The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-29
GENERAL NEWS.
culed From relaorsphie Dispatches aud olhe
Sources.

culled From reiegraphie Dispatches aud other
Sources.
lIlllsboro owes S29l.i2.
iandera's jail is empty.
Gatesville IL on n boom.
Navasota has literary society.
Oats about Abilene are reported fine.
Young ladies in Victoria RIDE horn
buck.
IIillsboro Bremen. have u big picnic
June g..
Telephone connection is wanted at
IIandera.
There is newspaper war in Corsicnna
as usual.
Victoria shipped l5OO head of cattle
Colorado City's $1,000 hotel will soon
be finished.
First shipment Of peaches from Pales-
tine on Monday.
The first issue of the Victoria Advo-
cate appeared in 1916.
The storm blew down one house at
San Angelo Tuesday.
Kinney county endorses Il. F. Hall, of
Webb, for the Senate.
The Victoria Hook and Ladder COM
pany has new uniforms.
twenty-five head of COW horses sold
Mt Abilene for 5000 40.
Gaiesville Is trying to get Major Penn,
tent and all this summer.
:. w. II. Lanhan will be n candidate
for reelection to Congress.
A j0.0OO pound wool clip was sold in
Abilene Thursday for 20 cents.
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companies of y members each.
The Commissioners of Hill county re-
fused to insure the court house.
A man at Cross Roads nearly severed
his foot from his'leg with an axe.
Another heavy wind struck Del Rio
Saturday, but did little damage.
Laredo wants gas works, Il $4,000
hotel, II wooden factory. and another
street railroad.
The cost of Cleburne's court house
and jail Is o1J,7l6 ~. OF which she has
paid S23,Gi5 30.
Magnus the drummer billiard player,
got himself and friends "done up" Mt
Houston Sunday night.
The little two year old daughter of
James Wiley died from pneumonia on
Spring creek last sunday.
Another tax title was knocked in the
head by the District court mt Victoria
last Thursday. Thus they go.
San Angelo is growing SO fast that
lumber cannot be hauled from Abilene
fast enough to keep workmon busy.
The san Angelo Standard reports ten
cases in county court there, and Jim
IIysaw is defendant in four Of them.
In the death of Col. Oscar Parrish, of
Galveston, the State loses noble oiti-
zen and an old landmark of her history.
j. NJ. Niece, Mt Massey, has willow
tree In his field only six years old, that
is 10 feet high and measures nine inches
in diameter.
Generous cowboys helped poor and
heartbroken husband to funds TO bury his
wife, who died on the Fort Worth train,
Il day or two since.
The Floresville Chronicle says that q
genuine red fish, weighing 10 pounds,
was recently found directly after hail
storm on II prairie in that vicinity.
Jim ITysaw got on ''high' lonesome
at san Angelo, Friday, and tried to take
the town with n Winchester. lie had to
give Sl5O bond TO secure his liberty.
The surveyor of the Colorado, San
Angelo and Southern railroad Ia in the
iiald, and is running his line to San An
gelo. The above named company will
grade the road and the Santa Fe will
complete it.
Last Wednesday. at Victoria, Mr.. Il.
+. Overman was bitten on the hand by u
small gray spider, which has resulted in
n serious Inconvenience. Within very
short fine the arm was considerably
swollen, accompanied by the most in
at ..l all a
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