San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-08-21
STATE NEWS.

Guadalupe County schools ge
$4,000 this year.
Watermelons six for quarter a
Canton last week.
Tyler shipped 100 boxes of frui
in one day last week.
A new company is talked OF t.
establish smelter in Ell Paso.
Cabbages at Ysleta sell for two
bits, and corn 10 cents dozen
Kendall County reports abundant
stock water despite the drouth,
Turnip planting is going on in earn
est in the counties north OF here.
The long drouth has cut down the
late peach crop at Crockett very ma
terially.
Matagorda County talks about ship
ping the largest cotton crop made
since the war.
Prairie fires have burned over large
portions of Baylor and Tbrockmorton
Counties.
The building boom at Gonzales
still goes on. Several fine residences
are being put up.
The Greenville Banner pleads, and
very sensibly, too, in behalf OF better
country roads.
There is said to be considerable of
that strange substance known as,
''honey dew in Erath County.
An alligator killed in Shelby County
last week measured nine feetin length
and weighed 200 pounds.
Ell. johnson, of Pearsall, has n
safe which is claimed to have been
the property of the pirate Lafitte.
A Hillsboro gentleman is minus
barrel of lard, because skunk fell
into it the other day while he was
out.
The Ennis Recorder offers 100
photographs to every person paying
a years subscription by the 10th
instant.
The Clifton Sentinel urges people
to 90 to work building sidewalks and
repairing streets while business is
dull.
w. A. Mann, for twelve years
resident of Wood County, near Haw-
kins, has been tried on n charge OF
lunacy.
A neat Indian arrow head, covered
on one side with hieroglyphics, was
found on q farm near Center
short time since.
S. Sheriff., confined in Breckenridge
Jail, priced out large rock, made "A
rope of his blanket and left for parts
unknown.
A lady, evidently deranged, jumped
from n moving train Mt Hawkins and
was slightly hurt. She was put III
care of a physician.
Jasper has no saloons, no whisky
drinkers, no gambling and DD| horse
racing, and by consequence is free
from disorder and disturbance day or
night. -.
William Schaffer was fatally shot
at Ranger last week by n man named
Watson. A dispute about watering
goats in Watson's tank led to the
shooting.
Mr.. Ben Stramler, of Stcphenville,
has pair of old silver sugar-tongs
which belonged to his grandfather,
who was killed in the battle of the
Cow Pens.
A distinguished party of Indians,
from the Territory, registered at Fort
Worth last Saturday, en- route to
Washington, accompanied by Phil.
McCusker as interpreter
Some of the Ciscoites think that
the streets ought to be worked by
the country prisoners. The Tele-
graph saws that the only trouble
about that scheme is the lack of
prisoners.
The repairs made necessary on the
Atkinson, Topeka and Santa Fe
road, near II Paso. 10y the recent
washouts, will cost almost as much
as the building Of a new road for that
distance, the expense amounting up
into the hundreds OF thousands
Two months ago the farm Of Cap
tain Clepper, near Courtney. was
entirely submerged by the heavy
rains The Captain replanted the
ground with a very early corn when
the food left, and though but one
rain has fallen since, the com J.
almost mature.
Abilels has shipped its exhibit 10
the New Orleans Pair. II includes
fifty and SIXTY pound wateTmelous.
osutelOupes ten inches IN dia1neter.
ONIONS kre and 81 inches across-
beets Ia1e inches IN diameter and
slgrtesl long. and other vegetables
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