The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-12
STATE NEWS REPERTORY.
Spirit of Our Texas Exchanges.

The old courthouse of Houston is
to be sold and torn down in thirty
days.
Says the Southeast Texan: During
our recent visit to Crockett, the uni
verSal report from all parties of whom
we inquired concerning crops was
good;" "beSt we have had since the
war"
The Wills Point Chronicle says
there is much interest manifested in
the approaching election on the stock
law. IN some localities the law is
meeting with strong opposition, while
III others it has its friends.
y wife trying to get her druE!kan
husband away from a saloon, while he
calls Tor more whisky and needs not
her appeals and tears, is sad sight,
which the Waxahachie Enterprise
says was seen there ut Il saloon few
days ago. A man must be base in
deed that would bring his wife to such
humiliation.
The tendency to lock up a great
portion of the lands of the state in
the hands of non-residents, says the
Cleburne Chronicle, is bad for Texas.
1t gives the control of immense tracts
to capitalists and syndicates, who hold
them for speculation, and thus keep
settlers away. The land board should
have the power to control this ulatter
and prevent this wrong, for every
thing that keeps out population is
doing wrong TO the states best inter
tStS.
In the counties of Taylor, Jones,
ShacklefOrd, Nolan, Fisher. Mitchell.
Coleman and Concho, eighteen sheep
men, during the last season, lost, out
of an aggregate OF 1850 head, q, 1925
head, or ii little more than forty-five
per cent of their flocks. In some
cases the loss ran up to eighty per
cent, while the smallest loss was 800
out of 1000 head, or twenty per cent.
These losses are reckoned from jan
uary first, and are entirely authentic.
Corpus Christi Critic.
About four weeks ago the Enter
prise mentioned the fact that a little
daughter of Mr.. W. r.. Powell, who
resides near Midlothian, was bitten
10y mad dog. The same dog bit two
cows and another dog. The dog and
one COW went mad a short time after
ward. Last Sunday the other COW
went mad and WAS killed. Mr.. Powell
applied the maidstone to his daugh
ttr'S arm, at Dallas, but says it did
not stick, as rep 'rted in the Herald.
However. the stone was kept on the
wound for some time. He, of course,
is very uneasy about her, but as yet
40 symptoms of hydrophobia have
The Burnet Bulletin has the follow
ing report of crop prospects
Deputy Sheriff Long, who has been
pretty much all over the county of
late weeks, collecting delinquent
taxes, gives quite an encouraging re-
port of the crO., outlook in the
county. For instance, he says Mr.. ID.
c. Muncy, on Mesquite creek, thrashed
out $50 bushels of wheat from a ten
acre field, and from another tWo-acre
field, on the same section, thirty-eight
bushels were realized. The best pros
pect he saw was in the southern part
of the county; the worst was in the
Double Horn neighborhOod, although
he saw some fine crops of corn in that
section. The corn crop over the
county is generally better than he ex-
pected. Late rains in some sections
have materially helped the outlook.
Cotton is yet suffering for rain.
News of fine rains and seasonable
weather comes to us from all points
in North Texas. If no unusual calam-
lily oVertakeS us our crops will be the
finest raised here for years. Good
grain and hay crops are now assured.
and while the prospect for cotton is
not the besi, it has still ample time to
make a good crop if the latter season
turn out favcrably. Fortunately for
our farmers they have learned in the
school of experience not to draw too
confidently on this source of revenue,
md now rely much more on the ce
reals and grasses than on the fleecy
staple for means of subsistence. They
are paying more attention to meats
than in former times, and with a few
hogs and cheap grain can produce all
they need at home. and perhaps sell
to their western neighbors little sur
plus for more cash than cotton patch
would bring. Having discovered this
secret the boil worm does not affect
Texas prosperity us it did IA few years
ago. We have the satisfaction OF
knowing that the food supply is ample
for all our wants, at any rate.-Sher-
man Courier.