San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10
TEXAS TOPICS.


all over the state.
The dewberry crop in Washington
county is very large. '.t
Iron and coal are found side by
side near Rockdale, Tex.
Jasper is receiving large quaint
ties Of Texas cured bacon from Sabine
county.
Sulphur Springs, in Hopkins
county, is talking of organizing a wool.
en- factory.
The lands in Texas capable of pro-
ducing sugar are estimated at 1,O00,-
600 acres.
1.-The city assessment Of Dallas this
year will exceed that of last year by
81, 100000.
The saloon keepers at Fort Worth
keep their places open on Sunday and
pay fines the next day.
-Four thousand bonded cars have
passed through Ell Paso for Mexico
during the past two years.
The building for the Saengerfest
to be held on the 18th of May at Dal-
las, will seat 10000 persons.
1.-Two experienced French gentle
men are perfecting arrangements to
establish an ostrich farm in Medina
County.
lover 200 saddle horses were
shipped East from Victoria this week.
They were intended for Eastern polo
players.
One thousand yearlings were sold
at Fort Worth recently, for SIG per
head. Stock market lively, end prices
tend upward.
Athens, the comfy seat of Hen
derson county, has negro mayor,
two negro alderman and negro for
city attorney.
Texas is receiving great numbers
of emigrants from the Northern and
Eastern States. Most of them are
settling in middle and Northwest
Texas.
Tic Stone cattle company, of
GAINESVILLE, Cooke county, has filed a
charter. The capital stock of the
company is fixed at the srm of $4,-'
100000.
Sam Lee, a Chinaman convicted
of keeping an opium den at Galveston,
attempted to hang himself in the
county jail but was cut down in time
to save his life.
Large numbers of cattle are be-
ing purchased in Florida and Missis.
sippi for ranches in Texas. Parties
now in Pensacola expect to ship at
least 5000 head from along the line
of the Pensacola and Atlantic Rail
road.
The commissioner of the land
Office is in receipt of q great number
of letters desiring to purchase lands in
large bodies in Texas. They are
mostly from Europe, and he thinks if
he had the authority and the lands
were on the market that he could sell
100000 or 100000 acres at 81 or
$2an acre.
Reports from Bolton, Temple,
Gordon, Palo Pinto, Mineral Wells,
Thorp Springs, Cleburne and Bon
ham, embracing territory nearly one
hundred miles wide and extending
nearly across the state from north
east to south west state that a great
storm of wind, hail and rain, and as
Stunning the severity of cyclone, pass
ed through these sections April 81 and
doing great damage to crops, build
ings and property generally, and kill.
ing and wounding many people.
The stockmen OF the Panhandle
at recent meeting decided to begin
the spring roundup of cattle in the
Canadian, White Rivers and Wolf
Greek districts May 10, and Salt Park
and Red River districts May 20. If
there is to be any trouble with the
cowboys it will develop at these
round-ups. Lieut.. John Haffer, with
a company of the frontier battalion of
the rangers, is in camp near Mobetie
in the center of the troubled district,
and will do everything possible topre-
serve order.
Maddox Bros, land agents of
Austin, rendered the state treasurer