Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-26
TEXAS STATE NEWS.

Fort Stockton is going to have a
S34 900 courthouse and u $4,000 Jail.
Miss Dixie Crooks concert at Sher- |
man last week was brilliant success. |
The prairie fires near Runnels were |
very destructive, and the range south
of town was nearly destroyed.
The municipal election at Abilene
last week resulted in a solid victory in
favor of free schools.
Rolla Ryan is amusing the people of
Lampasas and neighboring towns with
his eccentricities and comicalities.
Rolla is trump.
The Honey Grove independent
raising HI at their religious worship
in the east part Cf the city,"
The Grayson county bee keepers as
ISOLATION will meet in Sherman on
the 18th OF October. Prizes are to be
awarded to the finest italian queens.
A negro who was down in well near
Corsicana heard the so-called earth
quake reports asst month, and begged
to be handed up in do uble quick time
Van Alstyze is rejoicing in its first
mayor, alderman and city marshal.
There was not much ola scramble for
! the places, rs salaries are very slender
for the present.
An incendiary burned over $4,000
posts and 20,0O0 pounds of wire be
longing to MIR l.. b. Harris, and in
tended for fence around his pasture
Oh the Colorado.
At Abilene last week little Ethel
Anderson was badly hurt by horse
catching her by he arm and biting
her severely, and then dashing her
some ten feet against the ground.
Mr. Harrison Robinson, OF Collin
county, viii send sample bale of the
Ozier cotton to the st. Louis fair to
compete for the 81 600 premium. The
lint is said to be as fine as silk, and
the staple an inch and quarter long
The Cisco Tcicgraph says it i.
: rumored that the Houston a. Texas
Central railroad company will build {
branch road from there to Crysta
, Falls, in Stephens county, for the pur
= pose of opening the coal mines ut thai
place.
A negro woman bought first-clas
ticket from Sherman to Denison, un(
tried to 20 into the ladies ear, but The
conductor was equal to the occasion
and gave her to understand she coult
not force her way into a place wher
4 she was not wanted.
4 A little girl in Abilene died las
: week from eating poisoned fish 'caugh
e i'll the creek there, and another is Yer,
Il sick. It is supposed that the fist
found their way during the overflow O
the creek into some of the places alon.
the creek poisoned with sheep dip IN,
there We're poisoned.
= Pearssll, twelve months ago, la,
only two stores, ten or fifteen dwell
ings, and about fifty inhabitants. !
II now looms up with nine stores, tw
10 hotels, newspaper and other city az
cessories, and Il population of 500 pee
= pie. II is now the county seat OF Fri
h county.
A gentleman arrived in Waco II
. Gently with five hundred thousan
> dollar ~ invest in Texas lands, bu
becoaiiuA intimidated at the fenc,
cutting troubles prevalent in othe
y sections he left in big disgust, tallin,
J. OF course, every dollar of his ampl
J capital with him.
Last week w j. McIIie, Esq, Ina
u Just finished enclosing a seven bur
A. dred acre pasture near Corscana ia
IN winter purposes, when the gras
caught fire by some means and entir
10 ~ consumed it all. He has now
l. good wire fence around q bleak an
Of barren pasture, which will he of n
service To him until spring &c.,