The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-05-12
TEXAS BRIEFS.

steam fire engine. .r
Parsons brigade will have a reunion
at Alvarado, in August.
The Print says fourteen trains ar
rive and leave Galveston daily.
Three negroes were killed last week
at Ranger, by railway accident.
Jay Gould, and other railroad mag
mates, were all over Texas last week.
The reunion of Hoods brigade
takes place at Crockett, June 27.
Wool is 20 to "a cents, per pound
in San Antonio, and coming into mar
kct rapidly.
There are more than 100 applica
tions and petitions for pardon on file
in the governors Office.
At Mexia, James Baldwin, popu.
lar young man, recently married, was
thrown from his horse and killed.
The Galveston cotton screwmen ap-
pear to have been wrong in their cal
culations and will resume work.
Mulhatton, the meteor liar, explains
that his story is only new style of
fiction, and one that is very popular.
!
Fort Worth has thirty divorce cases
on the docket, or one to every nine
marriages in the county for the past
year.
The federal grand jury at Browns
vile have investigated" Collector
Haynes, and find nothing wrong in
his affairs.
Telcgraphic crop reports in the
Galveston News of last Saturday indi-
cate fine crops in a large number of
counties.
The Baptist church in Waco which
will seat 1000 persons and has been
in process of erection five years, is
completed.
Stilwell II. Russell has reached the
Chester (IIl.) penitentiary, in fine
health and with strong hopes Of being
soon released.
Tom Ochitrre has appointed Henry
Lawrence Gueydan, of San Diego, a
youth of 16, cadet to the naval acad-
emy at Annapolis.
A prisoner on trial for his life, at
Orange, rode off last week well arm
ed. The trial proceeded as if he was
in the prisoners dock.
Galveston has had her Mal-fest;
Houston, Volkcsfest; Dallas, a Sang
erfest, and San. Antonio wants some
kind of a "fcst."
A storm at Temple last week broke
every window glass in town facing
north. HaiI-stoncs were picked up
weighing pound.
The telephone company, headquar-
tcrs at Little Rock, is making over
lures for the purchase Of the abandon
ed military telegraph lines.
Ex-Comptrollcr Brown came out
second best in his "tilP with Gov,
Ireland. Brown thinks the state can't
get along without his services.
A Dallas ncwsboy was arrested the
other day for selling papers on Sun
day in that pious city. The judge
ordered his immediate release.
DoodIobug johnson, is the way
some of the papers speak of the state
senator from johnson county. The
senator is opposed to free schools.
1t is thought the grand jury soon to
assemble at Austin will be asked to
indict the members of the last Iegsla-
turc who played "draw" at the lobby
rooms.
Travellers over the Gould system of
roads can only take 100 pounds Of
baggage-over that up to $50 lbs, is
extra. Over $50 lbs. must go as
freight.
That l6 year old boy, Lewis Miller,
who robbed the station agent and his
two clerks, at Hutchins, by standing
them off with his pistol, is now in Jail,
at Dallas.
Mr.. Johns, ex-member of the Gal
weston board Of health, thought he
was the entire board by himself, and
when the governor sat down on him
he changed his mind.
Texas wants the U. S. government
to refund to her about 100000,
spent in frontier defense. The claim
is a Just one and will doubtless be paid
sometime this century.
Prof DabncY, of Virginia, has been
appointed to the chair of Mental and
Moral Philosophy, of the new state
university, with salary of $4,000 u
year, and $500 contingent fund,
Mr.. Ochiltree, NJ, c.. from Calves
ton, has gone to London to see his
friend Wales. Tom doesn't care for
dynamite and may go to Moscow to
witness the coronation of the Gar,
Burglars at Waco recently entered