Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-15
TEXAS STATE NEWS.

This is the week of prayer appointed
by the Methodist bishops for the
Southern states.
Nat Mathews of NanZandt county
has IA calf only two months old and
weighs 225 pounds.
Morris County Herdld: Statistics
show that Daingeriield has shipped
nearly double the amount of cotton,
and we feel safe in saying more than
double the amount of lumber, and
OF her things in like proportion, over
the previous year.
Brenham Banner: Texas is the great
est cattle producing state in the
Union, but Texans now eat canned
corned beef put up in Kansas City OF
the flesh of Texas cattle. Texans also
eat olcomargarine made of the tallow
and refuse fat of Texas cattle, put up IN
Kansas or some other country.
Austin County Times: On the 10Th
inst. the friends OF Mr.. Robert Kidd
OF Sealy presented him with q gold
headed cane, appropriately engraved,
| that being the date Of his l09th ami
! versary. Mr. Kidd is still able to walk
! about very well, and we expect him to
come to town next Tuesday to vote on
| the proposed constitutional amend
| .nents.
/ Austin County Times: Fer some
/ days u mad dog has been prowling
! through the streets, biting ut
every living thing he approached.
| He IL known to have bitten more than
n dozen dogs, and unreliable rumors
add mule and negro to the list.
Tuesday morning Constable Glenn sue
cec9ed In killing him after an exciting
chase and II number of shots.
Abilene QuW; Baird was this week
connected with the rest of the world,
north and south, by telephone. Many
of our citizens have been holding con-
versations with persons in Coleman
City. IL will be remembered that the
military telegraph line recently adj
. vertised for sale was bought by II
telephone company who changed it to
telephone line, THIS is II conve-
nience to people living on the lines
, and is but another evidence that the
: "world do move"
Henderson Times, Last Sunday
morning Esquire Davis found a horse
tied to Il bush near his field, which
: from all appearances, had been there
: three, four, or five weeks. In Its
, scrambles for liberty the girt Of the
saddle was broken, and the saddle wa
T still living near. The squire says i
/ actually looks like the picture OF /
[ patent medicine horse, before taking
1t was hitched there by some one VII,
has mysteriousiy disappeared, Noon'
I has the least idea whose horse IL is,
Y who hitched IL there, or anythin!
q about IL more than is above related.
Shackelford SIR: Capt Lees pas
!, ture fence was cut last week, which
fact we regret exceedingly to learn, Il
l. our county is on the high road TO pro
l. gress and the cutting down Of thes
Y fences, II kept up, will not only sto
:, the sale of real estate but will Kill III
y trade of our town. 1t has already hat
n - damaplng effect upon the sale q
1t land, rs we have heard of several pan
IN ties who came To our county with III
expectation of settling among US, lou
y on hearing of the fences having bee
cut, left Just rs soon they could ~
away. saying they would not give tel
m cents per acre for Shackellord count
ID land ii they We're lot allowed 10 fenc
a. il. The members Of our Legislature
: should take this matter under advise
" ment and pass law ut their next Sc
~ sion making IL a penitentiary oiiens
Is for man to wi)lfully and maliciousl
., cut his neighbours fence.