San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-02-28
STATE NEWS
1Houaton Postl


: Eagle Springs has chicken pox.
Measles prevail in Hunt County.
Cleburnes new jail is completed
Schulenburg wants fire company,
} Winsboro hasa telephone exchange.
Brownsville has population Of
5000.
Lufkin is to have another newspa-
per.
Gainesville has several cases Of
measles.
Fort worth's wooden mill is still
talked of. .t iriI n
Del Rio was formerly known as
San Felipe. i
San Antonio is to have an "Arbor
Day
Lampasas is preparing for the
watering season.
Centenary College, ut Lampasas,
is progressing rapidly.
Groesbeck school has an enrolment
of 121 scholars.
Mexia has temperance council
with eighty members.
A row of brick business houses is
shortly to be erected in Hubbard.
The Kaufman County oat crop was
completely killed by the late cold
snap.
Fort Worth intends to manufacture
enough ice to keep the State cool.
The semi-annual examination took
place at Marvin College last week.
/. Terrell is sensible. She is TO have
a $4,000 jail and $4,000 school
house,
Grandview. johnson County, ship
ped $4,000 bushels Of corn last season.
The "Blue Devils" In Navarro
County do not spare grave yard en-
closures.
There are over 800 cases on the
County Court docket of McLennan
County.
Seguin COWS have been fatally poi
soned by eating the bark Of China
Trees.
Three saloons in Longview were
closed by attachment in one week,
recently.
Smith, of Waco, knocked off Jones's
nose with o stick of wood. Both are
colored.
The Pearsall News complains OF
want of public spirit in that thriving
little city.
Music lovers Of Fort Worth are
enjoying the sweet strains OF a patent
band.
Winsboro is putting on city airs,
md talks of street railways and the
electric light.
Mr.. Bannon, OF Waxahatchie,
caught o ten-foot alligator in Fork
Lake near that city.
A child Of Joel Lewis of Eagle
Springs, which was badly poisoned
by eating mistletoe berries, has since
recovered. M
Greenville was not favorably i'm
pressed with Matte Gaylord Smith
who delivered her lecture in that city
A Henderson genius says he don't
intend to vote for Ireland because he
is foreigner. Thinks he isan Irish
man.
Mrs. Dial, OF Revenna, has q chair
made of sugar maple, in Tennessee,
which has been in use hundred
years, and is still sound.
The Bowie Cross timbers gives an
interesting account Of wonderful
cavern which has been recently dis
covered near that town.
Phillip Davis, of Gonzales, was Civ
IN twenty years in the penitentiary
'or arson, that being the extreme PEN
llty of the law.
The City Council of LAGRANGE has
passed an ordinance exempting from
,ity taxation all capital invested in
manufacturing enterprises.
Thirteen is an unlucky number,
md so it proved for the Dallas News,
which has succumbed 10 the ineyita
Die after the thirteenth issue.
The "boy preacher" claims to have
made $4,000 converts. That's 1000
Tor every year Of his life, II the ex-
changes give his age correctly.
The Brazos Pilot says that Sweet
& Knox, the Siftings men, were led
by the gentle persuasions Of Ben
to seek, '-greener fields
and pastures new" They had long
ridiculed the valiant Ben, and when
patience ceased to be a virtue" he
gave them thirty days notice, and
they took it
Little Johnny and Mary were sit
ling on an ottoman in rather close