MT feel interested enough
In giving the boys "A chance to make a
name for themselves and their city.
Beaumont Enterprise A large
| schooner is at SABINE Pass loading
| lumber from Beaumont for New York
She will take 10000 feet of our splen-
did pine manufacture to the metro
polls. Her captain says he will return
with larger schooner for Il cargo al
ready engaged.
Gainesville Hesperian. The damage
suit of w. II. Brown VS.. w. +. Smith
and John Culp was settled lust even
ing, the jury returning Judgment of
81 200 fof plaintiff. In u canvass OF
I the Jury after the trial it was learned
/ that had 1T not been for the impecun-
eous condition Of the defendants, a
| Judgment Of fully $4,000 would have
been rendered.
Sherman Courier: The commission
ers court have determined to run u
chain fence around the court house, 50
feet from the building. Fifteen feet
/ within this stone base is to be built
with an iron fence upon it, and pave
ment is To be laid between the TWO.
/ The court has contracted with Mr..
/ Grace to have the dirt taken from
Travis street distributed around the
| house as necessity for setting the
/ yard i'll grass and trees.
A gentleman who was out hunting
on the Nueces river, Texas, saw bear
go into hollow tree. He made him
( come out, shooting him MS he did so.
Thereupon in rapid succession six
other large bears came out of the same
tree, all of whom the mighty hunter
laid low. 1t is supposed that the hol-
low In the tree communicated with o
subterranean cave, in which colony
of bears dwelt.
1t is stated upon the authority Of q
staff officer of General Trevino that
the bodies of Americans dying in Mex
leo cannot be shipped back to the Uni
ted States in five years. This informa-
ton was brought ont Il few days age
by an attempt on the part of the rela-
tives of jeff. Miller, who was killed OF
Monterey, to send u casket forward foi
his remains from Laredo, Texas The
casket was stopped by the Mexican
custom-house and the deceased was
buried mt Monterey. So says special
from Laredo.
Sherman Courier: The North Texas
| racing circuit, embracing Dallas
+ Gainesville and Fort Worth, have Out
some splendidly illustrated posters ad
Vertising their races. The first meet
ing takes place at Dallas, beginning
q November 9th and continuing foul
. days. Gainesville begins NoNembel
18th, and Fort Worth November 10Th
: the entries being SO arranged that ;
e record made ut one meeting does no
, bar Mt those following in this circuit
: Twenty-four thousand dollars are t,
: be contested for, each association Civ
= ing $4,000 in purses.
San Antoni Limit: About sixty-hv,
i Cinnamon are in the camp AT new
A D'Hanis. The gang is under Cap
tain Hing Chock, Chinaman of intel
!, ligence and education, who can speal
u English fluently and has been in tn
2, country long enough to learn how t
II 'set eIn up" in good style. They al
- live in neat tents, having board floors
raised above the ground, A PILLOW
> aud piece of mating constitutes a bed
" They have no chairs. Hing Chock an,
d some of his men are inveterat
n VI tObdCtt. ~ lew VI tutl
!, use opium, especially on SUNDAY, bu
II the Captain deprecates its use in ur
n mistakable language.
IS San Antonio Light: The Lj0ht con
10 missioner had yesterday an interestin
~ conversation with "A gentleman VIII
has been in the state since 1919 an
4 who is an acknowledged authorit
t. upon the crops and prospects OF TcXa
ne In speaking ofth cotton crop the ger
-, tlemanr said: II have never know
- such drouth since | came to rexs
IL and am sure it will affect the farm,
H. seriously, especially those in sma
Id way, who will find ii difficult to squa,
80 their accounts. The yield OF cotton
We proportion TO the acreage is the wo,
IN ever known. / have letter from
he good friend and an observing man
II san Marcos who states that In on
-, ease fifty acres of cotton will not vie
" more than good bale. Millett & Lar
er are removing their stock OF 4 900 hea
as OF cattle from their ranch to the Pal
n. handle district, and Captain King
], doing the same. For some time pa
~ they have existed upon mesquite an
II. cactus, and now even that fodder is n
a gone. Fifteen carloads of Milett
l.. I Stnals ,,nsapI thrnt,trl, =.