San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-12-13
STATE NEWS.

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Waco claims to have $4,000 resi-.
dents. --s--. - r Rr7r'
Albany is to have $4,000 court
There are $40 state pensioners on
the roll.
Kingston. boasts of an IL pound
sweet potato ,..,y
Alligator hunters Mt Sabine Pass
make ten dollars day.
Pamela wants telephone connec-
tons with Marshal We Fo-eI''
Hillsboro has had a very destruc-
tive confagration. - ''
Squirrels and small game are plen-
tiful on the Bosque.
Vernon wants railway connections
with Colorado City.
The Gainesville Library was form
ally opened on the Goth ult.
Mr.. E. Bareo has started an Angoa
goat ranch in La LaSalle County.
The citizens of Lufiin are general
ly beginning to plant fruit trees.
A passenger train ran over and
killed a tramp near st. Elmo last
week.
j. H. Davis, of the Franklin
Herald has bought the Greenville
Herald 1885, a.t
Hampstead is is annoyed by pro-
miscuous shooting on the streets at
night.
The Lampasas Dispatch calls a
newspaper u starving machine.
The Lenox House at Whitesboro
was burglarized on night last week,
Colorado City has twenty four doc
tors and the same number of lawyers.
Fort Worth now claims to be sec.
ond to Houston only, rs a rail
way centre. ..
Senator Maxey, of Paris, Texas, is
worth 100000, besides his business
as an attorney.
The platform at Huntsville is
crowded with cotton which is held
for higher prices.
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Horace Baker, Weatherford or
ator, is talking Texas to the be-
nighted people Of Illinois. -,
Moscow is to be the county seat Of
Polk County if the generosity of the
people can achieve it.
The Dallas Times says: "Waco
has to have another census to discov
Ell the number of cranks in the city"
The stage-driver who drove James
X. Polk from Columbia to Nashville,
to be inaugurated, is now in Waco
3, Lytton Sothern, son of the mint
able "Dundreary,' is to star in the
larger cities of the state next month.
During a gale at Marshall recently,
q stable was blown down, seriously
wounding George Smith. a country
man, aud killing his horse.
A joint stock company has been Or
ganized for the establishment of a
bank at Kyle The capital is to be
$50, 900, shares 500 each.
There was little meeting of cat
tlemen IN Gainesville, the other day,
and the Independent says that three
million dollars was represented.
Private Charles Turner, stationed
at Fort Davis. killeda bear, last week,
which weighed 200 pounds. This
sort of game ranges within five miles
of town.
Joe Elliot, near Pennington, has
two pups about six weeks old, which
have only two legs each. They are
otherwise well developed and sound
looking dogs.
Mr.. Mason Brooks, fermer living
near Whitesboro, made 3,222 gallons
of sorghum syrup this year, which he
sold at 40 cents gallon, making |
$l32S. so on his crop
Hamilton is wild over the discov-
cry of a gold mine near that city, and
intends TO change her name, in the
near future, to City of Gold, or
Boss City Of Texas.
The Banner says: "Hunt is a good
hog county and should be a good
corn county" The Light adds Yes
Hog and hominy should not be di-
vorced after raising such a numerous
family
The Dallas Daily Times SAWS Port
Worth was a regular pGndemonium
Of drunkenness. gambling, fighting I
and other ungodliness, during race
week The arch enemy must smile /
every time he thinks Of the Fort