The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-19
STATE NEWS.
BRIEF IIEMsof INTEREST FROM OTHER
COUNTIES.


GAINESVILLE has n steel lined OalabO0se.
DALLAS Is about 10 build another street
railway.
JEFFERSON glories in a new court house,
just completed.
TnE GAZETTE favors high license for
the liquor traffic.
LACK of hotel facilities troubles the
"Chicago of Texas"
FANNIE MEssER, aged H., was drowned
In Lampasas river last week.
Coon crops and lively campaign are
the promises for Texas now.
BLuMENBERG, the violincello virtuoso,
Is giving concerts In Galveston.
LAMrAsAs is improving and summer
visitors are already pouring In.
NEw buildings to the amount Of $685.
600 are going up In Fort Worth.
A DRUNKEN man In Marshall fell from
bis hotel steps and fractured his thigh.
GALVESTON is making gigantic strug-
gle for deep water and deserves success.
THE Fort Worth Firemen will enter
tain the State convention right royalty
Brnop GARRETT laid the corner stone
OF new Episcopal church at Gaines
vile last week.
Jr Is impressive to read the long edi-
torials on the financial crisis, written by
impecunious editors.
TEMPLE IL preparing to celebrate the
third anniversary of her birthday In
grand style on June 20.
C, A. HALEY, city editor of the Fort
Worth Gazette, has resigned and gone
to Nashville, Tennessee.
DESIsoS seems to be the range OF raw
ishers. Stop such outrages, neighbor,
and bring the ilends TO Justice.
a noRsEMAN near Gainesville rode into
wire fence and was dangerously cut.
His horse was killed outright.
A PRISONER in the Austin jail assaulted
a fellow prisoner with pad lock and
wounded him severely In the head.
THE wooden mills in Waco are nearly
completed. San Antonio missed this
enterprise by not being lively enough.
A SKELETON was fOapd last week in an
old ditch about six miles from DANGER
field. A buokshot was found In the
thigh.
WACO. on Friday last, paid $3.50 on
the bonds due the Houston and Texas
Central railway. The Interest was
$3.50.
TmE City National Bank, of Fort
Worth. had S12,5O0 with Donnell, Law
son and Simpson when the crash came
last week.
TIE Texas weaklies whose. editors
took in the Press association meeting
are giving their readers lengthy accounts
Of the trip.
Hon. RoGER Q. Mills has been invited
to deliver the address on the occasion Of
laying the corner stone of the new court
house at Bolton.
ADA +. SPENCER, who shot the negro
Mitchell Bradford at Galveston on the
Sth inst, was required to give a $500
bond. She is in Jail.
WACO amateurs rendered the opera
doctor of Alcantara" Thursday night
in that city, and according to the local
press gave an excellent performance.
THE Austin Statesman boasts that the
Capital City has more pretty ladies to its
size than any city in the State. Colonel
Barlow must be looking towards
matrimony.
= The news comes that the Waco Ex-
aminer is to be enlarged to an eight
page paper on June |. Such change
would be like resurrection. COMPETE
tlon caused IL.
Houston has covered herself with
glory and the Light Guards have made
themselves a name that they can be
justly proud of. The Interstate drill
was grand success.
PAT HARNAN, of New Orleans, said to
be well connected, was arraigned few
days ago In Galveston for stealing four
encyclopedias and soaking" them for
rs cents to get whisky to soak himself
with.
THE druggists In convention at Waco
last week very properly sat down on in
capable drug clerks, and hereafter pre-
scriptionists will have to show good Gre
dentials. A decrease in mortality will
be the result Of this action,
= AT.THE druggists banquet In Waco
last week DIR. Walter B. King got up an
elaborate bill of fare in which the dishes
were all set out In the most classical of
druggists Latin. No fatal results fol-
lowed the taking of this prescription.
THE water works question in Waco is
worse muddled now than ever. After
over six months labor and negotiations
new contract satisfactory to c. w.
White, President of the Water company
was prepared, and the trouble was
thought to be over when suddenly White
repudiates the whole contract, and in a
letter on the matter speaks of the oppo-
nents OF the present system of water
works as n "mOb.n Feeling Is running