Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-15
TEXAS STATE NEWS.

Indianola has ileet Of twenty.nv
vessels engaged III fishing
Evangelist Penn has written 10
Waco promising TO spread his gospel
tent In that city about the LIST of Octo-
Der, and TO remain there two weeks.
Decatur Post The Stone Cattle
Company, one of the largest in north
west Texas, sold their stock Of cattle
few days ago for - per head, delivered
on he Wichita. This company has
wire fence los miles long.
Gainesville Hcspoyidn: Sunday night
the wire cutters again visited NJ. r.
Patterson's farm five miles north of
town and destroyed several hundred
yards Of fence. Mr.. Patterton only
has one thousand acres under fence,
which he uses for farming purposes.
Austin .S2atesosan' Miss Jessie
Andrews, of this city, was the first
young lady matricuated as student
of the University of Texas. Claude
e. Stewart, son Of Major Joe II.
Stewart, was the first male matrculant
In the academic department. Five had
been previously admitted into the law
department.
Meridian Biadc: Rangers were or
deled to Hamilton county last week
to look after the hoodluns who have
been beating aud plundering the sheen
men. Rangers can be of but litla ser.
vi cs unless they act in the capacity Of
detectives. If the governor would
offer suitable rewards for the detection
of all such villains he would accom-
pllsh much mo!e than can be done hy
quartering rangers there.
san Antonio Times: Mr.. II. S. Tom,
a gentleman of fairview, Texas. who
was In the city a few days age, says
that Just AFTER the rumbliny noise
spoken OF several days ago as being
beard all over Western Texas, which
sounded like heavy caunonednp. Tho
road IN The neighborh@od of GMytown
was cracked open as much as three
ieet VIDE IN several places some cracks
being half n nile long,
Dublin Enterprises; On SUNDAY the
postmaster on the west bound cxnrcss
tfail IN distributing he mails threw
package directed 20 I'll Paso into the
department for that mail, which ex-
ploded with great violence and burned
up considerable mail for difleren,
points along the road, 1t wa3 sun.
posed TO contain dynamite. IL Is ntt
definitely known but the package was
supposed to have been mailed at Pitts.
burg, Pa.
san Antonio Times; The young man
koht, q. Fly, murdered in cold blood
10y w ID. Ward, EIprcss correspond.
ent Mt Hondo City, was n Young man
- years. of age, q very inotienslve man
anu engaged in ranchiug with the
Harpers, his relatives, who are rn-
garded as "A very determined. earlcs.
SCI OF men when they are insulted
Fly has numerous relatives In T,xae
ana 1t h said that Ward will have -
hard road TO travel for his wanton net.
sherman Cowiojg The wire fence
question Is assuming some imporlance
III the west and south of Gravson
county Mt this time. We have no
roads establlshed by lawful survey.
aad every land holder consults his
own free viii, 10y enclosing his lands
without regard 10 the demands of
traVel or the convenience of his neigh
nors. Roads are turned or entirely
closed, 10 the great Inconvenience of
Tue people, and unless some stems are
taken soon we shall doubtless hear of
renee cutting near home.
y few days ago at Kaufman n small
boy found a silver dollar near nm old
crib, Yesterday, being i'm need of
more inuds, he repaired 10 tho same
place aud found another, and In n few
moments the news spread, when n |
promiscuous crowd charged ,be orib |
under which they scratched up almost /
Slol, every one OF issue of 1874 ME |
money was badly corroded, and must /
INV siert lnere several years. The /
small boys who could crawl under the
house said II was fine business sew
so se' OF Them pockeiing as much as
Sn,ro B,it,ct'H' The fence question
IS becoming The problem of the period